''Samba '68'' is a 1968 album by

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, arranged by

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Reception

''Billboard'' magazine reviewed the album in their March 23, 1968 issue and wrote that the album was a "topnotch album of alle'scontemporary samba music". John Bush reviewed the reissue of the album for

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and wrote that the album was "a vibrant set of Brazilian pop, indebted to bossa nova and samba but undeniably Americanized for a domestic audience. The result is a joyous album throughout that wears its dated sound quite well". Bush also described the vocal harmonies of Anamaria Valle as providing a "beautiful counterpoint" to Valle's voice and concluded that the album was "one of the best Brazilian crossovers of the 1960s".

Track listing

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Paulo Sérgio Valle Paulo Sérgio Kostenbader Valle (born August 6, 1940) is a Brazilian composer and lyricist. Career Valle started his career as part of the bossa nova trend when, with his brother Marcos Valle, he composed " Samba de Verão", which became one o ...

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" (Gilbert, M. Valle, P. S. Valle) – 2:09 # "So Nice (Summer Samba)" (

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, M. Valle) – 2:30 # "Chup, Chup, I Got Away" (Gilbert, M. Valle, P. S. Valle) – 2:18 # "If You Went Away" (Gilbert, M. Valle) – 2:55 # "Pepino Beach" (Gilbert, M. Valle) – 1:53 # "She Told Me, She Told Me" (Gilbert, M. Valle, P. S. Valle) – 2:44 # "It's Time to Sing" (Gilbert, M. Valle, P. S. Valle) – 2:54 # "Batucada" (Gilbert, M. Valle, P. S. Valle) – 2:05 # "The Face I Love" (Gilbert, Carlos Pingarilho, M. Valle, P. S. Valle) – 1:58 # "Safely in Your Arms" (Gilbert, Pingarilho, M. Valle) – 3:09

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Anamaria Valle – vocals * Deodato –

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– producer ;Production *Acy Lehman – cover design, design *Suzanne White – design coordinator *Sung Lee – design *Deborah Hay – editing *Frank Laico –

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*Val Valentin – engineering director *Richard Seidel – executive producer *Sidney Eden,

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*Kevin Reeves – mastering, mixing *Bob Morgan – producer *Tom Greenwood, Carlos Kase – production assistant *Terri Tierney – production coordination *Bryan Koniarz, Jerry Rappaport – reissue coordination *Ben Young – research, restoration

References

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