It started out as the Adagio to Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez:
Miles Davis recorded it on his Sketches of Spain album (this is from a live performance at Carnegie Hall in 1961; excuse the lousy sound quality):
By the early 1980s it had picked up English lyrics and was being sung by Greek Singer, Demis Roussos:
Early in the 20th century it became the concluding theme to Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence:
It exists in many other versions as well. Here’s YouTube playlist I’ve put together. It is by no means definitive. It’s just what I’ve put together with a half-hour or hour of YouTubing.
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