The Girl from Ipanema - Wikipedia
"
Garota de Ipanema" ("
The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian
bossa nova jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a
Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by
Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by
Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by
Norman Gimbel.
[1]
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by
Pery Ribeiro. The 1964 single featuring
Astrud Gilberto and
Stan Getz became an international hit. This had been shortened from the version on the album
Getz/Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released March 1964) which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by
João Gilberto. In the US, the single peaked at number five on the
Billboard Hot 100, and went to number one for two weeks on the
Easy Listening chart.
[2]Overseas it peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charted highly
throughout the world.
Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an
elevator music cliché. It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after "
Yesterday" by
The Beatles.
[3] The song was inducted into the
Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
[4] In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the
Library of Congress to be added to the
National Recording Registry.
[5] In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of
Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song.
[6]
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Instrumental performed by "Tom" Jobin original melody writer
As performed by first commercial artist to record the song, Pery Ribeiro