Sergio Mendes (Sergio Mendes 1983 album)
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| Studio album by Sérgio Mendes | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Pop, adult contemporary, samba, bossa nova, Latin pop | |||
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A&M SP-4984 |
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| Producer | Sérgio Mendes (with Jose Quintana on track 9) | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
Sérgio Mendes is the 1983 studio album by Sérgio Mendes on A&M Records, his first Top 40 album in nearly a decade and a half, and was accompanied by his biggest chart single ever, "Never Gonna Let You Go", a song written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
In his review of the album, AllMusic’s Richard S. Ginell gave it two stars (of a possible five). He took aim at the hit "Never Gonna Let You Go", calling it “a saccharine ballad, where Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller sing their banalities while Sergio strums and comps on synthesizers.” He was critical of the album as a whole too, saying “To say that anyone could have made this record may be overstating the case, but the fact is that there is no way of knowing that this is a Sergio Mendes record without looking at the jacket.”
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