Trivia - Who Sang Guantanamera? The really pretty soft

[leftyladyfrommo]

version. Have it going thru my head this morning.

[peekaloo]

1. Celia Cruz?

damn now I have one ton tomato going through my head. :silly:

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Sorry about that - it is catching

That's not the group I'm trying to think of. It was really popular in the 70's I think.

[RagingInMiami]

3. Joseito Fernandez wrote it

Many sang it.

[XNASA]

4. The Sandpipers

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. That's It. That's It.

Thank you. Thank you.

I was trying to look it up and Pete Seeger also did a version. I'll bet that was good. I love pete Seeger.

[MissMillie]

6. yo so un hombre sincero....

:)

[bertha katzenengel]

7. One ton tomato! I need a one ton tomato!

One ton tomaaaaaaaaay - toe! I need a one ton tomaaaaaaaaay - toe . . .

:)

[MissMillie]

8. LOL... I remember that! but I don't remember where it's from!

:silly: Where did that come from?

[bertha katzenengel]

15. I have no idea. My sisters and I have sung that for years.

Sorry, MM :pals:

[Throckmorton]

21. Morecombe and Wise

British Comedy Duo

[vademocrat]

9. Joan Baez has a beautiful version of it

from her Gracias a La Vida album -

[cleofus1]

10. yes the sandpipers did the most popular version of it...

but trini lopez also did a very popular version of it...and it sounds very very good...

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[cleofus1]

12. really trini is the man

no need to look any further

[Jade Fox]

13. I've been wondering what happened to Night Train....n/t

[Jade Fox]

14. Do you know the origins of that song?

I have this idea (from somewhere) that is was a song born of the Cuban Revolution, a notion I confess I like just because it means that in the Mid-Sixties the Cuban Revolution made the Top 40!

[Hissyspit]

16. Here:

Original music by Jose Fernandez Diaz
Music adaptation by Pete Seeger & Julian Orbon
Lyric adaptation by Julian Orbon, based on a poem by Jose Marti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamera

"Guantanamera" ("girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song. The lyrics are based on the first poem in the collection Simple Verses by Cuban nationalist poet José Martí, adapted by Julián Orbón. The music was composed by José Fernández Díaz (1928). There are many versions of this song but the definitive one was written with one verse by Martí from his poem "Yo soy un hombre sincero".

The song has been performed by numerous individuals and groups. Cubans such as Celia Cruz and Dámaso Pérez Prado brought the song to the North American mainland, although many in the United States first heard the song performed by 1960s folk singers such as Pete Seeger, the Weavers and Joan Baez. The song was a hit for The Sandpipers in 1967. The Latin jazz bandleader Tito Puente has also recorded a version. It has been performed by jazz musicians such as the Paul Winter Consort, as well as by easy listening artists 101 Strings Orchestra. Other versions include ones by Los Lobos, Jose Feliciano, Julio Iglesias, a dancehall rendition by Yellowman, an instrumental version by the Ventures, a 'Back to the roots' rendition by former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt, and French versions by Joe Dassin and Nana Mouskouri. Hip hop musician Wyclef Jean made a remix of the song in 1997.

Lyrics
Spanish
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece la palma
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

English
I am a truthful man
From where the palm tree grows
And before dying I want
To let out the verses of my soul

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmín encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

My verse is light green
And it is flaming red
My verse is a wounded stag
Who seeks refuge on the mountain

Cultivo una rosa blanca
En julio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

I grow a white rose
In July just as in January
For the honest friend
Who gives me his open hand

Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace más que el mar
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

With the poor people of the earth
I want to share my luck
The stream of the mountains
Gives me more pleasure than the sea

[Jade Fox]

18. Thank you

[Jade Fox]

19. stupid computer dupe

[Hissyspit]

17. The did "Come Saturday Morning," too.

From 'The Sterile Cuckoo' with Liza Minelli. A fairly sad movie that dealt with some touchy topics for its time.

[cleofus1]

20. great song

D D9 D9sus4 D9 G G6 D
Come Sat - ur - day mor-ning,

D9 Am C G
I'm goin' a - way with my friend;

G C9 Am Am7 Am B7sus4 B7 Em
We'll Saturday spend til the end of the day.

A A9 Em
Just I and my friend -

G A7 DM7 D D6
We'll travel for miles on our Saturday smiles,

G F#m7 Bm
And then we'll move on;

G F#m Bm
So we can re - mem - ber

Em7 A A7 D D4 - D - G - G6
Long after Sat - ur - day's gone.


D D9 D9sus4 D9 G G6 D
Come Sat - ur - day mor-ning,

D9 Am C G
I'm goin' a - way with my friend;

G C9 Am Am7 Am B7sus4 B7 Em
We'll Saturday laugh more than half of the day.

A A9 Em
Just I and my friend -

G A7 DM7 D D6
Dressed up in our rings and our Saturday things,

G F#m7 Bm
And then we'll move on;

G F#m Bm
But we will re - mem - ber

Em7 A A7 D
Long after Sat - ur - day's gone.


Instrumental Coda:

D4 - D - G - G6 - D - D4 - D

[Taverner]

22. Everybody from Miami to Havana to Santiago

I always thought you had to sing that song to be considered for anything in Cuban music..