SIDE TWO (Track 05) - Written by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Ray Gilbert
"The Astrud Gilberto Album" is the first album recorded by Astrud Gilberto, hot off the success from guesting on the landmark jazz album "Getz/Gilberto" (1964), a collaborative project between tenor saxophonist and her husband, the famous Brazilian guitarist/bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto.
Although, Gilberto had never performed professionally, she was requested by her husband to sing in the English verses written for the album's tracks. One of these cuts was "The Girl from Ipanema", a song that would forever be immortalized by her voice, and a rendition that would be the definitive recording of that song. The single sold over one million copies and helped established her as a bossa nova darling and a pop culture superstar. The rest, we can say, is history.
A recording contract was set, and a solo album was immediately made to strike while the iron is summer hot. This was the result.
Released in 1965 by Verve Records.
LYRICS
There's no use to pretend
We have come to the end
All that's left is to say goodbye
If I hold you with lies
It will show in my eyes
All that's left is to say goodbye
So when you go I won't stop you
But I will remember
How deep, how beautiful it was
And all this beauty of love that was our love
And now leaves me sad
I don't want to deny, don't want to betray
Don't want to forget
Because my love in my life,
you have been like a day full of sun.
So when you go I won't stop you
But I will remember
How deep, how beautiful it was
And all this beauty of love that was our love
And now leaves me sad
I don't want to deny, don't want to betray
Don't want to forget
Because my love in my life,
you have been like a day full of sun.
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