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"The Girl from Ipanema"
SinglebyStan GetzandJoão Gilberto
from the albumGetz/Gilberto
B-sideBlowin' in the Wind[1]
ReleasedMay 1964(1964-05)
RecordedMarch 1963
StudioA&R Recording,New York City
Genre
Length2:44
LabelVerve
Composer(s)Antônio Carlos Jobim
Lyricist(s)
Producer(s)Creed Taylor

"Garota de Ipanema"(Portuguese pronunciation:[ɡaˈɾotɐdʒipɐ̃ˈnemɐ]), "The Girl from Ipanema",is aBrazilianbossa novaandjazzsong. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won aGrammy for Record of the Year in 1965.It was written in 1962, with music byAntônio Carlos Jobimand Portuguese lyrics byVinícius de Moraes.English lyrics were written later byNorman Gimbel.[4]

The first commercial recording was in 1962, byPery Ribeiro.TheStan Getzrecording featuring the vocal debut ofAstrud Gilbertobecame an international hit. This version had been shortened from the version on the albumGetz/Gilberto(recorded in March 1963, released in March 1964), which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by Astrud's then husbandJoão Gilberto.In the US, the single peaked at number five on theBillboardHot 100,and went to number one for two weeks on theEasy Listeningchart.[5]Overseas it peaked at number 29 on theUK Singles Chart,and charted highly throughout the world.

Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as anelevator musiccliché.It is believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday"byThe Beatles.[6]The song was inducted into theLatin Grammy Hall of Famein 2001.[7]In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by theLibrary of Congressto be added to theNational Recording Registry.[8]

In 2000, the 1964 release of the song byStan Getz&Astrud Gilbertoon Verve Records was inducted into theGrammy Hall of Fame.[9]

"The Girl from Ipanema"
Astrud Gilberto,along withJoão GilbertoandStan Getz's "The Girl from Ipanema" fromGetz/Gilberto
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History[edit]

The song was composed for a musical comedy titledDirigível( "Airship"), then a work in progress ofVinicius de Moraes.The original title was "Menina que Passa" ( "The Girl Who Passes By" ); the first verse was different. Jobim composed the melody on his piano in his new house in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. Moraes wrote the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade"(" No More Blues ") six years earlier. While firmly rooted in bossa nova," The Girl from Ipanema "includes influences frombluesandTin Pan Alley.[10]

During a recording session in New York withJoão Gilberto,Antônio Carlos JobimandStan Getz,the idea of cutting an English-language version came up.Norman Gimbelwrote the English lyrics. João's wife,Astrud Gilberto,was the only one of the Brazilians who could speak English well, and was chosen to sing. Her voice, without any of the mannerisms of trained singers, proved a perfect fit for the song.[11]However, she was never credited or received any royalties, and received only $120 for her part.[12]

Thekeythe song is played in has varied depending upon the origin of the recording. While the original Ribeiro version was in thekey of G,most Brazilian performances useD♭and most American versions useF.[10]

Astrud Gilberto and Getz appear as themselves and perform the song in the 1964 filmGet Yourself a College Girl.

Frank Sinatrarecorded the song with Jobim in 1967 for their albumFrancis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim.[13]Ella Fitzgeraldrecorded it for her two-disc set of Brazilian musicElla Abraça Jobim,released byPablo Todayin 1981. Ethel Ennis and Nat King Cole have also both recorded the song. A version by Gary Criss titled "The Girl From Ipanema / Brazilian Nights" from his album "Rio De Janeiro" reached number 19 in the CanadianRPMdance charts in August 1978.[14]Eliane Eliasincluded the song in her albumsEliane Elias Sings Jobim(1998) andBrazilian Classics(2003).

Inspiration[edit]

Ipanemais a fashionable neighborhood located in the southern region of the city ofRio de Janeiro.

Helô Pinheiro,the woman who inspired the song, in 2006.

The song was inspired byHeloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto(now known as Helô Pinheiro), a seventeen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in Ipanema.[15]Daily, she would stroll past the Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ( "each day when she walks to the sea" ), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound ofwolf whistles.[16]In the winter of 1962, the composers saw the girl pass by the bar. Since the song became popular, she has become a celebrity.

InRevelação: a verdadeira Garôta de Ipanema( "Revealed: The Real Girl from Ipanema") Moraes wrote that she was" the paradigm of the youngCarioca:a golden teenage girl, a mixture of flower and mermaid, full of light and grace, the sight of whom is also sad, in that she carries with her, on her route to the sea, the feeling of youth that fades, of the beauty that is not ours alone—it is a gift of life in its beautiful and melancholic constant ebb and flow. "

Legacy[edit]

The legacy of "The Girl from Ipanema" was acknowledged by multiple aspects of the2016 Summer OlympicsandParalympicsheld in Rio de Janeiro: the Olympic and Paralympic mascots were respectively namedVinicius and Tomafter the song's co-writers by a public vote,[17]while the Olympics'opening ceremonyfeatured a segment themed around the song and the architecture ofOscar Niemeyer.Jobim's grandsonDaniel Jobimperformed the song during the segment, which also featured an appearance by Brazilian supermodelGisele Bündchen.[18][19]Spotifyreported that the song had been streamed on its service 40,000 times per day in the days following the ceremony (a 1200% increase), while in the U.S., the song reached #5 onBillboard'sWorld Digital Songschart the following week.[20][21]

Charts[edit]

Legal disputes[edit]

In 2001, the song's copyright owners (the heirs of their composer fathers) sued Pinheiro for using the title of the song as the name of her boutique (Garota de Ipanema). In their complaint, they stated that her status as The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) did not entitle her to use a name that legally belonged to them.[29][30]Public support was strongly in favor of Pinheiro. A press release by Jobim and Moraes, the composers, in which they had named Pinheiro as the real Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) was used as evidence that they had intended to bestow this title on her. The court ruled in favor of Pinheiro.[31]

In a separate legal dispute,Astrud GilbertosuedFrito-Layfortrademark infringementfor using the song in a TV advertisement for its baked potato chips. Gilberto argued that:

[A]s the result of the huge success of the 1964 recording, and her frequent subsequent performances of "Ipanema," she has become known as The Girl from Ipanema and is identified by the public with the 1964 recording. She claims as a result to have earned trademark rights in the 1964 recording, which she contends the public recognizes as a mark designating her as a singer. She contends, therefore, that Frito-Lay could not lawfully use the 1964 recording in an advertisement for its chips without her permission.[32]

InOliveira v. Frito-Lay Inc.(2001), her claims were rejected by theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[32]

"The Boy from Ipanema"[edit]

This section is about the song. For the 2010 South Korean film, seeThe Boy from Ipanema (film).
"The Boy from Ipanema"
Ella Fitzgerald's version of "The Girl from Ipanema", in which the person referred to is male
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When sung by female artists the song has often been rendered as "The Boy from Ipanema". Such artists have includedJulie London(1964 single),Peggy Lee(1964),Ella FitzgeraldandThe Supremes(1965),Shirley Bassey(1966) andEartha Kitt(1974).Petula Clarksang it in 1977 onThe Muppet Show.Crystal Waters recorded her version in 1996 for the various artistsRed Hot + Riocompilation and was later included on her1998 greatest hits set.Diana Krall recorded another version on her 2009 albumQuiet Nights.

The reason for "The Boy from Ipanema" version is partially caused by an awkward translation occurring when female vocalists sing: "But each time when she walks to the sea, she looks straight ahead not at HE." Some singers have corrected this by singing: "But each time when she goes for a swim, she looks straight ahead not at him."[citation needed]

A parody of the song, with different lyrics written byStephen Sondheim,is entitledThe Boy From.... Another parody is "The Girl With Emphysema" by comedianBob Rivers.

The phrase "Boy from Ipanema" — but nothing from the song — appears in Norwegian recording artistAnnie's "Anthonio".Likewise, the phrase" Girl from Ipanema "appears inThe B-52's' 1985 single "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland,"again without any musical reference to the original song.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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