This lively little number was danced and lip-sinced by Silvia Mangano in the 1951 pot-boiler "Anna", the story of a novice nun and dedicated, compassionate nurse. On the eve of her final vows, she is confronted by her tumultuous past and her former lover, giving rise to flashbacks, in which she gets to sing and dance two saucy numbers and show off her ample pulchritude. The singing voice, however, was dubbed by Italian singer Flo Sandon. The soundtrack recording was a million-selling hit in the USA on MGM records under Mangano's name. In the racial climate of the time, I don't know how this was received. (I was only three years old, so I didn't know anything past "They're black! I don't like them.") Maybe it was like anything, chalked up to the loose morals of those Italians.

Anyway, I showed you that so I could play one of my favorite Brave Combo recordings. http://mog.com/Spike_1/blog/1717733In fact, I just realized it was the first one I ever heard. It's the lead-off track on Musical Varieties, a compilation of some of their best early work.

nominally a polka band from Denton Texas, Brave Combo can and will play anything. http://mog.com/Spike_1/blog/1717733 They are creative, accomplished artists. And they put on a wild live show, you should not miss if you get the opportunity to go.

THE BLACK Zumbon

Here comes the black Zumbon
The joyful dancing Baiona (person dancing a baiao dance)
Zambomba rings And calls women
(The zambomba or zambumba is a bass drum associated with baiao music, often played muted, with a puffy drumstick. A guy in the band is playing it with his hand in the movie clip.)

Here comes the black Zumbon
The joyful dancing Baiona
Zambomba rings
And calls women

I have desire to dance the new beat
Tell everyone when they see me pass
"Girl, where are you going?"
"I'm gonna dance, the baiao!" (baião = NE Brazilian rhythm)

I have desire to dance the new beat
Tell everyone when they see me pass
"Girl, where are you going?"
"I'm gonna dance, the baiao!"

Here comes the black Zumbon
The joyful dancing Baiona
Zambomba rings
And calls women

I have desire to dance the new beat
Tell everyone when they see me pass
"Girl, where are you going?"
"I'm gonna dance, the baiao!"

http://www.answers.com/topic/silvana-mangano Italian actress Silvana Mangano's earliest "connection" with filmmaking occurred indirectly through her romantic relationship with Marcello Mastroianni. Trained as a dancer, Mangano was supporting herself as a model when, at 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant. This led to a movie contract, though it would take three years for Mangano to ascend to international stardom with her earthy, sensuous performance in Bitter Rice (1949). Though she never scaled the heights of her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, Mangano remained a cinematic favorite into the 1970s, working with such major directors as De Sica and Visconti. Long married to Bitter Rice producer Dino De Laurentiis, Mangano bore him several children -- one of whom, daughter Raffaela, produced Mangano's next-to-last film Dune. Sylvana Mangano abandoned films in 1981 to mourn the plane-crash death of her son Federico, but briefly returned to the screen on two occasions before her own death at the age of 59. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi