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  • ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ turns 50

    07/21/2012 9:32:53 AM PDT · by iowamark · 38 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 07/21/2012 | JULIANA BARBASSA
    “Tall and tan and young and lovely…” You’ve heard of her. The Girl From Ipanema. You might have come across the bossa nova classic while on hold on the phone, during a long elevator ride, or in a cafe in Beirut or Bangkok _ but you’ve heard it. It’s been recorded by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Amy Winehouse, and survived bad lounge singers and Muzak incarnations to become, according to Performing Songwriter magazine, the second most recorded song in the world. The quintessential bossa nova tune, inspired by a young woman who passed the songwriters in a beachside bar...