Perez Prado - discographical info wanted

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I was listening to "Ray Charles at Newport" the other day and remembered the little unsolved problem about "In a little Spanish town". Wondered if anyone could resolve it.

In the sleeve notes to David Newman's "Fathead", Gary Kramer referred to "goodnatured kidding of the Perez Prado orchestra", of which "Spanish town" was an example. I always assumed that the Ray Charles arrangement (or the Hank Crawford arrangement, maybe) was just a takeoff of the Prado style. But a few years ago I got a compilation of Prado, which includes "In a little Spanish town". And it has the same arrangement as the Ray Charles version.

The trouble is, the publication info on the Prado sleeve gives a date of 1959, whereas "Ray Charles at Newport" was 1958. Surely it can't be that Prado lifted the Charles arrangement? But that's what it looks like.

Does anyone have any info on when Prado recorded this tune?

MG

[Chuck Nessa]

Does anyone have any info on when Prado recorded this tune?

MG

Perez Prado & his Orchestra : Al DeRisi, Fats Ford, Roger "King" Mozian, Mike Shain, Jack Mootz (tp) José

Humberto Celaberto (tb) Joseph D'Addario (= Joe Dee), George Furman (as) Irv Greenberg (ts) Tony Ferina

(bar) Perez Prado (p,arr) Mike Cardona (b) Luis Rivera (d) Chino Pozo (bgo) Mongo Santamaria (cga) PaquitoSosa (mar) Johnny Hartman (vcl) Dave Lambert Quartet : Dave Lambert, R. Wollter, E. Thomas, S. Jones)(vcl)

New York, September 19, 1951

E1FB-3640 Savoy mambo (dlq vcl) RCA LPM3108

E1FB-3641 In a little Spanish town - , Vic 20-4319, BVCP-5047, Blue Moon BMCD-2006

E1FB-3642 C'est si bon (dlq vcl) Vic 20-4319, RCA LPM1196, LPM3108, VPM6066

E1FB-3643 Muchachita Vic 23-5806, Tumbao TCD-028

E1FB-3644 Wild (jh vcl) 20-4433, Cam CAL409

E1FB-3645 Safari (jh vcl)(unissued ?)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Does anyone have any info on when Prado recorded this tune?

MG

Perez Prado & his Orchestra : Al DeRisi, Fats Ford, Roger "King" Mozian, Mike Shain, Jack Mootz (tp) José

Humberto Celaberto (tb) Joseph D'Addario (= Joe Dee), George Furman (as) Irv Greenberg (ts) Tony Ferina

(bar) Perez Prado (p,arr) Mike Cardona (b) Luis Rivera (d) Chino Pozo (bgo) Mongo Santamaria (cga) PaquitoSosa (mar) Johnny Hartman (vcl) Dave Lambert Quartet : Dave Lambert, R. Wollter, E. Thomas, S. Jones)(vcl)

New York, September 19, 1951

E1FB-3640 Savoy mambo (dlq vcl) RCA LPM3108

E1FB-3641 In a little Spanish town - , Vic 20-4319, BVCP-5047, Blue Moon BMCD-2006

E1FB-3642 C'est si bon (dlq vcl) Vic 20-4319, RCA LPM1196, LPM3108, VPM6066

E1FB-3643 Muchachita Vic 23-5806, Tumbao TCD-028

E1FB-3644 Wild (jh vcl) 20-4433, Cam CAL409

E1FB-3645 Safari (jh vcl)(unissued ?)

Thank you Chuck.

MG