The Girl from Ipanema
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"Garota de Ipanema" (1964, "The Girl from Ipanema") is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s. 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.
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro, released in 1964. The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit, reaching number five in the United States pop chart, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charting highly throughout the world. Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché (for example, near the end of The Blues Brothers). 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 is also sung in Rio when Rafael starts singing it to his mate, Eva, and she sings it (badly).
It was produced by Creed Taylor.
