Word: brincos
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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With money or without money E-e-e-e-e, I get along.) Like nearly all Rio de Janeiro's carnival songs, Eu Brinco was conceived by one of the thousands of amateur song writers who drive Rio's taxis, run its elevators, sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms...
...written down, Pedro relies on a musician friend named Clau-dionor Cruz. But Pedro has what he describes as "cerebral rhythm." All year round, Pedro and his friends compose carnival songs. Most of them are duds. But this time Pedro Caetano was well on the road to fortune. Eu Brinco was a smash...