The pianist. Try to find
his combo recordings from the forties. Bud Powell modelled
his "Un Poco Loco" after Prado's "Mambo No.
5" (the combo recording with p, b, percussion); a
comparison of the two compositions shows that Prado is the
master of the style. And that stiff drumming on Powell's
recording... Prado's effective comping on "Deja Que Suba
La Marea" (with Beny Moré) is far ahead of every jazz
pianist of the era. "Pianolo" is another gem.
The composer / arranger.
He was the master of the extremes. In 1947 Mary Lou Williams,
the godmother of the Afro-bop movement, introduced Dizzy to
Luciano Pozo y Gonzales, which led to recordings like Manteca
and Cuban Be - Cubana Bop and showed that the combination of
jazz phrasing and cuban rhythm can be highly exciting
(listen, for example, to "Emanon", from the
Pasadena Concert in 1948, with Chano Pozo). Prado radicalized
the concept. Where bop was often ragged and flashy, Prado
simplified the horn parts more and more by using heavily
swinging phrases, thus pushing the extremes even farther and
making the combination of evenly phrased rhythm and swinging
brass sound even wilder. The concept in general was not new:
think of Alberto Socarras or of Duke Ellington and Juan
Tizol: "Porto Rican Chaos" aka "Moonlight
Fiesta" from 1935: the horns' wild swinging above and because
of the latin rhythm. - Juan
Pedro Rivera said: "Perez Prado was a fanatic of Stan
Kenton." Do we have to take this literally? Listen to
"Mambo a la Kenton", which is a hilarious parody of
Kenton, who does not know how to swing and does
not know how to use latin percussion. But, of course, Prez
did not have to borrow the "latin tinge" from
Kenton; there were other devices. Kenton made a lasting
impression on Prado, and it became crucial, but it had much
more to do with Rugolo's concepts than with Kenton's
orchestral appearance. Kenton's screaming brass was an
example, though, and Prado wanted its excitement. But this
was the least unique aspect one could borrow from Kenton: in
the second half of the forties, Raeburn, even Ellington,
Basie, and, ad nauseam, Hampton used massive obertone-killing
trumpets. There are bop allusions, and by listening closely,
you will also detect Ellingtonian roots in Prado's approach:
where else could you find exemplary players like Harry Carney
and Cootie Williams, who else had been exploring all possible
inversions and was fearlessly using extreme dissonances? The
style of his writing for and the execution by the Prado
saxophone section remind of Jimmy Lunceford's. Prado must
have been aware of all the great
orchestral styles, but Kenton/Rugolo added something new; not
pep or loudness or novelty; on the contrary: what became
important for Prado, was abstraction and reduction. An essay
about this influence - if it was an influence and not
congeniality - will follow soon. - Perez Prado's music lost
its initial fire and tension when he gave up the Cuban rhythm
section and introduced a shuffling guitar and a trap drummer
using brushes instead. This may have been a condition of the
big success, and many listeners will find that from then on
his music loses much of its interest. We, too, shall
concentrate on Prado's earlier music. But the changes in
Prado's music are not (or not only) due to his succumbing to
success, but to artistical reasons. So we have to follow his
development.
The leader and conductor. Prado
lived his music body and soul. "Quien inventó esa cosa
loca? Un chaparrito con cara de Foca", is Beny Moré's
line in his composition "Locas Por El Mambo". Being
surrounded by capable Cuban musicians who had grown up in the
idiom, Prado produced his finest recordings in the forties.
In the U.S. he was forced by the Local 802 to hire musicians
who were unfamiliar with his approach, which led to some
shaky ensembles and probably to an exaggeration of Prado's
conducting style, too: in order to help the musicians he
developped some highly spectacular stage action - with highly
effective show elements. And often you do not only hear his
shout "Hugh" ("Dilo!") on his records,
but also his counting "One, two..." to give the
musicians their cue. His complex piano playing would have
messed up these musicians completely, so it was inevitable
that he reduced it more and more. These are the losses of
success.
THE
MUSIC: this is a list of
tunes in my collection. As in my surveys of the music of Duke
Ellington, Don Redman, Mary Lou Williams a.o., I am not
trying to give a complete discography, but to collect the
influential and the controversial - and to find my way
through the collected material at hand.
CDs
BOOKS
LINKS:
Perez Prado
Homepage members.aol.com/Pere
zPrado/
The Perez Prado
Pages www.laventure.net/tourist/prez.htm
Barbara Flaska's
Review of Perez Prado's Works www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/p/pradoperez-coleccion.html
Diccionario de la
Música Cubana www.soncubano.com/dicc.htm
A go go (P. Prado)
Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 /
A la Billy May (P. Prado)
Perez Prado Mambo King /
A Media Noche (Cairo) El
Barbaro Del Ritmo /
A Romper El Coco (O.
Portal) Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 491202 /
Actopan (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City c. 1948. Also on: Latin Dance
Party /
Adios (E. Madriguera)
Ciliegi Rosa. Hollywood 570302 // Stan Kenton & His Orch.
1940-1944 410911 /
Adios Mi Chaparrita (L. F.
Esperon - B. Marcus) Perez Prado & His Orch. on: Rumbas
& Congas 570628 /
Adios Pampa Mia (Canaro -
Mores - Pelay) Mambo. Hollywood 561213 /
Agony (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, 490630 /
Al Compás Del Mambo (P.
Prado) Mambo. Mexico City 500217 // "In 1951, Perez
Prado went to Peru to cause a big headache to the Catholic
Archdioceses. Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima
promised to deny absolution to anyone who danced "al
compas del mambo". That year, Perez Prado composed
"Al Compás Del Mambo" as an answer to the
Cardinal." Quoted from Juan Pedro Rivera's
recollections, see The
Perez Prado Mambo Homepage.
Alekum Salem (P. Prado)
Tumbao Cuban Classics 1950 / Woelfer p. 11: 520208 (same
session as Perdido)
Alma Llanera (Pedro Ellis
Gutierrez) Perez Prado & His Orch. on: Rumbas &
Congas 620917(?) /
Almendra aka Almond
(Abelardo Valdéz) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560307 /
Almond see
Almendra
Always In My Heart aka Sortilegio
(Ernesto Lecuona) Perez Prado & His Orch. on: Rumbas
& Congas 570301 /
Ana Maria (P. Prado) Perez
Prado & Beny Moré /
Anabacoa (J. Ramirez)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 5011 / Cuba Legends
1948 (?) /
Angelitos Negros (E.
Blanco - Manuel Alvarez Maciste) Perez Prado Mambo King //
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Anna see El Negro
Zumbon
Aquello Ojos Verdes (Green
Eyes) (Menendes - Rivera) Rumbas & Congas 570228; also
on: Mambo // Xavier Cugat 400906 /
Asi, Asi (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947 /
Ay Ay Ay (Freire) Tango,
Gypsy & Mambo Kings /
Ay Cosita Linda (Pacho
Galán) Perez Prado Mambo King // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Azuquita Con Leche (D.R.)
El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947 /
Babarabatiri (Antar Daly)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 491202 // Cuba
Legends: Machito 1948 /
Bacoa (Eddie Cano) Havana
3. A.M. Hollywood 560225 /
Baia (Bahia) (A. Barroso -
R. Gilbert) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560225 // Xavier Cugat
on: Rumbas & Congas arr. Ramini / Esquivel: Infinity in
Sound Vol. 2 60 /
Barbaro Del Ritmo (More -
De Pax - Montes) El Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Besame Mucho (Consuelo
Velásquez) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560307
// Esquivel: Juan's Again 67 // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Be True To Me see Sabor
A Mi
Black Magnolia (P. Prado)
Qué Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King
Broadway Mambo (P. Prado)
Mambos. Great Trumpet, heavily swinging yet layed back
phrasing á la Cootie Williams answered by vocals. Deep. /
Qué Rico El Mambo. Later recording. Modernistic, high
blowing trumpet, answered by saxophone section. Shallow. /
Perez Prado Mambo King. Still later.
Caballo Negro (P. Prado)
Rumbas & Congas; also on: Mambo. 70s /
Caliente, Caliente (P.
Rigual) Qué Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King
Cancion Del Alma (R.
Hernández) Perez Prado Mambo King
Casatschok (B. Rubaschkin)
Perez Prado Mambo King
Carolina In The Morning (Gus
Kahn - Walter Donaldson) Pops and Prado. New York 590518/19 /
Catalania aka Catalina
(Bert Kaempfert) Pops and Prado. New York 590108 /
Cayitano (P. Prado)
Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 /
Celos (Jacobo - Gade)
Perez Prado Mambo King
Cerezo Rosa (Cherry Pink And Apple
Blossom White) (Louiguy - J. Laure) Qué Rico El
Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King // Prado's first #1 hit in the
USA in 1955, in the American pop charts for 26 Weeks (10
weeks at #1). Trumpet solo by Billy Regis.
Chambeleque (M. Alvarez -
F. Hernandez) Latin Dance Party. Late forties? Not in Woelfer
// Carlos Embale /
Ciliegi Rosa (Cherry Pink And Apple
Blossom White) (Louiguy - David) Ciliegi Rosa /
Cinturita (Guevara) El
Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Ciribiribin (Traditional)
Pops and Prado. New York 590520 /
Clap Hands (P. Prado) Pops
and Prado. New York 590520 // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Claudia (P. Prado)
Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 /
Concierto para Bongo (P.
Prado) Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 // The
Concierto is a major contribution to a genre that has not yet
been examined as such. Sapienti sat: others are Satie's
Parade, Ellington's Reminiscing In Tempo and Diminuendo And
Crescendo In Blue. An analysis will be published here.
Corazon Rebelde (Barreto)
El Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Cuban Mambo (X. Cugat)
Mambo. Mexico City 500912 / Mambos. Mexico City 500912 //
Xavier Cugat on: Tango, Gypsy & Mambo Kings /
Cucara Cha Cha Cha (T.
Vargas - P. Villa) Ciliegi Rosa /
Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu-Paloma (Tomas
Mendez) Ciliegi Rosa // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte
südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Deja Que Suba La Marea (O.
Portal) Perez Prado & Beny Moré /
Desconfianza (Distrust) (Julio
Gutiérrez) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560307 /
Divina (P. Prado) Sheet
music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
El Alacran (R. de Cubas)
Perez Prado Mambo King
El Bobo De La Yuca (Perdomo)
El Barbaro Del Ritmo /
El Manicero/El Manisero see
Peanut Vendor
El Millionario (P. Prado)
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
El Negro Zumbon aka Anna
(R. Vatro - F. Giordano) Ciliegi Rosa // Esquivel:
Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 60 / Esquivel: Juan's Again 61 /
El Relicario (Jose
Padillo) Voodoo Suite. Webster Hall, New York 620417 /
El Rey Del Suby (P. Prado)
Perez Prado Mambo King
El Si Mambo (P. Prado)
Mambos /
Electricidad (L. Gonzalez)
El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City c. 1948. Also on: Latin
Dance Party /
En El Tiempo Della Colonia (Reclo)
El Barbaro Del Ritmo /
En Las Calles De La Habana (P.
Prado) Mambo. Havana, Cuba, 490908 /
Encatidando De La Vida (Barreto)
El Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Estoy Acabando (P. Prado)
Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 /
Exotic Suite Of The Americas (P.
Prado) Voodoo Suite. Webster Hall, New York 620416 // 1.
Theme Of Two Worlds. 2. Amoha. 3. Criollo. 4. Theme Of Two
Worlds. 5. Uamanna Africano. 6. Blues In C-Major. 7. Theme Of
Two Worlds.
Fantasia (P. Prado)
Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 // Is a study for
Concierto para Bongo, or the two minute juke box version,
with a drum set in the foreground.
Freeway Mambo (The) (P.
Prado) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560225 /
Frenesi (Alberto
Dominguez) Mambo // Esquivel: Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 60 //
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Go Go Mambo (P. Prado)
Mambo / Mambos /
Granada (Agustin Lara)
Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560223 // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Green Eyes see: Aquello
Ojos Verdes
Guada Guadalupe (P. Prado)
Perez Prado Mambo King
Guaglione (Nisa -
Fanciulli) Mambo // Was used in a television commercial for
Guinness beer in the UK.
Guantanamera (trad.) Qué
Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King // Cuba Legends: Celia
Cruz y La Sonora Matancera / Esquivel: Juan's Again 68 /
Habana (L. Gonzalez) El
Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947. Also on: Latin
Dance Party /
Havana 3. A.M. (P. Prado)
Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 1956 // A suite of 12 numbers.
Originals and new arrangements of standards.
Heigh Ho (The Dwarf's Marching
Song) (Larry Moroy - Frank Churchill) Pops and
Prado. New York 590518/19 /
Hembra Mala (L. Gonzalez)
El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947. Also on: Latin
Dance Party /
Historia De Un Amor (The Story Of
Love) (C. Almarán) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560223.
Tp: Tony Facciuto / (F. Lai) Perez Prado Mambo King
I Can't Get Started (Duke
- Gershwin) Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 550218 /
I Could Have Dance Tonight (Jay
- Lerner - Loewe) Voodoo Suite. Webster Hall, New York 620417
/
If You Knew Susie (Like I Know
Susie) (B. G. DeSylva - Joseph Meyer) Pops and
Prado. New York 590518/19 /
In A Little Spanish Town (Wayne
- Lewis - Young) Mambo / Ciliegi Rosa /
In The Mood (Garland)
Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 550215 /
Isle Of Capri (Jimmy
Kennedy - Will Grosz) Pops and Prado. New York 590518/19 //
Xavier Cugat 341114 /
Jaqueline Et Caroline (P.
Prado) Voodoo Suite. Webster Hall, New York 620417 /
José (P. Prado) Mambos.
Mexico City 490405 /
Jumbo Jumbo (P. Prado)
Mambo. Mexico City 501115 /
Jumping At The Woodside (Count
Basie) Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 550215 /
Kandela (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City c. 1948. Also on: Latin Dance
Party /
Kon-Toma (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City 490421 /
Kuba-Mambo (P. Prado) El
Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, 490630 /
La Bikina (A. F. Roth)
Perez Prado Mambo King
La Borrichita (J. F.
Esperon - A. Stewart) Mambos /
La Chula Linda (P. Prado)
Mambos. Mexico City 500912 / Perez Prado Mambo King // Sheet
music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
La Clave (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947 /
La Comparsa (Carnival
Procession) (E. Lecuona) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560225 //
Xavier Cugat 401125 / Irakere: Chekeré Son 790525-0601 /
La Faraona (P. Prado)
Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560307 /
La Gioconda (Ponchielli,
arr P. Prado) Perez Prado Mambo King
La Macarena see La
Virgen de la Macarena
La Mucura (A. Fuentes)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 491010 /
La Nina Popóf (P. Prado)
Mambo. Mexico City 5102-03 /
La Raspa-Twist (Garcia)
Perez Prado & His Orch. on: Rumbas & Congas 570301 /
La Siete y Media (J.B.
Blanco) Latin Dance Party. Mexico City c. 1948 /
La Ultima Noche (Bobby
Collazo) Orquesta Casino de la Playa, Tumbao Cuban Classics
1944 // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische
Lieder und Tänze /
La Virgen de la Macarena (P.
Prado) Cuba Legends, arr. Nunez / Concierto para Bongo.
Mexico City 1966 / Perez Prado Mambo King // Esquivel:
Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 60 / Cf. La Virgen De La Macarena
(traditional bullfighter's song), a feature for Cat Anderson
in Ellington's Orchestra. / Cf. Macarenas aka La Virgen de la
Macarena aka La Macarena aka Sombrero (Bernardino Bautista
Monterde): Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische
Lieder und Tänze /
Locas Por El Mambo (B.
Moré) Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 1950 / El
Barbaro Del Ritmo. Mexico City 1950 /
Macarenas see La
Virgen de la Macarena
Macome (P. Prado) Mambos.
Mexico City 490405 /
Malaguena (Ernesto
Lecuona) Perez Prado Mambo King // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Mama Yo Quiero (Jararaca -
Negrette - Stillman - De Torre) Mambo / Voodoo Suite. Webster
Hall, New York 620417; also on: Rumbas & Congas // Xavier
Cugat 400219 /
Mambo A La Kenton (P.
Prado) Mambos. Mexico City c. 4911 / Perez Prado Mambo King.
A later version.
Mambo De La Telefonista (P.
Prado) Mambo. Havana, Cuba, 490908 /
Mambo De Paris (P. Prado)
Mambos /
Mambo Del Papelero (P.
Prado) Mambos. Mexico City 500912 /
Mambo Del Politecnico (P.
Prado) Qué Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado
Mambo King
Mambo Del Ruletero aka Ruletero
aka Taxi Mambo (P. Prado) Mambos. Mexico
City 1950 / Rumbas & Congas 591206 / Perez Prado Mambo
King // "El Taxista Espanol" ("The Spanish
Taxi") carries us on a bouncy, jaunty trip through
series of distinct musical passages through a vivid, colorful
landscape. (Quoted from Barbara Flaska's Review of Perez Prado's works). Cf. Ruletero.
Mambo Del Taconazo (P.
Prado) Perez Prado Mambo King
Mambo En Sax (P. Prado)
Mambos. Mexico City c. 4911 / Qué Rico El Mambo. 70s / Perez
Prado Mambo King
Mambo En Trompeta (M.
Salamanca) Qué Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King
Mambo Eté (Salamnca -
Prado) Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 491010 /
Mambo Jambo (Que Rico El Mambo) (P.
Prado) Qué Rico El Mambo, rec. Mexico 491202 / Mambo.
Hollywood 590421 / Tango, Gypsy & Mambo Kings. Hollywood
590421 / Perez Prado Mambo King // Machito & His
Afro-Cubans: Bucabu. Rec. 1947-1949 // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Mambo Japanese (P. Prado)
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Mambo La Culeta aka
Rosina (P. Prado) Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte
südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Mambo No. 5 (P. Prado) El
Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 47. Small group; also
on: Latin Dance Party. Cf. Ellington's intro to "Conga
Brava". / Mambo, rec. Mexico City c. 4911 / Ciliegi
Rosa. Hollywood 590421 / Qué Rico El Mambo. Prob. 70s /
Perez Prado Mambo King // Joseph Levy (The Vinyl Tourist)
mentions a solo piano version of "Mambo No. 5"
recorded and released In Cuba in 1945. // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Mambo No. 8 (P. Prado)
Qué Rico El Mambo / Mambo / Ciliegi Rosa / Perez Prado Mambo
King / Cuba Legends // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte
südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Mamboletas (B. Moré)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 5011 /
Mamma a go go (P. Prado)
Concierto para Bongo. Mexico City 1966 /
Mangolele (B. Moré) Perez
Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City c. 4904 / also on Tumbao
Cuban Classics
Manhattan (Hart - Rogers)
Pops and Prado. New York 590520 /
Maria Bonita (Agustin
Lara) Qué Rico El Mambo / Ciliegi Rosa / Perez Prado Mambo
King // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische
Lieder und Tänze /
Maria Cristina (P. Prado)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 491202 / Perez
Prado Mambo King // Cf. Maria Cristina (Nico Saquito): Sheet
music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Marta (M. Simons - L.
Gilbert) Mambos /
Me Voi Par'El Pueblo (Valdes)
El Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Memoria A Chano (M.
Naranjo) El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City
490421 // Dedicated to the memory of Luciano Pozo y Gonzales,
called Chano Pozo.
Mi Casuelita (P. Prado) El
Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947. Also on: Latin
Dance Party /
Mi Chiquita (Diaz) El
Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Midnight In Jamaica (P.
Prado) Voodoo Suite. Webster Hall, New York 620417 /
Millionaire, The (P.
Prado) Pops and Prado. New York 590108 /
Moliendo Café (J. Manzo)
Ciliegi Rosa /
Mosaico Cubano (Cuban Sketch) (P.
Prado) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560307 /
Music Makers (H. James -
D. Raye) Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 550215 // Esquivel: Infinity
in Sound Vol. 2 60 /
No Me Quieras Tanto (R.
Hernandes) El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City 490421 /
Oh Vida (Yanez y Gomez) El
Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Ola Conga (P. Prado) Pops
and Prado. New York 590108 /
One More Kiss see
Uno
Pachito E' Che (A. Tovar)
Qué Rico El Mambo. 70s / Perez Prado Mambo King
Paper Doll (Johnny Black)
Pops and Prado. New York 590518/19 /
Paris (P. Prado) Sheet
music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Pata Pata (Makeba -
Ragaboy) Perez Prado Mambo King
Patricia (P. Prado) Qué
Rico El Mambo / Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King Tango, Gypsy
& Mambo Kings // Prado's final hit. In 1958 in the US
charts for 21 weeks, one at #1. Was used by Nino Rota as the
theme song for Fellini's 1960 movie La Dolce Vita. // Sheet
music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Peanut Vendor, The (El Manicero/El
Manisero) (Moisés Simón - L. Walfe Gilbert -
Marion Sunshine) Havana 3. A.M. Hollywood 560225. Tp: Maynard
Ferguson / Ciliegi Rosa // Duke Ellington 1931-1932 310120 /
Cuba Legends: Orquesta Romantica Del Casino de Habana /
Kenton 61 (the mellophone band) / Xavier Cugat on: Rumbas
& Congas // Cf. the Tumbao CD TCD 801: 25 Classic
Versions of El Manisero.
Perdido (Juan Tizol - Hans
Lengsfelder - Ervin Drake) Mambos /
Perfidia (A. Dominguez)
Ciliegi Rosa // Glenn Miller 410219 /
Pianolo (P. Prado) Mambos.
Mexico City 500629 // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte
südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Pretty Doll (P. Prado)
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Puertorriquena aka Tom
Cat Mambo (P. Prado) Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Que Es El Amor? (J. R.
Balceiro) El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City 490421 /
Que Rico El Mambo see Mambo
Jambo
Que Te Pasa José? (Barreto)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré /
Quizas, Quizas, Quisaz (Farres
- Davis) Tango, Gypsy & Mambo Kings /
Rabo Y Oreja (J. Barreto)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Havana, Cuba, 490908 /
Rica (P. Prado) El Rey Del
Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, 490630 /
Rico Caliente Y Sabroso (P.
Prado) Qué Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King
Ritmo De Chunga (P. Prado)
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Rosina see Mambo
La Culeta
Rumbambo (P. Prado) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba 461120 /
Rockambo Baby (P. Prado)
Ciliegi Rosa // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte
südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze // Cf. Why Wait aka
Rockambo No. 1 /
Ruletero see Mambo
Del Ruletero
Sabor A Mi aka Be
True To Me (Alvaro Carillo - M. Mitchel) Ciliegi
Rosa // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische
Lieder und Tänze /
Saca La Mano (P. Prado) El
Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Mexico City c. 1948. Also on: Latin
Dance Party /
Siboney (E. Lecuona)
Ciliegi Rosa // Orquesta Aragon on: Cuba Legends / Xavier
Cugat on: Rumbas & Congas / Xavier Cugat 400219 /
Siempre Contigo (R. Cole)
Latin Dance Party. Late forties? Not in Woelfer //
Silbando Mambo (P. Prado)
Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und
Tänze /
Solamente Una Vez see You
Belong To My Heart
Son Of A Gun (Resnick -
Brown - Delanoe) Voodoo Suite. Webster Hall, New York 620417
/
Sortilegio see Always
In My Heart
St. James Infirmary (John
Primrose) Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 550218 /
Stomping At The Savoy (Sampson
- Goodman - Webb) Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 550215 /
Suavecito Pollito (A. Diaz
- J. Bolona) El Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba 461120 /
Taboo (Tabu) (Margarita
Lecuona) Mambo // Cuba Legends: Lecuona Rhythm Boys 1935,
arr. Oréfiche; also on: Rumbas & Congas / Stan Kenton
& His Orch. 1940-1944 410911 / Xavier Cugat 42/43 /
Taking A Chance On Love (Potter
- Duke - Latouche) Pops and Prado. New York 590518/19 /
Taxi Mambo see
Mambo Del Ruletero
Te Para Dos (V. Youmans)
Qué Rico El Mambo / Perez Prado Mambo King
Te Quedaras (Barreto) El
Barbaro Del Ritmo /
Three Little Words (Harry
Ruby - Bert Kalmar) Pops and Prado. New York 590520 /
Tic Toc Polly Wok (Evangelina
Reyes) Pops and Prado. Hollywood 590421 /
Tico Tico (Abren) Ciliegi
Rosa /
Timba, Timba (P. Prado) El
Rey Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, 490630 /
Tocineta (S. Méndez)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré /
Tom Cat Mambo see
Puertorriquena
Tu No Tienes Suerte (H.
Cardenas) Latin Dance Party. Late forties? Not in Woelfer //
Tu Solo Tu (Valdés Leal)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré. Mexico City 491010 /
Tu Ve, Tu Ve (D.R.) El Rey
Del Mambo 47-49. Havana, Cuba, c. 1947 /
Uno aka One More
Kiss (Geoffrey North - Marianito Mores - E.S.
Discepolo - Connor) Ciliegi Rosa // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Viejo Canengo (Gonzalez)
Perez Prado & Beny Moré /
Voodoo Suite (P. Prado)
Voodoo Suite. Hollywood 540408 // In four parts.
Why Wait aka Rockambo
No. 1 (P. Prado) Ciliegi Rosa // Sheet music in: 100
weltbekannte südamerikanische Lieder und Tänze /
Yes, Sir, That's My Baby (Gus
Kahn - Walter Donaldson) Pops and Prado. New York 590518/19 /
You Belong To My Heart aka
Solamente Una Vez (Agustin Lara - R.
Gilbert) Perez Prado & His Orch. on: Rumbas & Congas
570228 // Sheet music in: 100 weltbekannte südamerikanische
Lieder und Tänze /
You're Driving Me Crazy!
(What Did I Do?) (Walter Donaldson) Pops and Prado. New York
590518/19 /
Ciliegi Rosa. - Perez Prado And His
Orchestra: Ciliegi Rosa. Saludos Amigos CD 62004.
Concierto para Bongo. - Perez Prado
and his Orchestra: Concierto para Bongo. West Side
Latino CDW 61005. - A wonderful example of Prado's ability to
transform an ephemeral pattern of the day into high art. He
examines that go go fad in a series of small tunes, and
abruptly confronts you with what he is
able to make out of it: a wild, liturgical, urgent, and very
personal 17-minute-concerto. A peak in his later composing.
Cuba Legends (Sampler). - 2 CD. 2000 CDD
(Licensed from Saar Records) 200924-304.
El Barbaro Del Ritmo. - Beny Moré
(with Perez Prado And His Orchestra?): El Barbaro
Del Ritmo. Exotica EXTC004. - Tumbao TCD-010 has the same
title, but only one tune is on both CDs: Locas Por El Mambo.
- Juergen Woelfer does not pay attention to this CD. It
contains at least one collabarotion by Beny Moré and Perez
Prado, the already mentioned Locas por el Mambo, and the
other titles bear obvious signs of Prado's presence: the
sound of the orchestra and of the arrangements. So I will
regard the titles of this CD as genuine Prado contributions,
until someone proves that I am wrong.
El Rey Del Mambo. - Perez Prado y
Su Orquesta: El Rey Del Mambo. Música Latina
Nostalgia MLN 55013. Recorded 1947-49.
Havana 3. A.M. - Perez Prado And
His Orchestra: Havana 3. A.M. RCA 07863 52444 2. - A
suite of 12 numbers. Originals and new arrangements of
standards.