A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness

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{{Infobox album|

| name = A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

| type = studio

| artist = Astrud Gilberto

| cover = A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1967

| recorded = 20–23 September 1966, New York

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Bossa nova

| length = 29:47

| label = Verve

| producer = Creed Taylor

| prev_title = Look to the Rainbow

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Beach Samba

| next_year = 1968

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Walter Wanderley

| type = album

| prev_title = Rain Forest

| prev_year = 1966

| title = A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness

| year = 1967

| next_title = Cheganca

| next_year = 1967

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r139313|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

| rev2 = DownBeat

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}Down Beat: April 6, 1967 vol. 34, no. 7

}}

A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness is an album by Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley, recorded in September 1966.{{cite web|url=http://www.astrudgilberto.com/discography.htm |title=Astrud Gilberto Discography |accessdate=7 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303021703/http://www.astrudgilberto.com/discography.htm |archivedate=3 March 2011 }}1998 CD liner notes

It was released by Verve Records at the height of the Bossa Nova craze in the United States, and featured the two most popular Bossa Nova musicians at the time: vocalist Astrud Gilberto and organist Walter Wanderley. A 1998 CD reissue added two songs recorded during the same sessions that yielded the album.