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Sometimes I play music for the kids at school. Picking songs whose titles are the same as the names of my students usually gets a chuckle.

Well, there's a girl named "Lolita" in my class. I fired up the Media Center today and searched for "Lola." Here's what I found:

Whatever Lola Wants from Damn Yankees. The title is a killer hook in the song. It lulls in between. I like this better than the more laid back Sarah Vaughn version.

Damn Yankees (1955 Original Broadway Cast)

Damn Yankees

**Information interlude**

"Lola" is short for "Dolores," which is one of the appellations given to the Blessed Mother, "dolores" being Latin for "pain"; it's translated into English as "sorrows," as in "Our Lady of Sorrows."

Detail of altar dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows in Santa Maria dei Servi, Siena, Italy.

The fact that the name Lolita has come to mean an unchaste young lady is ironic, then. Yet, understandable. Lolita is a popular name amongst Latin ladies and Americans began to associate their southern neighbors with lustiness early after first contact.

OK. Back to music.

Arabs mention Mary in the Koran, although not as the Mother of God. This is from an Egyptian movie called Whatever Lola Wants:

Caramel

Aldemaro Romero has a nice mambo version It's the podcast.

Almendra by Aldemaro Romero
The album has my favorite cover of all time. I used it when I made CDs for my friends.

The great Antonio Machin:

1935 Cuarteto & Septeto by D. J Machin

Antonio's songs have a genuine depth about them. Above, Machin loves his friend, but he takes the love of his life Lola, I think. Ambiguous, in an interesting way.

Carlos Argentino with the Sonora Matancera, again, sings Ave Maria Lola.

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Scott Brown famously advertised his daughters' eligibility during his victory speech.

I think it's sweet that he wants his girls married to a respectable gentleman.

Then, the urbane, intellectual Huffington Post sandwiched a music video with Scott Brown's wife, Gail Huff, between "7 Weird Things Women do to Their Privates" and an issue crucial to the survival of the Republic, Natalie Portman's right nipple.

To prove that I can be as hip as HP, the video:

Any evolutionist knows that a pretty woman is likely to give birth to a pretty daughter (proven in my own family). I searched for the prettiest mother-daughter combination and came upon this, the poorest-written blog post since Levi Johnston gave his reason for supporting a public option. But, who cares? It's a story on the PRETTIEST mother-daughter pairs, not a dissertation on aesthetics.

Carlos Argentino, the charismatic singer for the Sonora Matancera faces the difficult task of choosing between a young senorita and her MILFish mama in the merengue, "La Hija y la Mama."

It's the podcast.

Algo Especial Por La Sonora Matancera

Research, and I found out that the Dominican Luis Kalaff sang it first. I like it better for the funky, punctuating horns and the accordion.

As you can imagine, expressing interest in both a mom and a daughter can lead to trouble.

Comeuppance:

Merengue

King of Merengue

Bailemos Merengue, Vol. 1

Bailemos Merengue Vol.2