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  • Take the money you were going to waste on marijuana and buy some Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 albums, because THIS is the way to get high!

  • N: I heard and played this song in 1969 when I was stationed in Japan for 3 years. I fell in love with an intensely beautiful woman and am still with her now. This music brings back memories as no other sensation can. Lani Hall has an inimitable sexy voice which is an intense part of the amazing memory sensation. Thanks.

  • Damn! This is such sweet music!

  • MUSICAÇO!!!!

  • Love the 60s. My parents were SO into this stuff.

  • @2kmchenry --Me too on both accounts! 60s were great for my pre and teen years.

  • Color adds tremendously. You are a cool artistic lady!! David

  • Loved this song, it's a stand still..

  • As a teenager , I adored the whole group. It was a shame when they split up. They had great voices, gread music and an exciting beat. !! I am a little dissapointed because Sergio is now doing Hip- Hop. But if he must, his hip hop with Black eyed Peas is the best!!! Take care

  • If music has no color, why mention it at all !? I fell in love with the sound of Brazil while spending a rainy Saturday afternoon in NYC w/two best girlfriends, in a record store somewhere along 5th Avenue I fell in love with that particular groove and when I want to dance it is that pulsing sound that pulse my African/Pamanian roots.

  • Love it!!

  • Ye Me Le is the name i think

  • HERMOSO TEMA , TIENE ESE ALGO ESPECIAL , PROPIO DE SERGIO MENDES Y BANDA MARAVILHOSSA , SOY CHILENA MAIS A GENTE MORO LA NO BRASIL , E MINHA SEGUNDA PATRIA , AMO ESSE PAIS , ESTOU PENSANDO VOLTAR PRA LA SEU DEUS QUISER, A BOSSA E MUSICA UNICA CHEGA AO ALMA

  • Esta música chama-se Yê- melê, os autores são Luiz Carlos Vinhas e Chico Feitosa, foi gravada por muitos cantores(as) brasileiros inclusive a Rainha Elis Regina. No google você encontra algumas.

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  • It's OK now I know the song,FANTASTIC and SEXY.

  • Whats the song called?really love it.help anyone.

  • so incredibly 60s.

  • Love this song! It's just as awesome today in 2011 as it was back then! One of my favorites. Reminds me of my brother who was famous in the music industry in Nashville. He and I used to listen to Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 every night in his music studio when he came home from work. I'd have a homemade pizza ready and we would listen to this as he worked on arranging his next hit. Looking forward to seeing him in Heaven soon.

  • Wow! Que Bueno! Hay chi wa wa!. What year was this video? Que linda!

  • I definitely like Sergio with Brazil 66 better than with Brazil 88 or the Blackeyed peas. The original is the best!!!!! Love it!!

  • @eviyaah

    Ye me le / sergio mendez & Brasil `66

  • Back in the "DAY" this was one of the coolest groups out there. Just what!!

    it still is.....LOVE EM

  • loved it

  • Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 and successor groups are wonderful. Great Latin-American jazz. Gracinha Leporace and Lani Hall are superb (and sexy) singers. Terrific music. Great musicians. Thanks for posting this video.

  • That spiralling thing is awesome i need to build one!

  • It's a fucking music video!! Where are all these stupid ass race comments coming from? Damn! Shut the fuck up and Enjoy the video... if someone has made a dumb comment on here then ignore that shit.  If you don't feed it.... it wont grow.

  • @MadeInDC1983 Yes its a music video. Can we please enjoy it without an endless stream of expletives.

  • @rador7 Amen! It is indicative of the direction and level of education the American youth of today are taking. They are, for the most part, foul-mouthed, vastly immature, and clueless.

    The one thing the youth of today must learn is how to saw, "Would you like fries with that, sir?"

  • Madre santa, la muestra perfecta que las mujeres no necesitan atiborrarse la cara de maquillaje!!!

    Que hermosas mujeres!!

  • @darkkirche Completamente de acuerdo! Ahora va uno por la calle diciendo "ah que bonito maquillaje"...

  • cuando eres latino, no importa el color... solo el sentimiento y el ritmo

  • This track is big.

  • I saw this concert ,well the same one in my hometown,it was electrifying...

  • @TheVickigene Fantastic! You saw history!

  • Hot…

  • Bossa nova! The new trend!

  • Lani Hall and Karen Phillips are so beautiful and sing so wonderfully. A great band and a great song, one of many.

  • Who gives a crap what they look like. The music is superb!

  • This is the classiest band of the 1960's. I wish I could go back.

  • Sergio was so cool when he shared camera shots with the girls--he never blocked our view of them as so many do. Classy band. Always makes my feet move.

  • What is the name of this song?

  • @gutomystery It's "Ye-me-le".

  • First time i see nobody fighting with words in youtube. Congratulations to all.

  • Great video but I love Lani Hall, I dont know when she met Herb Albert but it was probably much later. The blond girl is hot but you cant beat Lani's voice. I think Brasil'66 was her start but I'm not sure.

  • Does anyone remember Sergio & Brazil 66',"Vida Mundo"?

  • Classic stuff... Love the retro hotties...I still have this album...It's pretty wore out now ... but it still sounds good .... thing is ... it never gets old.

  • Brasil '66 was the best period for SM& Brasil any year...

  • @MrVoyeurdave I agree 110% with you.

  • i love this music

  • The girl on the left in the orange is pretty...

  • @yukonnoka: I thought that you might be interested to know that she is married to Herb Alpert of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

  • @yukonnoka I think her name is Lani Hall, she's fine.

  • @Ngobamakosi That's cool. Yeah it may be just me but i think she's alot hotter than the blonde chick...

  • wats the name of this song

  • @Lindamorena Ye Me Le. Earliest

  • @Lindamorena Ye Me Le.

  • I got hooked on Brazil in the 1960's when it was the music to listen in high school

  • ¸.•**•.♫♪☼.....Pure Euphoria.......¸.•**•.♫♪☼ We must learn to embrace love, for it will bring global peace to all!!! Love to love is love!!! Peace from Rio!!!

  • Fucking cool!

  • sergio mendes is one of the best in the world...great music !!!

  • I know the Brunette is Lani Hall. Who is the Blonde ?  Is it Janis Hansen or Karen Phillip ? Thanks in advance.

  • @hofvox On this specific 1969 video, the blonde is Karen Philipp. Janis left the group on the beginning 1968, and soon after was replaced by Karen.

  • As a teenager in Washington, D.C., this band a style of music opened my eyes to latin music. I incorporated it into my strong Motown and soul background and continued to expand once I learned flute. Great band, great music, great memories. Thanks for the post.

  • @trydreamin In Los Angeles I was a teenager who woke up to this music when it first hit the radio airwaves, started to learn to sing in Portuguese and finally in 1978 got myself down there to Brasil to find out about those amazing people who made this music. I loved it so much that I stayed for 60 days and did not want to come back! I also grew up on Motown and loved it.

  • Que todos traduzam minhas palavras,esta música de Sérgio Mendes,foi feita especialmente para uma novela da TV brasileira chamada "Escrava Isaura",de 1976,sucesso no mundo inteiro especialmente na China,onde seus personagens se tornaram ícones entre o povo Chinês

  • @brazilserbian This song composed by Mendes was made specially for a brazilian soap-opera named 'Escrava Isaura' (1976), a success around the world, specially in China, where the character of this play got icons between chinese people

  • @crocantes21

    1) This song (Ye Me Le) was not composed by Sergio Mendes. It was composed by Luis Carlos Vinhas & Chico Feitosa by 1969.

    2) This song was not made specially for the soup-opera "Escrava Isaura" which was aired in 1976 only.

    3) The "Escrava Isaura" theme is titled "Retirantes" and was composed by Dorival Caymmi.

  • que bonita cancion y musica, mucho muy fina exelente, felicidades.

  • I'm in love with that brunette and blonde!

  • althow don't uderstand Brazilian, music is music!!

  • @janisbskg You mean Portuguese...haha

  • I may not have said it earlier but thanks for posting I fell in love with Lani and Sergio's music back in about '68 or so and never got to see them. Thank you for allowing me a great pleasure.

  • I recall this song as a teenager. Loved ti then and still do! And Brazil '66 !

  • sergio é demais,adoro o trabalho dele....essa musica é uma terapia,,,o vc prefere,,,sou garota melancia e balanço a minha bunda?

  • This is Lani Hall? oops I thought was Gracinha Leporace,my mistake.Love both anyways.

  • Lani Hall is a pretty woman and the blonde next to her aint so bad either.

  • classic song...and great video.

    also check out Hugo Montenegro.

    lady in Cement....Excellent.....

  • sergio mendes latino? hasta donde yo se los brasilenos no son latinos.

  • @lupillo312001

    Una pequena nota sobre historia.

    Los brasilenos son latinos porque:

    1.- Hablan una lengua(portugues) de origen latino. Es decir cuyos origenes pueden remontarse hasta el Latin romano.

    2.- Formaron parte de la colonizacion de la Europa latina de america durante los siglos XVI a XVIII.

    Latinoamerica va un poquito mas alla de "la raza" lupillo.

  • Brasil es una mescla tremenda de razas. La parte Latina son imigrantes de Portugal, Espana, Italia e Francia. En Brasil hay raizes de cada pais del mundo. Por exemplo, em Sao Paulo hay mas que un million de Japoneses, Santa Catarina tiene mucho Alemanes, e assi es Brasil. Mi padre era Russo, mi madre Alema, tengo une hermana nacida en Austria, you naci en Sao Paulo. No me considero Russo o Alema, somente Brasileiro. Mi patria es una bonitissima mescla de gente, por isso adoro Brasil tanto.

  • Sou um grande apreciador da música e cultura Brasileira. Sou Português.

    Dói-me ás vezes ver o Brasil ( os Brasileiros ) renegarem os princípios, as raízes. E as raízes são Portuguesas: NÃO EMIGRANTES, Colonizadores, descobridores... Aqueles que alguns vossos músicos cantam. Aqueles que diziam: " navegar é preciso, viver não é preciso". E a outra raiz é africana: Escravos!!! É daí que nasce a grande riqueza cultura. É isso que, por exemplo, Baden POwel explora nos Afro - Sambas . !!!

  • @varigdc10 Sou um grande apreciador da música e cultura Brasileira. Sou Português.

    Dói-me ás vezes ver o Brasil ( os Brasileiros ) renegarem os princípios, as raízes. E as raízes são Portuguesas: NÃO EMIGRANTES, Colonizadores, descobridores... Aqueles que alguns vossos músicos cantam. Aqueles que diziam: " navegar é preciso, viver não é preciso". E a outra raiz é africana: Escravos!!! É daí que nasce a grande riqueza cultura. É isso que, por exemplo, Baden POwel explora nos Afro - Sambas . !!!

  • @varigdc10 E verdade o brasil e tudo isso e muito mais! voce so esqueceu de pessoas como eu que sou BRASILEIRA, NEGRA e decendente de ESRAVOS obrigada!

  • @patatnadia

    A grande riqueza do Brasil é essa: A sua população; a diversidade dela. Quanto mais miscisgenação ( misturas de raças e tipos), maior riqueza!!!! Maior património genético, mais futuro. Prá frente Brasil que tens tudo para singrar!!!!!!

  • @varigdc10 I translate: Brazil is a great mixture of races. The latin part are immigrants for Portugal, Spain & France. In Brazil, there are races from every country of the world. For example, in San Paulo, there are more than a million Japanese, Santa Catarina has many Germans and that is how is Brazil. My father was Russian, my mother German, I have a brother born in Austria, I was born in San Paulo. I do not consider Russian or German, only Brazilian. My country is a very pretty collection

  • @holajim pretty collection of people and for this I adore Brazil so much.

    I translated the highest rated comment into English because I wanted as many people possible to share in this moment how music can bring so much beauty to the world.. And, because I thought the comment beautiful. Best to my Brazilian friends out there from the USA. I hope we can fix our rotten government and rejoin the civilized peoples someday.

  • @varigdc10 Por lo cual es un poder economico creciente.

  • @varigdc10 hola, aunque no tengo el gusto de conocer tu país personalmente, créeme que me encanta, todo, todo, sus paisajes, su música y desde luego su gente, recibe un cariñoso saludo desde México.

  • @varigdc10 Gracias por pensar que la diversidad es una bendicion........algo que nos enriquece en lugar de separar....Thanks for thinking that diversity unites instead of segregate.....and that it enriches our world!!!!!Imelda de Mexico en L.A CA

  • @varigdc10 Creo que tu has olvidado a mencionar a los morenos que son un mayor parte de Brisilia,que le han traigo su cultura,religion y comida y las influencias de arte y artes marciales...GRACIAS

  • @Eegunjobi1966 los morenos no son la mayoría en la población brasileña...estás equivocado.

  • @VoiajorBRAZILIA ,te equivocaste de lo que mencione........hay una diferencia entre" los morenos que son un mayor parte de Brasilia,que le han traigo su cultura,religion y comida y las influencias de arte y arte marciales",de que "los morenos son la mayoria de poblacion brasilena". NO VOY A CAMBIAR LO QUE ESCRIBE...TU ESTAS EQUIVOCADO EN LO QUE TU DIJISTE QUE YO ESCRIBI.....................

  • @varigdc10 Não és brasileira, se fosses escrevias português e não esse castelhano ordinário ....

  • @varigdc10 yo no soy brasileiro pero me Encantaria serlo :D .... Amoooo..... Brasil y toda su cultura :D

  • @varigdc10 O Brasil é de dar orgulho para os seus moradores. Eu só não gosto da bosta do governo, principalmente pela taxa de importação. Tirando isso, terremotos, vulcões, furacões, tornados... Estamos todos livres. :) Sem falar nas mulheres né!

  • @lupillo312001

    What language do you think we brazilians speak ??? Of course we are latinos...Brazil, the whole south America, France,Portugal, Spain,Italy, Romenia are all latin languages....so they are all LATINOS....their languages have the Latim as a root.

  • Brasilllllllllll il i l il i l i l i *.*

  • sorprendente musica la de este verdadero icono latino, lo mas rico de la musica es la de nuaestra bella america

  • Please,listen Funk Bahia is awesome!

    Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown

  • What the name of this song?? I love this song!

  • @summeryrhythm

    It is called "Ye Me Le" from the album of the same name around Thanksgiving 1969. Though not a huge hit (I don't recall the chart position), it was and still is a great song along with "The Look of Love", etc. I assume this clip was taken from the Andy Williams show long before MTV and Austin Powers ever existed.

  • lani hall is the shorter lady w/ long black hair

  • @yeoj1925 and Lani is married to Herb Alpert...check out their interview with Tavis Smiley on PBS....AWESOME....!

  • sergio way ahead of his time.girl in orange reminds me of my ex

  • @74tmcentralc ..lucky dog..or did I speak too soon?

  • i unnerstan why seinfeld made a joke of it

  • BEAUTIFUL

  • Early "world music." They were fantastic.

  • i like the african vocal influence in this.

  • Parece tema da novela Escrava Isaura!! Realmente samba, capoeira e candomble andam muito juntos,principalmente nessa época.

  • La corista de pelo negro se convertIría luego en la famosa cantante Lani Hall.

  • Because music is universal. Brazilians are half-bred in blood as much as in culture. What should be "white" music? Chopin??? There's always place for all of us in the world...

  • The best.

  • i didn't think it mattered what colour you are unless you live in USA, UK and countries like that..

    Besides, music has no colour......

  • @jiinxbeats That is the beauty of good music like Sergio Mendes and other good music. Music knows no boundaries and it brings people from all backgrounds together in harmony.

  • uk no way racisim exist in every country

  • @jiinxbeats

    Wake up. Colour unfortunately matters in nearly every place of the world. There is a lot of racism in South-America, Japan, China, wherever.

  • @jiinxbeats well said.

  • @jiinxbeats yes music has no colour, but this music has a base in Afro Brazilian music. As for colour, unfortunately, it matters as much in Brazil as it does in the US or UK.

  • @AntW11 i don't get it.

  • @AntW11 The really sad thing is anything with a AFRO anything attached has a negative conotations because of the Image the US has givin black people in the world. Also the Shame over the slave trade has caused peoples guild to turn to anger and hate and as a result though most of the music we listen to has roots in black culture people try to disregard this. Jazz, Blues, Bosa Nova, ROCK, POP, HIP HOP R&B YOU NAME IT! ...watch american television, black culture is becoming american culture

  • @jiinxbeats and canada.

  • @jiinxbeats Brazil at one time had the most imported Black slaves of any other country, including USA.

  • @phototristan correct. and the conditions there were 100 times worse. on a brighter note this music is so breathtaking words cannot describe the feeling.

  • @phototristan You have to be a real low life scumbag to come up with comments like this !...

  • @jiinxbeats youd be surprised.

    but in more important news; as you said; music is not only odourless but colourless too. hhahaa ;)

  • @jiinxbeats shutup you idiot...

  • what a retard.

  • rotena25,

    please don't see it as a ripopp. Sergio is very multicultural, which reflects the culture of Brasilia. Music is music. If it weren't for Sergio, I wouldn't love Blackeye Peas like I do. Don't you want us to be one? Yes, it's horrible when you consider the hows and whys of African culture's influence in Brasilian culture, but that merging, that symbiosis enriches us all! He can't help it that he's white any more than I can help being Chinese, Amerindian and Caucasion. Please bless Serg

  • THIS is how you define music.

  • The best voices. Lani Hall (Herp Alpert wife) and Janis Hansen...... beautiful. Tks Sergio for your music

  • Hey fineart10, the blonde here is Karen Philipp, not Janis Hansen. Janis left the group in 1968.

  • tks my friend

  • Herb Alpert's wife? Is that the lady on the cover of Whipped Cream and other delights? I think I had a crush on her when I was 10! hehehe... Is she the blond?

    Oh, almost forgot, good music. Been remember Brasil 66 a lot of late, but only found this one by accident; very nice. Thanks for posting!

  • The brunette is Lani Hall, Herb's second wife married around 1972 and remain so. Girl on cover of whipped cream was t neither of Herb's 2 wives....

  • My Dad claims to have been friends with Herb Alpert's brother back in the thirties. Kinda cool, if true.

  • The sound they make (the voices together with the instruments) is so gorgeous. One day (hopefully soon) this sort of thing will be popular again. It just carries me away to another place...

  • When was this taped? 1973?

  • This was taped in 1969.

  • His best two singers ever...their voices blended so well,and great discipline

  • AND they both knew what curtain pull-cords were REALLY for! : )

  • Sergio Mendes,,excelente pianista y sus cantantes,muito bem!!

  • I never understood anything... but the music, the melody, and the interpertation crossed all the boundaries of language :)

  • such a pretty song with or without the sexy accent....

  • I am Brazilian and understand everything they sing, despite the sexy accent.

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  • I love Lani & Karen but I think Astrud Gilberto is a better singer lol. But alas it is only preference, they are ALL GREAT ... (like debating about Mariah Whitney and Celine)

  • i like this song i dont know whats mean but is sticky the music

  • dont worry!! uhauhauha

    im brazilian and understand a very little because the singers dont speak portuguese and most time just make ""vocalizations"", thats right?? nice video thx from brazil

  • Sergio Mendes..Lani Hall..etc. Just perfect!

    Tighter than tight!

    Thanks for posting!

  • Ótimo

  • I had to favorite this at 53 seconds into it. What a wonderful trip back into a better time. Thanks for this beautiful color clip!

  • yeah that piano trill, small details make SM e Brasil 66 muito especial!

  • GREAT classic clip! The only problem with this song is that it is TOO SHORT. It should have gone off into an extended trance groove. Love Lani and Karen is WORKAN!

  • Lani Hall. One of the great vocalists of all time. Ooooh, just drippingly fabulous voice. She stayed through many evolutions with Sergio's "Brasil" bands, remaining "the sound" of Sergio's most fabulous hit songs, through many of the most famed albums. She's so distinct, always memorable. Truly one of the world's great songstresses of all time.

  • I think it is still great music and purely coincidentally yesterday I bought the Universal Masters Collection CD Classic Sergio Mendes, with all the original Brazil 66 hits.Lani Halls vocals are brilliant.

  • This melody is like sleeping at the ocean.

  • Be careful! You must be slepping along all your life! This song is super. It belongs to a golden age. It takes part of good times!!!!!!!!!

    Noise is not life, but songs are!

    Adilson

  • ALERT ! Lani Hall and Herb Alpert, will be playing at Yoshi's in San Francisco June 2, 3 and 4th. I've seen them and highly recommend seeing them together. Her voice is exquisite and Herb is dynamite. Saw Sergio at Primm last month and loved him.

  • Lani Hall es muy caliente!!

  • If Lani Hall is the Brunette in Orange I totally agree. He voice is perfection. I love to look at her as she belts out that velvet smooth tone, so relaxing. Love SM &B66!

  • Yes, that is Lani Hall in Orange- amazing strong voice, great looks & sexy, without even really trying...I know why Herb Alpert scooped her up!!

  • The name of this song is "Ye-Me-Le" from the album of the same name.

  • Lani Hall is the defining voice of Brasil 66

  • yo, Halo......Thanks.

  • Its all about Lani!!!

  • Right now I'm in Copacabana relaxing uder a palm tree, with my hot garota next to me, sharing a caipirinha and listening to Sergio Mendes... in my mind...

  • I hear ya.! caipirinha and a young garota..blue skies.....

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  • Gracias Clementino. soy un gabacho de L.a. Calafia. tengo bien requerdos de este cancion especialmente por me almo. Disculpo mi espanol, pero pronuciado es Portuguese?

  • Uma doce voz pronunciando IEMANJÁ.....

  • so....like what's the name of this song anyway? I. feel if the planet resonated this groove we would all be in harmony!

  • Don't know about Karen or, later, Janice, but Lani definitely sang Portuguese phonetically (at that time, anyway). So let's forgive her if she didn't know Portuguese at that time. She breathed the soul of Brazilian culture, which made her Portuguese roll off her tongue on those songs she sang w/Sergio Mendes' Brasil '66. Also, that voice of hers: PURELY sent from the gods & goddesses, from Shango to Iemanja. I bow down to her, Sergio Mendes & his whole crew. Even when they were lip-syncing!

  • I'm a Texas-ex and, while on leave, went back to Austin just before I shipped out to Vietnam in 1968. My date got front row center tickets to a Brazil '66 concert. After the concert, we went backstage and I met and talked with Lani Hall. I fell in love with her from the first words she

    spoke, "Well, hello."

    She was chewing on a swizzle stick which I picked up when she put the glass down and I carried that with me all the way through two consecutive tours in Vietnam. It was my good luck charm.

  • "She is a native citizen of Earth. " (steadfastcoward). This was the best commentary so far.