1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #76. Astrud Gilberto - Beach Samba (1967)

Astrud Gilberto - Beach Samba (1967)

Label – Verve
Producer – Creed Taylor
Art Direction – David Krieger
Nationality – Brazil
Running Time – 38:58

Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)

1. Stay
2. Misty Roses
3. Face I Love
4. Banda (Parade)
5. Oba, Oba
6. Canoeiro
7. I Had the Craziest Dream
8. Bossa Na Praia (Beach Samba)
9. My Foolish Heart
10. Dia das Rosas (I Think of You)
11. You Didn't Have to Be So Nice
12. Não Bate O Coração

We definitely have hit a lull with back to back albums that are just dreadful – and really hard to get through. I have admitted that this isn’t my type of music in the past so I’m really not the one who should be reviewing it, but this record just isn’t any good. Even some of the things I read about the records seem to point this out as being one of Gilberto's less impressive outings, so how it made the list I will never know. All one has to do is listen to the military march track “A Banda (Parade)," or the incredibly bad duet between Gilberto and her six-year-old son on a cover of the Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice."
Again, I am no fan of Brazilian music, but I cannot recommend this.


You can purchase the CD here.

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