Carlos Vidal - Vidal Bolado y su Ritmo de Tambores

Carlos Vidal's late 1940's recordings on SMC.

Sound cleaned with GoldWave V.5

These were recorded in Queens, N.Y.C.
(in Gabriel Oller's studio)
The Woman singing is Mercedes Hernandéz
(not Merceditas Valdés)
(Mongo is not on these 4 sessions)

Mercedes Hernandéz

78rpm photos from
Myron Ort's web page

Rumba Columbia


Bembé

Abakúa

Rumba Guaguancó