Summer Samba
Appearance
"Summer Samba" (also known as "So Nice" or its original Portuguese title, "Samba de Verão") is a 1964 bossa nova and jazz standard song by Brazilian composer Marcos Valle, with English-language lyrics by Norman Gimbel; the original Portuguese lyrics are by Paulo Sérgio Valle, the composer's brother.[1]
Walter Wanderley Trio
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The song was first popularized by the
Adult Standards
radio stations.
Covers
- On the U.S. "Easy Listening" chart, there were versions by Johnny Mathis, Vikki Carr, and Connie Francis during that same year. In fact, at least one source claims that three different versions were on the Billboard charts at the same time in 1966.[6]
- Sergio Mendes. As of 2000, the song had been recorded by more than 180 different artists worldwide.[7]
- The song was covered by Hammond B-3 organ, a staple of the sixties in the recording studio.[citation needed]
- The song appears in the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as well as Click. It also is a major theme in the game Destroy All Humans!, largely as an intentional music joke when the player idles for over five minutes, as the video game is set in 1959, five years before the song's release.
- A cover by Thai singer Nadia appears in the 2002 film Blissfully Yours.
- It is said that the music from the video game called StreetPass Mii Plaza for Nintendo 3DS strongly resembles "Summer Samba".[8][dubious – discuss]
- Eliane Elias included the song in her 2004 album Dreamer.
See also
- List of bossa nova standards
Notes
- ^ Marcos Valle on AllBrazilianMusic.com
- ^ Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography (retrieved 15 February 2007)
- ^ Chusid, Irwin. Walter Wanderley Samba Swing! liner notes
- ^ Thom Jurek, Boss of the Bossa Nova (album review), Allmusic (retrieved 28 March 2007)
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 252.
- ^ Marcos Valle, 1943 (in German)
- ^ Gollner, Adam."Two scoops of samba: A pair of Brazilian heavyweights import some tropical heat,", Montreal Mirror, 30 March 2000
- ^ Nintendo 3DS Music - StreetPass Mii Plaza Theme 1 on YouTube.com
External links
- Duet of Marcos Valle with Patricia Marx singing "Samba de Verão in the original Portuguese (retrieved 8 May 2008)