From '' Soundblast (The Sound of Tomorrow - Today) ''
Label: Westminster -- 6041
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1956
Tracklist
A1 Peg-Leg Merringue
A2 Brazil
A3 Poinciana
A4 Mama Yo Quero
A5 Orchids In The Moonlight
A6 Cumana
B1 Tico-Tico
B2 Frenesi
B3 Mexican Hat Dance
B4 Siboney
B5 Loose Ends Meringue
B6 La Cucaracha
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\"La Cucaracha\" (Spanish: \"The Cockroach\") is a traditional Spanish folk corrido that became popular in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
It has additionally become a verse played on car horns.
Origins
The origins of \"La Cucaracha\" are obscure, with some versions of the lyrics discussing events that took place during the conclusion of the Granada War in 1492.
One of the earliest references to the song comes from the verses of Mexican writer and political journalist, Jos Joaqun Fernndez de Lizardi's 1819 novel, La Quijotita y su Prima.
Whatever its origin, it would be during the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century that \"La Cucaracha\" would see the first major period of verse production as rebel and government forces alike invented political lyrics for the song.
So many stanzas were added during this period that today it is associated mostly with Mexico.
Cover versions
Louis Armstrong (1935)
Big Idea (2008) - featured in DDR Disney Channel Edition
Charlie & The Jives
Lila Downs (2004)
The Gipsy Kings
Speedy Gonzales
The Gumm Sisters, featuring Judy Garland
Bill Haley & His Comets (1966) - as \"La Cucaracha a Go-Go\"
Big Walter Horton
James Last (1967)
Los Lobos
Louis Prima
Los Machucambos (1960s)
Los Locos del Ritmo
Mills Brothers
Les Negresses Vertes
The Baja Marimba Band
Charlie Parker
The Skatalites (1964) - as \"Ska-Racha\"
Slowpoke Rodriguez
Doug Sahm
The Wiggles
Zebda
The Alley Hinges (2000) - \"The Cucaracha Of Death\"
Kumbia Kings (2002)
Orphei Drngar (2006) - \"La Cucaracha arr. Robert Sund\"
Goin' Bulilit - Theme song to show
Riders In The Sky
La Pequena Compania
Mr. Bungle - within their track \"Hypocrites\" from their first demo \"The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny\"
Chingon (2004) - as \"Cuka Rocka\"
Milva
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Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.
Career
Arthur Ferrante (September 7, 1921, New York City -- September 19, 2009), and Louis Teicher (August 24, 1924, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania -- August 3, 2008) met while studying at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Musical prodigies, they began performing as a piano duo while still in school. After graduating, they both joined the Juilliard faculty.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith relates the story that in the 1950s the two students practiced in the home of his grandmother Constance Neidhart Tallarico.
In 1947, they launched a full-time concert career, at first playing nightclubs, then quickly moving up to playing classical music with orchestral backing.
Between 1950 and 1980, they were a major American easy listening act, and scored four big U.S. hits: \"Theme From The Apartment\" (Pop #10), \"Theme From Exodus\" (Pop #2), \"Tonight\" (Pop #8), and \"Midnight Cowboy\" (Pop #10).
They performed and recorded regularly with pops orchestras popular standards by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others.
In 1973, they did the Hollywood Radio Theater theme for the Rod Serling radio drama series, The Zero Hour.
The duo also experimented with prepared pianos, adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other found objects to piano string beds. In this way they were able to produce a variety of bizarre sounds that sometimes resembled percussion instruments, and at other times resulted in special effects that sounded as if they were electronically synthesized.
Both men were initiated as honorary members of Tau Kappa Epsilon at Central State University (now University of Central Oklahoma) while on tour.
Ferrante and Teicher ceased performing in 1989 and retired to Longboat Key and Siesta Key, respectively, both close to each other on the west coast of Florida.
They continued to play together occasionally at a local piano store.
CDs of their music, some of it not previously released, have continued to appear.
Louis Teicher died of a heart attack in August 2008, three weeks before his 84th birthday.
Arthur Ferrante died of natural causes on September 19, 2009 at the age of 88 (he had once said he wanted to live one year for each piano key).
Arthur is survived by his wife, Jena; his daughter, Brenda Eberhardt; and two granddaughters.
