The waltz "Sobre las Olas" (or "Over the Waves") is the best known work of Mexican composer Juventino Rosas

Juventino Rosas

José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas was a Mexican composer and violinist.-Life and career:Rosas was born in Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, now renamed Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. Rosas began his musical career as a street musician and playing with dance music bands in Mexico City...

 (1868–1894). It "remains one of the most famous Latin American pieces worldwide," according to the "Latin America" article in The Oxford Companion to Music.

It was first published by Rosas in 1888. It remains popular as a classic waltz, and has also found its way into New Orleans Jazz

Dixieland

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 and Tejano music

Tejano music

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.

The song remains popular with country and old-time fiddlers in the United States.

Film

A Mexican film titled "Sobre las Olas" was released in 1933.

The Mexican film biography of Juventino Rosas, released in 1950 and starring Pedro Infante

Pedro Infante

José Pedro Infante Cruz , better known as Pedro Infante, is the most famous actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and is an idol of the Latinamerican people, together with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís, who were styled the Tres Gallos Mexicanos . He was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa,...

, is entitled Sobre Las Olas.

In popular culture

• In the United States
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  , Sobre las Olas has a cultural association with funfair
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  s, and trapeze artists, as it was one of the tunes available for Wurlitzer
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  's popular line of fairground organ
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  s.
• The music for Over the Waves was used for the song The Loveliest Night of the Year
  The Loveliest Night of the Year
  "The Loveliest Night of the Year" is a popular song.The music was first published as a waltz called "Sobre las olas" in 1888 written by Juventino P. Rosas. In 1950 the music was adapted by Irving Aaronson with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster for the movie The Great Caruso...
  
  , which was sung by Ann Blyth
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  Ann Marie Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:Blyth was born in Mount Kisco,...
  
   in MGM's film The Great Caruso
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• The composition is featured in the film, Stage Fright
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  (1950); and is played when Jonathan gets out of the car and goes into Charlotte's house.
• The song appears as a medley, along with Entry of the Gladiators, in the Circus tribe stages in Lemmings 2: The Tribes
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• This waltz is performed in the James Bond
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   movie, Octopussy
  Octopussy
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  , in the scene in the Circus in Germany.
• On Sesame Street
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  , Ernie often sang a song to this melody, called George Washington Bridge
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  . The lyrics went: "George Washington Bridge, George Washington Washington Bridge..."
• The tune is featured in the RKO Radio Pictures feature When's Your Birthday?
  When's Your Birthday?
  When's Your Birthday? American film directed by Harry Beaumont. While original prints of this film had a cartoon sequence in Technicolor directed by Bob Clampett and Leon Schlesinger, most prints have the sequence in black-and-white.- Plot summary :Dustin Willoughby When's Your Birthday? (1937)...
  
  (1937) starring Joe E. Brown.
• In the 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon, Daffy Doodles
  Daffy Doodles
  Daffy Doodles is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Daffy is the notorious "mustache fiend", bent on putting a mustache on every lip in sight, while Porky is a policeman intent on capturing Daffy....
  
  , Daffy sings Sobre las Olas to the tune of "She was an acrobat's daughter..."
• Sobre las Olas can be heard in the score of Disney's 1944 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...
  
  during The Cold-Blooded Penguin segment.

External Links

• Sheet music for "Sobre Las Olas", F. Trifet & Co., 1895.