Guantanamera (The Sandpipers album)
| Guantanamera | ||||
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 1966 US/UK cover | ||||
| Studio album by The Sandpipers | ||||
| Released | October 1966 | |||
| Recorded | Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA | |||
| Genre | Pop/Rock | |||
| Label | A&M LP 117/SP 4117 | |||
| Producer | Tommy LiPuma | |||
| The Sandpipers chronology | ||||
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 1970 UK cover | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Guantanamera was an LP album, the first album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in October 1966. The album reached #13 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, while the title track, released as a single, reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dolores Erickson appeared on the front cover which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Cover - Photography.
The U.S. catalog numbers were LP 117 in monaural and SP 4117 in stereo. International releases included Australia (A&M SAML 932,128), Canada (A&M LP 117 and SP 4117), France (A&M 875 030), Germany (London SHA 202 and A&M 212 008), Mexico (A&M printed by Discos Tizoc, TAMM-9017 and TAMS-9017), Netherlands (A&M 540 415), New Zealand (A&M SAML 932128), Spain (A&M LP 117 and SP 4117), Taiwan (First FL-1501 on orange vinyl and Bell Song SWL-1043 on red vinyl), United Kingdom (Pye International NPL.28086), and Venezuela (A&M AMS-5007).
In addition to the 1966 LP released in the UK on the Pye label, a second LP also titled Guantanamera was released in 1970 in the UK on the A&M label (AMLB 1004) with a different cover and a track list composed of eight songs from the original Guantanamera LP plus three songs from The Sandpipers LP. Stan Britt of Record Buyer magazine supplied the sleeve notes.
In the 2012 novel A Quiet Life in Bedlam by Patricia Bjornstad, the lead character Kate Bamber relates a detailed fictional account (p. 94) of being the subject of the Guantanamera cover photo.
Track listing
Side One
- "Guantanamera" (Héctor Angulo/José Martí/Pete Seeger) – 3:13
- "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert/Charles Singleton/Eddie Snyder) – 2:38
- "Carmen (Nick De Caro)" – 3:08
- "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi/Carel Werber) – 1:48
- "La Bamba" (Traditional) – 2:43
- "La Mer (Beyond the Sea)" (Charles Trenet/Jack Lawrence) – 2:40
Side Two
- "Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry) – 2:47
- "Things We Said Today" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 2:53
- "Enamorado" (Keith Colley-Paul Rubio) – 2:04
- "What Makes You Dream, Pretty Girl?" (Garson/Wilson) – 2:40
- "Stasera Gli Angeli Non Volano (For The Last Time)" (Mogol/Pattacini) – 2:20
- "Angelica" (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil) – 3:39
Production
- Producer: Tommy LiPuma
- Arranger: Mort Garson and Nick DeCaro
- Engineer: Bruce Botnick
- Spanish Consultant: Miss Consuelo Ortega
- Album Design: Peter Whorf Graphics
- Album Notes: Derek Taylor
Reissue
The album was combined with The Sandpipers in a 2000 CD release by Collectors' Choice Music.