Soy tu hombre del boogie

One in the morning, I can't sleep to save my [insert description of doomed body part], and I click on the television. Up come K. C. and the Sunshine Band, and yes, it's another disco compilation. I rouse myself just enough to notice that wait a minute, this is different.

It is, and yet it isn't. I know all these songs — yes, I admit it — but the usual unctuous Time-Life announcer is sucking up in Spanish.

It would never have occurred to me that Time-Life would buy space on Univision and Telemundo to hawk these same old wares you've already seen a hundred times on English-language channels, but there it is just the same.

Still, it would have been interesting to have heard some of these songs actually translated into Spanish. Especially "Y.M.C.A."

Posted at 2:57 PM to Tongue and Groove