VinÃcius, in turn, had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio, as he had done with “Chega de Saudade†six years earlier, and it took him just as much work. To begin with, it wasn’t originally called “Garota da Ipanema,†but “Menina que passa†(The Girl Who Passes By), and the entire first verse was different.
As for the famous girl, Jobim and VinÃcius did in fact see her pass by as they sat in the Veloso bar, during the winter of 1962— not just once, but several times, and not always on her way to the beach but also on her way to school, to the dressmaker, and even to the dentist. Mostly because HeloÃsa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, better known as Helô, who was eighteen years of age, five feet, eight inches tall, with green eyes and long, flowing black hair, lived in Rua Montenegro and was already the object of much admiration among patrons of the Veloso, where she would frequently stop to buy cigarettes for her mother—and leave to a cacophony of wolf-whistles.
—Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World, by Ruy Castro, Pp. 239-240.http://songbook1.wordpress.com/Linkback:
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