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Recorded in New York, February 21, 1958. Entered chart: September 21, 1963, peaked at #6.

This evocative track was first cut for an album titled Sweet and Savage more than five years before its success as a single. Its utter simplicity and directness of emotion than transcends any language won it airplay as an LP cut. It attracted so much positive response that RCA released it as a 45 and, before long, Brazilian brothers Aenor and Natalicio Lima had a Top Ten hit.

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