Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 24 June 2013. Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66's music has been featured on 44 episodes.

Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 formed after Mendes' jazz albums for Atlantic Records, through Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, had low sales. Richard Adler suggested that Mendes and the group sing in English, as well as Portuguese that Mendes had demanded, and Adler sought new English-based material such as "Going Out of My Head" by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein. In order to sing these songs properly in English, Adler suggested that the group find two…