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Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Look Around

I can't say this was an album I'd heard when I was a kid. To be fair I was exposed to a lot of really cool music through my cousins Dean and Jeff and my Aunt Jeanne and Uncle Lloyd. Heck I remember Jeff having a Wayne Newton record and really liked "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" which I am not making fun of at all. I'm just using that to show that despite my penchant for B.T.O. and Brownsville Station's "Smokin' in the Boys Room" I was exposed to a pretty wide range of music. I mean my favourite record in my dad's collection was the clear red vinyl version of South Pacific . Heck, I played my Aunt's 45 of "Hitchin a Ride" by Vanity Fair about a hundred times. Okay, I've forgotten what I was doing.  Right, Sergio Mendes. Yeah, as a kid, never heard of him. As an adult, well that's another thing. I went through a phase where I got a lot of Latin Jazz, and his 1966 album The Swinger from Rio (that was apparently record...