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Friday, 1 February 2013
Maria Bonita and Maria Bethania (Agustin and Caetano)
The first time I heard this Agustin Lara song it was performed in our Maida Vale flat by Walter,a Venezuelan friend, a good singer and guitarist, and I really fell for the melody. Lara was a well-known Mexican composer.
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South American friends (Walter, Centre)
The original Agustin Lara recording.
Maria Felix, Lara's inspiration
It became a big hit in Greece, in various Greek language versions.
The first
The second
The English lyrics by Bobby Worth are hard to find.
Another favorite from the period when I listened to South American songs for the first time (beginning of the seventies) was Maria Bethania by Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso, who also sings Maria Bonita.
Veloso was living in self-exile in London at the time, and when I saw him live at the Portland Place International Students' Centre on 15 July, 1971; he delighted the audience by singing "London, London" , "In the hot sun of a Christmas Day" and "A little more blue" (if my memory serves me well). An unforgettable evening! He signed this album:
Food for the Eagle: Runic Stone, Gripsholm, Sweden
On the Gripsholm Stone
"They fared like men
far after gold
and in the east
gave the eagle food.
They died southward
in Serkland"
In memory of Harald, a member of (his brother) Ingvar's unsuccessful Viking expedition.
"Give the eagle food" means to kill enemies, according to Sven Jansson, "Runes in Sweden" (1987)
Pictures of Swedish runic inscriptions
Tjelmar's ship grave, Gotland
"They fared like men
far after gold
and in the east
gave the eagle food.
They died southward
in Serkland"
In memory of Harald, a member of (his brother) Ingvar's unsuccessful Viking expedition.
"Give the eagle food" means to kill enemies, according to Sven Jansson, "Runes in Sweden" (1987)
Pictures of Swedish runic inscriptions
Tjelmar's ship grave, Gotland
Too Many Thinkers? Rodin's Blues
Rodin's The Thinker, San Francisco and Stockholm
The Poet contemplates the Gates of Hell
Lasciate ogni speranza, o voi ch'entrate!
Too many thinkers (multiple images)
Robin Williams and The Thinker (San Francisco)
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9eee74/robin_williams_offering_a_toilet_roll_to_the/
The Poet contemplates the Gates of Hell
Lasciate ogni speranza, o voi ch'entrate!
Too many thinkers (multiple images)
Robin Williams and The Thinker (San Francisco)
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9eee74/robin_williams_offering_a_toilet_roll_to_the/
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