The wrong authors

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2013)

The credit says: Music Ennio Morricone. That's not true for the song "Amapola" (played in the film), which was composed in 1924 by Spanish musician José María La Calle García, born in Cádiz, Southern Spain in 1860, who later simplified his name and surnames into Joseph LaCalle, for he established in the USA after having emigrated very young to Cuba (Spain at the time). Morricone was not even born when "Amapola" -so popular in Spain, then, now and ever- was composed. Another "error", this one very well known, is attributing the song "The violet seller" (Spanish original "La Violetera") to Charles Chaplin in the film "City lights". The composer was the Spaniard José Padilla Sánchez or, in short, maestro Padilla (El Relicario, Valencia), who suited Chaplin after seeing the credits of the film. The trial took place in Paris and was won by Padilla.