The Shadow of Your Smile, Bossa Nova style on guitar. WHY don't they SING??

**elixzer** · 12-09-2014, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by Flyin' Brian

Not Brazilian but sung and played.

Ohhh nooooo! So I am now not first EVER person to play the tune and sing it...?? I am cresfallen

lol oh well

He does a good job. But I am now after more more more. I am after ways of singing it (with guitar) as diverse as ways of playing it.

**elixzer** · 12-09-2014, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by Patrick2

Wow! Johnny sure does need some pitch correcting.

...you mean his voice??

I have a problem with this obsession with pitch. I have watched those awul reality shows like X factor etc where you have these egoist judges who are always going on about pitch etc. I mean IF they had been the ones checking out Blues and Jazz singers they'd have totally destoryed all the real soulful talent. because singing is not about pitch but soul. Many of the real good Blues singers and Soul singers and players dont DO pitch, that is what bending notes is all about...some of the most heart wrenching notes are not 'pitched'

And of course this obsession now has caused the most horrendous muzac EVER with many of the plastic little over =produced illuminati puppets singing through that auto-tune so all the singing sounds robotical to match the 'music'. It is truly a nightmare to listen to. Oh and like its in an echo chamber also. All the soul has gone

**elixzer** · 12-09-2014, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Stevebol

I try to associate songs with a vocal version most of the time. With TSOYS that's impossibe for me;

I know it's not bossa or vocal but this does it me.

I have heard this before. I love it. Very dreamy.

**ronjazz** · 12-09-2014, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by elixzer

Which is why I am so interested in seeing how guitarists who sing and play guitar at same time do it. As of yet I have not found one guitarist who plays The Shadow of Your Smile in a Bossa Nova style sing and play it at the same time! Could it be that this has never been done...?

I do it all the time, and even in 5/4 Latin, but haven't recorded it yet. Gilberto is the model, he made bossas oput of Gershwin tunes, among others.

**elixzer** · 12-09-2014, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by ronjazz

I do it all the time, and even in 5/4 Latin, but haven't recorded it yet. Gilberto is the model, he made bossas oput of Gershwin tunes, among others.

please link me to a video where he does that?

**Jabberwocky** · 12-10-2014, 02:04 AM

Groundhog Day already?

**2bornot2bop** · 12-12-2014, 02:15 PM

It's not bossa, but there's nuthin' like Lou Rawls. Herb Ellis is on guitar.

**docbop** · 12-12-2014, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop

It's not bossa, but there's nuthin' like Lou Rawls. Herb Ellis is on guitar.

Can't beat Lou Rawls and Herb Ellis!

**Stevebol** · 12-12-2014, 08:55 PM

Man Lou Rawls version is just great.

**MarkRhodes** · 12-13-2014, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by elixzer

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Here's just some of the music I dig--some I dont know the label of its form so cant say:

Butthole Surfers
Bongwater

O, man, that brings back memories! I remember when Bongwater's "Breaking No New Ground" came out. I sent a postcard to Ann Magnuson and we ended up corresponding for two years. She told me about her small role in Alan Rudolph's "Love At Large," a movie I might otherwise have missed. Loved it---Neil Young does an odd turn in it and it closes with Leonard Cohen's "Ain't No Cure For Love." (On a non-musical note, Ted Levine has a great role in this movie---it's the best performance of his that I have seen.)

Whenever I hear the Surfers mentioned, I can't help saying, "I'm gonna move down to Florida. And I'm gonna bowl me a perfect game...."