Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

era mentira

song: Day Tripper
language: Spanish
performer: Los Yaki

Los Yaki were one of the biggest Mexican rock bands in the 60's. This is a garage-y yet faithful cover of Day Tripper.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

regresa

song: Get Back
language: Spanish
performers: Los Johnny Jets, Los Buitres

Mexican garage rock band Los Johnny Jets does a good cover of Get Back. Regresa is the "official" title translation (as seen on some Beatles releases in Spanish-speaking countries), but this translation is called Ven Ya ("come already").



Here's Que Va ("No Way!") by Venezuelan band Los Buitres:

Thursday, January 3, 2013

los xochimilcas

songs: She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, And I Love Her
language: Spanish
performer: Los Xochimilcas

I was surprised that there doesn't seem to be anything out there on Los Xochimilcas - not even a Spanish wikipedia page. From looking at the many YouTube videos of them, they seem to have been a popular - if not taken seriously - band that blended popular and Mexican musical styles with broad humor. A sort of Mexican Spike Jones or Mickey Katz. And like Katz, whose great talent for klezmer music was often overlooked due to his shtick, Los Xochimilcas were very talented musicians beneath the clowning. Their versions of these three Beatles songs reveal a sensitive ear for arranging and an expert incorporation of pop and Mexican idioms.

And they're funny too: The first video, a cover of She Loves You, begins with a verse in random English before switching to Spanish:
A one two three four five
Seven eighteen, seven eighteen
Kiss me once again
Is forever, is forever
And my sister! And my sister waits for me
Very happy, very happy, same to you!
The other two covers are instrumentals.





aquí, allá y donde sea

song: Here, There and Everywhere
language: Spanish
performers: Los Darts, Los Juniors, Los Tijuana Five

Three versions found on the intertubes, but I could only ID two. Los Darts formed in Venezuela in 1964 and are still together:



Los Juniors rocked around Mexico for most of the 60s:



And finally, this video, which has no info on its source by Mexican band Los Tijuana Five (h/t to commenter Odradek for the info):

y la amo

song: And I Love Her
language: Spanish
performers: Jose Alberto, Los Mustang, Los Apson Boys, Los Dayson, Los Hermanos Carrión

The first of our five Spanish versions of And I Love Her comes courtesy of Los Apson Boys, a Mexican band that formed in 1957, reached their height in the mid to late 60s, and are still performing:



Next up, Barcelona's Los Mustang:



Next, Mexican rock 'n' roll pioneers Los Hermanos Carrión:



From the Dominican Republic, "El Canario" ("The Canary") Jose Alberto:



And finally, back to Spain with Los Dayson:

Thursday, December 27, 2012

génesis

songs: A Day in the Life, All My Loving
language: Spanish
performer: Génesis

Not the best quality video, but worth a watch. Génesis was a popular Colombian band from the 70s, founded on a hippie commune, fusing rock with Colombian folk music (the pan pipes make an appearance here). Personally, I'd watch these guys over their British namesake any day.

todo lo que necesitas es amor

song: All You Need Is Love
language: Spanish
performers: Los Shippys, Los Buitres, Osiris Flores

Los Shippys were a Mexican group that formed in 1965, making lots of records in the 60s, including a bunch of Beatles covers in Spanish. Here's their 1967 recording of All You Need Is Love.



And here's a (very similar) version by Los Buitres, a Venezuelan band that released two full albums of Beatles covers in the late 80s - early 90s:



And finally, a nice acoustic solo cover by Mexican singer/songwriter/comedian/DJ Osiris Flores: