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Take this one for instance.

Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace mas que el mar
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera


and the Marrilee Rush version of "Angel in the Morning",  I never did take to Juice Newton after hearing how gorgeous the 60's version was.  Interesting,  when you listen to the recording you can tell it was produced around 1962..  Quality is pretty poor.

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Hi Steven.. I posted the Merillee Rush version last summer here.. It's from 1968.. I also prefer it to the Juice Newton version

OK,  I didn't think it was as early as 1962, thing is that was what her biography stated.  Unless I read it wrong. "Angel of the Morning" was written by Chip Taylor (born James Wesley Voight, younger brother of actor Jon Voight), who also wrote "Wild Thing" (a hit for The Troggs in 1966) and "I Can't Let Go", a hit for The Hollies in the UK.

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Yes it was written by Chip Taylor.. so he's Jon Voight's brother? small world.. Angelina's uncle..

Yep..  Gorgeous song !   Was 68 the same year "Dominique" was released by Sister Anne ?   Seems these two songs were around the same time

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I believe Dominique was 1963.. It was used in the film, The Singing Nun, starring Debbie Reynolds, who sang it also.

The Flying Nun tv show was 1968 though..

AH HA !   So would the "big FM hit" release have been around 1965 or 1966 and prompted by the film a few years earlier, or was it that same  year, could very well have been ?   I'm thinking about when it received A LOT of airplay,  for some reason I think I was in Jr High which would've been around 66 or 68 however I don't recall offhand.  (I can look this up but I'm trying NOT to cheat)  LOL.  I'm attempting to go by "where was I when I heard the song"..


Just found this
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/director ... rset=UTF-8

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Ooooh that's my kind of music... I love the lesser played stuff..  I listen www.reelradio.com, which is an archive of radio programming from the 50's-90's complete with commericials.. at this moment listening to a broadcast out of Britain, 1959

Here's some info from WIkipedia:

"Dominique" is a popular song in French by Soeur Sourire, the Singing Nun from Belgium, about Saint Dominic and his fight against the Albigensians. It became a worldwide hit in 1963.

The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers; October 17, 1933 – March 29, 1985), a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium.

Popular in the convent for her music, she was encouraged by the other nuns to record an album in 1963. One song from that album, Dominique, soared to the top of the charts in the United States. Overnight, the Dominican nun was an international celebrity with the stage name of Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile). She gave concerts and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

In 1966, a movie called The Singing Nun was made about her, starring Debbie Reynolds in the title role — Deckers rejected the film as "fictional".

and here's what I just found !

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discogra ... =Dominique

True.  the album was released in 1963,  but I recall that song sky-rocked into the top 5 for a LONG time.  I'm wondering what year that peaked on top-40 radio. It was played CONSTANTLY, and it drove me crazy...   Almost as crazy as that Hamilton, Frank and Joe Reynolds song in 1970 "Don't throw your love".  I was an avid Short-Wave Radio listener, and that song was HUGE ALL OVER THE WORLD !!  It was a BBC top pick.  MY guess is DOminique would've been an international hit too since she was European.

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I am guessing the single was post popular in 1963.. I remember either being in kindergarten or 1st grade and I was born in 1957

OK,  I was born in '32 and was in second grade.  So that sounds about right !

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So you got to go ahead of the class..

Well, truth be known,  I had separation anxiety issues and had to start kindergarten a few years later than the others.

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I quit kindergarten to start on a career as a wanna be that never was..

Well,  It's great that you were mature enough at 5 to become an entrepreneur.  Kid's today don't realize how different things were back in the early 60's when we were brought up.. Most had cars full time jobs, and were finishing up college degree's by their 8th birthday, and getting ready to climb the corporate ladder.  By 16 most had grandchildren already.  It was a very different time.  A more rebelous period !  Of course back in the 1960's, the average life expectancy was nowhere near that which it is today.  In fact VERY few born in the 50's lived beyond their 25th birthday.  People were also smaller in those days too.  Houses were only about 1/3 the size of homes as we know them today. There was more oxygen in those days so people burnt out faster.  VERY different time in hominid development.

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