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NormanKliman -> RE: mystery songs (Nov. 12 2009 10:05:17)
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- you may well ask!
Hey, does that mean that it's your website, Estevan?[:)]
Yeh, I hadn't noticed Mi Barca. Unless it's a coincidence, Juan recorded that in 1962, I think, with Caracol, as you said. I was hoping you'd jump in on this, as you seem to be a "bean" authority![:D]
There are many, many recordings from not too long ago that we'll never hear. Of course, I'm hoping that I'm wrong about that, but even modern players like Gerardo and Riqueni have some hard-to-find recordings. I've got a bunch of low-profile cassettes (including El Chocolate's all-time best recording, which I've never seen anywhere else): unassuming looking items that you might have found 15-20 years ago on display in one of those revolving racks in a roadside diner or service station (in Albacete...) I bought them when I was living in an even more unassuming-looking apartment (I probably didn't look too good, either[:D]). As poor as a church mouse, but I'd scrape together a few hundred pesetas every week (a handful of coins) and buy a cassette or two. Sorry, not trying to wax nostalgic, it's just that there have been an awful lot of recordings made over the years and it's nearly impossible to track down all of them. In 78 rpm recordings alone, there are easily over 5,000. Researchers like Blas Vega and Norberto Torres state flat out that they're not able to draw many conclusions because they don't know how many more recordings are out there.
So just imagine how many vinyl recordings must have been made. For example, anyone ever heard of the recording that Manolo Sanlúcar did with Terremoto? They say that Manolo even made a recording with Pastora Pavón, and he confirms the story in his autobiography.
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