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The Evita album had taken 3—4 months to record, since Rice was not satisfied with the intensity of the initial recordings. The song had a number of different titles before "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was chosen as the final one. The song shares its melody with "Oh What a Circus" from the same show and lyrically consists of platitudes where Eva tries to win the favour of the people of Argentina. Azur Real Hotel Boutique.

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Algodon Wine Estates and Champions Club. Posada Alma del Arroyo. Shortly before the album was finally mixed, Lloyd Webber suggested to Rice that the line "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" also worked in the context of the new First Lady of Argentina giving a speech. Rice points out that in this instance "cry" refers to shouting or calling out rather than weeping. When Covington chose not to take the stage role, Elaine Paige was cast as Eva in the London production.

In the United States , the song is also closely linked with Patti LuPone , who performed the role of Eva in the original Broadway production of the show. During the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina , the song was sometimes played sarcastically by British regimental bands as they deployed to the Falklands.

At the same time the Covington recording was banned from play on the BBC. The song was also banned in the Philippines during the dictatorship —86 of President Ferdinand Marcos.

The presentation of the musical Evita was repressed. Laura Branigan never recorded the song, but regularly sang it during concerts throughout her career. Gheorghe Zamfir also produced a classical version of the music as part of his Magic of the Panpipes collection. American singer-songwriter Madonna recorded her version of the song for her starring role in the film Evita. It was released as the second single from the soundtrack. Records and. For the single release, Madonna re-recorded the song as a dance remix, produced by herself, Pablo Flores and Javier Garza.

The "Miami Mix" versions included lyrics sung in English and Spanglish. The music video was directed by Alan Parker and contained footage from the motion picture. A remix to the 'Miami Mix Edit' was also released. The original soundtrack version was used as an instrumental interlude on her Drowned World Tour.

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine commented: "Easily one of Madonna's greatest vocal performance to date, the singer's dramatic interpretation of Evita's unofficial theme song was both loyal and bizarrely autobiographical.

It was a U. At Evita Peron 's grave in the La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires , one of the plaques is a tribute from the city's taxi drivers' union.

One of her epitaphs, roughly translated, reads: "Don't cry for me Argentina, I remain quite near to you. In the third episode of the fifteenth season of The Simpsons , "The President Wore Pearls", Lisa sings "Don't cry for me, kids of Springfield" as she is driven away on the school bus.

Eva, with her own solid working-class credentials, had little trouble winning the hearts of the hoi polloi, but could never quite seduce the upper classes, who found her pushy, Machiavellian, absurdly coiffed and just a smidgen trashy. Don't Cry for Me, Argentina belongs to a fascinating category of songs purists refer to as the geographically hortatory; that is, songs in which a city, state or nation is addressed directly and exhorted to take a particular course of action at the direction of the singer, no matter how onerous or implausible.

Thematically linked to La Marseillaise, in which the "children of the fatherland" are strongly encouraged to "slake" the "thirsting furrows of their fields" with "impure" blood, the more decorous Don't Cry for Me, Argentina counsels the peons of the pampas to avoid shedding tears for Mrs Peron, as no tears are required. The reason no tears are required is because Mrs Peron, all through her "wild years", has kept her promise to her kinsmen.

Apparently, her promise was a stipulation in her will expressly barring Liza Minnelli from playing her in the biopic about her life, because this would be unfair to the people of Argentina, who had already suffered enough.

Michael Collins made similar pre-assassination arrangements vis-a-vis Kevin Costner. With its lush orchestral passages, which evoke both the magic of the pampas and the smoky romance of those sultry Buenos Aires evenings we all dream of in our private moments when we discreetly cue up a few Astor Piazzolla tangos on the trusty old iPod and imagine ourselves clad as gauchos, Don't Cry for Me, Argentina addresses an Argentina of the mind.