THESE are pretty much the only three "Spanish" songs I know. Apart from "la Bamba" which just annoys me:
UNA PALOMA BLANCA una paloma is a pigeon. Which means Paloma Picasso is called Pigeon Picasso. So una paloma blanca, of course, is a dove. This topped charts around Europe in 1975:
JEANETTE: PORQUE TE VAS
Jeanette is a musician with a genuine cult following. Described as "the eternal 16-year-old" after the sound of her voice, this was her biggest hit in 1976, from the film Cria Cuervos, which means "Cry of the Crows".
Silvia Y: Viva Espana!
Classic "we're going to Costa Blanca!" song from 1974, a time when Spain was still considered exotic:
La Paloma Blanca drove me nuts back then - we never had the other 2 over here.
ReplyDeleteWe visited Mallorca back in the 90's and weren't impressed. The locals were hostile and everything was outrageously expensive. I got extremely ill there from something which lasted months and had similarities to hepatitis. They never did figure out what was wrong. I would never ever go back.
Hi Gleds ~~ So you are busy learning languages. Good for you. I hope you can master a couple of them ~~
ReplyDeletemaybe Spanish and German. So you must still be toying with the idea of travelling overseas.
Thanks for your message. Not only 5 year old kids get ear-ache. But mine has quite gone now. I get one occasionally but the application of some heat over it usually fixes it. Do hope you are doing well my friend.Glad you are enjoying your music machine. Take care, Be well
and safe. Regards, Merle.
Jeannie: would that have been hep A then? That's sposed to be spread by food/dirty water by mouth ~ unlike other hepatitis which needs IV drugging or getting one up the ... to spread
ReplyDeleteHey it is catchy. Not like la Bamba which is catchy annoying and tacky, this is catchy, annoying, tacky and KITCH haha!!
Merle: I know I was only joking. It is pretty rare though surely in grown-ups? I've only had it once at about 17. Glad it's gone. Nasty business
I don't know any Spanish songs...I don't count La Bamba, that's a pop song. I love their Flamenco dancers...all that sultry twirling and stamping to a guitar and castenets...ooh, gives me the shivers.
ReplyDeleteDamn ye Gleds. I visited this morning but blogger wouldn't let me comment and I've been humming these three in my head all friggin' day! NO . .they're not good . . .speshially "Vera the Spaniel"! Not happy!
ReplyDeletePussinboots: I heard a thing about Flamenco on the radio. The reason the singers have such passion is the pain ~ of being a gypsy social outcast, working in 45C heat "in the shade" (as if there was any shade except a straw hat in the fields) and so on. It was fascinating and gave real "insight" ~ well as much as a pale English boy who never did a day's work in a field in his life can have.
ReplyDelete(Though I DID do 3 weeks' river bank pruning in the hot summer of France. But that was all worthwhile for the free baguettes, cheese and "vin rouge" we got at lunchtime ~ haha!!)
Baino: but what about Porque te Vas? My Dad brought that home from honeymoon in Spain (2nd marriage when I was 10) 2 Jeanette tapes. They are classic!!
I chose crap AND kitch music... La Bamba is just crap. Also these 3 have Spanish phrases as titles/key phrases in the song which is why I call them "Spanish" even though 1 and 3 are half in ENGLISH and George Baker Selection were DUTCH~!!
You know that George Baker is DUTCH? :-)
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Oh aye!! (Well he doesn't sound Spanish!!!)
ReplyDeleteI just thought that added to the entertainment ;->...
That's why I put "Spanish" in inverted commas before songs...
ReplyDelete"una paloma blanca" was big hit here in Montreal Quebec Canada also.
ReplyDeleteMark: see you can't escape it anywhere!!
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