The Girl From Ipanema 🎵 Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz REACTION

[@richardryan8462]

She was nervous, very much so. She hadn't been a singer for very long. When Stan Getz was recording the song with João Gilberto, Getz wanted the song to also be sung in English but João couldn't sing in English. But his wife knew English so they had her sing the English translation after he sang his part. Stan Getz liked it so they kept her singing on the recording and even had her sing another song. On that video she was still essentially a housewife, like, the real thing. I could only imagine in contrast to other professionals at the time audiences found that actually quite charming and relatable.

[@thelowe6393]

Spot on Richard! I'm sure being on American TV was a little daunting. I love Astrud and particularly her singing "Agua de Beber."

[@jeffthompson1869]

This song has a long twisty history in the music business explained by Adam Neely - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXe6dJV9r92inLc&ab_channel=AdamNeely

[@HandleTakenlol]

Also they screwed the beat almost instantly....she was pissed. The base should be shot lol

[@altaclipper]

Funny, I've loved this song since I was a kid and heard it in a move (60's, black and white, naturally). I just downloaded the Getz/Gilberto album last week and I just love it.

[@t0dd000]

Interesting. I just figured since it was smooth lounge jazz, she was just styling it that way.

[@donaldjackson1490]

The studio version is so sublime, and sonically exquisite

[@alyosha1974]

The whole album (Bossa Nova) is sublime. Must own IMO. Super accessible for everyone.

[@peperino25]

Agree ORIGINAL STUDIO VERSION 100% Better!

[@sebastianandres8781]

"The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWa0l4ugqNSBm5Y *(Official Studio Version)* *The ORIGINAL 100% Better*

[@donaldjackson1490]

I also highly recommend “Jazz Samba” a great album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd - perfect for a hot summer evening

[@wadsworthaaron]

The "Getz-Gilberto" album is largely credited with taking bossa nova (Brazilian jazz) to the global stage. It's a brilliant album that helped fuel a bossa craze from North America to western Europe to Japan. In the 2000s when I visited record stores in Osaka, the bossa nova selection was still HUGE. "Getz-Gilberto" was a game-changer, bringing influence to the jazz world and even rock & roll [the Doors' John Densmore was a huge fan, bringing a bossa-beat to "Light My Fire," their biggest hit, and "Break On Through (To the Other Side")].

"Brazilian Jazz" please, because it's not that, it's just Bossa Nova.

[@larissaalves2876]

Bossa Nova is the mixture of samba and jazz, so it is not brazilian jazz. It's simply this new style, BOSSA NOVA

[@capstan50g]

When I worked in New York, Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote this song, used to frequent our store. He was a fantastic person, and a great composer. RIP.

[@stack_of_records]

Have one of his records. Sublime.

[@sparky6086]

This was a huge international hit. It's about a couple of guys in the early 1960's who regularly had coffee next to the beach in the Ipanema neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They see this hot young girl headed to the beach each day. They wish, that they could get her attention, but she is oblivious of them. So they lament. It's a true story, because the two guys are the actual songwriters. You knew one of them. I can't remember the other guy's name? ...The song was such a hit, that the girl was identified. She's still around and is an icon of Brazil. My niece got to meet her last year.

[@Homunculas]

One of the most significant composers of the 20th century.

[@fbg5678]

@@sparky6086 I don't think it was coffee they were drinking. Hahah. The other guy was Vinicius de Moraes, In his documentary, one of his many ex wives said she would constantly go check on him while he was on the bathtub to see if he hadn't drowned, that because he would go bath with a full bottle of whiskey and wouldn't leave before borderline passing out.

[@sparky6086]

@@fbg5678 Maybe it was Irish Coffee?

[@BootLegJustice]

OMG Brad your quote, "It was the sixties, probably before women got the right to dance or something?" 😂 I laughed so hard my face hurt!

[@lunapuella2611]

Same here 🤣🤣🤣

[@Mediawatcher2023]

I'm sure he remembered the 1960s

[@BootLegJustice]

I dought it@@Mediawatcher2023 .

[@mailingwithjeff]

So hilarious😂

[@paulkane7771]

My brain hurt when he said that!

[@charlieo.possum5501]

Holy crap, never seen anyone react to this! Brilliant! This is one of the best albums ever recorded imo, sublime

[@VZ935]

Whenever my father took a break from Otis Redding this was one of the songs that would get played often, over fifty years ago! Brings back great memories of my folks dancing through the house, and they could dance! Thank you :)

[@rogerbillings5081]

Such a smooth jazz classic. Astrud has an incredible voice.

[@Blisteryn]

Aka Bossa Nova.

[@scurvybro8850]

Well, it's undoubtedly smooth, and it's jazz. But "smooth jazz" is a musical genre unto itself that does not cover this tune.

[@t0dd000]

@@scurvybro8850 smooth lounge jazz.

[@rogerbillings5081]

@@leodejongful You're right of course. I think this is on the Stan Getz Bossa Nova album which I've got! Should think before typing - I blame Malbec! Lol.

[@nebbindog6126]

Great jazz classic, and the national song of Brazil. The song was a poem written in Portuguese, about a pretty girl, admired from a distance.

[@viniciusnascimento1993]

Not jazz, bossa nova

[@jeremiahosborn6993]

@@viniciusnascimento1993 Bossa Nova is a form of Jazz

[@Eagle4448]

@@viniciusnascimento1993 Bossa nova = Brazilian jazz

[@viniciusnascimento1993]

@@Eagle4448 not really, more like lounge music on a beach, piano bar, complex as jazz in the acustic guitar, but not jazz.

[@viniciusnascimento1993]

@@jeremiahosborn6993 not really, is complex as jazz in the acustic guitar and piano, but but jazz.

[@jacqueline4514]

A Brazilian Bossa Nova classic. Would hear this as a child in the 70’s and loved it. Had no idea I’d be married to a Brazilian going on 30 years, now , LOTS of great music ❤️🎶

[@ThePittsburghToddy]

Among my favorite songs ever! The studio version is sublime!

[@peperino25]

*(ORIGINAL Studio Version)* kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWa0l4ugqNSBm5Y "The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz

[@sebastianandres8781]

i agree ORIGINAL STUDIO VERSION 100% BETTER

[@sethleon2158]

The female singer (Astrud Gilberto) actually was not a professional prior to the famous album with Stan Getz, but was married to João Gilberto. João was a famous Bossa nova guitarist and singer. I prefer the album version as João is prominant. The whole album is a classic.

[@xaspirate8060]

The album proves that this was no lightweight song as I think the general public may have thought it was back in early 60's. The album I prefer is mostly in Spanish if I remember correctly and it adds alot of depth to the song itself. WOrth the listen.

[@peperino25]

I agree ORIGINAL STUDIO VERSION 100% better

[@altaclipper]

@@peperino25 Almost every studio version of almost every song is better than almost every live version. This one was not bad, and this song works so well so well in a dark, smoky jazz club setting it gets a pass.

[@Ambaryerno]

Key: Professional. She had been singing long before the recording, so Getz "discovering" her is a bunch of malarkey he made up to puff himself up.

[@cazgerald9471]

@@xaspirate8060 Portuguese - bossa nova is Brazilian.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Every Dentist/Doctor Office and Elevator you were in, you would hear this song some form on the Musak system in every office building...even in movies' at party scenes you would hear this number as people slow danced etc. It became the ultimate upper class snob cocktail party song for a while. Stan Getz, the sax player, famous jazz artist. I just met his son at the Tucson Jazz Festival last January while visiting. what a gentleman! This is a dreamy type song. in the big band I was in we had an arrangement of this, and we all called it the Girl from Emphysema lol.

[@s.mcpherson6354]

She wasn't supposed to be the singer on this, she wasn't really a trained singer. The song was in Portuguese, and when they decided to quickly cut an English version, the only English-speaking female there was the guitar player's wife. Then it turned out her lack of polish and experience made the song famous for her beautifully innocent, strangely half-flat notes. Even in this visual performance, she's remarkably unshowy, and Lex is right; as someone unaccustomed to performing, it makes sense she'd be nervous.

[@stack_of_records]

Brazilian

[@alansilverman8500]

@@stack_of_records they speak Portuguese in Brazil...

[@stack_of_records]

@@alansilverman8500 The Brazilian Portuguese does sound a bit different than what they speak in Portugal.

[@s.mcpherson6354]

@@stack_of_records Fair enough, but no one was arguing that. Either way, the song was in Portuguese.

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

no, no, no... look, the way she sings it's called "desafinado" which means out of tune... it's done on purpose. If you listen to Astrud Gilberto's work she always sings like that, slightly out of tune. I think because bossanova had a huge jazz influence, and that style of singing reminds me to the wildest Ella Fitzgerald vocal improvisations... It's nothing to do with portuguese, being nervous, etc. it's an artistic choice

[@jimmyjawbone]

Just bought a new copy of this on vinyl, absolutely sublime.

[@xaspirate8060]

We had this floaiting around the house when i was a kid --- would not be caught dead playing that back in the day!!! Plus I' m thinking that inferior phonographs wore the sht out of it and the record was too scratchy to enjoy. And the jacket was faded out so that you could se the imprint of the vinyl disc itself.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

It was originally in Portuguese, written for a male vocal. It's about a girl walking on the beach who's so smoking hot that all the guys want her but she ignores them, including the narrator/singer. Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah When she walks, she's like a samba That swings so cool and sways so gentle That when she passes, each one she passes goes - ooh (Ooh) But I watch her so sadly How can I tell her I love her Yes I would give my heart gladly But each day, when she walks to the sea She looks straight ahead, not at me Tall, (and) tan, (and) young, (and) lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, I smile - but she doesn't see (doesn't see) (She just doesn't see, she never sees me...)

[@sebastianandres8781]

*(ORIGINAL Studio Version)* kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWa0l4ugqNSBm5Y "The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz

[@peperino25]

*ORIGINAL STUDIO VERSION 100% BETTER* "The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz

[@kayjacoby290]

Spot on interpretation. It's only sad from the dude's view. "The Girl," is just having a regular day at the beach.

[@papercup2517]

@@kayjacoby290 Well, yes, quite, although actually, IRL the girl this was based on was apparently just doing regular errands, not even going to the beach (although don't we all imagine her in a bikini, on the sand?), and every time she passed this particular bar, all the guys who hung out there would wolf-whistle and call out to her... no wonder she developed a thick skin and deaf ear when she had to run that gauntlet of horny men! And so, sadly, didn't see maybe the one nice guy there, who might have respected her, when he tried to catch her eye with a smile...

[@surlechapeau]

This song won a Grammy for Record of the Year(1965)

[@joesmith8725]

Bossa Nova is music yall hear at coffee shops, doctor offices, and elevators. lol. It's latin style jazz music, very smooth singing and music. This song is very common on movies and commercials as well.

[@tannonwraith4692]

Welcome to the Samba and the Bossa Nova. Very observant Lex, Astrud was hired specifically to sing this song with no previous experience. This was her first television experience.

[@lindakessler8768]

Wow, what a blast from the past! Thanks you two for trying all types of music. 👍❤🤙

[@angielofton6372]

She was married to Joao Gilberto who was recording this with Stan Getz, the sax player. Joao Gilberto opens the song in Portuguese and they wanted to do the verses in Engish as well and Astrud, his wife, knew enough English to sing it and it became a huge hit. It’s about a boy who sees a beautiful girl pass by and he can’t get her attention. The album came out in 1962, people used to stand and sing back then.

[@peperino25]

ORIGINAL STUDIO VERSION 100% better

[@theheepster]

Hey, great tune. The Sub-Genre of Jazz is called Bossa Nova. It's a classic. Another great Bossa Nova tune is Desafinado from Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto.

[@maruad7577]

That entire album was excellent.

[@patricktulher]

Bossa Nova it's not a "sub-genre" of jazz. It's a sub-genre of SAMBA!

[@patricktulher]

@@theheepster Wrong. The harmonies of bossa nova were already known in Brazil since the beginning of samba in the 20s and 30s and its cadence was already explored by samba-canção in the 40s and 50s. The only contribution of jazz to bossa nova were the keyboards and the sax.

[@antarcticorb9197]

This reminds me of a Sunday morning when my parents were preparing Sunday dinner, back in the early sixties! They always had music playing in the house, and there was a sense of structure to life.

[@Sometimes-even-lyrical]

This was an international smash! See other comments for the true story behind the recording, her performance, and the girl depicted in the lyrics. Close your eyes and listen to the song, and it will transport you to the beachfront at Ipanema, Brazil. This is a bossa nova... a samba... a type of jazz that is very good at evoking warm sun, a light breeze, and a forward rhythm like that of the crest of a wave. Cool and beautiful and mesmerizing. Then to the ambiance of the music add the wistful story told in the lyrics of this song.

[@jean-francoispirenne6518]

That was from the south american period of Stan Getz, one of the greatest saxophonists of jazz! He played with Jobim, Almeida, Gilberto and others.

[@solojohno1]

Unbelievably beautiful song. One of the rare songs that can take me to a different place. I can put it on repeat, close my eyes, and experience the beach in Rio like I'm there. Thanks for reacting to it. As an aside, take a listen to this version: "The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz . It has both Portuguese and English parts.

[@sebastianandres8781]

*(ORIGINAL Studio Version)* kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWa0l4ugqNSBm5Y "The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz i agree 100% Better

[@peperino25]

True Original Studio Version are so Much BETTER

[@tomenrico6199]

This was Astrid Gilberto's debut song. Stan Getz was collaborating on an album with her husband Joao Gilberto and they drafted her to do the vocals. The song, composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, was a huge international hit and greatly expanded the popularity of Bossa Nova music.

[@kentclark6420]

This is the most iconic and covered song in the world. It's famous all over, and this is the original version.

[@GiorgosRossos]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJSZn4CgjZ6jhLc seems to be the original

[@firedoc5]

A true jazz classic. Her smooth soft voice is perfect for this song.

[@denysmace3874]

It's the sixties before women got the right to dance is my phrase of the day !

[@USGrant-rr2by]

They're going to take that away too.

[@denysmace3874]

@@USGrant-rr2by I pray to God you're wrong, but...

[@lumpyfishgravy]

50s B movies say that's wrong.

[@steelyspielbergo]

The Supreme Court is working on this now

[@denysmace3874]

@@steelyspielbergo I'm not a U.S. citizen, and on a channel that is out to celebrate the joy of music and bringing people together, I don't want to get into a political discourse, but I do find some of the recent scotus decisions somewhat hard to understand. Nuff said, not going to say any more. It's not my country to interfere.

[@maxbrazil3712]

You can thank Charlie Byrd (the greatest acoustic guitar player of all time) and Stan Getz for bringing Brazilian music to America and the world in the 1960's.

[@jimakcelik6486]

"Bossa nova" meaning "new wave" is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords. Please listen to Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 - "The Frog", a bossa nova song about "a little bit of nothing, just two frogs kicking their way past the water lillies".

[@HemlockRidge]

Ipanema is a neighborhood and beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It's a fairly upper-class area. The story is that the writer of the song was sitting in a sidewalk bar and spotted Helo Pinheiro, a 17 year old girl, walk by on her way to the beach. It was written in Portuguese, and later translated into English.

[@rhoetusochten4211]

I think it is cool that the girl from Ipanema is a real person. I saw something once where they met her and she had local fame.

[@LSwick-ss6nm]

That smooth samba music is magical. I spent 10 years working in Brazil and some of their music just takes you to these amazing places that you don't want to leave.

[@zenpuppy6025]

This is from one of my favorite albums of all time. Stan Getz was a tremendous saxophone player. This album introduced the Brazilian genre called bossa nova.

[@shadowsgathered6878]

This is the loveliest version of this song I've ever heard. I just love it.

[@classiclife7204]

The USA was wild about exotic Latin American beats from about the mid-50s to the early 60s. This beat is called bossa nova, a distinct style of samba that began in Rio. Astrud's version is the most famous, but other notable ones are from Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

[@Red22762]

Correction, bossa nova is like virtually all music from Latin America and North America created or heavily influenced by African blacks brought over during slavery!!!!!!!!!!! A lot of people including blacks themselves seemto forget or purposely leave that fact out!!!!!!

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@@Red22762 This gives strong "we wuz kingz" vibes.

[@netzahuacoyotl]

Afro-Cuban music was popular in the 40s and Tango in the 20s and 30s.

[@Guitarisforgrins]

@@Red22762 Yes, Africa was the only continent that had music........... /s

[@davidkulmaczewski4911]

"Bossa Nova" translates as "new thing".... it was a new musical style created in the mid 20th century.

[@simonpoole2333]

Stan Getz. The greatest sax player of all time. A beautiful bosa nova classic

[@Ambaryerno]

He's by NO means the greatest sax player. He's not even the greatest tenor sax. I'd put Coltrane, Webster, and Young over Getz on tenor, and Getz can't even touch Charlie Parker. He IS, however, one of the greatest assholes in jazz. When Getz had to have open-heart surgery, a colleague once quipped whether that meant they were putting one in. His treatment of Gilberto was utterly APPALLING (Getz made millions off this album. Gilberto received a paltry $120 as the going rate for a night session. And this is because GETZ CONSPIRED TO CUT HER OUT OF THE ROYALTIES).

[@simonpoole2333]

@@Ambaryerno I love the way he almost talks into the instrument. And by 'greatest' I guess I mean I love his sound the best. As for personality: I choose to separate the artist from the man. And when it comes to jazz, there were many assholes about. Miles Davies, to name but one

[@Ambaryerno]

@@simonpoole2333 There comes a point where it becomes hard, if not impossible, to separate them. Art Pepper comes to mind.

[@5150forevermore]

This song, style, and era is untouchable. How many remember their parents playing this when you were kids that one cool sunny afternoon in that one little house long ago. Untouchable.

[@777petew]

Thank you for your once again for your intelligent and appreciative manner towards music not from your own era. I am into lots of music like rock, punk, soul etc, and I know a good sound and talent when I see/hear it.

[@maruad7577]

An iconic song from the 60s. Also one of the best albums of the era. It was the introduction of cool jazz to North America. The girl in the song actually existed and was famous throughout Brazil because of it.

[@superultradan]

Such a beautiful song. Y'all should check out the B-52's "Girl From Ipanema", totally different but fantastic!!

[@carlosurdaneta4361]

Oh, shit! I almost fell off my chair laughing! "Women didn't have the right to dance before the 60s"???😄😆😅😂 Oh, man, that was precious!😆😂😜

[@paulboudreau3754]

Since you're dipping your toes into the jazz world you should check out the most popular jazz song of all time, Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. and then Blue Rondo al a Turk off the same record.

[@xaspirate8060]

Nice call on both! "Take Five' is like the all-time best Sunday afternoon song.

[@MsPrincesspaulina]

I would almost bet @Brad & Lex would recognize, Take Five by Dave Brubeck. It's been used in so many things over the years that I expect they've heard it without knowing what it was.

[@chrisakarazor9612]

Yes. Take Five.

[@uofm4life735]

Do the in crowd from the Ramsey Lewis trio or any Miles Davis.

[@bobmessier5215]

One of the biggest hits in Jazz music history is actually an off-shoot of Bossa Nova Latin dance pop. I think "The Girl from Ipanema" was just playing hard to get. lol

[@gameplayti2909]

Ok, now this is top level music. Beautiful.

[@raffaojeda]

impresiive the musical range yiou have explored guys!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

If you want a contrasting example of a singer who is very confident and was very popular in Brazil in the 1970s, this version by Elis Regina is fantastic. She sings it mostly in Portuguese but does recite a couple verses in English. But between the two of them they really bring out the incredible nuances and the beauty of the chord progressions of this song and also rhythmically. I don't understand Portuguese but I have loved her stuff for a long time ever since some Brazilian friends turned me on to it. She has an incredible variety of songs and her voice and her attitude and her sense of rhythm and phrasing is just mind blowing. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX_Ymn6eZ8eDmas

[@MisterWondrous]

Ipanema is a popular mountain rimmed beach in Rio, where the Copacabana is located. One peculiarity about it is that you can walk down the beach, virtually, with Google Street View. Look all around, zoom in on people and places. This song was everywhere in the early '60s, in fact I confused it with Ipana toothpaste, which was also big at the time. I saw Stan Getz playing his sax in a hotel in Harvard Square in the '80s. I had hoped he would bring the girl, but no. Damn cool song to review, y'all!

[@distant_sounds]

Bossa Nova is one of my very favourite styles of music. Astrud one of my very favourite singers ever. Brazilian music in general is so, so good.

[@rick5440]

Love this, takes me back to my childhood. Classic, this one will never grow old.

[@lisekapp268]

Yes, she was nervous. She used to sing with the whole family at home but not professionally. As someone already mentioned they needed an English version so she sang it for the recording. But check out the studio version, there’s a reason this song with her singing is a classic.

[@regis387]

i'm sure it's hard for many to understand just how big this song was when it hit the airwaves in 1964 - it won record of the year at the 7th grammy awards, as did the album getz/gilberto.

[@DannyD714]

bossa nova music is best heard in a dimly lit cocktail lounge. it's very mellow and easy listening. great bedroom music too!

[@Ryzzia76437]

This is a total favorite of mine. LOVE IT.

[@Blend-24]

Ipanema is a beach in Brazil. There were a string of hits from Brazilian artists in the 1960’s. Check out “one note samba” (jobin) performed by Sergio Mendez & Brazil66.

[@melenatorr]

And "Mas Que Nada"

[@zoeystar4668]

This is awesome Bosa Nova jazz. Pleasantly surprised that you both are reacting to this.. Wonderful stuff.

[@MrJeddYoung]

This is brand new to me - so thanks for letting me try something new - even if it's something old. I thought i was well versed in 60's music - but this is new to me. I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it.

[@philiparonson8315]

There is an actual woman from Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro who is the subject of this song. Her name is Heloísa Eneida Pinto Mendes Pinheiro (Helô Pinheiro for short). Jobim and de Moraes (the song writers) would watch her go to the beach from the bar they were frequenting at the time. She was 17 years old then. Her life is not at all sad, she’s famous in Brazil, a successful model, personality, and a grandmother. She is so famous she carried the Olympic torch at the games in Rio. The song has been covered over 150 times and the original manuscript is hung on the wall of the bar where it was written.

[@Jaxicat]

There was a big change in the middle of the 60s in fashion, music, and culture. That's how you go from this to Janis Joplin.

[@xaspirate8060]

Agree. Early 60's were so incredibly different than late 60's. I doubt if there was ever a range of 5 years in American history where the change in culture was so drastic. I'm now thinking that the only possibility is now in 2022 - where it may have changed in a crazy way. Consider Obama's last year in office to Biden's term now --- much different culture!

[@2dashville]

The best use of this song in a movie was during a gunfight in Mr. and Mrs. Smith when they got on the elevator this song was playing in the elevator. They used pipe music into the elevators back then. You may have heard of the term, “elevator music.” This song was quintessential elevator music.

[@scottstewart5784]

Before the modern computer-aided memes, this song was a 70s-90s meme for elevator music.

[@zzdaveo]

Can’t believe you all reacted to this song. You two are the best and she is one of my favorites. I have never seen anyone else react to Astrud Gilberto. Thank you.

[@kianpa1]

Beautiful song!

[@sandragray4598]

This is a Brazilian Bossa Nova and Jazz song. It's a classic with covers by so many legends including Amy Winehouse, Charlie Byrd, Sarah Vaughan, and on and on and on, some have changed the lyrics to The Boy from Ipanema. It's well recognized. I heard it many times not really paying attention or knowing before I finally recognized how great it was. As for the meaning, it seems that a guy is longing for a pretty girl, "tall and tan, and young and lovely" but she doesn't notice. I think Lex is right on this one. She gets so much attention she can't stop and pay attention to every guy that longs for her. I don't know that the song is sad but the guy probably is because she doesn't notice him and he's in love (lust?). It just seems to me to be a slice of life type story. This is just what happens.

[@erikweiss769]

I lost it at "before women got the right to dance" lol

[@twenty3enigma]

Nothing sad in the lyrics, Brad. It's about a beautiful woman seen walking along the beach, indifferent to who's looking at her. And how her beauty brightens the (male) songwriter's day.

[@nkcbrazil]

True story about a actual girl who walked to the beach every day in Ipanema. The writer Vinicius de Moraes used to frequent that cafe she would pass and penned the lyrics, which Jobim then composed the music. Because of the song that cafe wa later name after the song, which was of course a worldwide hit and played at weddings for many years.

[@SG-js2qn]

The B-52s have a riff on this called "The Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland." Hearing that on the radio is how I learned about this old song that as a child I'd always heard as an instrumental.

[@davidmazon7516]

I probably first heard this song in the 70s. and ever since then I always picture The Girl From Ipanema walking on the shoreline in the wet sand with the waves barely wetting her bare feet in a long loose gown in the evening.

[@RP-ku7nb]

Gilberto Gil and Djavan are Brazilian and world-wide legends and I highly recommend the music. Gilberto has an incredible life journey that is an inspiration to millions of people...Djavan...not sure what to say....he is just amazing and loved by millions.

[@danielolson5378]

This song definetely helped bring Bossa/Brazilian music to America and later world wide.

[@volodymyrye.2202]

Bravo for the reaction! After all, this is the first, historical, Bossa Nova-style song!

[@robertkenneth6517]

You guys are killing it with these amazing songs!

[@edwardrutledge2765]

This novelty song was HUGE upon release. Everyone was humming this tune…I kid you not.

[@kenf6437]

Novelty? Mmmm

[@edwardrutledge2765]

@@kenf6437 …lighthearted?

[@davidbooth7778]

Mom & Dad dancing in the kitchen to Latin jazz. Such a wonderful memory. My favorite elevator tune.

[@michaelmiller9452]

Bosanova was a new music genre from Brasile. It's still common in jazz, but it's popularity in pop was short lived. Ipanima is a famous beach in Rio.

[@anthonypowell6234]

Natural introduction to Bossa Nova blended with american jazz.

[@rekmu]

“Girl of Ipanema" is a Brazilian song of styles “bossa nova” and “MPB” (Popular Brazilian Music). It was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim aka Tom Jobim and written by Vinicius de Moraes in 1962. It is considered the second most performed song in the history of world music, after Yesterday. More than five hundred versions with different interpreters, besides being included in about 1,500 albums, vinyls and compilations around the world. A 1964 version, recorded by Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz in the United States. Brad and Lex, Brazil is a giant market to followers. I suggest react with some Brazilians Bands, like Sepultura, and Racionais MC (rap music, with subtitles, is available on KZbin)...

[@guillermojimenezcastelblan8456]

The one and only Brazilian Bossa Nova style. Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and Astrud made a stunning recording back in early 60's, under the Verve Record label, the time where the brazilian bossa get into jazz performing for many top artists of the genre. So cool, so soft , a timless classic from Antonio Carlos Jobim, from Brazil as well. So glad you`d like it, thanks for appreciate this approach. More Brazil bossa and samba tunes?..please check out the terrific piano player named Sergio Mendes, and his band, named Brasil '66. Thanks again, guys.

[@827dusty]

I remember this from the early 60s (1962 or 63). I was just a kid of 7 or 8 yrs. old, and I remember this from The Ed Sullivan Show, and it was played a lot on the radio. It was sort of an "exotic" song.

[@kenf6437]

Great to see you react to this. By one of the greatest composers, Antonio Carlos Jobim, about a real girl in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The original Portuguese lyrics are far more beautiful than the English “translation”

[@John_Locke_108]

Timeless. Pure perfection

[@Gary1H]

One of my favorite songs. I’m sure you guys heard it before, but glad to see a reaction to it.

[@ridemfast7625]

Very nice, reminds me of time in Brazil. Actually visited the bar where the song was influenced.

[@danieltrickey9285]

The sixties were such a great time for music when the top 40 had jazz, soul, rock, folk, country, latin and classical on the same charts.

[@sparky6086]

This was a huge international hit. It's about a couple of guys in the early 1960's who regularly had coffee next to the beach in the Ipanema neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They see this hot young girl headed to the beach each day. They wish, that they could get her attention, but she is oblivious of them. So they lament. It's actually a true story, because the two guys are the actual songwriters. The song was such a hit, that the girl was identified. She's still around and is an icon of Brazil. My niece got to meet her last year.

[@yinzer]

My dad loved this song.

[@omicron2018]

Loved how they used this song in "Deep Rising!"

[@jeffreekoch9298]

Bossa nova = South American jazz music 🎷🎹

[@flimnap4841]

No vibrato or vocal gymnastics, just magic.

[@rossdownes4240]

Love this.Probably considered Brazil's national song.

[@RonSafreed]

This song came out in 1963 & the Brazilian jazzy bossa-nova & samba music was becoming popular in America & continued throughout the sixties!! Check out also the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & a group Sergio Mendez & Brazil 66!!

[@MarkMcLT]

So glad you did this song. I love the low-key way it paints a picture for us. For more bossa nova, and a little more upbeat, I suggest Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66. Even though it's in Portuguese, which I don't know, I just love the sound of it.

[@richb313]

Ipanema is a beach in Rio De Genaro in Brazil and this is a very popular rhythm that is used in Brazilian music.

[@cabel000]

"She's not nervous, it's the 60s, it's before women had the right to dance." I laughed so hard that i had to pause the video.

[@greymattervandal]

You guys, thank you for so many different styles.

[@unclebobunclebob]

"...the '60s, before women had the right to dance, or something." OMG!!!! OMFG!!!

[@JohnEdwardBerry]

a very distinct voice, very lovely.

[@3DJapan]

Great song. The genre is Nossa Nova. It started in the 50s and 60s in Rio de Janeiro.