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"Begin the Beguine" is a popular song written by Cole Porter. Porter composed the song during a 1935 Pacific cruise aboard the Cunard ocean liner Franconia from Kalabahi, Indonesia, to Fiji. [4] In October 1935, it was introduced by June Knight in the Broadway musical Jubilee, produced at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. [5]
Begin the Beguine (Spanish: Volver a empezar) is a 1982 Spanish film written and directed by José Luis Garci, starring Antonio Ferrandis. The plot follows the story of a Spaniard who returns to his homeland after many years in exile when he wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Its original Spanish title, Volver a Empezar, means Starting Again.
The beguine (/ b ə ˈ ɡ iː n / bə-GHEEN) [1] is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. It was popular in the 1930s, coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique , where, in the local Antillean Creole language, beke or begue means a White man while beguine is the female form .
In July 1939, he recorded with Joe Loss' orchestra what would become his biggest-selling recording "Begin the Beguine", which sold over a million copies, the only recording by a British dance band vocalist to achieve such a triumph. Chick Henderson's five-year singing career came to an end with his final recordings in 1940.
Begin the Beguine is a studio album by Julio Iglesias, released in 1981 [1] on CBS. Track listing. No. Title Writer(s) Length; 1. "Begin the Beguine" (Volver a empezar)
After their version of "Begin the Beguine" became a hit in 1944, the group had three successful years. [3] "Begin the Beguine" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. [4] In 1947, Heywood was stricken with a partial paralysis of his hands and was unable to perform. [3] However, he made a comeback in 1951.
The power of the Beguine label is evident in the "watershed" moments of Beguine history, from its first appearance in the sermons of James of Vitry (the Beguine movement's earliest and perhaps most famous promoter), to its reference in the trial of the doomed mystic Marguerite Porete (who was burned at the stake in Paris on charges of heresy in ...
"Volver a Empezar" (song), a 1981 Spanish-language version, by Julio Iglesias, of "Begin the Beguine", written by Cole Porter Volver a empezar (film) , or Begin the Beguine , a 1982 Spanish film Volver a Empezar (TV series) , a 1994–1995 Mexican telenovela