El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor) - The Alonso Brothers
Orlando Alonso, piano 1
Orlay Alonso, piano 2
Composer: Moisés Simons
Arrangement for 2 pianos: Manuel Valera
El Manicero
Composer: Moisés Simons (born Moisés Simón Rodríguez; 24 August 1889 in Havana, Cuba - 28 June 1945 in Madrid, Spain)
El manisero/The Peanut Vendor (1928) by Moisés Simons is a “son pregón”, a song based on a street-seller's cry. "pregón" = shout, US equivalent to - Extra, extra - for newspapers or the ice-cream truck song. The “Son” is one of the most influential and widespread forms of Cuban music - which lead to mambo, cha-cha and other popular goodies all the way to Salsa (casino). The music and lyrics of The Peanut Vendor were composed by Moises Simons has sold over a million copies of sheet music. The royalties from this one song made Simons a wealthy man. It was was a million seller for Victor, the number 1 song of 1931, the first million record seller for a Cuban artist. Several films included versions of El Manisero. It appeared in the MGM movie, The Cuban Song, with Ernesto Lecuona as musical advisor; Judy Garland sang a fragment of the song in the 1954 film, A Star is Born.
The son of a Basque musician, Moisés Simons started studying music with his father, Leandro Simón Guergué. By the age of 9, he was the organist at his local church in the barrio of Jesús María and choirmaster of the Pilar church. At 15, he undertook advanced studies under various maestros in composition, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and instrumentation. For much of the 1930s, Simons lived and worked in France, mostly in Paris, and was still there when World War II broke out. He was finally able to return to Cuba in 1942. He then moved to the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife and later to Madrid, Spain where he signed a contract to provide music for the film, Bambú, which included his last known composition, Hoy Como Ayer (Today Like Yesterday in English). Moisés Simons died in Madrid, Spain, on 28 June 1945. He was 55.
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