Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 6th 1970, "El Condor Pasa" by Simon and Garfunkel entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #54 and on October 25th, 1970 it peaked at #18.Anono from UsThis is my favorite S & G song, regardless of who originally wrote - Madison, Wi : Speak for yourself when you generalize all Americans as stupid (meaning they don't appreciate a broader spectrum of musical genres).Apparently that country now has 2 national anthem songs. El Condor Pasa is now a heritage song for Peru and is a national anthem for that country as of 2004. S&G made the song popular world wide which did make the government of Peru very happy. He gets credit along with 2 others (Peruvian) people for the song El Condor Pasa (If I Could) because he added lyrics. He wasn't even born when that song was made. Simon gets no credit at all for El Condor Pasa as he had nothing to do with that song. Lots of wind pipes, pan flutes etc and no words. The music was used in plays with an orchestra. It's an Andean musical tune composed in 1913 and copyrighted in the US in 1933. Larry Sollie from MinnesotaBeautiful song.When Los Incas released their LP in 1963 it had a considerable success and they were a famous band in Paris, where Paul Simon attended some of their concerts and proposed them to buy the rights of the piece. It was already recorded with Andean instruments back in 1958 and then Jorge Milchberg, the director of Los Incas, made his wonderful arrangement around 1961. My impression is that the "famous" tune, the one to which Simon added lyrics, was originally composed by an anonymous popular musician, then arranged and orchestrated by Robles, and then "reabsorbed" by some folk bands in the 50's. For the rest, Daniel Alomia Robles certainly presented the piece -with no lyrics at all- as his composition in 1913, included as one of the movements of a zarzuela (a kind of mixed spoken and sung operetta), but Robles, who was a fine composer, also used to compile and arrange lots of Andean folk music that he had collected in his youth travelling across Perú. The instruments of the track are two quenas (Andean vertical flutes), two charangos strung in metal double strings (it is these two instruments, the two charangos, than can be heard at the begining of the song, one played strummed and the other plucked, taking the tune of the prelude obefore the "famous tune" enters), one guitar (Spanish guitar) and bombo (drum) and the master used was that previously released by Philips back in 1963 in a Los Incas LP. Arrangement by Jorge Milchberg and English lyrics by Paul Simon". As the credits of Bridge over troubled waters state, "Instrumental track is performed by Los Incas with full authorization of Philips Records. In short, only Los Incas play in that track. They just added voices to the version that Los Incas had already recorded in Paris in 1963 for Philips.
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