Male vocalist: Joe Pizzulo (American) Female vocalist: Kate Markowiz (American) Keyboardist: Sergio Mendes (Brazilian) Songwriters: Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann (American; married to each other!)
Joe Pizzulo steals the show, what an incredible performance, he hits those notes and stays there like if it was nothing... Gosh, saw a video of his singing this same song almost 30 years later and he is EVEN better... Musicians at that time were incredible, back when you had to train your skill and hone your craft to sing and play. You HAD to be good.
The girl that sings the duet with Joe Pizzulo is in fact KATE MARKOWITZ (she used the pseudonym of Kate Yanai at the time) and she's been singing with James Taylor (as backup singer) for more than 30 years. She is as superb singer and very good human being. Even me being from Portugal, I've seen her twice live (with JT) and hopefully I'll attend another JT concert on 4th Feb 2022 in London (already got tickets). Can't wait...
These are two singers trying to look casual while focusing VERY intensely on hitting their notes, phrasing and harmonies. WAY harder than continual warbling vocal gymnastics.
@@anthonyb.corrales4470 You're obviously a non-musician to be asking this. If you're a musician, try playing it and find out. This song has the most modulations (key changes to the laymen) of any song in history, and they're done so smoothly, you hardly even notice them. There are also a lot of polychords (which are complex) and chords with notes other than the root in the bass. And it all sounds great. A true masterpiece.
Graças a Deus temos essas canções maravilhosas pra lembrar que um dia as pessoas fizeram música de verdade pra pessoas que valorizavam sentimentos.Obrigada Sérgio Mendes e Joe pizzullo por essa interpretação sem igual. Não esquecendo de Lezza Miller claro
They have to face each other while singing because there's a gazillion chords and key changes in this song, haha! Thanks Rick Beato! Had no clue that this song was so busy harmonically when it was all over the radio when I was a small fry I'd imagine trying to play this song, you'd have to root yourself in place and try not to get lost
I hear you! Came here from the Beato analysis of the song and he's right, one of the most complex pop songs ever. One of those songs that'll take me a week to work out or I'll just play lead riffs and let Sergio's keys handle the rest. That said, even sparse lead riffs may be a challenge with so many chord/key changes. I'm curious how chordify may map the song out?
This is what my parents sooth me before going to bed, just like soft rock Blue eyed soul music. it works, It still in my sleeping playlist, but after proper analysis and deconstruction? suddenly I can see and connected the dot as a musicians.
Like a delicious meal that's easy to eat but hard to cook lol This was the _exact_ song I thought of when Rick did a previous video about how Pop has changed - he read my mind!
This song is composed by cynthia weil (words/lyrics) music by barry mann in 83' this version is the one that hit #1 for 4 consecutive weeks on billboard hot 100 chart and in adult contemporary chart before sergio mendez. Liza miller and ofcourse joe pizzullo recorded this, dione warwick has her own version of this song and stevie woods in 82' but sergio mendez's version is the one that rocks the music chart. And i forgot 1 thing, this song was originally submitted to the american band earth wind and fire by the composer cynthia weil (lyrics) and barry mann (music) but they decided not to record the song.
Record producer: okay Sergio, we're gonna write a song that has 55 key changes with a range that usually only females can sing and it's gonna be a duet and you're gonna perform it live in Tokyo after an 18 hour flight. Sergio:
Sergio: 🙄 Producer: Sergio, believe me they'll be analyzing this song and calling it "The Most Complex pop song of all time" on RU-vid 40 years from now Sergio: RU-vid? 🙄
This song was # 1 . i didnt know it was . i just know i loved it as kid and always will . i love the arangedments and optic rang in their voices . i never get tired of it . its up there with the greats for sure . 😋
14 de setembro as 22 horas eu aqui muito triste com a perda do meu amado cantor compositor e meu poeta Sérgio Mendes ouvindo a maravilhosa música Never Gonna Let You Go. Sergio Mendes como você me fez feliz ❤
Lembro de ouvir esta linda música em um programa de Rádio chamado LOVE SONGs e ficava viajando em pensamentos ao imaginar como e quem seria meu grade amor. O tempo passou e ouvir esta canção traz de volta todas as emoções de quando eu era bem jovem sonhador. Os anos 80 foram e serão sempre inesquecíveis e especiais.
sou brasileiro e só estou verdadeiramente conhecendo Sergio Mendes hoje! E olha que sou do mundo da musica. Como nunca me falaram sobre ele antes? Não admito!
This is a great performance by Joe and Kate Yanai. They perform this incredible song with passion, having no problem even up in the vocal registers. I just can't imagine anybody but Joe Pizzulo singing this song.
Um gigante fenomenal Sérgio Mendes orgulho nacional., dispensa comentários., uma raridade de música um clássico da música never gonna let you go., hoje no Brasil infelizmente só lixo de músicas.
