| Rendezvous in Rio | ||||
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| Released | June 27, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Smooth Jazz | |||
| Length | 52:33 | |||
| Label | Koch | |||
| Producer | John Rozenberg | |||
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Rendezvous in Rio is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 2006 with Koch Records. [2] It was Franks' sixteenth studio album.
All tracks are written by Michael Franks except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Under the Sun" | 5:26 | |
| 2. | "Rendezvous in Rio" | Franks, Charles Blenzig | 5:36 |
| 3. | "The Cool School" | 5:47 | |
| 4. | "Samba Do Soho" | Paulo Jobim, Ronaldo Bastos | 4:40 |
| 5. | "The Critics Are Never Kind" | 5:16 | |
| 6. | "Scatsville" | 4:27 | |
| 7. | "The Chemistry of Love" | 4:24 | |
| 8. | "Hearing "Take Five"" | 5:41 | |
| 9. | "The Question Is Why" | 4:30 | |
| 10. | "Songbirds" | 6:46 |
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