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Next day, for the first time since 1814, the House formally recorded its admiration and gratitude for one man. The resolution was moved by the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and was followed by brief tributes by Liberal Jo Grimond, arch-Conservative Sir Thomas Moore, Labor's Harold Wilson and Emanuel Shinwell...
Eloquent Sermon. It all started a year ago, when the easy charm of bossa nova had been drowned in a din of bongo drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor...
...melodies are provided by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil's leading bossa nova composer, who also backs up the lead duo with sensitive piano playing. The result is an eloquent sermon on what the bossa nova was originally all about. The relaxed, almost flat vocal styling of Joāo sounds as if he were whispering in your ear, and it is exquisitely embroidered by the ethereal solos of Getz's lyrical tenor...
...Adding. Two months ago, just as Joāo and Getz were about to launch a countrywide tour, Joāo developed a "cramp in his playing arm" and had to bow out. Astrud replaced him and suddenly found herself a star. Astrud is herself a girl from Ipanema, a section of Rio de Janeiro's sparkling beach front, who came to the U.S. two years ago with Joāo. Last week, with the single edition of The Girl from Ipanema burning up the teen-age record market, Astrud Gilberto was trying to get used...
...fact, it serves only as a frame on which to hang a few clever lines, and, at least on opening night, the timing on these lines was not particularly good. M. Tapan (Paul Benedict) and Mme. Tapan (Jo Lane) both nearly save the show with their marvelous facial expressions and perfect comic gestures...