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Probably, but I couldn't say for sure. Hey, I love Nat. Great singer. But his Spanish stuff just ain't happening for me. I appreciate the sentiment (apparently he had a lot of Spanish-speaking fans internationally and wanted to sing "to them". And no doubt it was an "extra sales potential" thing too). But hte guy sounds like he's singing the language phonetically. Not that he doesn't understand the words, I beleive he does. But he doesn't understand the language, the sound and phrasing of it. Compare him to somebody like Benny More or Tito Rodriguez (to name two "recognizable" names) singing in Spanish & it's no comparison as to who's getting "inside" the song and who's just "singing it". Great voice & still great phrasing, so long as you don't pay attention to the words and the language. Then, hey - he sounds like he's singing and phrasing Spanish words and songs like they're English words & songs. And they're not. Which is cool, I mean, like I said, I love Nat's singing, almost all of it, just not the Spanish stuff. It's really not his "fault", but as long as it's on record, hey...

Ya' know...there's just so many levels and layers of wrong in that....

And Ray Nance looking like he just came from a Greek Show!

Hey, it worked for Jimmy Knepper...

Nat King Cole covered it vocally. In Spanish, of course (do "we" know about Cole's series of Spanish-language recordings?). http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...rm=frooglemusic

I'm guessing that most vocal versions "worth" hearing would be in Spanish and also be no less than 35 or so years old. So proceed accordingly. Have a gander: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...;sql=17:1595005

Jesse Ward Carlos Ward B.T. Express

Yoko Ono Lisa Ono Shunzo Ono

Trust me, Al, there have been far worse things done to that song. Be thankful you've not heard them.

You're certainly welcome! I got exposed to a lot of those classic boleros playing a 5 hrs a night, six night a week Latin gig for a little less than a year back in the 70s. The cheese potential in a lot of them is pretty high, but done right, there is material ther that makes even the most "passionate" English-language love song sound like Barbie & Ken having a genital-less makeout session. But interpretation is everything (as is understanding the lyrics), and that means delivering the passion at face value, giving it the dignity of truly deep feeling and not succumbing to the wanton ejaculatory cheapness of one's fervor being raised past the point of self-control. That's the ticket for that stuff - conveying the sense of feeling the passion so deeply that you want to lose control, but not actually losing it, at least until the two of you are alone, out of sight, and out of the song. Burning passion combined with stoic dignity. Fire & ice, yin & yang. What's not to love? Yeah, I'm into singers, and I'm into lyrics, and I'm into interpretation. And in the right hands, I'm definitely into classic boleros. How I got into jazz I'll never know. :g :g (now if I could just find a copy of a song that was played nightly on the jukebox in that club, a bolero called "Mi Disgracia" (My Disgrace), hey, I would be happier than I already am...)

George Harrison Rex Harrison Noel Harrison

That was fast! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002W4SW...3076269-2590529 3 CD set for $13.00. Got the last one too! (but more on the way!

Dude - listen to this: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...33:wcfoxmwkldte Absolutely stopyou--dead-in-your-tracks romantic boleroistic beauty. I'm buying the CD as soon as I can find it.

"Tres Palabras" is a beautiful song, btw. I first got exposed to it playing in Latin bands back in the day, where it was always sung. The lyrics, like so many those of so many boloeros, are viscerally passionate w/o being cheap. You can (and I have) fall in love to this stuff. Check it out (translation, no doubt poor) is mine If anybody can translate better, please do. But I think that'll gets the point across until something better comes along. FWIW, I am in the habbit of requesting this song from local "mariachis" in the various Mexican restaurants I frequent. Very few of them know of the song, and of those who do, so far I've only found one or two that could actually play it. None could sing it. It's an old song, and quite popular among a certain age group, but definitely "of yesteryear". But damn is it gorgeous!

Bob Barker Beulah the Buzzer Minnie the Moocher

http://www.amazon.com/Plan-Osmonds/dp/B00005QD4X http://thefamily.com/thefamily.com/theplan...planlyrics.html I had never heard of this album until now. I feel blessed like that sometimes.

Fletcher Henderson Frank Castoria Ravi X. Laxman

Fine album. I like it plenty. And a not unsexy cover:

Please allow me to reiterate - Red Octopus TCBs just dandily. If the Bassatids flake/run out, take the few extra seconds it takes to give Red Octopus an email exchange or two and get the freakin' deal done while it's still there to get done.

How do you do that, Jim? Push the "Print Screen" key, past the screenshot into whatever, then crop accordingly. There's other. better ways to do it if you got the software. Snag-It, for instance. But hey.

I'd be loathe to question Harold Z too much on this type thing, y'all. The cat's a "been there done that" type player who's got ears that most of us don't when it comes to not only player's live sounds, but also player's recorded sounds & how they can be varied based on engineering, production, etc. If he says it's Jemmott, I'm going to need more that a CD booklet to convince me otherwise.

Ric Ocasek Ricky Ricardo Slick Rick

Iris Iska Delores

I've got a fat man in the bathtub with the blues. I'm thinking of dropping a radio in there with him, getting in my car, and seeing myself on tv later on. Wearing an Albert Ayler t-shirt while getting arrested at the golf course, of course.

Joseph Schlitz Mel Famey The Foo Bird