COUPLE React to Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema | OB DAVE

[@JonS0107]

This song as well as its melody have been used in background music played in stores and elevators for decades. The Girl From Ipanema was even played in the elevator scene of the blues Brothers.

[@OcotilloTom]

I'm 78 and remember well when this song came out on the radio!

[@SansAziza]

I'm 38, and I remember when it came out on the Internet. Cheers.

[@riggamorrischan]

⁠​⁠@@SansAzizaI’m 28 and I remember when this was recommended to me on Spotify. Yay!

[@marksilverman4537]

This is a shortened version. The original version begins with Astrud's husband Joao - the male voice you may be remembering. He only knew Portuguese (Brazilian) and she knew English so they brought her in to sing the second verse and her career was launched. While this style is called Bossa Nova, another wonderful jazz song to become familiar with is by the Dave Brubeck Quartet called Take Five. Another cool jazz classic.

[@-R.Gray-]

Sax player Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd had a big bossa nova album in 1962 called "Jazz Samba".

[@Macdelaven]

The original Getz/Gilberto album had a longer version of this song which featured Joao Gilberto (Astrud's husband) singing as well. Thanks to Mom's original album having so many scratches, this was one of the first CDs I bought. That may be the male voice you recall. It is worth a listen. I enjoy hearing versions of songs that I have known nearly all my life.

[@jeffdetmer4681]

Hi you two. Stan Getz was a really great jazz sax player. This has been covered by many including Frank Sinatra. The tune has been used in half a dozen movies as well, including Blues Brothers, Babe Pig in the City, and Mallrats. Also if you search The Real Girl from Ipanema there is an interview with her. There were 2 writers who used to sit in a cafe and write, andmost every day a beautiful girl would walk by the cafe windows on her way to the beach. The song was written about her. Hope you feel better soon Ash. Try some good hot tea with honey and lemon. No milk. Umm Dave, uh good job doing some exercise?? Happy New Year to you and yours.

[@John-hr9ec]

Stan Getz is one of the greats on Sax. I was going to karaoke on a cruise, some young lady got up and nailed this song. I stayed in my seat 😊

[@daneelolivaw602]

Stan Getz was one of the all time great Saxophone players, a couple of years before the Getz/Gilberto album was released, from which The Girl from Ipanema song is taken, was an album called Jazz Samba which was one of the biggest selling Jazz Albums of all time, and one tune from that album was released as a single called , Desafinado it was a hit all over the world, including here in the UK, I was nine years old at the time, i had never heard anything like it, my nine year old ears felt like i was having velvet tipped cotton buds rubbed in my ears. The Jazz Samba album was the first of three, it was so successful that they rushed out another called Jazz Samba Encore, and then Getz/ Gilberto. Many wonderful tunes on these albums, Give Desafinado a listen, and you'll be hooked. Mr Getz is incredible.

[@bugvswindshield]

Ooooo la la Love this song. this what they mean by when they say "this song is a classic"

[@tutwilson6590]

Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66

[@2199SPUDMAN]

No autotune. Pure talent and beauty. An ideal woman. I can't think of any guy who wouldn't do anything for a woman like that. Such a beautiful and enchanting voice.

[@JPMadden]

This album ("Getz/Gilberto") is one of my favorites of all genres, since I was a young child. My father had an enormous collection of jazz albums. The rest of the songs are sung in Portuguese, which I don't speak, but it doesn't matter to me. I learned from this album to listen to a singer's voice as an instrument when I do not understand the words. It broadened my music tastes to include opera.

[@rorytribbet6424]

Surprised Dave didn’t recognize the name of this popular standard before!this groove is just a jazz bossa nova Groove that is in tons of Brazilian/jazz tunes

[@tim6128]

THE quintessential Bossa Nova song. Supposedly the second most recorded song in history. Second only to Yesterday by The Beatles.

[@warrendavis9262]

(Sigh) When I went to university at the University of North Florida, we had the #3 Jazz program in the United States, so I got to hear stuff like this every Friday over pizza and hot wings...

[@RicoCosta317]

One of the most lovely, sultry songs ever with the great Stan Getz on sax. Makes me swoon. Another one along these lines from 60's is The Look of Love by Dusty Springfield, another sensuous beauty with a light bossa nova beat and jazzy feel. Check it out, you'll love it.

[@davidwillford3119]

The song has been covered a lot. Instrumental versions (often in the style of elevator music) have often turned up in movies and commercials. For future reactions that might be out of your wheelhouse, I would suggest The Court of the Crimson King by Traffic, Rebel Rouser by Duane Eddy, Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding, Kick Out the Jams by the MC5, Season of the Witch by Donovan, It's a Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads, Satellite of Love by Lou Reed, Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees, or White Punks on Dope by The Tubes.

[@George-kv6gm]

I remember when this came out. Definitely different, but was really popular. And hey, at my age then, who doesn't want to see the girl she describes walking on the beach! I read that this song was instrumental in bringing the bossa nova style from Brazil to the rest of the world. I liked it then, and now I've heard it again, thanks to you. Still like it! Thanks so much!

[@Sandman60077]

This is one of those songs that even if you've never herd it before, you've herd pieces of it throughout your lives. It's been covered a lot. It's one of those generational songs that your grandmother would listen to on the record player, so your mother grew up listening to it, then you grew up listening to your mother sing it, and your kids will hear you humming it, and so on.

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

I've always wanted to see someone react to this "Girl from Ipanema"...and then follow it up by reacting to the B-52s "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland"

[@ricardocima]

Yes, it was DEFINITELY covered. LOL

[@torstenheling3830]

Impanema is a beach in Rio. This song iconic.

[@Rod-Wheeler]

The world's most popular elevator music!

[@miamidolphinsfan]

BRASIL guys !!! That's a Bossa Nova dance !

[@scottstewart5784]

OG elevator music - the instrumental of this tune played in elevators and depastrtment stores all the time.

[@SansAziza]

My department store has the freaking elevator from Mass Effect 1. Awkward.

[@EspenBerge74]

The sound you are talking about, is Bossa Nova, a slow Brazilian samba/jazz sound. You will find lots of other songs in the same genre. The male version you have heard is probably Frank Sinatras version kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ3HgXmMgL6gn9k

[@ricardocima]

Joao Gilberto to To Jobim, about Getz: "This gringo can't play shit!". But then again ...Joao was crazy.

[@-R.Gray-]

For an instrumental by a trio of quality musicians, you could try the video " The Aristocrats - Bad Asteroid - (From) Boing, We'll Do It Live!" "(8:34). The late Nick Menza, former drummer for Megadeth, grew up listening to jazz. I have an album by his sax playing father, Don Menza.

[@robertrichardson2617]

Together your DASH

[@ernestitoe]

The girl from Ipanema is still around. She's about 76 now. Her name is Heloísa "Helô" Pinheiro. The composers, hanging out in a café (it's still there), used to see her among the high school girls who flocked to Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro when school let out for the day. She later founded The Girl from Ipanema Boutique, and was sued by the publisher which held the copyright to the song. The judge ruled that the song would not have been written if it hadn't been for her, and she won the right to use the name. She's had thousands of interviews in innumerable languages, all of them boiling down to "Did you ever think you would be the subject of a popular song and be world-famous?" She always says, "No, I never would have imagined it." There are at least a hundred cover versions of the song. It was released 62 years ago. Everyone fell in love with it immediately. For this version, Joāo Gilberto pressed his wife into service because there wasn't time to find a professional singer, which Astrud was not. But she gave it her best shot, and it turned out well. Listen to it in Portuguese, the language in which it originally was composed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZrUqop7j7yNgLc

[@atimtambaby]

Unfortunately, Astrud Gilberto passed away in 2023. Even as a young kid in the early 60's I loved Bossa Nova. Still do.

[@jacklevesque]

It has been in every elevator (lift) in the world. #1 elevator music song.

[@Jude_196]

Diana Krall also did an AWESOME cover of this tune.....I also love Diana's version of Peel Me A Grape - ya'll would probably enjoy that one, as well!!! THANKS for listening to this one!! HUGS, YA'LL, from TEXAS!

[@davidharris2519]

it was background music in vegas vacation with Chevy Chase

[@edstpierre3428]

Maybe the tastiest tune of it's time!

[@atimtambaby]

If you ever saw the movie "The Blues Brothers," you heard a Muzac version of this when the Brothers were in the elevator going to pay the taxes of the orphanage...they were on a mission for God

[@craigleblanc1334]

It's playing in the elevator on the Blues Brothers.

[@brentgibison3823]

If I’m not mistaken, this is the most covered song in the world !! so very good chance you’ve heard it somewhere somehow!!

[@MJ1]

Of course you’ve heard it. It’s the second most recognizable song ever recorded.

[@SansAziza]

Second most recorded. Not second most recognizable.

[@frankhuhn7369]

Believed to be the most recorded and covered song in history.

[@SavageIntent]

Oh my god Leon Schuster. I've not thought about him in years. I honestly did not hear any South African accent from Ash, and I am usually quite good at accents. To be fair I also have not a lot of SA in my accent despite living in Cape Town for 16 years.

[@The_real_I_am_Ash]

I’m Zimbabwean 😊

[@SavageIntent]

@@The_real_I_am_Ash Ah I see, one of them lot. I've known a few people from Zim in my time. Theres an 84 year old lady from Zim who comes to all the illegal psytrance raves here in Scotland I kid you not.

[@RayMottarelly]

That's bossa nova. "Bossa nova, which literally means “new wave,” was a blending of samba and jazz that rose out of a guitar school formed in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana neighborhood in 1956."

[@ThomasPalmen]

Ipanema is a district of Rio de Janeiro and the beach of the same name is probably the most famous beach in the city alongside Copacabana.

[@Alejandrocasabranca]

As melhores praias do Brasil são as do Ceará Fortaleza 😊

[@John-hr9ec]

Elevator music for sure!

[@normanmeharry58]

Really?

[@62impalaconvert]

E Pah Ne Ma This is not the version that was ofter heard on the radio years ago but it is just as good.

[@warrendavis9262]

Re: sympathy...she knows where you live, dude. She can also create cyanide out of thin air...

[@warrendavis9262]

Maybe y'all listen to some Sade? Might be too soft, but I'd love to see how y'all react to it...

[@SansAziza]

It's not soft. It's the sweetest taboo. 😎

[@Marcus-p5i5s]

It's Portuguese. It's about a beach in Brazil...

[@warrendavis9262]

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[@ciriloveloso5202]

Frank Sinatra sang this music.

[@victorvinas6497]

If you love jazz check out Angelina Jordan singing " Feeling Good ". She is a prodigy who loves jazz.

[@RobinSheppard-y1k]

Amy winehouse covers it

[@golfr-kg9ss]

I believe this is Bosa Nova music. The lady is from Brazil and Stan Getz is a very popular Jazz musican. As you already discovered this song has been around a long time and used in a lot of movies. Now for some more upbeat Jazz. Let's try some Henry Mancini. He did the Pink Panther theme music. This is not it, this is the Peter Gunn theme. Pay attention to the tube player he's setting the beat for this song gets a pretty good workout. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3quhISKYtSLnMU

[@mynameispaul0530]

bossa nova

[@naosmo]

Ipanema is I believe a beach in Rio de Janaero area, Portuguese is the language of Brazil/

[@UnexpectedBooks]

I think that Ash may have heard this version by Frank Sinatra: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ3HgXmMgL6gn9ksi=8ojTiM6anLCEsWra

[@The_real_I_am_Ash]

Yes! Thank you this is it!!

[@PrimeBallard]

The best version is with Frank Sinatra and Tom Jobim

[@peperino25]

*this is not the original version*

[@johncrwarner]

Have you thought about responding to Matt Monro singing "On Days Like These" It is the opening song from the title sequence from the "good" Italian Job film so I recommend the title sequence from the film: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZitpomFp72pbJo

[@RJ-nz5jn]

Think of an elevator.

[@SansAziza]

Wow. That combo of mispronunciations, was of Marvel vs Capcom 2 quality. (That was a nerd joke, not an insult.)

[@SansAziza]

Here is another joke: Where did you hear this song before? An elevator. Bet.

[@Stickywicket1keet]

KZbin is being Stupid I’ve not been able to see any of your videos for the past month

[@zsnyderdiddcright.8008]

A dumb reaction

[@charlespeterson7502]

Either Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin did a cover i believe. It was Frank Sinatra who covered this song.

[@JonS0107]

This song as well as its melody have been used in background music played in stores and elevators for decades. The Girl From Ipanema was even played in the elevator scene of The blues Brothers.