Instant Video #11 — The Girl from Ipanema, cover by Tammy Lin Foreman (3 min. 2008) Directed, shot, and edited by Lester Alfonso for the collaborative weekly video project that ran from 2008 to 2010.
Check out also: The Instant Video Showcase and Before Instant Videos featuring videos prior to the Instant Video project and broadcast on CBC’s ZeD TV. Audio tracks are available for purchase on Tammy Lin Foreman’s Bandcamp page.
Oh, but I watch her so sadly…
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tammy’s cover of “The Girl from Ipanema” first appeared on her self-released cassette The Girl Inside Your Man from 1996.
It’s not that easy to play cassettes anymore.
An old friend has been watching the Instant Videos from afar and requested the track. Other requests have come in.
It still comes together each week. Without too much planning, the elements somehow converge.
This project keeps me alive, keeps me going.
If we go through all of Tammy’s old songs on all those cassettes we’ll have a hundred instant videos in no time.
The Girl from Ipanema Adapted by Tammy Lin Foreman from the original English lyrics by Norman Gimbel Tall and tan and young and lovely the girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes each one she passes goes ahhh When she walks she's like a samba that swings so cool and sways so gently that when she passes each one she passes goes ahhh Oh, but I watch her so sadly How can I tell her I love her Yes, I would give my heart gladly but each day when she walks to the sea she looks straight ahead not at me Tall and tan and young and lovely the girl from Ipanema goes walking and when she passes I smile but she doesn't see she just doesn't see
Hey Guys
TD, December 17, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Just a thought…switch roles for a one-off…let TLF direct LA singing…HMMMM??
Love the LOVE
Damn, that’s good stuff!!!
G. January 21, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Very, very nice, as always Tammy. 🙂
I swear the combined talent you two have should be illegal…
(but I’m glad it’s not.)
I am off to hear/see more now…