Celebrating Antonio Carlos Jobim on his birthday with The Girl - TopicsExpress



          

Celebrating Antonio Carlos Jobim on his birthday with The Girl from Ipanema. Its believed to be the 2nd most recorded pop song in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel, Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:01:46 +0000

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