Blast from the Past: Spain, 1969

One of my all time favourites: the song, the singer and that incredibly bad outfit. Salome sang for Spain in 1969, performing “Vivo Catando” accompanied by mildly annoying backing singers shouters. One of these singers went on to become Spain’s Minister for Finance in the 1980s*.

No spring chicken, even when the recording was made, Salome gives it her all, shimmying with the best of them.

And she won! All that shimmying paid off, I guess…

* Actually, no. He didn’t. I just made that up. I’m sorry, I’ve no idea what happened to any of Salome’s backing singers, but I suspect it involved dining out on their success and performing at friends’ weddings.

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