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Félix Manuel "Bobby" Rodríguez Capó (January 1, 1922 – December 18, 1989) was a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. He usually combined ballads with classical music and was deeply involved in Puerto Rican folk elements and even Andalusian music, as to produce many memorable Latino pop songs which featured elaborate, dramatic lyrics.
"Piel canela" Bobby Capó: Bobby Capó con la Sonora Matancera / Lucho Gatica / Pedro Vargas: 2 "Tu recuerdo y yo" José Alfredo Jiménez: Miguel Aceves Mejía / Pedro Infante: 3 "El jinete" José Alfredo Jiménez: Jorge Negrete: 4 "Ruega por nosotros" Alberto Cervantes & Rubén Fuentes: Miguel Aceves Mejía / Lucho Gatica / Pedro Infante 5 ...
Frenesí reached #193 on the Billboard album chart, #3 on the Top Latin Albums chart, and #17 on the Tropic/Salsa chart. Three singles charted on the Hot Latin Tracks chart: "Frenesi" at #5, "Perfidia" at #7, and "Entre Abismos" at #33.
At least over 1,000 distinct recordings of the song have been made worldwide. The only other boleros to have achieved such popularity are "Obsesión" and "Perdón" (by Pedro Flores) y "Piel canela" (by Bobby Capó) followed by "Desvelo de amor" and "Capullito de alelí" (by Rafael Hernández Marín). [1]
The following article lists the monthly number-one songs on the Mexican Selecciones Musicales chart from January 1950 to December 1960. The source for these charts is the book Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión by Roberto Ayala, who was the director of the Selecciones Musicales magazine.
Recording the song "Dame la mano y ven" (a Spanish version of the Beatles hit song "I Want to Hold Your Hand") for the album Tropical Tribute to the Beatles. Performances of several of Bobby Capó 's hits for the album Siempre Piel Canela released by Banco Popular .
1996: Cake covered the English version on their album Fashion Nugget; 2000: Mari Wilson sang it for the titles of the television series Coupling. 2008: Halie Loren released a version on her album They Oughta Write a Song, using the English and Spanish lyrics. 2010: Gaby Moreno released a single simply titled "Quizás."
The song's opening bridge and title is a direct reference to “Incomprendido” by Ismael Rivera, one of his most famous songs and one of Puerto Rico's greatest singers. Originally written for Ismael Rivera by another famous Puerto Rican songwriter, Bobby Capo, the song from Farruko interpolates the opening lines of Maelo's hit and also uses ...