CD-Charts Position 1
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A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

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by: Astrud Gilberto, Walter Wanderley

Release Date June 19, 2006
What more is there to say? Astrud Gilberto's voice + Walter Wanderley's organ = Muzak Heaven. And I know that sounds derogatory, but truly, I respect and LOVE this album, much like the rest of Astrud's catalog and bossa nova in general. With her, it's currently my second-favorite LP she's done, stuck firmly between 'Beach Samba'-- number one-- and 'September 17, 1969'-- number three. Anyway, if you dig what I can only describe as 'the thinking person's elevator music,' then snatch up this shimmering collection of space-organ songs today!

CD-Charts Position 2
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A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

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by: Astrud Gilberto, Walter Wanderley

Release Date December 02, 2002
What more is there to say? Astrud Gilberto's voice + Walter Wanderley's organ = Muzak Heaven. And I know that sounds derogatory, but truly, I respect and LOVE this album, much like the rest of Astrud's catalog and bossa nova in general. With her, it's currently my second-favorite LP she's done, stuck firmly between 'Beach Samba'-- number one-- and 'September 17, 1969'-- number three. Anyway, if you dig what I can only describe as 'the thinking person's elevator music,' then snatch up this shimmering collection of space-organ songs today!

CD-Charts Position 3
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A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

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by: Astrud Gilberto, Walter Wanderley

Release Date April 03, 2006
What more is there to say? Astrud Gilberto's voice + Walter Wanderley's organ = Muzak Heaven. And I know that sounds derogatory, but truly, I respect and LOVE this album, much like the rest of Astrud's catalog and bossa nova in general. With her, it's currently my second-favorite LP she's done, stuck firmly between 'Beach Samba'-- number one-- and 'September 17, 1969'-- number three. Anyway, if you dig what I can only describe as 'the thinking person's elevator music,' then snatch up this shimmering collection of space-organ songs today!

CD-Charts Position 4
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A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

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by: Astrud Gilberto, Walter Wanderley

Release Date November 21, 2001
What more is there to say? Astrud Gilberto's voice + Walter Wanderley's organ = Muzak Heaven. And I know that sounds derogatory, but truly, I respect and LOVE this album, much like the rest of Astrud's catalog and bossa nova in general. With her, it's currently my second-favorite LP she's done, stuck firmly between 'Beach Samba'-- number one-- and 'September 17, 1969'-- number three. Anyway, if you dig what I can only describe as 'the thinking person's elevator music,' then snatch up this shimmering collection of space-organ songs today!

CD-Charts Position 5
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Beach Samba

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by: Astrud Gilberto

Release Date October 12, 1993
I got "Beach Samba" and "September 17, 1969" for Christmas 2007. Of the two, I like "Beach Samba" better. Released in 1967, it perfectly captures the breeziness of that year's music. "Beach Samba" is fun, jazzy, up-tempo, and well produced. Astrud's vocals are as charming as ever, and it doesn't have pop pretentious in the way "September 17, 1969" does (a cover of "Light My Fire," really?). On "Beach Samba," she is still close to her Latin/bossa roots. Most of the songs here are in English. "Canoeiro" (which, near as I can tell, is about Brazil's canoe people) is in Portuguese. "Face That I Love" is one of her better songs, which I had first heard years ago on her wonderful "Finest Hour" CD. "Face that I Love" makes me think of couples strolling ... Read More: