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Topic: New HSGA Tune - La Paloma - Kay Das |
Gerald Ross
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Posted 27 Oct 2009 6:40 pm |
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Here's a tune Kay played at Joliet!
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"La Paloma" was composed over 140 years ago by Spanish composer Sebastián Yradier after he visited Cuba in 1861. It became popular very quickly in Mexico, and soon spread around the world and gained the status of a quasi-folk song. Over the years its popularity 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 including opera, pop, jazz, rock, military bands, and folk music and from Luciano Pavarotti to Elvis Presley to Jack Jones and has been featured in a large number of films. I remember a rhumba version on 78 rpm shellac played on steel guitar by, I think it was, Roland Peachy. Translated to "The Dove", may this tune continue to bring to the world a message of peace.
This tune popped up at one of the recent late night Joliet HSGA jam sessions with Gerald Ross (ukulele), Diane Norman (guitar) and myself on steel interpreting it as a simple tango. Here is a slightly more formal version. Played on West Coast Steelocaster A6 tuning, Key of A.
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La Paloma - Kay Das
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
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James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Posted 29 Oct 2009 3:21 pm
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This is a song I have liked since I heard it played on Twin Sax in the 1950s in what was their version of a rock tune. Well played by Kay.
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Josh Cho
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New York, NY (orig. Honolulu, HI)
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Posted 29 Oct 2009 6:36 pm La Paloma's history
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Mahalo for making this music, Kay, it's beautiful. I especially like your background guitar, very well balanced with the steel.
I've read somewhere that this song has a history in Hawaiian music? Do you or any other forumite know?
Gerald, have you considered making the mp3's open in a separate window so we can read the player info while listening--same way they do it here on the Forum??
Josh
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Jamie O'Connell
From:
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2009 10:24 pm
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Gerald,
Now that's some serious backstory 
--Jamie |
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