
La canción de hoy, Gloria, está escrita originalmente por Van Morrison y originalmente grabada por el músico junto a su banda Them en 1964. La canción se sacó como cara B de “Baby Please Don’t Go”, y se convirtió en un éxito entre otras bandas, que empezaron a tocarla al ser fácil de tocar y ser muy pegadiza. La canción continua totalmente vigente, con muchísimas versiones grabadas de grupos de estilos variopintos…
Letras:
She come around here about midnight
She come around here about midnight
Make me feel so good
Every night about midnight
Come around
Make me feel alright
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Come in my room
Make me feel so good
Like a woman do
Well why do you make me feel alright
She’s a natural born woman
Natural born soul sender
Natural born woman
Natural born soul sender
Come here about midnight, yeah! yeah!Did I tell you about my baby
Well, she comes around
Five feet four
From her head to the ground
Comes around here
Just about midnight
Makes me feel so good
Makes me feel alright
And her name is G . L . O . R . I . A
G.L.O.R.I.A, G.L.O.R.I.A
G.L.O.R.I.A, G.L.O.R.I.A
Gonna shout it every night
Gonna shout it every dayOh, oh, oh midnight, midnight, midnight
She come around here
She makes me feel alright about midnight
Walking down on the street
Come knock on my door
Knock, knock on my door
Then come in my room
Make me feel alright
Feel, feel, feel, feel
Feel, feel, alright, alright
She’s a sender, she’s a lover
She’s a sender, she’s a killerWhat’s her name?
Her name is Gloria
G . L . O . R . I . A
G.L.O.R.I.A
Gonna shout it every night
Gonna shout it every day
G.L.O.R.I.A, G.L.O.R.I.A
I wanna shout it every night
I wanna shout it every day
And every day, and every day
And every day child
And every day child, every day
Makes me feel good
Feel, feel
Mamma look, feel, feel, so good
Esta es la grabación de Them tocando Gloria.

Probablemente la versión más conocida sea la de Patti Smith, que la reescribió para Horses en 1975. Usó la melodía de Van Morrison como como base, pero reescribió las letras con un estilo más punk y alusiones irónicas a las referencias sagradas del original. Desde la primera frase deja claro el cambio de estilo, diciendo “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine”. Muchos grupos han versionado directamente la versión de Patti Smith
Letras:
Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine
Meltin’ in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins my own
They belong to me, mePeople say ‘beware!’
But I don’t care
The words are just
Rules and regulations to me, meI-i walk in a room, you know I look so proud
I’m movin’ in this here atmosphere, well, anything’s allowed
And I go to this here party and I just get bored
Until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing
Humpin’ on the parking meter, leanin’ on the parking meter
Oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling and then I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine
Ooh I’ll put my spell on herHere she comes
Walkin’ down the street
Here she comes
Comin’ through my door
Here she comes
Crawlin’ up my stair
Here she comes
Waltzin’ through the hall
In a pretty red dress
And oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling that I’m gonna ah-ah make her mineAnd then I hear this knockin’ on my door
Hear this knockin’ on my door
And I look up into the big tower clock
And say, ‘oh my God here’s midnight!’
And my baby is walkin’ through the door
Leanin’ on my couch she whispers to me and I take the big plunge
And oh, she was so good and oh, she was so fine
And I’m gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mineAnd I said darling, tell me your name, she told me her name
She whispered to me, she told me her name
And her name is, and her name is, and her name is, and her name is g-l-o-r-i-a
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloriaI was at the stadium
There were twenty thousand girls called their names out to me
Marie and ruth but to tell you the truth
I didn’t hear them I didn’t see
I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock
And I heard those bells chimin’ in my heart
Going ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong.
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong
Counting the time, then you came to my room
And you whispered to me and we took the big plunge
And oh. you were so good, oh, you were so fine
And I gotta tell the world that I make her mine make her mine
Make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mineG-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria,
G-l-o-r-i-a gloriaAnd the tower bells chime, ‘ding dong’ they chime
They’re singing, ‘jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.’Gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a,
Gloria g-l-o-r-i-a, g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria,
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria,
G-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria g-l-o-r-i-a gloria .
Y a continuación alguna que otra versión destacable… Aquí tenemos a The Doors…
Por aquí David Bowie dándole un toque glam a la canción…
Tom Petty también la ha homenajeado en directo…
El Working Class Hero Bruce Springsteen también la homenajeó en directo…
También hay que destacar la versión de Jimi Hendrix…
Santa Esmeralda le dio un toque de rock gitano bastante original…
Aquí tenemos a unos jóvenes AC/DC versionándola, que además la usaron como base para su conocido Jailbreak…
También la versionó Status Quo, bajo el nombre de The Spectres, con una versión del 66.
Y cerramos con una rareza, Bill Murray versionándola en el festival de Guitarra de Crossroads, en 2007.
¿Con cuál os quedaríais? Yo con la de Patti Smith y la de David Bowie…
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Máximo odio para Patti Smith, un superdinosauro do rock (sen roll). A dos Them é para min a mellor, xunto coa (moi semellante) dos Shadows of Knight, grande éxito do 60′s punk.
Temazo y es poco! La verdad es que dentro de poco más montaremos un top a la canción mas versionada jaja.
Bowie, Patti Smith, Doors y alguna otra me gustó por aí! Aunque por supuetso la original ya dejó el nievl bien alto.