Guillermo de Jesús Buitrago Enríquez, a Colombian composer of vallenato

Vallenato

Vallenato, along with cumbia, is currently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Colombia's Caribbean region. Vallenato literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía de Perijá in...

 music, was born in Ciénaga Magdalena

Magdalena

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, Colombia

Colombia

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 on 1 April 1920 and died 19 April 1949.

Discography

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

Discos Fuentes

Discos Fuentes is a record label based in Colombia. It was founded in 1934 in Cartagena, Colombia by Antonio Fuentes Estrada, and was the first Colombian record label. The label was instrumental in introducing African-based genres such as cumbia, fandango, and porro to Colombia...

", who have compiled most of his songs in LPs and CDs.

Some of the main releases have been:

• Víspera de año nuevo

1. "Las mujeres a mí no me quieren"
2. "Compae Heliodoro"
3. "La hija de mi comadre"
4. "Ron de vinola"
5. "Qué criterio"
6. "El hijo de la luna"
7. "Grito vagabundo"
8. "El huerfanito"
9. "La víspera de año nuevo"
10. "La araña picua"
11. "Dame tu mujer José"
12. "La vida es un relajo"

• Guillermo Buitrago inédito (La música inédita de Guillermo Buitrago)

1. Se marchitaron las flores
2. La loca Rebeca
3. Muchacha patillalera
4. Gallo basto y pelao
5. El toque de queda
6. El desdichado
7. La cita
8. Careperro
9. Cinco noches de velorio
10. Las contradicciones
11. El gallo atravesao
12. El tigre guapo
13. El maromero
14. Buitrago me tiene un pique

• La piña madura

1-La capuchona

2-Adios mi maye (la despedida)

3-Cienaguera

4-La carta

5-El testamento

6-El tiburon de marbella

7-El amor de claudia

8-Pacha rosado

9-La piña madura

10-La varita de caña

11-Espera que me muera

12-El compae migue (El ermitaño).

• Regalito de navidad – This 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:

1-Regalito de navidad*

2-Palomita mensajera*

3-Yo no monto en avión*

4-El amor es un collar

5-Las sabanas del diluvio

6-Luis Eduardo

7-Rosa Valencia*

8-La peste

9-Pacho y Abraham

10-Los enanos

11-El brujo de Arjona (El enviado)

12-Moralito.

• El testamento y otors cantos ineditos

1-El cazador

2- La mujer que quiere a uno

3-La fiera de pabayo

4-Pacho y Abraham

5-La costumbre de los pueblos

6-El testamento

7-La matica de yuca

8-Espera que muera

9-El dolor de Micaela

10-La vida es un relajo

Some other songs that haven't been released in CD or LP but just recorded in 78s and only collectors possess them are: (They have disappeared almost completely).

-Buitrago me tiene un pique (1st version)

-Como se pierde se gana(bolero)

-Compay Chaney (El zorro)

-El bachiller

-El bobo de la yuca (buitrago just did backing vocals)

-El coco rayado

-El día de San Sebastián (El caimán)

-El doctor Rafael Lavalle

-El compa´e mige (1st version)

-El jerre jerre -El negro maldito

-El negro Mendo

-La estricnina

-La vaca lechera

-Linda nena

-Los panderos de Río Frío

-Mi guayabo

-Mil veces(Lombo)

-Mi morenita

-Petra la pelua

-Santo Tomás

-Zorro chucho, marimonda y baco
The following are completely extinguished:

-El alazanito

-Mala noche (El negrito figurin)

-Toño miranda en el Valle

-Falsas caricias

-Anhelos

-Los choferes

-La rosca

-Teresa Mercedes

-Las muchachas de buitrago

-Ritmo colombiano (Mi Colombia) "Buitrago just did backing vocals"

-La cañandonga

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.

-Ron añejo

-Ron motilon

-Radio document (Advertising to promote Butrago's radio programme).

There are some more radio advertising recordings made by Buitrago but these 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.

1. Víspera De Año Nuevo

2. Ron De Vinola

3. Dame Tu Mujer José

4. Grito Vagabundo

5. El Huerfanito

6. Compae Heliodro

7. El Amor De Claudia

8. La Carta

9. La Araña Picua

10. La Piña Madura

11. La Hija De Mi Comadre

12. Qué Criterio

13. Las Mujeres A Mi No Me Quieren

14. Cienaguera

15. El Testamento

16. El Brujo De Arjona