FROG, THE

Created on 17/03/2009
Latest update on 13/12/2023

Artist: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Author: João Donato
Label: A&M
Year: 1967

B-side of Watch What Happens (US) and of Mas Que Nada (NL). Also on album Look Around.

Covers:

1970:

João Donato [author on album A Bad Donato]

1970:

João Gilberto [as O Sapo (that's Portuguese for The Toad)]

1973:

João Donato [as A Rã (that's Portuguese for The Frog); recorded in '68, saved up for album Quem E Quem]

1974:

Gal Costa [idem; lyrics: Caetano Veloso]

1977:

Jacques Brel [tune under Les F... borrows the 1970 author's version]

1977:

Strangers [as A Monsieur Brel; answer to Les F...]

1991:

Art Farmer

1997:

João Donato & Eloir de Moraes [as A Rã, which also means The Drumbeat, accentuated by de Moraes' percussion]

2006:

Sergio Mendes [feat. Q Tip & Will.I.Am]

2008:

Eliane Elias [as A Rã]

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