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"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
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 ...
"Carnival in Rio (Punk Was)" is a song by Die Toten Hosen and Ronnie Biggs. [1] It's the lead single and the fifteenth track from the cover album Learning English, Lesson One, being also the only non-cover on the album. The song starts with a spoken intro of a child asking his dad what was punk rock. Ronnie then starts "telling" (singing) him ...
In the same year, Aurora Miranda recorded a sung version of the song that became extremely popular. [2] [3] The name of Rio, however, does not appear in the song. Cidade Maravilhosa as a nickname for the city of Rio de Janeiro was coined by the writer Coelho Neto from the north-eastern Brazilian state of Maranhão as a tribute to the city's ...
The song is considered the civic anthem of Rio, and is always the favorite song during Rio's Carnival in February. Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, are considered the center of the urban music movement in Brazil. [271] "Rio was popularized by the hit song "The Girl from Ipanema", composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes and ...
As of October 2021, "Rio" is the third most streamed Duran Duran song in the UK. [ 7 ] "Rio" was released as the third single from the album in Australia, and debuted on the Kent Music Report top 100 singles chart dated 6 September 1982. [ 8 ]
During the week of 2 October, the US version of the Carnival EP actually entered the album charts at #98. [1] It was gone by the following week. The success of the Carnival EP gave the band enough clout to bring Kershenbaum back in to remix the entire A-side of the Rio album, which was duly released in the US in November 1982.
The typical Rio Carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend the carnival together, with some kind of regional ...