{"id":291,"date":"2009-01-06T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-01-06T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T00:17:50","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-goombay-dance-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: Goombay Dance Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEl Dorado-Goombay Dance Band<\/strong> Spanish TV, 1978<\/p>\n

Wait a minute! [cue: needle scratching record<\/em>]
\nTwo posts about books?! What happened to the cheesy music you’ve come to love this blog for? How could I disappoint all of my five, uh four readers? I know what will placate you – this fabulous video by the Goombay Dance Band<\/a><\/strong>, a German knock-off of Boney M<\/a><\/strong> (they were German too) complete with the social commentary lyrics and disco dance beat. How can I not love a song I can dance to and be proud to sing along with? Check out these lyrics:
\n
\nThey came 500 years ago
\nThey stole the gold of Mexico
\nKilled the people one by one
\nOnly talking with their guns
\nBrave men locked on iron chains
\nAll young mothers sold as slaves
\nBabies crying through the night
\nWill they ever see a light<\/p>\n

Golden dreams of Eldorado
\nAll have drowned in seas of pain and blood
\nGolden dreams of Eldorado
\nMay come true but only in your heart<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps you’re thinking along the lines of this Youtube comment left on the El Dorado video: “esta mierda te gusta?<\/em>”
\nWell, there’s also a Czech version which interpreted the song as old country tune, complete with banjo, slide guitar and sung by an old professor (by the looks of it.)
\nWaldemar Matu\u00c5\u00a1ka – Eldor\u00c3\u00a1do<\/a><\/p>\n

Whoa, I just realized that the “they” in the song, refers to the audience of Spanish people he’s singing too!<\/p>\n

Part three of The Year in Books<\/strong> coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El Dorado-Goombay Dance Band Spanish TV, 1978 Wait a minute! [cue: needle scratching record] Two posts about books?! What happened to the cheesy music you’ve come to love this blog for? How could I disappoint all of my five, uh four readers? I know what will placate you – this fabulous video by the Goombay … Continue reading Favorite Video of the Week: Goombay Dance Band<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}