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Lambada:The Forbidden Dance Soundtrack

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Veepie24

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Oct 14, 2000, 10:49:28 PM10/14/00
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Does anyone know where I might purchase the soundtrack for this film? I've had
to buy some of the music piece by piece. It would be nice to have the
complete/original soundtrack though. I believe it is out of print and was
hoping someone could direct me to where they "know" it is available for
purchase as I have looked far and wide but to no avail!

Michael Leahy

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Oct 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/16/00
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This NOT what you're looking for. I thought I'd just throw it in for a
laugh. It's a parody of the "Lambada" done by the French group Garçons
Bouchers.

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Robert-

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Oct 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/17/00
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In article <8secq2$meq$1...@news0.skynet.be>, Michael Leahy wrote:
>This NOT what you're looking for. I thought I'd just throw it in for a
>laugh. It's a parody of the "Lambada" done by the French group Garçons
>Bouchers.

A parody of a parody. The tune "Lambada" is not Brazilian, the original
is "Llorando se fue" by the Bolivian group "Kjarkas".


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Veepie24

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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Aren't some of the artists Brazilian though? I wouldn't really know ...seeing
I Don't Have The SOUNDTRACK! It's great Dance Music to my ears.

Rakoto Ramparany

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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As said by a previous post, the original version
is a bolivian song, the "lambada" remake is by
brazilian musicians living in France, and the
parody is by a french rock band.

I think that's a funny and good example for the
themes discussed under the title "more about
brazilian music"...
Rakoto


Michael Leahy

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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The success of the Lambada is one of the strangest stories in showbiz. But
as you point out, it's place is not here.

Michael

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Robert-

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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In article <97185678...@romulus.infonie.fr>, Rakoto Ramparany wrote:
>
>As said by a previous post, the original version
>is a bolivian song, the "lambada" remake is by
>brazilian musicians living in France, and the
>parody is by a french rock band.

Is it not strange that they have to live abroad in order to sell
Brazilian music to the mass market outside of Brazil? In France they
also have "Trio Esperanca" and in Italy they have "Bellini". Bellini
has probably sold more in Europe the last year than all Brazilian
artists combined.

Kimson Plaut

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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Veepie24,
Lambada, as far as i've been able to trace it back, began as a
Caribbean-derived dance rhythm on the northern coast of Brazil - it was already
popular in Ceará back in the late 1970's. rhythmically, it has much more in
common with merengue, cumbia and zouk than with any native Brazilian forms. my
feeling is that the music was influenced by radio broadcasts from across
Brazil's borders with French Guiana, Colombia etc.

any comments, Egidio?

- kimson

Egídio Leitão

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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Kimson Plaut wrote:

> common with merengue, cumbia and zouk than with any native Brazilian forms. my
> feeling is that the music was influenced by radio broadcasts from across
> Brazil's borders with French Guiana, Colombia etc.
>
> any comments, Egidio?

Nope. I agree with what you wrote. I often found Lambada somewhat similar to
Carimbó. Considering that Carimbó also has its roots in the north of Brazil, what
you wrote above regarding foreign influences is very plausible. Honestly, though,
I never had much interest in reading about Lambada. It was too much of a hype
outside of Brazil.

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WrldBeatnk

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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>>The success of the Lambada is one of the strangest stories in showbiz. But as
you point out, it's place is not here.<<

Michael, I have a friend who is now a great fan of Brasilian music precisely
because she was looking for the "Lambada" music and a sneaky Carioca working at
Tower records gave her the David Byrne Nordeste compilation and a Daniella
Mercury CD instead!!!!!!

Now SHE sides with Paul and Daniella and rants about me playing Cidade Negra,
Robertinho

Which brings me to another interesting point: Those of you who think MY
favorite artists in modern styles (Skank, Fernanda Abreu, Jota Quest, O Rappa,
Lulu Santos, Pedro Luis, ect) should know that when I go into record stores I
get the same kind of "oh, here's that guy who want's all the obscure music
instead of the big sellers" as you do, just on a different level. These artists
are NOTHING in sales and popular appeal compared to Negritude Junior and
Netinho and É o Tchan and all the Sertaneja stuff which shows that all of this
is relative.

Robertinho

Rakoto Ramparany

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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Robert wrote:
> Rakoto Ramparany wrote:
> >
> >As said by a previous post, the original version
> >is a bolivian song, the "lambada" remake is by
> >brazilian musicians living in France, and the
> >parody is by a french rock band.
>
> Is it not strange that they have to live abroad in order to sell
> Brazilian music to the mass market outside of Brazil? In France they
> also have "Trio Esperanca" and in Italy they have "Bellini". Bellini
> has probably sold more in Europe the last year than all Brazilian
> artists combined.
>

It is not so strange if you know the marketing policy
of music companies. For example, each year, here in
France, they are looking for a few new titles that could
become the "tubes de l'ete" (summer hits). Sometimes
they are producing a group only for that purpose...
The choosen musics are always party music, since they
would be danced in the discotheques during the summer
holidays...
Rakoto

WrldBeatnk

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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>>The choosen musics are always party music, since they would be danced in the
discotheques during the summer holidays...<<

Rakoto, you say that like it's a bad thing! Haven't you ever met a summer love
while grooving to a "summer hit"??? From Smashmouth's "Might as well be Walkin
on the Sun" to the Smithereen's "A Girl like You" to David Bowie's "Let's
Dance" to Sly and the Family Stones' "Dance to the Music" and "Let me Take you
Higher" to The Trashmens' "Surfin Bird" back into the history of recorded
music, "summer hits" have been a WONDERFUL thing. AND, if you are a musician
lucky (and talented) enough to write what becomes a summer "anthem" with
decades of repeat airplay, you can then use your royalties to play whatever the
hell music you want to.

Give ME a summer hit, Roberto

Rakoto Ramparany

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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Hello Roberto,
I was not criticizing dance music. You did not understand
my post (or perhaps you do as if?...)
I also appreciate hot music, not only funk and soul, but also
a lot of african music, and in our not profissional brazilian
music group, a part of our repertoire is dance music (Art
Popular, Molejo and more traditional sambas).
Please read my previous post again...
>
> Give ME a summer hit
>
I'm not a composer, so give me a good (brazilian) summer
hit, and we will include it to our repertoire!(G)
Rakoto

WrldBeatnk

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Oct 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/18/00
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>>I'm not a composer, so give me a good (brazilian) summer hit, and we will
include it to our repertoire!(G)
Rakoto<<

Rakoto, I was kidding but also making a point and I can not think of a BETTER
Brasilian summer hit than Fernanda Abreu's "Rio 40 Grau" and, if you made it
part of a medley with "Garota Carioca" and "Brasil é a paese swingin", you are
guaranteed to bring down the house (and get the bundas shaking).

I would LOVE to hear Olodum due a Parliment/Funkadelic medley, Roberto

"Queroemos o funque, dai nos o funque, Ah oooooh!"


Joe Pairman

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Oct 18, 2000, 7:01:05 PM10/18/00
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Me too!

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Marcelo Paganini

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Oct 19, 2000, 12:46:33 AM10/19/00
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WrldBeatnk a écrit dans le message
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>part of a medley with "Garota Carioca" and "Brasil é a paese swingin",

Do you mean "Brasil é o pais do suingue"?
Great tune...

Marcelo Paganini

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Marcelo Paganini

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Oct 19, 2000, 12:51:13 AM10/19/00
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Egídio Leitão a écrit dans le message
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We discussed it here a couple of years back, that was funny...

Marcelo Paganni

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Apareceu o outro..."
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WrldBeatnk

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Oct 19, 2000, 2:33:45 AM10/19/00
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>>Do you mean "Brasil é o pais do suingue"?<<

Yes, I LOVE that song!

radio_xango

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Oct 19, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/19/00
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It didn't seem like anyone was directly answering your question, so:

No. At http://www.soton.ac.uk/~oms/lambada.html the author intimates
that the soundtrack has been discontinued, which should be to no one's
surprise.

I think I insulted Dusty Groove's search engine by even looking for it
there. My bad, DG.

It *does* appear that "Lambada: Set The Night on Fire" is categorized
as a soundtrack (from the label Epic, out in April of 1990), although I
can't be sure that it's part of the stellar Jeff James vehicle. None
of the artists are Brazilian, it appears, so this probably isn't what
you're after. Keep checking the bargain bins!

good luck!

craig

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Joe Pairman

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Oct 19, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/19/00
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McGowan & Pessanha's 'The Brazilian Sound' gives the following
information (pages 154-5);

The northern state of Pará is where lambada was created in the
1970s, in and around the capital city of Belém...In the 1970s th
ecity's radio stations where heavily programming merengue,
salsa, and rumba, as well as electrified versions of
carimbó...In 1976, the guitarist Joachim de Lima Vieira appled the
name 'lambada' to a new musical hybrid that he had popularized: a
fusion of merengue, electric carimbó, and hints of other
Caribbean flavors...The lambada dance was also a new hybrid,
mixing elements of the merengue, maxixe, samba, and forró dances.

--
Joe Pairman
Leeds, UK


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> Veepie24,
> Lambada, as far as i've been able to trace it back, began as a
> Caribbean-derived dance rhythm on the northern coast of Brazil - it
was already
> popular in Ceará back in the late 1970's. rhythmically, it has much
more in

> common with merengue, cumbia and zouk than with any native
Brazilian forms. my
> feeling is that the music was influenced by radio broadcasts from
across
> Brazil's borders with French Guiana, Colombia etc.
>
> any comments, Egidio?
>

> - kimson

Veepie24

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Oct 21, 2000, 1:51:17 AM10/21/00
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Thank you for responding to my Question. There is a lot of music that is out
of print. Whats music to ones ears... might offend another. I like what I
like, and if its the kind of music that makes Me want to Dance then It doesn't
matter to me what its origin is. I accept it for it is... Music to My Ears.
And it isn't that I like feeling insulted (or be insulting) but..... theres a
great "dance" track called "Slow Wine" done by a Rap artist called Whitey
Don....
from the film "A Brothers Kiss"... does
anyone know where I can get my hands on that?

Michael Leahy

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Oct 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/22/00
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You make a good point of course. Once you get to know a style, you can tend
to be a bit condescending to the newbies. But if the Lambada brings in new
fans, so be it. It is all relative.

M

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