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Early Years. He was brought up in Owosso (pop. 8,000), where he had a perfect attendance record at school, played football and tootled the tuba in the school band. His parents were strict: they once forbade him to use his tricycle for a whole year because he had hurt himself in a fall. In his spare time, he sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World...
There's a Cat in the Tuba, which won the $750 citywide song contest, had just what it takes to make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...
...story of one Serafim, a tuba player whose booming at local Sunday concerts gave him an audience for miles around. His hearers were surprised, runs the chorus, when...
...climbed in The tuba of Serafim And the result Of this merger Was that the tuba went Pum pum pum-meow...
Hanging three deep on the sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...