Astrud's Contribution - The Bossa Nova territory. If ever any singer lacked the goods to make it in the music field, that person was undoubtedly Astrud Gilberto. In hindsight, most Brazilians still owe a profound debt of gratitude to her ingenuous language skills: she built up a solid career-footing on the flimsy foundations of one fortuitous recording session - a session that eventually gave rise to an entire generation of pop idols. As luck would have it, Astrud was asked by Verve Records to perform the English verses of the songs "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" (Corcovado) in her patently awful Brazilian accent. With her then husband João Gilberto on acoustic guitar, starting off in Portuguese in his typical rambling style, the legendary Stan Getz, as winsome as ever on tenor saxophone, and composer Tom Jobim in the background, strumming away on his rhythm guitar or gently stroking his piano, the tunes instantly caught the imagination of a hit-starved world audience - and catapulted every one if its Brazilian participants, including drummer Milton Banana, to the front ranks of jazz-pop artists, way back in 1963. It would do well for us fans of Música Popular Brasileira to remember, then, that if it had not been for Astrud Gilberto's allegedly "bad" American English, many of the songs and composers we now honor and take for granted would never have been recognized at all, let alone recorded, by such greats as Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald, just to name a random few. An adventurous Foreign Sound - in view of the foregoing, it's really not so "foreign-sounding" after all.
This is a video 'Call Me' a tribute for films with phonecalls: