"Chega de Saudade" is a bossa nova song with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes, published in 1958. It is often considered the first bossa nova song to have been recorded. Elizeth Cardoso recorded it in 1957 for her 1958 album Canção do Amor Demais, which attracted little attention. João Gilberto's 1958 version, released as a single by EMI-Odeon, became a hit and helped establish the bossa nova style. It also appears on his first album, Chega de Saudade. Italian sources regard it as the song that began and officially defined bossa nova.
The song runs 68 bars: 32 in a minor key followed by 36 in the parallel major. Cardoso's recording begins in D minor and moves to D major. Gilberto's version entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, and his album was inducted into the first Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. Later versions include recordings by Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae, Quincy Jones (1962), Yo-Yo Ma and Gary Burton, and an English version, "No More Blues", with lyrics by Jon Hendricks.
