Yma Sumac - Fuego Del Ande (1959)
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La Cotorra Criolla (cover with parrot)
Pedro Alberto Martínez Conde (1934) is a humorist, poet, writer and comic actor from venezuela, better known with the pseudonym of Perucho Conde.
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. In Venezuela the song became famous the year after and it took the name of “La Cotorra”.
A year later, Perucho Conde made a Spanish version of the song entitled "La Cotorra Criolla", enclosed in his LP album homonymous.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perucho_Conde
Graham Parker: The real macaw
The Real Macaw is a 1983 album by Graham Parker and was released on the Arista Records label.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Macaw
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Macaw
"I'll See You in C-U-B-A" Sheet Music Cover
Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest American songwriters in history.
"I'll See You in C-U-B-A" is a song composed in 1920 by Irving Berlin . The song is one that responds directly to Prohibition. Prohibition, of course, was the result of the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (later repealed by the 21st Amendment). Prohibition had a wide-ranging effect on life in the United States - something that was not lost on Tin Pan Alley's songwriters, whose ability to respond to current events is well-known. I'll See You in C-U-B-A is one of a few Prohibition-inspired songs that can be seen in the exhibition.
ja-da by Bob Carleton Sheet Music Cover
Robert Louis Carleton (aka Bob Carleton) (b. Nov. 8 1894 or 1896 - d. 1956) was an American pianist and composer of popular music. He composed over 500 songs, including the World War I hit, "Ja-Da" in 1918.
1918 Sheet music cover
This "War Edition" sheet is a vintage small format War Size Folio, military sheet music: "Ja-Da", "Small War Sized Folio", by Bob Carleton, U.S.N.R.F., Leo Feist, Publ, New York, 1918.
link: Ja-Da music sheet
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight ballad (or May Colvin ballad)
The song appears in many variants but the main theme is that the knight of the title woos the lady with music, or abducts her, and carries her off to a deep wood or seaside, where he tells her that he has killed seven (or more) other women and plans to do the same to her. In many European versions it is made explicit that he proposes to "dishonour" her as well. She, however, distracts him by one of a number of means and then contrives to kill him in her stead.
Some variants include a curious final section in which the lady returns home and engages in conversation with a parrot in a cage. She usually makes a bargain with the bird that she will give it a golden cage if it refrains from telling her father of the escapade with the knight.
May Colven
1.False Sir John a wooing came
To a maid of beauty fair;
May Colven was this lady's name,
Her father's only heir.
2. He wood her butt, he wood her ben,
He wood her in the ha,
Until he got this lady's consent
To mount and ride awa.
3. He went down to her father's bower,
Where all the steeds did stand,
And he's taken one of the best steeds
That was in her father's land.
4. He's got on and she's got on,
As fast as they could flee,
Until they came to a lonesome part,
A rock by the side of the sea.
5. "Loup off the steed," says false Sir John,
"Your bridal bed you see;
For I have drowned seven young ladies,
The eighth one you shall be.
6. "Cast off, cast off, my May Colven,
All and your silken gown,
For it's oer good and oer costly
To rot in the salt sea foam.
7. "Cast off, cast off, my May Colven.
All and your embroiderd shoen,
For oer good and oer costly
To rot in the salt sea foam."
8. "O turn you about, O false Sir John,
To rot in the salt sea foam."
8. "O turn you about, O false Sir John,
And look to the leaf of the tree,
For it never became a gentleman
A naked woman to see."
9. He turned himself straight round about,
9. He turned himself straight round about,
To look to the leaf of the tree,
So swift as May Colven was
To throw him in the sea.
10. "O help, O help, my May Colven,
O help, or else I'll drown;
I'll take you home to your father's bower,
And set you down safe and sound."
11. "No help, no help, O false Sir John,
11. "No help, no help, O false Sir John,
No help, nor pity thee;
Tho' seven kings' daughters you have drownd,
But the eighth shall not be me."
12. So she went on her father's steed,
12. So she went on her father's steed,
As swift as she could flee,
And she came home to her father's bower
Before it was break of day.
13. Up then and spoke the pretty parrot:
"May Colven, where have you been?
What has become of false Sir John,
That woo'd you so late the streen?
14. "He woo'd you butt, he woo'd you ben,
14. "He woo'd you butt, he woo'd you ben,
He woo'd you in the ha,
Until he got your own consent
For to mount and gang awa."
15. "O hold your tongue, my pretty parrot,
15. "O hold your tongue, my pretty parrot,
Lay not the blame upon me;
Your cup shall be of the flowered gold,
Your cage of the root of the tree."
16. Up then spake the king himself,
16. Up then spake the king himself,
In the bed-chamber where he lay:
"What ails the pretty parrot,
That prattles so long or day?"
17. "There came a cat to my cage door,
17. "There came a cat to my cage door,
It almost a worried me,
And I was calling on May Colven
To take the cat from me."
Italian TV Program ''Portobello'' (1977-1983)
Portobello was one of the most popular TV program of the italian television. It was broadcasted on RAI 2 channel from 1977 to 1983 (and for a short period also in 1987) and it was hosted by Enzo Tortora, a popular italian TV host and anchorman on national RAI television, who was falsely accused of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking. He became an icon of injustice and a reminder of one of the gravest miscarriages of justice of the Italian judiciary system.
The name of the program was ispired by the famous Portobello Road, a street in the Notting Hill district of London famous for its market, known for its second-hand clothes and antiques.
The program was based on the idea of a market where the participants could sell or try to find objects, ideas or other things and the public at home could call them during the live broadcast.
Official guest was a parrot that had the same name of the program, and one of the part of the program was to let one of the guests try to make the parrot say his own name “Portobello”. The only time it succeded was in 1982 thanks to the actress Paola Borboni that wanted the money offered as a prize to help a child burned on the face.
link: Rai Educational "La storia siamo noi"
The name of the program was ispired by the famous Portobello Road, a street in the Notting Hill district of London famous for its market, known for its second-hand clothes and antiques.
The program was based on the idea of a market where the participants could sell or try to find objects, ideas or other things and the public at home could call them during the live broadcast.
Official guest was a parrot that had the same name of the program, and one of the part of the program was to let one of the guests try to make the parrot say his own name “Portobello”. The only time it succeded was in 1982 thanks to the actress Paola Borboni that wanted the money offered as a prize to help a child burned on the face.
link: Rai Educational "La storia siamo noi"
Portobello theme song.
Portobello theme song.
The parrot Portobello finally said his own name (1982).
Enzo Tortora and Portobello the parrot.
Portobello the parrot.
Enzo Tortora and Portobello the parrot.
Walt Disney: Blame It On The Samba From "Melody Time"
Blame It On The Samba From "Melody Time"
Release Date: May 27, 1948
Synopsis: Blame It On the Samba has Donald Duck, the film's main character, and José Carioca meeting with the Aracuan Bird who introduces them to the pleasures of the samba. The Dinning Sisters provide the vocals while organist Ethel Smith plays the organ.
Characters: Donald Duck, Jose Carioca and Aracuan Bird Wikipedia Melody Time Melody Time is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures. This particular film has seven segments and is made up of several sequences set to popular music and folk music.
Wikipedia Josè Carioca José "Zé" Carioca is a Disney cartoon character created in 1942 drawn as an anthropomorphized parrot from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (thus "Carioca", a term which refers to a person born there).
link: http://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Investigations/Disney_and_Nazareth.htm
link: http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1948/blameitonthesamba.html
Walt Disney: Aquarela do Brasil From "Saludos Amigos"
Aquarela do Brasil From "Saludos Amigos"
Release Date: February 6, 1943
Synopsis: Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the film, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico-Tico no Fubá").
Characters: Donald Duck and Jose Carioca
Wikipedia Saludos Amigos This film features four different segments, each of which beginning with various clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery.
Wikipedia Josè Carioca José "Zé" Carioca is a Disney cartoon character created in 1942 drawn as an anthropomorphized parrot from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (thus "Carioca", a term which refers to a person born there).
Wikipedia Aquarela do Brasil Song Song written by Ary Barroso in 1939.
other link: http://www.disneyshorts.org/
Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room
The attraction opened June 23, 1963, and was the first to feature Audio-Animatronics technology, a WED Enterprises patented invention. The attraction was sponsored by United Airlines for its first 12 years; in 1976, sponsorship passed over to Hawaii's Dole Food Company, which remains the sponsor to the present day. Dole also provides the unique Dole Whip soft-serve frozen dessert sold at a snack bar near the entrance.
The presentation features a "cast" of over 150 talking, singing and dancing birds, flowers, the aforementioned magic fountain, tiki drummers and tiki totem poles that perform the attraction's signature tunes, "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room" by the Sherman Brothers and "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing". The finale has every Audio-Animatronics figure performing a rousing version of "Hawaiian War Chant". The choice of exit music is somewhat unusual, namely an arrangement of "Heigh-Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with lyrics thanking guests for watching the show and hurrying them to the exit.
Disney theme park poster for Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.
Illustration for Disney's "Tiki Room", c. 1962
Digital Illustration made by Jason Tackett
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