Los Caliope
(Valencia, Spain)
Group members:
María Elvira Ponce García
(replaced with Mary Leiva)
Francisco Aragón
Julio Bejarano
Raúl Gómez
Discography:
1960 – Goodbye, My Love / Joven
Enamorada / Yo Te Diré / Baby, Baby (Discophon EP 17088)
Biography:
Los Calíope, in
ancient Greek, means fine voice, and beautiful voices were those with this
quartet of Valencia. Los Calíope, led by María Elvira in front of three guys.
They debuted on the local Radio Nacional de España, and the proper performance
of her vocal harmonies son attracted the attention of label Discophon, who had
already signed to Los Milos, also in Valencia.
Raúl Gómez, Francisco Aragón, María Elvira Ponce García, Julio Bejarano |
At the end of
summer of 1960 they released their single EP, on par with the first of Los
Milos, but inexplicably did not return to record a song.
For this single
disc chose a subject that was successful by the Spanish singer Torrebruno ''
Good Bye, My Love'' , a lovely '' Yo Te Diré '' and two versions of American themes '' A Teenager
In Love'' (Dion & The Belmonts) and '' Baby, Baby '' (Jack Scott) , the
latter sung only by the three boys.
Mary Leiva, Julio Bejarano, Raúl Gómez,Francisco Aragón |
A quartet with
beautiful voices, Doo Wop pioneers in Spain that only left us this small sample
of their good work.
María Elvira Ponce García |
Thanks to Ricardo
Dominguez!
Sources:
Songs:
Goodbye, My Love
Joven Enamorada
Yo Te Diré
Baby, Baby