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{{Short description|Bossa nova song by Antônio Carlos Jobim}}
"'''Desafinado'''", a Portuguese and spanish word (usually rendered into English as "'''Out of Tune'''", or as "'''Off Key'''"), is the title of a [[bossa nova]] song composed by [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]] with lyrics (in Portuguese) by [[Newton Mendonça]]. It was originally a response to critics who claimed that bossa nova was a new genre for singers who can't sing. The English language lyrics were written by [[Jon Hendricks]] and "Jessie Cavanaugh" (a [[pseudonym]] used by [[The Richmond Organisation]]). Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but not a translation) was written by [[Gene Lees]], and appears on some recordings as well. The version by [[Stan Getz]] and [[Charlie Byrd]] (from the album ''[[Jazz Samba]]'') was a major hit in 1962, reaching number 15 and number 4 on ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]''′s pop and easy-listening charts, respectively; their definitive rendering also reached number 11 in the UK, while [[Ella Fitzgerald]]'s version made number 38.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.everyhit.com/retros/index.php?page=rchart&y1=1962&m1=12&day1=1&y2=1962&m2=12&day2=1&sent=1|title= Hits from early December 1962|publisher= Everyhit.com}}</ref> The song was voted by the Brazilian edition of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' as the 14th greatest Brazilian song.<ref>{{cite web|first=Alexandre|last=Duarte|title=As 100 Maiores Músicas Brasileiras – "Desafinado"|url=http://rollingstone.uol.com.br/edicao/37/as-100-maiores-musicas-brasileiras/|work=[[Rolling Stone]] Brasil|publisher=Spring|accessdate=25 September 2018|language=Portuguese|year=2009}}</ref>
{{for|the Coleman Hawkins album|Desafinado (album){{!}}''Desafinado'' (album)}}
"'''Desafinado'''" (a [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] word, usually rendered into English as "'''Out of Tune'''", or as "'''Off Key'''") is a 1959 [[bossa nova]] song and [[jazz standard]] composed by [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]] with lyrics (in Portuguese) by [[Newton Mendonça]].


==Recordings==
==Background==
"Desafinado" was originally a response to critics who claimed that the bossa nova genre was created for singers who can't sing. English language lyrics were written by [[Jon Hendricks]] and "Jessie Cavanaugh" (a pseudonym used by [[The Richmond Organisation]]). Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but not a translation) was written by [[Gene Lees]], and appears on some recordings as well.
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==Chart performance==
The version by [[Stan Getz]] and [[Charlie Byrd]] (from the album ''[[Jazz Samba]]'') was a major hit in 1962, reaching number 15 and number 4 on ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]''′s pop and easy-listening charts, respectively; their definitive rendering also reached number 11 in the UK. In Canada the song was co-charted with the Grammy nominated version by [[Pat Thomas (singer)|Pat Thomas]] where they reached No. 14.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/pat-thomas/7499|title=5th Annual GRAMMY Awards}}</ref>

===Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Chart performance for "Desafinado" by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
!scope="col"|Chart (1962)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
|-
!scope="row"|Canada ''[[CHUM Chart]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/62-11-19-chart.jpg| title=CHUM Hit Parade - November 19, 1962}}</ref>
! scope="col" | Date
|align="center"|14
! scope="col" | Artist
! scope="col" | Album
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|-
|1959||[[João Gilberto]]||''[[Chega de Saudade (album)|Chega de Saudade]]''||Inducted into the [[Latin Grammy Hall of Fame]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Latin GRAMMY Hall Of Fame|url=http://www.latingrammy.com/en/node/21337|website=[[Latin Grammy Award]]|publisher=[[Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences]]|accessdate=19 August 2014|year=2001}}</ref>
!scope="row"|UK Singles ([[The Official Charts Company]])<ref>{{cite web|title=officialcharts.com|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/50015/stan-getz-charlie-byrd|website=officialcharts.com|accessdate=July 4, 2023}}</ref>
|align="center"|11
|-
|-
!scope="row"|US ''Billboard [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Easy Listening]]<ref>{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=43}}</ref>
|1961||[[Dizzy Gillespie]]||''Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival''||First released as ''A Musical Safari'' in 1974, featuring [[Lalo Schifrin]]
|align="center"|4
|-
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref>{{cite book |title= Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2013 |publisher=Record Research |page=128}}</ref>
|1962||[[Quincy Jones]] and his orchestra||''[[Big Band Bossa Nova]]''||
|align="center"|15
|-
|1962||[[Laurindo Almeida]] and the Bossa Nova Allstars||''Viva Bossa Nova!''||
|-
|1962||[[Herb Alpert]] & The Tijuana Brass ||''[[The Lonely Bull (album)|The Lonely Bull]]''||
|-
|1962||[[Stan Getz]] & [[Charlie Byrd]]||''[[Jazz Samba]]''||Rec. in February
|-
|1962||[[Charlie Byrd]]||''[[Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros]]''||Guitar trio recorded in April
|-
|1962||[[Pat Thomas (singer)|Pat Thomas]]||style=white-space:nowrap|"Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune)"/''Desafinado''||Released on Verve in October, 1962
|-
|1962||[[Ella Fitzgerald]]||style=white-space:nowrap|"Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune)"/"Stardust Bossa Nova"||Rec. in October
|-
|1962||[[Dizzy Gillespie]]||''Dizzy on the French Riviera''||Recorded live in July at the 3rd [[Jazz à Juan|International Jazz Festival D'Antibes/Juan-Les-Pins]] with [[Lalo Schifrin]] as arranger and pianist
|-
|1962||[[Coleman Hawkins]]||''[[Desafinado (album)|Desafinado]]''||Rec. in September
|-
|1962||[[Herbie Mann]]||''Right Now''||Rec. in April
|-
|1962||[[Tito Puente]] & His Orchestra||''Bossa Nova by Puente''||
|-
|1962||[[Lalo Schifrin]]||''Lalo = Brilliance''||Subtitled ''The Piano of Lalo Schifrin''
|-
|1963||[[Julie London]]||''[[The End of the World (Julie London album)|The End of the World]]''||Released in May
|-
|1963||[[João Gilberto]], [[Stan Getz]] and [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]]||''[[Getz/Gilberto]]''||Rec. in March
|-
|1963||[[Antônio Carlos Jobim]]||''[[The Composer of Desafinado Plays]]''||Rec. in May
|-
|1963||[[Laila Kinnunen]]||"Stänk av Dissonans" ||EP
|-
|1963||[[Bill Haley and His Comets]]||''Carnaval de Ritmos Modernos''||Instrumental; recorded in Mexico
|-
|1964||[[Clare Fischer]]||''[[So Danço Samba (Clare Fischer album)|So Danço Samba]]''||
|-
|1964||[[Sérgio Mendes]] & Bossa Rio||''Você Ainda Não Ouviu Nada!''||
|-
|1964||[[Zdenka Vučković]] ([[:hr:Zdenka Vučković|hr]])||''Zdenka Vučković & I njezini novi uspjesi'' (4 track [[extended play|EP]])||Croatian rendering entitled "Izgubljeno"
|-
|1965||[[Doris Day]]||''[[Latin for Lovers]]''||
|-
|1965||[[João Gilberto]] & [[Herbie Mann]]||''Recorded in Rio de Janeiro''||
|-
|1966||[[Abi Zeider]]||''Abi Zeider''||Russian recording on [[Melodya]]
|-
|1967||[[Antônio Carlos Jobim]]||''[[A Certain Mr. Jobim]]''||The song credited as "Off-Key"
|-
|1969||[[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]]||''[[Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings]]''||2010 compilation; the song was first released in 1995 on box set compilation ''Frank Sinatra – [[The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings]]''
|-
|1970||[[Jula de Palma]]||''Jula al Sistina''||
|-
|1971||[[Nara Leão]]||''Dez Anos Depois''||
|-
|1974||[[Tete Montoliu]]||''Temas Brasileños''||
|-
|1975||[[Tania Maria]]||''Via Brasil, Volume 2''||
|-
|1978||João Gilberto||''João Gilberto Interpreta Tom Jobim''||
|-
|1980||[[Antônio Carlos Jobim]]||''[[Terra Brasilis]]''||
|-
|1980||[[Julia Migenes]]||''Latin Lady''||
|-
|1981||[[Ella Fitzgerald]]||''[[Ella Abraça Jobim]]''||Subtitled "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook"; the song credited as "Off Key"
|-
|1981||[[João Gilberto]]||''João Gilberto Prado de Oliveira''||
|-
|1986||[[Stephane Grappelli]] / [[Baden Powell (guitarist)|Baden Powell]]||''La Grande Réunion''||
|-
|1986||[[Nara Leão]]||''Garota de Ipanema''||
|-
|1987||[[Antônio Carlos Jobim]]||''Inedito''||Rec. May-Aug. Private limited edition for Jobim's 60th birthday. Released publicly in Brazil in 1997, and in the U.S. in 2006, as ''The Unknown (Tom Jobim Inedito)''
|-
|1990||[[Eliane Elias]]||''[[Eliane Elias Plays Jobim]]''||
|-
|1995||[[João Gilberto]]||''Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar (Ao Vivo)''||
|-
|1996||[[George Michael]], [[Astrud Gilberto]]||[[Red Hot + Rio]]|| Would later be put on ''[[Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael]]'' in 1998.
|-
|1996||[[Nina Persson]]||(Single in Japan)||Rec. at MTV Classic 90s; "Don't Explain" by [[Bo Johan Renck|Stakka Bo]] on B-side
|-
|1998||[[Toninho Horta]]||''From Ton to Tom''||
|-
|1999||[[Gal Costa]]||''Gal Costa Canta Tom Jobim ao Vivo''||
|-
|1999||[[Kenny G]]||''[[Classics in the Key of G]]''||
|-
|1999||[[Jaques Morelenbaum|Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum]]||''Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum''||
|-
|2000||[[Rosemary Clooney]]||''[[Brazil (Rosemary Clooney album)|Brazil]]''||English lyrics by [[Jon Hendricks]]
|-
|2000||[[João Gilberto]]||''[[João Voz e Violão]]''||
|-
|2000||[[Bill Watrous]] Quartet||''Live at The Blue Note''||
|-
|2001||[[Ana Caram]]||''Blue Bossa''||
|-
|2002||[[Paquito D'Rivera]] and [[New York Voices]]||''Brazilian Dreams''||
|-
|2003||[[Royce Campbell]]||''A Tribute to Charlie Byrd''||
|-
|2003||[[Lisa Hannigan]] and [[Damien Rice]]||''[[Goldfish Memory]]'' O.S.T.||
|-
|2004||[[Adalberto Bravo]]||''[[Smooth Passions]]''||
|-
|2005||[[Seth MacFarlane]] (as [[Brian Griffin]])||''[[Family Guy: Live in Vegas]]''||
|-
|2005||[[Toquinho]]||''Tributo a Bossa Nova''||
|-
|2006||[[Ana Belén]], [[Pastora Soler]], [[Lucrecia (singer)|Lucrecia]], [[Lolita Flores]], [[Carmen Paris]]||''Samba Pa Ti (Un Tributo a Brasil)''||
|-
|2006||[[Stevie Holland]]||''[[More Than Words Can Say]]''||
|-
|2008||[[Eliane Elias]]||''[[Bossa Nova Stories]]''||
|-
|2010||[[Eliane Elias]]||''[[Eliane Elias Plays Live]]''||
|-
|2013||[[Vanessa da Mata]]||''Canta Tom Jobim''||
|-
|2014||[[Gilberto Gil]]||''Gilbertos Samba''||
|-
|2015||Axel Wolf & [[:de:Hugo Siegmeth|Hugo Siegmeth]]||''Flow''|| Instrumental
|-
|2016
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkK5eSlX7M&list=RD-YkK5eSlX7M&start_radio=1 Briana Cowlishaw]
|Stringspace Live Jazz Band
|English Lyrics by Jon Henricks
|-
|2017||[[Katie Noonan]] & [[Karin Schaupp]]||''[[Songs of the Latin Skies]]''||
|}
|}

==Accolades==
The song was voted by the Brazilian edition of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' as the 14th greatest Brazilian song.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Alexandre|last=Duarte|title=As 100 Maiores Músicas Brasileiras – "Desafinado"|url=http://rollingstone.uol.com.br/edicao/37/as-100-maiores-musicas-brasileiras/|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] Brasil|publisher=Spring|access-date=25 September 2018|language=pt|year=2009}}</ref> The 1959 [[João Gilberto]] album ''[[Chega de Saudade (album)|Chega de Saudade]]'' contained the song and was inducted into the [[Latin Grammy Hall of Fame]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Latin GRAMMY Hall Of Fame|url=http://www.latingrammy.com/en/node/21337|website=[[Latin Grammy Award]]|publisher=[[Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences]]|access-date=19 August 2014|year=2001|archive-date=5 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205122045/http://www.latingrammy.com/en/node/21337|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Other recordings==

*Also in 1962, [[Ella Fitzgerald]]'s version made number 38.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.everyhit.com/retros/index.php?page=rchart&y1=1962&m1=12&day1=1&y2=1962&m2=12&day2=1&sent=1|title= Hits from early December 1962|publisher= Everyhit.com}}</ref>
*An instrumental version was included on ''[[The Lonely Bull (album)|The Lonely Bull]]'' by [[Herb Alpert]] and the Tijuana Brass (1962).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lonely-bull-mw0000197508|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=July 4, 2023}}</ref>
*[[Astrud Gilberto]] and [[George Michael]] recorded a version for the 1996 compilation album ''[[Red Hot + Rio]]''.
*[[Ana Caram]] covered the song on her 2001 album ''Bossa Nova''.
*[[Kali Uchis]] recorded an English cover of the song that was included on [[Minions: The Rise of Gru (soundtrack)|the soundtrack of ''Minions: The Rise of Gru'']].


==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of bossa nova standards]]
*[[List of bossa nova standards]]

==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}

==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/desafinado.htm Jazzstandards.com]
* [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/desafinado.htm Jazzstandards.com]
* [http://kokomo.ca/pop_standards/slightly_out_of_tune_lyrics.htm Song lyrics]
* [http://kokomo.ca/pop_standards/slightly_out_of_tune_lyrics.htm Song lyrics]
* {{MetroLyrics song|frank-sinatra|desafinado}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider -->


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Latest revision as of 11:13, 14 September 2024

For the Coleman Hawkins album, see Desafinado (album).

"Desafinado" (a Portuguese word, usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key") is a 1959 bossa nova song and jazz standard composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça.

Background

[edit]

"Desafinado" was originally a response to critics who claimed that the bossa nova genre was created for singers who can't sing. English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and "Jessie Cavanaugh" (a pseudonym used by The Richmond Organisation). Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but not a translation) was written by Gene Lees, and appears on some recordings as well.

Chart performance

[edit]

The version by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (from the album Jazz Samba) was a major hit in 1962, reaching number 15 and number 4 on Billboard′s pop and easy-listening charts, respectively; their definitive rendering also reached number 11 in the UK. In Canada the song was co-charted with the Grammy nominated version by Pat Thomas where they reached No. 14.[1]

Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd

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Chart performance for "Desafinado" by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
Chart (1962) Peak
position
Canada CHUM Chart[2] 14
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[3] 11
US Billboard Easy Listening[4] 4
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 15

Accolades

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The song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 14th greatest Brazilian song.[6] The 1959 João Gilberto album Chega de Saudade contained the song and was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.[7]

Other recordings

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ "5th Annual GRAMMY Awards".
  2. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - November 19, 1962".
  3. ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 43.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 128.
  6. ^ Duarte, Alexandre (2009). "As 100 Maiores Músicas Brasileiras – "Desafinado"". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Portuguese). Spring. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Latin GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". Latin Grammy Award. Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. 2001. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  8. ^ "Hits from early December 1962". Everyhit.com.
  9. ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
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