Ella Fitzgerald recorded it for her two-disc set of Brazilian music Ella Abraça Jobim, released by Pablo Today in 1981.Įthel Ennis and Nat King Cole have also both recorded the song. įrank Sinatra recorded the song with Jobim in 1967 for their album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim. While the original Ribeiro version was in the key of G, most Brazilian performances use D♭ and most American versions use F. The key the song is played in traditionally has varied depending upon the origin of the recording. Her voice, without trained singer mannerisms, proved a perfect fit for the song. João's wife, Astrud Gilberto, was the only one of the Brazilians who could speak English well and was chosen to sing. ĭuring a recording session in New York with João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz, the idea of cutting an English-language version came up. While firmly rooted in bossa nova, "The Girl from Ipanema" includes influences from blues and Tin Pan Alley. In turn, Moraes had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, as he had done with " Chega de Saudade" ("No More Blues") six years earlier. Jobim composed the melody on his piano in his new house in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. The original title was "Menina que Passa" ("The Girl Who Passes By") the first verse was different. The song was composed for a musical comedy titled Dirigível (" Airship"), then a work in progress of Vinicius de Moraes. In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after " Yesterday" by The Beatles. Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché. Overseas it peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charted highly throughout the world. 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. This version had been shortened from the version on the album Getz/Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released in March 1964), which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by Astrud's then husband João Gilberto. The Stan Getz recording featuring the vocal debut of Astrud Gilberto became an international hit. The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro.
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English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.
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It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. " Garota de Ipanema" (" The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. 1964 single by Stan Getz and João Gilberto "The Girl from Ipanema"