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Il Pulcino Pio

You might remember it as Le Poussin Piou, The Little Chick Cheep

2012·The social era·cute

A cumulative children's song about farmyard animals that spent eight weeks at number one in Italy and then conquered Europe.

At a glanceThe facts

Spread in
2012
Began as
A commercial release
Where it started
commercial-release
Format
Sound
Era
The social era
Performed by
Sung by Morgana Giovannetti for Radio Globo
Taken from
A remake of a Brazilian children’s song of the 1950s
Also known as
The Little Chick Cheep
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Playable from the source

What this wasThe story

A chick cheeps. Then a hen clucks and the chick cheeps. Then a cockerel, a dove, a cat, a dog, a lamb, a goat, a cow, a bull, a tractor. Each verse repeats every animal that came before, faster, until the tractor flattens the lot. Radio Globo in Rome released it in July 2012 with the presenter Morgana Giovannetti singing.

It topped the Italian singles chart for eight consecutive weeks and charted across Europe in its local versions. The song is itself a remake of a Brazilian children's song from the 1950s, which makes it a folk melody that has now gone round the world twice by two different technologies.

Why it matteredWhat changed

A Rome radio station’s summer novelty about a chick was number one in Italy for eight weeks, and the Spanish version’s video has been watched 1.7 billion times.

The version you rememberNot the same thing

The version people rememberThe 2012 radio novelty

Released in Italian and then in several other languages.1

Where the footage came fromA Brazilian children’s song

From the 1950s, known under several titles.1

Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on commercial-release. The version shown here is an official copy on YouTube, published by a rights holder.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.

View the official copy on YouTube

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on commercial-release.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

More from 2012You were there

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Il Pulcino Pio

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