#JAVIER SOLIS GREATEST HITS SERIES#

with a still popular series of recordings featuring vocalist Eydie Gormé, replete with a classic bolero repertoire.

Founded in New York in 1944, Los Panchos became the quintessential interpreters of romantic songs in the post-war era, recordings dozens of albums for Columbia Records and performing in concert worldwide. The genre had top exponents from other countries, most notably Rafael Hernandez of Puerto Rico, Alfredo Sadel of Venezuela, Julio Jaramillo of Ecuador, and Libertad Lamarque of Argentina.īut Mexico remained the focal point, especially after Trío Los Panchos established the preferred bolero format of three-part harmonies and three guitars, with light percussion backing. Others carried the romantic torch into the 1960s and ’70s, including bolero ranchero singer Javier Solis, mariachi megastar Vicente Fernandez, alluring vocalist Chelo Silva, and Mexico’s most important bolero composer of the modern era, Armando Manzanero. The superstars of the era, propelled by Mexico’s powerhouse film industry, were bolero singers and songwriters, including Agustín Lara, Pedro Vargas, Gabriel Ruiz, Toña La Negra, and a talented transplant from Chile, Lucho Gatica. In the 1940s, the bolero took root in Mexico which became the leading exponent of the genre through the 1950s and ’60s. Early on, the bolero and the son blended in a hybrid style popularized by the legendary Trío Matamoros, catapulting the music to international fame. Located on Cuba’s eastern coast, Santiago was also the cradle of the seminal Afro-Cuban dance style known as son, a cornerstone of what later became salsa music. “Tristezas” is considered the first bolero ever written and is widely attributed to the popular trova artist José 'Pepe' Sánchez (1856–1918) from Santiago de Cuba, near Guatánamo. The modern bolero emerged in the late 18 th century as a song style in Cuba, arising from the old trova tradition, which at times set poetry to music. Almost 100 years earlier, classical composer Frédéric Chopin wrote a piano work also titled “Boléro,” but with ambiguous origins sometimes attributed to the composer’s Polish roots, prompting the description boléro à la polonaise. The bolero, as a song genre, should be distinguished from the 18 th century Spanish dance of the same name, which formed the basis of Ravel’s famous “Boléro,” which premiered at the Paris Opera in 1928. I have previously explored two of the most popular tunes on this blog as featured songs – “Perfidia” by Alberto Dominguez and “Sabor a Mí” by Alvaro Carrillo.

Many boleros have become standards in the Latin American Songbook. María Grever’s 1934 classic, “Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado,' became a Top 10 smash in 1959 for Dinah Washington in her English rendition, “What a Diff'rence a Day Makes.' It was featured in the 1944 Disney film The Three Caballerossinging to Donald Duck, and was also on the soundtrack to the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, in a Spanish version by Trío Los Panchos. Some boleros have become major hits with English lyrics.Īgustín Lara’s world-renowned bolero “Solamente Una Vez,” written in 1941, was recorded four years later by Bing Crosby with Xavier Cugat as 'You Belong to My Heart' and became a Top 10 hit for Decca Records. Most people in the U.S., regardless of cultural background, have heard a bolero at some point, even if they can’t specifically identify a song as such. That includes more than 70 sub-genres, such as bolero ranchero, bolero mambo, bolero rítmico, and criolla bolero, an outdated style featured on just three 78-rpm recordings. 2, currently with more than 17,500 entries. Among the genres identified in the Frontera Collection, the romantic bolero ranks No. The bolero is one of the top song styles from Latin America, as ubiquitous as the tango, the mambo, or the bossa nova.

Javier solis greatest hits