60's Beat Black is Black cover in HINDI & as a backing track for El Luis (Flamenco)

60's Beat Black is Black cover in HINDI & as a backing track for El Luis (Flamenco)




The 60's hit song "Black is Black" had a notorious rhythm track that everybody can immediately recognize. In this post I present two recordings you may not know that are based on Black is Black.

First comes 70's flamenco star El Luis , a very interesting artist born in Galicia Spain, that however grew up in Argentina and finally started his career in Spain. His recording "yo te lo digo cantando" is one of my favorites. However, here we are to talk about another of his hits called Beibe, no huyas mas ( Baby, don't escape anymore). It takes the rhythm track of black is black and delivers on top of it a raw and tough flamenco vocal performance with new melody and lyrics. The recording is from 1977.

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Next is a Hindi Bollywood cover version of Black is Black that appears in an indian movie from 1970. The vocals are perfomed by India's most famous female singer Asha Bhosle. More a novelty than anything. Listen:

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All this said I wanted to mention that Dario's Mike Kennedy Site was the very first site to trace the discography of this German - Spanish Singer and his old band Los Bravos . The site started in the year 2001. Anyway due to the closing of a computer server, I've moved that old site to a new location. It is not updated since 2005, year in which we heard the last new release material by Mike which was the "Midnight Storm" album. The banner below is the link to my Mike Kennedy Site

http://www.dariointernet.com/mikekennedy.html