What’s the song I keep hearing in Olympic coverage?

**Janszoon** · 08-28-2016, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

Aside from the fact that that's a samba, not a bossa, and, well, acid jazz??? we should have gotten this from "oooooh, ah-ee-oh" . . . maybe. I don't know. At any rate, this is the first I'm seeing of your thread."Mas Que Nada

I was hoping more that guesses would stem from the fact that it was played a lot during the Olympics—and there really are only a handful of songs that were.

It doesn't have the sound I associate with samba, but I see now that Wikipedia lists it as samba/samba rock so my bad. Though, on the other hand, Wikipedia also lists the Sergio Mendes album it's on as being Bossa Nova. Honestly, despite having a mother who grew up in Brazil, I'm not very knowledgeable of Brazilian musical styles. If you can help clarify the differences between Samba and Bossa Nova (and Tropicalia for that matter), I'd appreciate it.

Some of the versions of it that they played during the Olympics were more electronic in style and had an acid jazz tinge, which is why I mentioned acid jazz.

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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

And good tune. <thumbs up>

It is indeed. I'm glad I figured out what it was.