COMPARSA, LA

Created on 18/04/2005
Latest update on 29/08/2023

Artist: Maria Fantoli
Author: Ernesto Lecuona
Label: Columbia
Year: 1927

Means: The Parade. With the author at the piano in Cuba. Written at 17 as a ballet (1912). Probably already recorded by him in New York on pianola roll (1917 - Ampico).

Covers:

1929:

José Echaniz

1933:

Carlos Molina

1937:

Lecuona Cuban Boys [Lecuona's band without Lecuona]

1940:

Enric Madriguera

1940:

Conjunto Siboney

1944:

Xavier Cugat

1946:

Miguelito Valdés

1948:

Edmundo Ros

1949:

Perez Prado

1950:

Hermanos Rigual

1954:

Semprini [hit NL]

1962:

René & The Alligators

1963:

ZZ & De Maskers [idem]

1973:

Irakere

1979:

Hans van Eijck [only solo single of this ex keyboard player for The Tee Set]

1979:

Francis Goya

1984:

Placido Domingo

1991:

Eliades Ochoa

2000:

Caravana Cubana

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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