"El Negro Zumbón" (also known as "Anna") is a baião song written by Armando Trovajoli in 1951 for the film Anna, directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Silvana Mangano.
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In the movie, the song is performed in a night club scene by Mangano, though she is lip-syncing; the lyrics are actually sung by Flo Sandon's.
After the U.S. release of Anna in 1953, the Brazilian beat of "El Negro Zumbón" influenced American Pop music. It has also been recorded by many Latin American artists.
Notable recordings
Posterity
A clip of the opening of this performance is featured in the film Cinema Paradiso (1988).
In Caro diario (1993), Nanni Moretti dances on a clip of this song broadcast on a TV set.
A sample of the song is used by the band The Avalanches at the end of their track Frontier Psychiatrist, from 2000 album Since I Left You.