Search - Charlie Palmieri :: Easy Does It

Charlie, just before his leap of faith into charanga

Carl James Martinez | Fajardo, Puerto Rico | 01/06/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Originally released by Gone Records("Long gone ago")in April 1959, this nice (All instrumental and danceable) recording, was Charlie Palmieri's last before creating what was most probably the first musical group dedicated to play exclusively the musical craze "Charanga". Here, among the recording quartet, we find playing the conga and bongos, a young up and coming dominican fellow called Johnny Pacheco, who earlier had already recorded as a gifted flautist with the genious Tito Puente. Right after this release, Charlie Palmieri and Johnny Pacheco teamed up to form the band called "La Duboney", which recorded various LP's into the mid 1960's."

My Uncle Charlie - what a talent!

Buche de Noel | Virginia | 11/07/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This great talent was my Uncle Charlie. In the fifties my mother (I was yet to be born) known as Elba Rios, sang with his band. My auntie Esther (Uncle Charlie's wife and my mother's sister) knew that things would be OK on the road with my mother 'the Cuban Bombshell' along. How well I remember him sitting at his grand piano in their apartment on Fitely and later Miles Ave., in el Bronx, smoking and joking with my mom and dad (musicians also) while I played with my cousins Karen, Nina and 'little' Charlie. He died long before his time..............the vagaries of diabetes, smoking, and heart disease (all that RUM!!!) RIP mi tio. You are never really gone as long as your music continues. My favorite here: Ponce.



PS - My Auntie Esther and cousins are all living upstate and certainly could use

some of my uncle's royalties as this resurgence of the early Latin music goes digital!

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