DESAFINADO

Created on 23/12/2005
Latest update on 21/09/2023

Artist: João Gilberto
Author: Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonça
Label: EMI Odeon Brasil
Year: 1958

Covers:

1962:

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd [first Jobim hit US, starting a local bossa nova craze]

1962:

Laurindo Almeida

1962:

Pat Thomas [as Slightly Out Of Tune]

1962:

Sacha Distel [as Faits pour s'aimer]

1962:

Richard Anthony [idem]

1962:

Herb Alpert

1962:

Quincy Jones

1962:

Chubby Checker

1962:

Herbie Mann

1962:

Julie London

1962:

Freda Payne

1963:

Stan Getz & João Gilberto

1963:

Antonio Carlos Jobim [coauthor]

1963:

Jackie Gleason

1963:

Eydie Gorme

1963:

Bill Justis

1963:

Coleman Hawkins

1963:

Perry Como

1965:

Drifters

1967:

Boots Randolph

1969:

Frank Sinatra [as Off Key]

1984:

Art Pepper

1996:

Astrud Gilberto & George Michael [George also with Bebel Gilberto in '98]

2001:

Annie Haslam

2008:

Eliane Elias

2009:

Fred Hersch

2019:

Chick Corea [vocal: Maria Bianca]

In these song lyrics "bossa nova" was first mentioned.

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