Talk:South Bound Saurez

How is this song hard rock??

It seems like just plain rock to me, if not some moderately more frilly title like soft rock or rock'n'roll. The Person Who Is Strange 14:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

salut à tout le monde , j'aime bien quelqu'un m'aider à trouver un site lequel je peux apprendre les langues ( français - anglais ). merci. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.250.18.152 (talk) 14:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not. It's a standard rock song, about as standard as they come. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:246:C000:1C80:E865:EBED:19E9:6832 (talk) 10:42, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Uruguay?

Is there any source for this? A quick search on Google only lead me here and to other websites citing Wikipedia as a source... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merrrlo (talk • contribs) 08:26, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Saurez vs Suarez

The fact that the song is listed as "Sound Bound Suarez" at jimmypage.com does not support the statements made in the 27 Aug 2017 edits. Gregg Akkerman in Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener's Companion only notes "'South Bound Saurez' (a misspelling of the intended 'Suarez') is an endurance test for Jones ...", with no other mention (p. 114). Unless there are more reliable sources that actually confirm the speculation, etc., that's all that should be included in the article. BTW, "saurez" is a word in French (a conjugate of savoir, to know), as in "Saurez-vous nous écouter?" (roughly "Will you know how to listen?"). —Ojorojo (talk) 17:36, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

I appreciate your use of savoir/saurez, but there is no noun in any language that would make the South Bound element an adjective.On the other hand, multiple sources use the "Suarez" spelling, including the All Music Guide , Mick Wall's biography of LZ , Stephen Davis' "Hammer Of The Gods"

The fact that Page lists it as Suarez on his site appears to mean that he approves of the spelling. If you have a better way to present the dichotomies, I'm all for it. Andreldritch (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

"Saurez" may be a mistake and now there is a ref for "misspelling" in the article. However, the refs provided above do not confirm that it is an error and that it should be "Suarez"; the only conclusion that one may draw is that others have used "Suarez" in place of "Saurez", but without any explanation. AllMusic online (the print version is linked twice above) lists the song with "Saurez" in the master LZ song list and in the ITTOD review (a search for "South Bound Suarez" shows LZ listings for "Saurez"). The fact that it appears in one album track listing on Page's site, doesn't mean that he "approves of the spelling" (how many typos or other misspellings may occur in a very large website?). Also, Page didn't write the song – it was written by Plant and Jones.

So, following WP:STICKTOTHESOURCE, what from the earlier edits can be re-added to the article?

• "The word 'saurez' is thought to be a misspelling of the French 'soiree'" – this is not backed up with any reliable sources
• "There is no "saurez" in French or English" – not true
• "it is a misprint of the word 'suarez'" – the Akkerman quote already addresses this

Right or wrong, official releases of the song use "South Bound Saurez" as do ASCAP and ISWC. We can all speculate (reminds me of "Sound Bound Juarez" - at one time a shore leave-type of destination), but WP:No original research requires reliable, published sources. —Ojorojo (talk) 20:47, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

• I'll certainly concede on points such as soiree, and the French use of savoir, but the fact that both spellings are used indicates that it should be addressed somewhere in the article. Page didn't write it, but he is the acknowledged keeper of the band's legacy and producer of record of its entire catalog (especially reissues, and thus, fixes to previous imperfections) so it deserves to be addressed in some fashion. Especially since suarez is widely used across other sources. We can start from scratch and eleiminate the first changes, but this discrepancy in the name's presentation should be addressed since the entry is trying to be comprehensive. Andreldritch (talk) 02:14, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

OK, proposed wording (in place of the current "Title" section) below: —Ojorojo (talk) 18:05, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

==Confusion over title==
Over the years, several music writers have referred to the song as "South Bound Suarez", using "[[Suarez]]" (a common Spanish name) in place of "Saurez".[refs:Erlewine, Wall, Davis]  In ''Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener's Companion'', author Gregg Akkerman mentions "South Bound Saurez" as "a misspelling of the intended 'Suarez'", but does not elaborate.<ref>
{{cite book
| last = Akkerman
| first = Gregg
| year = 2014
| title = Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener's Companion
| location = Lanham, Maryland
| publisher = [[Rowman & Littlefield]]
| page = 114
| isbn = 978-0810889163
| ref = harv
}}</ref>  However, music journalist [[Martin Popoff]] comments: "As for the title, 'Saurez' isn't a Spanish word for party, nor is it a misspelling of the French 'soiree.' It is, in fact, a distinguished Spanish surname that makes the idea of a 'south bound' Saurez seem reasonable."<ref>
{{cite book
| last = Popoff
| first = Martin
| authorlink = Martin Popoff
| year = 2017
| title = Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs
| publisher = [[Voyageur Press]]
| page = 210
| isbn = 978-0760352113
| ref = harv
}}</ref>{{efn|[[Gonzalo Morales Sáurez]], a Costa Rican painter, is one example of a "Saurez" surname.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.gonzalomorales.net/biografia.html
| title = Gonzalo Morales Sáurez: Biografía
| website = gonzalomorales.net.
| year = 2014
| accessdate = 28 August 2017
}}</ref>}}

The lyrics to the song (as shown by [[MetroLyrics]]) do not include a reference to "South Bound Saurez".<ref>{{MetroLyrics song|led-zeppelin|south-bound-saurez}}</ref> In the track listing for ''In Through the Out Door'', Page's website lists [when added?] the song as "South Bound Suarez".<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.jimmypage.com/discography/led-zeppelin/album/through-out-door
| title = Jimmy Page discography: In Through the Out Door
| website = JimmyPage.com
| accessdate = 28 August 2017
|}}</ref> However, when the remastered edition of ''In Through the Out Door'' was prepared by Page in 2015, the spelling remained the same.<ref>{{Discogs release|7307818}}</ref> The [[performance rights organisation]] [[ASCAP]] (Work ID: 490429471)<ref>
{{cite web
| url = https://www.ascap.com/repertory
| title = ACE Repertory
| website = [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]]
| accessdate = 28 April 2017
}}</ref>{{efn|[[ASCAP]] also shows the alternative titles: South Bend Saurez, South Bound Saurez Jones Page, South Bound Sourez, South Bound Squarez, South Bound Suarez, Southbound, Southbound Saurez, Southbound Suarez, and Southern Bound.}} and [[International Standard Musical Work Code]] (T-070.143.812-1)<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://iswcnet.cisac.org/logon.do
| title = South Bound Saurez
| website = ISWC Network
| accessdate = 28 April 2017
| ref = harv
}}</ref> both currently have the song registered as "South Bound Saurez".

Buono.Andreldritch (talk) 20:27, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Gesundheit! Now, if someone could write something about the song ... —Ojorojo (talk) 14:43, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

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