Simon and Garfunkel- El Cóndor Pasa REACTION AND REVIEW

[@tigersharkot]

The Condor is an Andean vulture, with a wingspan between 10 and 12 feet. Imagine being at 7000 feet and seeing a condor glide overhead.

[@sammybeck7794]

This is an awesome cover of a Peruvian orchestrational piece written back in the early 1900s. Paul Simon covered the music and added lyrics to it to create this beautiful song.

[@Roddy1965]

I have a cd of Peruvian harp music, and it's glorious. The music of Peru is so beautiful.

[@davidrauh8118]

They used a South American group for the backing track. I don't remember if they were from Brazil or Peru. But Paul also used them on one of his solo albums and on a tour.

[@Habichiwoowoo]

One of my dad's favorite tunes. That album was played ad infinitum in our house for a few years. Still in my top five...

[@Songbird-59]

Over 50 years, this song never gets old

[@SpaceCattttt]

It's actually 111 years old.

[@yes_head]

I remember this being on the radio in the early 70's. It was pretty popular at the time, and it's obviously got a memorable melody and lyric. Score another one for S&G.

[@JD_Cool]

It's very weird -- in a wonderful way -- that Paul Simon used this same Peruvian orchestration on "Duncan," a song with NO link whatsoever to Peru, since it's about a Canadian boy moving to New England. Yet somehow Paul makes it work seamlessly.

[@michaelfrank2266]

Hard to go wrong with Simon and Garfunkel.

[@yw1971]

One of the earliest introduction of World music into pop

[@Nidels]

The Andean condor, also known as the Andean condor or simply condor, is a species of bird in the family Cathartidae that lives in the Andes mountain range and the adjacent coasts of the Pacific Ocean in western South America. It is the largest flying bird in the world by combined weight (15 kg) and maximum wingspan (3.3 m). It is generally considered the largest bird of prey in the world. El Cóndor Pasa is a 1970 Simon and Garfunkel version of the Peruvian song El cóndor pasa. The original version is an orchestral musical piece from the zarzuela El cóndor pasa… by Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean music, specifically the folk music of Peru.

[@herb6677]

The condor is like all vultures no bird of prey at all, as it is just a scavenger. The vultures of the new world are all more related to turkeys than eagles.

[@Nidels]

@@herb6677 es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vultur_gryphus

[@maruad7577]

Simple but beautiful. It's unrelated but it makes me think of Cat Stevens' O Caritas (which was a favourite of mine for a long time).

[@John_Locke_108]

One of their finest songs. Simply gorgeous.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Evening Justin. Dave from London. Another classic song from this iconic album. Love the panpipes here. It was a treat seeing condors soaring Eight Miles High (not quite!) above the Grand Canyon. A jazz/r&b version of the title track is up for a Grammy this year. R&b vocals by Yebba, John Legend & Tori Kelly; vocal harmonies by Jacob Collier.

[@shemanic1]

Beautiful music from this duo as usual.

[@SpaceCattttt]

S&G's version of this classic song is so good that it instantly makes you forgive (if not forget) all those Peruvian Indian bands that always seem to hang around the local grocery store, busking for cash by playing this and other similar songs...

[@Kuesel68]

When I was a kid there were Peruvian and Bolivian street musicians at every corner of Swiss cities and they all played... this tune! Til you coulnd't hear it anymore :D It's an older instrumental but made famous by Los Incas in the 60s and Paul wrote some lyrics to it after he first heard them play.

[@Eduardo-Ferreira1982]

The condor was also used as a name for an usa foreign policy plan to overthrow any attemp of socialist governments on latin america. It caused much pain and deaths more than we're able to count. This version of the popular was not the first done by a western artist, though it is the most famous. Marie Laforet recorded it some years before S&G. We can envision here the first world music approach that Paul Simon would porsuit in the future. With the success we all know.

[@KJ-4321]

Very nice review along with interesting information. 🙂 Thank you! 😀

[@markdrechsler5660]

Simon’s follow up to “Graceland,” “The Rhythm of the Saints,” is full of South American influences. That would make another good full album listen.

[@Patterner]

fun fact: "they paved paradise" is from Joni Mitchell「Big Yellow Taxi」(and my first thought when i heard that line)

[@kevinhodgson2990]

Recommend The Rhythm of the Saints album with my fav song "Born at the Right Time".

[@MisterWondrous]

This song always touches deep.

[@MJ1]

Every Gringo Bar in Peru has a duo who performs this song… and it’s glorious.

[@davidmaholchic6146]

Love this ditty Love you

[@richardfurness7556]

Made the UK charts in 1970 courtesy of a cover by American folk singer Julie Felix, who had settled in England and become a familiar face on British TV. Her personal life was interesting, to put it mildly. Viewers watching her sitting on a stool, smiling and strumming her guitar had no idea of the affairs with Paul McCartney, Dusty Springfield and others. Sadly she's no longer with us.

[@BrandonKennedy-v9l]

El condor pasa translation in English is the condor passes

[@joannerichards1750]

The pan flute is indigenous to Inca music.

[@PaulRoehl-fi1iw]

This is the first time the beginning of this song reminded me of the beg. to "Roundabout". Although there are significant differences of course.

[@markharris1125]

Yes, it doesn't translate because a condor is a condor! El cóndor mira al águila.

[@davidrauh8118]

Urubamba was the name of the group.

[@floydshambles]

don't forget to listen to my favorite song. i'll watch the video 100 times and drive the numbers up.

[@Driecnk]

I Am A Rock

[@aleclewis9123]

A beautiful song from the Andes. 🙂 In relation to this, I recommend you to listen to Steve Hackett's Inca Terra. 😊

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Argentinian, I believe.

[@aleclewis9123]

@@sourisvoleur4854 It is actually Peruvian. Daniel Alomía Robles wrote it in 1913 for a zarzuela (Spanish lyric-dramatic style) of the same name.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

I'll be happy if I never hear $&^%*"! pan pipes again for as long as I live. 🙃

[@Drummingvulture]

FINALLY a vulture song! LOL! edit: Now try "Buzzard" by Armageddon from '75.

[@murdockreviews]

Ruined by an army of street musicians during the 90s and early 00s for me. It's a traditional.