"Caballero" has captivated local line dancers this year. Details and words to Caballero are below.
Hello Dancers,
TUESDAY NIGHT LINE DANCING WITH NINA at Point Point continues. "Caballero" became an instant Tuesday night favorite starting Jan 31st when Dante, leader of the Bay Terraces (Tooma Park) Seniors, came to Point Point to teach the "Caballero" line dance to us. With 64 steps to it, "Caballero" is probably the most difficult line dance the Tuesday-nighters try, and weekly endeavors to learn the steps continue. But, its sweet melancholy melody and its lovely Italian vocals are enchanting. (Lyrics to "Caballero" are below.) Thanks to Nitz, a 32nd Street regular. Nitz came by Tuesday Feb 21st to teach us the "Mojo Mambo" line dance. Other favorites of the Tuesday night line dancers at Point Point continue to be "I'm Alive", "Almost Jamaica" and "There's a Kind of Hush". Nina has kindly allowed me to promote the "Hands Up" line dance and a line dance medley.
FOR UPCOMING TUESDAYS (like Mar 13th, 20th, etc.), you can join the fun in Point Point's Ocean Java Room, 916 E. 8th Street, National City, 7:00-9:00, when Nina normally leads us through fun line dances.
THURSDAY NIGHT DANCING AT POINT POINT continues. DJ Mel and I have been taking alternate weeks to play the music. DJ Leo reappeared at Point Point on March 1st to a rousing round of applause. DJ Dwayne, who works Gapo karaoke, and who used to DJ at the former Jestoni Bistro, has also been on the Point Point dance floor lately. What have been the favorite dances? Well, especially later in the evenings, night club 2-steps like "Sinta" by the Aegis Band, "Tal Vez Quizas", and "Yo Te Amo" pack the floor. Swing like "Stayin Alive" and "1st, Last, Everything" do well. Tango, merengue, waltz like "Right Thing We Do" waltz line dance, and cha cha songs like "Place In My Heart" are all well liked. Attendance has varied from 25 to 50 each Thursday night. When a group of Bay Terraces (Tooma Park) dancers is there, line dances are very prominent. Just after my previous report (Jan 22nd), on Thursday Jan 26th Bay Terraces (Tooma Park) dancers like Dante and Estrelle danced the "Caballero" line dance - the 1st time I saw it - 5 times! It's been the favorite line dance ever since. Other line dances, such as "Almost Jamaica", "Rivers Of Babylon", "It's My Soul", "Mamma Maria" and "Todo Todo Todo" still fill the floor.
While Mel Zaragoza and I alternate as DJs, we say "come on down" to dance and get some great food on Thursdays at Point Point every Thursday night, i.e, March 15th, 22nd, 29th, etc. Where: On the main floor at Point Point, 916 E. 8th Street, National City. Non-Stop Party dancing: 6:00-10 PM.
FRIDAY NIGHT DANCING: There are about five almost-every-Friday night Fil-Am dance parties in the San Diego area, including 32nd St Dance Group, Dancesation at Infinity, RMX, Red Hot Line Dancers, and the Dance Fusion Social Club. FOR MORE INFO ON THOSE AND MORE DANCE CHOICES, see Weekly Dance Events website. Also, this early Friday evening March 16th, two of our favorite dancers, Rima & Nedy, along with other models will be featured in a fashion show at Jasmine Seafood Restaurant, about 2 blocks from Infinity (more details below).
PHOTOS. Here's 6 of 37 new photos posted at the sites listed below. The new photos are from late January through March 8th (if these 4 photos are not displayed in this email, click "Show Images" near top of this email):
First of all, we see DJ Mel at the sound machine controls on Thursday January 26th at Point Point.
Next we see Jona dancing with DJ Ernie Tactay in Point Point on Thursday February 16th.
The next photo is what I see as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Jona, Edith, Divine, Shirley, Eva, Marylou and Ly all looking great even at 10pm at closing time at Point Point on Thursday February 16th.
OK, here's Bert Alota, the master of dip dancing, gracefully dipping Divine at Point Point on February 23rd.
Here we see the always stylish Rima dancing with Angel at Point Point on Thursday February 23rd. Rima and other models will be showing off new fashions this coming Friday March 16th at the Jasmine Seafood Restaurant, 4609 Convoy Street, San Diego, from 5 - 9pm. It will be a Dinner-Entertainment-Fashion Show called "Exotique 2012". RSVP Contact is Boogie Arce at 619-203-8171.
And, last but not least, it's DJ Leo and Cheryl greeting each other entering Point Point on Thursday March 1st.
I put those six photos plus 31 other photos from the past several weeks in the ForeverYoungSD Yahoo Group Photos section into the '2012 January' '2012 February' and '2012 March' folders. For those of you who prefer the big screen image quality and other features of Google's Picasa Web Albums (no log-in required with these links (at least for today), but Google disabled all the Picasa links I'd sent or posted prior to Jan 22nd, so use the following links to see my current and older Picasa web albums - click on my name at the top of one of these Picasa albums to see older albums back to 2009), and you who are non-Yahoo members, see the photos posted at
January Photos in Picasa:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103176925923805337179/2012January?noredirect=1
February Photos in Picasa:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103176925923805337179/2012February?noredirect=1
March Photos (so far) in Picasa:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103176925923805337179/2012March?noredirect=1
You can download photos from both locations. Using another Picasa feature, you can order prints on-line out of a Picasa album from several print providers including Walgreens without the need to download & upload photo files to & from your computer. To see the photo file names in Picasa Web, left click on a photo in the "gallery" view (in "slideshow" click Escape).
FYI, this Yahoo Email Group's Home Page is at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foreveryoungsd
Click here for WEEKLY & UPCOMING DANCE EVENTS INFORMATION.
Any information corrections or additions are appreciated. To e-mail to only me, type in bertdonaldson_1@yahoo.com on "To" line.
Best Wishes to You,
Bert and Edith,
619-224-3095
"Caballero" rapidly became a line dance favorite among San Diego's Fil-Am dancers early this year. I first saw it danced on Thursday Jan 26th in Point Point. DJ Mel, Dante and Estrelle, Bay Terraces (Tooma Park) dancers introduced it at Point Point. The recording is sung in Italian by a woman with a nice voice to some sort of a rumba, tango or cha cha tempo. It came out in 2010 by the "Orchestra Mario Riccardi". The line dance first appeared on YouTube in May 2011, as far as I can tell, and now incredibly there are about 100 videos of various groups dancing it! The copyrights for the lyrics below are presumably owned by the Italian writers, and no copyright infringement is intended here. In fact, I'm not sure we got it 100% correct. The English translation is NOT literal - the translation is approximate, closer to conversational English.
LYRICS FOR CABALLERO BY ORCHESTRA MARIO RICCARDI
Lyrics of Caballero
as recorded by Italy’s Mario Riccardi Orchestra (2010), available on iTunes
VERSE 1:
Dalla sua terra se ne รจ andato
(You left your (home) land.)
Per giorni ha camminato
(And for days you walked)
Lontano dalle sue radici
(Far from your roots,)
Da solo e senza amici
(Alone and without friends. )
Ma gli รจ rimasta dentro il cuore
(But deep in your heart )
La voglia di tornare
(You still think of going home, )
Per ritrovare quell’amore che aspetta laggiรน.
(Back to the love that waits for you. )
CHORUS:
Torna a casa caballero.
(Come back home guy.)
Cavalcando il tuo sentiero
(You’re going the wrong way )
Nella nebbia della sera
(In the fog of night,)
Sta inseguendo una chimera
(and you’re chasing a fantasy. )
Torna a casa caballero
(Come back home guy.)
Segui fiero il tuo sentiero,
(Just take the road home proudly, )
Sventolando il tuo sombrero
(Wave your hat, and )
Ritorna, mio caballero
(Come home, my man.)
VERSE 2:
Oltrepassando la radura
(Passing by fields,)
Cavalca senza paura
(Riding without fear, )
Lasciando indietro tante storie
(You’re leaving behind so much,)
Di gioia e di dolore
(Both joy and sadness. )
Ma gli รจ rimasta dentro il cuore
(But deep in your heart )
La voglia di tornare
(You still think of going home, )
Per ritrovare quell’amore che aspetta laggiรน.
(Back to the love that waits for you. )
CHORUS:
Torna a casa caballero.
(Come back home guy.)
Cavalcando il tuo sentiero
(You’re going the wrong way )
Nella nebbia della sera
(In the fog of night,)
Sta inseguendo una chimera
(and you’re chasing a fantasy. )
Torna a casa caballero
(Come back home guy.)
Segui fiero il tuo sentiero,
(Just take the road home proudly, )
Sventolando il tuo sombrero
(Wave your hat, and )
Ritorna, mio caballero
(Come home, my man.)
VERSE 3:
Ma gli รจ rimasta dentro il cuore
(But deep in your heart )
La voglia di tornare
(You still think of going home, )
Per ritrovare quell’amore che aspetta laggiรน.
(Back to the love that waits for you. )
CHORUS:
Torna a casa caballero.
(Come back home guy.)
Cavalcando il tuo sentiero
(You’re going the wrong way )
Nella nebbia della sera
(In the fog of night,)
Sta inseguendo una chimera
(and you’re chasing a fantasy. )
Torna a casa caballero
(Come back home guy.)
Segui fiero il tuo sentiero,
(Just take the road home proudly, )
Sventolando il tuo sombrero
(Wave your hat, and )
Ritorna, mio caballero
(Come home, my man.)
(INSTRUMENTAL BREAK)
Torna a casa caballero
(Come back home guy.)
Segui fiero il tuo sentiero,
(Just take the road home proudly, )
Sventolando il tuo sombrero
(Wave your hat, and )
Ritorna, mio caballero
(Come home, my man.)
Sventolando il tuo sombrero
(Wave your hat, and )
Ritorna, mio caballero
(Come home, my man.)
(END)
Lyrics © by Italian writers. Song is available on
iTunes
.
