Orquestra Arco-Iris - Palmas para o Samba! (1963)

Another fantastic Caetano Rodrigues contribution and also an one of a kind album performed by top-notch Brazilian musicians. This cover artwork alone worth the overall experience, Palmas para o Samba! is an orchestra album with an additional feature, palmas (hands clapping) are used throughout the album as a percussion instrument. Different from many instrumental albums of that time, personnel is detailed, except the group of folks that clap hands all the time.

This is Orquestra Arco-Iris - Palmas para o Samba! (1963), for Polydor. Maestro Carioca and Maestro Arcy Barbosa are the leaders of Orquestra Arco-Iris, which is a group of musicians from the cast of the legendary TV Rio - Rio de Janeiro, Canal 13. Maestro Carioca is in charge of arrangements and Maestro Arcy Barbosa plays sax and conducts Orchestra Arco-Iris. You should not miss this really unique orchestra. Tracks include:

Personnel

Maestro Arcy Barbosa
(orchestra leader, sax)
Luis Mendes, Darci Cruz, João Parma Neto "Joca", Clélio Ribeiro
(pistom)
Manoel Araújo, Antônio Bogado, José Leocádio, Armando Palla
(trombone)
Pedro Henrique de Souza "Pedrinho", Juarez Araújo, Walter Rosa, Alberto Viana Gonçalves
(sax)
Célio Felicio
(piano)
Raul Gagliardi
(bass)
Geraldo Miranda
(guitar)
Sut Chagas
(drums)
Mário Godoy, Jorge Gomes de Resende "Jorginho"
(percussion)
Homero Gelmini, Domingos Colacicco, Cinira R. Millions, Raimundo Loyola Rêgo, Yuri Michelew, Álvaro Vetere, Bove, Adolpho Pissarenko, Antônio Piersanti, Salvador Piersanti
(violin)

Track List

01 - Brasil Moreno (Ary Barroso / Luis Peixoto)
02 - Deixa Andar (Jujuba)
03 - Fechei a Porta (Sebastião Mota / Ferreira dos Santos)
04 - Pergunte ao João (Helena Silva / Milton Costa)
05 - Nosso Samba (Djalma Ferreira / Iza Ferreira)
06 - Chega de Saudade (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
07 - Eterno Motivo (Célio Ferreira / Oldemar Magalhães)
08 - Mulher de Trinta (Luis Antônio)
09 - Ginga das Palmas (Carioca)
10 - Faço Um Lê-lê-lê (Luis Reis / Haroldo Barbosa)
11 - Boato (João Roberto Kelly)
12 - Nega (Waldemar Gomes / Afonso Teixeira)