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Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on March 31, 2006, 09:01:32 pm ---It's the beautiful spanish song playing during Jack's venture into Mexico. I don't know who originally composed the song, but it's Gustavo Santaolalla's arrangement, and performed by Rick Garcia.
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I wasn't sure if this was common knowledge or not, so I haven't bothered mentioning it before. When I first saw BBM, I immediately recognised "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" as being Spanish for "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps", which was a song originally written and performed by none other than DORIS DAY? It may also come as a shock that the Doris Day version is actually very cool - I think it was in the film Strictly Ballroom which is why it appears on the Baz Luhrmann compilation album: Something For Everybody. Here's a link for a very brief excerpt: http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B00000634X001004/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_004/102-1757470-2627319. When you read the lyrics it becomes clear why it's in Brokeback Mountain:
You won't admit you love me
And so, how am I ever to know
You only tell me
Perhaps perhaps perhaps
A million times I ask you, and then
I ask you over again
You only answer
Perhaps perhaps perhaps
If you can't make your mind up
We'll never get started
And I don't want to wind up
Being parted, broken hearted
.
Lynne:
Doris Day! I do not think that was in my own common-knowledge bank! Neat!
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: Aussie Chris on April 01, 2006, 06:11:18 am ---
--- Quote from: starboardlight on March 31, 2006, 09:01:32 pm ---It's the beautiful spanish song playing during Jack's venture into Mexico. I don't know who originally composed the song, but it's Gustavo Santaolalla's arrangement, and performed by Rick Garcia.
--- End quote ---
I wasn't sure if this was common knowledge or not, so I haven't bothered mentioning it before. When I first saw BBM, I immediately recognised "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" as being Spanish for "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps", which was a song originally written and performed by none other than DORIS DAY? It may also come as a shock that the Doris Day version is actually very cool - I think it was in the film Strictly Ballroom which is why it appears on the Baz Luhrmann compilation album: Something For Everybody. Here's a link for a very brief excerpt: http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B00000634X001004/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_004/102-1757470-2627319. When you read the lyrics it becomes clear why it's in Brokeback Mountain:
You won't admit you love me
And so, how am I ever to know
You only tell me
Perhaps perhaps perhaps
A million times I ask you, and then
I ask you over again
You only answer
Perhaps perhaps perhaps
If you can't make your mind up
We'll never get started
And I don't want to wind up
Being parted, broken hearted
.
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yep, Doris Day's version as played in Strictly Ballroom was my first exposure to the song as well. I've also heard it sung by Nat King Cole, used in In The Mood For Love. This rendition, as arranged by Santaolalla, is my favorite so far.
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: starboardlight on April 02, 2006, 03:43:10 am ---<snip> This rendition, as arranged by Santaolalla, is my favorite so far.
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Totally, but we may be just that little bit biased - I know I am! ;)
fernly:
Phil,
Thank you so much for BBM Radio. It's introduced me to many artists and songs that are now among my favorites, and hearing music from the score that isn't on the CD is wonderful.
Other songs of Emmylou Harris that I'd like to suggest for consideration, if they haven't already been, are Boulder to Birmingham, Born to Run, One of These Days, Beneath Still Waters, Together Again, and Wayfaring Stranger.
And the album Beyond the Missouri Sky by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, especially the song Spiritual which (forgive the repetition if this is old info) that Annie Proulx wrote that she listened to over and over while writing the flashback paragraph.
Thanks again for, well, everything you've done here at BetterMost.
Lynn
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