AN EARLY HIT OF THE ROLLING STONES WITH A BONUS SPANISH VERSION

IF YOU LIKE BLUES, HERE'S A SONG FOR YOU TODAY. ENJOY IT!

FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF EUROPEAN POP MUSIC: N'AVOUE JAMAIS BY GUY MARDEL (FRANCE)

'AS TEARS GO BY' IS A ROLLING STONES CLASSIC BUT AS WITH MANY OLDIES, THERE WERE VERSIONS OF THE SONG IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, EVEN IN COUNTRIES THAT NO LONGER EXIST LIKE CZECHOSLOVAKIA. HERE WE HAVE AN ITALIAN VERSION, A SPANISH VERSION BY A GROUP FROM COSTA RICA AND THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN VERSION.

AFTER COMPLETING HIS MILITARY SERVICE, ELVIS RELEASED AN ALBUM THAT CONTAINED THIS SONG BUT I HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY ABOUT IT. MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN THE CASSETTE TAPES HAD NOT BEEN INVENTED YET, THE WAY TO RECORD SOUND IN TAPE WERE BIGGER AND HEAVIER MACHINES WITH BIG REELS OF TAPE AND USING AN EXTERNAL MICROPHONE. THOSE WERE MOSTLY FOR PROFFESIONALS AND WERE EXPENSIVE, NOT EVERYBODY HAD ONE OF THOSE BUT THERE WAS ONE IN MY HOME. I WAS VERY YOUNG AND I HAD A FRIEND WHO WAS IN A MUSICAL GROUP THAT PLAYED ROCK IN SPANISH. ONE DAY HE CAME WITH A GUITAR AND ASKED ME TO DO A DEMO RECORDING OF A SPANISH VERSION OF THIS ELVIS SONG FOR THEM TO WORK ON IT. SO I HELPED HIM. DAYS LATER HE BROUGHT THE TAPE BACK TO ME AND SAID 'THANKS'. MANY YEARS PASSED AND ONE DAY, WHEN CLEANING OLD STUFF, I REDISCOVERED THAT OLD TAPE AND THE MACHINE STILL WORKED. I KEPT IT. IT'S A LONG STORY. HE MAY BE DEAD BY NOW. I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS BUT I'M MAKING THAT DEMO TAPE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I PROMISED OLDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, NOT ONLY THOSE WELL KNOWN SONGS THAT WERE RADIO HITS IN THE U.S.A. THIS ONE IS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EUROPEAN POR MUSIC. CHARLES AZNAVOUR, FROM FRANCE, SINGS ONE OF HIS HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s: 'ET POURTAUNT'. MOST EUROPEAN SPEAK MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE AND AZNAVOUR COULD SING IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN FRENCH. HERE WE INCLUDE HIS SPANISH VERSION OF THE SAM,E SONG.

JUST THINK ABOUT IT: A POPULAR SONG, A RADIO HIT, WITH LYRICS TALKING ABOUT GOD, THE CREATION STORY, ADAM AND EVE, LOVE AMONG 1 MAN AND 1 WOMAN... THAT IS UNTHINKABLE IN TODAY'S WOKE CULTURE WITH CENSORSHIP EVERYWHERE BUT IT WAS POSSIBLE MORE THAN 6 DECADES AGO. THESE OLDIES CAN BE LIKE HISTORY LESSONS, BRINGING BACK HOW THE WORLD WAS MORE THAN 60 YEARS AGO.

MI RECORDS COLLECTION, STARTING IN THE 1950s, BY THE 1990s, I WAS ALREADY TAKING A ROOM FULL OF RECORDS BUT SINCE I STILL COULDN'T HAVE ALL THE MUSIC I WANTED, I USED TO RECORD FROM OLDIES STATIONS IN CASSETTE TAPES, WITH THE ADVANTAGE THAT I COULD PLAY TAPES IN MY CAR. BUT "PROGRESS" NEVER STOPS. CASSETE TAPES BECAME OBSOLETE, CARS DIDN'T COME WITH CASSETTE PLAYER ANYMORE. BY THE EARLY 2000s, WE STILL HAD A LEGENDARY OLDIES STATION IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA, REACHING NEW JERSEY, LONG ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT: IT WAS 101.1 CBS FM BUT ONE MORNING I TUNED IN AND IT HAD DISSAPEARED WITHOUT PREVIOUS NOTICE. I WAS GETTING OLD, I RETIRED AND MOVED TO THE U.S. TERRITORY OF PUERTO RICO IN THE CARIBBEAN. I COULDN'T BRING MY RECORDS COLLECTION BUT I BROUGHT MY CASSETTES AND DIGITIZED SOME OF THAT MUSIC. IT WAS A BIG TASK BUT HERE IS ONE SAMPLE FROM 101.1 CBS FM.

A CLASSIC OLDIE FROM THE 1950s IN 3 VERSIONS: BONY MORONIE, ORIGHINAL BY LARRY WILLIAMS, A COVER VERSION BY DOUG FOWLKES AND THE AIREDALES BUT THE MOST INTERSTING ONE WAS RECORDED LIVE IN MEXICO IN 2023 BY A REUNION OF OLD RETIRED MEXICAN ROCKANDROLLERS, REMEMBERING THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES. ENJOY ALL 3 IN THE SAME TRACK.

SUNNY BY BOBBY HEBB WAS A HIT OF THE 1960s DECADE AND LATER CAME DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SONG IN MEXICO BY 'LOS YAKI', ALSO A VERY DIFFERENT ONE IN ITALY AND IN THE DISCO ERA CAME A DISCO VERSION OF SUNNY BY BONEY M FROM JAMAICA.

3 IN 1 TRACK: BLUE MOON, SLOW ORIGINAL VERSION, THE ROCK AND ROLL ERA VERSION BY THE MARCELLS AND THE MEXICAN VERSION BY MANOLO MUNOZ

EVERYBODY REMEMBERS 'WOODSTOCK', 3 DAYS OF PEACE,LOVE AND MUSIC IN A FARM OF UPSTATE NEW YORK IN 1969, BUT FEW REMEMBER 'MAR Y SOL' FESTIVAL FEW DAYS OF PEACE, LOVE AND MUSIC BY THE BEACH IN PUERTO RICO, WITH ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN 1972. BACK THEN, ARTIST FROM AFRICA WERE ENTERING THE AMERICAN MUSIC MARKET. THIS IS OSIBISA, FROM AFRICA, PERFGORMING LIVE AT 'MAR Y SOL'.

THE LATE 1950s AND THE EARLY 1960s WAS THE AGE OF THE TEENAGE IDOLS, FRANKIE AVALON WAS ONE OF THEM. HERE IS A SONG BY FRANKIE AVALON (A BOY WITHOUT A GIRL) AND THE VERSION IN SPANISH BY LUIS BRAVO FROM CUBA.

SINCE THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL, MOST AMERICAN MUSIC HITS HAVE HAD VERSIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES AND OTHER COUNTRIES - TODAY'S OLDIE IS NOT AN EXCEPTION. HERE IT IS WITH THE MEXICAN VERSION.

ANOTHER LITTLE RICHARD'S SONG "STOLEN" BY ELVIS AND BROUGHT BACK TO US FROM BRITAIN BY THE BEATLES IN 1964.

BACK AT THE BIGINNING OF ROCK AND ROLL, BIG RECORD LABELS "STOLE" MUSIC FROM BLACK PERFORMERS AND RECORDED COVER VERSIONS BY WHITE ARTISTS AND SELLING LOTS OF RECORDS.

THIS IS THE SECOND IN A SHORT LITTLE RICHARD SERIES WITH SOME OF HIS EARLY HITS, SHOWING THAT HE WAS UNIQUE AND NO VERSION CAN COMPARE TO HIS ORIGINALS.

BEFORE ELVIS BECAME THE "KING OF ROCK AND ROLL", IN THE EARLY 1950s,LITTLE RICHARD WAS COMPOSING, PLAYING AND RECORDING THE SONGS THAT MADE ELVIS PRESLEY FAMOUS. ONE OF THE FIRST ROCK AND ROLL HITS BY LITTLE RICHAQD WAS LUCILLE. THERE WERE TWO RECORDED VERSIONS: THE RADIO VERSION AND A SECOND ONE THAT HAD MORE HORNS SOUNDS. HERE ARE THE TWO IN ONE TRACK. ENJOY IT!

A 60'S CLASSIC BY JOHNNY RIVERS AND THE MEXICAN VERSION BY LOS YAKI.

MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT POPULAR AMERICAN MUSIC USUALLY HAD VERSIONS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND BY DIFFERENT ARTISTS-THE SPANISH VERSION OF 'PERSONALITY' WAS DONE IN ARGENTINA BY BILLY CAFARO.