Blame It on the Bossa Nova [Original recording remastered]

Eydie Gorme | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Gl Music Co.
• ASIN: B000068G49
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,511 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Am I really the only one who wants Eydie on CD?, October 14, 2003

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N. Hammond (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blame It on the Bossa Nova (Audio CD)

Sob! Am I really the only one who wants Eydie Gorme on CD? NO! There's lots of us out there - all over the globe. Blame It On The Bossa Nova? It's class pop music from one of America's classiest popular vocalists. And is this little bit of heaven made readily available to a wide range of music fans? NO! You rotters...
P.S. If any record company exec's get the message - please could you get together Eydie's other great pop hits from 1963, the lovely Everybody Go Home, the super Don't Fight It and the smoochy I Wanna Stay Here.
Other record companies do it for other stars of that era (Bobby Vee, Nat 'King' Cole et al) why can't you?

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most versatile singing star!, June 17, 2004

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Jim Holtz (Madison, Wi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blame It on the Bossa Nova (Audio CD)

During this period of pop music, Eydie Gorme was the most versatile of pop singers. Her Columbia period & that just before were all genre-themed albums. Her 1st on Columbia, BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA, was her only jazz venture. The title tune which was her biggest comemrcial hit, 11 other jazz styled tracks , & 2 bonus Bossa Nova tracks compose this cd.. That title tune was fun, arty & as nuanced & off keyed as any Peggy Lee. Whatever the instrument is in the song's middle, it works just fine! The cd sound, which makes E.G.'s voice sound richer, is better than the lp sound. I can't think of any other singer who did more to make her voice so different to fit the respective material. I stated that Jo Stafford was the most verstatile of singers. Well, then, Eydie Gorme took ovet the honor followed by Linda Ronstadt. With today's music, who knows & who cares! Still, Linda did not change her voice as much as she did genres; Eydie & Jo could make their voices sound different. During Eydie's period, her big selling Blame It On Bossa Nova & Grammy winning If He Walked Into My Life were the farthest vocal stretch in pop music. In the BLAME IT ON BOSSA NOVA opener, One Not Samba, Gorme strays very far from that note. Paradoxically, she sings every note on key. Eydie starts & ends with that glorious high note & scats so well Ella must have cringed! In Dansero, Eydie sings the same line off & on key to give stylistic & artistic effects to the same feeling of love. The cross overs to jazz (Melodie D' Amour, The Sweetest Sounds, Almost Like In Being In love, The Coffee Song, Moon River, & I Remember You ) artfully equal the stritly jazz ones, (Desfinado, The Message, The Gift, Dansero, & One Nore Samba) while the big hit nicely supports those "better songs". Eydie was quite the revealation. She was jovial, dramatic, wide-ranging & vibrant. Most jazz singers have to stretch their voices to do this materail; but on those other 11 & the 2 bouus songs, she was straight on key, never flinching. She was & is what other singsers could never be: EYDIE GORME! PS. Only Eydie could make Moon River really swing. It's that's song definitive version because everyone else did it as a ballad.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blame It On Eydie Gorme :), February 5, 2006

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Michael G. Batcho (McAdoo, PA (USA)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blame It on the Bossa Nova (Audio CD)

I have loved Eydie Gorme's singing ever since i first heard her on the radio back in the sixties on a song called, "Blame It On The Bossa Nova"! I still love the song . . . i still find myself singing that song . . . and i still listen to the recording of that song by "the voice": Ms Eydie Gorme! (As you listen to her rfecording of this song you can "hear" her smiling . . .and she makes you smile along too!)

THe original LP was recorded at the beginning of the "Bossa Nova" craze . . and while the 'fad" may have ebbed, the style and the music has not faded by any means. . . and Eydie's recordings hold up as "classics" . . and sound as vibrant and relevant to today's musical ear as they did when she first laid these tracks down. (She has included two additional bonus tracks on this "remastered cd" - songs she recorded with 'Louis Bonfa' the brazilian composer/musician.)

One of my own personal favorites on the album is Eydie's take on "Melodie D'Amour! I love the song . . . and I love Eydie's presentation of it.

Another 'classic favorite' of mine found its way into her "bossa nova" styling: "Moon River" from the "Breakfast At Tiffany's" motion picture.

Every track is a most pleasant experience to listen to again and again . . . I'll never be 15 years old again hearing "Blame It On The Bossa Nova" for the first time on the radio . . . but I can relive that time again and again just by putting this cd into the player.

Thank you Ms Eydie Gorme for all of the great music you have gifted us with through the years . . . and particularly thank you for the "smile" that is "Blame It on The Bossa Nova"! (yeah yeah . . . the bossa nova . . no no . . . the bossa nova . . . the dance of love . . . )