Today's featured song, “¡Ay!, Carmela” is perhaps the best known song of the war of fascist intervention in Spain. Better, but erroneously, known as The Spanish Civil War. It's a cracker. And one of my favourite types of real Folk song. The tune and earlier lyrics go right back to an earlier war of European intervention — the (Napoleonic) Peninsular War of 1807–1814. And like so many real folk songs, the lyrics here were repurposed, to tell of la Batalla del Ebro or la Batalla de Jarama — in its two best known versions. The Fado selection is for Jim Martin. And Amália Rodrigues is the 'Queen of Fado', whose name I couldn't remember the other day. If you see this Jim, you need to look up her relationship with Salazar. It's Twistin' Time for German Wednesday.
Fado
- Palavras Minhas Joana Amendoeira
- Sou Livre (Fado Vitoria) Lenita Gentil
- O Que Sobrou de um Queixume Carlos do Carmo
- Romper Madrugadas Katia Guerreiro
- Fado Da Goleg Hermínia Silva
- Fado Vianinha Maria Teresa De Noronha
- Raizes Amália Rodrigues
- Amor Em Tons De Sol Maior Ana Moura
- Tantos Fados Deu-me A Vida Maria Da Fé
- Gonçalo o Velho Hermínia Silva
1957
- Georges, viens danser le rock Georges Guetary
- Chanson d'amour Johnny Dorelli
- Mambo Beat Tito Puente
- Sweet And Easy To Love Roy Orbison
- By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Jackie Wilson
- Tempo's Tempo Nino Tempo
- Written on the Wall Clydie King
- A Wagon Of Their Own, Maybe Three Or Four Ponies Davie Stewart
- Route 66 Nat ''King'' Cole
- Rock On! Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra
Ay Carmela
- ¡Ay!, Carmela Banda y Coro República Histórica
- ¡Ay!, Carmela Coro Popular Jabalón
- ¡Ay!, Carmela The Young'uns
- ¡Ay, Carmela! Alejandro Massó
- ¡Ay, Carmela! Ana Belén
- ¡Ay, Carmela! José Sanchis Sinisterra
- ¡Ay, Carmela! Odeon & Isach
- ¡Ay, Carmela! Sami C & Akasha
- Ay, Carmela (En Vivo) Soledad Bravo
- ¡Ay, Carmela! (Polish) Grzegorz Płonka
German
- The Peppermint Twist Caterina Valente & Silvio Francesco
- Telefon Twist Charly Cotton & Twist Makers
- Ya Ya Twist Dalida
- Yam Yam Twist Daniels
- Liebestraum-Twist (Der Liebestraum Als Twist) De Wama's
- Holzhacker Twist Gus Backus
- Wo ist der Geiger Oliver Twist & Happy Twistler
- Twist, nur Twist Pichi
- Spiegel Twist Trude Herr
- Baby Twist Will Brandes und die kleine Elisabeth