<P> The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro . The 1964 single featuring Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz became an international hit . This had been shortened from the version on the album Getz / Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released March 1964) which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by João Gilberto . In the US, the single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and went to number one for two weeks on the Easy Listening chart . Overseas it peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charted highly throughout the world . </P> <P> Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché . It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday" by The Beatles . The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 . In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry . In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song . </P> <P> Ipanema is a fashionable seaside neighborhood located in the southern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro . </P> <P> The song was composed for a musical comedy titled Dirigível (Blimp), then a work - in - progress of Vinícius de Moraes . The original title was "Menina que Passa" ("The Girl Who Passes By"); the first verse was different . Jobim composed the melody on his piano in his new house in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema . In turn, Moraes had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade" ("No More Blues") six years earlier . </P>

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