Songs You May Have Missed #740

01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

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Maná: “Cachito” (1992)

Despite their having won four Grammy awards, eight Latin Grammy awards and being the most successful Latin band of all time, Maná aren’t a household name to most Americans.

The affecting ballad “Cachito” (“A Bit”) is from ¿Dónde Jugarán Los Niños?, an album that sold over ten million copies worldwide and became the best-selling Spanish-language rock album of all time.

The lyrics:

Tan solo un adicto
Un adicto de tu Sol
Y es que con solo un cachito
Un pedacito de tu luz
Yo llegaría al cielo
O me caería al suelo
Por ti amor

Tan solo
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Soy un adicto de tu corazón

Pedirle a mi cabeza
Que deje de pensar en tí
Es casi como pedirle
A mi corazón que deje de latir
Mas bien olvida eso
No no repitas eso, te pido amor

Tan solo
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Soy un adicto de tu corazón

Chiquitita de mi corazón
Chiquitita de mi corazón
Chiquitita de mi corazón
Chiquitita de mi corazón

English translation:

Just an addict
An addict of your Sun

And the fact is that
With just a little bit
A little piece of your light

I’d get to heaven
Or I’d fall to the ground
For you love

Oh, no

Just a little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
An addict of your heart (oh-oh-eoh)
A little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
I’m addicted to your heart

Ask my head
Stop thinking about you (you)
It’s almost like asking
To my heart to stop beating (beating)

Rather forget that
Don’t repeat that
I ask you, love

Just a little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
An addict of your heart (oh-oh-eoh)
A little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
I’m addicted to your heart

Little girl in my heart
Little girl in my heart
Little girl in my heart
Little girl in my heart

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2026/02/28/songs-you-may-have-missed-823/

Songs You May Have Missed #739

16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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Gillian Welch: “In Tall Buildings” (Live) (2000)

About a year before John Hartford’s death, a group of artists including Hartford himself gathered to pay tribute to his 30 years of writing and playing music.

From A Tribute to John Hartford Live at Mountain Stage comes this highlight, and in this writer’s opinion Gillian Welch infuses her take on “In Tall Buildings” with a melancholy missing from the writer’s own version.

Hartford is perhaps best known to the uninitiated as the writer of Glen Campbell’s 1968 breakout hit “Gentle On My Mind”.

Songs You May Have Missed #738

10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

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Emily Kinney: “B or C for Effort” (2023)

Emily Kinney nicely captures the arc of hope turning to resignation in a relationship with someone who “kinda sorta maybe tried his best”.

From 2023’s Swimteam album.

Oh, by the way, Kinney is Haley Cole on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Beth Greene in The Walking Dead.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2026/02/17/songs-you-may-have-missed-820/

Songs You May Have Missed #737

23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

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The Highwomen: “Crowded Table” (2019)

Thanksgiving Day, a time for full hearts, reflection, and of course crowded tables, seems an appropriate time to serve up this 2019 offering from Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires.

Songs You May Have Missed #736

15 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

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Benny Bell: “Sadie and Sammy” (Year Unknown)

Benny Bell, born Benjamin Zamberg, was a pioneer in the field of Jewish comedy who sang in English, Yiddish and Hebrew. During a prolific run in the 1930’s and 40’s he released self-produced, self-written albums–on his own record label, no less.

Well after Bell’s peak of popularity, the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento radio program began playing his 1946 song “Shaving Cream”, which led to notoriety beyond New York City for the first time in his career.

It also led to a re-release of the song in 1975, making Benny Bell the most unlikely one-hit wonder since Tiny Tim. “Shaving Cream” reached #30 in the US charts.

Bell continued to perform live into his 90’s.

Songs You May Have Missed #735

02 Jan 2023 Leave a comment

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The Bills: “Bamfield’s John Vanden” (2005)

Folky Victoria, B.C. quintet the Bills eschew the usual mandolin, fiddle and accordion for an infectious a cappella sea chantey.

Though this song sounds for all the world like a traditional, it was actually written by the Bills’ Chris Frye in honor of his great uncle, Bamfield, British Columbia coastal fisherman John Vanden, who passed away in 2011 at age 96.

Since its appearance on 2005’s stylistically diverse Let Em Run LP, the song has found favor (and inspired cover versions) in folk circles, so maybe it will attain “traditional” status.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/03/12/songs-you-may-have-missed-47/

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