Buena Vista Social Club

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Release Date: 2006

Labels: Myndform sf., Myndform ehf.

Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album Buena Vista Social Club. The film is an international co-production of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba.

Musicians:
Francisco Repilado, aka Compay Segundo (vocals and tres)
Eliades Ochoa (vocals and guitar)
Ry Cooder (slide guitar)
Joachim Cooder, Ry's son (percussion)
Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals, congas, claves, bongos)
Omara Portuondo (vocals)
Rubén González (piano)
Orlando "Cachaito" López (Double bass)
Amadito Valdés
Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet)
Barbarito Torres (laúd)
Pío Leyva
Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (vocals)
Juan de Marcos González (güiro)
Songs:
"Chan Chan" (Francisco Repilado)
"Silencio" (Rafael Hernandez)
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren and Mack Gordon)
"Dos Gardenias" (Isolina Carillo)
"Veinte Años" (María Teresa Vera)
"Y Tu Que Has Hecho?" (Eusebio Delfin)
"Black Bottom" (Ray Henderson, Lew Brown and B. G. De Sylva)
"Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona Casado)
"El Carretero" (Jose "Guillermo Portabales" Quesada del Castillo)
"Cienfuegos (tiene su guaguanco)" (Victor Lay)
"Begin the Beguine" (Cole Porter)
"Buena Vista Social Club" (Orestes Lopez, inventor of the mambo in 1937)
"Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
"Candela" (Faustino Oramas),
"Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the father of Cachaito)
"El Cuarto de Tula" (son/descarga, Sergio Siaba)
"Guateque Campesino" (Celia Romero "Guateque")
"Nuestra Ultima Cita" (Forero Esther)
"Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (bolero by Oswaldo Farres)

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