Fandango

Casanova presented his credentials to the court of the King of Spain and waited for an audience.

Casanova went looking for a girl to take to the ball and dance the Fandango.

In the end, he did find a girl.

Her name was Ignatia, and she was a cobbler's daughter.

You mean you don't want anybody to know

you got plastered, grabbed a Serapi and did the Fandango? No, Dollar.

And broke a guitar over the musician's head? Now, can't we just forget about that? Believe me, I had until you reminded me.

Now, Carson, I'm reasonably sure we don't know the same people and won't be seeing each other again.

He's scatamooge, scatamooge, which is nonsense.

Do you do the Fandango?

It's all bullshit.

I can hear you, Clint Fandango.

It's the townsfolk saying, he's a poor boy from

a poor family.

After a few minutes, they leave the stage, and another couple replaces them.

The Fandango is the combination of a jam session and a dance party.

And it's where Son Jarocho really lives, not in concert halls or three-minute recordings.

Take it from Eliel Torres, a member of legendary Jarocho group Mono

Blanco.

The

cool thing about the Fandango is that one song can last between one minute and a whole day.

I once was at a festival where I played El Siquisiri from three in the morning until noon the next day.

...

Fandango, blah, blah, blah.

Mm-hmm.

Like, and it is camp.

We

could do the Fandango, Thunderbolts and Lightning, very, very frightening me.

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, figure of many we go.

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.

But Brian Ferry was a huge Cole Porter fan.

And what he did there, he juxtaposed kind of cultural icons from the 30s and 40s, like Nijinsky and Mona Lisa and Lolita, and dances like the Fandango in the beginning.

And it would be more comparable to like a song by Cole Porter, like...

Well, Did You Ever or Anything Gold, which kind of lists songs.

In the aforementioned opera part, Freddie and company name-check various Italian figures at will.

We're talking Galileo Figaro, and of course Scaramouche, will he do the Fandango.

Now, in my college choir, I had basically the smallest solo ever, but hey, it was something.

I sang, easy come, easy go, will you let me go? Yes, Freddy is on trial for his murder, and all he hears in response was, Bismillah! They won't let him go.