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#quotefromthe80s
Hoy te he visto
Con tus libros caminando
Y tu carita de coqueta
Colegiala de mi amor.
#LaColegiala #RodolfoYSuTipica #GaryLow
Rodolfo y Su Tipica, Gary Low – La Colegiala
In the early 1980s there was a vastness and depth of music production that makes it difficult to choose which songs to remember but some need to be mentioned, starting from a delightful tune placed at the beginning of the decade, playing so good that it was always present in radios, advertisements, discos, beaches.
The song was created in Peru in the 1970s by Walter León Aguilar, and has its origins from some popular melodies; in 1982 the Colombian musician Rodolfo Aicardi (frontman of Rodolfo y su Tipica) made a beautiful version that was soon chosen as the soundtrack of a popular coffee brand.
The success is so great that advertising also lands in Europe, where the single was re-released in 1983. The old continent goes crazy and in Italy this hit climbs the rankings for 21 weeks.
The story might end here, but we are in the ’80s, things change quickly, songs go from hand to hand, they don’t die, in an atmosphere of continuous rebirth. This is how in 1984 (just a year later!) the song was reproduced by Gary Low, born Luis Romano Peris Belmonte in Rome to Spanish parents, relevant exponent of Italo Disco.
It’s a world triumph: Canada, Zimbabwe, Iceland! Platinum in Japan and (incredibly) in Mexico.
Looking back on the lucky commercial, I remember that maybe on those youthful evenings in front of the TV, you could happen to see even one of the mythical camel trophy reclame; certainly there was a general desire to travel, to know other countries.
The song tells of the singer’s falling in love with a student (the “colegiala”, in fact) whom he sees walking with her school books; from that village school roads on the Andes, this little schoolgirl traveled the whole world with music.
The video was probably created for the famous coffee commercial, and it brings together images of a train crossing the South American countries, and on board the train we see characters taking coffee, but in fact there is no clue of the schoolgirl mentioned of the song, nor even of the good old Rodolfo and his group. Of course this video thanks to advertising became very famous in many countries.
Rodolfo y su Tipica and Gary Low on Wikipedia
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