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"Corcovado" (known in English as "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars") is a bossa nova song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. The English lyrics were written by Gene Lees. The US chart version was by Andy Wiliams.

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

Notable Recordings

• Cannonball Adderley and Sergio 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)
• Sergio 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)
• Mary Wilson - The Supremes Live! In Japan (1973)
• Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim - Elis & Tom (1974)
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Abraça Jobim (1981)
• Everything but the Girl - Red Hot + Rio (1996)
• Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson - The Lyric (2005)
• Art Garfunkel - Some Enchanted Evening (2007)
• Queen Latifah - Trav'lin' Light (2007)
• Woven Hand - Ten Stones (2008)
• Diana Krall - Quiet Nights (2009)

See also

• List of bossa nova standards