2011-07-28
2011-07-27
LOS 3 DE CASTILLA - CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP reloaded
Los 3 de Castilla repeating entry. This song, "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" was performed much times from the same year of its appearance, 1971, by its composer Lally Scott, and was popular in 1972 by the cover of Middle of the Road, becoming then UK number one chart hit.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep short history at Discomaniaclub
2011-07-26
LOS PEKENIKES - EL TIEMPO VUELA reloaded
Los Pekenikes again. Now, with another instrumental, "El tiempo vuela", a 1969 cover of "Time is tight" by Booker T & The MGs. I insert a Youtube video with the great Al Jackson on drums, before his dead by shotgun.
Everybody has his own music heroes. As to me, Al Jackson and Max Weinberg are the mine on drums. Enjoy!
DÚO DINÁMICO - QUINCE AÑOS TIENE MI AMOR
Manuel de la Calva Diego (Barcelona, February 15, 1937 - ) and Ramón Arcusa León (Barcelona, December 10, 1936), or El Dúo Dinámico, are one of the most well-known pop band in whole Spain and Latin America since 1958 till today. They started the fan phenomenon in Spain, and all their songs are remembered by all Spaniards today like the first day. Today, they entered in this blog with their 1960 hit "Quince años tiene mi añor" (My love is 15 years old).
Official webpage
Official webpage
2011-07-25
FATAL ERROR IN MY POST "TEEN TOPS - UNA CHICA YE YÉ"
Dears followers,
In my post TEEN TOPS - UNA CHICA YE YÉ I commited a fatal error. This song is NOT of Teen Tops, but Marta Sánchez y Olé Olé, a cover this band did in 1990. Thanks to the correction done by Guszamora, I could take account of this. Please, see the post and comments here.
THANK YOU, GUS.
By the way, let me upload all covers I had of "La chica ye-yé", and few videos below.
In my post TEEN TOPS - UNA CHICA YE YÉ I commited a fatal error. This song is NOT of Teen Tops, but Marta Sánchez y Olé Olé, a cover this band did in 1990. Thanks to the correction done by Guszamora, I could take account of this. Please, see the post and comments here.
THANK YOU, GUS.
By the way, let me upload all covers I had of "La chica ye-yé", and few videos below.
ADAMO - MIS MANOS EN TU CINTURA
Adamo again. Today with, probably, the most danced love song in Spain: "Mis manos en tu cintura", a 1966 super-hit. When this song is being listening by the people, all of them look at nowhere, and arise a little smile, while a shooting of love memories is incoming.
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EXCEPTION 6 - ZYDECO MUSIC
Louisiana. Zydeco players (1938)
My Exception number 6 is devoted to the Zydeco music. Born from the Creole music, has a hard history in its beginnings, but, due to the efforts of a lot of people that loves this music (and also Cajun, Creole, Bayou, and others minority music in US), Zydeco music is now a reference in whole southern USA. Zydeco music has the needed happiness for support the every-life of excluded people from 19th century. Dancing one-step, or two-step... what a music!
When I need be up, I listen a Zydeco song... and it runs!
Just enjoy!
When I need be up, I listen a Zydeco song... and it runs!
Just enjoy!
Zydeco Gris Gris - Michael Doucet & Beausoleil Download
Zydeco Gris Gris - Beausoleil Download
My Toot Toot - Fats Domino & Doug Kershaw Download
Buckwheat Zydeco - Zydeco Boogaloo Download
Beausoleil - My Toot-Toot Download
Clifton Chenier - Hot rod Download
Queen Ida & Her Zydeco Band - My Girl Josephine Download
The Texas Zydeco Slide
Zydeco dance at Crawfish Festival 2009 Lafayete Louisiana
One step at Doghill
TEEN TOPS - UNA CHICA YE YÉ
Nothing to say about this historical rock band from Mexico. Simply fabulous. They covered "La Chica ye-yé", perhaps the icon yeyé song in Spanish.
Enjoy this great perfomance!
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CRISTINA Y LOS STOP - TRES COSAS HAY EN LA VIDA (SALUD, DINERO Y AMOR) reloaded
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DOMENICO MODUGNO - LA DISTANCIA
Domenico Modugno (Polignano a Mare, January 9, 1928 - Lampedusa, August 6, 1994) was an Italian complete artist: singer, writesinger, composer, guitarist, actor, director, and politician. With a long career, full of success both in europe and US from late 50s, he recorded "La lontananza" in Spanish in 1970. A beautiful love song, of course.
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2011-07-24
LOS PEKES - MUÑECA DE CERA reloaded
Los Pekes launched this cover of "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest winning song, by France Gall. María Esther, Pepe, Jesús, Pedro, and Luis had a short discography under Zafiro Records in the sixties, as a lot of Spanish ye-yé bands. And, as a lot of Spanish bands, performed international hits, even in the same year, as the case is: Tú serás my baby = Be may baby; Do wah diddy, diddy...
Los Pekes Discography:
Los Pekes Discography:
- Z -E 525 Laddy Lo - Al claro de luna - Lo se - Hay tantas chicas en el mundo
- Z -E 604 Tu serás my baby - De chica en chica - Te quiero, baby - De mi mejor amigo
- Z - E 636 Do wah diddy, diddy - Hago mal en quererte - Por tí no puedo dormir - La quiero
- OO - 3 Tu serás my baby - De mi mejor amigo
- OO - 46 Te quiero, baby - De chica en chica
- OO - 81 Do wah diddy, diddy - La quiero
- OO -82 Hago mal en quererte - Por tí no puedo dormir
- NO - 3 Quieres bailar la bastella - Bailemos la bastella
- NO - 9 La bastella de Tierce - Ding dong bastella
- NO - 11 Chao, chao/Downtown - Muñeca de cera
- NV - 106 "La bastella": Bailemos la bastella - La bastella de Tierce -Quieres bailar la bastella - Ding dong bastella
- NV - 108 Chao, chao/Downtown - Muñeca de cera - Triste sin tí - Un día y otro.
ALICIA GRANADOS - SOY ASÍ reloaded
When she was 12, the Manresa (Barcelona) singer Alicia Granados Navarrete won the 1966 Festival de Benidorm with "Nocturno". But two years ago, in 1964 launches her hit "Soy así", a ye-yé song.
Enjoy!
LOS MISMOS - PON UNA CINTA AMARILLA... reloaded
Los Mismos again, now performing "Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973. It reached number one on both the US and UK charts for four weeks in April 1973 and number one on the Australian charts for seven weeks from May to July 1973. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK.
Los Mismos live version
LOQUILLO Y LOS TROGLODITAS - EL RITMO DEL GARAGE
Loquillo again. Now singing "El ritmo del garage" with another Mexican-Spanish star, Alaska. I remember seeing Alaska in her beginnings, when she was playing directly from the school, still dressed as scholar. What times I was living on! Or also dancing this song at Carucho in Torrelodones.
Facebook "Yo también iba a Carucho y a la Cage (Torrelodones)"
(I also gone to Carucho and La Cage - Torrelodones)
Facebook "Yo también iba a Carucho y a la Cage (Torrelodones)"
(I also gone to Carucho and La Cage - Torrelodones)
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BRUNO LOMAS - AYER CUMPLISTE LOS DIECISÉIS reloaded
Bruno Lomas again. Now with his 1966 own hit "Ayer cumpliste los dieciséis". This song is an example of the way he had in rocking good music.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
LOS DATSUNS - OTRA MEJOR QUE TÚ reloaded
Los Datsuns
Peruvian sixties rock and roll and pop bands were very very good and full of energy, both covering hits and with their own songs. A good example were "Los Datsuns" from Huancayo, but also "Los Siderals" from Ayacucho and "Los Spectros" from Cuzco. I link few videos below.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
OTRA MEJOR QUE TÚ
Los Siderals
Los Spectros
LUZ ELIANA - CORAZÓN LOCO reloaded
Luz Eliana Barraza Valenzuela (1947 -) is a Chile-born singer from Quipué, near Valparaíso. She won the 1968 Festival de Viña, and she is one of the most recognized voices of the Chile New Wave since 1962. Today you can listen "Corazón loco", a cover of Little Tony "Cuore matto", a song which sang in the Festival of San Remo in 1967. The song become a complete hit, and was performed by a lot of bands and singers during the following two decades.
Enjoy!.
Luz Eliana at Musica Popular Chile
2011-07-23
RADIO FUTURA - DIVINA ESTÁS
The 80s famous Spanish band Radio Futura launched this hit in 1980. I upload this romantic song due to its sixties compasses and melody. Nevertheless, some people argues that this song is just a cover of T. Rex, Ballrooms of Mars (1972) - it is up to you. Anyway, many people remember themselves dancing this song in the darkness of a pub in "la Moncloa".
DownloadSONIA - AQUÍ EN MI NUBE reloaded
The catalan ye-yé singer Pilar Espí, or Sonia (Barcelona, 1948-?), had an ephimere career, from 1963 to 1966, due to the less attention to her music into the Spanish panorama. But he had a beautiful voice, as you can hear in this cover by the Rolling Stones "Get off my cloud" (1965).
EN MI NUBE2011-07-19
2011-07-18
BRUNO LOMAS - IRRESPONSABLE reloaded
Emilio Balldoví Menéndez (June 14, 1940 - August, 1990), or Bruno Lomas, was a Valencian Spanish rock singer, not yet merely recognized in Spain. Since he was an authentic rock singer, not only singing, but living his life as well, he suffered successes and falls, reloads, and the dead his life had reserved for him: a car crash. He has a lot of good original songs, and also a good of hits covers, such as the one today I share: the cover of 1966 Tom Jones hit "Not responsible"
EXPULSADOS - ONE FINE DAY reloaded
Expulsados is an Argentine rock band followers of The Ramones style. Formed in 1993, they have 5 Lps and the 6th is devoted to the 50s and 60s bands and singers they have been influenced by. This 6th Lp (Altoparlantes 2) has the song today I upload, "One fine day", a cover of a popular song by songwriters Gerry Goffin ans Carole King which become a hit in 1963 by the girl group The Chiffons.
Enjoy this amazing version!
Los expulsados at El sitio de Rock en la Argentina
Expulsados at Purevolumen
Enjoy this amazing version!
Los expulsados at El sitio de Rock en la Argentina
Expulsados at Purevolumen
2011-07-17
FLAMENCO POP-ROCK
I was thinking on how I could explain some particulars the Spanish Sixties Music has. One of them is what I call "Flamenco pop-rock" (FPR). The FPR started in the Sixties and today is listening in a lot of little pubs (see the image above: Pub Lennon at La puebla de Montalbán-Toledo), and popular festivities. In others blogs, writers say that this music started with Spanish singer Encarnita Polo. I suppose that if I say that, thanks to the FPR, we can put together since Peret to Kiko Veneno, since Encarnita Polo to Juncal y sus Calistros, or since Bambino to Massiel, most of them do not agree with me. "Acid Rumba", "Gypsy Grooves", "Rumba ye-yé", or "Flamenco ye-yé" are just few names this music received. And also I suppose that everyone takes this kind of music in his own way. Anyway, as historian that I am, I can not forget its existence, and high importance in the Spanish sixties and seventies scope. FPr embraces a lot of music styles and brush them with a flamenco touch, since english covers to Spanish folk songs.
You have below few examples of the amplitude that this music had, an has. I will follow labelling FPR in the future.
Enjoy all these beautiful songs!
Encarnita Polo - Paco, Paco, Paco (1969) Download
Kiko Veneno - Memphis Blues Again, 1995 (cover of Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, by Bob Dylan, 1966) Download
Marisol - La Tarara Download
Juncal Y Sus Calistros - Tequila (1971) Download
Los Planetas covering "Podría volver" (2004) by Bambino (1985) Download
Kiko Veneno - Memphis Blues Again, 1995 (cover of Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, by Bob Dylan, 1966) Download
Marisol - La Tarara Download
Juncal Y Sus Calistros - Tequila (1971) Download
Los Planetas covering "Podría volver" (2004) by Bambino (1985) Download
EXCEPTION 5 - EDDIE HODGES - RAINNIN IN MY HEARTH reloaded
Eddie Hodges (1952 - ) is my Exception 5 with "Rainin in my Hearth", an 1964 explosive song. Eddie appeared in Frank Kappa 1959 movie "A Hole in the Head", along with Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
RAINNIN IN MY HEARTH
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