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Never Gonna Let You Go - Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller

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MarioMania

Ok, I have a problem

Why does Sérgio Mendes get all the credit?

All I see his name on by the song he didn't even write or sing

He's only on Keyboards
 
Not sure that I can answer your question, but my guess is that he was the bandleader, and he hired them to sing on his records. Pizzulo also sang on "Alibis" in 1984.

This is fairly common. One of the comments that I read on the youtube clip of this (a performance from Solid Gold) compared Mendes to Jim Brickman.

Quincy Jones and Grover Washington, Jr., also had vocalists to sing on their records.

This was fairly common in the pre-rock era. Sinatra got his start as a vocalist for a bandleader.
 
Yeah, James Ingram wasn't credited on several of his early recordings. Quincy Jones was. Bill Withers did the vocals on "Just the Two of Us" and Grover Washington still got the credit. Though on smooth jazz radio there's a version with more Grover and less Bill.

Sergio Mendes got the credit, or at least Brasil 66 did, on a number of great 60s recordings.
 
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