Corcovado (song)

"Corcovado" (known in English as "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars") is a bossa nova song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote both the music and the original Portuguese lyric. The English lyric was written by Gene Lees. The US chart version was sung by Andy Williams.

The original title refers to the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro.

Notable recordings

• Caterina Valente - Valente on TV (1964)
• Cannonball Adderley and Sérgio Mendes - Cannonball's Bossa Nova (1962)
• Miles Davis - Quiet Nights (1962)
• Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (1963)
• Charlie Byrd - Brazilian Byrd (1964)
• Sérgio Mendes - Sergio Mendes & Bossa Rio (1964)
• Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests (1964)
• Cliff Richard - Kinda Latin (1966)
• Earl Grant - Bali Ha'i (1966)
• Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
• Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (1967)
• Mary Wilson - The Supremes Live! In Japan (1973)
• Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim - Elis & Tom (1974)
• Rita Reys and Metropole Orchestra - Rita Reys Sings Antonio Carlos Jobim (1981)
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Abraça Jobim (1981)
• Astrud Gilberto - Jazz Masters 9 (1993)
• Everything but the Girl - Red Hot + Rio (1996)
• Chris Connor - I Walk With Music (2002)
• Jacintha - The Girl From Bossa Nova (2004)
• Olivia Ong - A Girl Meets Bossa Nova (2005)
• Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson - The Lyric (2005)
• Karita Mattila - Fever (2007)
• Art Garfunkel - Some Enchanted Evening (2007)
• Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light (2007)
• Woven Hand - Ten Stones (2008)
• Diana Panton - "...If The Moon Turns Green" (2008)
• Señor Coconut And His Orchestra - Around The World With Señor Coconut And His Orchestra (2008)
• Diana Krall - Quiet Nights (2009)

See also

• List of bossa nova standards