# Talk:Don't Cry for Me Argentina

If memory serves, "No llores por mi, Argentina" is on Eva Peron's headstone.  Doesn't that deserve mention?  —  MusicMaker5376 16:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Exactly why is Madonna's discography listed here? I understand she sang one version of this song, but that is all.  The rest is fan fluff.—  BigPoppa 16:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

The main article was removed april 24th.  I have now restored most of it, but it's still rather Madonna-heavy IMO. Her fans should make a separate page to emphasise Madonna's version   - Shaun  8 May 2008 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.217.128.222 (talk) 16:35, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Well... I guess.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MadonnaPenguin (talk • contribs) 18:46, 23 July 2010 (UTC) 
Yeah.. I guess we sould'nt merge it. --PENGDONNA (talk) 18:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree, the section regarding Madonna makes it seem like her version is the definitive version, which is completely subjective. Due to the overly large emphasis placed on her version(s) of this song, I downgraded the article on "objective"  03:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jongleur (talk • contribs) 
The discography section  seems to be Madonna's chart performance for her 1997 cover (Coachtripfan (talk) 16:17, 11 January 2013 (UTC))

Tom Jones recorded this song but I don't know the year. If someone cares they could add it. Thanks. -Winter123 (talk) 03:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Please note : The is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs/coverversions with the purpose of trying to establish a standard rule for merge/separate different version of the same song. Please make known your feelings on the matter. Agentchuck (talk) 02:07, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Abba covered this song too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srelu (talk • contribs) 04:17, 6 July 2010 (UTC) 

You mean ABBA. --PENGDONNA (talk) 18:51, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
ABBA did NOT cover this. (Coachtripfan (talk) 16:14, 11 January 2013 (UTC))
I have a song on my computer "Abba - Don't Cry for me Argentina". I became suspicious and listened it carefully. It's definitely NOT Abba. I downloaded something that was "creatively" renamed:) It seems to be Julie Covington. My bad. Sorry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srelu (talk • contribs) 03:39, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
I think it's unlikely ABBA ever recorded this song, not least because they were well known for only ever recording their own self-written songs – I'm not sure they ever recorded a cover version at all during their career, in fact. Richard3120 (talk) 13:34, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

What do we mean about "Cover Versions"? For example, there is a Rock Band (Machaca Böffe), that recorded their own (rock) version of the song on their 2009 album Mi Mamá Me Mima (My Mother Loves Me)). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsabbione (talk • contribs) 17:21, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Please check...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.38.151.187 (talk) 23:20, 12 August 2012 (UTC) 

When news came out about his running off to Argentina to see a mistress (and he then referred to crying and having found soul mate), there were joking references to "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".  Would that be OK to refer to in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 22:09, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Why is there no comma between Me and Argentina? --  Jack of Oz [Talk] 22:26, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

You'll have to ask Tim Rice, the lyricist. That's the official title. (Evita On Broadway official website: Music) --Thnidu (talk) 17:23, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

"Weep", or "shout or call out"?
Lede:

1. It appears early in the second act as Evita addresses the crowd from the balcony of the Casa Rosada…
§Original version:

2. "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" appeared at the opening and near the end of the show, initially as the spirit of the dead Eva Perón exhorts the people of Argentina not to mourn her - "The truth is I never left you" - and later as she gives a final broadcast - "The truth is I shall not leave you".
3. Shortly before the album was finally mixed, Lloyd Webber suggested to Rice that the line "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" also worked in the context of the new First Lady of Argentina giving a speech.
4. Rice points out that in this instance "cry" refers to shouting or calling out rather than weeping.
§Cover versions:

5. Paloma San Basilio and Nacha Guevara recorded versions of the song in Spanish ("No llores por mí Argentina"). Katja Ebstein did a popular German version called "Wein’ nicht um mich Argentinien".
The sense "shouting or calling out" (4) is consistent with the final placement of the song in the show (1), which seems to have been a late change (3). But "weeping" is the meaning that makes sense in the song's original context (2). It's the usual meaning of "cry" by itself, without "__ out" or "__ aloud" or "__ for help" or the like, and it's the one that the translators used (llorar, weinen) (5).¹ So the lyricist's adjuration to understand it as "shouting or calling out" (4) sounds like a rather lame justification after the fact. 
¹ And the Spanish translation is included as a bonus track on the album of the Fall 2013 tour of the musical. [1]
--Thnidu (talk) 17:27, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

How Tim Rice created the musical and the song.
The origin of Don't Cry For Me, Argentina
—Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 13:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

IndianBio, you've done a great job on expanding this article. I'll go through it properly when I have the time, but one thing strikes me – where did you get the 12 November 1976 release date from? It may well be correct, because I've tried looking for the single's release in the December 1976 music magazines of the time and couldn't find it... if it had been released in November that would explain why. Also, its first appearance in the chart was 25 December 1976, not 12 December... you can check this on the OCC website, and I can confirm this to be correct from my copy of British Hit Singles & Albums and I've also looked it up in that week's issue of Music Week from 1976. That then brings me to the puzzle of why it took six weeks to chart after release... Richard3120 (talk) 17:35, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Richard3120 thanks for pointing out the error regarding the first charting date. I can see from here that it indeed charted on 19 December 1976 and not 25 December or 12 December. Rectifying it now. —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 08:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the release date, I have added the catalogue website's url, but I remember reading it in one of the books I was referring to that the album and single were released simultaneously. And if you can check the section it explains that initially the song did not receive a good feedback commercially and Radio 1 refused to play it, but one day they started spinning it. That would explain why the track took so much time to chart. Remember, UK Singles chart was not a 200 rank list at that time. —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 08:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
@IndianBio: I do remember very well - I'm British, and in those days the chart was only a top 50, and only the top 20 got played on Sunday evenings! Strictly speaking the 25 December date is correct - until this year when the OCC changed their website, charts were always "week ending" dates... now that the OCC have changed them to "week range between..." dates in order to accommodate streaming, the 19 December is the "week beginning" date, which would not have been used at the time.
I have a couple of other quibbles: you have stated that it rose up the charts slowly at first... in fact a rise from no. 37 to no. 2 in four weeks was actually quite rapid for the era. I think it might be more accurate to simply say it rose to number 2, but then was held there for three weeks by David Soul before finally reaching number one. Also, Radio 1 had been going more than nine years by this point, so it certainly wasn't in its infancy: the reason they wouldn't play it at first is that the song is not pop music and would not have fitted their criteria for the station's playlist. I would not be surprised if Radio 2 had started playing it first, as it was more their style of music, and then once it broke the charts Radio 1 had no option. Music Week gives details of which songs are added to the playlist each week, so I can look up exactly when Radio 1 started playing it. Richard3120 (talk) 14:06, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Richard, it would be a great help if you can find out when and if Radio 1 or Radio 2 added the song to their playlist. Songs that old generally do not have these kind of infos. Looking forward to it :) —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 14:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
@IndianBio: No problem,I'll put it on my list of things to look up when I get back to the UK... however, that won't happen until the end of the year, so the article may make GA before then, and it will have to be added retrospectively. As I said, I would prefer the article to say that the song entered the charts the week ending 25 December 1976, and finally reached number one the week ending 12 February 1977. This would agree with the chart dates published in Music Week at the time, the dates published in British Hit Singles & Albums (the book considered the bible of UK music charts in the pre-internet era), and also the OCC website, so it would totally eliminate any possible confusion of dates, no matter which of the three official sources you used. Richard3120 (talk) 15:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Ok Richard, I will go ahead and make the changes per the issue and week ending timeline. And yeah we can add the info about Radio 2 later also, not that important for GAC. —Indian:BIO [ ChitChat ] 16:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

In the article Violin Concerto (Brahms), section "In popular culture", there is a sourced statement saying that the third movement of this concerto inspired the song. A Google search for Brahms Cry Argentina yields almost 300,000 results. Thought this might be interesting to editors working on the page.MackyBeth (talk) 21:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

The article states that Rice and Lloyd Webber first spotted Julie Covington in an episode of Rock Follies, which aired its first episode in February of 1976.  Then, later, they trooped off to start recording Evita with Covington (and others) in ... 1975???
Something's wrong with this chronology here. Can someone with access to the sources please check and correct?  Thanks!  70.49.243.230 (talk) 01:13, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

In the main article of the Madonna version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" it lists the song as ranking at #57 in the Australian year-end charts, but in the year-end charts table below it has it at #56. Which one is correct? --Geach (talk) 17:16, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

56, according to the reference – I'm sure it was an accidental typo, and I've altered it accordingly. Richard3120 (talk) 17:40, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! --Geach (talk) 17:57, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Article says that in the soundtrack version sung by Madonna, her voice spans the notes from G3 to C5, but checking the track against a piano, it seems to be F#3 to B4. Before I edit, can anyone corroborate this?
Also the original Covington version is stated as having vocal notes E3 to G#5 but Covington, Brightman and Elaine Page in her live version all seem to go from G#3 to C#5.
The evidence given is sheet music. Am I missing something?
Bpalmerau (talk) 01:34, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

What is the tempo? 15:06, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't that depend on which version you're listening to? Richard3120 (talk) 15:22, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
By tempo, I didn't mean speed, I meant is it 3/4, 4/4, 2/4 or what? Kdammers (talk) 15:27, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Usually 4/4. The section about Madonna's version mentions this. Richard3120 (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you.  Does that mean that the song has different tempi in different versions?  Since tempo is a key element of music, this is surprising to me.  Can this be added somewhere?  I think tempo is something that should be included in music articles right near the start rather than way down in a subsection of a section about one singer in this case.  It would help those of us who are not musically gifted and want to be able to see right away something about the song. Kdammers (talk) 12:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
You mean the time signature, not the tempo. I guess it isn't added to most song articles because many people reading song articles can't read music, and seeing that a song is in 3/4 time, or 4/4 time, or whatever, means nothing to them, and it probably wouldn't be as interesting to them as the story behind the song. It would also need to be sourced, which would mean finding the song's sheet music on Music Notes or a similar website. Richard3120 (talk) 17:00, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Lea Salonga is interpreting the song beautifully. She deserved to be mentioned. 
Lea Salonga - Don't Cry for Me Argentina | 2002 on youtube. 2001:569:FCB1:E300:E0B0:8AD:19CA:F830 (talk) 05:54, 2 February 2025 (UTC)