Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 2593

[Judith R. Cohen <judithc...>]

hi from Spain, thanksfor all the comments re my question about Richard Fariña 
and the Swallow SOng/Bilbilicos. Re what Mimi said about Spain, I doubt VERY 
much he could have heard the tune there in Spain in 1963. It's not even 
particularly popular NOW among Spanish singers of Sephardic music and in 1963 
there WERE none . The spate of Spanish recordings of Sephardic songs hadn't 
started. The synagoogues in madrid and Barcelona were hardly likely places for 
Fariña to have hung out, (no, he was NOT Sephardic or any other ytype of 
Jewish). And the song was certainly not circulating anywhere, despite any 
romantic ideas Mimi Fariña or anyone else might have had about it being an old 
Spanish song, which it never was! cheers, Judith

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