While trying to learn something about an astragal, I came upon the most wonderful glossary of words pertaining to doors. Who knew?

http://www.marvin.com/learn/glossary.cfm

Yowza! Love the techie-nerd names. This one obviously came from H2G2:

Clad Brick Mould Casing (BMC)

A clad extrusion designed to simulate brick mould casing for Marvin clad products.

Dear Father Steve: Your standing on a couple of:
Anatomical Dictionary
... astragalocalcaneum n. bone formed by the fusion of the of the anklebones astragalus
(a) and calcaneum

Oh, no! Father Steve, I thought you were going to be posting about a female astronaut!

and it made me think of the Girl from Ipanema...

Dear etaoin: Astrudgal ? I don't get it. and Ipanema always
made me think of a brand of toothpaste.

http://www.astrudgilberto.com/

I grew up singing these great songs...

Me, too. The combination of Astrud Gilberto's voice and Stan Getz' sax makes me all quivery.

Ipanema always made me think of a brand of toothpaste.

Yeah, Bill, it was Ipana toothpaste. Back in the good ol' days when I played a lot of trad jazz for moolah, we used to introduce the song as "The Girl from Ipana". It was appropriate, because there was a girl in an Ipana commercial on TV ...

Pfranz, Pfranz, Pfranz. Bossa nova is not "trad jazz."

Says who? Apart from you, of course, ASp!

weeelll...
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040403021532381496&sql=C2619
and
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll

I would have agreed with you, Anna, but now I'm not so sure...

Apart from ASp and anyone knows bossa nova and jazz.

And it sounds so much better in portugues. Makes the English version sound like a march.

Not gunna argue over daffynitions. I got paid to play trad jazz. GfI was on the list. I played. I got paid. Ergo it's trad jazz. To me, anyway.

Back to the OP.

She allus sounded like some animé heroine to me.

She sounded like some animé heroine to me.

I agree.

I just found out that Bebel Gilberto is NOT Astrud Gilberto's daughter but rather the daughter of Joao Gilberto and his second wife (Astrud was his first). Bebel sings well, too.