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Borderstone · 12-31-2014, 07:42 PM

I got this tid-bit from SONGfacts :

This song started out as an Andean folk melody that Paul Simon came across in 1969 when he played a week-long engagement at a theater in Paris along with the South American group Los Incas, who played an instrumental version of the song called "Paso Del Condor." Said Simon: "I used to hang around every night to hear them play that. I loved it and I would play it all the time, and then I thought, Let's put words to it."

If the site is accurate that he did discover it
specifically in 1969,then Wikipedia (big shock) is incorrect.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2550

12-31-2014, 07:42 PM	#2
Borderstone Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Phoenix,Arizona -America Posts: 4,427	Re: El Condor Pasa. I got this tid-bit from SONGfacts : This song started out as an Andean folk melody that Paul Simon came across in 1969 when he played a week-long engagement at a theater in Paris along with the South American group Los Incas, who played an instrumental version of the song called "Paso Del Condor." Said Simon: "I used to hang around every night to hear them play that. I loved it and I would play it all the time, and then I thought, Let's put words to it." If the site is accurate that he did discover it specifically in 1969,then Wikipedia (big shock) is incorrect. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2550 __________________ "A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm." - Borderstone