Sergio Mendes - Waters of March (aquas de marso)

[@JodyRosen-kr2iw]

This is one of the greatest Brazilian songs ever. I love this. Sergio Mendes is so great. Fantastic! 👍👌👏🎹🎼💕

[@dmbaldwin21]

The greatest Brazilian song of all time! Love listening to it over & over & over again! Mendes does it really well.

[@rozplaylistyoung546]

RIP SERGIO ❤❤❤❤

[@martyemmons1859]

"The Waters Of March" is one of my favorite songs. I also first heard "Voce Abusou" performed by Sergio Mendes. I've been listening to to Sergio Mendes since 1966.

[@paulamiles9559]

Also a favorite for me too.

[@kermsroomy]

One of the best songs ever written. Thank you Tom!

[@tomjobimforever]

Una más de las muchas bellas composiciones de Carlos Antonio Brasilerio de Almeida Jobim... Para la eternidad con esta música. Gracias Tom.

[@maxdido1]

absolutely fantastic!!!! poesia pura.........GRAZIE GRAZIE GRAZIE

[@sasporillo207]

This song literally makes me cry so often. Makes me appreciate everything

[@adrimond]

Absoluty fantastic! This song is the better brasilian music. Great open harmony, infinite possibilities to arrange and to play. Thanks Jobim.

[@chicosolid]

I never get tired listening to this song. Simply love it.

[@michaelyoutubestuff2434]

Great tune! Great performance!!

[@serferten]

Simply beautiful, like cool breezes, beautiful sunsets, like the river of life.

[@michaelchapman4955]

The passionate poetic genius of Antonio Carlos Jobim.....I was very fortunate to catch Jobim at a Hollywood Bowl evening Concert back in the day perform 'aquas de marso'

[@serferten]

@@michaelchapman4955 Good musical experiences can last a lifetime like a wonderful food you can return to for sustenance!

[@sourcex]

I agree!! Portugese is such a beautiful language.

[@serferten]

Such a melody and mood, feels like my very tired brain got a much needed massage.

[@michaelchapman4955]

'Yes, I've been fortunate & blessed to have many at the Hollywood Bowl, Greek Theatre & several LA Jazz Supper Clubs for many a yr

[@hommedterre]

Sergio Mendes, no matter what decade is still one of my favourite bands of all time. They are simply up there amongst the best. Muito Fantastico!!!

[@GlenStace]

This one at my funeral so I can say goodbye to all the things of this earth. :-)

[@villagevicarage]

Greetings from the UK. I'm a priest and am pleasantly surprised to see your comment. I often offer families options of music for the Funeral Recessional, after they share stories about their loved one. Jobim's Waters of March has become remarkably popular over the past few years. So i would appear you're not too far off the mark, friend. In fact, I too have noted it in my own funeral music request! Águas de Março was one of Jobim's most moving compositions for his life. Our world owes him, and so many others for the joys they've brought us in music for the soul! May all your journeys be ones of discovery! Fr Bill+ projectnewlife.org. Anglicans.blogspot.com DogDogma.blogspot.com

[@alanderson9711]

Great idea. I'm in. Maybe have a funeral rehearsal

[@paulamiles9559]

What a lovely idea! The remains of the body- back to the water, the earth.

[@NECHOII]

Beautiful version of the song !!!

[@babynima3057]

Omg!!!! Brings back memories! Timeless!

[@RomeyB]

Everytime Spring starts, i listen to this song!

[@Pete19574]

One of my favorite songs of all time

[@Pete19574]

One of my favorite songs ever

[@TheOsseous]

its excellent, if it wasn't for Sergio,... alot of other Brazillian songs and songwriters would still live in anonimity.

[@foxspeedlogistics]

Fantastic composition and arrangement. Thanks for posting.

[@MrAlebarjr]

I believe that to be Michael Shapiro on drums. He's an excellent drummer and has been recording and touring with Sergio's former lead singer Lani Hall and her husband Herb Alpert since 2007. Saw them in Milwaukee last night and they were phenomenal!

[@marioaranda711]

thanks for info

[@carlosdajao8994]

Yes! Mike Shapiro, also with Kevyn Lettau!

[@lavendermo28]

serigo one great latin musicians love this music bring back memorys when ever i go to brazil

[@milkwayusa]

Aguas de Marco ( Waters of March ) originally by Jobim is a great song. Lyrics is very hard to be sang by heart. since words are just scattered without standarts. It can easly mixed around in any verse along the song. By the way, the female singers duo you see in this video are acctually americans and their Portuguese is quite good.

[@perla51]

Splendida musica,beautiful in English and in Brasilian language!!!!! Great Sergio!!!!!! Perla.

[@KatradioNY]

Out of the massive Jobim songbook comes this gem! Sergio did it proud! originally from the Brasil 77 era. Thanks for posting!

[@restiti]

Terima kasih means thank you! Thank you Sergio, you have a lot of fans in Indonesia

[@BlauaBlitz]

Traumhaft. Die sanfte Stimme von Sergio passt wunderbar zu den beiden Frauenstimmen.

[@shaggybreeks]

Same here. I even put part of it in a loop and listen to it over and over.

[@petehuws]

Couldn't have described it better myself; marvelous!

[@ArlynV6938]

I've always had this, in a cassette tape, so now it's worn out. Thanks for posting this. I wish there's a repeat thingy in youtube.

[@Rossbach2]

@wgfinley - Yes, you are right. Sergio and those great musicians really captured the spirit of this song. These girls did a magnificent job on this. It is worthy of Brasil '66.

[@CanaldoToth]

Its cool to hear portuguese with accent ... thanks for the video footage..

[@MediaMayhem]

Fantastic, thanks!

[@KatradioNY]

Oldiesfan55 Tom Jobim and Antonio Carlos Jobim are one in the same. "Tom" is a nickname give to him by his adoring fans from his home country of Brasil. Sadly..Tom passed away some years back..the entire country went into mourning. A prolific songwriter and musician.

[@joeo78501]

leocnevels: Waters of March can be found on Sergio Mendez "74 Vintage" Album/CD. Vocals by Grachina Leporace ( Sergio's wife) and Bonnie Bowden.

[@leocnevels]

Thank you!

[@ettygembira]

it's nice to hear TERIMA KASIH, means THANK YOU in Indonesia. Viva Brazilian Music !!

[@marioaranda711]

GREAT ,Sounds even better live ,Mario

[@radster122]

So much love for this song I can;t stand it. ^_^

[@seaape]

This is a great performance and stands on its own. Srgio was alway a little commercial, but a great artist, who always gives more to the music than he takes. Jobim's 1986 version of this is the "swinginist."

[@fringephantom42]

Hi... I'm not sure if you ever got an answer to your question, but I found out through some sleuthing that this live performance of "The Waters Of March" was part of a special show put on by Sergio Mendes at the 2007 Jakarta Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. Unfortunately, I was unable to identify the female vocalists. Cheers! ~Robin~

[@GlenStace]

Beautiful Portuguese lyrics and they translated into English so artistically. A love affair with Brazilians and U. S. Americans.

[@milkwayusa]

Correct name = aguas de marco. This song lyrics makes a balance between the bad situation and the bad season when waters ( month of march ) ends the brazilian summer. oposition side by side as life and death, joy and sadness, begining and ending, etc.

[@goraboni]

But we can't deny that Sergio Mendes was an important man in the Brazilian music cause, with mixtures like those, he popularized the Bossa Nova even in Brazl, where the rythm is almost dying. With "Mas que nada", young people here started listening to Bossa Nova and now this rythm is growning up again.

[@jorhay1]

They sound fantastic! But where are the gowns? Is this a sound check?

[@StephanieHughesDesign]

Perfecto mundo. Bossa bonita.

[@tasyo10]

el condor pasador !!! hat's off!!! galing!

[@hokomoko100]

"aquas de marso" ...OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! my fav.....

[@sweetoneloves6811]

I'm FEELING IT SERGIO MENDES. LOVE THIS SONG

[@claudiadeforteza9175]

brazil puro uauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@fringephantom42]

I found the names!! The black vocalist is Dawn Bishop and the blonde is Jessica Taylor. They were with him when he performed as "Brasil 2003". Sergio now performs with the name "Brasil 2012". Both may still be with him. For sure, I saw a reference on Google to Dawn Bishop singing with him in 2011. Search using the following keywords: "Dawn Bishop" Mendes and "Jessica Taylor" Mendes ... Numerous results appear for both. Glad to help. I was curious, too! :)

[@MariNobre1]

They are both not with him any longer Robin

[@fringephantom42]

Thank you, Mari ... My comment was from five years ago ... I neglected to follow up on it.

[@ferdzrines954]

beautiful

[@tomdanado123]

amei o samba;tbm essa musica é linda d+++

[@charliebowman785]

I'm American and I don't speak Portuguese but I was expecting to listen to the song with original lyrics.

[@dangnabbit3708]

Those are the original lyrics. Jobim provided the English version himself.

[@anasousa3165]

Mesmo gostoso amo essa batida 🤣🤣💯💯👍🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@mooseydeucy]

Brava!!

[@sos88626]

I'm really like this song this version is pretty good!

[@MinkRobinson]

Great song in any language! Portuguese, English, Mandarin, Swahili, Navaho... it just doesn't matter.

[@Raptormau]

go with the flow, everyone who loves this english version should listen in portuguese to see the true beauty of this song

[@emotionalinvalid]

The lyrics to the "waters of march" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim(the father of bossa nova) are really quite profound. And since this video was so short you only got a few lines of the total poem. Although I can only speculate since i am just an english speaking americano. but search for song, and you'll find the english translation is quite long, beautiful, mysterious, hopeful, dark, light, everything-waters of march=(roughly)the promise of spring(i think).

[@milkwayusa]

This song talks about theconsequences and issues about the Fall season in Central/northeastern Brazil. It happens during March/April/May. During that season, water is everywhere due to frequent rains and flooded rivers. The song lyrics mentions on problem after another one, despite the joy the water brings. The lyrics lines are hard to memorize, it doesn't reapeat. It's 3 points thing: the swing, the lyrics and the beat. Not basic chords. It starts with Ab9/ Bb

[@mooseydeucy]

Brvava!

[@Manukravitz]

Haha, I was there at the concert :D

[@mauricioD]

5uffy: Scratch 'All My Tomorrows' (Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen) from the list above. But add Jobim's 'Someone to Light Up My Life' and 'Once I Loved' as well as, for good measure, Riz Ortolani's 'More' and Trenet's 'I Wish You Love.'

[@martyemmons3100]

It just seems that every time I see Sergio he has different from the last.

[@oldiesfan55]

Thanks to you and the other member for answering my question. I didn't know he had that nickname. I'm sad too that he passed away. :-( I'm cuckoo for Brazilian music, especially Bossa Nova and Samba. :-D

[@Rossbach2]

It isn't quite Lani and Janice, but it is very good and highly evocative of the original Brazil '66. Sergio's arrangement is every bit as good as in those days.

[@hughphillips1877]

Sergio first recorded this song on his 2nd & last album with Bell Records in 1974 "Vintage 74". Overlooked album, Clive Davis & Bell Records gave a one time only Promotion when first released. Clive was wanting Sergio to become another 5th Dimension. Got FD''s Producer Bob Alcivar & Engineer Bones Howe to do Sergio's 2 awesome Bell Records albums. 1973's "Love Music" and 1974's "Vintage 74". Gracinha Leporace & Bonnie Bowden were perfection on "Waters Of March". Again Sergio recorded WOM on 1978's 2nd Elektra Release Brasil'88. Marietta Waters, Carol Rogers & Cruz Baca mastered the vocals then😎. Then again in 2010's 2nd Concord Records release "Bom Tempo". A Latin Grammy winner for best Pop/World Album. Also nominated for a Grammy. Ledisi was guest artists vocalist, with Dawn Bishop & Katie Hampton.

[@hughphillips1877]

All these amazing vocalist nailed it. I love Lani & Karen ( a very rare coupling of singers in one band). Sergio struck "gold" with them. Lanis lead vocals & Karens complimentary harnonies. Their vocals were so crystal clear, very easy to hear what they were singing. Then in 1970 Karen took the lead to probably the hippest song Sergio ever Recorded. The last "Brasil'66" album "Stillness, Lanis last, she did half the songs. But unmistakenly on "For What Its Worth" Karen shows her "lead vocal" chops. With Lani blending in😎. Stephen Stills must've loved Sergios version. In fact there is a mix of Sergio's&Buffalo Springfields versions. They even have Stephen Stills added to the back cover of Brasil'66 with Stephen Stills put between Claudio Slon & Oscar Castro Neves. You guys out there go to KZbin, Sergio Mendes For What Its Worth, checkout the groovy mix😎

[@wgfinley]

I have much love for the slower tempo, I'm good with it done both ways. Yes, Tom and Elis is the definitive version of this song but guys, Tom and Elis are DEAD, Sergio is still out there bringing this great music to new audiences. Gotta give it up to him for that.

[@johnnyfrey]

The five string bass player is playing some cool licks in this video...the fifth string is one fifth lower than a regular bass...and it sounds really cool...

[@rlf888rlf]

I love this song! what's the name of the two female singers?

[@stage7]

Now "I've" gotta reply 2 U! heh heh! REALLY? I didn't know that Sergio had a version of it with Jobim on guitar! Sounds awesome. Have to search it out. Can you tell me what set it's on? LOVE this song, and LOVE Sergio's work too! Just happened to stumble on 'this' and glad I DID! God Bless, friend. C.J.

[@javierbarrientos9927]

Sergio unique voilà

[@stage7]

I Never have! But I WANT to! ;-D Do you have anything posted where you 'did' sing? Curious.

[@thijsdefretes3331]

Yeah.., Brazilero..

[@dicesaramaral]

..well we can not forget about Joao Gilberto as well..!!..despite he is not mentioned at most views about Boss Nova, it is not strange to say that both Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto are conisdered officially the Godfathers of..!!..i can say this cause I ve been reading a book about Tim Maia another great brazilian musician and he lived that moment too..

[@normabraza2657]

Wow

[@mauricioD]

Point well-taken.

[@leocnevels]

Can anyone tell me where I can find this version? I have been looking and cannot find it anywhere

[@duetocaribe]

MIRA NUNCA NADA SUPERA LO ORIGINAL,PERO EN ESTE CASO el maestro sergio mendez la hizo a su propio estilo,gracias a el yo la escuche por primera vez por brazil 66 y depues supe y descubri al gran maestro Jobim y a Elis regina eso es lo que importa en la musica inmortalizar los temas te habla un pianista de 35 a~os de experiencia

[@oldiesfan55]

Is Tom Jobim the late Antonio Carlos Jobim's son?

[@vin22del]

cool

[@reinaldoreinaldo8293]

De Março

[@getzfan1]

I like both versions mentioned because it's a great song. Ever hear Stan Getz's version?

[@SuperHugobox]

Is just as good in english, done right it works just as fine.

[@shaggybreeks]

Hi, I'm sorry I missed your comment in answer to my question. Dang, I would like to know who those vocalists are, but I appreciate the information you provided, and maybe it will help me track down more music by this incarnation of Brazil. Thanks!

[@woodpusher62]

nice friend... i copy this lyrics a week ago... ikaw din pala yan...favor,pls send me a full copy of this song...THANKS!!!

[@carlospinho4999]

Who is the bass player? I know its not Hussein, who is usually on the gig with Lani and Herb.

[@shaggybreeks]

When/where was this performed? Who are those girls?

[@milkwayusa]

because of lyrics mearurements and rhyms, English version is a little diferent of original brazilian one in Portuguese language. Some words in original have no same weigth when translated into English.

[@kiddio1231]

@TheOsseous So true.

[@FabioValenteOficial]

♪♫ Blindfolded Bossa by Fabio Valente🎸🎵💋

[@AnjaliNatarajan]

Quem sao as cantoras?

[@SCO01]

The later english version, by Jobim performed eg in 1986 really isnt that different, except maybe for the keys. This version definately lives up to what Jobim himself might have liked :) I really prefer Sergios vocals in this one too :)

[@pusifut]

@jonieheffner hahaha niceee lol@ add song o the century

[@pusifut]

@astuliakiki lol i am thinkin about it in german now i wont stop until i can hear it.

[@mauricioD]

5uffy: Among others, the original language versions of 'Desafinado'; 'One Note Samba'; 'My Way'; 'What Now My Love?'; 'It's Impossible'; 'Watch What Happens'; 'Autumn Leaves'; 'The Girl From Ipanema'; 'All My Tomorrows'; 'If You Go Away'; 'My Man'; 'Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars'; 'Yellow Days'; 'A Day in the Life of a Fool'; 'I Will Wait for You'; 'I Wish You Love'; etc., are better also. Sinatra; Ella; Bennett, Rod Stewart and the rest should have avoided singing them in English.