The news of the death of the musician and singer Manuel de la Calva, half of, this Tuesday at age 88 leaves a vacuum in the world of Spanish music. Together with Ramón Arcusa, he led the first pop musical phenomenon in Spain: they opened the screams in the concerts, the long tours, already the early sixties triumphed without discussion. Since then and until today, more than 60 years of career in between, have signed innumerable successes that until today last. This is a tour of his music.
Resisted
The most popular success of the duo. They included him on his 1988 album, Fit, with which they relaunched their career after a separation in 1972. He received a first media push when Pedro Almodóvar chose her to close his film ¡Átame!. In 2020 it became the favorite song for confinement times during COVID and for months. “When I lose all the games/ when I sleep with loneliness/ when the exits are closed/ and the night does not leave me alone,” the song starts.
Those black eyes
A full -fledged heartbreak. It was one of the ten finalists, and the favorite and the pools, to represent Spain at the Eurovision Festival of 1965. Finally the jury then chose Good, how goodplayed by Conchita Bautista, which ended in the last position of the festival. A year later they would compose gave Spain its first victory at a European festival. His letter reflects the deep sadness and the desire of a love that has gone: “Who separated you from me? / Who stole your love? / What I suffered for you, you will never know.”
Forgive me
The Calva’s own assured last year in an interview with the EFE agency that this was his favorite song he had composed: “Many people have confessed that they are in this world thanks to that song, because it helped a reconciliation, and, incidentally, to demography. Is there anything more beautiful? One day we should gather all those born thanks to that song in a concert. Surely we filled the Santiago Bernabéu.”
Summer love
The ballad is called Summer lovealthough everyone knows her like The end of summerwhich is your initial verse. It was published in 1963, although in Spain it is associated with the series, which was broadcast in the eighties, and which closed its first and only season with the song of the dynamic duo. Since then it has not stopped sounding in each summer season. These August days exemplify it.
I would like to be
Probably the first great success of the group. It premiered in 1961 with letter of that year reached number 1 in sales lists. It was also the second place at the Spanish Festival of the Benidorm song (long before its resurgence as a qualifying qualification).
Fifteen years old has my love
Published in 1960, he tells the love of a fifteen -year -old girl. It was composed when Arcusa and Calva were 23 and 24 years old and although then the age of the central character of the subject was not subject to controversy, with the passage of time its acceptability has been rethink. The duo kept singing it and always defended it as a “white song.” “Fifteen years is my love / she likes to dance rock,” says his lyrics. He was also part of the film’s soundtrack Anchor button.
We are young
The song was originally published in 1987. With that same name titled the album they published in 2011 to celebrate 50 years of career. The septuagenarians then sang festively and happily: “We are young, love / are young you and me.” A good reflection of your music.
¡Oh, Carol!
“¡Oh, Carol! Crazy I am for you / more if you leave me / What will it be of me? ”, Another of the emblematic songs of the Barcelona group begins. Although original, the dynamic duo adapted it to Spanish in 1961. The Mustang or Karina also sang it.
Great Carmen
Mari Carmen, who danced “with a singular rhythm” and “with wings on the feet”, gave the group another success in 1962. A blunder and cheerful song, like so many Mari Carmen who received her as hymn. “It is Mari Carmen all said / her look, her dance / captive all the hearts and you will soon check it.”
Like yesterday
Con Like yesterday The duo won the Mediterranean Festival in 1966. Bruno Lomas, which also interpreted it, contributed to its popularization. His melancholic letter expresses repentance after a lost relationship: “I promise to change from today / and give you whole life and my love.”
