Bookworm of Gensan loves: 123 Salinawit Songbook by Pete Lacaba

If you love singing and videoke, but are tired of the original lyrics of the songs in your repertoire, then 123 Salinawit Songbook is for you! 

It contains 123 standard and show tunes in Filipino! Translated by Pete Lacaba, author of Showbiz Lengua, the Filipino lyrics hew close to the original songs which make them all the more poignant, sentimental and ultimately, fun!

This is one collection that deserves to be recorded by topnotch Pinoy singers. I've read that some have been performed in Conspiracy. 

In the 1970s in the advent of Original Pilipino Music (OPM), many singers like Rico Puno and Hajji Alejandro recorded pop hits translated to Filipino. But the most outstanding album of that period was the one recorded by Celeste Legaspi which featured standards translated by the late great Rolando Tinio.

Many thanks to Conspiracy habitue Alfie Rio Custodio for this gift of songs (with matching autograph!)!!!