Los Manolos at Equinox (London)
2012-09-09
LOS MANOLOS - ALL MY LOVING
Los Manolos at Equinox (London)
2011-12-08
LAS SEVENTIES - YOU´RE THE ONE THAT I WANT reloaded
Anyway, enjoy!!
2011-11-24
UNDERSHAKERS - A TU VERA
"A tu vera" (In your side) is a popular Spanish song composed in 1964 by the master Solano and Rafael de León. The popularity of this song was such that was covered by Lola Flores at the peak of her fame and success; and has been a recurrent song among copla singers during more than the following 45 years.
Undershakers is a girl band founded in September 1994 and won the II Competition Rock City University of Oviedo. Later, they did an EP under Subterfuge Records. During the 90's they become one of the most popular alternative rock bands, and the greatest exponents of the "Xixón Sound" (you know Nosoträsh, Australian Blonde, Doctor Explosion, Nacho Vegas ...). Undershakers did a funny sixties sound till 2000, when they disbanded.
The cover of "A tu vera" recorded for the medium-length album "Sola" (Alone) in 1997.
DALIDA - FLAMENCO

I have seen that many people are looking for a very rare cover of "Flamenco", a 1965 hit by "Los Brincos" (see in this blog), realeased by Dalida. Here it is.
Dalida (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult life in France.[1][2] She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc.[3][4] Dalida performed and recorded in more than 10 languages including: French, Arabic, Italian, Greek, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish.
Renowned for the changes she wrought to the French and global music industry with her powerful and colourful performances, she is today still remembered by aficionados throughout the world. A 30-year career (she debuted in 1956 and recorded her last album in 1986, a few months before her death) and her death led to an iconic image as a tragic diva and renowned singer.
Le Rêve Oriental is a remix album by Dalida, released in 1998.
Tracks listing:
- "Quand s'arrêtent les violons" (Latino Mix)
- "Io t'amero" (Tres palabras) (Duet in Spanish with Sebastian Abaldonato)
- "Femme est la nuit"
- "Flamenco "Oriental" (Duet in Italian/French with Sebastian Abaldonato)
- "La Feria"
- "Lady d'Arbanville"

- "T'es fier de toi ?"
- "Aghani, Aghani" (Gitano, gitano) (Duet with Sebastian Abaldonato)
- "Salma Ya Salama" (Sueño Flamenco) (Duet in Spanish-Egyptian with Sebastian Abaldonato)
- "Ils ont changé ma chanson"
- "Akhsan nass" (1998 Version in Egyptian)
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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!

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


