CHARLIE PALMIERI "SALSA NA MA'" Alegre Vol.3 ('64 )HEAR

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REMARKS: FOR THE SALSA COLLECTOR!! El Gigante Del Teclado y La Duboney

CHARLIE....He formed Charanga 'La Duboney' late '59 with four violins, Pacheco on flute: Gilberto Valdés had been unsuccessful early '50s with charanga format, but Duboney's debut at a New Year's Eve dance launched a craze: they became so popular that they played several dances a night. 'La Duboney' LP debut was Let's Dance The Charanga! '60 on United Artists (reissued as Echoes Of An Era on West Side Latino), with vocalist Vitín Avilés (b 30 Sept. '24, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico); Pacheco left to form his own group. Charlie Switched to Al Santiago's Alegre label for three original and swinging Charanga 'La Duboney' volumes: Pachanga at the Caravana Club , Viva Palmieri and Salsa Na' Ma' Vol. 3 '61-63, as well as contribute tracks to Las Charangas - Pacheco, Palmieri, Fajardo '61.

1. Tiene Sabor [Pachanga]

2. Loco Por Ti [Son Montuño]

3. Amor for Two [Bossa Nova]

4. Noche de Parranda [Cha-Cha-Cha]

5. Hoy Como Ayer [Bolero]

6. Vamanos Guajira

1. Ay Señor [San Montuno]

2. Yerbero [Mambo]

3. Cosas Cositas [Cha-Cha-Cha]

4. Doctor de Fama [Pachanga]

5. Piraguero [Cha-Cha-Cha]

6. Salsa Na' Ma' [Son Montuno]

WEB REMARKS:

"Salsa Na' Ma', one of the later records from CHARLIE PALMIERI's CHARANGA "La Duboney," is a bright, swinging collection of great pachangas ("Tiene Sabor," "Doctor de Fama") and son montunos ("Loco por Ti," "Ay Señor," the title track). The strings are supple and the flute soars above the arrangement on nearly every track, leading the way for the punchy vocal choruses on most tracks. Palmieri even toys with a bossa nova on the admittedly lightweight "Amor for Two." Songwriters they're definitely not, but great, exciting musicians they most certainly are"

CD Review: This 1963 release is one of the all-time greatest charanga and pachanga recordings ever made. Charlie and his band are at their creative peak here and you get a clear idea of what 1960s Salsa was all about. Al Santiago's production is (as always) brilliant. Buy this CD and pump it up real loud!!!

SALSA?

SALSA ORIGINS By Max Salazar 

The popular usage of the word “salsa” for danceable Latin music began in 1933 when Cuban song composer Ignacio Piñerio wrote the song Échale Salsita. According to the late Alfredo Valdés Sr. whom I interviewed in 1974, he said “On July 6, 1933, I married Anita Purmuy, guitarist for the all-female band La Anacaona. I didn’t have a honeymoon because hours later I was on a boat with Nacional (Septeto) headed toward Miami…then on to the Chicago World’s Fair. On the train I rehearsed Ignacio’s new work Échale Salsita. He got the idea after tasting food which lacked the Cuban spices. It was a protest against tasteless food. 

During the late 30’s while the Hispanic community was sprouting in Spanish Harlem, Gabriel Oller, proprietor of Tatay’s Spanish Music Center on the corner of 110th Street and 5th Avenue remembers shouts of “échale pique, caliéntalo, menealo que se empelota…” used to describe the thrilling Afro-Cuban dance rhythms of rumbas and guarachas. Salsa remained dormant until 1962 when Secco Records released Joe Cuba’s Stepping Out LP. In Jimmy Sabater’s tune Salsa y Bembé, vocalist Cheo Feliciano wants his main squeeze to add salsa to the bembé (dance) when she dances. The lyrics suggest that there is a request for the dancer to liven up or spice up her performance. “When I wrote this tune,” said Sabater, “I was labeling the music as salsa…you know exciting. When musicians were asked to spice up the music there were shouts of “guataca”. When the band executed the mambo part, I heard shouts of “wapachosa”. These were labels which never caught on. My use of salsa was to describe the music, not the food."

A year later Alegre Records released Charlie Palmieri’s charanga LP Salsa Na Ma. In the Henry Alvarez tune Salsa Na Ma, the chorus of Victor Velasquez and Willie Torres suggest that when they dance with their partners it is Salsa na ma…Que cosa rica (a joy).” However, Al Santiago’s liner notes described the music as salsa when he wrote “La Duboney (Palmieri’s band) is a musical aggregation that functions as an individual unit and possesses that all important ‘sauce’ necessary for satisfying the most demanding of musical tastes. It is for this reason that this LP album offering is titled Salsa Na Ma.  On November 20, 1964, the Cal Tjader Quintet plus 5 had just finished recording a long version of Guachi Guaro, another version of Tjader’s first hit recording in 1954, Wachi Wara. After hearing it back, Tjader was unsatisfied, it lacked something, but he did not know what. Creed Taylor, producer of the album (which had no title at that moment) suggested a shorter version and a new title in that Guachi Guaro would be difficult to pronounce and it meant nothing. Tjader invited Willie Bobo to dub the jawbone (quijada). While doing so, his inspirations of Sabor, Sabor, Salsa Ahi Na Ma,not only satisfied Tjader, but gave Tjader the idea for the album’s name Soul Sauce (Salsa del Alma). Bobo explained to Tjader that this track and the others: Pantano, Maramoor, Tanya and Leyte, were fiery, exciting like a well seasoned sauce. Thus the album Soul Sauce exhibits a fork on a plate of red beans and chili alongside an opened bottle of Tabasco sauce with a label on it, Cal Tjader Soul Sauce. This is the third time music is described as salsa and the Mexican Tjader fans of San Francisco began using the word to describe Tjader’s brand of music. It spread to Los Angeles and other cities and its way east via the Spanish, rhythm and blues and jazz programs across the United States which helped Cal Tjader sell 150,000 albums. Prior to this, Latin music had never been aired over stations with different music formats.

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