Dime, The Rumba

Dime, is a beautiful Rumba that sounds like money when it is read, but I point out that in Spanish it means, "Tell me." (I have done something wrong?) It is pronounced "Thee Meh" and he doesn't say she left him but it is implied. And it arrived in Bluefields about a month before my planned escape in 1975. I hated losing it, beautiful rumba beat, Indian style, seashells, animal horns, flutes in background.

 "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.

I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." ~Mother Teresa

I left on the Red Diamond Four, a small commercial boat going to Brownsville, Texas. Right behind the Hurricane because the captain had waited too long. Up the coast of Nicaragua, the big waves were coming at us. The small boat would go almost straight up a wave and then down the other side and the propeller would shake the boat when out of the water. Tough.

Rounding the corner into the Gulf of Honduras the waves were coming side ways, and I had a terrible time trying to sleep on a wall then hang on to keep on my bunk when it goes the other way. My shipmates told me it could get rougher. I wasn't meant to be a sailor. Tough.

"Dime"   ...   Morris Albert

Coming around Cancun, Mexico, the sea was smooth as glass. The captain had told me we would never catch up to the Hurricane. Out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, with the boat going full blast on auto pilot, it seemed like we were lost, I could see nothing in any direction. Where is everybody?  We got to Brownsville safely and only took about six days.

Got a job washing dishes then became assistant cook and still making my plans. A few weeks later I heard what sounded like Dime. It was, but now it was in English and the name was Feelings. It was still a beautiful fox trot. I played it whenever I got to a Jukebox. I then lost it again in my travels to get to L.A.

Came to Hawaii and I may have heard it once or twice, just not popular here. Then this week, I came across the original on You Tube and I found a way to copy it to my computer, however it comes with the video. Now I have to find out how to copy the music only. Anybody out there know?

"La Distancia"   ...   Roberto Carlos

1975

The composer a Brazilian guitarist and singer, Mauricio Alberto Kasselman, (who's father was Jewish) recommended changing his name to Morris Albert. The original lyrics were in Portuguese but Dime went throughout the world and the lyrics were changed for each area. Stuck with his new name he didn't do as good as he thought, Now 37 years later, he still alive and there is video of him singing "Feelings" in English. I will find one where he sings it in Spanish.

So we all get old.

Anybody want a copy of the video and the music can have it, just supply me with a flash drive and I will copy it and give it back to you. Then you can do whatever you wish to do with it.  I am still trying to find a way to copy only the music. You will be able to play it only on a computer. The guitar is a little faint in the beginning but it emerges like a harp. The music is the same whatever computer you use, the interpretation is in the outlet. Hopefully you have good speakers or earphones, it is all are up to you. And you can get it yourself direct from You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEeGnRZLCnM

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one of Mitt Romney's problems was that he's never hired an American for a job before,

so this was all new to him." –Jay Leno