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"'I Go to Rio'" is a song written by Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson, and performed by Allen. It became a signature song of Allen, as well as being covered by Peggy Lee and Pablo Cruise, among others, in addition to being subject to multiple soundtrack inclusions.

History



The song was first released in 1976, on Peter Allen's fourth studio album, 'Taught by Experts'. In 1977, it was successfully released as a single in Australia, where it was Number 1 for five weeks.

Although the song was also released as a single in America, it failed to chart over there.

The song appeared in a number of movie soundtracks, including 'One Crazy Summer' (1986), 'Dominick and Eugene' (1988), 'The Fabulous Baker Boys' (1989), 'Muriel's Wedding' (1994), 'Hotel Sorrento' (1995) and 'Strange Bedfellows' (2004).

The song is also used as the closing number for the Peter Allen biographical musical The Boy from Oz

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Pablo Cruise cover



Pablo Cruise released their cover of "I Go to Rio" in January 1979. It reached #46 on the U.S. 'Billboard' Hot 100 and #39 on the Canadian 'RPM' singles chart.

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Other covers



The song was also covered by Peggy Lee on her 1977 album 'Peggy ', as well as by noted French singer Claude Franois, in French translation ("Je vais Rio"), that same year. In 1980, it was used on an episode of The Muppet Show. Singers of musical Belles belles belles covered the Claude Franois' song. In 1982, it was covered by TISM under the name "I Go to Werribee" with slightly different lyrics. In 2008, the song was covered by Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, on his live album 'Center Stage'.

The melody of the opening piano riff of the song has been re-used by Chocolate in "Ritmo de la noche" and subsequent cover versions Mystic, The Sacados, Lorca and Safri Duo, and by Coldplay in "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall".

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Category:1976 songs

Category:1977 singles

Category:A&M Records singles

Category:Number-one singles in Australia

Category:Pablo Cruise songs

Category:Songs written by Peter Allen (musician)

Category:Songs written by Adrienne Anderson

Category:Disco songs

Category:Songs about dancing

Category:Songs about cities

Category:Songs about Brazil

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