Manhã de Carnaval

Manhã de Carnaval (m. Luiz Bonfá, w. Antônio Maria)

How to pronounce “Manhã” in Portuguese

Wikipedia:

Manhã de Carnaval (“Morning of Carnival”), is the title of the most popular song by Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Maria. It appeared in the 1959 Portuguese-language film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), by French director Marcel Camus and based on a play by Vinícius de Moraes. Particularly in the USA, the song is considered to be one of the most important Brazilian Jazz/Bossa songs that helped establish the Bossa Nova movement in the late 1950s. Manhã de Carnaval has become a jazz standard in the USA, while it is still performed regularly by a wide variety of musicians around the world in its vocalized version or just as an instrumental one.

The Adaptation Tree (from Second Hand Songs)

• Manhã de Carnaval written by Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria Araújo de Morais – Portuguese
  • Carnival written by Hugo E. Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George David Weiss – English
  • A Day in the Life of a Fool written by Carl Sigman – English
  • Yön väistyessä written by Sauvo Puhtila – Finnish
  • La chanson d’Orphée written by François Llenas – French
  • Das Glück kam zu mir wie ein Traum written by Ernst Bader, Hans Ewer – German
  • La canzone di Orfeo written by Mario Panzeri – Italian
  • Mañana de Carnaval written by Jesús María Arozamena Berastegui – Spanish

International Lyrics Playground has five sets of lyrics: the original Portuguese, as well as English (2), French and Italian versions.

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Agostinho dos Santos dubbing the singing voice of the actor Breno Mello, in the 1959 film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), with guitar accompaniment by Roberto Menescal

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Agostinho dos Santos with Henrique Simonetti e sua Orquestra — from the 1959 LP Inimitável, RGE XRLP 5057; also issued as a single on the RGE label, backed with “A Felicidade,” 1959

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Elizete Cardoso dubbing for actress Marpessa Dawn (Eurydice), accompanied by Luiz Bonfá on guitar — from the soundtrack album Orfeu Negro – Bande Originale du Film de Marcel Camus, Fontana 812 473 1, released in 1959

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João Gilberto — released in July 1959(?)* on the EP João Gilberto cantando as musicás do filme Orfeo do Carnaval, Odeon (Brazil) BWB 1092; also included in the 1988 collection of early recordings, O Mito

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Gerry Mulligan – recorded at Nola’s Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, 3 October 1963 — Art Farmer (flh) Bob Brookmeyer (vtb) Gerry Mulligan (bars, arr) Jim Hall (g) Bill Crow (b) Dave Bailey (d) — released on the album Night Lights (1963) where the track is listed as Morning Of The Carnival.

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Eddie Palmieri – from his LP Mozambique, 1965 — musicians include: Eddie Palmieri (piano), Ismael Quintana (voice-box), Manny Ocquendo (timbales)

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Astrud Gilberto – from her 1965 album The Shadow of Your Smile, arranged by Don Sebesky, Claus Ogerman and João Donato

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Perry Como originally recorded the song under the title Carnival for his 1963 album Songs That I Love. This version had an English lyric written by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, and Luigi Creatore. Como recorded the same English lyric version again a few years later, but this time it was released under the original Portuguese title on the 1966 album Lightly Latin.

Carl Sigman later wrote a different English lyric titled “A Day in the Life of a Fool,” which resembled the original lyric not at all in translation, using a different theme entirely. It seems to have been recorded more often than the earlier English version. Among vocalists who recorded “A Day in the Life of a Fool” are Frank Sinatra, and Jack Jones.

Perry Como — from the 1966 album Lightly Latin

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Baden Powell de Aquino — Saärbrucken, Germany, 1970

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Nara Leão – date unknown

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Larry Coryell, Andy Summers & Trilok Gurtu — 18 July 1996, Pori Fazz Festival, Pori, Finland

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Raíssa  Amaral – 2008

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Finnish

Yön väistyessä  — teksti: Sauvo Puhtila

Anki — from her 1967 album Sateen jälkeen (After the Rain)

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French

La chanson d’Orphée — texte: François Llenas

Dalida — issued in July 1959 on the EP (France) Barclay 70271, and in September 1959 on the promo single (FR) Barclay 60163, as the B-side of “Love in Portofino (A San Cristina)”

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Dalida — live, 1966(?)

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Italian

La canzone di Orfeo — testo: Mario Panzeri

Caterina Valente – 1960

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Marisa Sannia – 1970

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Orietta Berti – 1975

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Spanish

Mañana de Carnaval — texto: Jesús María Arozamena Berastegui

Luis Miguel – 1997

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Vicki Carr

Originally recorded for her 1967 album Intimate Excitement, arranged and conducted by Marty Paich. I don’t know if she used the words written by Arozamena Berastegui. Second Hand Songs lists only Luis Miguel as a performer of that lyric version.

Live, date unknown

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Samba de Orfeu (m. Luiz Bonfá, w. Antônio Maria) – from the final scene of Orfeu Negro: Play and make the sun rise!

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* Disagreement on the release date of the EP João Gilberto cantando as musicás do filme Orfeo do Carnaval, Odeon (Brazil) BWB 1092:

• Discogs — 2 July 1959
• Second Hand Songs — July 1959
• The João Gilberto Discography (at JoãoGilbert.org), by Laura Pelner McCarthy gives 2 July 1959 as the recording date, and apparently 1962 as the year of its release in Brazil

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