João Gilberto / Astrud Gilberto: The Girl From Ipanema (Jobim, de Moraes, 1962)

Al Hirt: The Girl From Ipanema - ------------------------------------------------ “The Girl from Ipanema“ (“Garota de Ipanema“) was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes (1913-1980) with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel (who in 1984 was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame). The version of the song performed by A