Buena Vista Social Club Page #4

and in Venezuela

Most of them are dead now

This one is still alive.

He's nearly 100

His name is Pascualito.

He plays the timbal

He died in Spain

The one thing I don't want

is to die. Not yet, anyway

That Man up there,

and my wife here...

...are making sure I'm still around

to enjoy myself

You know, some people

don't have much time left

As long as I have blood

in my veins...

...l'll go on loving women

Women, flowers and romance are

the most beautiful things in life

One night of romance...

that has no price

I haven't forgotten it,

and I'm 90 years old

I have five children

You met Salvador and Basilio.

Salvador is the youngest

I have five children. But now

I'm working on the sixth

I want to have one more

See you some other day

One day, out of the blue...

...there was a knock on my door

It was Juan de Marcos

I was shining my shoes at the time

He said "What are you doing?"

I said "l'm just shining my shoes"

He said "l've been looking for you.

Come with me"

I told him I didn't want

to sing any more

But he said "No, man, I need you"

So I ask him when

Tomorrow? I said.

And he said "No, right now"

Well, let me have a shower

No, no, right now he said

All I had time for was

to wash my face...

...and wipe the shoe polish

off my hands

So we came here, to the Egrem

And here, in the Egrem studios,

I found Eliades Ochoa

He was with Compay Segundo.

And Ruben was playing the piano

When Ruben saw me,

he started playing...

That's a number I'd made

popular in Cuba

It's called Candela, by

Faustino Oramas 'EI Guayabero'

There goes a dancing rat,

having a whale ofa time

While a mouse drums out a tune

to brighten up the day

A cat comes along, too.

So elegant and content

Good evening, friend

he says to the drummer

Anyway, I started singing

And Ry, who was in the booth,

must have been listening

He heard me...

...and decided to record it

So I said OK. And we recorded it

And that is how it all started

Fire! Fire!

I'm burning up!

Faustino Oramas and friends,

put this fire out forme!

Just dial seven zeros

and the firemen will be right here

My name is Orlando Lopez 'Cachaito'

I want to tell you how

I became a musician

I started playing I was nine

When I was 1 1 , I joined

my aunt's orchestra

Starting with my great-grandfather,

we all play the bass in the family

I was going to study the violin

But my grandfather said I had to

play the bass. You know how it is

I was a bit of afraid of the bass

But in the end I got used to it

My style of playing is...

Well, I need to concentrate.

I love this instrument

I've studied classical music,

every genre

I don't know, to me music

is like a game

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