Guantanamera (The Sandpipers album)

Guantanamera was an LP album, the first album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in October 1966. The album reached #13 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, while the title track, released as a single, reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dolores Erickson appeared on the front cover which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Cover - Photography.

Contents

• 1966 guantanamera original mono l p the sandpipers complete classic vinyl
• The sandpipers guantanamera
• Track listing
• Production
• Reissue
• Songs
• References

The U.S. catalog numbers were LP 117 in monaural and SP 4117 in stereo. International releases included Australia (A&M SAML 932,128), Canada (A&M LP 117 and SP 4117), France (A&M 875 030), Germany (London SHA 202 and A&M 212 008), Mexico (A&M printed by Discos Tizoc, TAMM-9017 and TAMS-9017), Netherlands (A&M 540 415), New Zealand (A&M SAML 932128), Spain (A&M LP 117 and SP 4117), Taiwan (First FL-1501 on orange vinyl and Bell Song SWL-1043 on red vinyl), United Kingdom (Pye International NPL.28086), and Venezuela (A&M AMS-5007).

In addition to the 1966 LP released in the UK on the Pye label, a second LP also titled Guantanamera was released in 1970 in the UK on the A&M label (AMLB 1004) with a different cover and a track list composed of eight songs from the original Guantanamera LP plus three songs from The Sandpipers LP. Stan Britt of Record Buyer magazine supplied the sleeve notes.

In the 2012 novel A Quiet Life in Bedlam by Patricia Bjornstad, the lead character Kate Bamber relates a detailed fictional account (p. 94) of being the subject of the Guantanamera cover photo.