Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland | |
Cover: | Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland.jpg |
Border: | yes |
Type: | single |
Artist: | the B-52's |
Album: | Bouncing Off the Satellites |
Released: | 1986 |
Studio: | Sigma Sound (New York City) |
Genre: | |
Length: | 4:22 |
Label: | Warner Bros. |
Producer: | |
Prev Title: | Summer of Love |
Prev Year: | 1986 |
Next Title: | Wig |
Next Year: | 1987 |
"Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" is the second single from the fourth studio album Bouncing Off the Satellites by American new wave band the B-52's. The single peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, their fourth Top 10 entry on that chart.[2] It was one of the last songs that guitarist and founding member Ricky Wilson recorded with the band before his death.[3] The song title refers to Antônio Carlos Jobim's 1963 hit song "The Girl from Ipanema".
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