Guantanamera

The Sandpipers1967年1月1日 • 12 首歌

Guantanamera

Judging by the popularity of the Sandpipers' debut long-player, Guantanamera (1966), the mid-'60s were primed for an easier contrast to the increasingly raucous strains of rock roll. The idea of overhauling modern material ? from a variety of sources and genres ? into soft and affective ballads and in English and Spanish was (and remains) a novel concept. Behind the scenes, staff producer Tommy LiPuma and musical arrangers Nick DeCaro and Mort Garson were molding vocalists Jim Brady, Mike Piano, and Richard Shoff ? and the often uncredited Pamela Ramcier. They wanted to create a product structurally similar to what Herb Alpert ? co-owner of the Sandpipers' A&M Records label ? had done with his Tijuana Brass. The plan worked as the LP went all the way to a very respectable number 13 on the Pop Album chart. The title track ? from Pete Seeger's adaptation of a poem by Cuban writer Jose Marti ? fared even better, landing in the Top Ten Singles survey. It was followed into the countdown by a rich and dreamy Latin-flavored reading of the "garage" classic "Louie Louie" ? in Spanish, no less. That bilingual performance style permeates several melodies that would have been familiar to the intended audience.The former evokes the sanguine quirkiness of the mid-'60s Harpers Bizarre quintet, while the latter embodies the opposite end of the emotive spectrum as the Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil selection is a noir ballad that offers darker sonic shading than the more popular versions by Scott Walker, Gene Pitney, or the Sandpipers' easy listening rival Percy Faith. In 2000, Collectors' Choice Music paired Guantanamera with the combo's eponymous The Sandpipers (1967) onto a single CD ? making both available for the first time in decades.

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對於粉絲來說，Guantanamera 是一張不容錯過的專輯。它於 1967年1月1日發行，Guantanamera 由The Sandpipers 等歌手推出。這張專輯包含 12 首歌曲，每一首作品充分表達出其專輯概念。只要上JOOX，你便能立即欣賞Guantanamera 中的高音質歌曲、歌詞和MV，一同沉浸在美妙的音樂體驗中吧！

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