Corcovado

"Corcovado", also sung in English as "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", is a 1960 bossa nova by Antônio Carlos Jobim, named after the mountain above Rio de Janeiro. This page has the Corcovado chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose for a singer.

Who wrote "Corcovado"

Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote the music and the Portuguese lyrics. Gene Lees wrote the English words, "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars". João Gilberto recorded it in 1960 on his album O Amor, o Sorriso e a Flor, and it became one of the songs that took bossa nova abroad, above all through the Getz/Gilberto album of 1964.

Recordings that made it a standard

• João Gilberto, O Amor, o Sorriso e a Flor (1960) — the first recording, voice and guitar with a small orchestra.
• Stan Getz and João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (1964) — with Astrud Gilberto singing in English and Jobim on piano.
• Antônio Carlos Jobim, The Composer of Desafinado, Plays (1963) — the composer's instrumental version, arranged by Claus Ogerman.
• Frank Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967) — a duet in English.