“Girl From Ipanema” by Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto

Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote the music and Vinícius de Moraes the original Portuguese words in 1962, with English lyrics added later by Norman Gimbel, but "The Girl from Ipanema" went global through Stan Getz's recording, the one that marked Astrud Gilberto's debut as a singer. The single was trimmed down from the take on the album Getz/Gilberto, cut in March 1963 and released a year later, where João Gilberto, Astrud's husband at the time, also sings the Portuguese lyrics.

The result is pure cool, all breeze and restraint, and it went to number five on the Hot 100, spent two weeks atop the Easy Listening chart, reached 29 in the UK and won Record of the Year at the 1965 Grammys. Verve's 1964 release entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, and in 2004 it joined the National Recording Registry.

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