"Y'know, one day, Tito Puente will be dead, and you'll say, "Oh, yes, I've been listening to his work for years."
Posted on 03/04/2025 12:25:56 PM PST by Michael.SF.
France
** La Marseillaise – Scene from Casablanca selected more for the video clip than anything else.
** Dominique -Sœur Sourire (The Singing Nun)
** Je Ne Regrette Rien -- Edith Piaf
** La Mer (Beyond the Sea) – Charles Trenet
Italy
** Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) -- Domenico Modugno
** Prisencolinensinainciusol -- Adriano Celentano-- This one deserves a comment: It was written by the Italian singer, but contains no English or Italian words. It mimics what English sounds like to a non-English speaking Italian.
Japan
** sukiyaki -- Kyu Sakamoto
Mexico
** la bamba-- ritchie valens I found no video of Richie Valens performing this song.
Cuba
** guantanamera -- joseito Fernandez
Germany
** Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife) – Lotte Lenya Note: In Bobby Darren’s famous version he pays tribute to Lotte Lenya in the revised lyrics
"Y'know, one day, Tito Puente will be dead, and you'll say, "Oh, yes, I've been listening to his work for years."
Not interested in more multi-culturalism.
From The Sun King ending:
Quando para mucho mi amore de felice corazon
Mundo paparazzi mi amore chicka ferdy para sole
Cuesto obrigado, tanta mucho, que/cake and eat it, carousel
How about a British band with singing in Sanskrit? Complete with a sitar.
https://youtu.be/QX588KuOTiI?si=hSW-taCC9d7b1KmV
The background ‘riff’ always reminds me of Heart of Glass.
Today I learned that Obrigado is Portuguese. If only I knew a Portuguese waitress who could help me make sense of the rest of it. I need to get out more.
Good song. Good harmony.
Mas Que Nada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05w5ch9l6zI
How about a bit newer song:
Macarena
https://youtu.be/LPYw3jXjd74?si=zo31b_nSYVfZdlds
Older one:
La Bamba
https://youtu.be/BycLmWI97Nc?si=p7vyeFNDHzahLHLK
Sorry... I just realized La Bamba is there already
It’s been forever since I heard Suo Gan. It’s a Welsh lullaby.
Try North Boston................
Here is a Japanese disco group but the song is in English.
Smile singing “My Samurai”
https://youtu.be/QzcvRDWgRIE?si=gFHhkDP5wU7OGV_i
Grande Amore, Il Volo, Italy
Vietato Morieri, Erma Meta, Italy
The Light, Roc Chen, China (instrumental)
Challa, Rabbi Shergill with Shah Ru Khan, India
Love of Cang Lan, Faye Chan, China
Off the top of my head...
“Nella Fantasia” is a song sung in Italian based on the theme “Gabriel’s Oboe” from the film “The Mission”. The music is by composer Ennio Morricone and lyrics by Chiara Ferraù. In this recording it is sung by Chloe Agnew of Celtic Women.
https://youtu.be/vuWdP9ClmZo?si=zZNL71i47gG15AAT
That first song in Japanese to be a top hit in the US ——Sukiyaki—— was one I hadn’t thought of in decades until hearing it as I had a music network oldies on a few minutes.
NPR story:
Song was about lost love and sadness of the singer.
“The lyricist Rokusukay Ey was looking back on the failure of the protest movement in Japan,” he says.
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