Odeon

The title is a movie theater. The Cine Odeon opened on Rio's Avenida Central in August 1909, and Nazareth was hired to play piano in its waiting room, entertaining patrons before and between films. People were said to come just to hear him, sometimes missing the movie. He dedicated the piece to Zambelli & Cia., the company that ran the theater, and paid to publish it himself.

Nazareth recorded it in 1912 with Pedro de Alcântara on piccolo. Decades later Nara Leão asked the poet Vinicius de Moraes to write words for it, and her 1968 recording became a hit about ten years later as the theme of the telenovela A Sucessora.