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"Perdido" is a jazz standard composed by Juan Tizol and was first recorded on December 3, 1941 by Duke Ellington. However, it is their January 21, 1942, recording of the song on the Victor label, that is regarded as their original recording. In 1944, Ervin Drake and Hans Lengsfelder were enlisted to write lyrics for the tune.
The song was not usually sung with the Ellington band, the exception being Ella Fitzgerald on her 1957 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook. Later, many others recorded the song, including Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Art Tatum, Quincy Jones, the Charlie Parker Quintet, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Erroll Garner, Bill Doggett, Harry James,and "Verden Rundt's" All Star Band.
The melody can be heard in Woody Allen's Another Woman from 1988.
"Perdido" is Spanish and simply means lost, but also sloppy or indecent. The song refers to Perdido Street in New Orleans.
Perdido is Spanish and Portuguese for lost. It may refer to:
- "Perdido" (song), jazz standard composed by Juan Tizol
- "Perdido", song from WarCry's album ¿Dónde Está La Luz?
- HMS Trouncer (D85), ship also known as USS Perdido
- Perdido Beach, Alabama
- Perdido Key, Florida
- Perdido River, in Alabama and Florida, U.S.
- Perdido Street Station, a novel by China Miéville
- Perdido (oil platform), the deepest oil platform in the world
Perdido is the deepest floating oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2450 meters (8000 feet) operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Perdido is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas that lies in water that is nearly 8000 feet deep. The platform's peak production will be 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. At 267 meters, the Perdido is nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower.
Usage examples of "perdido".
Perdido saw this apparent unfeelingness in Billy, and thought ill of him for it.
A moment earlier he had almost heard the thunder of the dying stars out beyond Farfara and Perdido Luz, but now, for him, the entire universe had narrowed to a single woman standing tall and graceful in a sea of faceless people.
By her clothing she was either a slave or one of the dirt-poor freedwomen trying to make a living in the shanties at the ends of Girod or Perdido Streets, maybe a prostitute or maybe just a laundress.
Mi imperio fue de lanzas y de gritos y de arenales y de victorias casi secretas en lugares perdidos.
No le hice caso, porque, si un hombre ha perdido algo, no le va a encargar a un preso que se lo busque.
De espaldas en la angosta cama de fierro, más viejo, enflaquecido y muy pálido, estaba yo, los ojos perdidos en las altas molduras de yeso.
Dependiente de una mercería de la calle Buenos Aires, estudiaba Derecho a ratos perdidos.
Dijo que era de Yorkshire, que sus padres emigraron a Buenos Aires, que los había perdido en un malón, que la habían llevado los indios y que ahora era mujer de un capitanejo, a quien ya había dado dos hijos y que era muy valiente.
Quiero saber si aquende la ribera última comprendiste humildemente que todo lo perdido, el Occidente y el Oriente, el acero y la bandera, perduraría (ajeno a toda humana mutación) en tu Eneida lusitana.
In Mobile, she rents a car and drives east on Interstate 10 to Gulf Shores, then east on Highway 182 to Perdido Beach.
The man's name was Kenneth Murtaugh, he had invented a toaster oven, and he was sixty-nine when he crashed his Coupe de Ville into a palm tree along Perdido Boulevard.
Los labios carnosos se abrieron y pronunciaron una sola palabra, con una voz cálida y vibrante, como el tañer de las campanas doradas de los templos perdidos en las selvas de Khitai.