Anyone who gets goosebumps from this beautiful melody and this extraordinary voice can imagine what a Cuban exile feels when listening to this song. The song 'Cuando sali de Cuba' is about a Cuban who has left the country and is afraid that wherever he lives now he will not be able to die without his heart. He left it behind when he left Cuba and it is waiting there for him to return.
Luis Aguilé - himself an Argentinian who moved to Spain in 1963 - wrote this song in the mid-1960s. It immediately became the anthem for all Cuban exiles and has remained so to this day. Luis Aguilé wrote over 400 songs and recorded over 700 himself. He died of stomach cancer in Madrid in 2009 at the age of 73. His signature song will never die - at least for Cuban exiles.
The recording presented here comes from the Spanish television show 'Musical Mallorca' from 1975.
The Tremeloes – who remembers? – turned 'Cuando sali de Cuba' into the feel-good song 'Once On A Sunday Morning', which, however, failed to chart in either the British or German charts.