Wednesday, May 14, 2008

How To Spam Someones Myspace

Forgotten: a young Victoria

A time to remember the forgotten. Even the forgotten of the forgotten, those who never leave in retrofreak collections ...

... today: a young Victoria.


Victoria Abril became one of the most popular television shows in 1976, playing the sweet and friendly girl who accounted for the correct answers to the missed One, Two, Three ... answer other time English TV. His previous film credits did not presage his later career as an actress. "sex change" (1976) by Vicente Aranda , TVE series "La Barraca" (1978), or "Mater Amatísima" (1980) by José Antonio Salgot provided him with some of his first major and intense roles, but would a few years later when it would great success with "La Colmena" (1982) by Mario Camus and "Bicycles are for summer" (1983) by Jaime Chavarri .

The bulk of his career as an actress is well known. Not so much his career as a singer. Two recently released CDs, "Pots do Brasil" (2005), which aims to become the Carla Bruni Franco-Brazilian, with the same class but with less talent and "Olala" (2008), with a daring mix of flamenco and French song, make his official discography. What Wikipedia or dare to remember is his "other discography."

Victoria in 1978 released his first single "When you kiss me" . A song written and produced by Jesus Gluck , sounding decidedly festivalero and some disco winds sound, which became a hit passenger. Subsequently released some singles (including a duet with Lorenzo Santamaría ) and "If at the end" the main theme, also Gluck, the soundtrack of "La Barraca" of TVE.





recorded some tracks that did not become available in due course, halfway between sweet pop and disco. Emulating the great Amii Stewart went so far as to dare to a disco version of "Light My Fire" The Doors of . Today, a whole incunabula.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

How To Set Up A Network With A Dongle

Forgotten: Red de San Luis

A time to remember the forgotten. Even the forgotten of the forgotten, those who never appear in retrofreak collections ...

... today: Red de San Luis.


Now that John Smith died, the actor who lived under the character of Chema, Baker Sesame Street whom we all remember fondly, is a good time to rescue the odd band that belonged to late seventies.

Red de San Luis was a quartet sponsored by Juan Pardo who came to release two albums between 1978 and 1980. A vocal band that sounds like the time that unlike others, had some sense of humor and a carefree spring, victim and executioner of the imminent arrival of the eighties. "Samba Lady" heard much on radio and television, and released them become successful. Saturation possibly fleeing their ultraexitosos syrup "godchildren", the Pecos , Juan Pardo knew how to transmit his usual surrealism perishable to some young actors becoming singers.



His latest endeavor is a capital piece of kitsch homeland, a version of "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" , the classic sixties made popular by Shirley Ellis , which was successfully revised in the seventies by Gary Glitter and in the eighties by Belle Stars. Sung in Castilian, while observing the absurdity of the original lyrics that were able to adapt to his style delirious and overreacted, "Dance!" , reached No. 1 on the Top 40 in 1980 and is a subject worthy of rescuing ... Serve tribute to John, Chema.







"Dance!". Red de San Luis. Applause. TVE. 1980


And of course I can not resist dropping the fantastic original version.




"The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)." Shirley Ellis. TV Show. 1965