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As a sort of parting gift from our time here in Texas, a chum gave me a CD of music recorded by Stan Getz entitled "The Very Best of Stan Getz." One is accustomed to compilation albums on which the producer's idea of the performer's "best" music dictates selection. One assumes that "very best" suggests that this particular compilation is better than those other compilations which are only "best" ... or some such.
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Looking over the contents of "The Very Best of Stan Getz" I see that my very favorite Stan Getz numbers aren't on there. If you like your CD then I recommend Getz Au Go Go, which includes the wonderful "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars." The Essential Stan Getz is also very nice. Sorry to stray off-topic; couldn't resist.
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Gee, Alex, are they your favorites or your very favorites? 
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Well as a matter of fact, "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" may be my very favoritest song evar -- at least the version recorded by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto. It's so simple and direct, and so perfectly set to the music. I'm always amazed when I remember that it was originally written in Portuguese and the English lyrics are but a translation. Astrud Gilberto sings each verse first in English and then in Portuguese.
Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar
Floating on the silence that surrounds us
Quiet nights and quiet dreams
Quiet walks by quiet streams
And a window that looks out on Corcovado, oh how lovely
This is where I want to be
Here with you so close to me
Until the final flicker of life's ember
I who was lost and lonely,
Believing life was a only a bitter tragic joke,
have found with you
the meaning of existence oh, my love
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I am not familiar with this piece. Tell me, Alex. Is the rhythm of the Portuguese very much more convoluted than the English? I ask because I have noticed that in the Portuguese and English versions of Girl from Ipanema.
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I can not help myself...I love this line Quote:
Well as a matter of fact, "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" may be my very favoritest song evar
Especially the " favoritest song evar " part.
May haps I need to learn how to, every now and then, deliberately allow myself to use off the wall randomly misspelled words that make complete sense.
Thank you for the post, not that my opinion really counts, but thank you for showing me that I do not have to be correct all of the time in my spelling or even in my structure.
Rev. Alimae
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… I do not have to be correct all of the time in my spelling or even in my structure.
Usns likes messin wit da langwidge from time to time.
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... I do not have to be correct all of the time in my spelling or even in my structure.
Yeahbut® it adds credence to the word play if you know the rules, before you play with the words. Like the difference between who and whom, which you haven't yet grasped. You and I have talked about this before, Alimae. 
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