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CORAZON (INSTRUMENTAL)

from GUNK @ THE BOTTOM (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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This song has its own controversy within the family. Back in the late 50's, my father heard a local Mariachi band perform a song live on stage. He liked the song and then later forgot about it. Several years later, sometime in the mid to late 60's, my father learned how to play guitar. (Before then, he was a bassist.) He vaguely remembered the little tune the Mariachi band played and thought it was called CORAZON. (Not the same CORAZON that once charted.) It had a polka style beat and he couldn't remember the bridge at all, so he wrote his own. My father always claimed he heard someone play this main riff of CORAZON only to admit, years later, that he may have actually wrote it after hearing the Mariachi band performing their song, which may have been similar but not exact, especially where the bridge was concerned. After extensive research, it seems this is now an original song that my father wrote after being inspired by a local Mariachi group performing a traditional polka. (The local band was from Colorado.) I think the only thing I contributed to this song was a one note change in the bridge to fit the timing in a certain way, but that's about the extent of it. It's pretty much my father's original tune at this point.
For the recording, I performed all the parts since I'm about the only person around who still remembers it, and I wanted to record it before my memory may start failing.
This is song cataloged at #606.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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from GUNK @ THE BOTTOM (2024 Remaster), released July 7, 2016
Wayde K. Brown-Clinton L. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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