Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema - Live 1964

[Baked Potato]

The shy, lovely lady. With Stan Getz.

[mr_lebowski]

1. I think that was the first version I ever heard as a kid ...

Though I remember a version with both a male and female voice w/that same backing music.

Followed not too long after by this one ...

[Baked Potato]

4. Man, that sounded good on the 'phones...

Yeah, I was pretty young too when that song was on the radio. I’ve always loved it and thank goodness for fricken YouTube.

[mr_lebowski]

5. If that don't sound LEGIT like a song that'd have been on the hi-fi at a cocktail party circa 1965

I don't know WTF would ... lol ...

(not that I was quite alive yet, but I know what records my folks had when I was very young, and when they played 'em).

[Baked Potato]

6. Ha ha! Yep! I was just listening to The Lonely Bull... good stuff!

[mr_lebowski]

8. I was pretty obsessed with the chickie-babe on the cover of this record when I was like 5 or 6 ...

I use to play it all the time after school on my stepdads record player ... and stare at the cover ...

Funnily enough, it was the best-selling record of my birth year ...

[Baked Potato]

11. Hmmm... same age as Mrs. Potato lol.

I’m 6 years before... that *is* a nice cover...

[chia]

18. OMG, I was just typing out a similar response to yours, and you beat me to it...

I totally remember this, I was a little girl, but not so little to not wonder that my mom and dad had such a 'scandalous' album cover. Seeing the cover, hearing A Taste of Honey, it takes me back just. like. that.

For whatever reason, the Girl from Ipanema is included in these same memories, they must've had that record too. And then those memories are connected to the backyard pool parties (this would be suburban sprawl Southern California mid-60s) with the grownups smoking and drinking and gossiping and flirting while the kids swam in the pools). The atmosphere was an eerie West Coast echo of John Cheever's The Swimmer, if you're familiar with that which I read for the first time only about 9 or 10 years ago, but it was also written in 1964. Eventually, my parents became ultra-religious and left all that behind, but I still remember how much more fun my best friend's mom was who lived across the street.

Thanks for the memories.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/07/18/the-swimmer

[mr_lebowski]

19. Mine would be Northern California, very early 70's ...

Grown-ups were still rocking the earlier Herb Alpert stuff in the early 70's for sure.

Glad to be of service, ma'am

Thankfully, my mom and stepdad are actually way cooler now than they were then

[nocoincidences]

2. I have all her albums.

Her voice caresses you, like rubbing velvet over your skin.

[Baked Potato]

3. I love her beautiful voice... great description!

[nocoincidences]

7. Thanx re the description.

I fell in love with Basia because she loved Astrud so much. I wish she still made music like she did in the eighties.

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[Baked Potato]

10. First I've heard her.. very beautiful voice too and that was a great recording!

I just read her bio, very interesting past performing in Eastern Bloc countries.

[nocoincidences]

12. Search her music.

It has an intoxicating flavor. You will love her.

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[Baked Potato]

13. Thanks, I will...

[Rollo]

17. Basia is another great... I was introduced to her work by ...

SF cool jazz radio station KKSF back in the 90's... I have nearly all their sampler CD's... it was my sound track for the dot com years...

[DonaldsRump]

9. Not a bad song

But this beat out "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles (remembering 1964 was ONLY the Year of the Beatles), Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly", and Petula Clark's "Downtown" for the Grammy's Record of the Year.

All great songs, but "The Girl from Ipanema" was not the best. Rolling Stone called this one of the great travesties of the Grammy Awards.

Different strokes for different folks...however, this was kinda' like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (a) not being nominated for "Best Actor" in 1994; (b) not winning for "Best Supporting Actor".

[Baked Potato]

14. I love all those songs, it would be a tough choice for me.

Who do you think should have won Best Record?

[peacebuzzard]

15. The Girl from Ipanema and the beginning of Bossa Nova!

What a magical, wonderful era.....

[Rollo]

16. Stan Getz is the supreme artist on this...

Astrud also gives it a dispassionate, cool rendition that is perfect.

Perhaps because she spoke little to no English and sang phonetically. Or so I've read. On a song like this, not knowing the words probably adds to the mystery.