A Rapariga Que Veio do Frio by Gilberto Pinto

Samba de Uma Nota Só - João Gilberto (1960).The Italian lyrics were adapted by Giorgio Calabrese and the French by Eddy Marnay. The adapted English lyrics titled One Note Samba were penned by American jazz lyricist and singer Jon Hendricks, with two different versions. This recording helped the song to international success, which reverberated in Brazil in 19 with numerous other recordings, making Samba de Uma Nota Só one of the iconic songs of bossa nova. The album became a number one success in the USA and one of the pioneers of bossa nova jazz worldwide.

On 13 February 1962, however, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd recorded their six-minute instrumental version in Pierce Hall of the All Souls Church in Washington D.C., which was released shortly afterwards on their album Jazz Samba. In Brazil, Samba de Uma Nota Só was a success in 19, but its popularity remained rather modest, with only eleven recordings, although it did include excellent versions by Sylvia Telles and Juarez Araújo, among others. He died of a heart attack on 22 November 1960 at the age of 33. Along with Desafinado and Meditação, Samba de Uma Nota Só is certainly Mendonça’s most famous song. Although he is often seen as just one of Jobim’s lyricists, they composed their songs together, in “four hands”, as Newton himself once put it. Samba de Uma Nota Só is one of 17 songs by the duo Jobim and Mendonça, 13 of which were recorded and two of which are lost. The song was also released as the first single from the album and was a hit on numerous local charts in May and June 1960. Samba de Uma Nota Só was introduced in 1960 by João Gilberto Pereira de Oliveira, recorded on April 4 and released in May as the opening track on his second solo album O Amor, O Sorriso e a Flor, arranged and conducted by Jobim and produced by Aloysio de Oliveira.

A Rapariga Que Veio do Frio by Gilberto Pinto