Showing posts with label La Paloma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Paloma. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2018

Odds and ends

Egg Sandwich on the go

Crack an egg into a coffee mug, sprinkle in some cheese and beat it with a fork. Microwave for 45 seconds, then scoop the cooked egg onto an English muffin (toasted, if you can). You're out the door with a filling sandwich in hand in less than 5 minutes! Just make sure you rinse out the mug before the egg is permanently caked on.

LDL cholesterol is not associated with cardiovascular disease.’

Danger of Statins
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5727481/Statins-increase-peoples-risk-incurable-motor-neurone-disease-100-times.html

Roald Amundsen


African Samurai

La Paloma accordion
https://youtu.be/5JGgy-FXjf8

Monday, April 20, 2015

La Paloma

"La Paloma" is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was composed and written by the Spanish composer from the Basque region Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) after he visited Cuba in 1861. Iradier may have composed "La Paloma" around 1863, just two years before he died in Spain in obscurity, never to learn how popular his song would become.
"La Paloma" belongs to a genre of songs called "Habaneras," a musical style developed in 19th-century Spain that is still today very much present in the form of folk songs and formal compositions, particularly in the Northern Basque Region and East Coast (Catalonia and Valencia) regions of the country. Like all "Habaneras," its characteristic and distinct rhythm reflects the fusion of the local Cuban songs that the Spanish sailors of the time brought back with them from their travels to the island, with the rhythm structure of the flamenco “tanguillo gaditano” (original from Cádiz, Andalusia). Very quickly "La Paloma" became popular outside of Spain, particularly in Mexico, and soon spread around the world. In many places, including Afghanistan, Hawaii, the Philippines, Germany, Romania, Zanzibar, and Goa it gained the status of a quasi-folk song. Over the years the popularity of "La Paloma" has surged and receded periodically, but never subsided. It may be considered one of the first universal popular hits and has appealed to artists of diverse musical backgrounds.[1] There are more than one thousand versions of this song, and that together with "Yesterday" by the Beatles, is one of the most recorded songs in the history of music.
Please click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :- 

Victoria de los Angeles, "La Paloma" (de Iradier)

Nana Mouskouri & Julio Iglesias - La Paloma - In live

André Rieu in Mexico. La Paloma.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Billy Vaughn, Silvery moon, La Paloma

Billy Vaughn - These two pieces were played again and again to much appreciation on the radiogramme in the male medical students common room, in the early 1960s in Colombo. I hope it makes you feel nostalgic.
Click on each of the web-links below and relax:-

1. Silvery Moon:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5yyQu1m1c&feature=youtube_gdata_player


2. La Paloma:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGMNYh9Na4