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In reply to the discussion: What is your favourite song in another language? Right now [View all]aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)63. I remember that
I was a young boy then living in Germany (my dad was stationed there in the Air Force) and you did hear it a lot. Great tune.
This Italian tune from 1962, Guarda Come Dondolo (look at how I swing) is one I've listened to very often because it appears in one of my favorite movies of all time, Dino Rissi's masterpiece, Il Sorpasso. This film is incredible, hysterically funny and tragic as well and has been hailed as the first buddy road picture featuring rock music of the era, predating Easy Rider by several years. Vittorio Gassman gives the absolute best performance of his life as the loveable asshole who lives by his sheer audacity and effrontery.
I have to second your choice of Guantanamera. Fantastic choice. But the version I prefer is the one I first heard as a boy on the radio in the 60s, by The Sandpipers (even though they sing it with a slight American accent). I love the background singing voices.
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There are little bits in my ear that were vibrating that had never been touched before.
applegrove
Oct 2013
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Soundtrack from the film Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968) ("Svezia, inferno e paradiso) sauna scene
Brother Buzz
Oct 2013
#47