Cien Años

Wikipedia credits Ruben Fuentes and Alberto Cervantes; El Financiero says Cervantes wrote it with Fuentes, and that Cervantes's daughter Euridice says it was dedicated to her mother and that her father believed another singer like Infante would be very hard to find for at least another hundred years. Infante recorded it in 1953 and sang it in Cuidado con el amor (1954) in a well-known scene to Elsa Aguirre's character. Wikipedia, citing Fernando Mejia Barquera, calls it the most successful song of 1954 in Mexico, and SACM counts at least 189 performers who have covered it. El Pais of Colombia says it was conceived for Infante and was a milestone for adding instruments foreign to bolero and mariachi, such as a Hawaiian guitar and an electric guitar. The theme is a man who meets a former love who passes without acknowledging him, laments being forgotten and vows to keep thinking of her.

UCLA's Frontera archive lists it on Peerless S-1600, Pedro Infante Canta Para Los Enamorados, and we found no recording date, studio or personnel, and could not confirm that Mariachi Vargas accompanied this take. Covers include Selena (1988, with a pop re-recording in 1990, a mariachi version in 1996 and a 2000 single), Vicente Fernandez, Thalia, Pepe Aguilar, Los Tigres del Norte, Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo (2008), Lucero, Carlos Rivera and Maluma, Jose Feliciano and Natalia Lafourcade with Pepe Aguilar. Mariachi Vargas's Recordando a Pedro Infante medley, recorded on December 7, 2019 in San Antonio, includes it with Daniel Martinez singing. We do not know which release our upload comes from.