The Girl From Ipanema
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absenceofmind - the evil mastermind behind the sing-for-your-flist meme - was one of the approximately three people on the planet never to have encountered "The Girl From Ipanema" before my rendition of it (which I have by the way taken down so I can unlock the MoB character notes in the same entry; I assure those of you who didn't download that you're not missing much =_=). As this is a tragedy, and in order that it may not be repeated, I am posting all the versions of the song I currently have on this computer.
Astrud and João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema: I think this is the original 1964 hit version, with Stan Getz. Oh, that saxophone... I can tell you the first time I heard "The Girl From Ipanema". I was in the seventh grade, and it was the dress rehearsal for our end-of-year school concert, which for some reason that year was being held in a real concert hall with real red velvet curtains and tickets (it never was before or since). My geography teacher, a tall wiry blond named Patrice who had a predilection for vests and square frameless glasses, moonlighted as a saxophone player in a jazz band. He played on "The Girl From Ipanema" with the ninth-grade girls' chorus. The singing must have been negligeable, but it was the first time I'd heard a live sax or bossa nova. I had no idea what bossa nova was, or that "The Girl From Ipanema" was an unescapable standard. I just thought it was the most beautiful song ever.
Maria Creuza - Garota De Ipanema: the Portuguese-lyric version that was on the FINO Bossa Nova album.
Ono Lisa and João Donato - Garota De Ipanema: the obligatory Ono Lisa version (with João Donato no less!). I think I've actually managed thus far to avoid splashing my obsession with Ono Lisa and her wussy Nipponese-Brasileiro easy-listening acoustic-guitar kissaten-radio music all over the flist, but it won't last. She's on all the mixes coming around the bend, including the Eroica FST (if I ever finish it) and the Fuji character ST. This is the kind of music I helplessly associate with Fuji: Sun Yanzi, Ono Lisa, Kahimi Karie, and lots and lots of bossa nova. There's no objective Fuji-music in my head. There's only 1) music for Chinese-fandom TezuFuji, and 2) music for my Fuji-kyoudai fic. Why did I sign up with the sure foreknowledge of embarrassing myself? O_O
Pizzicato Five - The Girl From Ipanema: the P5 version. Dansudansu rating upped. :D
Jumbo - Boy From Ipanema: obligatory Japanese gender-bending cover. What, you mean there isn't a Japanese genderbent version of, like, everything? *blocks out memory of that Romance-of-Three-Kingdoms-charas-reincarnated-as-girls manga Wen mentioned*
More Ono Lisa:
Ono Lisa - Cosa hai messo nel caffè (What Did You Put In My Coffee?)
If I could've pronounced the lyrics I would've sung this song instead. It's a love song. It's a song about coffee. It's a love song about coffee from Italy, where they know their coffee and their love songs. They should just, like, play it on loop in my local Al Van Houtte, and I would stay sitting there forever in a happy haze of twee.
Ono Lisa - E la chiamano estate (And They Call It Summer)
More famous Italian songs of the 50's-60's. (It's her Italian album.) I'm nearly certain it's from a movie but don't know which one, as Google won't tell me - the title has become idiomatic in Italian. ^^;
And one more for the road: Ono Lisa - Reginella
absenceofmind - the evil mastermind behind the sing-for-your-flist meme - was one of the approximately three people on the planet never to have encountered "The Girl From Ipanema" before my rendition of it (which I have by the way taken down so I can unlock the MoB character notes in the same entry; I assure those of you who didn't download that you're not missing much =_=). As this is a tragedy, and in order that it may not be repeated, I am posting all the versions of the song I currently have on this computer.Astrud and João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema: I think this is the original 1964 hit version, with Stan Getz. Oh, that saxophone... I can tell you the first time I heard "The Girl From Ipanema". I was in the seventh grade, and it was the dress rehearsal for our end-of-year school concert, which for some reason that year was being held in a real concert hall with real red velvet curtains and tickets (it never was before or since). My geography teacher, a tall wiry blond named Patrice who had a predilection for vests and square frameless glasses, moonlighted as a saxophone player in a jazz band. He played on "The Girl From Ipanema" with the ninth-grade girls' chorus. The singing must have been negligeable, but it was the first time I'd heard a live sax or bossa nova. I had no idea what bossa nova was, or that "The Girl From Ipanema" was an unescapable standard. I just thought it was the most beautiful song ever.
Maria Creuza - Garota De Ipanema: the Portuguese-lyric version that was on the FINO Bossa Nova album.
Ono Lisa and João Donato - Garota De Ipanema: the obligatory Ono Lisa version (with João Donato no less!). I think I've actually managed thus far to avoid splashing my obsession with Ono Lisa and her wussy Nipponese-Brasileiro easy-listening acoustic-guitar kissaten-radio music all over the flist, but it won't last. She's on all the mixes coming around the bend, including the Eroica FST (if I ever finish it) and the Fuji character ST. This is the kind of music I helplessly associate with Fuji: Sun Yanzi, Ono Lisa, Kahimi Karie, and lots and lots of bossa nova. There's no objective Fuji-music in my head. There's only 1) music for Chinese-fandom TezuFuji, and 2) music for my Fuji-kyoudai fic. Why did I sign up with the sure foreknowledge of embarrassing myself? O_O
Pizzicato Five - The Girl From Ipanema: the P5 version. Dansudansu rating upped. :D
Jumbo - Boy From Ipanema: obligatory Japanese gender-bending cover. What, you mean there isn't a Japanese genderbent version of, like, everything? *blocks out memory of that Romance-of-Three-Kingdoms-charas-reincarnated-as-girls manga Wen mentioned*
More Ono Lisa:
Ono Lisa - Cosa hai messo nel caffè (What Did You Put In My Coffee?)
If I could've pronounced the lyrics I would've sung this song instead. It's a love song. It's a song about coffee. It's a love song about coffee from Italy, where they know their coffee and their love songs. They should just, like, play it on loop in my local Al Van Houtte, and I would stay sitting there forever in a happy haze of twee.
Ono Lisa - E la chiamano estate (And They Call It Summer)
More famous Italian songs of the 50's-60's. (It's her Italian album.) I'm nearly certain it's from a movie but don't know which one, as Google won't tell me - the title has become idiomatic in Italian. ^^;
And one more for the road: Ono Lisa - Reginella
