Girl from Ipanema

The Girl from Ipanema is one of the most famous songs of the bossa nova music.

Contents

 * 1 History
 * 2 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 Trivia

History
The music was written by Antônio ("Tom") Carlos Jobim and the lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes in 1962. She often sat on the terrace of the Veloso bar in the Ipanema district ofRio de Janeiro and were inspired by a girl who almost daily passed by.

That girl was Heloísa ("Helô") Eneida Menezes Pais Pinto, born on July 7, 1945. She lived on the Rua Montenegro number 22 and came only two years later that she had been the inspiration for the song. Later, Tom Jobim and his wife Teresa witness at the wedding of Heloísa. The bar is now called Girl from Ipanema.

The first commercial recording of this song was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro . The most famous version, by Astrud Gilberto was carried out together with João Gilberto and jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, from the album Getz / Gilberto in 1962, became a worldwide hit. This recording is often used in various films and also is frequently used as "elevator music" ( Muzak ).

The song was recorded by very many international artists in various languages; the English version, text written by Norman Gimbel, among others, by Frank Sinatra . The Girl from Ipanema, according to the website of Helô Pinheiro being second most popular song recorded in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles .

In 2005, The Girl from Ipanema was by the Library of Congress named one of the 50 greatest musical works of mankind.

Trivia

 * In 2001 Helô Pinheiro was sued by the heirs of Moraes because she had opened a store with beach attire under the company name Girl from Ipanema. The report of a press conference held in 1965 by Moraes proved he Helô as Girl from Ipanema had described, but prosecutors thought that the fact that Helô was referred girl, its not yet granted the right to the name. Helô however, the court ruled in favor of.
 * The Girl from Ipanema in 2002 was the first song by the then 18-year-old Amy Winehouse recorded her first album Frank. But it has not landed on. However, this version was published in December 2011 on the posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures.