Mark Pentleton

Sorry this is late – not just late in the day, but a day late! For the first time this year I completely forgot about publishing my song! Over the past week I’ve been working in France and the daily songs were preloaded and publishing automatically, so my song for Sunday completely slipped my mind. [...]

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Today’s song was originally written in Spanish in 1931 by Gonzalo Roig and Agustin Rodriguez. I first heard the Spanish version of the song on Linda Ronstadt’s Frenesi album, and as a traditional bolero it has been performed by many Spanish-language singers from Trio Los Panchos to Julio Iglesias. An English version of the song, [...]

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A lovely romantic song today, first recorded in 1946 by Nat King Cole. Since then it has been covered by many different artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin and in 1986 by Linda Ronstadt.
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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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