Here’s Jimmy’s three-minute vacation to Rio.
Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer who popularized “The Girl from Ipanema,” died this week. She’s performing the song here in 1965.
Which reminded me of another Brazilian standard, “Mas que Nada,” performed by Nossa, a French “girl group,” but the video was made in Rio de Janeiro.
I keep posting the Nossa video and then taking it down because—well, you’ll see. I would argue that the boy in the video is gorgeous, too.
But this is such a wonderful version of a wonderful song. It makes me happy.
And Astrud Gilberto’s singing is still cool, after all these years.
