Mark Pentleton

I’m really struggling on a very flaky internet connection tonight, so I hope this works! Today’s song is the Gloria Estefan song Anything for you from 1987. It was also recorded in Spanish as No te olvidaré (I won’t forget you). I hope you enjoy this, if it posts correctly!
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This song was originally composed in 1953 as ¿Quién será? (Who will it be?) by the Mexican composer and bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. An English-language version was released in 1954 by Dean Martin and since then it’s been covered by hundreds of artists, perhaps most famously by Michael Bublé in 2003. I hope you enjoy [...]

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Today’s song is the Mexican classic Perfidia, written in 1939 by Alberto Domínguez and was a hit for Xavier Cugat in 1940. It’s been recorded by many artists and I first heard it on the Nat King Cole Spanish album Mis Mejores Canciones. One of my favourite recordings is Linda Ronstadt’s version from the Mambo [...]

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Wales yesterday and Mexico today… Bésame mucho was written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez. For those of you who like singing along to my performances, here are the lyrics with a translation below. It somehow sounds so much better in Spanish, especially with that imperfect subjunctive in the second line!
Bésame, bésame mucho,
Como si [...]

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I’m changing style a bit for today’s song. The Girl from Ipanema, or Garota de Ipanema was written by Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1962, and became a worldwide hit when it was performed by Astrud Gilberto, accompanied by João Gilberto and Stan Getz. I hope you enjoy my version!
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