Eres Tú Como El Agua De Mi Fuente...

ORIGINAL RELEASED AS LP NOVOLA LM-1004 

(ESPAÑA, 1973)

The year was 1967 in Bilbao, the Basque Country's largest city, when a group of young students - fans of folk and spiritual music and of the Beatles, like most other students - decided to form a musical group that was first known as Voces y Guitarras (Voices and Guitars). They spent a year performing near home when one fine day they decided to record a demo on cassette and send it by way of a friend to a record company in Madrid. That is how the tape reached the hands of Juan Carlos Calderón, who took an immediate interest in the group and became their producer for more than eleven years. Renamed Mocedades, the group was now on its way to making a remarkable string of hits, including songs such as "Eres Tú", which won second place in the 1973 Eurovision song festival. The following year, "Eres Tú" became a hit in the United States, with heavy rotation on radio and reaching the top ten lists, according to Billboard and Cash Box.

Mocedades started with eight members and has had several changes in personnel over the course of the group's history. The first two albums were recorded by the original eight members: three Uranga sisters and a brother (Amaya, Estíbaliz, Izaskum, and Roberto), the Blanco brothers (Rafaél and Sergio), José Ipiña, and Francisco Panera. At the end of 1970, José Ipiña and Francisco Panera left the group and Javier Garay joined. In 1972 Estíbaliz Uranga, Sergio Blanco, and Rafaél Blanco left Mocedades while José Ipiña returned and Carlos Zubiaga joined. It was with this configuration of the "historic six" of Amaya, Carlos, Izaskum, Javier, José, and Roberto that Mocedades recorded its biggest hits.

Eres tú 
(Letra y música de Juan Carlos Calderón)

Como una promesa, eres tú, eres tú.
Como una mañana de verano.
Como una sonrisa, eres tú, eres tú.
Así, así, eres tú.
Toda mi esperanza, eres tú, eres tú.
Como lluvia fresca en mis manos
como fuerte brisa, eres tú, eres tú.
Así, así, eres tú.
Eres tú como el agua de mi fuente (algo así eres tú)
Eres tú el fuego de mi hogar
Eres tú como el fuego de mi hoguera
Eres tú el trigo de mi pan.
Como mi poema, eres tú, eres tú.
Como una guitarra en la noche,
todo mi horizonte eres tú, eres tú.
Así, así, eres tú.
Eres tú como el agua de mi fuente (algo así eres tú)
Eres tú el fuego de mi hogar
Eres tú como el fuego de mi hoguera
Eres tú el trigo de mi pan.
Eres tú...