GOLONDRINA, LA

Created on 21/12/2007
Latest update on 30/11/2023

Artist: Arturo Adamini
Author: Narciso Serradell Sevilla
Label: Edison
Year: 1898

From Mexico (Veracruz). Spanish for Swallow. Written in 1883. Lyrics are based upon a 17th century poem.

Covers:

1900:

Emilio de Gogorza [on Edison]

1901:

Gilmore's Band [on Columbia cylinder]

1906:

Carlos Francisco

1921:

Orquesta Max Dolin [from Cuba]

1922:

Prince's Orch.

1923:

Castillians

1928:

Paul Whiteman

1936:

Milton Brown & His Brownies

1938:

Xavier Cugat

1945:

Abe Lyman

1948:

Geraldo [as When You're In Love]

1948:

Joe Loss [idem]

1949:

Jozef Locke [idem]

1949:

Guy Lombardo [idem]

1955:

Chet Atkins [as guitar instrumental]

1959:

Caterina Valente

1960:

Jimmy Bell [as She Wears My Ring on Hickory; revamped by Felice & Boudleaux Bryant; reissued in '62 under his own name Jimmy Sweeney]

1962:

Roy Orbison [idem]

1962:

Nat King Cole

1964:

Johnny O'Keefe [Aussie hit as She Wears My Ring]

1964:

Mantovani

1965:

Edmundo Ros

1967:

Udo Jürgens [as Dein letzter Brief]

1967:

Solomon King [n°3 UK]

1968:

Ray Price [as She Wears My Ring]

1968:

Marc Dex [as Hier Ben Je Thuis]

1968:

Heintje [as Du Sollst nicht weinen]

1969:

Percy Faith

1972:

Aimable [as Comme un ruisseau]

1974:

Elvis Presley [as She Wears My Ring]

1974:

Johnny Jordaan & Willy Alberti [as Wanneer In Mexico]

1977:

Jokers

1980s:

Manuel & His Music Of The Mountains

1986:

Nana Mouskouri

2004:

Prinses Christina van Nederland [at Prince Bernhard's funeral; this was his favorite song]

Tish Hinojosa's and Linda Ronstadt's Las Golondrinas are different swallows.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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