Tico Records

[JaneMas]

Someone should make a movie about TICO RECORDS. I previously mentioned a movie about the Fania All Stars, another good storyline would be the story of TICO RECORDS. It's full of drama, label takeovers, gangsters, Jewish players, Latin Music and R&B. The link provides excellent reading entertainment in the form of a made for tv movie....definitely make a better film then ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK.


Mambo Gee Gee
THE STORY OF GEORGE GOLDNER AND TICO RECORDS
by Stuffed Animal

http://www.spectropop.com/tico/index.htm]TICO Contents

There's probably no form of popular music more under-appreciated in the United States than Latin music. Yet, it's hard to imagine a time when it wasn't heard here. Given that large sections of this country were once Mexican territory, Latin songs and dances have been a part of our cultural tapestry for a very long time! Over the last 75 years, their influence on country, jazz, rock, reggae, rhythm and blues, disco and even Broadway show tunes has been profound; you can hear it in songs as diverse as "San Antonio Rose", "St. Louis Blues", "Spanish Harlem", "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy", "Turn The Beat Around" and Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave".

In the '40s, the first nationally-distributed independent labels devoted to Latin music came into being - Mardi Gras, Verne, Coda, Seeco and others. George Goldner's Tico Records was arguably foremost among these companies. Read on . . .

PART ONE:
Mambos and Cha-Chas!
The Best in the World for Your Listening and Dancing Pleasure
THE BIRTH OF TICO & THE TWO TITOS

PART TWO:
¡Qué sabroso está!
MAMBO USA, MORRIS LEVY & RHYTHM'n'BLUES

PART THREE:
Azúcar Pa' Ti
EDDIE PALMIERI, CELIA CRUZ & LA LUPE

PART FOUR:
Bang! Bang! Boogaloo
RAFAEL CORTIJO, ISMAEL RIVERA & THE JOE CUBA SEXTET

PART FIVE:
King of the Cha-Cha Mambo!
THE LAST GASP, FANIA & THE DEATH OF GEORGE GOLDNER

PART SIX:
La Historia Ilustrada!
TICO PICTURE GALLERY