The Moonriders - Perfidia (Alberto Domínguez)

From '' Scandinavian Instrumental & Beat Groups ''
Label: Rainbow Music – RMLP 2009
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo
Country: Sweden
Released: 1984

Tracklist
A1 The Moonriders - Teen Scene
A2 1961 - Spanish Eyes
A3 Johnny Lundin Band - My Jig
A4 The Steelmen - Shifting Whispering Sands
A5 The Moonriders - Prairie
A6 The Sentimentals - Harvest Festival
A7 "1961" - One Way Ticket
A8 The Moonriders - I'm In A Wonderful Dream
B1 Johnny Lundin Band - Ghost Train
B2 "1961" - How's M' Chicks
B3 The Steelmen - En Afton Vid Mjörn
B4 The Moonriders - Perfidia
B5 The Steelmen - Evening In Helsinki
B6 Mike & The Moonbeams - Smoke Signals
B7 The Moonriders - Riding Guitars
B8 The Steelmen - High Point

Design [Cover] – Birger Callerholm
Lacquer Cut By – Olle Ramm
Producer – Jan Lyckman
Sleeve Notes – Dave Holme

Notes
3:rd Anniversary Album. From the vaults of Rainbow Music.

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"Perfidia" (Spanish for "perfidy", as in faithless, treacherous or false) is a popular song written by Alberto Domínguez (1911--1975), a Mexican composer and arranger born in the state of Chiapas, about love and betrayal.
Aside from the original Spanish, other renditions exist, including English and instrumental versions. The English lyrics are by Milton Leeds.
The song was published in 1939 and became a hit for Xavier Cugat in 1940.
This version was used by director Wong Kar-wai in his films Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046.

"Perfidia" has been recorded by many artists, including:
Julie London,
The Four Aces,
Charlie Parker,
Laurel Aitken,
Mel Torme,
Olavi Virta,
Café Tacuba,
Glenn Miller,
Nana Mouskouri,
King Tubby,
Phyllis Dillon,
The Shadows,
The Ventures,
Trini Lopez,
Linda Ronstadt (in Spanish and English),
Nat King Cole,
Sara Montiel,
Los Tres Caballeros and Javier Solis (in Spanish),
Cliff Richard,
Lawrence Welk,
Luis Miguel,
Issac Delgado,
mandolinist Dave Apollon,
Olivia Molina,
Perez Prado,
Ibrahim Ferrer,
Los Rabanes
and Ben E. King.

An English arrangement of "Perfidia" was also the founding song of the Princeton Nassoons, Princeton University's oldest a cappella group.

In popular culture

The song is played in the film Casablanca when Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) dance in the Paris nightclub, in the flashback sequence of their romance there.

The song is heard in the film The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) but the story is set in 1938 (a year before the song was published).

It also sets a romantic mood in the film Now, Voyager, with stars Bette Davis and Paul Henreid seen sitting together in a Rio de Janeiro nightclub.

This song was the episode title and played in the final episode of Journeyman (2007) on NBC.

Perfidia is a song in the Off-Broadway musical Forever Plaid (1990).

The song has also been used as the opening theme to the television show George and Martha.

Perfidia was also included on the Dexter soundtrack.

This song was in the beginning of the 1978 movie Alexandria... Why?, directed by Youssef Chahine.

Perfidia was used in the Benny Hill Show.

Linda Ronstadt's version of the song in English with a Spanish introduction was used in the 1992 movie The Mambo Kings. Ronstadt also recorded the song in Spanish for her 1992 album Frenesí.

The Argentinian rock band La Portuaria plays a version of this song.

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