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"Rio Grande" presents a series of episodic music segments meant to illustrate a trip across an American frontier. [6] According to Paley, "Brian was really into writing this as a survival thing, the idea of a little man against the big men and making it on your own … the misunderstandings that must have happened between travelers on the same trail and how scary that must have been."
Rio Grande" is a nineteenth-century sea shanty, traditionally popular amongst American and British crews. Some people believe the title refers to the Rio Grande river, which forms much of the border between Mexico and the United States; but the shanty talks about the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul and its chief port of the same name. [ 1 ]
The Tom Cochrane song "Life Is a Highway" (covered by Rascal Flatts and others) references the Khyber Pass. The album Rio Grande Blood by Ministry (2006) has a song called "Khyber Pass" which references it as a possible hiding place for then missing and at large Osama bin Laden. This song was also featured at the end of the film The Hurt Locker.
The title song's lyrics are based on the writings of 19th-century abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco, one of whose texts he set to music—a hymn to the African contribution, [13] [14] combining Veloso's original compositions with a focus on African percussion elements from the Brazilian northeast, including timbales, atabaques, and congas, reflecting ...
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"I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)" is a comic song written by Johnny Mercer for the Paramount Pictures release Rhythm on the Range and sung by its star, Bing Crosby. The Crosby commercial recording was made on July 17, 1936, with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra for Decca Records . [ 1 ]
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The song "The Mighty Rio Grande" from the band's self-titled release was featured in the films Moneyball (2011), Earth to Echo (2014), and Room (2015), and in the series Lethal Weapon. Field Studies (2008–2009)