USED VINYL
Mongo Santamaria - El Pussy Cat [1]
$17.98
The record
Title: Mongo Santamaria - El Pussy Cat
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1965, Latin Jazz, Boogaloo, Havana, Cuba 11/26
Matrix #: CS 9098 (Columbia stereo, 2-eye label); runout not recorded
Condition: EX (LM) | Members: Mongo S (17' - 03')
Cultural Facts: [1]
- Watermelon Man Went Top 10: His 1963 cover of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, a rare pop hit for a conga player and the record that put him on Columbia's radar.
- He Wrote Afro Blue: Mongo composed Afro Blue in 1959, and John Coltrane turned it into one of the most played modal jazz standards of the 1960s.
- From Prado to Puente to Tjader: After leaving Havana around 1950 he worked in Perez Prado's band, then Tito Puente's, then Cal Tjader's group in San Francisco before leading his own bands.
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