MARIA ELENA

Created on 19/02/2004
Latest update on 09/03/2024

Artist: Hermanos Castilla
Author: Lorenzo Barcelata
Label: Victor (Mexico)
Year: 1934

Serenade to the wife of Mexican interim president Emilio Portes Gil who reigned between '28 and '30. Copyright: 1932 (Peer publishing).

Covers:

1934:

Orquesta Pajaro Azul

1934:

Felix Tamez

1936:

Cuartete Caney [vocal: Panchito Riset]

1940:

Lorenzo Barcelata

1940:

Lawrence Welk [first English version; lyrics: Bobby Russell]

1940:

Adolph Hofner & his Texans

1940:

Abe Lyman & His Californians

1941:

Helen O'Connell

1941:

Gene Autry

1941:

Wayne King

1941:

Lawrence Welk

1941:

Jimmy Dorsey [vocal: Bob Eberly]

1941:

Tony Pastor [also top 10 US]

1941:

Eddy Duchin

1945:

Andy Russell

1957:

Indios Tabajaras [re-recording from '63 n°1 B]

1958:

Luis Mariano

1958:

Jim Reeves

1960:

Flamingos

1960:

Chet Atkins

1961:

Norman Luboff

1964:

Tante Leen [as Zolang Jij Van Me Houdt]

1964:

Marty Robbins

1966:

Don Gibson

1966:

Roland Alphonso [ska version]

1968:

Gigliola Cinquetti

1972:

Ry Cooder

1975:

Sonny James

1986:

Tail Gators

1991:

Fausto Papetti

1999:

Cesaria Evora

2002:

Michael Bublé

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