Asalto Navideño (Vol. 1)

Asalto Navideño
Studio album by Willie Colón
Released 1971
Recorded December 1970
Genre Salsa, bomba, Christmas music
Length 32:12
Label Fania Records
Willie Colón chronology
Cosa Nuestra
(1970)		 Asalto Navideño
(1971)		 La Gran Fuga
(1971)

Asalto Navideño is a 1971 Christmas album by Willie Colón. The title "asalto" is a pun on the practice of invading friends and neighbours houses in Puerto Rico with Christmas cheer.[1][2][3][4] The album has the active participation of Yomo Toro, who collaborates with the cuatro (instrument of 4 rupes), the present instrument in all the songs of the project. Also it has the participation of some members of Fania All-Stars, as Johnny Pacheco.

In addition to all this, the album has been the most sold of the history of the Latin music, whose thematic is exclusively for Christmas.[5] This owed, partly, to that the voice of Héctor Lavoe, added to the geniality of Willie Colón and Yomo Toro, and the hit fusion of typical sounds Latins, like "bomba", traditional sound of Puerto Rico, conformed a recipe that liked to all the public, especially to the Latin community, rooted in the United States.

Such was the success of the album, that Fania Records published, three years afterwards, a second Christmas' project, called Asalto Navideño, Vol. 2. This carried to that the first album changed his name to Asalto Navideño, Vol. 1.[5]

Today, the album and his deluxe edition (that it includes the Vol. 2), they are an invaluable object for all the experts and collectors, and is cataloged like one of the best albums of the history of Latin music.[5]

Track listing

  1. "Introducción" 2:58
  2. "Canto a Borinquen" Flor Morales Ramos 4:29
  3. "Popurrí Navideño" Public Domain 3:36
  4. "Traigo la Salsa" Héctor Lavoe y Willie Colón 3:55
  5. "Aires de Navidad" Roberto García 3:43
  6. "La Murga" Héctor Lavoe y Willie Colón 5:34
  7. "Esta Navidad" Héctor Lavoe y Willie Colón 5:17
  8. "Vive Tu Vida Contento" Flor Morales Ramos 2:43

References

  1. ↑ Juan Flores Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation 2016 0190499532 "The word for the violent act of mugging, “asalto,” is the same as that used for the centuriesold cultural ritual of “invading” the house of friends and neighbors in order to bring Christmas cheer; appropriately, the album cover shows Colón and ..."
  2. ↑ Ramón Luis Nieves Estado Libre Asociado del siglo XXI - 2004 Page 191 1567589871 "Para mencionar otro ejemplo, entre cientos que podría enumerar, está la obra del maestro Willie Colón y el gran sonero Héctor Lavoe, Asalto Navideño Vols. I-II (Fania 1972-1973). En ambos volúmenes de "Asalto Navideño" se fusionaron "
  3. ↑ Franklin W. Knight, Teresita Martínez-Vergne Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context 2006 0807876909 "But it is in Asalto Navideño, his immensely and enduringly popular Christmas album released in 1971, that Colón transports ... Most notably, aside from the decidedly jíbaro quality of Lavoe's vocals, Colón brings in the famed Yomo Toro on the ...
  4. ↑ Colin Larkin The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 2 1995 p 899 " He hired Puerto Rican cuatro (small, 10-string guitar) virtuoso, Yomo Toro, for two jibaro orientated Christmas albums: Asalto Navideno (1971) and Asalto Navideno Vol.2
  5. 1 2 3 Colón/Lavoe Asalto Navideño en fania.com
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