Brazilian Guitarist Luiz Bonfá With Perry Como

An excerpt from the January 2, 1963 Perry Como Show. Portions of this video have already appeared at least four times on YouTube. All of the available copies of this show are rooted to a source video of below par quality. I recently tried cleaning up such a source video in order to burn it to a DVD. The end result -- while still a long way from ideal -- was enough of an improvement to warrant posting it as a viewing option for those who’ve either never seen it or enjoyed it in the past. Incidentally, this program was originally broadcast in color, but unfortunately no color versions are known to still exist. So as not to make this an exact reproduction content-wise of other versions on YouTube I’ve tagged on a second brief performance from the same show. This second performance, of Bonfá and a saxophonist playing the tune “Desafinado“ in the relative style of Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz, has appeared elsewhere on YouTube and caused a bit of confusion. Some have wondered why the cl
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