For another view, try Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops' The Latin Album, which mixes incendiary pieces by Ginastera, Moncayo, Guarneri, and others with the tourista material, thus creating a better balance - and a far better program - than the Kunzel disc. But, of course, that's not the premise of this CD - a look at how American commercial pop integrated Latin influences - and all a listener can do is go with it or not. One longs in vain for a taste of the real thing - say, a roaring symphonic showpiece by a Latin classical composer. 1931 Language Portuguese Composer Time Period Comp. IZA 3 Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 1 Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. Title Chro sapca Composer Abreu, Zequinha: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. Guest trumpeter/toreador Doc Severinsen does his best bullfight fanfare in "La Virgen de la Macarena" and fellow Tonight Show veterans Tommy Newsom and John Bambridge help out with some of the arrangements (catch the latter's clever Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" reference in the middle of "El Cumbanchero"). Tico-Tico no fub Tico-Tico no Farelo Alt ernative. The music conjures images of ladies with baskets of fruit on their heads or loud, affluent, middle-aged American males in shorts and hats with cameras dangling, trying to do the mambo. And you can guess what the tunes are: "Brazil," "Cielito Lindo," "Granada," "Tico Tico," "Carioca," "Besame Mucho," "Mexican Hat Dance," "The Girl From Ipanema," Barry Manilow's infernal "Copacabana," and more. Every twitchy Tropicana cliché in the book from the middle of the 20th century is seemingly invoked in these deliberately kitschy treatments of the usual chestnuts. The execution is there Erich Kunzel & the Cincinnati Pops display an undeniable zest and affection for the material here. A completely different set of lyrics in English.This collection of symphonically inflated south-of-the-border pops is an American tourist's idea of Latin music - and there's a place for that it all depends upon the execution and the freshness of the arrangements. by Zequinha de Abreu (1880-1935) and the Portuguese several decades later by Eurico Unidos. ID# RUFStico-tico-01-MM Note: the music for Tico Tico was written in the early 20th C. Producer: John Kessler Executive Producer: Chris Peterson 2013 Tune In to October 2017 Narrator: Mary McCann Original Brazillian title: Tico-Tico No Fuba. Tico-Tico no Fubá sung by Carmen Miranda Album: Carmen Miranda recorded in the '30s. Erich Kunzel and The Cincinnati Pops (1990) Pablo Carcamo and Oscar Benito (1994) David Grisman (1995). # Song of the Rufous-collared Sparrow provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. So whenever you hear this memorable samba, think of that persistent little sparrow atop a pile of cornmeal. She offered it birdseed – and let the cat out to chase it – but to no avail. There are plenty of earthworms and fruit to eat, but tico-tico prefers her dwindling supply of cornmeal. And like so many birds, tico-tico was named for its song Back to the lyrics: It seems the bird with the musical name, tico-tico, keeps coming back to the singer’s yard to dine on her cornmeal, piled in a backyard granary. The Rufous-collared Sparrow is a handsome, familiar backyard bird found through much of Latin America. The Portuguese lyrics tell the story of the tico-tico, a local name for the Rufous-collared Sparrow. This collection of symphonically inflated south-of-the-border pops is an American tourist's idea of Latin music - and there's a place for that it all depends upon the execution and the freshness of the arrangements. Believe it or not, the song is about a bird. The song is Tico-Tico no Fubá and, like Carmen Miranda, came to us from Brazil. Can you name that tune? Here’s a hint: Carmen Miranda – adorned with her signature fruit basket of a hat – danced and sang this lively samba alongside Groucho Marx in the 1947 movie Copacabana. BirdNote ® Rufous-Collared Sparrow - Tico-Tico
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