"The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") is a well known bossa nova song, and 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 Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel. It is sometimes sung by female artists as "The Boy from Ipanema."

The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1963 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit.


Background

Popular myth has it that the song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a 15 year old girl who lived on Montenegro street in the fashionable Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro. Every day, she would stroll past the popular "Veloso" bar-cafe on the way to the beach, attracting the attention of regulars Jobim and Moraes.

The song in fact was originally composed for a musical comedy entitled Dirigível (Blimp), which was a work in progress of Vinícius de Moraes. The original title was "Menina que Passa" ("The Girl Who Passes by"), and the famous first verse was completely different. Jobim composed the melody meticulously on the piano at his new home in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. Vinícius, in turn, had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade" six years earlier, and it took him just as much work.

The true part of the myth is that the composers did in fact know Helô Pinto and later connected the song's creation with her. They saw her pass by as they sat in the Veloso bar, during the winter of 1962— not just once, but several times, and not always on her way to the beach but also on her way to school, to the dressmaker, and even to the dentist. It's not hard to imagine why they'd notice her -she was 5 feet, 8 inches tall (173 cm), with green eyes and long, flowing black hair, lived in Rua Montenegro and was already the object of much admiration among patrons of the Veloso, where she would frequently stop to buy cigarettes for her mother—and leave to a cacophony of wolf-whistles.She has been famous for this connection ever since the song became popular.

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Je, odlicna je pjesma, pogotovo u originalu

Jenda od najzaraznijih pesama za ljudsko uvo. Veoma zarazna

p.s. Upravo sam skinuo gomilu verzija sa originalom koji odavno imam pa ih slusam sa uzivanjem

Pa stavi njenu sliku!!!

Naravno da je jedna od najpevljivijih pesama kada je kompozitor veliki mag Jobim

Inace najbolja verzija je ona koju izvode Stan Getz,Joao Jilberto i Astrud Gilberto sa albuma Getz/Gilberto,imam cak i spot koji je vrh,izvodi se latino letnja pesma u ambijentu pokrivenom sbegom to treba videti

sez, sad bih te najradije zagrlila drago mi je da ima netko tko uziva u toj muzici
Mozda bismo mogli otvorit neku temu o bossa novi
Slazem se da je to najbolja verzija, a taj spot, koliko se sjecam, nisam vidjela. 


@shone   sad je par dana neces moci izbaciti iz glave

i da, evo Helo i Ticiane Pinheiro

Slazem se sa ovim prvim a naravno i sa drugim,slobodno otvori bicu aktivan,sto se tice spota imam ga na nekom DVD-u i nij ekompletan nazalost,vec traje oko minut,i nisam mogao naci ceo nigde,inace spot ide kao prezentacija dela i lika Antonia Carlosa Jobima

istina živa....

nisam bas upoznat...o cemu se radi?

Ako nisi cuo dosad,onda ne vredi,mada mozda ima nade,nadji pa je cuj,bossa nova je to