tracks;

1 Kiskedee Trio – Congo bara
2 J.B. Lenoir – Sitting down thinking
3 Buddie Johnson – It’s the gold
4 Orquesta casino de la Playa – Bruca manigua
5 Carmen Dela Dipini – Dimelo
6 Teddy Wilson – You showed me the way
7 Slim Gaillard – Beatin’ the board
8 Count Lasher – Talking parrot
9 Bemi – Nabosani ndako
10 Cab Calloway – Reefer man
11 Robert Johnson – Terraplane blues
12 Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Rumba rumbero
13 Roberto Ledesma – Con mi corazon te espero
14 Mildred Bailey – I see your face before me
15 Earl Hines – Blue drag
16 Alex Konadu – Owuo mpe silka
17 Wrangler – Limbo teacher
18 Effie Smith – Gettin’ out
19 Big Joe Turner – Lucille, Lucille
20 Louis Jordan – Psycho-loco
21 Edmundo Arias – Chituchi
22 Jimmy Pedroso – El loro
23 Angel Luis Torruellas – El abusador
24 Sunny Adé and his Green Spot Band – O le ku
25 Miguel Aceves Mejia – Orgullosa y bonita
26 Humphrey Eshitool – Jirani waganga

If you are familiar with Discos Fuentes de Colombia you
know that pretty women go together with their music. So
when I thought about a cover for this collector of Colombian
sounds, the choice was easily made. It’s all about the music
of course and you know I’m serious,
..ahem, let’s dance till dawn.

tracks;

1 Calixto Ochoa – Amor sincero
2 Ramón Vargas – Alegría Costeña
3 Lisandro Meza y Conjunto – El guayacan
4 La Sonora Cordobesa – Pero dame eso
5 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La boquillera
6 Guillermo Buitrago – El amor de Claudia
7 Alfredo Gutierrez – Paloma guarumera
8 La Sonora Dinamita – Feliciana
9 Rufo Garrido – La vaca vieja
10 Andrés Landero – Dejame gozar la vida
11 Los Golden Boys – La negra Celina
12 Clímaco Sarmiento – La borrachona
13 Andrés Landero – Perdi las abarcas
14 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La cosecha de mujeres
15 Alfonso Piña Cogollo – El doctor
16 Miguel Duran – India matea

Did you enjoy that Colombian compilation I called ‘Cumbia Sabrosa’?
You can find it back on may 31, 2008, in our archives. It contained
that hot track, ‘Colombia tierra querida’. Lucho Bermudez was one of
the orchestral leaders that wrote history. Check out this album with
the traditional pretty lady cover. Gaita, porro, merengue, paseo,
cumbia and bolero by one of Colombia’s master composers.

tracks

1 La gaita de las flores
2 Miguelito
3 Lina
4 Lo mas lindo que yo tengo
5 Tierra mia
6 Muchachas Colombianas
7 Maqueteando
8 Hasta luego Medellin
9 Me gustas
10 Mosaico Colombiano

Sonolux from Medellin Colombia released this collector in 1982.
It contains some Colombian highlites from the 70’s and early 80’s.
The cover makes you expect a quite commercial album and it does have
one or two of those tracks. On the other hand we find a few great
songs. Anibal Velasques always makes a difference and Alfredo Linares’
Tiahuanaco swings fantastic, but my favourite is absolutely track #3,
by Los Montuneros.

tracks;

1 Los Tremendos de Colombia – Ese amor
2 Darigil y su Combo – Cumbia Calentana
3 Los Montuneros – Francisco del otro lado
4 Los Alegres de San Basilio – La espina
5 Don Medardo y sus Players – La ladrona
6 Grupo Chambacu – Alhucema con Romero
7 Grupo Escala – Porque eme sigues
8 Anibal Velasques – Un poquito de cariño
9 Alfredo Linares – Tiahuanaco
10 Tamara – La limosna

Cumbia de Colombia is one of my favorite musictypes, so when I got
Goofy’s request for some decent material, I didn’t think twice and
made us another Colompilation. It is the third one so if you’re
new here and you like this one, check the Colombia or cumbia section
below. Do you have a summer party, this music makes everybody dance.
Great plan Goofy !

tracks;

1 Lisandro Meza y su Conjunto – Entre rejas
2 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La pringamoza
3 Pacho Galán – Fiesta de cumbia
4 Los Corraleros de Majagual – La morena encarnación
5 Trio Primavera – La pata y el pato
6 Alfonso Piña Cogollo – Yo soy un porro
7 Julio Erazo – Hace un mes
8 José Maria Peñaranda – La cosecha de mujeres
9 Pedro Jairo Garces – El twist del Guayabo
10 Bovea y sus Vallenatos – El testamanto
11 La Sonora Cordobesa – El Pajaro Picon
12 Eliseo Herrera – La yerbita
13 Alfredo Gutierrez – La negra
14 La Sonora Cordobesa – No me molestes
15 Roberto de la Barrera – El pulgon
16 Anibal Velasquez y su Conjunto – Dominique

One of our visitors suggested to make a second Colompilation.
I thought that would be a good idea, so I did. Here’s Colompilation
2, another 14 of my favourite Colombian tracks. Volume
up, empty the room and dance !

tracks;

1 Orquesta Ritmo de Sabanas – Porro Bonito
2 Nelson Diaz y el Combo de Duque Palomino – Que me coma el tigre
3 La Sonora Cordobesa – La mafafa
4 Los Golden Boys – El elevao
5 Emilio Oviedo – Yolanda
6 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La calle 13
7 Los Corraleros de Majagual – No te vayas cariño
8 Bovea y sus Vallenatos – La casa en el aire
9 Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros – La negra caliente
10 Los Corraleros de Majagual – La burrita
11 Pacho Galan – Quiero amanecer
12 Calixto Ochoa y su Conjunto – Pirulino
13 José Caceres Land – Suena la timba
14 Antonio Fuentes – Mi nena

This afternoon I paid some Amsterdam shops a visit and
found this Colombian collector from the 70’s.
It contains 3 or 4 songs with Edmundo Arias’ orchestra. When I
first heard it some years ago, it captured me straight away.
As a bonus I added 6 extra songs by Orquesta de Edmundo Arias.

tracks;

1 Alfredo Gutierrez y sus Estrellas – La banda borracha
2 Amparito Jimenez – Pepe
3 Edmundo Arias y su Orquesta – Ligia
4 Sarita Lascarro – Quiero amanecer
5 Noel Petro – Cabeza de hacha
6 Antonio Gonzalez G. – Playa blanca
7 Lita Nelson – Algo se me va
8 Orquesta Sonolux – Diciembre azul
9 Cristóbal Pérez – La negra Celina
10 Gladys Viera – Suave
11 Corraleja 71 – La pollera colora
12 Super Combo ‘Los Tropicales’ – Cumbia sobre el mar

bonus tracks

13 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Atlantico
14 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Juanita bonita
15 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – El mecanico
16 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – La luna y el pescador
17 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Alma quibdoseña
18 Orquesta de Edmundo Arias – Cumbia sobre el mar

Ain’t much music in the world that makes me happy like cumbia.
This is a selection of Colombian cumbias, originally released
on Discos Fuentes. This one was made in cooperation with
Mexican label ECO, Mexico is a cumbia loving country.
Some time ago, our collegue Yoyo from ‘listentoyourears’
launched an album with practically the same cover, but
different title and partly different songs. So get this
LP, play it out loud, and forget about winter !

P.S. I found out I forgot to rename track 11, it must be
track 06 in fact, sorry for the mistake.

tracks;

1 Enrique Bofante – Soledad
2 C. Pompeyo – Gaita Colombiana
3 Joaquin Betín – Cumbia sampuesana
4 Luis Pérez – La morena encarnacion
5 Climaco Sarmiento – Cumbia sabrosa
6 Pasqual Rovira – Cumbia del monte
7 José Cáceres – Suena la timba
8 César Castro – Cumbia sambranera
9 E. Guillén – Noche de estrellas
10 Calixto Ochoa – Cumbia campesina

Today I thought I’d post us some Colombian music. ‘Navidad Negra’
which I addad as a bonustrack is a good example of music they
play in Colombia with Christmas. Pedro Laza is the man who wrote
lots of such songs. On ‘El güiro’ vocals by Daniel Santos, on ‘La
cosecha de mujeres’ vocals by José Maria Peñaranda.
On ‘Cumbia en el monte’ vocals by Pascual Rovira, on ‘Navidad Negra’
vocals by Tito Cortes. On ‘La calle 13’ and ‘La negra caliente’
vocals by Crescencio Gamacho.
As for me, I can play this type of music all year through, such
happy sound should be for always.

tracks;

1 El tachuelo
2 La rabadilla
3 El San Anterano
4 La champeta
5 Playa blanca
6 Aurora
7 Mosaico
8 Puya Bayunquera
9 Tu recuerdo
10 Las mañanitas

– Bonustracks;

11 Navidad negra
12 La negra caliente
13 Cumbia en el monte
14 El güiro
15 La boquillera
16 La cosecha de mujeres
17 La calle 13

It’s been a while since we had some Colombian music.
Here’s another Pacho Galán, an oldie from who knows what year?
It doesn’t tell. It contains renditions of songs like La Pollera
Colorá and Cumbia sobre el mar, to call a few.
Get this rare music.

tracks;

1 Prende la vela
2 La maya
3 La pollera azul
4 Mosaico tropical;
– Salsipuedes
– Furor tropical
– Caracoleando
5 Son cosas mias
6 La pollera colorá
7 San Fernando
8 La tabaquera
9 Kalamary
10 La molinera
11 Cumbia sobre el mar
12 La estereofonica