Besame Mucho - world-famous spanish song

Besame Mucho is one of well-known song all over ther world. Since I've been hearing it once again I've decided to make the post about it. That imperishable song Besame Mucho was written by young girl Consuelo Velasquez in 1941. In 1944 this song Besame Mucho had won the spanish song contest in USA, starting to play over the air and soon had became the world hit. The song Besame Mucho was translated to all the languages with number of cover-versions up to 700, among them Elvis, Beatles, Sinatra and many many others.

I think it was a kind of luck. The story of Consuelo's success is fantastic. In times of WW2 it was something like a Farewell of the Slavonian song.

The lyrics (in spanish):

Besame Mucho

Besame, besame mucho,
Como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez.
Besame, besame mucho,
Que tengo miedo tenerte, y perderte despues.

Quiero tenerte muy cerca,
Mirarme en tus ojos,
Verte junto a mi
Piensa que tal vez manana,
Yo ya estare lejos,
Muy lejos de aqui.

Besame, besame mucho,
Como si fuera esta noche la ultima vez.
Besame, besame mucho,
Que tengo miedo tenerte, y perderte despues.

The most popular cover from world-music grandy Cesaria Evora:
Download Cesaria Evora - Besame Mucho mp3 (6.9 Mb)

Fiery skiffle-cover of Beatles:
Download The Beatles - Besame Mucho mp3 (3 Mb)

The band of Sinatra at refrain is raising frankly grooving ska:
Download Frank Sinatra - Besame Mucho mp3 (2.6 Mb)

It was so funny surf to play in the hearts of risky guys of Ventures:
Download The Ventures - Besame Mucho mp3 (1.9 Mb)

Further are jazz versions by the famous jazz mucicians:

Dave Brubeck - Besame Mucho mp3 (8.2 Mb)
Bill Evans - Besame Mucho mp3 (6.4 Mb)
Wes Montgomery - Besame Mucho mp3 (7.4 Mb)
Nat King Cole - Besame Mucho mp3 (2.6 Mb)

Wish you all a lot of kisses - delightful and sweet!

The source: Besame Mucho - text, mp3 and translations to russian