"There's a time in life for Hoagy Carmichael. There's a time in life for Claude Debussy. There's a time in life for Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a time in life for Destiny's Child. All these things have their moment." ~Elvis Costello
02 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: amigos para siempre, los manolos
Los Manolos: “Amigos Para Siempre” (1992)
Los Manolos are ten friends from Barcelona whose airplane wing shirt collars make them a risk to go airborne while performing, Or walking briskly.
Their mirror shades, Elvis sideburns, neon suits and bell-bottoms certainly lend them a distinctive…uh, flare.
And their music, like their look, isn’t for everybody. But if you happen to like rumba with a rock attitude, they could be the life of your next partido.
“Amigos Para Siempre”, whose music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, may sound familiar. It was written for Sarah Brightman and Spanish tenor José Carreras to sing at the closing ceremony of the the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games.
Los Manolos themselves also performed at those same ’92 closing ceremonies.
This version of “Amigos” reached number 3 in the Spanish charts.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/11/12/songs-you-may-have-missed-230/
02 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: john mayer, new light
John Mayer: “New Light” (2018)
How this soft, silky slice of faux-80’s soul-inflected disco pop missed the Hot 100 is a mystery to me–like the appeal of so many artists who do inhabit the upper reaches of said singles chart.
The video is a hoot too. In an Instagram post Mayer joked: “I needed to make a video for ‘New Light’ but nobody could agree on a budget, so I went to a place downtown and made this with a company that usually does birthday and Bar Mitzvah videos.”
Yup, that’s pretty much what it looks like.
26 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in Did You Ever Realize Tags: ava nax, bon jovi, kings & queens, you give love a bad name
Every Moment Has A Song 