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What’s up Sorry State readers? I hope everyone had a nice week. Today I’m gonna be talking about an album I’ve had stuck in my head for the past month (well really at first it was just a song from the album stuck in my head, but that led me to just listen to the rest of the album a bunch and I found some other earworms.) The album is Pardon My English (The Girls From Bahia) by the Brazilian group Quarteto Em Cy, released in 1967. I had listened to another album of theirs that I enjoyed (their self-titled) and found this one that was released a couple years earlier. What hooked me at first was their cover of “Oh Susannah,” which I did not realize till writing this, was originally published in 1848! I knew it was old, but that was kinda blowing my mind. I was walking around like a crazy person repeating, “I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee” in my best Quarteto Em Cy impression. A very catchy version, no doubt. I also really dig the title track, “Pardon My English,” for one of the more upbeat songs on the album. Slowing things down though, I also really enjoy “Você.” It has this really pretty sounding harmony throughout the song. I don’t actually own a copy of this album yet. Rarely do I ever actually buy used records online cause I like to just come across it in the wild, but maybe I’ll just have to say screw it and order a nice copy from Discogs.