Angel Luis Torruellas & Ismael Santiago
Credited on the record as Angel Luis Torruellas con Ismael Santiago y sus Pleneros.
Un jíbaro en Vietnam
LaFlor 180 · Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
- Artist
- Angel Luis Torruellas & Ismael Santiago
- Credited on the record as
- Angel Luis Torruellas con Ismael Santiago y sus Pleneros
- Title
- Un jíbaro en Vietnam
- Release
- Un jíbaro en Vietnam / Homenaje a Carlos Ortiz
- Label
- LaFlor # 180
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
- Songwriter
- Ismael Santiago
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Jibaro
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Puerto Rican Songs
Collaboration between Angel Luis Torruellas, born 28 January 1938, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and Ismael Santiago, born 6 June 1910, in Aibonita, Puerto Rico, with the release of the song "Un jibaro en Vietnam" ("A jibaro in Vietnam") (LaFlor # 180) - Jíbaro is used in Puerto Rico to refer to the countryside people.. As discussed above, it is also a genre: Jibaro - "traditionally played by the eponymous mountain-dwelling Latin American culture that live primarily in Puerto Rico". Angel Luis Torruellas said in a 1997 interview that he wanted an LP by the name "Un jibaro en Vietnam", but it was never released.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Puerto Rican Songs
Collaboration between Angel Luis Torruellas, born 28 January 1938, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and Ismael Santiago, born 6 June 1910, in Aibonita, Puerto Rico, with the release of the song "Un jibaro en Vietnam" ("A jibaro in Vietnam") (LaFlor # 180) - Jíbaro is used in Puerto Rico to refer to the countryside people.1. As discussed above, it is also a genre: Jibaro - "traditionally played by the eponymous mountain-dwelling Latin American culture that live primarily in Puerto Rico". Angel Luis Torruellas said in a 1997 interview that he wanted an LP by the name "Un jibaro en Vietnam", but it was never released.2Sources1Wikipedia: Jíbaro↩2segundaquimbamba.org: Volume 1 no 2↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Plena, as printed on the label. LaFlor 180-A, plena, 45 RPM; "Un jíbaro en Vietnam" (Ismael Santiago); canta Angel Luis Torruellas con Ismael Santiago y sus Pleneros; yellow label illustrated with a dancing couple in folk dress. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Angel Luis Torruellas - born 28 January 1938, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; Ismael Santiago - born 6 June 1910, Aibonito, Puerto Rico.