Tracing a song (or 2)

 There is a song called "El vito." There is another called "Anda jaleo."  Lorca recorded the latter with La Argentinita in 1931.  "Anda jaleo," though not written by him, is associated with him, like the other 9 songs he recorded, and a few others he did not record but have become attached to the canon of Lorca songs.  

"El quinto regimiento" is a Spanish civil war song that begins with the melody of "El vito," using that song as the verse, and the "Anda jaleo" song as the chorus. The words are now "venga jaleo," rhyming with "Franco se va de paseo." 

The fifth regiment song was sung by American folk singers. It tells of the founding of the fifth regiment in Madrid at the beginning of the civil war.  There are two versions of the lyric, one saying "el pueblo madrileño / fundó el quinto regimiento," the other saying "el partido comunista." 

Coltrane using "El vito" as the basis of "Olé Coltrane."  A Colombian born choreographer did a ballet called "Las desamoradas" using Coltrane's "Olé" and the plot of La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Lorca. 

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I could do a similar genealogy with other songs. "Despierte la novia" from Bodas de sangre, for example. 

Another would be "The Flowers die of love" from Don Perlimplín.  Here there are two melodies, one by Lorca himself, and the other by Billy Strayhorn.