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Interscope Records released the film's soundtrack Rio (Music from the Motion Picture) on April 5, 2011 in digital formats, and a physical release on April 12. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album produced by the film's composer John Powell , and Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes , featured collaborations from Brazilian and American artists, along with songs ...
"Rio" is a song written and sung by American musician Michael Nesmith. [1] Included on his 1977 album From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing , it was released as a single . [ 2 ] Although the single was not a hit in the US, "Rio" became Nesmith's most successful solo single in other countries.
The song originated from an idea by John Taylor about Rio de Janeiro – "the truly foreign, the exotic, a cornucopia of earthly delights, a party that would never stop"; Simon Le Bon wrote the lyrics to the song, and chose not to write about the city but about a girl named Rio. [10]
Lyrics usually include the line (or a slight variation): "The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies; she brings us glad tidings, and she tells us no lies." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer , "The Cuckoo" is an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires — to gamble, to win, to ...
Rio 2 (Music from the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name, the sequel to the 2011 film Rio, directed by Carlos Saldanha.Featuring contributions from Brazilian and American artists, the album is produced by the film's composer John Powell and Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes.
Rio is the second studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 10 May 1982 through EMI.Produced by Colin Thurston, the band wrote and demoed most of the material before recording the album at AIR Studios in London from January to March 1982.
Pretty Bird was released on September 7, 2018 on Captain Potato Records in conjunction with the Thirty Tigers label. The album was offered as a compact disc or as a digital release. [9] [11] Four singles preceded the album's release. Both "I Can't Stand Up Alone" and "Ode to Billie Joe" were issued as singles on July 13, 2018.
"Flying Down to Rio", theme song from the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film of the same name "Flying Down to Rio" by Drugstore "Flying Down to Rio" by Sutherland Brothers and Quiver "From Rio with Love" by Jakatta (pseudonym of Dave Lee (DJ)) "Funk Me Down to Rio" by RAH Band "Gavea (dedicated to Madame Henrique Oswald)" by Darius Milhaud