I just love this tune. Having grown up in Southern Calif. and living in the state all my life [except for the year I was 'on the road', 1972-3,] this song was and remains, inescapable. It is played so frequently in the Mexican-American barrios all over Calif., in the Mexican restaurants, in the Bars and on the Spanish language TV channels in Calif. that, spend an entire day in any of the aforesaid environs and
you will hear it before that day is over....and, funny thing is...I've never grown tired of it...maybe because it is so loved by the Mexicans and that they put so much passion into playing it and singing it.
"Malagueña Salerosa" ~ Presentacion de Kill Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvMh8YLdjN4&feature=related
...and another song know just by the singular word,
"Malagueña", which isn't the same song, but rather that of Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 6, 1895 - November 29, 1963) a Cuban composer and pianist who was to the Latin Americans/South Americans what George Gershwin was to North Americans ~ 'Yanks'. It was written in 1939. My father was in the Navy from June '37 to June '41 and during that time perfected his playing of a Chromatic Harmonica [In my opinion as great on the instrument as anyone I've ever heard...and all the more so ..because, He was my father.] an d my father would play this on his chromatic and of all the things about my dad I miss the most is that I'll never again get to hear him play this [and a number of other tunes such as "St. Louis Blues", "The Night Train", "Peg-O-My Heart"....] Written originally for piano, here is Mexican legend Jose Feliciano playing it on guitar which my father could also do adequately...or almost...as He did play that instrument a bit also, and did play bass well...and for a time when I was younger could play a few bars/lines of it myself.
Listen to all these tunes and I'll bet you'll be heading out the door to a Mexican restaurant for a cervaza and some chile rellenos soon after...score 25 points if you do...and score yourself another 25 points if you drive there in a Chevy El Camino.
Jose Feliciano - "Malaguena"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5jiAv38q0&feature=related
and as performed on electric guitar by the under appreciated
Roy Clark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxDQQDF6j0Y&feature=related
and as it was written for piano...
and performed by,
Thomas Tirino, Pianist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuQQxZ7TXaY
okay...I'm going to catch Hell from my Mexican American friends if I don't include the classic...the definitive version...
;..and, for listening, score yourself another 20 points....
and some panoche` for later
Javier Solis - "Malagueña Salerosa"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf4Sbl-r7Tc&feature=related