Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

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"Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (also known as "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" in English) is a popular song written in 1947 with Spanish lyrics by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés ^[1]. The English lyrics were written by Joe Davis.

1 Renditions
2 Uses in film and TV
3 Footnotes
4 External links

[edit] Renditions

The Gordon Jenkins version, with Tony Bavaar as vocalist, was recorded on August 12, 1949 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24720.

The Doris Day version was recorded on November 5, 1964 for Columbia Records and not released as a single, but only on albums. (See Latin for Lovers.) The Doris Day recording was used to great effect in the successful Australian film Strictly Ballroom in 1992.

Nat King Cole regularly performed the song with a heavy American accent. His version appeared on his 1958 album Cole Español.

Others to have recorded the song include Rigo Tovar, Gordon Jenkins, Sonora Matancera, Xavier Cugat, Mantovani, The Stargazers, Pepe Jaramillo, and, more recently, Cake (on Fashion Nugget) and Geri Halliwell (on the America's Sweethearts soundtrack), as well as her Spice Girls bandmate Emma Bunton. Turkish ska band Athena did a cover named "Senden, benden, bizden", and the Jamaican ska musician Prince Buster recorded the song in the 60s as "Rude, rude, rudy".

[edit] Uses in film and TV

The song, both in its Spanish and English versions, has been used in a variety of films and television programs. Sara Montiel's version of the song was lipsynched by Gael Garcia Bernal in the movie Bad Education. The Spanish version was also used in the movies In the Mood for Love and Brokeback Mountain, although it was left off of the latter's soundtrack album. The song appears as well in the movie Running with Scissors. A scene in the 1992 Australian film Strictly Ballroom featured the Doris Day version.

In the 2006 season 2 of the hit ABC show Dancing With The Stars, the song was sung by one of the show's band singers during George Hamilton and his dance partner Edyta Sliwinska's competition routine.

The English version has most recently come to fame as the theme for the British sitcom Coupling, as sung by Mari Wilson. The song is used as the theme for the American version of the show as well, but as sung by one of the show's stars, Lindsay Price.