The Girl From Ipanema

[MrScorpio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA&sns=tw

[frogmarch]

1. Lovely, but

I like this version too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPPbONFXYc

I may be the only one here who's old enough to remember the wonderful Mrs. Miller. :-)

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Mrs. Miller was a favorite at our community radio station...

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...because part of these stations' missions SHOULD be to
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What I loved most about her is that her first album was
titled, "Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits".
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Her Wikipedia listing:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Miller
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[City of Mills]

3. HAHAAHAHA

Damn, it's a toss up...like 'em both for different reasons :)

[Kat45]

4. I just heard a version on the radio by Frank Sinatra and a Spanish man

whose name I can't remember.

[pokerfan]

5. TTIWWP

The Girl From Ipanema:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Eliane Elias, "The Girl From Ipanema," Live at the 2005 San Javier Jazz Festival in Spain

Love the original, no doubt about it, but I also love Ms. Elias:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehdxuhENlig

She's vaguely similar to Diana Krall, but I consider Krall to be somewhat of a cardboard, comatose diva, almost like Julie London if someone found a way to extract every last drop of joy and life force from her still-breathing body. She'd still look good, but her concert would put you into a deep REM sleep.

Eliane splits her stuff between vocal and instrumental, and I generally listen to mix CDs of one or the other. Sometimes I want to hear her sing and play, other times just play.

Since you like Jobim (or at minimum "Girl From Ipanema"), you might really enjoy this one:



:toast:

[JTG of the PRB]

7. I love that song. One of my favorites ever!

My favorite version has the Portuguese in it as well, but that's a lovely version as well.