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SIDE ONE (Track 06) - written by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Norman Gimbel

"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

How insensitive
I must have seemed
When he told me that he loved me.
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When he told me so sincerely.

Why, he must have asked,
"Did I just turn and stare in icy silence?"
What was I to say?
What can you say
When a love affair is over?

Now he's gone away
And I'm alone
With a memory of his last look.
Vague and drawn and sad,
I see it still
All his heartbreak in that last look.
Why, he must have asked,
"Could I just turn and stare in icy silence?"
What was I to do?
What can one do
When a love affair is over?
Over...