Carioca
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra : Carioca
‘Carioca’ is a jazz standard from 1933 film ‘Flying Down to Rio’, sung in the film by Alice Gentle, Movita Castaneda and Etta Moten and danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The word “Carioca” refers to inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. Carioca was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 7th Academy Awards, but lost to an even bigger Astaire and Rogers production number, ‘The Continental’ from the film ‘The Gay Divorcee’.
Album:
Side A: Bill
Side B: Carioca
Style: Fox Trot / Jazz
Date Recorded: January 23, 1939
Composer: Vincent Youmans
Lyricists: Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn
Instrumentation: Clarinet, 4 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, guitar, piano, string bass, and traps
Charted:
Wikipedia: Carioca
Name: Helen Forrest
Say, have you seen a Carioca
It’s not a foxtrot or a polka
It has a little bit of new rhythm, a blue rhythm that sighs
It has a meter that is tricky
A bit of wicked wacky-wicky
But when you dance it with a new love, there’s a true love in her eye
You dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone we say goodbye
Two heads together, they say are better than one
Two heads together, that’s how the dance is begun
Two arms around you and lips, that’s why I’m yours and you are mine
And you are mine
Now that you’ve done the Carioca
You’ll never care to do the polka
And then you’ll realize the blue hula and bamboola are through
Tomorrow morning you’ll discover
You’re just a Carioca lover
And when you dance it with each new love, there’ll be true love just for you
Now you’ll dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You’ll dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone and we’re saying goodbye
Goodbye
Label: Victor, Bluebird B-10124-A
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
- Artie Shaw (director, clarinet)
- George Arus (trombone)
- Georgie Auld (saxophone)
- Al Avola (guitar)
- Johnny Best (trumpet)
- Hank Freeman (saxophone)
- Les Jenkins (trombone)
- Bob Kitsis (piano)
- Tony Pastor (saxophone)
- Chuck Peterson (trumpet)
- Bernie Privin (trumpet)
- Buddy Rich (traps)
- Les Robinson (saxophone)
- Harry Rodgers (trombone)
- Sid Weiss (string bass)
