kaysee
2003-08-24 01:05:18 UTC
Or is there no difference?
I was just listening to Tito Puente's Dance Mania I CD (actually I've been
listening to it off and on all week) and I noticed that all the songs that I
think of as chachacha are labeled son montuno!
In fact:
1. El Cayuco - Son Montuno
2. Complicación - Guaguanco
3. 3-D Mambo
4. Llego Miján - Son Montuno
5. Cuando te vea - Guaguanco
6. Hong Kong Mambo
7. Mambo Gozón
8. Mi chiquita quiere bembé - Cha cha cha Bembé
9. Varsity Drag
10. Estoy siempre junto a tí - Bolero
11. Agua limpia todo - Guaguanco
12. Saca tu mujer - Guaracha
(The unlabeled ones are all mambos.)
The guaguancos all play like modern salsa to me, while the mambos sound
mostly dated, or seem to lean towards latin jazz. But the son montunos are
cha cha chas! (They actually have the word[s] chachacha sung by the coro in
them.)
What's up with that? Is this why my instinctive reaction to any son montuno
I hear is to chachacha?
kaysee
--
World Traveller in Pursuit of Dancing
I was just listening to Tito Puente's Dance Mania I CD (actually I've been
listening to it off and on all week) and I noticed that all the songs that I
think of as chachacha are labeled son montuno!
In fact:
1. El Cayuco - Son Montuno
2. Complicación - Guaguanco
3. 3-D Mambo
4. Llego Miján - Son Montuno
5. Cuando te vea - Guaguanco
6. Hong Kong Mambo
7. Mambo Gozón
8. Mi chiquita quiere bembé - Cha cha cha Bembé
9. Varsity Drag
10. Estoy siempre junto a tí - Bolero
11. Agua limpia todo - Guaguanco
12. Saca tu mujer - Guaracha
(The unlabeled ones are all mambos.)
The guaguancos all play like modern salsa to me, while the mambos sound
mostly dated, or seem to lean towards latin jazz. But the son montunos are
cha cha chas! (They actually have the word[s] chachacha sung by the coro in
them.)
What's up with that? Is this why my instinctive reaction to any son montuno
I hear is to chachacha?
kaysee
--
World Traveller in Pursuit of Dancing