
Artist: Zé Boiadeiro
Author: José Monteiro
Label: Odeon Brasil
Year: 1918
Con A Banda Do Batalhão Naval. Means The Cow On The Roof in Portuguese and was that year's carnival hit in Brazil.
Covers:
Darius Milhaud [head theme of avant-garde ballet suite Le Boeuf sur le toit; this French composer, member of Les Six, spent most of WW I in Brazil; first staged in the Comédie des Champs Elysées; Milhaud also used parts of Marcelo Tupynamba's maxixe São Paulo Futuro in that same ballet suite, regarding it as 'use of Brazilian folk songs' while taking all the credits]
Boeuf sur le toit gave its name to Jean Cocteau's rive gauche cabaret in the Rue du Colisée in Paris, still standing.
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