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Luego a Cueto voy para Mayari
El carino que te tengo
Yo no lo puedo negar
Se me sale la babita
Yo no lo puedo evitar
Cuando Juanica y Chan Chan
En el mar cernian arena
Como sacudia el 'jibe'
A Chan Chan le daba pena
Limpia el camino de pajas
Que yo me quiero sentar
En aquel tronco que veo
Y asi no puedo llegar
De Alto Cedro voy para Marcane
Luego a Cueto voy para Mayari
This is one of the sexiest songs. Ever. Sex like grownups. Sex like hot, faithful, horny spouses who’ve been fucking for 25 years.
Exactly! You have bloody NAILED IT greatly!
Masters of their trade. Saw them in Havana, what a performance and atmosphere.
You lucky duck. I wish that I could have been there too!
I was lucky enough to see BVSC with Ibrahim Ferrer a couple of months before he died. Live concert on the shores of lake Geneva was just magical.
You Lucky Duck! I wish I was sitting next to you at that show!!
Today you all went from Bach's Toccata in D right into CHan Chan. I never would have put those two together but it was AMAZING! Like biting into canteloupe wrapped in serrano ham, two seemingly incongruous flavors that work magically together. Well done, RP, well done.
I first cringed at the sudden stop of Bach's Toccata in D then my heart strings got this . I have a pair of Carlos Santana signature bongo drums in my house and from emotionally being moved to tears started playing on my drums and moved over to musical ecstasy As someone else said if this was drugs I am hooked . Thanks RP
Whenever I listen to this album I wonder where it all comes from. Definitely some salsa, and probably some tango, but then with the rock steady rhythm probably some blues. Probably missing a lot too, like African influences I don't know about. The upshot being just how cool and unique Cuban music is.
Curban "Son" music precedes all those except the Blues.
From Bach to this, I'm not sure Ive ever experienced a better transition!
Bill & Rebecca are quite good indeed!
And one of the most joyous nights of my life.
It's musical heroin
Oh my! Who knew Chan Chan was in D Minor until it was mixed on to the end of Bach's Tocatta?!?! Brilliant mix!
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Great story! We need more like this on RP (instead of bickering and negativity)!
Look after the king of R n R please
Look after the king of R n R please
Just did it again today--10-29-20
Look after the king of R n R please
And again today - 11.28.20 on the tape loop.
12/28/2020
Just did it again today--10-29-20
And again today - 11.28.20 on the tape loop.
Just did it again today--10-29-20
Very well said, Greiffenstein. I have used certain songs the way an addict might use drugs for my entire life.
I suspect this was not the first time.
Since it follows seamlessly from Toccata in D-minor
Skip forward 10+ years when I started dating a transplanted Puerto Rican and I played the album for her. It brought tears to her eyes, "these are the songs my mother sang to me as a child." Well, we have been married 15 years. I think, at least in part, I can thank the Bueno Vista Social Club for my wonderful wife (and life). My appreciation of her culture, music, and food is what made her fall in love me me. And this album still brings tears to my eyes.
Great story! We need more like this on RP (instead of bickering and negativity)!
Composed by the late
Compay Segundo
Skip forward 10+ years when I started dating a transplanted Puerto Rican and I played the album for her. It brought tears to her eyes, "these are the songs my mother sang to me as a child." Well, we have been married 15 years. I think, at least in part, I can thank the Bueno Vista Social Club for my wonderful wife (and life). My appreciation of her culture, music, and food is what made her fall in love me me. And this album still brings tears to my eyes.
Same here...bought it on a whim in a used CD store or some place...over the years I've played it a ton. It always brings a smile to my face when I hear one of the songs, especially Chan Chan.
Skip forward 10+ years when I started dating a transplanted Puerto Rican and I played the album for her. It brought tears to her eyes, "these are the songs my mother sang to me as a child." Well, we have been married 15 years. I think, at least in part, I can thank the Bueno Vista Social Club for my wonderful wife (and life). My appreciation of her culture, music, and food is what made her fall in love me me. And this album still brings tears to my eyes.
One of the best RP posts ever. Hope everything is going wonderfully for you two.
I've had a few epiphanies via Columbia House as well. It's funny: you'd wander through their catalog, trying to find enough discs to fill your initial order, and you'd take a no-hope flyer on something like Buena Vista Social Club. And occasionally that chancer would change all sorts of things for you...
Sure it is.
Parrot my caddy.
PS, Get in there before the good old US of A ruin it!!!
Keep up the good tunes.
Me too, Graham...
Keep up the good tunes.
same here ! I'm on a difficult project and want to give up every five minutes. RP is on to keep me from throwing everything through the window but it's doubled-edge, it's keeping me sane but also absolutely unproductive today. Thank you Bill !
More ? ;)
Skip forward 10+ years when I started dating a transplanted Puerto Rican and I played the album for her. It brought tears to her eyes, "these are the songs my mother sang to me as a child." Well, we have been married 15 years. I think, at least in part, I can thank the Bueno Vista Social Club for my wonderful wife (and life). My appreciation of her culture, music, and food is what made her fall in love me me. And this album still brings tears to my eyes.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Skip forward 10+ years when I started dating a transplanted Puerto Rican and I played the album for her. It brought tears to her eyes, "these are the songs my mother sang to me as a child." Well, we have been married 15 years. I think, at least in part, I can thank the Bueno Vista Social Club for my wonderful wife (and life). My appreciation of her culture, music, and food is what made her fall in love me me. And this album still brings tears to my eyes.
Here you go making me want to Salsa dance, instead of working. Sigh, back to it ...
Great music, my only wish were that having found this culture's music, Radio Paradise would search out at least a few other samples of Cuban music. Perez Prado the Mambo king or Mongo Santamaria are different but hey, let's Mambo!!!!! Buena Vista Social Club's one song is starting to get old. Épale!
Perez Prado's "Mambo #5" is on the playlist, but no Mongo Santamaria.
so you prefer your Cuban music sans Cubans?
No. Sans these particular vocalists...on this particular song.
Great music, my only wish were that having found this culture's music, Radio Paradise would search out at least a few other samples of Cuban music. Perez Prado the Mambo king or Mongo Santamaria are different but hey, let's Mambo!!!!! Buena Vista Social Club's one song is starting to get old. Épale!
Those romantic evenings are among the best memories I have.
A few years later the restaurant burned down and is never rebuild, so these memories are really history now.
10 years later and visiting some exquisite michelin-star restaurants on a much bigger budget, it's just an average restaurant to me. But the memories still remain the same. So does the music.
Those romantic evenings are among the best memories I have.
A few years later the restaurant burned down and is never rebuild, so these memories are really history now.
10 years later and visiting some exquisite michelin-star restaurants on a much bigger budget, it's just an average restaurant to me. But the memories still remain the same. So does the music.
Buena Vista Social Club -->
The success of both the album and film sparked a revival of international interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music in general. Some of the Cuban performers later released well-received solo albums and recorded collaborations with international stars from different musical genres. The "Buena Vista Social Club" name became an umbrella term to describe these performances and releases, and has been likened to a brand label that encapsulates Cuba's "musical golden age" between the 1930s and 1950s.
I have the VHS somewhere....
Yerba Buena - Electric Boogaloo
Beck - Que Onda Guero
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan.
Maybe it's just me??
si...
Ry Cooder
Well, you know, I really like the instrumental portion of this tune, I'd say I might give it a '9' on its own.
But throw in the vocals and it brings it straight down to a solid '1' for me.
Erm, you said it, from the land of the vague. ROTFLOL. Is that an order for a son montuno without the son? A rap without a rapper?
Puleeaase.
Well, you know, I really like the instrumental portion of this tune, I'd say I might give it a '9' on its own.
But throw in the vocals and it brings it straight down to a solid '1' for me.
so you prefer your Cuban music sans Cubans?
I find the slide guitar is too obtrusive and does not add anything to the song.
Just watched this DVD the other night. Good stuff. Couldn't agree more about the slide guitar. It's cool that Ry Cooder brought this all to pass, but he could have just stayed at the mixer board.
And now for something completely different:
Uh yeah no. This song is 10+. The brass in this song makes angels cry.
Well, you know, I really like the instrumental portion of this tune, I'd say I might give it a '9' on its own.
But throw in the vocals and it brings it straight down to a solid '1' for me.
I find the slide guitar is too obtrusive and does not add anything to the song.
Full points for utterly irrelevant bashing of an utterly unrelated artist.
Oh...Nice... Get the dancing feet going again today...and in my mind, travel to a sunny beach with music and ice cold beer...
Can't catch me... I'm already there... How's your cubical today-? Me-? I'm on the beach with sand between my toes
Tres player and singer Compay Segundo, a prominent figure in the ensemble, in 2002, a year before his death at the age of 95. Born Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz but given the nickname Segundo (second), he was traditionally a "second voice" singer providing a baritone counterpoint harmony. On the Buena Vista Social Club recording, Segundo provides both voices on the song "Y Tú Qué Has Hecho", written in the 1920s by his friend Eusebio Delfín, and composed the song Chan Chan, a four chord son (Dm, F, Gm, A) that was to become what Cooder described as "the Buena Vista's calling card".
It is incorrect to say that the artist of this song is Eladies Ochoa. "Chan Chan" is a son composition by Cuban bandleader Compay Segundo, written in 1987, and included on the album Buena Vista Social Club (16 September 1997), of the Band with the same name. Afrocubism is Afrocubism, Afrocuban All-Stars is Afrocuban All-Stars, Buena Vista Social Club is Buena Vista Social Club, Eladies Ochoa is Eladies Ochoa.
Some special predilection for E.Ochoa? Or is it because he is better known in the US? Ok, then why not include some song on air-play, the following albums-Solo of Eladies Ochoa, an artist who I also admire, as surely,
- Chanchaneando - 2000 (Para)
- Cuidadito Compay Gallo - 2001 (Egrem)
- Son De Oriente - 2001 (Egrem)
- Son De Santiago - 2003 (Edenways)
- Ochoa Y Segundo - 2003 (Edenways)
- Se Soltó un León - 2006
- La collección cubana: Eliades Ochoa - 2006 Compilation (Nascente NSCD 114
Sublime Illusion (29 June 1999). (Guest musicians include Ry Cooder.)
It's not just you.
Viva la Vida !
I appreciate this tune and everything, but when do we hear PT? It's been a while now, and I'm curious if the PSD button really works.
And an episode of "Dexter" (strangely enough S05E08)
I’m traveling to Cuba in three weeks, to (hopefully) see my mother’s birthplace in Guantanamo, a place I only know through her stories about it. And this song pops up, stopping me completely. Thank you RP.
Cool! Give us a full report. Thank You for sharing.