049° .SILVER 60's. compiled by MAMBO C

While her trip to Colombia last spring, Mambo C, gifted and informed digger, meet an old collector in the suburbs of Medellin. The old man took a liking and probably conquered by the charm of Flo, agreed to take her home to sell him some records.
In the midst of those there were many 45 rpm, including several releases from the small cult label 'Silver'...
Gaita, Porro, Merengue, Paseo, Guaracha, Jorapo, Cumbia and Plena from 1950s and early 60's Colombian 7 inches.

Gaita, Porro, Merengue, Paseo, Guaracha, Jorapo, Cumbia and Plena
from 1950s and early 60's Colombian 7 inches.

Florence Chavrier aka Mambo C. has been a very close and special friend for me since a very long time. She was part of this 'Les Mains Noires' project at the very beginning and to be true, It is even her who found this name first!
Many things starts together, like the interest and the research about 'tropical' music for example! Common passions about chic & perfumed 'dirty' early recordings who takes nowadays the shape of this compilation whose story is:

While her trip to Colombia last spring, Flo, gifted and informed digger, meet an old collector in the suburbs of Medellin. The old man took a liking and probably conquered by the charm of Flo, agreed to take her home to sell him some records.
In the midst of those there were many 45 rpm, including several releases from the small cult label 'Silver'...

"Silver label has been set up in about 1950 in Medellin by Julio and José Ramirez Johns, Antioqueno merchants and indistrialists who had also been distributing Colombia and Odeon records in the city. They recorded international and national artists, including a lot of material by Lucho Bermudez and Leonel Ospina, although the company did not specialize in any particular type of music. The firm lasted until the early 1960s, when it was taken over by Industria Nacional del Sonido (INS)."

'Music, race, & nation: música tropical in Colombia' by Peter Wade

Thus Florence brought home the treasures unearthed at the bottom of an improbable cabin.

So I'm very thankful to her for decided to share those records here !
I hope that you all will enjoy those old Colombian vibes as much as me, as much as her!

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01° NELLY / Lucho Bermudez y su orquesta - Gaita .Silver 846-A
02° IRMA / Orquesta de Lucho Bermudez - Porro .Silver 780-B
03° ZUMBADOR / Chepito Giraldo con la Sonora 'Silver' - Plena .Silver 974-B
04° BAILA ISABELINA / Nacho Alvarez y su conjunto - Merengue .Silver 1161-B
05° EL JARDINERO / Leonel Ospina Conjunto Ritmico - Merengue .Silver 808-B
06° TE DEBO EL AGUINALDO / Carlos y Jose con Guitarras y Ritmos - Paseo .Silver 1387-B
07° MARIA TERESA / Leonel Ospinay y conj. Ritmico - Guaracha .Silver 818-B
08° SE LO ESTAN FUMANDO / Fabio Torres y su Conjunto .Silver 4007-A
09° LLANERITA / Alfonso Upegui y su Conjunto - Jorapo .Discos Colombia 8629 B
10° JUAN ONOFRE / Noel Petro y la Italian Jazz - Porro .Dia 60112 A
11° EL MECANICO / Oro Edmundo Arias - Cumbia .Dia 6033 A
12° BOMBONCITO / Dario Monsalve y su conjunto - Merengue .Octagon OG100B
13° VICKY / Frank Cortes - Cumbia .INS 50910 A