"A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)" (Portuguese for "The Band") is a composition by Chico Buarque that was first performed live in 🍎 1966 by Buarque and Nara Leão, during the II Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) Festival in TV Record's theater, São Paulo, 🍎 winning the "Viola de Ouro" award for best composition. "A Banda" brought Buarque immediately into the limelight in Brazil. The 🍎 song was also released in 1966, on the Brazilian RGE label, as the first track of side 1 in Chico 🍎 Buarque de Hollanda (Vol. 1) LP.
Mina version [ edit ]
In 1967, singer Mina released an Italian version of the song 🍎 called "La banda".[1] The song was a success in Italy, where it became number two on the chart,[2] and sales 🍎 exceeded 400 thousand copies.[3] The Italian lyrics were written by Antonio Amurri.
In 1970, Mina also recorded an original Portuguese version 🍎 for the album Mina canta o Brasil.
Buarque, who was living in Italy at the time, later performed this version.[4]
Charts [ 🍎 edit ]
Chart performance for "La banda" Chart (1967) Peak
position Italia (Musica e dischi)[2] 2
Herb Alpert version [ edit ]
As an 🍎 instrumental, the song was performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, who had their third and final number one 🍎 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1967. It peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5]
The instrumental version 🍎 by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass was used in the Soviet cartoon Well, Just You Wait! in the 8th 🍎 episode (at 06:27-07:30).[6]
Charts [ edit ]
Other cover versions [ edit ]
In 1967, Astrud Gilberto brought the song to the US, 🍎 recording it with English lyrics on the Verve/Copacabana label, crediting Bob Russell for the English lyrics.
The French singer France Gall 🍎 popularized this song, titled "Zwei Apfelsinen im Haar" in German ("Two oranges in the hair" in English).
A Czech version named 🍎 "La banda" was performed by Vladěna Krumlová in 1969.
Also in 1999 the German band Captain Jack used a riff from 🍎 "A Banda" in the song "Get Up".[11]
See also [ edit ]
