The song is from 1958, from a highly successful group that cool people love to hate. BTW, did you know that only one original member is still alive? Did you know that he attended the same prestigious Honolulu high school that our president attended?
Don't ask for a translation because they do that for you.
The song ends with something "funny" about cats.
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My older brother and I loved this song as kids. We would never have thought of making my parents' albums into frisbees.
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"Coplas" means "verses" in Spanish, I think.
Great song, great group.
And there was a time it was very cool to like them, but they weren't Commies like Peter, Paul, and Mary, so the hipsters eventually turned their backs on them in the 60s.
PS I didn't know Bob Shane went to Punahou.
This was in my mom's stack of 45's. My sisters and I played it a lot.
All their old albums are on CD.
A lot more good songs like that.
I do like green peppers.
I'd like to introduce everyone to the Puppini Sisters.
My cat, who is wearing a sombrero and long pants, just flipped you off.
My favorite Kingston Trio song is The Sloop John B.
@ricpic: I must concur with Sixty that Brian Wilson significantly improved that song.
Puppini Sisters! Thanks for the intro, AprilA. After listening, I wondered where they fit in Chickelit's retro trip to the past and was surprised by the answer! Great sound.
But now, for something only partially different, from 1999.
It doesn't matter what prompted it, but I just did an internet image search for "gymnast nude."
That was a mistake.
Like they said on Seinfeld, there's good naked and there's bad naked.
I always suspected that those long sleeve outfits worn by the female gymnasts add a lot and I was right.
April Apple said...
I'd like to introduce everyone to the Puppini Sisters.
August 2, 2014 at 9:59 PM
If you listen to the rhythm of that song, it's a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier -- the danceability aspect. It's wholly cymbalic.
The Puppini bass line has a nice swing but the singing - Jesus God - strike me deaf! Oops, too late, but it is just one-and, two-and, three-and, four-and. Hideous eighth notes with only the occasion eighth note triplet thrown in to finish a phrase.
That is the opposite of dance music. Taj schools the Nazis.
Syncopated stride bass, triplet eighth notes in the upper register on the piano, inherent tension between the rhythms. Trilling!
Chicke- Music that makes you want to wiggle your fanny. (don't say that in Britain)
btw- this AM the cat is wearing giant bunny slippers and a tiara and she just flipped me off - so don't feel bad.
Sixty - wha? The voices are what make it. I know - to each their own.
Best latin music done by an American Group.
Bud and Travis Latin Album
It has mostly traditional music from Mexico in the era when my Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles were living and growing up in Mexico.
One of the best versions of one of my most favorite (and also rather obscure) song. El Caminante de Mayab by Los Panchos. The story behind the song writer Guty Cardenas is very interesting also
translation of the lyrics below on this site.
Buy the CD if you like this type of retro latin music. Trust me!
It's just one-and etc. March music. Dance music has to have some tension built into it.
I like my rhythm like Chick likes his -mers - poly.
Cette vidéo comporte mon petit frère Mamady.
Music that makes you want to wiggle your fanny. (don't say that in Britain)
There's a Low German verb for that -- kegelwackeln ;)
@Sixty: Polyrhythms from my yute:
Death Of Fiona
Hey Chick, I have heard of those.
Sixty: That one is related to the sportier Schwimmwagen.
Here's another shot, in action: link
I know. Spring a leak and they become der Sinkwagen.
Or forget to pop the drainplug on land and it morphs into der Stinkwagen.
Or when a family of Scincidae move in, it becomes the Skinkwagen.
*googles Scincidae*
Your humor is dry and not at all amphiguous.
And when it is abashed in, it becomes a Slinkwagen.
Perhaps it is best to allow this thread to scroll off the page before someone throws cold water on it.
No 60-G...the Kingston Trio are epic and this song in particular will last for ever.
Never said they wouldn't. Didn't even express an opinion about it.
60-G....I only said what I did because of your comment: "allow this thread to scroll off the page before someone throws cold water on it."
There is no cold water to throw.
Yeah, and apparently my Schrinkwagen joke was a pun too far.
Carry on.
I’ll tell you who pointed all our noses in the right direction, even the traditional performers. They got us interested in trying to put the good stuff out there—the Kingston Trio. They got me interested in it.
~Arthel "Doc" Watson
Even the endorsement of Saint Doc does not change my opinion. Which I will not state.
But I will say that for me, folk music and communism took over this country simultaneously.
Coincidence? I will leave that to others to sort out.
I think you're missing the point, Sixty, that the Trio were rather apolitical and they paid a price for that with the left.
I get it, and if the left hates them, I should like them. Enemas of my enemy and all...
I listened to them when they were current, they were entertaining, but it's not music I want to listen to now.
I'd rather listen to a complete unknown, like a rolling stone, traveling with a gun in every hand, or something. Scratch that - my hearing is not so far gone that I cannot hear ol' croakie's voice - damn, that Hibbings cracker can't sing worth a good gosh darn, doncha know?
Well, mystery that no one cares about solved. My auntie was a 60s flower child (now hard left) and had all the Kingston Trio albums in her teen years which she later gave to my mother, her older sister. We listened to them growing up and weren't huge fans, too folky, but always wondered why auntie, who was super folky at all times, like in your face with the guitar sing-alongs, would give away perfectly good albums. Seemed weird.
Now we know: UNDER THE BUS.
You are no longer a convenient vehicle for our messaging, Kingston Trio, be gone. Where have all the flowers gone?
April Apple said...
My cat, who is wearing a sombrero and long pants, just flipped you off.
August 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM
Most "cats" these days wear shorts and baseball caps.
rcommal spake: Thoughts are free. Actions...not so much. Right? We knew the difference.
Dot connector that I am, I feel compelled to connect a dot between fantasy and reality: link
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