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From '' New Orleans' Billie & De De And Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band ''
Label: Preservation Hall ‎– VPS-3
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1966

Tracklist
A1 Peanut Vendor
Vocals – De De Pierce
A2 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Vocals – Billie Pierce
A3 Just A Little While To Stay Here
A4 St.James Infirmary
A5 Eh La Bas
Vocals – De De Pierce
B1 Sallee Dame
Vocals – Billie Pierce, De De Pierce
B2 Lonesome Road
Vocals – Billie Pierce
B3 Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
Vocals – De De Pierce
B4 Freight Train Blues
Vocals – Billie Pierce
B5 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Vocals – Billie Pierce, De De Pierce

Banjo – Narvin Kimball
Bass – Chester Zardis
Clarinet – George Lewis
Cornet – De De Pierce
Drums – Josiah "Cie" Frazier
Horns [Bass] – Allan Jaffe (tracks: A2, A3, B3)
Piano – Billie Pierce
Trombone – Louis Nelson

Producer – Allan Jaffe

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"El manisero", known in English as "The Peanut Vendor", is a Cuban son-pregón composed by Moisés Simons. It has been recorded more than 160 times, sold over a million copies of the sheet music, and was the first million-selling 78 rpm single of Cuban music.

History

The score and lyrics of "El manisero" were by Moises Simons (1889–1945), the Cuban son of a Spanish musician.
It sold over a million copies of sheet music for E.B. Marks Inc., and this netted $100,000 in royalties for Simons by 1943.
Its success led to a 'rumba craze' in the US and Europe which lasted through the 1940s.
The consequences of the Peanut Vendor's success were quite far-reaching.

The number was first sung and recorded by the vedette Rita Montaner in 1927 or 1928 for Columbia Records.
The biggest record sales for "El manisero" came from the recording made by Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra in New York in 1930 for RCA Victor.
The band included a number of star musicians such as Julio Cueva (trumpet) and Mario Bauza (saxophone); Antonio Machín was the singer.
There seems to be no authoritative account of the number of 78 rpm records of this recording sold by Victor; but it seems likely that the number would have exceeded the sheet music sales, making it the first million-selling record of Cuban (or even Latin) music.

The lyrics were in a style based on street vendors' cries, a pregón; and the rhythm was a son, so technically this was a son-pregón. On the record label, however, it was called a "rumba-fox trot", reflecting its Cuban origin and the 4/4 rhythm that suits the fox-trot dance.
Thereafter, the term rhumba (the anglicized spelling of rumba) was used as a general label for Cuban music, as salsa is today, because the numerous Cuban terms were not understood abroad. Rhumba was easy to say and remember.

On the published score both music and lyrics are attributed to Simons, though there is a persistent story that they were written by Gonzalo G. de Mello in Havana the night before Montaner was due to record it in New York. Cristóbal Díaz says "For various reasons, we have doubts about this version... 'El manisero' was one of those rare cases in popular music where an author got immediate and substantial financial benefits... logically Mello would have tried to reclaim his authorship of the lyrics, but that did not occur."

The second attack on the authorship of the lyrics came from none other than the great Fernando Ortiz.
For Ortiz, the true author was an unknown Havana peanut seller, of the second half of the 19th century, who served as the basis for a danza written by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Of course, it may be that elements of the song were to be found in real life.

The English lyrics are by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Marion Sunshine; the latter was Azpiazú's sister-in-law, who toured with the band in the US as singer.
The English lyrics are, in the opinion of Ned Sublette, of almost unsurpassed banality.

"The Peanut Vendor" had a second life as a hit number when Stan Kenton recorded it with his big band for Capitol Records, in 1947.

Legacy and influence

Because of its cultural importance, it was included into the United States National Recording Registry in 2005 by the National Recording Preservation Board.

The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

Selected recordings

1928 Rita Montaner
1930 Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra
1930 Antonio Machín with the Cuarteto Machín
1930 California Ramblers
1931 Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra
1931? Sexteto Okeh (Los Jardineros)
1931 Louis Armstrong and his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra
1933 Red Nichols
1947 Stan Kenton
1949 Django Reinhardt
1952 Dean Martin
1956 Abelardo Barroso, Orquesta Sensación
1950s Pérez Prado
1950s Conroy (Conrado) Wilson & His Combo
1960 Chet Atkins
1961 Rolando Laserie and Tito Puente
1966 Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill
1961 Alvin "Red" Tyler
1998 Esquivel
2001 Gonzalo Rubalcaba

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