João Gilberto: Germany (1967)

In 1967, Gilbert Bécaud began hosting French TV's Gilbert Bécaud Show, which was taped in different European cities. Bécaud was known as “Monsieur 100,000 Volt" due to his animated and energetic stage style. That year, in Germany, the variety show included two songs performed by João Gilberto on guitar and vocal, Pierre Le Marchand on hi-hat and Austrian tenor saxophonist Hans Koller.

A special thanks to Carl Woideck for passing along the two clips, which just went up at YouTube.

Here's Gilberto playing guitar and singing Samba Da Minha Terra, with Le Marchand on hi-hat...



And here's Gilberto and Le Marchand with Koller on saxophone playing The Girl From Ipanema...