Santa Esmeralda

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Santa Esmeralda was a mainly during the Disco - era globally successful 1970s studio project of French composer and producer Nicolas Skorsky and Jean-Manuel de Scarano with changing studio musicians and singers .

successes

For their first and most successful production in 1977, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and the subsequent LP of the same name , they engaged the Massachusetts , USA- born singer and saxophonist Leroy Gomez (also Leroy Gómes), who after a European tour with the Tavares and Studio recordings of Elton John's 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in Paris .

With a pounding flamenco rhythm, Spanish guitar played by José Souc and a driving wind section, they transformed the rather sedate, early psychedelic Animals classic into a powerful, dazzling dance anthem, not only for Europe's dance palaces . On the LP, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and the accompanying Esmeralda Suite take up the entire first page with a length of around 15 minutes. On page 2 there are three tracks, including a cover version of Van Morrison's Gloria and the ballad You're My Everything, written by Gomez .

The single released as Santa Esmeralda starring Leroy Gomez was able to place in the charts worldwide . In Germany (eight weeks) and Austria (four weeks) it reached number 1, in Switzerland number 4, in the USA number 15, and in Canada it came to number 10. The album of the same name, which was released on Philips / Puma, also occupied First place in Germany for eight weeks and was awarded platinum , which at that time corresponded to a sale of at least 500,000 records.

Jimmy Goings took over the lead vocals on the disc version of The House of the Rising Sun , also an Animals classic from the 1960s, which was released in late 1977 . The single could not repeat the success of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and only came in at number 27 in Germany. Nevertheless, the production team Skorsky / de Scarano, with Goings as lead singer, still released some albums, some of which were well discussed, until the early 1980s. like Another Cha-Cha from 1979, which for the first time only contains own compositions. In 1978 they recorded the song Seville Nights for the soundtrack of the film Thank God It's Friday (German title: Gottseidank, es ist Freitag ) .

In Germany, the rhythm part of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood was used in the ARD Sportschau from the end of the 1970s to the mid-1980s as a jingle and background music for the " Goal of the Month ". Quentin Tarantino used the song in his film Kill Bill as background music for a key scene, a sword fight between the bride ( Uma Thurman ) and O-Ren Ishii ( Lucy Liu ), and helped it to regain popularity in 2003.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US USTemplate: chart table / maintenance / charts non-existent
1977 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood DE1 (24 weeks)
DE 		AT2 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH4th
platinum
platinum

(10 weeks)CH 		- US25th
gold
gold

(23 weeks)US
Santa Esmeralda starring Leroy Gomez
1978 The House of the Rising Sun DE24 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT4 (3 months)
AT 		- - US41 (14 weeks)
US
First published: 1977
Santa Esmeralda starring Jimmy Goings
Beauty - - - - US141 (6 weeks)
US
Santa Esmeralda starring Jimmy Goings

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1979: Another Cha-Cha / C'est magnifique (starring Jimmy Goings)
  • 1980: Don't Be Shy Tonight (starring Jimmy Goings)
  • 1981: Hush (starring Jimmy Goings)
  • 1982: Green Talisman (with Jimmy Goings)
  • 2000: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat.Leroy Gomez)
  • 2002: Lay Down My Love (with Leroy Gomez)
  • 2004: The Greatest Hits (with Leroy Gomez)

Compilations

  • 1978: The Best of Santa Esmeralda
  • 1987: Best of Santa Esmeralda
  • 1993: The Greatest Hits
  • 1994: The Best of Santa Esmeralda - You're My Everything
  • 2000: Presents Spanish Disco Nights (Santa Esmeralda feat.Leroy Gomez)
  • 2003: Best of Santa Esmeralda
  • 2004: I successi
  • 2005: Hasta luego
  • 2005: Gloria

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1977 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood / Esmeralda Suite DE1 (24 weeks)
DE 		AT1 (5 months)
AT 		CH4 (12 weeks)
CH 		UK41 (5 weeks)
UK 		US15 (19 weeks)
US
Santa Esmeralda starring Leroy Gomez
1978 The House of the Rising Sun / Quasimodo Suite DE27 (7 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (1 month)
AT 		- - US78 (3 weeks)
US

More singles

  • 1977: You're My Everything
  • 1978: Learning the Game
  • 1978: Another Cha-Cha
  • 1980: C'est magnifique (feat.Jimmy Goings)
  • 1980: Don't Be Shy Tonight (feat.Jimmy Goings)
  • 1981: Hush
  • 1982: Green Talisman (with Jimmy Goings)
  • 1982: You're My Everything
  • 1982: Medley Non Stop
  • 1986: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (New Original Version 86)
  • 1990: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - 90's Remixes
  • 1993: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Understood Mix (Remix 93)
  • 1994: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Remix '94
  • 1997: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood + Esmeralda Suite (97 Rmx)
  • 2000: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Remix 2000

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  1. ↑ AMG, Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Album Credits
  2. ↑ a b Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit-Bilanz, Deutsche Chart Singles 1956-1980 . Taurus-Press, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 181.
  3. ↑ a b hitparade.ch
  4. ^ Joel Whitburn: The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits . 7th edition. Billboard Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8230-7690-3 , p. 554.
  5. ↑ RPM, Canada's only national 100 single survey ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Graphic in Graphics Interchange Format) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
  6. ↑ Günter Ehnert (ed.): Hit-Bilanz, Deutsche Chart LP's 1962-1986 . Taurus-Press, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-922542-29-8 , p. 102.
  7. ↑ AMG, Santa Esmeralda, Another Cha-Cha, 1979  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Review of the album@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / wc09.allmusic.com  
  8. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles Albums Billboard 200
  9. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  10. ↑ Gold / platinum databases: DE US

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