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"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. The song describes war as futile and gruesome, and criticises its glorification. This is exemplified in the song by the account of a young Australian serviceman who is maimed during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World ...
During World War I, the song Old Gallipoli's A Wonderful Place used phrases from this song as a basis for some of its verses. Verses in the Gallipoli song include: "At least when I asked them, that's what they told me" and "Where the old Gallipoli sweeps down to the sea". Australian baritone Peter Dawson popularised the song in the 1920s.
Albums. 1969: Piero ("Mi viejo") 1970: Piero ("Pedro Nadie") 1972: Coplas de mi país 1973: Para el pueblo lo que es del pueblo 1975: Folklore a mi manera 1975: Sinfonía inconclusa en la mar
A Ballad for Çanakkale (Çanakkale türküsü) is a Turkish folk song about the Battle of Gallipoli which occurred during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula. It was arranged by Muzaffer Sarısözen, with the lyrics of a local bard, İhsan Ozanoğlu , of Kastamonu .
Several of the songs on the album have Asian themes, in sound or in content, including "Summer in Siam", "The House of Gods" and "Sayonara". The song "Lorca's Novena" draws on MacGowan's affinity for Spain (particularly Almería, which he had discovered years earlier when filming Straight to Hell), and the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa (born 2 August 1947), known professionally as Massiel (pronounced), is a Spanish pop and protest singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la", being the first performer from Spain to ever win the contest. She released her first recordings in 1966.
The song "La Llorona" is featured in the 2017 Disney-Pixar film Coco; it is performed by Alanna Ubach as Imelda Rivera and Antonio Sol in a guest appearance as Ernesto de la Cruz in the English version and Angelica Vale and Marco Antonio Solis in the Spanish version. In the film, Imelda sings the song during the sunrise concert as she attempts ...
The album's title is the literal Spanish translation of the song's title. Recording sessions for the eight new Spanish tracks took place in January 1980 at Stockholm's Polar Music studios. Swedish/Spanish journalist Ana Martinez del Valle assisted lead vocalists Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad with pronunciation. [3]