Anabacoa
| "Anabacoa" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Beny Moré & Pérez Prado | ||||
| B-side | "Batiri RCA" | |||
| Released | 1949 | |||
| Recorded | 1949 | |||
| Genre | Guaracha-mambo | |||
| Length | 3:03 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Juanchín Ramírez | |||
| Beny Moré & Pérez Prado singles chronology | ||||
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"Anabacoa" is a guaracha composed by Puerto Rican trumpeter Juanchín Ramírez which has become a Latin music standard. Its most famous recording was made in Mexico in 1949 by Beny Moré backed by Pérez Prado and his orchestra.[1][2] Recorded as a mambo, Moré's recording became a hit throughout Latin America. It was followed by the version made by Arsenio Rodríguez and his conjunto in 1950, which further cemented the piece as a standard of the Cuban music repertoire.[3][4] Arsenio's rendition, although labeled as a guaracha, was driven by a guaguancó pattern on the tumbadora.[3]
In the 1970s, "Anabacoa" became the signature song of the Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorkino, a New York-based descarga ensemble originally known as Conjunto Anabacoa.[5][6][7] It was founded by Jerry González and his brother Andy in 1974.[5] Like Arsenio's version, their rendition is also "a guaguancó based on a two-measure montuno pattern that is unchanging throughout the entire piece".[8]
In the 1990s, Sierra Maestra recorded another descarga rendition of the song for their album Tíbiri tábara, which included other "familiar songs of the Cuban repertoire".[9][10]
References[edit]
- ^ Radanovich, John (2009). Wildman of Rhythm: The Life & Music of Benny Moré. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8130-3393-8.
- ^ Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal (Fall 2013). "Benny Moré" (PDF). Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960. Florida International University Libraries. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
- ^ a b García, David (2006). Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. p. 175. ISBN 9781592133871.
- ^ Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal (Fall 2013). "Arsenio Rodríguez" (PDF). Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960. Florida International University Libraries. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
- ^ a b Figueroa, Frank M. (1994). Encyclopedia of Latin American music in New York. St. Petersburg, FL: Pillar Publications. pp. 103, 105.
- ^ Rondón, César Miguel (2008). The Book of Salsa. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. p. 242.
- ^ Rondón, César Miguel (October 21, 2014). "Anabacoa" (in Spanish). Retrieved October 30, 2017.
- ^ Gerard, Charley (2001). Music from Cuba: Mongo Santamaria, Chocolate Armenteros, and Cuban Musicians in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. p. 117. ISBN 9780275966829.
- ^ "Sierra Maestra - Tíbiri tábara". Jazz Times. 28 (6–10). 1998.
- ^ "Sierra Maestra - Tíbiri tábara". The Beat. 17: 88. 1998.