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| Amparo Garrido: Ole! record sleeve, Antilla records #582 Armada & Rodriguez of Florida, Inc. |
People go on vacation and on vacation they buy souvenirs. Postcards they buy for a visual memory and records they buy for a memory in sound. Records used to be great souvenirs, People got them everywhere. These days the souvenir records are all at thrift stores: Memories of Italy, Souvenir de Paris, Grüße aus Tirol, and the like, containing romantic night music based on popular melodies in the particular vacation destination. Some of the richer vacationers go on a cruise, or go to nightclubs. Their souvenirs are the records from the singers, the bands or the orchestras performing and the most adventurous traveler returns home with a signed copy. Signed or not, eventually the records end up at the thrift stores. I've collected numerous signed records, the most famous one is a signed (and dedicated) Rusty Warren record. The Lord Saints signed theirs while at work performing their calypsos at a cruise ship and Sandor Lakatos Deki signed a copy of his orchestra's Romantic Music of Hungary—Instrumental Gypsy Tunes. Sometimes a record has even more: Inside a signed record (by a airplane pilot?) produced by the Italian airline Alitalia I found snapshots, religious prayer cards, and business cards. I like it when records are personalized like that. Whenever my record collection ends up at a thrift store some collector will have a lucky day. In my Elvis 45s I stuck collectible Elvis cards, my Jolie Holland and Alela Diane's records are signed and dedicated, and when a 45 doesn't have a sleeve I make one (and you must know that my own hand-made 45 sleeves contain so much more info and interesting visuals than any store bought sleeve would!)
The person who bought the Amparo Garrido record I have in front of me, must have seen her at the Columbia Hotel in Tampa, Florida. The hotel is advertised in the liner notes and various other recordings made in that hotel are offered for sale on the back of this record called Ole! Amparao Garrido is accompanied on this record by Panchito Calimano Y Su Combo. Ole Tus Lunares, is the opening track—click on the link above for a free download. Enjoy :)
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