In memory of a great singer-songwriter
There are days of sorrow sadness and goodbyes. Among them what happened on this day August thirteen years ago when Hilario Camacho author of that famous “Sadness of Love” left us.In a self-produced dramatic series called “Tristeza de amor” stopped airing on TVE. That series of radio journalists of nightly confessions and hidden feelings had as its main musical theme a piece of the same name by the Madrid singer-songwriter Hilario Camacho. The song was not really a love song it was rather a denunciation of the human condition which the fictional series portrayed by delving into the lives of the characters on a station.
The last of the episodes number thirteen which marked its closure was titled “Australia patria querida” and was broadcast on June . Twenty years later the artist who gave musical fame to the series and who made us hum that of “sadness of CXB Directory love a cruel world…” was found dead at his home in Madrid on August . Perhaps he got tired of putting up with that sadness and cruelty and decided not to continue doing it.
Initially the song was part of the long-playing album LP “Gran Ciudad” published in by the Twins label. A few years later it was reissued by Fonomusic with the generic name “Tristeza de amor” thus recognizing the value of its most outstanding song. In the initial version three songs were not included in it: “Alone and Lost” “Spider Web” and “Let's Play Something Else” and one that was included “The Rock Stars” disappeared in the new edition.
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In his beginnings Hilario was a “liberator of poetry.” He was part of the group Canción del pueblo a collective composed mostly of students from the University of Madrid who set great poets to music and sang their own compositions. Hilario Camacho published a single there titled “Ensayo n° ” on side A of which he put music to “El fusilamiento” and on side B to “El son del desahucio” both poems by Cuban Nicolás Guillén with arrangements by Manuel Toharia and with a text inside by the poet Jesús López Pacheco.
According to Elisa Serna who was part of that group what they wanted was to “narrate in easy and direct language to which a pure melody has been added fleeing from all commerciality real situations or psychological reactions of the man on the street of the people in the face of the social and political events of the current moment.” Poetry and music lyrics and melody to denounce or confirm reality. Singer-songwriters in every sense of the word.
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