“Love Music” is the third studio album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil ’77. This is the first album to feature vocals by Gracinha Leporace and Bonnie Bowden. Tracks 1 Where Is The Love (Ralph MacDonald; William Salter) 03:14 2 Put A Little Love Away (Brian Potter; Dennis Lambert) 03:17 3 Don’t Let Me Be Lonely […]
The Island is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was completed for Columbia Records in 1989 but not released in its entirety by parent corporation Sony Music Entertainment until December 8, 2017, when it was included in the Mathis box set The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection. The liner […]
Arara is an album by Sergio Mendes, released in 1989 on A&M Records. Tracks 1 Sarara (Bring Me The Sunlight) (Gilberto Gil, Tracy Mann) 4:01 2 Mas Que Nada (Jorge Ben) 3:51 3 Some Morning (Brock Walsh, Ivan Lins) 3:46 4 Nightlife (Tracy Mann, Tunai) 3:40 5 Cinnamon And Clove (Cravo E Canela) (Milton Nascimento, […]
Stillness is the final album by Sérgio Mendes and the Brasil ’66 band. Following this album, Mendes renamed his group Brasil ’77. Tracks 1 Stillness (Paula Stone) 2:452 Righteous Life (Paula Stone) 3:203 Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell) 3:044 Cancao Do Nosso Amor (Medeiros; Silveira) 3:525 Viramundo (Jose Carlos Capinan; Gilberto Gil) 3:076 Lost In Paradise […]
Brasil ’86 is an album by Sergio Mendes. The album is best known for four songs by four different vocalists: “Daylight” sung by Siedah Garrett, “Your Smile” by Gracinha Leporace and “No Place to Hide” sung by Lani Hall. “What Do We Mean To Each Other”- duet with Lisa Bevill and Joe Pizzulo, which charted […]
Olympia is a 1984 single from Sérgio Mendes featuring lead vocals by Joe Pizzulo as a theme for the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics. It was released the same year on the album Confetti. The song is also used as the theme song for Olympia Sports Camp in Ontario, Canada, and for the World’s Strongest […]
Alibis was the first single from Sergio Mendes’ album Confetti. In 1984 he recorded the “Confetti” album, which had the hit songs “Olympia”, which was also used as a theme song for the Olympic games that year and “Alibis”. The ’80s also found Sergio Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song “No Place […]
Confetti is an album from 1984 by Sérgio Mendes. Most of the songs of the album were written by established US pop composers and lyricists such as Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Don Freeman, and Tom Snow. Among the notable singers on the album are Joe Pizzulo and Gracinha Leporace. The song […]
Sergio Mendes is the 1983 studio album by Sergio Mendes under the A&M Records label. It includes “Never Gonna Let You Go”, a song written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Another single of that album was Rainbow’s End, written by Don Freeman and David Batteau. […]
“Never Gonna Let You Go“ is a popular song from 1983 credited to Brazilian musician and bandleader Sérgio Mendes and sung by Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller. Songwriters Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann (music) composed the song, which appears on Mendes’ 1983 self-titled album. Weil and Mann originally submitted “Never Gonna Let You Go” […]