Q erhaps the first love should not ever return. Those feelings, those images, that inner fire should continue stored in the memory box.
The timing of that love, probably was caused by a confluence of factors, and how you try will never be beaten. If we take the story of one drawer, probably lose its charm and grandeur.
Labor Sevilla In
Yes, indeed. Every day waiting outside the school, in front, with my 17 years and a cigarette "bison" between her lips and gave the impression that there was no other person in the world for her that was not me.
was sure that it was almost all the way to travel unconditional surrender. Ran the 60 and on a night in Granada and other tunas were also everywhere university, each faculty had his and now I had my band and my first boleros appeared: "Woman, if you can talk with God. "Clock not tick the hours ..." Was she the first to hear "my" boleros from your balcony.
With Tuna and Alhambra
Youth Granada had to contrive. Were not there a good time for anyone, when unexpectedly, the overnight, began to see unexpected number of tourists in Granada. Immediately, we realized that this city was pure decadence and hard and they (I mean them) brought modernity and other new air. Although we were educated, some with the Jesuits, in Los Stanislaus, or we felt something more "liberal", the truth was that these tourists, especially the French, we were left with their mouths open for freedom and openness with which they expressed. Then came the inevitable: "the Ligue Union." Had its meeting place "Chez Elias" in the neighborhood of St. Augustine, where they rehearsed those unforgettable boleros. Lyrics then would sing serenades well planned or foreign groups coming. The union had even sung his proclamation: "The flirts of grain are a very serious thing. There is no cunt to come here and do not pass by the stone. If you go to the Alhambra or raisins to Alcaicería, flirt begins to speak, until Aunt bites .... ". The music of this "proclamation" was "Clavelitos", so that everyone learned it in a heartbeat. Naturally, it ended in the Chumbera, place it irresistible for those blonde "libertarian" for a kiss or a squeezing was something so normal. Not for us that normalcy was to lower the costs of well-battered and sore Chapiz (save yourself the aching body part) ...
In Granada, at night, always cold, but no matter, we though was our only be with that mantle stars that surrounded it. Granada was at fault, we had foreign tourists, as they do not want the thing, began to proliferate the female dorms. And there was rivalry and they are not expected for the bolero night after night to spread through the air as does the mist of dawn. We wanted new songs and we spent the letters with the other bands. There was camaraderie although not without some competition to tell the truth. Indeed it was Agustin Lara who kept the birth boleros and quarreled we all to sing first.
uncontrolled emotion Agustín Lara to the Mayor of Granada
Long ago (1932) Agustín Lara that had composed the song "Granada" with only dared baritones and tenors exhibited the tuna, and he had already pretty good. Was right and necessary to sing to Granada and we conformábamos with that "Oh my Granada!, Paso doble, he had composed parade a neighbor of mine from the neighborhood called (still alive although very old) Fernando Lastra and saying "At the foot of Sierra Nevada, at the foot of the old Granada Albaicín is seated with its endless beauty ... ...". Song who reported to the winds our dear and beloved Paquito Rodriguez.
Granada Agustin Lara reached on June 15, 1964 and was feted by the authorities, how could it be otherwise, hence the tears upon hearing the words of the mayor, then Mr. Sola, after collect a small inlaid casket containing earth of the plain of Granada, for that of "Granada dreamland for me ... "
Evening boleros in OFECUM
If in Havana or Mexico City. rocks were rented music with mariachis for bards or to roam to the "ladies" or engaged and immediately, or expectant commitment is no less true that Granada did not stay behind in the proliferation of both rounds of tuna as other groups (trios, quartets, etc..) from which I was, and simply leaving the burden of bohemian romance and all that entailed and that perhaps, thanks to one of those boleros over a / a found his "destiny."
The singer, his guitar and his audience: Triad perfect
Granada was the baroque in art and in the romantic . A serenade in Plaza Nueva or the Campo del Principe, or in some alley as he could be Santa Paula Street (residence also had female). The silence, the full moon and the laughter of young people themselves were more than enough elements to assert underlined. I must say that, once we got kicked out. Had to work and get up early and rebuked us, but it is also true that other nights, especially in spring, Granada this spring that only lasts a few days, but incomparable in beauty, filled the balconies adjacent to the girl who is haunted and cheered even though it was nearly two o'clock. I have to confess that if we did some extra rounds was because at that time as usual, we had no hard and when the serenade was over, we always threw a snuff paquetillo of another and even, sometimes, a bottle that another ... Living
Granada at the time it was like heaven: the smell of jasmine in some quarters as "small hotel in Bethlehem" and Figaro, the freshness and the clean air of the city by circulating few vehicles still attached to the weakness of street lights, made the enchanted city of Granada.
already commented that they were difficult times, and although tourism was slowly changing the situation, culturally Granada was pretty archaic. Indeed, there was only the Arts Centre and also saw it coming and its decline. Only, how could it be otherwise, in college something moving and of course, always looking north. We knew of the existence of Llach Lluis Serrat. Here there was "new song" and just put the old radio usual couplets Rafael de León and López Quiroga or, the Dynamic Duo. In 1967 he began to be broadcast by Radio Popular de Granada a program run by Juan de Loja and was called "Poetry-70", born two years later the "Manifesto of the Song of the South." Are taking the first step, from the standpoint of university, for what would become autonomous Andalucia. They were part of that group Carlos Cano, Enrique Moratalla, Raul Alcocer, Antonio Mata ... more.
nights at one of those round, we agree with another group in the singer Carlos Cano. I think that was the street or adjacent Puentezuelas, I'm not sure but we stop short and murmuring, feel healthy envy by casting balls, because in those days you had to be careful because "the grays" could occur at any time and then had to participate.
ends as it began: "The first love should not ever return." Fortunately these boleros make the loves and hates remain in the memory of the heart ... If the heart has a memory. Granada If you lived in those years, I believe that the heart, inevitably, it does have memory.
JUAN GOMEZ
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