Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto, "The Girl From Ipanema"

Music Lane

It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

"I got this one," said my college neighbor, Ariel. It was the Winter 1993 quarter at UC Santa Cruz. We were both taking the American Popular Music class, which made us research Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto's 1964 hit, "The Girl From Ipanema."

You never forget going to the music lab, checking out cassettes, going to a listening station, slapping on clunky headphones. Now that it's 2019, we commemorate "The Girl From Ipanema's" 55th (!) anniversary. But even in early 1993, Ariel gawked, "1964? This is old. Way before we were born." But it was only 29 years-old then :-)

In the 50s, Joao Gilberto took samba, and helped create "bossa nova (new style)." In 1959, he married a 19-year-old, Astrud. Ariel and I were 21 and 20, respectively, and she blurted out, "Damn, she [Astrud] was young."

But I had to point out that, in those days, maybe it wasn't uncommon, for girls to get married, right out of high school.

Anyway, bossa nova music caught the attention of (North) American jazz musicians. In the early-60s, Joao Gilberto teamed up with American saxophonist, Stan Getz. They took a Portuguese song, "Garota de Ipanema," with Joao singing the Portuguese lyrics. But then, they got Astrud, who had no professional singing experience, to sing in English. Now in English, "The Girl From Ipanema" then became an international smash hit.

I had other college neighbors who could speak Portuguese, but I never heard Ariel speak it. Ariel was way better-looking than the hoards of wannabe hippie girls at UCSC. Guys did anything, just to get downwind of Ariel. No, it wasn't bossa nova, which was associated with the Brazilian-American Ariel. Rather, it was Disney's Princess Ariel.

-Lummy The Loch Monster

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Topic - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto, "The Girl From Ipanema" - Luminator 15:39:07 02/10/19 (3)

RE: Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto, "The Girl From Ipanema" - fantja 15:51:53 03/01/19 (0)

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