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Gary Young's avatar

He has a piano! No fair!!! Fight the good fight Maestro... I can hear Crowded House in his arrangement. I like his material!

I love the visuals in your narrative. I didn’t realize your childhood was Argentina. But then again in the picture of the sandy banking and a hut you were really little. Si, si, si makes total sense to my uneducated rural self.

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Richard Shindell's avatar

Yes, Cerati was a pop magician very much in the Finn brothers vein. And my prose thing left out that I was in Santiago, Chile in 1964. It's been corrected.

And I'll bet he wrote it on a piano. Some of those changes make way more sense looking down at a keyboard!

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Gary Young's avatar

And... he was huge. 4.7M listeners monthly. It’s so cool to keep learning new music through you and “Words and Music”. Never question the value of this site! I love it! Here’s my weekly thank you.

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Gary Young's avatar

Really liking Soda Stereo also! Is this all part of your musical influences or was it more based on the American folk scene?

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Gary Young's avatar

And I’ll stop now. The patriots are dying and I think they need me. Happy Sunday!

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Richard Shindell's avatar

Remember to duck.

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Elizabeth P's avatar

Such a great story! Si Si Si!

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Richard Shindell's avatar

Thanks Elizabeth.

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Olivia Rafferty ✨'s avatar

this cover really shimmers. i had to go and listen to the original Crimen but of course, once a version of a song hits your ears for the first time, it becomes the definitive. i loved it.

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David G Hinkes's avatar

Despite the trickiness of the chord progressions that was beautiful Richard!

A guitar might have sounded more 'blended', but the mandola gives it a rustic air that is endearing.

Yes, that does NOT sound like a very old song at all!

I like when you sing in your current land of residence's native tongue.

Sometimes I cannot get your "Cancion Sencilla" out of my head (along with all of the other masterpieces on that album as well!), but in a good and welcome way, not the negative 'ear worm' way! ;)

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Ben Gerrard's avatar

That’s an intriguing story and a lovely song.

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Richard Shindell's avatar

Thanks Ben.

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Joseph McMullen's avatar

Beautiful song!

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Naufragous Kat's avatar

Me encanta ese “Crimen.”

Even if I don’t yet know what crimen means. I’m not sure if “ese” was right, either.

I never had any Spanish to lose. I studied Latin in high school, like the nerdy kid I was (in part because I attended a school for two years at which everyone took one year of Latin, and I opted to stick with it for my language requirement). Now, in my mid-40s, I’m trying to learn, with only the aid of Duolingo. It’s slow going, but I actually understood a few tiny bits of this song, which is evidence that it is, indeed, going.

Who knows — perhaps by the time this Argentine artists project reaches fruition, I’ll be able to listen and understand the songs without a bilingual 4-year-old to translate them.

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Georgette's avatar

It's taken this long for me to be able to listen. Even though leaves are starting to come off the trees, my cell signal is not improving.. Anyway, it was worth the wait! Your rough interpretation is wonderful. It's kind of stuck in my head now. I hope your dream of an album of songs by Argentine musicians comes true.

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