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Sérgio Mendes (album)

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Released
  
1983

Label
  
A&M SP-4984

Recorded
  
1983

Sérgio Mendes (1983)
  
Confetti (1984)

Genre
  
Pop, adult contemporary, samba, bossa nova, Latin pop

Producer
  
Sérgio Mendes (with Jose Quintana on track 9)

Sérgio Mendes is the 1983 studio album by Sérgio Mendes under the A&M Records label. It includes "Never Gonna Let You Go", a song written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "VooDoo" (Douglas Brayfield, Ronaldo Monteiro De Souza, Ivan Lins, Vitor Martins) 3:55
  2. "Never Gonna Let You Go" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) 4:15
  3. "My Summer Love" (Adrienne Anderson, Serge Gainsbourg, Alain Chamfort) 4:00
  4. "Carnaval Festa Do Interior" (Mary Ekler, Moraes Moreira, Abel Silva) 3:50
  5. "Rainbow's End" (Don Freeman, David Batteau) 4:03
  6. "Love Is Waiting" (David & Jenny Batteau, Don Freeman) 3:47
  7. "Dream Hunter" (Danny Sembello, Michael Sembello) 3:02
  8. "Life In The Movies" (Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky) 3:52
  9. "Si Senor" (Juan Carlos Calderón) 3:46

Personnel

  • Carlos Vega, Ed Greene, John Robinson, Raymond Pounds, Teo Lima, Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
  • Edson Aparecido da Silva (AKA Cafe), Ron Powell, Sebastiao Neto, Steve Forman: percussion
  • Louis Johnson, Nathan East, Nathan Watts: bass
  • Ben Bridges, John Pisano, Michael Sembello, Paul Jackson Jr., Michael Landau: guitars
  • Sérgio Mendes: keyboards, acoustic piano, synthesizers, percussion
  • Don Freeman: acoustic piano, clavinet, backing vocals
  • Robbie Buchanan: acoustic piano & Fender Rhodes
  • Michael Boddicker: synthesizers
  • Bill Reichenbach, Ernie Watts, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey: horns
  • Bill Martin, Carol Rogers, Dan Sembello, Geoff Lieb, Gracinha Leporace, Joe Pizzulo, Leza Miller, Michael Sembello, Robert Martin, Suzanne Wallach, Carol Rogers: vocals and backing vocals

    • Reception

    In his review of the album, AllMusic’s Richard S. Ginell gave it two stars (of a possible five). He took aim at the hit "Never Gonna Let You Go", calling it “a saccharine ballad, where Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller sing their banalities while Sergio strums and comps on synthesizers.” He was critical of the album as a whole too, saying “To say that anyone could have made this record may be overstating the case, but the fact is that there is no way of knowing that this is a Sergio Mendes record without looking at the jacket.”

    References

    Sérgio Mendes (album) Wikipedia
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