Transcription || "Samba de Uma Nota Só" (One Note Samba) · Dean Martin & Caterina Valente

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SONG: Samba de Uma Nota Só (One Note Samba)
ARTISTS: Caterina Valente & Dean Martin
PERFORMANCE: The Dean Martin Show (Season 2, 1966-67)
WRITERS: Music by Antônio Carlos Jobim / Lyrics by Newton Mendonça (1960)
– CLASSICAL GUITAR / VIOLÃO: Caterina Valente
– VOCALS: Caterina Valente, Dean Martin

This is a transcription of the wonderful performance of Jobim's Bossa nova standard "One Note Samba" by Caterina Valente and Dean Martin on The Dean Martin Show. This particular TV appearance greatly helped exposing the music genre to the broader North American audience.
For guitarists, this is a great introduction to Bossa nova guitar playing - both to the standard picking rhythm and to some typical chord voicings used in the genre. This is such a playful recording, and it makes this quite complex music appear to seamless to play.
The Portuguese title "Samba de Uma Nota Só" literally translates to "samba of one note only", referring to the melody note sung throughout the first 8 bars of the verses (in this key of A-flat major, it is the note E-flat). In the common solfége / solfejo system, that note happens to be named "so(l)", which may be a musical wordplay by the composer.

UM MILHÃO DE AGRADECIMENTOS go out to Cátia for help with the Portuguese grammar and the "Galliani" reference.

*bonus details:
0:04, Dean Martin's humming in the beginning is "La Vie en rose".
1:54, Dean Martin mumbles "You're beautiful".