1. The Shadow of Your Smile - Astrud Gilberto, Mandel, Johnny
2. Aruanda (Take Me to Aruanda) - Astrud Gilberto, Lyra, G.
3. Manhã de Carnival - Astrud Gilberto, Bonfá
4. Fly Me to the Moon - Astrud Gilberto, Howard, Bart
5. The Gentle Rain - Astrud Gilberto, Bonfa, Luiz
6. Non-Stop to Brazil - Astrud Gilberto, Bonfa, Luiz
7. O Ganso - Astrud Gilberto, Bonfa, Luiz
8. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - Astrud Gilberto, Bricusse, Leslie
9. Day by Day - Astrud Gilberto, Cahn, Sammy
10. Tristeza (Goodbye Sadness) - Astrud Gilberto, Bonfa, Luiz
11. Funny World - Astrud Gilberto, Brandt, Alan
Album Description
24 bit digitally remastered.
Album Details
Japanese version featuring a limited LP style slipcase. 24 bit 96KHz digitally remastered.
|
The Shadow of Your Smile
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2002-04-23)
- Publisher: Umvd Labels
- Label: Umvd Labels
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Studio: Umvd Labels
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 10 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #75214
Avg. Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Charming, with reservations 2008-09-26
Comment: This is a charming album. The sound is dated, yes, but the remastered edition is luscious. The instrumental and vocal timbres are very warm and sweet.
The only caveat I have is that the vocals are not as solid as The Astrud Gilberto Album. That one sounds very confident throughout. Here, some of the singing sounds tentative. Maybe that by itself may be appealing to some listeners. I do not have that reaction. It sounds like Astrud was not entirely comfortable with the some of the songs or wasn't thoroughly familiar with them.
Also, on Fly Me To The Moon Astrud never sounds exactly on-key, which is a bit disconcerting. Who Can I Turn To is similarly afflicted. It makes me wonder if she was unable to hear the orchestral playback properly. I don't know the cause, but it should have been corrected before release.
Still, some of the songs here are utterly confident and among the best Astrud ever recorded. Manha De Carnaval floors me with its beautiful guitar arrangement and simply wonderful unadorned vocals. The title track and Aruanda are complete successes. I have always loved The Gentle Rain -- I even own the original soundtrack LP. Astrud's version is a worthy variation on the song.
For me this is a worthwhile CD, one that I come back to repeatedly, in spite of its objective flaws. I only wish Verve would release a reasonably priced remaster of Astrud's first album that equals the sonic authority and beauty of Shadow Of Your Smile.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: I've always liked Astrud........ 2007-08-28
Comment: .....and still do. This is a remake of an LP from back in '64....very early Astrud. There's always been a certain charm about her...maybe a "little girl" quality...hard to define. The story is that she only got onto the legendary Getz/Gilberto album in the first place because she could sing in English. Not sure if this was her first solo effort...
This is an album of pop music of the day, English and Portugese...probably the best known cuts would be the title song, "Fly Me To The Moon", and "Who Can I Turn To". One can say that Astrud has an accent, BUT, one can understand every word, which is more than can be said for some who grew up speaking English.
As I said, this is a reissue of an LP...and there's the one drawback; oh, the sound is fantastic, as we expect from Verve. But, 25' 34" is kind of short for a CD that goes for above-market price. Still, I like it, and I bet you will, too....
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: smooth range 2006-09-18
Comment: to all the other five star reviews, I can say Amen!
However, there is one thing I noticed about Astrud Gilberto's
voice I hadn't recognized before. Notice her transition from
either the low or middle register to a hign note. It's smoothness
is unimaginable. Truly the best CD of hers of all that I own.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: EASY LISTENING WITH SOOTHING FEMALE VOCALS 2006-05-18
Comment: Great easy listening with soothing and pretty female vocals.The songs are quite emotional,with a beautiful sadness to them that only the mid to late 60's can bring.Just fantastic.I also recommend "A Certain Smile,A Certain Sadness" and "A Look To the Rainbow" from Austrud Gilberto.......and Carlos Jobim's "The Composer Of Desafinado Plays" and "Wave",all of these recordings are from the mid to late 60's and are very similar.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Real Deal 2006-02-07
Comment: This is as good a classic Bossa Nova CD as I've heard.
The delivery is so low key and understated that it blends in with any activity, reading, having a nice cup of tea, or writing.
Gilberto's voice is so cool and collected that it's hard to believe that she basically walked into the studio and cut these and her other classic tracks without any formal training.
Her voice reminds me loosely of Swing Out Sister's Corrine Drewery, another so called "untrained" pop-jazz vocalist with a cult following.
All the tracks here are worth listening. My only complaint is that there weren't more of them, and that most of them don't run a little longer.
Great stuff!
|
The Shadow of Your Smile
Enlarge View