I was jumping around the web this morning and Jason Shellen pointed to a whacky collection of scanned album covers. I was just goofing and looked at this saucy cover for Acapulco ’22 by Laurindo Almeida. And I realized that these four lovely bikini-clad young women have nothing to do with Almeida or his Bossa Nova guitar music. Just another attempt by marketing meeps to use sex to move product.
Cause, you know, I always choose my beer/auto/music by which uses the sexiest women. Or not.
But I was also more than a little shaken by the song selection on this album: Hava Nagila, a Jewish folk tune; Miserlou, and American country folk tune, some songs I don’t recognize and then a bunch of syrupy romantic ballads, More, Satin Doll, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, and What Kind of Fool Am I. I checked on Google but couldn’t find any of these online. Wouldn’t you want to hear a Bossa Nova version of Hava Nagila?
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