MUCURA, LA

Created on 30/04/2008
Latest update on 11/03/2024

Artist: Trovadores de Baru con el Trio Nacional
Author: Crescencio Salcedo/Antonio Fuentes
Label: Discos Fuentes
Year: 1949

On the first record label in Colombia. Crescencio was a flute player from Medellin who couldn't read or write, making it easy for label boss Fuentes to take the credits. Baru was the black district of Cartagena, the city where Fuentes started his record business in '34.

Covers:

1949:

Panchos [for Columbia in Mexico]

1949:

Nelo Sosa [in Cuba]

1949:

Bobby Capo [from Panama]

1949:

Benny Moré [with Perez Prado's orch.]

1949:

Ninon Sevilla [dancing with a jar on her head]

1950:

Edmundo Ros

1950:

Feliciano Brunelli

1950:

Rico's Creole [in Paris]

1950:

Lucho Bermudez [vocal: his wife Matilde Diaz]

1951:

Cab Calloway

1951:

Jacques Hélian

1952:

Tohama

1955:

Xavier Cugat

1958:

Sir Lancelot

1960s:

Celia Cruz [with Tito Puente]

1965:

Luis Bordon & Sa Harpa Paraguaia

1970:

Ray Barretto

1979:

Integración [vocal: La India Meliyara]

1991:

Texas Tornados

1998:

Mavericks

1998:

Gerard Cox [as Nooit Meer Verkering]

Cut by every self-respecting Latin performer.

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