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Does anybody know the year of release for "La Cucaracha" by the Gipsy Kings?

I can't find it on any of their albums.
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Wow, I thought SOMEONE here would be able to answer this!
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Neither AllMusic, nor Discogs, nor RYM know of an official release that includes this song. So, it may be some unofficial Internet-only release and in that case finding out the exact release year will be very difficult.
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I'm thinking that it may be from a movie soundtrack. Here it is by the way:

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Are you sure it's really them? I'm not a Gipsy Kings expert but it doesn't strike me like the right voices or that the instrumentation fits their taste. Wouldn't be the first time a song goes around the internet with the wrong credits !
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Nassim wrote:Are you sure it's really them? I'm not a Gipsy Kings expert but it doesn't strike me like the right voices or that the instrumentation fits their taste. Wouldn't be the first time a song goes around the internet with the wrong credits !
Infamously, there's a YouTube video attributing "Don't Worry, Be Happy" to Bob Marley! The number of people who seem to have accepted this unquestioningly is staggering.
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Nassim wrote:Are you sure it's really them? I'm not a Gipsy Kings expert but it doesn't strike me like the right voices or that the instrumentation fits their taste. Wouldn't be the first time a song goes around the internet with the wrong credits !
Yes, there several different videos of it, plus there are sites with the lyrics to it as the Gipsy Kings.
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Hymie wrote:
Nassim wrote:Are you sure it's really them? I'm not a Gipsy Kings expert but it doesn't strike me like the right voices or that the instrumentation fits their taste. Wouldn't be the first time a song goes around the internet with the wrong credits !
Yes, there several different videos of it, plus there are sites with the lyrics to it as the Gipsy Kings.
Are the Kings actually in any of the videos? As for the lyrics sites, is there any backup beyond simply saying, "Hey, here are the lyrics to this Gipsy Kings song"?
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As a fan of the Gipsy Kings: you have been done a bamboozle.
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StevieFan13 wrote:As a fan of the Gipsy Kings: you have been done a bamboozle.
Okay. I don't suppose anybody knows who the real artist is.
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Neither Shazam nor the google song recognition tool could find anything.
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Latin Masters?:
https://open.spotify.com/track/66nRcMr8 ... gmNEIjTRAg

This feels like a slightly different (karaoke) version, but came up when I ran Shazam...
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