Who is the girl who goes “with messy hair / and colored stockings”? Nothing more and nothing less than that Chica ye ye that Concha (then Conchita) Velasco sang in 1965, and that so long later will be more than familiar, endearing, to anyone who has walked through a karaoke, a major festival or a bodorrio.
With music by Augusto Algueró and lyrics by Antonio Guijarro, the piece in question was part of the film by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia Histories of Television, and will forever remain associated with the figure of the Valladolid actress who disappeared this Saturday. It is a number that, so to speak, dances itself: that sows happiness in any party, to the point that we (almost) forget the whiff of carca that its verses give off, which in reality are not exactly a vindication of ye ye.
Released by Belter the same year, Chica ye ye was a commercial bomb since its release, enabling future references by Velasco on the same label in later years. A list among which we find songs like Beatnik, and a somewhat delirious, although funny, pop adaptation of the classic La morena de mi copla, converted for the occasion into El moreno de mi copla. Also in the Belter catalogue, we come across several collaborations between Conchita Velasco and Manolo Escobar, among them You Owe Me a Dead Man, a rereading of another sample of Iberian vintage (You Owe Me a Kiss), which was part of a new film by Sáenz de Heredia of 1971.
Beyond the recordings related to the activity of the deceased artist in the world of musical theater, it is worth noting that last year, Memo, a duet between Concha Velasco and Enrique del Pozo (you know, the one from Enrique and Ana). It is a version of Dream a little dream of me popularized by The Mamas and The Papas, recorded in the nineties and which was never released on the market.
