Besame Mucho

[Randy Stein]

Bésame Mucho ("Kiss me a lot") is a song written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez

 

 

[Stephen Chambers]

Well played!

 

It's a song that always makes me think of Oscar Alemán and his various recordings of it, going back to the early 1940s.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2020 by Stephen Chambers

[Randy Stein]

The Beatles also played it for their 1960 audition for Deçca

 

[Stephen Chambers]

I'd much prefer how Alemán performed it: 

 

 

 

[David Barnert]

Thank you, Stephen (and, of course, Randy). I’d never heard of Oscar Alemán before, but I’ve been listening to youtubes of him for the last half hour and I’m hooked.

[Stephen Chambers]

You would not be alone David - and he had such an extraordinary life, that included both Josephine Baker, and Django Reinhardt, in Paris in the 1930s...

 

 

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by Stephen Chambers
Corrected typo.

[felix castro]

I like also this song a lot, I haven't heard about him. 

 

Here is Besame Mucho but in a video version.

 

 

 

[Randy Stein]

If we're going to discuss Aleman then this has to be one of his coolest tunes. 

 

[David Barnert]

On 4/13/2020 at 10:27 AM, Randy Stein said:

If we're going to discuss Aleman then this has to be one of his coolest tunes.

 

And don’t overlook our favorite tune, Randy...