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"Por Un Segundo" (English: For a Second) is Aventura's first single from their fifth and final studio album The Last (2009). The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart which was the first time for Aventura. The song was awarded "Tropical Song of the Year" at the Premios Lo Nuestro 2010 awards.
Some occasional and very small liberties have been taken with the music to make it flow better in English. Date: 2008: Source: Own work: Author: The original score is by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo le Pera. The translation is by Adam Cuerden, who also created the score based on the public domain Image:Por_una_cabeza_1.gif and Image:Por_una_cabeza ...
" Le Chant des Girondins" ('The Chant of the Girondins') was the national anthem of the French Second Republic, written for the drama Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge by the writer Alexandre Dumas with Auguste Maquet.
One of Oswald Durand's most famous works, the 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a Haitian woman of that nickname. Michel Mauléart Monton, an American-born pianist with a Haitian father and American mother composed music for the poem in 1893, appropriating some French and Caribbean fragments to create his tune.
The song was adapted in 1954 by American songwriter Jack Lawrence, who wrote English lyrics that are considerably different from the original French ones. The English language title arises in part from a misinterpretation of the French title, as "pauvre Jean" was taken for the same-sounding "pauvres gens", which translates as "poor people." [2] [3]
Walter Ferguson was born in Guabito, Panama on 7 May 1919, the oldest of six children.His father, Melsha Lorenzo Ferguson, was a Jamaican farmer for the United Fruit Company, and his mother, Sarah Byfield Dykin, a Costa Rican seamstress and baker of Jamaican descent.
Scoubidou is the title of a French song, translated from the American "Apples, Peaches and Cherries" composed by Abel Meeropol [1] which was a hit when recorded by Peggy Lee in the United States. The song was originally written and recorded in English.
"Entre Nous" ("Between Us" in French) is the fourth track on the 1980 album Permanent Waves by progressive rock band Rush. It was also released as a single. The song appeared on the concert album Snakes & Arrows Live, released on April 15, 2008. Rolling Stone magazine called the song a "straight-ahead rocker with an artfully segued acoustic ...