"Na Baixa do Sapateiro" is a famous Brazilian song, written by Ary Barroso. Its title comes from a street in Salvador, Bahia

Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...

, where many cobblers once worked.
It was originally released in 1938 as the B side to Salada Mista, which ironically did not achieve the same level of success.
This first recording was sung by Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...

 with Orchestra Odeon.
She never released the song on disc in the United States

United States

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. The song was originally going to be featured in the Carmen Miranda film Banana da Terra (1939), but was replaced with "O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?", because of the high license fee demanded by Ary Barroso to use his song. However the song has been recorded many other times by a large number of artists. The song gained international fame when it was featured in the Disney film The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on February 3, 1945...

 (1944).

Notable covers

The second recording of the song was in 1939, by Ary Barroso himself on the piano

Piano

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 and Laurindo de Almeida and Garoto

Garoto

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 on guitars. Other artists to record the song include Valdir Azevedo

Valdir Azevedo

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, Bola Sete

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, Elizete Cardoso

Elizete Cardoso

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, Dorival Caymmi

Dorival Caymmi

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, Luiz Bonfá

Luiz Bonfá

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, Paulinho Nogueira

Paulinho Nogueira

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, Dilermando Reis

Dilermando Reis

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, Baden Powell de Aquino

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, Lennie Dale and the Sambalanço Trio

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, Leny Andrade

Leny Andrade

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 and the Breno Sauer Quarteto, Wilson Simonal

Wilson Simonal

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, João Gilberto

João Gilberto

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, Banda Black Rio

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, MPB4

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, Luiz Eça

Luíz Eça

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 and Victor Assis Brasil

Victor Assis Brasil

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, Gal Costa

Gal Costa

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, Elis Regina

Elis Regina

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, Toquinho

Toquinho

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, Raphael Rabello once with Ney Matogrosso

Ney Matogrosso

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 and once with Romero Lubambo

Romero Lubambo

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, Trio Mocoto

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, Eliane Elias

Eliane Elias

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, Léo Gandelman

Léo Gandelman

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, Trio Esperança

Trio Esperança

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, João Nogueira

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, Nivaldo Ornelas and Juarez Moreira

Juarez Moreira

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 with Orquestra de Câmara Sesiminas, Rosa Passos

Rosa Passos

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 and Lula Galvão

Lula Galvão

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, Caetano Veloso

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, and Raúl di Blasio

Raúl di Blasio

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Baía

The song, retitled "Baía" (also known as "Bahia"), was featured in the Disney film The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros

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, with English lyrics written by Ray Gilbert

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 and sung by Nestor Amaral. The lyrics to “Baía” are not a translation of Ary Barrosso’s original Portuguese lyrics, and differ from them considerably. However both songs share a similar theme of longing for the past.

This version was very successful and has been played over a million times on US radio.
Due to the popularity of the song, one million copies of sheet music were printed in the United States in 1945 alone.

Notable covers of Baía

On the official soundtrack of "The Three Caballeros", the song was sung by Ray Gilbert

Ray Gilbert

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 with Charles Wolcott

Charles Wolcott

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 and his Orchestra.

Some notable artists who have recorded this version of the song are Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby

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 with Xavier Cugat

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 and his Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra, André Kostelanetz

Andre Kostelanetz

André Kostelanetz was a popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music.-Biography:...

 and Orchestra, Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill

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, Caterina Valente

Caterina Valente

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 with Werner Müller

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and his Million Strings, Luiz Eça

Luíz Eça

Luiz Mainzi da Cunha Eça was a Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova pianist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, probably best known for his 1960s work with the bossa nova Tamba Trio/Tamba 4...

 and Victor Assis Brasil

Victor Assis Brasil

Victor Assis Brasil was a Brazilian jazz saxophonist. He was the brother of classical pianist João Carlos Assis Brasil. He studied at Berklee College of Music and later taught improvisation technique in Brazil...

, John Coltrane

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, Herbie Mann

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, Mickey Baker

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, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and S. Scott, Percy Faith

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 and his Orchestra, Trio Los Panchos and Chucho Martinez Gil, Ahmad Jamal

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, Ed Lincoln

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 (as Don Pablo de Havana) and sua Orquestra, Stan Getz

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 and Charlie Byrd

Charlie Byrd

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, Perry Como

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, Walter Wanderley, Gato Barbieri

Gato Barbieri

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, Catalyst, The Ritchie Family

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, Idris Muhammad

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, Lalo Schifrin

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, Santana

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, Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert

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, Ran Blake

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, Laurindo Almeida

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, Martin Denny

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, Perez Prado

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, Mel Torme

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 and Cleo Laine

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, Johnny Mathis

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, Dionne Warwick

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, Placido Domingo

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, Tete Montoliu

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, Mongo Santamaria

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, Arthur Lyman

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, Blacktop

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, Juan Garcia Esquivel

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, Dinah Shore

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, Daniel Barenboim

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, and Palmyra

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 and Levita with João Donato

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