Originally posted by Tony Rome:
Bill....Have you had a listen to the Paul Anka tunes I've recorded in Spanish...it's a little twist of a couple of oldies by Paul
you will know them...
Tony Rome
HI Tony,
I did get them and I was really impressed with the work, even though it is hard for me to get a picture of an Italian singing in Spanish
I think I have shared with you that in 1949 I lived in Mexico for a year at Rosarita Beach when it was only a beach, and played in the Stork club on Avenida Revelution. This was a tourist trap and we played 4 hours on and then had 4 hours off through 16 hours of the day and 7 days a week. I was blowing horns also in those days of having teeth
and I always had a fat lip that the lovely senoritas loved to kiss
I stayed on that job for a year because every month we got a new troupe of dancers and had to start all over again
I think I should have said I lasted a year.
Back to the point of this post. I spoke a hi grade of pure Castillian Spanish learned in school, mixed with Los Angeles Pachuco street slang. It seemed that most of our band was from Mexico city and they just couldn't understand me. I sang the chorus in the right key but the words and phrasing was wrong. they blocked the vocals off my score and then I just played horn rifs
Well, enough of that for now,
Keep sending us those great songs you have stashed away. We do appreciate them.
Best to you and yours,
Bebop
PS, I was trying to talk to a Mexican National that lives up my street a couple of days ago and he couldn't understand my Gringo English and I couldn't understand his Compesino Mexican. We ended up doing a lot of smiling, waving, noding of heads and pointing, etc.
TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING
B