Sheet music:The Girl From Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema)

Since the middle of the 19th century, Americans purchased pianos in increasing numbers. Families and friends gathered around the piano for evenings of musical fun. Piano players needed sheet music to learn the latest songs and publishers quickly printed everyone's favorite pieces, first in black and white and later with detailed chromolithographed color covers. The advent of radio and even television simply increased public awareness of hit songs, and the production of sheet music still grew. Eventually, use of sheet music lessened along with the popularity of home pianos in the middle and later 20th century. Radio, phonographs, and personal listening devices began to replace the piano in the parlor. "The Girl From Ipanema" is a popular bossa nova song that won a Grammy in 1965 for Record of the Year. The song was written for the musical comedy Dirigivel (Blimp) and was inspired by a 15-year-old-girl named Helo??sa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto. She lived in the neighborhood of Ipanema, in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The song's composers watched her walk past a popular bar every day, and wrote the song based on her appearence and actions.