"The Girl from Ipanema" by Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim

"The Girl from Ipanema" recalls so much loungey, easy-listening kitsch, but that's not the fault of Bossa Nova's history-making song and certainly not Astrud Gilberto, who wasn't even supposed to sing it.

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