Just Because — Girl from Ipanema
Bookworm on Nov 01 2009 at 9:19 pm | Filed under: Just Because Music
When I was a little girl, thanks to a wealthy grandmother, we’d spend every summer in the mountains, a situation that lasted from 1964 to 1974. This song provided a perpetual backdrop to those lovely days:
This song too, from the Kingston Trio:
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The Stan Getz arrangement is wonderful, but the original Portugese lyrics are far more subtle and sophisticated. <a href=”
http://neoneocon.com/2009/03/27/the-girl-from-ipanema-returns/
“>Neo-neocon has a post on this</a> and includes a link to a performance by the incomparable Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto. You might want to check it out, Book: Simply sublime.
I can’t remember whether it was you or Neo that wrote last about the girl from Ipanema. But after reading pst’s comment, I suppose the answer would be “both”.
Btw Book, what happened to the html only version of the comment section? This visual only format has many bugs, like the fact that it won’t parse html at all as seen above.
I don’t know what happened to the html version, Y. These things appear and disappear courtesy of WordPress, and I have absolutely nothing to do with (and no understand of) these changes.
Tom Jobim was the best songwriter ever.
And Astrud Gilberto is hot.
>>These things appear and disappear courtesy of WordPress, and I have absolutely nothing to do with (and no understand of) these changes.>>
Heh. Guess that answers my question of last week – when it changed.
These things appear and disappear courtesy of WordPress, and I have absolutely nothing to do with (and no understand of) these changes.
So wordpress should be analogous to the government, then.