Guillermo Buitrago
Guillermo de Jesús Buitrago Henríquez, known as Guillermo Buitrago (April 1, 1920, Ciénaga - April 19, 1949) was a Colombian composer and songwriter of vallenato music. Is one of the most successful composers in his country. His songs become part of typical music on Christmas time in Colombia. Some of his hits are La Vispera de Año Nuevo (Day before New Year), Grito Vagabundo (Lazy Scream), Ron de Vinola (Rum of Vinola) and Dame tu mujer Jose (Give me your woman Jose). One of the greater Venezuelan tropical orchestra named Khardon Band Internacional based in the city of Coro, had made a recognition to a Buitrago's legacy making a mix with five of his most famous songs, they are: " el Hijo de la Luna " - " La Carta" - " Las mujeres a mi no me quieren " - " Ron de Vinola " and " La Despedida ", music arrangements by the best tropical musician ever, Mr. Oscar Garcia Urrego common known as " Cachaco del piano " and also musical director of the Khardon Band Internacional.
His music was originally distributed in 78 rpm discs; nobody knows exactly how many songs he recorded but it is said to be more than 150 songs. His record producers were "Discos Fuentes", who have compiled most of his songs in LPs and CDs.
Some of the main releases have been:
La música inédita de Guillermo Buitrago
In english (Little gift of Christmas),is his long play was edited by Discos Fuentes mixing between those 12 songs of the album four songs that were recorded after Buitragos Death by another singer called Julio C. San Juan and don't belong to Guillermo Buitrago. Those songs with an asterisk belong to San Juan.
Some other songs that haven't been released in CD or LP but just recorded in 78's and only collectors possess them are: (They have disappeared almost completely).
The following are completely extinguished:
Odeón Argentina and Chile edited a few of his songs and some of that Odeón material was also edited by Discos Fuentes.
Some other songs were radio advertising and they weren't commercially edited.
There are some more radio advertising recordings made by Buitrago and those with an asterisk are the only 3 that have been found.
One of the latest CDs produced is a compilation and restoration of his greatest hits called "16 Exitos de Navidad y Año Nuevo". Two of the songs were cut at the very beginning missing a small part of the original intro. Also, percussion and a bass were added to almost all the songs differing from the original track.
Guillermo Buitrago cantor del pueblo para todos los tiempos (biography book), Edgar Caballero Elias, Discos Fuentes www.discosfuentes.com Gabriel Velez's collection.
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