Haciendo Punto En Otro Son - Albums and Videos

Albums and Videos

Haciendo Punto's eponymous album has reached classic status in Puerto Rico. All of its songs (except "Ríe y Bosteza", written by Cuban singer Pablo Milanés) either were radio hits or have become cultural references in Puerto Rico. The album features the following:

  • "En la vida todo es ir", a poem written by Juan Antonio Corretjer, set to music by the group. It has since been versioned by various Spanish language interpreters, including Joan Manuel Serrat, Fiel a la Vega and others
  • "Verde Luz", a song written by Antonio Caban Vale which has become a virtual second national anthem for Puerto Rico
  • "Ensillando mi caballo", a set of décimas written by Pérez, at the suggestion of Corretjer, using a popular South American verse as the "pie forzado" (basis) of the song (it became the subject of a copyright dispute in 2006, when Perez discovered that his copyright had been granted to Corretjer by mistake and Corretjer's heirs could not allow him use of the song because of legal restrictions by the publishing agency, ACEMLA),
  • "La vida campesina", a cover of a Pafu song with the same name. It was a popular medley of Puerto Rican jibaro songs which was Haciendo Punto's first radio hit,
  • "Música", an ode to music that became Haciendo Punto's second radio hit,
  • "Agüeybaná", a homage to the Puerto Rican indigenous chief, curiously written by German-born Puerto Rican actor Axel Anderson,
  • "Mujer de 26 años", a song about a disillusioned society girl who bitterly matures into a marriage of convenience, written by José Hernández Colón, the brother of former Puerto Rican governor Rafael Hernández Colón, and
  • "Los caminos", a rumba sung by García and written by Cuban songwriter Pablo Milanés.

The album also features two parody songs, "Bolero de Mastropiero" (or merely "Bolero"), originally written by the Argentine musical comedy group Les Luthiers, and "Tango (di Vestimenta Interiore)", a parody of the Peruvian song "El Rosario de Mi Madre" in which Tony Croatto asks a former lover to give him back a particular piece of underwear.

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