Caballo Viejo
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| name = Golpe Y Pasaje
| cover = Caballo Viejo.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Simón Díaz
| album = Caballo Viejo
| released = 1980
| recorded = 1980
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| genre = Folk (Música Llanera)
| length = 2:59
| label = Palacio
| writer = Simón Díaz
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"Caballo Viejo" ('Old Horse') is a Venezuelan folk song written and composed by Simón Díaz,{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=19&ti=1,19&Search%5FArg=caballo%20viejo&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=Tn676ZG4vZi-gAUbmu7W_oNsOYnRa&SEQ=20110903120207&SID=1|title=WebVoyage Record View 1 - Caballo Viejo|editor=United States Copyright Office|accessdate=2011-09-03}} which appears on the 1980 album Golpe Y Pasaje. It has become one of the most important folk songs in Venezuela and is regarded as a classic. "Bamboléo", a potpourri by the Gipsy Kings, has some verses from Caballo Viejo, and it is also popular internationally.
Versions and translations
The song has been translated into many different languages.
It has been recorded as "Caballo Viejo" or as "Bamboleo" by dozens of singers, such as Celia Cruz, Papo Lucca y la Sonora Ponceña, María Dolores Pradera, Julio Iglesias, Gilberto Santa Rosa, José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma", Polo Montañes, Freddy López, Oscar D'León, Celso Piña, Gipsy Kings, Ray Coniff, Rubén Blades, Roberto Torres and Plácido Domingo. Roberto Torres's cover of the song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.{{cite web|title=Latin GRAMMY Hall Of Fame|url=http://www.latingrammy.com/en/node/21336|website=Latin Grammy Award|publisher=Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences|accessdate=August 19, 2014|year=2007|archive-date=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402231650/http://www.latingrammy.com/en/node/21336|url-status=dead}}
It was covered in Serbian language under the title "Španska kraljica" (Spanish Queen) by Eurodance group Beat Street in 1995.{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Beat-Street-Napokon/master/597074|title=Information on the song and its album "Napokon" on Discogs.com|website=Discogs |editor=|accessdate=}}
See also
- Music of Venezuela (Musica Llanera)
- Simón Díaz
References
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External links
- [http://www.simondiaz.com Simón Díaz website]
- [https://www.theguardian.com/music/artist/36be047b-c4f2-443f-90b8-0453d6eaa339 Review in The Guardian]
- [http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espectaculos/Noche/tonada/llanera/elpepiesp/20040705elpepiesp_9/Tes Review in Diario el Pais]
- [http://www.venezuelanmusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/musica-llanera-caballo-viejo.html Video of Caballo Viejo with English lyrics]
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