The only way you get more 1960s than this instrumental classic is if you're listening to it on your 500-pound combination AM/FM/turntable/stereo speaker cabinet. Don Draper, Matt Helm, and Sean Connery's 007 would all approve. The band for this track included session musicians like Doc Severinsen, before he became Johnny Carson's paisley-coated music maestro. This cover by Warren Kime and Brass Impact followed Sergio Mendes' version featuring Herb Alpert, which version hit #47 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, and was done yet again with Sergio and the Black Eyed Peas, and included on the soundtrack for the animated feature Rio in 2011.
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As it happens so often, I see a name like "Mas Que Nada" and don't associate it with a melody, so I start playing the linked audio and within maybe four bars, recognize it and know what's coming next. As you say, very mid-'60s.
After last week’s assassination, I am recalling an extended article from a couple of years ago, regarding an organized, fictional, tactical response to a planned civil disturbance by an imaginary riotous group that looked a lot like antifa … might you re-run that great article (or even a link…) ?
https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2017/02/tomorrow.html
I encored it several years later, and it pulled almost as many views the second time.
It's literally the #5 and #10 posts on my Top Ten Greatest Hits list with Blogger.
I believe that's called hitting a nerve.
I think it's time for a second encore...
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