Crystal Illusions

Crystal Illusions
Studio album by Sérgio Mendes
Released	1969
Recorded	1968
Studio	A&M Studios, Hollywood
Genre	Bossa nova
Label	A&M SP-4197
Producer	Herb Alpert, Sérgio Mendes
Sérgio Mendes chronology
Fool on the Hill (1968) Crystal Illusions (1969) Ye-Me-Lê (1969)

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Crystal Illusions is the fifth album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"	Steve Cropper, Otis Redding	3:13
2.	"Viola (Viola Enluarada)"	Marcos Valle, Paulo Sérgio Valle	3:51
3.	"Song of No Regrets"	Lani Hall, Sérgio Mendes	3:58
4.	"Salt Sea"	Lani Hall, Sérgio Mendes, Sebastião Neto	2:32
5.	"Empty Faces"	Lani Hall, Milton Nascimento	2:51
6.	"Pretty World"	Antonio Adolfo, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Tibério Gaspar	3:20
7.	"Dois Dias"	Dori Caymmi, Nelson Motta	2:31
8.	"You Stepped Out of a Dream"	Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn	2:36
9.	"Crystal Illusions (Memórias de Marta Saré)"	Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Lani Hall, Edu Lobo	7:49

Personnel

• Sérgio Mendes – keyboards, vocals, arranger, producer
• Lani Hall, Karen Philipp – vocals
• Oscar Castro-Neves – guitar
• Sebastião Neto – bass
• Rubens Bassini – percussion
• Dom Um Romão – drums
• Herb Alpert – producer
• Dave Grusin – orchestra arranger, conductor