Jealous Heart
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"Jealous Heart" is a classic C&W
song which has also been recorded by several Pop
singers.
. That 20 September Tex Ritter
recorded the song: his version spent 23 weeks on the C&W chart peaking at #2.
http://deegold.homestead.com/jealousheart.html
The song had its first impact in the Pop
field via a recording by Al Morgan, a Chicago
-based vocalist/pianist whose version of "Jealous Heart" released September 1949 was on the hit parade for six months spending ten weeks in the Top 5.1
http://www.lyricsvault.net/php/bio.php?a=124
Also in 1949 Ivory Joe Hunter
had an R&B
hit with "Jealous Heart"; Hunter's version reached #2 R&B that December.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=LvYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&dq=billboard+24+december+1949+ivory+joe+hunter#v=onepage&q=&f=false
"Jealous Heart" - which Ernest Tubb
had recorded in 1945 - was also recorded in 1949 by C&W singers Bill Owens and Kenny Roberts while Pop versions were cut by Bill Lawrence, Jan Garber
& His Orchestra (vocal by Don Grabeau) and Hugo Winterhalter
& His Orchestra (vocal by Johnny Thompson).
British duo the Tanner Sisters - Frances and Stella - recorded "Jealous Heart" in London
14 October 1949; this version - which retained the lyrics as recorded by Tex Ritter and Al Morgan rather than gender-adjusting them - was released by EMI
as HMV#9846 with "Hop Scotch Polka" as the flip
.
Lale Andersen
enjoyed a European comeback in 1952 with a German language
version of "Jealous Heart" entitled "Blaue Nacht am Hafen": Andersen wrote the German lyrics herself under the name Nicola Wilke.
http://www.lale-andersen.de/html/auslaendische_EPs.htm
reaching #62 on the Billboard Hot 100
besting the Fontane Sisters
' version (#94) and also the version by Les Paul and Mary Ford
which did not chart.1
"Jealous Heart" was also a single for Bobby Edwards
in 1959.
In the UK the Vernons Girls
and Ottilie Patterson
had non-charting single versions of "Jealous Heart" in respectively 1959 and 1963 before the version by Irish act the Cadets with Eileen Reid reached #42 on the UK Top 50 dated 6 May 1965.2
http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/http://www.chartstats.com/
- whose 1960 recording of Jenny Lou Carson's "Many Tears Ago" had been a Top 10 hit - recorded "Jealous Heart" 12 August 1965 in Hollywood CA in a session produced by Jesse Kaye with Ernie Freeman conducting.
Although Francis had had early hits with remakes of traditional Pop songs by the mid-60s she was attempting (with sparse success) to update her sound - the precedent and subsequent releases to her "Jealous Heart" were recorded with Petula Clark
's producer Tony Hatch
- and "Jealous Heart" was an emphatic throwback to her original hit sound.
The track also served as title cut for an album which was largely a nostalgia concept album
heavily featuring standards: "Everything I Have Is Yours
", "If You Ever Change Your Mind", "My Foolish Heart
" and "Nevertheless
" as well as the 1956 hit ballad "Ivory Tower
".
Released that November, Francis' "Jealous Heart" peaked at #47 in January 1966: it was ranked substantially higher in both Cash Box and Record World
at respectively #29 and #25. In all three trades Francis never had another single reach the Top 60. Her version of "Jealous Heart" was also her last Easy Listening
Top 10 hit at #10.
http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2009/05/connie-francis-part-i.html
http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19660101.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/muggy59/Artist-F.html
"Jealous Heart" was the last Connie Francis single to rank on the UK charts reaching #44 in January 1966. Also in early 1966 Francis' "Jealous Heart" reached #16 in Canada and #54 in Australia.
http://www.chartstats.com/
reached #9 on the Irish
charts with "Jealous Heart" - actually a four track EP which included the title song.
http://irishcharts.ie
Other versions of the song include those by Bing Crosby
, Roy Acuff
, Eddy Arnold
, Teresa Brewer
, Ann Breen, Carl Butler, Eddy Duchin
, Tennessee Ernie Ford
, Bill Haley
, Wanda Jackson
, Jussi & Kantri Boys (as "Sydämein, Niin Mustasukkainen"), Jerry Lee Lewis
, Hank Locklin
, Bob Luman
, Loretta Lynn
, Al Martino
, Jaye P. Morgan
, Marie Osmond
, Bonnie Owens
, Patti Page
, Ray Price
, Johnny Ray
, Johnny Rodriguez
, Jean Shepard
, Hank Snow
, Kay Starr
, Marsha Thornton
, Patrick Wall, Kitty Wells
and Mark Wynter
.
Lolita remade the German version as the title cut for her 1975 album Blaue Nacht am Hafen.
"Jealous Heart" has become a standard of Latin music
via a Spanish language
rendering by Mexican lyricist Mario Molina Montes http://www.sacm.org.mx/archivos/biografias.asp?txtSocio=08415 entitled "Celoso" ("jealous"). Recorded in Nashville
in March 1966 by Trio Los Panchos
led by Johnny Albino
, "Celoso" entered the Top Ten in Mexico in April of 1967 and - ranked in tandem with a cover by Marco Antonio Muñiz
- the track reached #1 that summer spending five months in the Top Ten. In addition the Trio Los Panchos version reached #2 - in a tandem ranking with covers by José Feliciano
and Oleo Guillot - in Argentina that autumn when the Muñiz version reached #1 in Puerto Rico. "Celoso" has also been recorded by Galy Galeano, Ezequiel Peña, José Luis Rodríguez
and Sergio Vega.
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:688420~1~T000
Maná
recorded "Celoso" for the soundtrack of the 1995 Gregory Nava movie My Family (Mi Familia).
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
song which has also been recorded by several Pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singers.
Early versions
The first recording of "Jealous Heart" was made in 1944 by its composer Jenny Lou CarsonJenny Lou Carson
Jenny Lou Carson, , born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit...
. That 20 September Tex Ritter
Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...
recorded the song: his version spent 23 weeks on the C&W chart peaking at #2.
http://deegold.homestead.com/jealousheart.html
The song had its first impact in the Pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
field via a recording by Al Morgan, a Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
-based vocalist/pianist whose version of "Jealous Heart" released September 1949 was on the hit parade for six months spending ten weeks in the Top 5.1
http://www.lyricsvault.net/php/bio.php?a=124
Also in 1949 Ivory Joe Hunter
Ivory Joe Hunter
Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" . He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The...
had an R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
hit with "Jealous Heart"; Hunter's version reached #2 R&B that December.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=LvYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&dq=billboard+24+december+1949+ivory+joe+hunter#v=onepage&q=&f=false
"Jealous Heart" - which Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
had recorded in 1945 - was also recorded in 1949 by C&W singers Bill Owens and Kenny Roberts while Pop versions were cut by Bill Lawrence, Jan Garber
Jan Garber
Jan Garber was an American jazz bandleader.-Biography:Garber was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had his own band by the time he was 21 . He became known as "The Idol of the Airwaves" in his heyday of the 1920s and 1930s, playing jazz in the vein of contemporaries such as Paul Whiteman and Guy...
& His Orchestra (vocal by Don Grabeau) and Hugo Winterhalter
Hugo Winterhalter
Hugo Winterhalter was an American musician.An easy listening arranger and composer, Winterhalter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's near Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1931, where he played saxophone for the orchestra and sang in two of the choirs...
& His Orchestra (vocal by Johnny Thompson).
British duo the Tanner Sisters - Frances and Stella - recorded "Jealous Heart" in London
London
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14 October 1949; this version - which retained the lyrics as recorded by Tex Ritter and Al Morgan rather than gender-adjusting them - was released by EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
as HMV#9846 with "Hop Scotch Polka" as the flip
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
.
Lale Andersen
Lale Andersen
Lale Andersen was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Bremerhaven, Germany. She is best known for her interpretation of the song "Lili Marleen" in 1939, which became tremendously popular on both sides during the Second World War.- Early life :She was born in Lehe and baptized Liese-Lotte...
enjoyed a European comeback in 1952 with a German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
version of "Jealous Heart" entitled "Blaue Nacht am Hafen": Andersen wrote the German lyrics herself under the name Nicola Wilke.
http://www.lale-andersen.de/html/auslaendische_EPs.htm
- 1This Al Morgan is not to be confused with the famed bassist of the same nameAl Morgan (musician)Albert Morgan was an American jazz double-bassist.Morgan came from a musical family; Sam Morgan and Isaiah Morgan were both bandleaders and trumpeters, and Andrew Morgan was a jazz reedist. Morgan started on clarinet, then learned baritone sax, tuba, and bass...
.
Early revivals
In the fall of 1958 three recordings of "Jealous Heart" were released with the version by Tab HunterTab Hunter
Tab Hunter is an American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films.-Background:...
reaching #62 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
besting the Fontane Sisters
The Fontane Sisters
The Fontane Sisters were a trio from New Milford, New Jersey.-Early years:Their mother, Louise Rosse, was both a soloist and the leader of the St. Joseph's Church choir in New Milford. Bea and Marge started out singing for local functions, doing so well, they were urged to audition in New York City...
' version (#94) and also the version by Les Paul and Mary Ford
Les Paul and Mary Ford
Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular 1950s husband-and-wife/group musical team in which Les Paul played the guitar and Mary Ford sang. In 1951 alone, they sold six million records....
which did not chart.1
"Jealous Heart" was also a single for Bobby Edwards
Bobby Edwards
Bobby Edwards is an American country singer who recorded between 1959 and 1964.-Biography:...
in 1959.
In the UK the Vernons Girls
The Vernons Girls
The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists. They were formed at the Vernons football pools company in the 1950s in Liverpool, settling down to a sixteen strong choir and recorded an album of standards.-Career:...
and Ottilie Patterson
Ottilie Patterson
Ottilie Patterson was a Northern Irish blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:...
had non-charting single versions of "Jealous Heart" in respectively 1959 and 1963 before the version by Irish act the Cadets with Eileen Reid reached #42 on the UK Top 50 dated 6 May 1965.2
http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/http://www.chartstats.com/
- 1After debuting on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart dated 1 November 1958, Tab Hunter's "Jealous Heart" was ranked in tandem with the Fontane Sisters' version on the chart dated 8 November and with the Fontane Sisters and Les Paul & Mary Ford versions on the charts dated 15 November and 22 November: on 22 November the joint position assigned the three versions was #71. On its subsequent charts Cash Box only listed the Tab Hunter version which peaked at #60.
- 2 In the Republic of IrelandRepublic of IrelandIreland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
this disc - credited to Eileen Reid and the Cadets - reached #7 but with "Right or Wrong" as the A-side.
Connie Francis version
Connie FrancisConnie Francis
Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...
- whose 1960 recording of Jenny Lou Carson's "Many Tears Ago" had been a Top 10 hit - recorded "Jealous Heart" 12 August 1965 in Hollywood CA in a session produced by Jesse Kaye with Ernie Freeman conducting.
Although Francis had had early hits with remakes of traditional Pop songs by the mid-60s she was attempting (with sparse success) to update her sound - the precedent and subsequent releases to her "Jealous Heart" were recorded with Petula Clark
Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
's producer Tony Hatch
Tony Hatch
Anthony Peter "Tony" Hatch is an English composer, songwriter, pianist, music arranger and producer.-Early life and early career:...
- and "Jealous Heart" was an emphatic throwback to her original hit sound.
The track also served as title cut for an album which was largely a nostalgia concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
heavily featuring standards: "Everything I Have Is Yours
Everything I Have Is Yours (song)
"Everything I Have Is Yours" is a popular song.The music was written by Burton Lane, the lyrics by Harold Adamson. The song was published in 1933. It was first sung by Art Jarrett in the 1933 film Dancing Lady.-Recordings:...
", "If You Ever Change Your Mind", "My Foolish Heart
My Foolish Heart (song)
"My Foolish Heart" is a popular song that was published in 1949.The music was written by Victor Young and the lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics' general laceration of the film...
" and "Nevertheless
Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
"Nevertheless I'm in Love with You" is a popular song written by Harry Ruby with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, first published in 1931...
" as well as the 1956 hit ballad "Ivory Tower
Ivory Tower (1956 song)
"Ivory Tower" is a popular song written by Jack Fulton and Lois Steele. Popular versions by Cathy Carr and Gale Storm, and a rhythm & blues version by Otis Williams and the Charms all received major popularity in 1956...
".
Released that November, Francis' "Jealous Heart" peaked at #47 in January 1966: it was ranked substantially higher in both Cash Box and Record World
Record World
Record World magazine was one of the three main music industry trade publications in the United States, along with Billboard and Cash Box magazines. It was founded in 1946 under the name Music Vendor, but since 1964 changed it to Record World, under the ownership of Sid Parnes and Bob Austin, both...
at respectively #29 and #25. In all three trades Francis never had another single reach the Top 60. Her version of "Jealous Heart" was also her last Easy Listening
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
Top 10 hit at #10.
http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2009/05/connie-francis-part-i.html
http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19660101.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/muggy59/Artist-F.html
"Jealous Heart" was the last Connie Francis single to rank on the UK charts reaching #44 in January 1966. Also in early 1966 Francis' "Jealous Heart" reached #16 in Canada and #54 in Australia.
http://www.chartstats.com/
Other versions
In 1988 Big TomBig Tom
Tom McBride better known as Big Tom is an Irish country music singer, guitarist, and saxophone player. Established since 1966 he is currently front man of the Irish showband Big Tom and The Mainliners...
reached #9 on the Irish
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
charts with "Jealous Heart" - actually a four track EP which included the title song.
http://irishcharts.ie
Other versions of the song include those by Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
, Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...
, Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
, Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer
Teresa Brewer was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular...
, Ann Breen, Carl Butler, Eddy Duchin
Eddy Duchin
Eddy Duchin was an American popular pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his fight against leukemia.-Early career:...
, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Ernest Jennings Ford , better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres...
, Bill Haley
Bill Haley
Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".-Early life and career:...
, Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson
Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
, Jussi & Kantri Boys (as "Sydämein, Niin Mustasukkainen"), Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...
, Hank Locklin
Hank Locklin
Lawrence Hankins Locklin , better known as Hank Locklin, was an American country music singer-songwriter...
, Bob Luman
Bob Luman
Bob Luman was an American country and rockabilly singer.-Early life and career:...
, Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
, Al Martino
Al Martino
Al Martino was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid 1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The...
, Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan
Mary Margaret Morgan , known professionally as Jaye P. Morgan, is a retired popular music American singer, actress and game show panelist.-Early life:...
, Marie Osmond
Marie Osmond
Olive Marie Osmond is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s...
, Bonnie Owens
Bonnie Owens
Bonnie Owens , born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.-Biography:...
, Patti Page
Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
, Ray Price
Ray Price (musician)
Ray Price is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music...
, Johnny Ray
Johnny Ray
John Cornelius Ray is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who had a 10-year career from 1981 to 1990. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League and the California Angels of the American League...
, Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish....
, Jean Shepard
Jean Shepard
Ollie Imogene Shepard , better known as Jean Shepard, is an American honky tonk singer-songwriter who was a pioneer for women in country music. Shepard released a total of 73 singles to the Hot Country Songs chart, one of which reached the #1 spot...
, Hank Snow
Hank Snow
Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
, Kay Starr
Kay Starr
Kay Starr is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 50s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz"....
, Marsha Thornton
Marsha Thornton
Marsha Thornton is a female country music singer. Between 1990 and 2003, she released three studio albums, with her first two released on MCA Records; she has also issued four singles on the Hot Country Songs charts...
, Patrick Wall, Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells
Ellen Muriel Deason , known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star...
and Mark Wynter
Mark Wynter
Mark Wynter is an English actor and former singer, who had four Top 20 singles in the 1960s, including "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Go Away Little Girl"...
.
Lolita remade the German version as the title cut for her 1975 album Blaue Nacht am Hafen.
"Jealous Heart" has become a standard of Latin music
Latin American music
Latin American music, found within Central and South America, is a series of musical styles and genres that mixes influences from Spanish, African and indigenous sources, that has recently become very famous in the US.-Argentina:...
via a Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
rendering by Mexican lyricist Mario Molina Montes http://www.sacm.org.mx/archivos/biografias.asp?txtSocio=08415 entitled "Celoso" ("jealous"). Recorded in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
in March 1966 by Trio Los Panchos
Los Panchos
Los Panchos was an internationally famous Latin pop trio known for its romantic ballads and boleros.-History:...
led by Johnny Albino
Johnny Albino
Johnny Albino was a Puerto Rican bolero singer, born in Yauco.-Biography:Albino played and sang through his youth years. It wasn't until years later, however, that he would get a chance to sing as part of an organized act...
, "Celoso" entered the Top Ten in Mexico in April of 1967 and - ranked in tandem with a cover by Marco Antonio Muñiz
Marco Antonio Muñiz
Marco Antonio Muñiz is a singer from Jalisco, Mexico. Known all over Latin America, Muñiz actually has declared publicly and in most countries he has visited, that Puerto Rico is his second country, and many Puerto Ricans consider him to be an "honorary Puerto Rican"...
- the track reached #1 that summer spending five months in the Top Ten. In addition the Trio Los Panchos version reached #2 - in a tandem ranking with covers by José Feliciano
José Feliciano
José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
and Oleo Guillot - in Argentina that autumn when the Muñiz version reached #1 in Puerto Rico. "Celoso" has also been recorded by Galy Galeano, Ezequiel Peña, José Luis Rodríguez
José Luis Rodríguez
José Luis Rodríguez may refer to:*José Luis Rodríguez , , former Argentine football striker*José Luis Rodríguez González , El Puma, , Venezuelan singer and actor...
and Sergio Vega.
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Maná
Maná
Maná is a pop rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned three Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, five Premios Juventud awards, nine Billboard Latin Music Awards and 13 Premios Lo...
recorded "Celoso" for the soundtrack of the 1995 Gregory Nava movie My Family (Mi Familia).