El Manisero – Various Artists

What a great post, if there are others out there I would love to hear them

There is a CD with 20 Guantanmera versions but I cant seem to trace it?

sincerely

wuod k

heck yeah, i love this song…

beautiful post. i’m gonna have so much fun exploring some of these new (to me) versions!

here’s a link to a collection of 25 versions, plus i threw in a Cachao that was lying around: 26.

http://www.mediafire.com/?uqtzg6s7k5gcdcb

Tumbao released a cd with 25 versions about 12 years ago.

My personal manisero-favorite is Abelardo Barroso’s version with Orquesta Sensacion.

Thanks for this! It will provide a nice soundtrack for work today.

I have an old version posted here (side a): http://fdavis.blogspot.com/2007/09/78-rip-question.html

I don’t know the artist as the label is in Chinese or Korean. Any translations are welcome.

@Fred, your 78 is in Mandarin Chinese, sung by Li Lilian for the Shanghai Pathé record company (Baide in Chinese), which was established by an expat Frenchman around 1908, and finally expelled to Hong Kong by the Communists around 1950. The A side is definitely “Manicero”–the cut begins with an announcer giving the title of the song as “Huashengmi,” which means “peanut” in Mandarin, and the first phrase of the song is just the title repeated. My Mandarin is very rudimentary, but I can hear key terms like “xiao meimei” (young girl) that suggest to me an effort to translate the original lyrics into Chinese.

That’s all I’ve got so far, no dates or anything, but I’ll keep digging. I’m willing to bet that the b side is also a Chinese cover of a Western song, but I haven’t done more than listen to it yet.

@Fred, your 78 is in Mandarin Chinese, sung by Li Lilian for the Shanghai Pathé record company (Baide in Chinese), which was established by an expat Frenchman around 1908, and finally expelled to Hong Kong by the Communists around 1950. The A side is definitely “Manicero”–the cut begins with an announcer giving the title of the song as “Huashengmi,” which means “peanut” in Mandarin, and the first phrase of the song is just the title repeated. My Mandarin is very rudimentary, but I can hear key terms like “xiao meimei” (young girl) that suggest to me an effort to translate the original lyrics into Chinese.

That’s all I’ve got so far, no dates or anything, but I’ll keep digging. I’m willing to bet that the b side is also a Chinese cover of a Western song, but I haven’t done more than listen to it yet.

What a wonderful idea and post, Moos! Thanks.

Good idea !
There’s a good version can find on the “El manicero” album of the Haitian’s group “Mini All Stars” realeased in 1982.
http://www.groovecollector.com/search1-0-1/2/artiste/el-manicero.html

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Good idea !
There’s a good version can find on the “El manicero” album of the Haitian’s group “Mini All Stars” realeased in 1982.
http://www.groovecollector.com/search1-0-1/2/artiste/el-manicero.html

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perfect
here’s a working link to a collection of 25 versions
http://salsaenespanol.blogspot.com/2010/10/el-manicero-25-versiones-originales.html

to me Dexter Johnsons is the one that nails it

to me Dexter Johnsons is the one that nails it

Cómo puedo conseguir la versión por Li Lilian ?<br />How can I get the version by Li Lilian?

Last week in Zuerich I heard and taped an unexpected live version by Bassekou Kouyate and wife Amy Sacko

here it is just in case
https://www.mediafire.com/file/adxdm4dn0v2xezu/El_Manicero_-_Bassekou_Kouyate_and_Amy_Sacko_.mp3/file