Global Courant
A capricious vote, and why the Day of the National Singer is celebrated today.
The method is whimsical. It invites you to choose the best Argentine song from a list of 20. There is a bit of everything, as in the anarchic drift of passions: tangos, zambas, boleros. very difficult
Win Seminare, lose The day you love me.
Who made the list? By what criteria? With none, she already told herself. There was hardly a line of agreement: the list had to include all musical styles and be based on the popularity of the songs over time. And why did Gardel lose then? First things first: the idea arose as a game among the newspaper’s journalists and ended up becoming a special report. The day it was published, it was among the most read.
Passions against passions, the editors of Espectáculos made the pre-selection that was then put to a vote in the newsroom and on the Clarín networks. Seru Girán’s theme won among journalists and another from Soda (Light music) among readers and subscribers. Below were Alfonsina and the sea, Cambalache, Honor life and Ji ji ji and, among others.
But before putting the full stop to his note, Marcelo Fernández Bitar -who has ears full of rock from the cradle- allowed himself to get all his arbitrariness from within and threw his winning song over the almost finished text: The day I you want, “by melody, poetic value and feeling”, he founded.
It is not bad to remember him today, National Singer Day, which evokes the death of Carlos Gardel in a plane crash on June 24, 1935. Together with Le Pera he composed a large part of the soundtrack for the Argentines. And you cared so much about that society that you still hear the popular saying that you are Gardel and Le Pera to talk about being outstanding. Beyond any passion or whim.
