Funny how?Blanco wrote:
What, do I amuse you?
Funny how?Blanco wrote:
Thanks, man!Bruno wrote:Cool list, Blanco!
Well, here in Mexico it is acclaimed, but not too much. By the way, here it is more common to hear the Los Lobos's version, probably because the Spanish sounds more natural. But yeah, It has always intrigued me that, as you say, the Ritchie Valens song is more known among English speakers than any other Spanish language song. Actually, in the project I mentioned before (something like Acclaimed Music, but with music in Spanish and Portuguese), Valens's La Bamba ends in place 75 among the best songs, meanwhile, the Los Lobos's version finished in 66th place, so it seems they are close.Listyguy wrote:Nice list Blanco, but where's "La Bamba"? It's arguably the most well known song of the Spanish language by non-speakers.
How about the original record version?Blanco wrote:Thanks, man!Bruno wrote:Cool list, Blanco!
Well, here in Mexico it is acclaimed, but not too much. It is more common to hear the Los Lobos's version, probably because the Spanish sounds more natural in this version. But yeah, It has always intrigued me that, as you say, the Ritchie Valens song is more acclaimed among English speakers than any other Spanish language song. Actually, in the project I mentioned before (something like Acclaimed Music, but with music in Spanish and Portuguese), Valens's La Bamba ends in place 75 among the best songs, meanwhile, the Los Lobos's version finished in 66th place, so it seems they are close.Listyguy wrote:Nice list Blanco, but where's "La Bamba"? It's arguably the most well known song of the Spanish language by non-speakers.
I do not know if I would call it the original record version, Bruce. I think it's very, very possible that older recorded versions have existed, but did not reached our days, or at least have not reached this U.S. company called Youtube.Bruce wrote:How about the original record version?
It's the first time a version of the song was released on a record. It's a Mexican release.Blanco wrote:I do not know if I would call it the original record version, Bruce. I think it's very, very possible that older recorded versions have existed, but did not reached our days, or at least have not reached this U.S. company called Youtube.Bruce wrote:How about the original record version?
It's the same. How do you, or the person who made the site, can confirm that? Any reliable source? There a database of Mexican recordings of the first 20 years of the last century? You're not confusing "The oldest record found" with "The first recording made"?Bruce wrote:It's the first time a version of the song was released on a record. It's a Mexican release.Blanco wrote:I do not know if I would call it the original record version, Bruce. I think it's very, very possible that older recorded versions have existed, but did not reached our days, or at least have not reached this U.S. company called Youtube.Bruce wrote:How about the original record version?
http://www.originalsproject.us/
So what was the first recording?Blanco wrote: Ok, after some quick research, I found that there are versions of the song recorded on phonograph cylinders that were sold in the first years of the last century.
It depends on your definition of "recording". But defining exactly what was the first recording is not really important, at least not in this song. Do not look at the first record as if that was the start, better look at the history of the song and how it fades until the seventeenth century.Bruce wrote:So what was the first recording?Blanco wrote: Ok, after some quick research, I found that there are versions of the song recorded on phonograph cylinders that were sold in the first years of the last century.
It is to Dick Rosemont and to me.Blanco wrote:It depends on your definition of "recording". But defining exactly what was the first recording is not really important, at least not in this song.Bruce wrote:So what was the first recording?Blanco wrote: Ok, after some quick research, I found that there are versions of the song recorded on phonograph cylinders that were sold in the first years of the last century.
Good for you.Bruce wrote:It is to Dick Rosemont and to me.
Do you know the artists and labels and numbers of any of the cylinders?Blanco wrote:Good for you.Bruce wrote:It is to Dick Rosemont and to me.
No, but maybe you should ask the collector Alfonso Villaseñor, I think he could tell. Or try to contact the Fonoteca of the INAH ( http://www.inah.gob.mx/fonoteca ).Bruce wrote:Do you know the artists and labels and numbers of any of the cylinders?Blanco wrote:Good for you.Bruce wrote:It is to Dick Rosemont and to me.
Nice list! I might have to check out some of these pre-50s pieces that I'm not terribly familiar withRomain wrote:I pushed until 1900.
Excellent "game" !
1900 - Jean Sibelius - Finlandia
1901 - Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
1902 - Gustav Malher - Symphonie n°5
1903 - Erik Satie - Je te veux
1904 - Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly (Humming Chorus)
1905 - Claude Debussy - La Mer
1906 - Charles Ives - Central Park in the dark
1907 - Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonie n°2
1908 - Alexandre Scriabine - Le poème de l'extase
1909 - Sergei Rachmaninoff - The Isle of the Dead
1910 - Gustav Malher - Symphonie n°10
1911 - Igor Stravinski - Petrushka
1912 - Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé
1913 - Igor Stravinski - Le Sacre du printemps
1914 - Irving Berlin - Play a Simple Melody
1915 - Jean Sibelius - Symphonie n°5
1916 - Mistinguett - Mon Homme
1917 - L. Daniderf - Je cherche après Titine
1918 - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Tiger Rag
1919 - Darius Milhaud - Le bœuf sur le toit
1920 - Maurice Ravel - La Valse
1921 - Edgard Varèse - Amériques
1922 - Carl Nielsen Symphonie n°5
1923 - Darius Milhaud - La Création du monde
1924 - Georges Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue
1925 - Louise Groody & Jack Barker - Tea for Two
1926 - Sergueî Rachmaninov - Concerto pour piano n°4
1927 - Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
1928 - Maurice Ravel - Boléro
1929 - Georges Gerswhin - An American in Paris
1930 - Maurice Ravel - Concerto pour la main gauche
1931 - Maurice Ravel - Concerto pour piano en sol majeur
1932 - Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
1933 - Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather
1934 - Sergueï Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini
1935 - Fred Astaire - Cheek to cheek
1936 - Jean Sablon - Vous qui passez sans me voir
1937 - Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli - Minor Swing
1938 - Artie Shaw - Begin the beguine
1939 - Joaquin Rodrigo - Concerto d'Aranjuez
1940 - Django Reinhardt - Nuages
1941 - Duke Ellington - Take the "A" train
1942 - Charles Trenet - Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?
1943 - Fred Astaire - One for my baby (and One more for the road)
1944 - Anna Marly - Le Chant des partisans
1945 - Dmitri Chostakovitch - Symphonie n°9 (Leningrad)
1946 - Charles Trenet - La mer
1947 - Mahalia Jackson - Move On Up a Little Higher
1948 - Yves Montand - A Paris
1949 - Yves Montand - Les Feuilles Mortes
1950 - Edith Piaf - Hymne à l'amour
1951 - Elmore James - Dust my broom
1952 - Narciso Yepes - Jeux Interdits
1953 - Georges Brassens - Bancs publics
1954 - The Penguins - Earth Angels
1955 - Mouloudji - Le déserteur
1956 - Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On
1958 - Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Good
1959 - Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
1960 - Edith Piaf - Non, je ne regrette rien
1961 - Bourvil - C'était bien (au petit bal perdu)
1962 - John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
1963 - Serge Gainsbourg - La Javanaise
1964 - The Animals - House of the rising sun
1965 - The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'
1966 - The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
1967 - Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world
1968 - Michel Polnareff - Le bal des Lazes
1969 - David Bowie - Space Oddity
1970 - David Bowie - The Man who sold the world
1971 - Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte
1972 - David Bowie - Starman
1973 - Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
1974 - Brian Eno - On some Faraway Beach
1975 - Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
1977 - David Bowie - Heroes
1978 - The Rolling Stones - Miss You
1979 - The Clash - London Calling
1980 - Prince - Dirty Mind
1981 - The Specials - Ghost Town
1982 - Prince - 1999
1983 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1984 - Prince - Darling Nikki
1985 - Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
1986 - Prince - Kiss
1987 - Prince - Sign o' the Times
1988 - La Mano Negra - Mala vida
1989 - Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
1990 - Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
1991 - Les Rita Mitsuko - Les amants
1992 - Radiohead - Creep
1993 - Björk - Venus as as boy
1994 - Blur - Girls and Boys
1995 - Prince (The New Power génération) - Hallucination Rain
1996 - Eels - Novocaine for the soul
1997 - Radiohead - No Surprises
1998 - Alain Bashung - La nuit je ments
1999 - Blur - Tender
2000 - Air - Playgroung Love
2001 - Radiohead - Pyramid Song
2002 - The Knife - Heartbeats
2003 - The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
2004 - Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
2005 - Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
2006 - Gossip - Standing in the way of control
2007 - MGMT - Kids
2008 - Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
2009 - Benjamin Biolay - Brandt Rhapsodie
2010 - Kavinsky - Nightcall
2011 - The Black Keys - Lonely Boys
2012 - King Tuff - Loser's Wall
2013 - Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2014 - Damon Albarn - Everyday robots
This is the only one we agree on, but you have the title wrong. It's "Junker Blues."Mindrocker wrote:[b
1941. CHAMPION JACK DUPREE - Junker's Blues
I'm sure this one is familiar : "L. Daniderf - Je cherche après Titine". One of the first american movie star popularized this song.Mattceinicram wrote:
Nice list! I might have to check out some of these pre-50s pieces that I'm not terribly familiar with
Agree, and I'm happy to not be the only one to love Kaiser Chiefs.Bruno wrote:Nice list, bonnielaurel.
Oh my, thank you so much. This list is great!Honorio wrote:Blanco, I like a lot your list, I'm very interested in your project. I got many lists but mainly of music coming from Spain (that probably will ruin your overall because of non-comparable weights). Anyway maybe you could find interesting a list that Rock de Lux published in 1998 for their #150 issue. It was called "the best 150 songs of the XX Century".
I like that idea. Or else I'll post one here eventually.prosecutorgodot wrote:Can I start a separate thread for the A-Z lists?