whatever happened to bossa nova?

[CTyankee]

I used to love it and then it disappeared. I wish it would come back...

[Wicked Blue]

1. It got blamed

and it's been sulking ever since

Blame it on the Bossa Nova Eydie Gorme'

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[CTyankee]

2. It was too beautiful...

[nocoincidences]

3. You can still find Brazilian singers who enjoy doing Bossa Nova music.

But not like the sixties and early seventies when it was so popular.

Nara Leao, Gal Costa, and Rita Lee do some nice Bossa Nova songs.

I've also developed a love of Samba from listening to Clara Nunes.

They're all on youtube!

[Cartoonist]

4. It's still here

Especially on Jazz Chill stations. YouTube has a million of these:

[rog]

5. Elis Regina: Here is one of the most remarkable TV shows ...

... one of the most remarkable TV shows I have ever seen. This is in Portuguese, unfortunately with no subtitles, but regardless, I was riveted for the entire 90 minutes the first time I saw this. Subsequently, I was able to d/l a subtitle file to add to the video.

The entire interview is in extreme closeup, and you never see or hear the interviewer. Just a black background. It is very intimate.

Tell me if this puts a smile on your face ... but it's worth scrolling back to the beginning for the entire show.

She is accompanied by her working trio at the time ... amazing rapport. There is a LOT of music in this video, all amazing.

Ladeira da Preguiça: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4m48s&v=j4NfM7e_QkU

Too bad YouTube does not have a subtitled version ... she talks in detail about her life, and about her connection to the roots of modern Brazilian music.

Watching her face is like watching the weather pass.

♫rog♫

[CTyankee]

6. Lovely! I wish I heard it from lots of sources like I seemed to when Bossa Nova was big.

[rog]

7. I hope you saw my edited post ...

... I tried to link to a specific time in the embedded video, but DU doesn't allow that. I did find a workaround, which now works, but the video is now not embedded. If you didn't catch Ladeira da Preguiça, please go back and try the revised link ... it is worth it!

♫rog♫

[CTyankee]

8. Will do! Thank you!

[rog]

9. I just noticed there are links to the specific songs.

re: the Elis Regina interview, there are links to each specific song in the youtube video description. She performs 17 songs with her trio! This is great if you don't wish to watch an interview in a foreign language, but as I mentioned, just watching her is riveting.

She is so young in the video, before she started having major problems.

[CTyankee]

11. My mother took me to Rio when I was 17 years old. I never had seen such beauty.

This was one year before "The Boy from Ipanema" was played in the U.S.

[rog]

10. I almost forgot about these shorts ... really, don't miss them.

Wonderful stuff here, from Disney in 1942.

This is from a two-part series, actually part of a large series of South American cartoons that Disney did for the State Dept. The first part seems to be unavailable on youtube now, but this is great.

Blame It On The Samba:

Featuring the Dunning Sisters and the awesome Ethel Smith on organ. The animation is psychedelic, as in Fantasia.

Info about the series here: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Saludos_Amigos

[area51]

12. If you have Amazon prime, they have a bossa nova channel you can listen to. n/t