英文歌曲:Paloma Blanca

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Title: Paloma Blanca
Artist: George Baker Selection


When the sun shines on the mountains
And the night is on the run
It's a new day
It's a new way
And I fly up to the sun
I can feel the morning sunlight
I can smell the new mown hay
I can hear God's voices calling
From the golden skylight way





(CHORUS)
Una Paloma Blanca
I'm just a bird in the sky
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away
Once I had my share of losing
Once they locked me on a chain
YES, they tried to break my power
Oh, I still can feel the pain


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Paloma Blanca

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Paloma Blanca, often called Una Paloma Blanca, by the Dutch band George Baker Selection is a hit song that topped the charts all over Europe in 1975. It can be found on the group's fifth album, of the same name. The single was also a moderate hit in the US in early 1976 (top 30 pop, #1 easy listening).


Background

The song was composed by Hans Bouwens himself, and features, rather originally for a pop song, a melodic line played on the flute. The song was rumored to refer to the abolition of fascism in Portugal, but a more modest interpretation is that the song is simply about enjoying one's freedom.

The title is Spanish, and means "white dove."

Also sung in the 1976 by Slim Whitman.

Versions

The song was adapted a number of times, first by Jonathan King in the same year as the original, and it earned him an award for Best Record of the Year at the Ivor Novello Awards and was a top five UK smash. Still in 1975, the dan*****and Säwes scored a 1975 hit in Sweden with the song, its lyrics in Swedish by Hans Rytterström.

George Baker himself rerecorded a solo version of the song in 2005 for the movie Vet Hard; the song had earlier been used in a 1982 movie, The Executioner's Song. Other versions were done by Demis Roussos and Slim Whitman.

Given its popularity and its middle-of-the-road quality, the song is easily parodied. One such parody was made in 1993 by the Croatian group Vatrogasci (Firefighters), who translated it into Croatian (naming it "Pekara") in a turbofolk arrangement. In the United States, Eddie Murphy, as the character Buckwheat in a Saturday Night Live television commercial parody, sang a mangled version, "Una Panoonah Banka."

British comedy group The Wurzels had a major mid-Seventies hit with their parody, "I Am A Cider Drinker."








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歌曲:白兰鸽 -Mosical- 给 Mosical 发送悄悄话 Mosical 的博客首页 (2177 bytes) () 02/15/2009 postreply 05:15:16

歌曲:那就是我 -Mosical- 给 Mosical 发送悄悄话 Mosical 的博客首页 (1419 bytes) () 02/15/2009 postreply 05:16:25

This song is great! This one can also fit new years song. -天泽园- 给 天泽园 发送悄悄话 天泽园 的博客首页 (144 bytes) () 02/15/2009 postreply 19:24:15

Thanks Tian. I'm so pleased that you like it. -Mosical- 给 Mosical 发送悄悄话 Mosical 的博客首页 (204 bytes) () 02/15/2009 postreply 20:33:55

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