Bésame Mucho - Lucho Gatica

Consuelo Velázquez's song is one of the most recorded in Spanish, and Lucho Gatica's version shows what the microphone did for the bolero. The Chilean singer sings close and soft rather than projecting, so the plea of the lyric sounds private rather than declaimed. Compare it with any big-voiced version and you hear how intimacy, not volume, became the bolero's modern default.