I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do

1969 studio album by Astrud Gilberto

Studio album by Astrud Gilberto

Released

1969 (1969)

Recorded

February 3 and 4 1969

Genre

Length

28:37

Label

Verve

Producer

Brooks Arthur

Astrud Gilberto chronology

Windy
(1969)

I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
(1969)

September 17, 1969
(1971)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do is a studio album by Brazilian bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto, released on Verve Records in 1969. In the liner notes Gilberto calls the album her "fireplace album".

Reception

The AllMusic review calls the album "an intimate, nocturnal set closer in scope and spirit to the Baroque pop of Burt Bacharach," stating that it is "a minor masterpiece".

Track listing

"I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do (No Tengo Nada Mejor...)" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:59
"Didn't We" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:57
"Wailing of the Willow" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:16
"Where's the Love" (Bobby Weinstein, Michel Legrand) – 2:22
"The Sea Is My Soil (I Remember When)" (Dori Caymmi, Nelson Motta, Peter Udell) – 3:28
"Trains and Boats and Planes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:50
"World Stop Turning" (Moose Charlap, Peter Udell) – 2:18
"Without Him" (Harry Nilsson) – 4:35
"Wee Small Hours" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 2:18
"If (The Biggest Little World)" (Garry Sherman, Peter Udell) – 2:34

Personnel

Astrud Gilberto – vocals
Albert Gorgoni – arranger, conductor, guitar
Wayne André, Mickey Gravine, Tony Studd – trombone
Alan Rath – bass trombone
Burt Collins, John Glasel, Irvin Markowitz – trumpet
Art Kaplan – saxophone
Ben Blumenreich, Lewis Eley, Joe Haber, Lew Haber, Harry Lookofsky, Matthew Raimondi, Tosha Samaroff, Irving Spice, Louis Stone – violin
Seymour Berman, David Saxon – viola
Maurice Bialkin, Seymour Barab – cello
Eugene Bianco – harp
Gary Chester – drums
David Carey, George Devens, Aiuto Morgira, Joe Venuto – percussion
Sam Brown – guitar
Richard Davis, George Duvivier – bass
Stan Free, Frank Owens, Paul Griffin – keyboard

References

^ "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do – Astrud Gilberto". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
"Astrud Gilberto – I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do". Discogs. Retrieved 9 January 2018.

External links

I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do at Discogs (list of releases)

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Discography
Albums	Getz Au Go Go (1964) The Astrud Gilberto Album (1965) The Shadow of Your Smile (1965) Look to the Rainbow (1966) A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness (1966) Beach Samba (1967) Windy (1968) I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do (1969) September 17, 1969 (1970) Gilberto with Turrentine (1971) Now (1972) That Girl from Ipanema (1977) Plus (1986) Jungle (2002)
Singles	The Girl from Ipanema b/w Corcovado
Other appearance	Getz/Gilberto (1964)

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