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carter — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:16:40 -0800

When she walks, it's like a samba ... Links to 46 cover versions of the Girl from Ipanema.

By: carter

carter — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:17:17 -0800

My favourite so far is the Pizzicato 5 version ...

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:26:58 -0800

Terrific, I love that song.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:27:14 -0800

This is the only song by someone other than myself that I can play on the ukulele. Well, okay, this and ... (Hit Me) Baby One More Time. Not for lack of talent but lack of motivation.

By: Justin Case

Justin Case — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:27:32 -0800

Kompressor

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:30:34 -0800

Cool, they have a Jethro Tull version! But nothing compares to the Kompressor version. "When she passes, each one she passes goes AAAHHHHHHHH!!!" (via)

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:31:03 -0800

Bah!! Hoisted by my own petard!

By: riotgrrl69

riotgrrl69 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:33:09 -0800

kompressor video

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:36:16 -0800

Well, at least we're all in agreement that the Kompressor version RULES!

By: riotgrrl69

riotgrrl69 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:37:04 -0800

acceptable kompressor musics

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:37:53 -0800

Bah. They missed Rick Moranis' "Ipanema Rap", which is brilliant.

By: numlok

numlok — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:39:08 -0800

Great! Anyone else need to "Maim that Tune" now?

By: pfafflin

pfafflin — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:12:50 -0800

I've always loved Antena's version.

By: MikeKD

MikeKD — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:17:18 -0800

There's the dictionaraoke version as well.

By: Postroad

Postroad — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:17:43 -0800

I thopught Ipanema a skin afflction or the name of a toothpaste. Live and learn.

By: icosahedral

icosahedral — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:30:37 -0800

"No, I'm afraid I can't help you right now. I'm only on my twenty-third listening of 'The Girl From Ipanema.'" *stares intently at monitor*

By: knave

knave — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:19:35 -0800

Great link, thanks!

By: hangashore

hangashore — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:23:10 -0800

Well, at least we're all in agreement that the Kompressor version RULES! Sacrilege. Bow before the one true Ipanema (or at least a shortened filmed version thereof).

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:30:30 -0800

It looks like it's being updated.. When I checked this morning, it stopped on the Latin version.

By: afx114

afx114 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:41:36 -0800

Does anyone have a pic of an actual Girl from Ipanema? I'm curious if the images that the song evoke are similar...

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:44:46 -0800

Heloisa Pinheiro

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:45:10 -0800

(The actual Girl From Ipanema)

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:47:12 -0800

(Though personally my favourite Jobim - in fact always in my Top Five - is Aguas de Março, and my favourite version of tGFI is by Vinicius de Moraes.)

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:49:02 -0800

Heloisa Pinheiro ...rowwrrrrrr!....

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:49:37 -0800

(And she has her own website too . I don't know why the parentheses. Sorry.)

By: afx114

afx114 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:12:12 -0800

Blech, that is so NOT how I envisioned the Girl from Ipanema. Thanks a lot for destroying my dreams Grangousier!!!!

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:13:06 -0800

You're welcome!

By: rossination

rossination — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:19:09 -0800

Thanks - this is a fantastic link.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:23:19 -0800

And for diversity, check out Peggy Lee's cover, "The Boy from Ipanema". /lounge

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:58:36 -0800

I especially like the way the Nervious Little Dogs lead off by quoting the bass riff from Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music White Boy." Those guys were cookin', as they used to say.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:15:49 -0800

God bless you, DownThemAll plugin...

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:30:06 -0800

Get out of my head. I was doing this, with this exact song, at about 1am about 2 weeks ago on the Urge music service. It is startling the number of times it has been covered. It is also startling how good and how bad some of them are. I think it is truly a beautiful song. Simple, elegant, timeless. "But each day when she walks to the sea, She looks straight ahead not at me ... And when she passes, I smile - but she doesnt see " Indeed. Indeed.

By: liam

liam — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:59:42 -0800

Websites devoted to the composer Tom Jobim (in english) and the lyricist Vinicius de Moraes (in portuguese but with nice music samples)^.

By: liam

liam — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:10:18 -0800

Vinicius' own version of the the song, recorded with the guitarist Toquinho, is horrible, though they made plenty of other fine records together.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:27:19 -0800

That Kompressor recording is fantastic. I'm going to be laughing for a week.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:00:30 -0800

Fantastic post! thank you carter.

By: bumpkin

bumpkin — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:09:10 -0800

The girl with emphysema

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:13:44 -0800

When I worked at Rykodisc, one of my fellow staff members spent many a day compiling a provisional box set comprised entirely of versions of The Girl from Ipanema. I remain grateful that he never succeeded in pushing it through the release pipeline...

By: pax digita

pax digita — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:49:45 -0800

I'm pretty hazy on this anymore, but one holiday weekend in the early 1980s -- I'm going to say it was Memorial Day weekend 1982 -- an AM rock station in Dallas aired every last cover of "Louie Louie" they could lay hands on. Straight-on covers, punk versions, ska, easy listening, polka, C & W, heavy metal, a really great klezmer one, a string quartet, on and on and on. Would that podcasts were the thing back then!