Sergio Mendes | ||||
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Released | 1983 | |||
Recorded | 1983 | |||
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Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Sérgio Mendes (with Jose Quintana on track 9) | |||
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Sergio Mendes[1] is an album by Brazilian keyboardist Sérgio Mendes, released in 1983 on A&M Records. It was his first top 40 album in nearly a decade and a half, his second self-titled album, and was accompanied by his biggest chart single ever, "Never Gonna Let You Go", a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and with a lead vocal performed by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller that reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was released with Spanish-language versions of the songs as Picardía.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
In his retrospective review of the album, AllMusic’s Richard S. Ginell gave it two stars (of a possible five).[2] 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".[2] 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."[2] While not reviewing the whole album, record producer and YouTube personality Rick Beato declared "Never Gonna Let You Go" "the most complicated hit song of all time".[3]
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Chart (1983) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 | 27 |
US Billboard R&B Albums | 22 |
US Cash Box Albums | 33 |