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Caballo Viejo

Field	Value
name	Golpe Y Pasaje
cover	Caballo Viejo.jpg
type	single
artist	Simón Díaz
album	Caballo Viejo
released	1980
recorded	1980
genre	Pasaje, Folk (Música Llanera)
length	2:59
label	Palacio
writer	Simón Díaz

"Caballo Viejo" ('Old Horse') is a Venezuelan folk song of the genre Pasaje, written and composed by Simón Díaz, which appears on the 1980 album Golpe Y Pasaje. It has become one of the most important folk songs in Venezuela and is regarded as a classic. "Bamboléo", a potpourri by the Gipsy Kings, has some verses from Caballo Viejo, and it is also popular internationally.

Versions and translations

The song has been translated into many different languages.

It has been recorded as "Caballo Viejo" or as "Bamboleo" by dozens of singers, such as Celia Cruz, Papo Lucca y la Sonora Ponceña, María Dolores Pradera, Julio Iglesias, Gilberto Santa Rosa, José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma", Polo Montañes, Freddy López, Oscar D'León, Celso Piña, Gipsy Kings, Ray Coniff, Rubén Blades, Roberto Torres and Plácido Domingo. Roberto Torres's cover of the song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.

It was covered in Serbian language under the title "Španska kraljica" (Spanish Queen) by Eurodance group Beat Street in 1995.

References

"WebVoyage Record View 1 - Caballo Viejo".
(2007). "Latin GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". [[Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences]].
"Information on the song and its album "Napokon" on Discogs.com".

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