Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 To Grammy Collection

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2012 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Inductees

ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN
FOLK MUSIC
Various Artists Folkways (1952) Folk (Album)

"ANYTHING GOES" Cole Porter
(Cole Porter) His Master's Voice (1934) Pop (Single)

BORN IN THE U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen Columbia (1984) Rock (Album)

"DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS" Gene Autry (June Hershey & Don Swander)
Decca (1942) Country (Single)

DÉJÀ VU
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Atlantic (1970) Rock (Album)

EXILE ON MAIN ST.
The Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones/Atlantic (1972)
Rock (Album)

"FIXIN' TO DIE"
Bukka White
(Bukka White)
Okeh (1940)
Blues (Single)

FOGGY MOUNTAIN JAMBOREE
Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs
Columbia (1957) Bluegrass (Album)

GRACELAND
Paul Simon
Warner Bros. (1986) Pop (Album)

HERB ALPERT PRESENTS SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
A&M (1966)
Pop (Album)

"HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES"
Leroy Carr
(Leroy Carr)
Vocalion (1928)
Blues (Single)

"I HAVE A DREAM"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom March On Washington
20th Century Fox (1963) Spoken Word (Track)

I STARTED OUT AS A CHILD
Bill Cosby
Warner Bros. (1964) Comedy (Album)

"I WILL SURVIVE"
Gloria Gaynor
(Freddie Perren & Dino Fekaris) Polydor (1978) Disco (Single)

"KASSIE JONES"
Furry Lewis
(Walter "Furry" Lewis) Victor (1928) Blues (Single)

"KEY TO THE HIGHWAY"
Big Bill Broonzy (Big Bill Broonzy & Charles Segar)
Okeh (1941) Blues (Single)

"THE MESSAGE"
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Featuring Melle Mel And Duke Bootee
(Jiggs Chase, Melvin Glover, Sylvia Robinson & Edward Fletcher) Sugar Hill (1982)
Rap (Single)

MEXICANTOS
Los Panchos
Coda (1945) Latin (Album)

"PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND"
Mahalia Jackson
(Thomas A. Dorsey) Columbia (1956) Gospel (Single)

"QUE SERA, SERA (WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE)" Doris Day (Jay Livingston & Ray Evans)
Columbia (1956)
Pop (Single)

ROY HARRIS SYMPHONY NO. 3
Serge Koussevitzky, cond. Boston Symphony Orchestra
RCA Victor (1940) Classical (Album)

SANTANA
Santana
Columbia (1969) Rock (Album)

ST. LOUIS WOMAN
Original Broadway Cast
Capitol (1946)
Musical Show (Album)

"WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS"
Freddy Fender
(Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan)
ABC-Dot (1975)
Country (Single)

"WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT"
Tina Turner (Terry Britten & Graham Lyle)
Capitol (1984)
Pop (Single)

It's about time "The Message" and Exile on Main Street made it into the HOF.

Great news.

Gosh, how many copies of Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 do I own?

Original LP SP-4116
MFSL Original Master Recording Gatefold LP MFSL 1-118
Brazilian Elenco reissue in mono ME-78 (without the "Herb Alpert Presents" in the title)

Japanese CD POCM-1879 from around 1993
US Verve CD reissue B0007428-02

plus a CD-R I made from the MFSL LP. So five official versions and some homemade copies.

Short but sweet - it's a classic album!

Harry

Yes Harry, we here at A&M Corner have known this for years. So what took the GRAMMY people so long?

They can only induct a small number per year. Still, it took too long.

(So when do we start lobbying for the Ethel Merman Disco Album? )

Sadly missing are Herb's albums Whipped Cream, Going Places and Rise... Whipped Cream should at least be on the list!

Whipped Cream to me would be the only one that would be in the spirit of the HOF induction (under "historical significance"). Not that the other albums are any less musical or less liked, but the success and resulting popularity of this album is what kicked Herb's career and name recognition over the top, and firmly launched A&M as an independent label to be reckoned with. The cover itself was iconic, and many of us had grown up seeing this album in our parents' record collection. Many of the general public, in fact, recognize that album and the artist/band immediately upon seeing that cover, and remember the album fondly.

The first Brasil '66 album was notable due to the rearrangement Sergio Mendes did to Brazilian music in the US. We'd had bossa nova for years, jazz in a bossa nova style, or other variations on the same idea, but never had anyone do a "mash-up" or layering of styles that would redefine how this music could work for the younger generations. In Brasil '66 you had the obvious bossa nova, samba and jazz influences, but also a healthy taste of pop and rock as well (and as the liner notes once said, "...a little sex"). In addition to launching his career even further, his success at A&M enabled him to present us with other up and coming Brazilian artists such as Edu Lobo.