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EP record "Maggie Carlés" (Areíto/EGREM 7″ 45 rpm EP, EPA-6152)
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A 7-inch, 45 rpm extended-play vinyl record in an illustrated paper sleeve, produced and distributed by EGREM on its Areíto label. Four songs by the Cuban singer Maggie Carlés, all tagged on the sleeve and label as shake (the 1960s beat/go-go dance genre). Side A: "En Este Junio" (Juan Almeida) and "Así Es Mi Amor Primero" (Eddy Gaytán); Side B: "No Preguntes Cómo Fue" (Eddy Gaytán) and "Siempre Eres Tú" (José Pedroso). The red-and-white Areíto disc label carries the Taíno cemí device, the EGREM slogan "La música cubana alrededor del mundo," "45 rpm," "EPA-6152."
2025.1.290
Maggie Carlés — born Juliana Magaly Carlés Pacheco in Havana on August 17, 1950 — began her solo career in 1967, appearing on the television program Música y Estrellas, and went on to become one of Cuba's most celebrated voices, later forming a famous duo with Luis Nodal that specialized in Spanish-language versions of English-language pop hits. Here she is a teenager at the start of that career. The most telling detail is the songwriting: "En Este Junio" is credited to Juan Almeida — Juan Almeida Bosque, a Comandante de la Revolución and one of the Cuban leadership's most prolific songwriters (he wrote other numbers for Carlés, including the Areíto EP "Es así como te quiero"). A shake penned by a member of the revolutionary military command and sung by a teenage pop star. The packaging reinforces the point — its cosmopolitan, primary-color pop-art lettering (by Amaury Febles, who also designed the Música Infantil sleeve) speaks the international graphic language of 1960s youth culture.
45 RPM Record
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
Amaury Febles
Designer
Maggie Carles
Singer
Areíto
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Spanish
The sleeve is a bold pop-art design — the artist's name spelled in cut-out, multicolored letters on collaged primary-color blocks against deep blue — credited to Amaury Febles; the back lists the program and "Producido y distribuido por egrem La Habana, Cuba – (Curva RIAA)."
Dating: the catalog number EPA-6152 sits just below the Los Van Van EP (EPA-6169, 1969), and Carlés's solo career began in 1967 — so best dated c. 1968–1969. (The pencilled "72/2" on the back is likely a later inventory/price mark, not a pressing date.) Credits: all four tracks are shakes; composers are Juan Almeida ("En Este Junio"), Eddy Gaytán ("Así Es Mi Amor Primero," "No Preguntes Cómo Fue"), and José Pedroso ("Siempre Eres Tú"). Note Juan Almeida Bosque's dual identity as revolutionary comandante and songwriter.
En este junio
Juan Almeida
Composer
Spanish
Asi es mi amor primero
Eddy Gaytan
Composer
Spanish
No preguntes como fue
Eddy Gaytan
Composer
Spanish
Siempre eres tu
Jose Pedroso
Composer
Spanish
18.5 cm
18.5 cm
vinyl, record case
Case
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Maggie Carles
artist
Juan Almeida
composer
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
production, acquisition