The Thirties - Lecuona Cuban Boys, Salsa, 1936

[straycat316]

Charming and romantical!

[2155893]

por otro lado, llamar salsa a los ritmos que interpretó la Lecuona Cuban Boys, es una falta de respeto y demuestra una ignorancia supina en cuanto a esa bella música se refiere...el Caraqueño

[2155893]

Floro pocos momentos antes del programa, decía: "y ya viene la hora de la salsa" pero en verdad se estaba refiriendo al producto comercial y no a la música, si aquel programa hubiera sido patrocinado pro una marca de mantequilla, hoy se estaría hablando de mantequilla para referirse a la múisca de baile y no se hablaría de salsa, lo demas son puros cuentos

[2155893]

el término salsa aplicado a la música popular es una verdadera estupidez, todo se originó en una emisora caraqueña al principio de los años sesenta, existía un progarma animado por un locutor colombiano llamado Floro Manco, en donde se oian ritmos cubanos y puertorriqueños, dicho programa era patrocinado por una conocida marca de salsa de tomates

[cosycleaner]

Delightful!

[abelbeau99]

I don't know why, but some melodies composed by Moises Simons recalls to me music of Johannes Sebastian Bach

Lecuonas and Rabagliati are simply marvelous !

[pdebee]

Dear Grzegorz,

Thank you SO much for this lovely song! A truly wonderful piece, beautifully arranged, where the combined talents of the composer and the performers delivers pure magic, where complexity meets simplicity, and thus a great demonstration of "less is more".

I also fell in love with the photo of the two young dancers, which I then found on google. This photo suits the song perfectly and I hope they stayed (and danced) together for the rest of their lives!

Patrick. :-))

[haballi]

Not Salsa, salsa was created in the 70's in NY and is a mix of Cuban, Puerto Rican and other latino music, Salsa is not cuban music

[AfroMalaya]

@haballi Salsa is cuban music bastardized by Puerto Ricans in order to sell to the US market. Cause the Cubans got embargo'd. Go read what Tito Puentes and Chacao said.

[sweavo]

too simple. For the purist, Cuban music was already broken as soon as it reached North America. The conga was unrecognizable from the conga de comparsa, son was getting called rhumba and mambo was largely an invention of Prado and More pandering to mexican tastes... For the friendlier listener, Salsa is an exciting and rare style heavily influenced by the incredible richness of Cuba's long and deep musical history.

[SkullBeneath]

@sweavo

i believe it was cachao and his brother who composed the first mambos

[AfroMalaya]

@sweavo Salsa as it known in speed, and tiempo is Guaracha-Son. Go see Roberto Faz Pintate Los Labious Maria.. see the arrangement, it was in early 60s. Salsa as the Fania All Stars hasnt exist yet. A faster Son with 3-2 arrangements. That is the actual roots, they were heavily and dominating the radio waves of Cuba, with Puerto Ricans all listening to it but cant import it.

[sweavo]

@AfroMalaya thanks for this! hard to learn these details in the english-speaking world. peace

[AfroMalaya]

@sweavo Yes because the English speaking salsa musician and dancers cant justify their dance. The right timing for dancing is a-tiempo or contra-tiempo (not on1 or On2.. that term is a misnomer). Dancers moved with tumbao, tumbaos dont start on 1 or 2, they start mostly on 4 or 8s. Because Cubans cannot access important market, and Americans cannot access directly the band and productions (USA Trading with Enemy Act) the Puerto Ricans had a field day developing the Cuban Son to a packaged brand.

[AfroMalaya]

@sweavo The Brand Salsa doesnt exist on any musical scoresheets. On top of musical scoresheets, it is direct - for example they write there "Bolero" "Cha-cha-cha" "Son Montuno" "Son Guaracha" "Charanga" "Danzon". Never Salsa. So salsa does NOT exists as a music, its just a packaged rebrand of "Cuban Music" aka Musica Cubana. Sure you can add Plena, Bomba, Boogaloo to it, it is still Cuban Son in foundation.

[AfroMalaya]

It is not Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans brought it cause of the Embargo. Roberto Faz called "enchale salsita" every single time before he played the guaracha. There is no Puerto Ricans base instruments in Salsa. The bongo, conga, clave, are all afro-cubans. No new instruments is being used for Salsa except for xylophones. in NY. Puerto Ricans repackaged it, just as they repackaged reggaeton.

[Any2267ful]

bk8288 I am so agree with you!!.You have all the reason.

[emilsone]

memorias de jugar con mis hermanos en mi infancia cuando los padres bailaban, perdidos en amor y ritmos de lecuona!

[sammipink]

thanks for posting beautiful pictures i love cuba

[bloozmonkey111]

Sweet track!

[Shalia583]

Great.

Greetings Shalia583

[kostgian]

stunnings cubanboys/ern.lecuona/alb.raba­gliati/armando orefiche!

[Shalia583]

Great.

[AnaJilK]

Exotic music and old beautiful pictures... Thanks 240252 for posting this video and Kostas for sharing! *****

[30medranodel]

Hermosos recuerdos de mi niñez

[bk8288]

240252, I like your Lempicka image, can you get the title, Cubanakan, on this selection, I just found it by coincidence, I'm sure it will get a lot of hits, as it is the best recording of the song of all the version on YouTube.

[bk8288]

My favorite of the LCB band, I have it on an old 78 rpm, unfortunately it has a scratch on it, so it is nice to hear it on YouTube.

If we could just get pass politics and normalize our relations with Cuba our music and arts would be so enriched plus it would be a economic boom to both countries.

[Margabo]

Fabolous!

[l0b1z0n]

Ay dios

como pudo haber compuesto algo tan bello.

Viva la musica cubana "antigua".

[eldenfrente]

Imperdible y eternos los Lecuona Cuban Boys... (Aunque Ernesto Lecuona, que sepa, nunca integro el conjunto)... En refeencia Cubanacan (con C y no K), mer permito comentar que tambien se trata del nombre de un reparto (barrio, distrito) en La Habana.

[Bumblebee38]

The best ever Cuban band playing those wonderful Rhumbas of the thirties

Thanks for sharing

[FranzivonSpeck]

Lovely sounds, with thanks!

[KlausVanBrueggen]

There's an anonymous weakling spreading posts at YouTube under my name. Laughable.

And thanks again for the great vid.

[flugelmaniac]

just as beautiful as Chopin, or an aria of Verdi.

[flugelmaniac]

great to rediscover the fantastic Lecuona boys.........I'm off to buy any CD's I can find now!

[edmoran73]

Que bonita, que bonita! Una epoca perdida.

[olafdavila]

Yes It was the best regarding popular music. Lecuona, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, etc, and etc. are beyond comparison.

[olafdavila]

Yes It was the best regarding popular music. Lecuona, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, etc, and etc. are beyond comparison.

[olafdavila]

Yes It was the best regarding popular music. Lecuona, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, etc, and etc. are beyond comparison.

[olafdavila]

Yes It was the best regarding popular music. Lecuona, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, etc, and etc. are beyond comparison.

[ondaleo]

Grandioso,evoca todo para mí.La mejor canción para amar.

[jovauri]

Great! Thanks...

[bohemiatotal]

Beautiful!

[martivive]

Soooo nostalgic! Thank you for sharing.

[smurfswacker]

Very, very nice record--I agree, the whistling lends a unique mood. As everyone knows (but I must repeat because I like it so much) Lecuona composed "Siboney," one of my all-time favorite melodies.

[kspm01]

A truly brilliant recording of these great musicians!

[dzheger]

most enchanting and sensuous. That beautiful whistling adds to the carefree mood.

[albertdiner]

Conveys an image of a place to relax, Great

photos. Moises Simmons is the composer of

El Manicero ( The Peanut Vendor) In 1941 he

was arrested by the nazis in Paris thinking he

was jewish . He was later released.

[genia106]

Were any of the members of this group later part of the Buena Vista Social Club, the legendary aging musicians, that still perform in Havana and were the focus of the award winning documentary of the same title? Love the Havana pix and the music. In fact, I fancy a nice Rum and Coke and some pineapple spears.

[barbcard]

Is that Ernest Hemingway I see in the last image? If so, why is he walking away from that lovely woman?

[merrihew]

I'm a big fan of this group. Thanks for the photos. Maybe some day Cuba will be like that again.