"South American Way" is a 1939 song with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Al Dubin. Carmen Miranda introduced the song in the 1939 Broadway musical The Streets of Paris. Miranda performed it on-screen a year later in her breakout role for U.S. audiences in the film Down Argentine Way (1940), causing it to become very popular in the United States."SOUTH AMERICAN WAY" - Carmen Miranda DUSSEK, Eduardo, Carmen Miranda: Melodias Cifradas para Guitarra, Violão e Teclados, São Paulo:Publishing Irmãos Vitale,
Versions The song became very popular in the United States, and had cover versions by several international artists, and as part of the soundtrack of many American films.
Artist Year Guy Lombardo 1939 Al Donahue & His Orchestra 1939 The Andrews Sisters & Glenn Miller & Orchestra 1940Pat Kirkwood 1941 Dinah Shore 1941 Marlene Dietrich 1947 Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman & The Sportsmen Quartet 1949 Marisa Monte 1988 Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg 1996 Sonia Santana 2004 Arielle Dombasle 2006 Frankie Carle 2007
In movies Film Director Year Down Argentine Way Irving Cummings 1940 In This Our Life John Huston 1942 Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz 1945 Class of '44 Paul Bogart 1973 Radio Days Woody Allen 1987 Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business Helena Solberg 1995
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