I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do is a studio album by Brazilian bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto, released on Verve Records in 1969. In the liner notes Gilberto calls the album her "fireplace album".
Reception The AllMusic review calls the album "an intimate, nocturnal set closer in scope and spirit to the Baroque pop of Burt Bacharach," stating that it is "a minor masterpiece".
Track listing "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do (No Tengo Nada Mejor...)" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance) – 2:59 "Didn't We" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:57 "Wailing of the Willow" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:16 "Where's the Love" (Bobby Weinstein, Michel Legrand) – 2:22 "The Sea Is My Soil (I Remember When)" (Dori Caymmi, Nelson Motta, Peter Udell) – 3:28 "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:50 "World Stop Turning" (Moose Charlap, Peter Udell) – 2:18 "Without Him" (Harry Nilsson) – 4:35 "Wee Small Hours" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 2:18 "If (The Biggest Little World)" (Garry Sherman, Peter Udell) – 2:34
Personnel Astrud Gilberto – vocals Albert Gorgoni – arranger, conductor, guitar Wayne André, Mickey Gravine, Tony Studd – trombone Alan Rath – bass trombone Burt Collins, John Glasel, Irvin Markowitz – trumpet Art Kaplan – saxophone Ben Blumenreich, Lewis Eley, Joe Haber, Lew Haber, Harry Lookofsky, Matthew Raimondi, Tosha Samaroff, Irving Spice, Louis Stone – violin Seymour Berman, David Saxon – viola Maurice Bialkin, Seymour Barab – cello Eugene Bianco – harp Gary Chester – drums David Carey, George Devens, Aiuto Morgira, Joe Venuto – percussion Sam Brown – guitar Richard Davis, George Duvivier – bass Stan Free, Frank Owens, Paul Griffin – keyboard
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