Besame Mucho

"Bésame Mucho" is a Spanish song written in 1940 by Mexican Consuelo Velázquez before her sixteenth birthday. The phrase "bésame mucho" can be translated as "kiss me a lot". According to Velázquez, she wrote this song even though she had never been kissed yet at the time.

Emilio Tuero was the first to record the song. This song is rumored to be the most recorded song of all time. Even The Beatles did a version.

The song is on the soundtrack of numerous films including Great Expectations, Let It Be, A toda máquina, Moon Over Parador, Arizona Dream, Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, In Good Company, Paid, Juno, Mona Lisa Smile, Mivtza Savta, Ljubav i drugi zločini and Niravana by Gabriel Salvatores.

In 2007, Composer/Arranger and Jazz Trombonist Steve Wiest was nominated for a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement for his version. In Jan. 2010, at the 52nd Grammy Awards, Herb Alpert was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

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