Girl From Ipanema

 "Garota de Ipanema" is one of the best known Brazilian songs. Translated as "Girl from Ipanema," this beautiful bossa nova standard became overplayed and developed into elevator music in the US. However, this product of the largely middle-class, bourgeois bossa nova phase in MPB is one of the best of the genre. Written in honor of a beautiful woman who walked pass the bar featured in the above picture, it has traveled around the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoOsRHMj88E&feature=BFa&list=PLD76BBA3AE3E00EC4
Zimbo Trio's jazzified version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LzkLZxE9Kw&feature=BFa&list=PLD76BBA3AE3E00EC4
Os Ipanemas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ealy0P7bicQ
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto

The Supremes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPFlR3yrtM

Os Cariocas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tji1lYNwP3k&feature=related

Amy Winehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkv9BFBiyY