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Pasko Sa Amin - 'Nung Bata Pa Ako

By: Corazon F.

"Pasko na naman,
O kay tulin ng araw,"

Kasabihan sa atin sa Pilipinas, pagpasok na ng buwan ng Disyembre , talagang nalalanghap mo na ang Pasko. Sabi ng Lola ko, amoy pinipig ang hangin. Kasabay nito ay ang pagpasok ng lamig. Marami ng nagsabit- sabit na mga parol at wala na kaming pinakahihintay kung hindi ang dalawang linggong walang pasok sa iskuela.

Ang unang tanda ng Pasko sa aming bahay ay kapag inilabas na ng Tatay ang malilit na ilaw para sa aming maliit na Christmas tree. Para sa aming magkakapatid, napakaganda ng mga ilaw,, may mukha ni Santa, may Snowman, may candy cane, may star, kaya ingat na ingat kami na huwag mabasag. Siempre, lalagyan namin ng bulak sa ilalim, parang "snow".

Ang mga palamuti sa bahay ay isa-isa ng kukunin ng Nanay sa kahon- may isang Nativity set, mga sabit sa Christmas tree na madalas ay gawa ni Nanay at saka gawa namin sa iskuela. Simple lang , meron kaming "streamer" na ang sabi"MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR"---iyan, unahan lagi kami kung sino ang magsasabit.

Ang pinanabikan namin sa panahong ito ay kung anong parol ang gagawin ng lola ko. Sa aming karsada, tanyag ang lola sa kanyang mga parol, ibat- iba, may estrella, may hugis bulaklak, may hugis kandila, lira at marami pang iba. Ang kawayan, kinakayas mabuti para sa tamang lambot upang mabuo ang baskaga. Papel de Hapon at almirol ang pandikit, tapos ang palara ay binibili para sa buntot ng Parol.Hindi pa uso yung mga parol galing sa Pampanga. Kapag nakasabit na sa aming bintana ang mga parol ng Lola, lahat ng napapadaan ay tumitigil, sa labis na paghanga. Maraming gustong magorder sa Lola ko, pero ang laging sagot- talagang pangpamilya lang siya. Siempre pa, sumusunod din sa uso ang Lola, ng lumabas na ang iba-ibang kulay na plastic, lalo siyang sinipag. Kapag naman malapit na ang bagong taon, ang Lola ko rin ang gumagawa ng mga 'sulo', para sa "Torch Parade" sa bayan. Lahat ng iskuela, highschool ay kasali dito.

Ang Tatay at Nanay ay pinalaki kami na naniniwala kay Santa Claus. Sa bisperas ng Pasko, nagsasabit kami ng lumang medyas ng Tatay ko sa flower box ng bahay namin. Maaga pa ay matulog na daw kami dahil hindi darating si Santa kung gising pa kami. At saka kailangan talagang matulog ng maaga para sa Noche Buena sa hating-gabi. Natutulog kami sa himig ng mga kantang Pamasko na inaawit ng Nanay sa kusina habang naghahanda ng Pancit Molo, Chinese ham, Pandesal at Queso de Bola. Kapag malapit ng hating-gabi, gising na, takbo sa medyas!!!!WOW- ako, mayroon maliit na manika, ang Ate ko , may chocolate, ang bunso may laruang kotse. Tanong ng bunso, "paano nakarating si Santa sa amin"-- sagot ng Tatay, "may sariling sasakyan siya na nakakapunta sa buong mundo-"-bilib kami lahat sa Tatay- siempre matalino yata siya.

Sa araw ng Pasko, lahat bago ang damit at sapatos. Pagkasimba, punta na sa bahay ng Lola, para magmano-- . Ang bigay sa amin, ay malutong at bagong limang piso bawat isa. Bago matapos ang araw, ang tingin ko ba ay ang yaman ko.

Ang mga kakanin na handa ng Lola ay talagang napakasarap. Suman sa lihiya, bibingkang malagkit, palitaw, matamis na ube at leche flan. Hay, ang sarap ng buhay!!!

Ilan lamang ang mga ito sa maliligayang alaala ng Pasko ng aking kabataan.Ito ang aking kinagisnan, mga tradisyon na sinimulan ng aking mga ninuno at magulang.

Ngayon, ang aking sariling maganak ay mayroon din mga tradisyon. Isa dito ay ang laging paghiling ng aming anak na isalaysay ang mga alaala ng Pasko sa Pilipinas, kahit paulit-ulit ay hindi niya pinagsasawaan.

Patuloy ang takbo ng buhay at nakatutuwang isipin na darating ang araw na ang aming anak naman ang magiingat ng mga masasayang alaala.

Also by Corazon F: Nights of Long Ago

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Swing It Baby (1978) Movie Video Starring VST & Company, Vilma Santos, feat. Tito, Vic, & Joey

Here's what a lot of you VST & Company fans have been waiting for! The hit movie 'Swing It Baby' (1978) starring Vilma Santos, Romeo Vaszuez, Amy Austria, and TVJ, with super group VST & Company! The movie is divided into 14 video clips. To watch the entire movie, view the Playlist page.




Many thanks to georgemjr14 for uploading.

For more VST & Company:
Rock Baby Rock! Film footage from the original movie with Vilma Santos.
VST & Company Photo Album
Nostalgia Manila Exclusive Interview with Roger Rigor of VST & Company Part 1
Nostalgia Manila Exclusive Interview with Roger Rigor of VST & Company Part 2
Disco Fever vs. Bossanova (By: Nicholas Stoodley)
Before they were legends! The early beginnings of Phil Music recording in the late '60s & early '70s.

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A GATHERING OF AMNESIACS (In defense of Freddie Aguilar, a true Pilipino artist)

By R.N. Rigor

“I recorded the song Bayan Ko (My Homeland) in 1979---seven years before the revolution. I felt that foreign culture was beginning to swamp local pop music. I thought that maybe a patriotic song would jolt back those who were starting to forget who we really are. Bayan Ko was the best I could think of…

When I was singing that song, without accompaniment, beside the coffin of Ninoy Aquino, I broke out in goose pimples. I was thinking, “I am full of conceit. All I do is talk. This man gave his life.” From then on, I became part of the protest scene---all the way until the revolution, still singing Bayan Ko.”

(Freddie Aguilar, quoted from People Power, an eyewitness history, 1986)

In the past month, our nation mourned the passing of Tita Cory, laid her to rest in the most fitting solemnity due one who has been known as the icon of Philippine democracy. Every Filipino across the globe must have witnessed the outpouring of the masa, the presence of every well-healed politico and entertainment personalities paying tribute to the wife of Ninoy, himself a national hero whose life and tragic end propelled Tita Cory to her niche in history.

For many of us who can remember, the slaying of Ninoy Aquino in 1983 was the beginning of the end of the Marcos era. That was three years prior to the biggest and most revered People Power movement that not only shocked the whole world, it also offered the people of a nation a new beginning. It made every Filipino proud.

It was during these challenging moments in our history when one of our most prolific and perhaps the closest to every Filipino then, because of his daunting songs and unabashed national pride, sang a nation to action.


Bayan Ko - Original Sound Track
Freddie Aguilar was known to have stirred the hearts of even the most jaded when his song ‘Anak’ aired the Holy Week after his Metro Manila Pop Music Festival debut. The year was 1976. The more popular singing personalities of the very first government-sponsored festival took the major awards, overshadowing the lilting song from an unknown Olongapo folksinger. But, the song’s message cannot be denied. Not from his own people. Not from the world.


Anak - Original Sound Track
For the very first time in the history of Philippine pop culture, a Filipino song cascaded across the globe in its original version. Every Japanese can sing the song from the heart---in Pilipino. Every European can recognize the song, in more than a dozen languages. This song spurred the “golden era of the seventies”, as pop artist/songwriter Rey Valera would eventually refer to, with original Pilipino songs and compositions lording its way not only in Asia, but even as far as New York. Pinoy songs would end up taking major awards in Asian festivals; local disco’s “Awitin Mo at Isasayaw Ko” was a favorite of Diana Ross at Studio 54 in New York.

Through those years, Ka Freddie, together with his cadre of folk artists (the likes of Florante, Asin, Banyuhay, Joel Ayala, PenPen, etc.) challenged the nation of the political reality of the times. Not only did the people listen, the government’s media authorities did not like what was being addressed. Unknown to many, Ka Freddie’s winning entry to the Second Metro Pop Festival, my brother Snaffu’s composition “Bulag, Pipi, at Bingi” (The Blind, the Mute and the Deaf), was eventually pulled from further airing as it suggested a subversive undertone according to the Broadcast Media Council.


Bulag, Pipi, at Bingi - Original Sound Track
This did not stop Ka Freddie from doing what he does best, to write from the heart and through the heart of the masa. It is unfortunate, and frankly, it is borne from sheer ignorance that some commentators would refer to this pop icon as one whose songs are “only heard by beggars”, as one who is a “sour grape whose time has come and gone”…

These comments from amnesiacs have completely put aside the fact that the guy singing for Tita Cory’s cause during that infamous snap election in 1985, the eventual People’s Power march 0f ’86 that hurled the nation to its new-found freedom was Ka Freddie and his version of what became the people’s anthem, ‘Bayan Ko’. Sure, it is the beggar’s song, but it was the masa of “beggars” that made possible the very freedom that careless commentators like these are enjoying these days.

Ka Freddie’s absence in all of Tita Cory’s last hours before she was finally laid to rest, with echoes of his rendition of ‘Bayan Ko’ and the memory of People’s Power coming alive among the multitude of masa along the funeral cortege, is really ironic.

Perhaps, because of late, Ka Freddie made an unpopular remark regarding several of today’s entertainers who have carved their presence globally. I can understand his argument. True, we are a nation of gifted and talented entertainers, who provide others the delight of hearing songs sung or seeing acts closest to the original. But, in the same breath, we have just as much Pinoy creativity to unleash, much like what “Anak” had done for Freddie, or what Pitoy Moreno has done in the field of fashion, and the many talented local artists in the visual arts. I believe that this is what he is trying to make clear.

Nevertheless, doing great mimicry is far from being original, indeed. Ka Freddie is an original and will not refrain from speaking his mind. His reference to the “unggoy” (monkey) is a stark caricature of the current trend of Filipino popular culture. Truth can be very abrasive sometimes.

He once made his nation proud. Those who forsake him because of what he envisions a nation’s gifted talents to be are the very people who will continue to make the Philippines a nation of beggars.

R.N. Rigor
From 1976 to 1980, a Project Coordinator with the Popular Music Foundation of the Philippines (the producer of the Metro Manila Pop Music Festivals), and is currently a teacher in an alternative school for social justice in the state of Washington for the past 15 years.




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Anthony Castelo serenades two contestants for Darling Soap

Here's a tv clip of Anthony Castelo serenading two beauty contestants for a Darling Soap promo spot. He starts off his number with "We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters.




Many thanks to flagwavercharacter for uploading.

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Nailclippers Music Videos - "Boy", "Gloria", "Catman Disco" and "Bakit Ba Ganyan?"

Here are some great music videos from the adorable family musical group The Nailclippers. Also called 'Clipper' in Japan, the family of 4 brothers and an elder sister enjoyed great success in the Philippines, as well as an international career in Japan where they released numerous albums with songs sang in Japanese. The Nailclippers are: Diana,
Dennis, Noel, Warren, and little Jon Jon. Also, check out the bonus film clip of their cameo in the movie "Bakit Ba Ganyan?".

Boy (Video Version 1)

Boy (Video Version 2)

Gloria

Catman Disco on Japanese TV 1978

"Bakit Ba Ganyan?" Movie cameo.


Many thanks to BOYDOLL01 and Bochibochidesuwa for uploading.

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VST & Company - Awitin Mo At Isasayaw Ko "Step No, Step Yes" "Tayo'y Magsayawan" Film Footage with Vilma Santos and Mike Monserat

Here are two videos featuring original film footage from the movie "Awitin Mo At Isasayaw Ko" with Vilma Santos, Sandy Garcia, and Mike Monserat. One of the three full length movies which starred the super group VST & Company.

Step No, Step Yes

Tayo'y Magsayawan


Many thanks to CircaSitenta2 for uploading.

For more VST & Company:
Rock Baby Rock! Film footage from the original movie with Vilma Santos.
VST & Company Photo Album
Nostalgia Manila Exclusive Interview with Roger Rigor of VST & Company Part 1
Nostalgia Manila Exclusive Interview with Roger Rigor of VST & Company Part 2
Disco Fever vs. Bossanova (By: Nicholas Stoodley)
Before they were legends! The early beginnings of Phil Music recording in the late '60s & early '70s.

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OMD - Forever Live And Die 80's Music Video

Tuwing hapon nanunuod ka noon ng Video Hit Parade. Ang dami mong mga music videos na napanuod, at ito ang una mong introduction sa mundo ng MTV. Marami kang nadiskubreng mga banda at music artists na may kanyakanyang mga hits, porma, at siyempre, music videos! Video Hit Parade Classics brings you classic music videos na hindi natin malilimutan!


OMD - Forever Live And Die
"I never wanted another, come over to me and discover."

Ang "(Forever) Live and Die" ay isa sa pinaka-sikat na kanta ng British synthpop group ng Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Released bilang unang single ng kanilang 1986 album, "The Pacific Age". Si Paul Humphreys ang kumanta ng lead vocals. Isa ito sa mga kantang laging pinapatugtog sa NU107, at WLS, at laging isinasalang sa mga NuWave mix tapes. Hindi rin malimutan ang ibang mga hits ng grupo tulad ng "If You Leave", at ang paburitong pinapatugtog sa mga parties, ang "Secret".

More Video Hit Parade Classics: Culture Club - It's A Miracle

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