Wow..my first memory of this is from 1966 In the Army. It's as fabulous now as the first day I heard it. I never tire hearing this beautiful voice tied to such spectacular lyrics.. Beyond description..it is timeless and superb..
fd4519 Sergio Mendes e o seu fantástico conjunto Brasil &66,com Tião Neto no baixo,Rubens Bassini na percussão,o genial e a lenda da bateria Dom Um Romão que dava o sustentáculo rítmico,a verdadeira marcação musical no som do Sergio Mendes,cantoras Karen Pilillips e Lani Hall(atualmente casada com Herb Alpert) e está em uma carreira solo.A música So many Stars,retrata a grandeza do arranjo e a bateria e a percussão emoldurando a peça musical que fica guardada nos nossos ouvidos.Obrigado.
This version was going through my head all day, and it's just glorious to hear it again after so long. And please let me offer my praise for the magnificent pictures that accompanied it. Just gorgeous and thay added to it. I'd love to know where you got some of the pictures, so I could post a couple on Facebook. Thanks again.
Lani Hall's voice reminds me of Marilyn McCoo of the 5th dimension. It is like a rich, sweet desert that you take the time to savor every delicious bite. Beautiful stuff!
I was 12 when this came out, and my parents were total jazz fans, and I'm so glad for that. There has been a loss of style, writing ability, and the ability to sing a song using just the notes written by the composer. This is a prime example of purity in singing, a beautiful melody, sung as it was written, no need for embellishments, just great vocals, and great music. Rap has done a great disservice to music today in my opinion, but we will return to great music some day.
Sergio Mendes great Brazilian composer and arranger who started his career in the bucolic city of Rio de Janeiro from 50 to 60 years. In a bar called "Beco das Garrafas" (Alley of Bottles). Beautiful voice and song in bossa nova style. From Lorena-SP - Brazil.
fd4519 Grande composição e criação musical,tocada por Sergio Mendes em seu fabuloso piano com profundidade jazzística,desde os saudosos tempos do Beco das Garrafas,onde ele,arrasava junto com feras como Tenório Jr,Luiz Eça,Luiz Carlos Vinhas e tantos outros.Na bateria emoldurando a peça musical,jamais poderemos esquecer o lendário,ícone da bateria brasileira,o maravilhoso DOM UM ROMÃO,que era figura indispensável na qualidade musical de um conjunto ou orquestra.Parabéns,e curtamos a música.
IN FUCKING CREDABLE EXCUSE ME BUT MY SOUL WAS JUST MOVED OMG! YOU TALK ABOUT COMPLETE CLASS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SOUL MOVING POST BLESS YOU SHEAR BEAUTY. WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL.
Sometimes I feel it's so unfair for some of these 60's groups to get lost. I mean many of us are familiar with SM&B66..But they just dont get much play. No one has sexier music and better lyrics than this group, maybe Gordon Lightfoot and some of Jim Croce's stuff..I do love Fool on the Hill..It's the only version to measure up to the Beatle's work.
Smooth, sexy, love song. I have their Greatest Hits CD and it is nice for any evening to sit around with your girl friend and sip a drink and listen. I have been listening to SM and B 66 since I was about 16 in 1965...I love Fool on the Hill and best of all. "Like a Lover" Talk about a great love song.
As I have watched so many clips of Sergio and Brasil 66 performing, I notice that the "other girl singers" in the group (Janis Hansen--brunette performed from 66-68 and Karen Phillip--the tall swivel-hipped blonde with the electric smile--from 68-72) usually out-performed Lani Hall in stage presence, but when it came to pure sweet-voiced beauty, Lani was (and still is) the best as this song so richly demonstrates. Before Gloria Estefan, or Celine Dion, there was and still is Lani .
fd4519 Without doubt my good friends,this music,woundrous musical sound.Pay attention in the female singer,a beautiful Lani Hall,with Sergio Mendes in piano,great orchestra and particular attention,please in one man called Dom Um Romão,who plays drum,consideered one of the greatest drummers of the world.He is borned in Rio de Janeiro,he and two others drummers called Edson Machado and Milton Banana,brought a new style of playing drum and the amazing techniques of playing drums and percussions.
@fd4519 hello my dear fd4519. I strongly agree with your comments, mainly about the great Dom Um Romão drummer. But, don't forget that by the time this song was recorded, the Brasil '66 drummer was another great Brazilian drummer called João Palma. Um abraço.
This is an amazing album on so many levels. Great for sharing, thanks. found the single version of this today, probably in Mono i'll give it a spin later.
What a magnificent vocal. I first heard Brasil 66 while in the Army during the Vietnam War and was so happy to hear such a beautiful song. Superb. As they say, it's from an era long ago and we live with the memories, some good and bad. This is and always will be a classic. 44 years later and I still like to listen to them...It'd be hard for anyone to duplicate that special "aura" that enabled these tunes to become so unforgetable...
This is one of those largely- overlooked masterpieces sung by the singularly talented Lani Hall. Miss Hall's voice is beauty itself and perfectly suited to this song. The memories come flooding back when I listen to this beautiful beautiful rendition of So Many Stars. What a time it was. No one else should even attempt to sing it.
@Shubael1809 Hey, I've just sung it - transposed a 9th down, cos I'm a bass. No-one will ever do it like Lani, whose rendition is supremely beautiful, but the song's for everyone.
This is the most beautiful song ever by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. The musical arrangement and Lani Hall's ethereal vocal take me to another world whenever I hear it. The daily grind just seems to fade away. Thank you for posting this, mancmuso1!
@WilliamCarole1977 : The writing credits for this song were listed as Sergio Mendes and Alan & Marilyn Bergman, if memory serves me correctly. I agree, as I've already posted here, that this is a breathtakingly beautiful song and recording, and Lani Hall's performance is the most perfect female vocal I've ever heard on a song.
Pulitzer Prize comments from SooperDooperDave and Mulsanne917andKink. Not much more to add. I have loved this song for decades. What a masterpiece of sound!
¡¡¡Sin lugar a dudas sigue siendo uno de los videos más bellos que has creado, amigo mío!!!
Engarza perfecto con la cintilante belleza de esta notable composición de Alan y Marylin Bergman, uno de los momentos culminantes del celebérrimo Sergio Mendes y su Brasil 66!!! Un también muy merecido tributo a la frágil y acariciadora voz de Ms Lani Hall.
Encantada de volver a ver este bellísimo vid, es todo un tesoro "fanstarstico"************
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever made. I actually heard it in the middle of the night in 1996 for the first time. Sergio and friends do thei Bergman song true justice with Lani Hall's pure tremulous vocals defining the song and making it theirs. It really is beautiful. Thankyou so much for this. xx
I've posted my opinion about this recording before, but your comment has inspired me to repeat myself: I've heard countless female vocals throughout my life which have been outstanding, but I sincerely feel that this is the greatest singing performance I've ever heard on record, period. The song itself is beautiful, and wonderfully performed, but Lani Hall's vocals are beyond perfect--every note, syllable, inflection--and most importantly, with feeling!
@SooperDooperDave Dave, There are many versions of this wonderful song out there. Kathleen Battle does a pretty good version. But NO ONE .... NO ONE touches Lani Hall's unparalleled voice and this instrumentation. Thanks for posting. OH, but this was a magical time. Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 was SO underrated when they were in their heyday.
@Shubael1809 YOu're right. Her smoky voice makes this is gorgeous. Well, SM B66 were competing with "Hey Jude" and Jim Morrison et al. It's a shame. They were so ahead of their time. I just love the SM B '66 background. . Another lady named Kelly Johnson also does this so beautifully, much slower though. Lani Hall puts so much emotion into it. This is like my personal theme song. Just love it.
Alps Cru - Loudmouths just cant explain
The808Prophet 3 weeks ago
Lani Hall is from, yes, the North Side of Chicago, and whatever faults that little corner of the world might otherwise have, Lani Hall absolves all.
Dimitri44a 1 month ago
rules and owns
heiswithus36 1 month ago
The Orchestral Arrangement Is Magnificent. Lani Hall Had The Perfect Pitch For This Song. Timeless And Tantalizingly Beautiful.
ezabdullah 1 month ago
Wow..my first memory of this is from 1966 In the Army. It's as fabulous now as the first day I heard it. I never tire hearing this beautiful voice tied to such spectacular lyrics.. Beyond description..it is timeless and superb..
Abyss1021 1 month ago
pure and lovely
...ever heard Janet Monheit's live version? I like that too
btinsley1 1 month ago in playlist anti-headache vibes
fd4519 Sergio Mendes e o seu fantástico conjunto Brasil &66,com Tião Neto no baixo,Rubens Bassini na percussão,o genial e a lenda da bateria Dom Um Romão que dava o sustentáculo rítmico,a verdadeira marcação musical no som do Sergio Mendes,cantoras Karen Pilillips e Lani Hall(atualmente casada com Herb Alpert) e está em uma carreira solo.A música So many Stars,retrata a grandeza do arranjo e a bateria e a percussão emoldurando a peça musical que fica guardada nos nossos ouvidos.Obrigado.
fd4519 3 months ago
This is one of the most beautiful recordings/arrangements/chord progressions ever. Nice video, too!
prisavelin 3 months ago
Streisand's new version of this can't touch Lani Hall's version here heard.
Shubael1809 4 months ago
beautiful song im 50 now and loved this group when i was in 1st grade!!!!!
jamdolly 4 months ago
agree @ billybob . Thank you Sergio and Lani for the music .
angeloamericano 4 months ago
I miss them...that era...
yusufosram 5 months ago
Pure musical genius....
0925Carlos 5 months ago
this is a relaxing song WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WizKhalifa4069 5 months ago
This version was going through my head all day, and it's just glorious to hear it again after so long. And please let me offer my praise for the magnificent pictures that accompanied it. Just gorgeous and thay added to it. I'd love to know where you got some of the pictures, so I could post a couple on Facebook. Thanks again.
raptureofindigo77 5 months ago
@raptureofindigo77 check out sarahs version
keybobrob 2 months ago
The version on Streisand's new album is this arrangement. I like her version but Sergio and Lani own this song!
casey3234 5 months ago
@casey3234 actually sara own it...lol
keybobrob 2 months ago
Lani Hall's voice reminds me of Marilyn McCoo of the 5th dimension. It is like a rich, sweet desert that you take the time to savor every delicious bite. Beautiful stuff!
MAG315 5 months ago
This is one example of heaven on earth!
casey3234 6 months ago
This is so lush and wonderful. I love her voice. She helped put Sergio Mendes on the map. Thanks for this post.
necktieguy1 6 months ago
gorgeous
btinsley1 6 months ago
I was 12 when this came out, and my parents were total jazz fans, and I'm so glad for that. There has been a loss of style, writing ability, and the ability to sing a song using just the notes written by the composer. This is a prime example of purity in singing, a beautiful melody, sung as it was written, no need for embellishments, just great vocals, and great music. Rap has done a great disservice to music today in my opinion, but we will return to great music some day.
graymagic1 6 months ago 2
@graymagic1 Agree. I hope you're right.
kp5271 5 months ago
Incredible song and vocal from Lani!
casey3234 6 months ago
Sergio Mendes great Brazilian composer and arranger who started his career in the bucolic city of Rio de Janeiro from 50 to 60 years. In a bar called "Beco das Garrafas" (Alley of Bottles). Beautiful voice and song in bossa nova style. From Lorena-SP - Brazil.
AndradeWanke 6 months ago
...Me encanta!!
526gerker 7 months ago
fd4519 Grande composição e criação musical,tocada por Sergio Mendes em seu fabuloso piano com profundidade jazzística,desde os saudosos tempos do Beco das Garrafas,onde ele,arrasava junto com feras como Tenório Jr,Luiz Eça,Luiz Carlos Vinhas e tantos outros.Na bateria emoldurando a peça musical,jamais poderemos esquecer o lendário,ícone da bateria brasileira,o maravilhoso DOM UM ROMÃO,que era figura indispensável na qualidade musical de um conjunto ou orquestra.Parabéns,e curtamos a música.
fd4519 7 months ago
I PLAY THAT SONG WHEN IT'S LATE AT NIGHT AND EVEN WHEN I'M ON THE HIGHWAY LATE AT NIGHT.
oscarflores1980 7 months ago
ｾﾙｼﾞｵ･ﾒﾝﾃﾞｽ&ﾌﾞﾗｼﾞﾙ66のしっとりしたｶﾊﾞｰ"SO･MANY･STARS"～ﾃﾞｲヴ･ｸﾞﾙｰｼﾝのアレンジが冴え渡る! #jazzm
blackandtanful 8 months ago
A great music to dance.
Gunner193 8 months ago
Great song. Streisand has just recorded it for her new album.
billyboylb 8 months ago
@billyboylb Great! Can't wait to hear her Bergman's tribute!
mancmuso1 8 months ago
@mancmuso1 Yes, her CD comes out 8/23. I'm also a huge fan of Sergio Mendes too:) This stuff is great!
billyboylb 8 months ago
@billyboylb I adore Streisand but NO ONE should sing this song but Lani Hall. It's all hers.
Shubael1809 8 months ago
@Shubael1809 Yes, this is pretty great...Barbra has done some terrific bossa nova tunes here and there....we'll see how it goes...:)
billyboylb 8 months ago
@Shubael1809 Agree 100%. Lani defined this song, period.
hardbossa 8 months ago
@billyboylb Streisand still the best!!!
Monrocsol 7 months ago
@billyboylb : Barbra's good, but Lani & Sergio's still RULES.
songplugger 6 months ago 4
@songplugger Lani is 100x Streisand. Her voice is perfect.
kp5271 5 months ago
@billyboylb I wish Streisand hadn't. This song should only be sung by Lani Hall
Shubael1809 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
IN FUCKING CREDABLE EXCUSE ME BUT MY SOUL WAS JUST MOVED OMG! YOU TALK ABOUT COMPLETE CLASS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SOUL MOVING POST BLESS YOU SHEAR BEAUTY. WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL.
bx944 8 months ago
Uno de tus videos más lindos, mancmusito, qué duda cabe!
Bellos recuerdos, dulce canción.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Mine
Magamiam 8 months ago
Thanks mancmjuso01
Sometimes I feel it's so unfair for some of these 60's groups to get lost. I mean many of us are familiar with SM&B66..But they just dont get much play. No one has sexier music and better lyrics than this group, maybe Gordon Lightfoot and some of Jim Croce's stuff..I do love Fool on the Hill..It's the only version to measure up to the Beatle's work.
uscgccampbell 8 months ago
Smooth, sexy, love song. I have their Greatest Hits CD and it is nice for any evening to sit around with your girl friend and sip a drink and listen. I have been listening to SM and B 66 since I was about 16 in 1965...I love Fool on the Hill and best of all. "Like a Lover" Talk about a great love song.
uscgccampbell 8 months ago 3
@uscgccampbell I know exactly what you mean! ; ) 'Fool on the hill' is also a great album!
mancmuso1 8 months ago
I have been looking for a cut from Ye-Me-Le, "Some Time Ago," for years without luck. I have been a fan forver. Does anyone out there have it?
erikadarose 9 months ago
@erikadarose Hi Erika. I don't have this album...yet, but you should be able to grab a copy or download the mp3's via amazon.com
mancmuso1 9 months ago
@erikadarose
Hi Erika ,
Just let me know where to send it to !
Cheers
MusicJunky3 8 months ago in playlist My Vlog
Look Around was a Great Release. So many Stars was a highlight. Thanks.
Bluematter2010 9 months ago
@Bluematter2010 This music is eternal. Glad you enjoyed it!
mancmuso1 8 months ago
As I have watched so many clips of Sergio and Brasil 66 performing, I notice that the "other girl singers" in the group (Janis Hansen--brunette performed from 66-68 and Karen Phillip--the tall swivel-hipped blonde with the electric smile--from 68-72) usually out-performed Lani Hall in stage presence, but when it came to pure sweet-voiced beauty, Lani was (and still is) the best as this song so richly demonstrates. Before Gloria Estefan, or Celine Dion, there was and still is Lani .
PoetryMan11 9 months ago
fd4519 Without doubt my good friends,this music,woundrous musical sound.Pay attention in the female singer,a beautiful Lani Hall,with Sergio Mendes in piano,great orchestra and particular attention,please in one man called Dom Um Romão,who plays drum,consideered one of the greatest drummers of the world.He is borned in Rio de Janeiro,he and two others drummers called Edson Machado and Milton Banana,brought a new style of playing drum and the amazing techniques of playing drums and percussions.
fd4519 9 months ago
@fd4519 hello my dear fd4519. I strongly agree with your comments, mainly about the great Dom Um Romão drummer. But, don't forget that by the time this song was recorded, the Brasil '66 drummer was another great Brazilian drummer called João Palma. Um abraço.
hardbossa 9 months ago
MY GOD WHAT A FANTASTIC NUMBER MOVES THE SOUL THANK YOU FOR POST WHAT CLASS WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL 2
MASTEROFTHEHELM2 9 months ago
I love this song.
catchersmitt0 9 months ago
wicked group and even better album cover.
Friedtoenails 9 months ago
WOW WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NUMBER TRULY MOVES THE SOUL WOW! THANK YOU FOR POST WHAT CLASS THE FEELINGS IT BRINGS WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL.
bx944 10 months ago
At least for this song the group should be called "Lani Hall & Brasil 66".
hardbossa 10 months ago
This is an amazing album on so many levels. Great for sharing, thanks. found the single version of this today, probably in Mono i'll give it a spin later.
freqazoidiak 11 months ago
@freqazoidiak What do you mean by "many levels"?
PaulJ010 10 months ago
They should have used this on Star Trek
44032 1 year ago
Fabulous vocals and arrangement!! This will always be one of my favorites. It brings back such wonderful memories.
teresaponziani 1 year ago
What a magnificent vocal. I first heard Brasil 66 while in the Army during the Vietnam War and was so happy to hear such a beautiful song. Superb. As they say, it's from an era long ago and we live with the memories, some good and bad. This is and always will be a classic. 44 years later and I still like to listen to them...It'd be hard for anyone to duplicate that special "aura" that enabled these tunes to become so unforgetable...
Abyss1021 1 year ago 2
This is one of those largely- overlooked masterpieces sung by the singularly talented Lani Hall. Miss Hall's voice is beauty itself and perfectly suited to this song. The memories come flooding back when I listen to this beautiful beautiful rendition of So Many Stars. What a time it was. No one else should even attempt to sing it.
Shubael1809 1 year ago
@Shubael1809 Hey, I've just sung it - transposed a 9th down, cos I'm a bass. No-one will ever do it like Lani, whose rendition is supremely beautiful, but the song's for everyone.
ArthurKaletzky 11 months ago
Olivia Newton-John would compliment this song best.
iufosproject 1 year ago
GREAT SONG...nice up-dated version!
MrAlcataldo 1 year ago
I love the pictures which complement this lovely song....Nice job!
Noreen
ocnoreen 1 year ago
This is the most beautiful song ever by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. The musical arrangement and Lani Hall's ethereal vocal take me to another world whenever I hear it. The daily grind just seems to fade away. Thank you for posting this, mancmuso1!
ohearn22 1 year ago
This is something that you can always go back to whenever things leave a bad taste in the mouth.
bebmc 1 year ago
Music from the soul to the soul that fills the heart with beauty. What a stunning gift, thank you Lani Hall and mancmuso1 for posting it.
mp3man47 1 year ago
The combination of the exquisite arrangement and Lani Hall's phenomenal vocal performance make this perfection!!!
1953jazzman 1 year ago
One of Segio's finest works andi a lessor know standard that has been covered by some other important singers. Lani Hall does a superb job !
angeloamericano 1 year ago
@WilliamCarole1977 : The writing credits for this song were listed as Sergio Mendes and Alan & Marilyn Bergman, if memory serves me correctly. I agree, as I've already posted here, that this is a breathtakingly beautiful song and recording, and Lani Hall's performance is the most perfect female vocal I've ever heard on a song.
ghb61 1 year ago 3
@ghb61 WITHOUT DOUBT MY FRIEND THESE GUYS WERE OUT OF CONTROL, TRUE CLASS WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL 2
MASTEROFTHEHELM2 9 months ago
I was in central park at the skating rink during a warm summer night concert , sitting on the hill with a star filled sky. What memories!
medina2730 1 year ago
@medina2730 Wow, that must have been incredible....!!! Thanks for sharing.
SherryAnn68 1 year ago
love this tune........sets a mood that is so sublime! love playing it....
mark3harris 1 year ago
I LOVED performing this one. So so beautiful. ♪
joni4749 1 year ago
mancmus01, an impressive world class production.
ezabdullah 1 year ago
Pulitzer Prize comments from SooperDooperDave and Mulsanne917andKink. Not much more to add. I have loved this song for decades. What a masterpiece of sound!
ezabdullah 1 year ago
O! M!! G!!!....... I have forgotten how absolutely gorgeous all these songs were...!!
thank you for posting....!!
lebarre1000 1 year ago 3
inesquecível! unforgetable!!!
crisnadruz 1 year ago
I love this so much if it were a person I would ask it to marry me..............xx
SooperDooperDave 1 year ago 2
¡¡¡Sin lugar a dudas sigue siendo uno de los videos más bellos que has creado, amigo mío!!!
Engarza perfecto con la cintilante belleza de esta notable composición de Alan y Marylin Bergman, uno de los momentos culminantes del celebérrimo Sergio Mendes y su Brasil 66!!! Un también muy merecido tributo a la frágil y acariciadora voz de Ms Lani Hall.
Encantada de volver a ver este bellísimo vid, es todo un tesoro "fanstarstico"************
,) x x x x x x x
Magamaguitam 1 year ago
hauntingly familiar.. ;) Thanking U respectfully 4 reposting yrs & B66's most wonderful work.. <3 yr way =D
simonekitson 1 year ago
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever made. I actually heard it in the middle of the night in 1996 for the first time. Sergio and friends do thei Bergman song true justice with Lani Hall's pure tremulous vocals defining the song and making it theirs. It really is beautiful. Thankyou so much for this. xx
SooperDooperDave 1 year ago 19
@SooperDooperDave My pleasure Dave.Thanks for your comments!
mancmuso1 1 year ago
@SooperDooperDave I couldn't agree with you more. But let's not forget about the haunting string arrangement by incomparable Dave Grusin.
schneidee06 1 year ago 3
@SooperDooperDave :
I've posted my opinion about this recording before, but your comment has inspired me to repeat myself: I've heard countless female vocals throughout my life which have been outstanding, but I sincerely feel that this is the greatest singing performance I've ever heard on record, period. The song itself is beautiful, and wonderfully performed, but Lani Hall's vocals are beyond perfect--every note, syllable, inflection--and most importantly, with feeling!
ghb61 1 year ago
@SooperDooperDave Dave, There are many versions of this wonderful song out there. Kathleen Battle does a pretty good version. But NO ONE .... NO ONE touches Lani Hall's unparalleled voice and this instrumentation. Thanks for posting. OH, but this was a magical time. Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 was SO underrated when they were in their heyday.
Shubael1809 1 year ago 3
@Shubael1809 YOu're right. Her smoky voice makes this is gorgeous. Well, SM B66 were competing with "Hey Jude" and Jim Morrison et al. It's a shame. They were so ahead of their time. I just love the SM B '66 background. . Another lady named Kelly Johnson also does this so beautifully, much slower though. Lani Hall puts so much emotion into it. This is like my personal theme song. Just love it.
lisadotdash 1 year ago
@lisadotdash I'm ecstatic to inform you that I have tickets to see Lani and Herb at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston in February!!
Shubael1809 1 year ago