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{{Infobox album
| name       = Rain Forest
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Walter Wanderley]]
| cover      = Walter Rain Forest.jpeg
| alt        =
| released   = September 1966
| recorded   = May 16–17, 1966
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Van Gelder Studio]], [[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey|Englewood Cliffs]]
| genre      =
*[[Bossa nova]]
*[[exotica]]
*[[lounge music|lounge]]
*[[easy listening]]
| length     = 34:05
| label      = [[Verve Records|Verve]] V6-8658<ref name="discogs">{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Walter-Wanderley-Rain-Forest/release/1074348|title=Walter Wanderley – Rain Forest|publisher=discogs.com|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref>
| producer   = [[Creed Taylor]]
| chronology = [[Walter Wanderley]]
| prev_title = [[Cheganca]]
| prev_year  = 1966
| next_title = [[A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness]]
| next_year  = 1966
}}
'''''Rain Forest''''' is a 1966 album by [[Walter Wanderley]].<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=rain-forest-mw0000192639|label=Rain Forest}}</ref> It contains the pop crossover hit "[[Summer Samba]]", which reached No. 26 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]]; the album itself reached No. 22 on the [[Billboard 200|Top LPs]] chart.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0CIEAAAAMBAJ&q=forest&pg=PA65 ''Billboard'' December 10, 1966]</ref>
== Reception ==
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic" />
}}
[[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] magazine reviewed the album in their September 3, 1966 issue and wrote that the "young Brazilian organist plays superbly" and that ""Summer Samba" has the power to pull this delightful package right up the LP chart".<ref name="Inc.1966">{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |title=Album Reviews |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ERIEAAAAMBAJ |date=3 September 1966 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |pages=80 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref>
Judith Schlesinger reviewed the reissue of the album for [[Allmusic]] and wrote that the album "does evoke strong water images, like "poolside" and "ice skating rink."" and that the listener is "catapulted straight back to the '60s when bossa nova was new in the U.S. and everyone wanted a piece of it". Schlesinger commented that the shortness of the songs left the "jazzmen...underutilized", but praised [[Urbie Green]]'s work on "Rain" and "Beach Samba".<ref name="Allmusic" />
== Track listing ==
# "[[Summer Samba (So Nice)]]" ([[Norman Gimbel]], [[Marcos Valle]], [[Paulo Sérgio Valle]]) – 3:07
# "It's Easy to Say Good-Bye" ([[Tito Madi]]) – 2:03
# "Cried, Cried" (Luiz Antonio) – 2:26
# "Rain" ([[Durval Ferreira]]) – 3:48
# "[[The Girl from Ipanema]]" ([[Norman Gimbel]], [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]], [[Vinícius de Moraes]]) – 2:38
# "Beloved Melancholy" (Madi) – 2:42
# "Taste of Sadness" (Luiz Antonio, Ferreira) – 2:54
# "Bossa Na Praia (Beach Samba)" (Geraldo Cunha, [[Pery Ribeiro]]) – 3:54
# "[[Call Me (Petula Clark song)|Call Me]]" ([[Tony Hatch]]) – 2:26
# "Cry out Your Sadness" ([[Oscar Castro-Neves]]) – 2:46
# "The Great Love" (Jobim) – 3:04
# "[[Samba do Avião]] (Song of the Jet)" (Jobim, [[Gene Lees]]) – 2:43
== Personnel ==
*[[Walter Wanderley]] – [[Arrangement|arranger]], [[electronic organ]], [[piano]]
*[[Claudio Slon]] – [[Drum kit|drums]]
*[[Jose Marino]] – [[double bass|bass]]
*[[Joe Grimm]] – [[flute]]
*[[Bucky Pizzarelli]] – [[guitar]]
*[[Urbie Green]] – [[trombone]]
*[[Bobby Rosengarden]] – [[percussion]]
'''Production'''
*[[Creed Taylor]] – [[Record producer|producer]]
*[[Tony Bennett]] – [[liner notes]]
*Deborah Hay – editing, text editor
*Sung Lee – art direction, design
*Acy Lehman – cover design
*Suzanne White – design coordinator
*Val Valentin – [[Audio engineering|engineer]], director of engineering
*[[Rudy Van Gelder]] – engineer
*Richard Seidel – executive producer
*Kevin Reeves – mastering
*Smay Vision – package layout
*Tom Greenwood, Carlos Kase, Bryan Koniarz – production coordination
*Ben Young – reissue research, restoration
*Jerry Rappaport – reissue supervisor
== References ==
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{{Walter Wanderley}}
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[[Category:1966 albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Creed Taylor]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio]]
[[Category:Walter Wanderley albums]]
[[Category:Verve Records albums]]