Gibson Brothers ~ Cuba 1978 Disco Purrfection Version
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- The Brothers Gibson Chris, Alex and Patrick were born in Martinique, West Indies. They began playing music together and then moved to Paris, France where they recorded and released their first single, "Come To America" in 1976, then followed it up with "Non Stop Dance". Both songs were popular in European clubs and they toured there to support the releases. Having built a reputation, they released "Heaven" in 1977 and caught the attention of Henry Stone's Miami based TK Records label, who leased the track for the US. The following year they released "Cuba", a testosterone driven percussive latin disco funk song that took the rest of the world by storm, but somehow got passed over in the US. It sold four million copies and gained 14 gold records in that many countries. It did peak at #9 on the disco chart and #81 on the Hot 100 in early 1979. "Oooh What A Life" peaked at #48 in the fall abut they rebounded with the #5 disco hit "Que Sera Mi Vida" in the summer of 1980, spending 22 weeks on the survey, where "Cuba" had been listed at 19 weeks. They continue putting out albums about once a year and had another career high with the 1987 release of "Emily". From some accounts that LP was recorded in 1984, and had scattered release dates in 1984, 1985 and 1986. A 12" remixed version appeared in France and Canada in 1985. The brothers have soldiered on with sporadic original releases in 1996 and 2005. "Emily" was remastered as a double CD, with tons of bonus tracks in 2014. Listening to "Cuba" again puts me back right at the very moment I stepped into my first disco club in Quebec City in the winter of 1978 and this one came on. I can still smell the "Eau Sauvage" cologne amid the beer and sweat funk in my head. I was totally intoxicated with the sound of "Cuba", even before my first beer that night.
The original was years ahead of its time in production quality. One of the best disco recordings ever with the on-fire energy of the soaring power-vocals, the dramatic piano solo's, heralding trumpets, the sweeping violins and the beat being so punchy on the 2nd & 4th beat in the groove (very unusual in 1978). I've often said that if this song was called "Maria" instead of "Cuba", where people could form an emotional connection to the song as there are millions of Maria's living around the planet, the success of the song would have been much greater, an all-time classic (which it is). There could be a theatre play written to this song, like the Jets and the Sharks falling in love with two gorgeous latina 19 year old twins who lead both gangs on in a merry dance. I saw one of those 'twins' on a summer 2009 afternoon at an Arco gas station in Santa Monica on Pico & 4th putting gas in her convertible car wearing hot pants, high heels, long flowing hair, full cherry-red lips and that look of complete disinterest in the mayhem she was causing with every male in view of the moment, a real life Cha Cha DeGregorio - Great work DJ DiscoCat on reigniting this masterpiece to 13 mins and all those memories. Thank you.
I was on the dancefloor at Hula's, in Waikiki when the DJ dropped this into the mix and the spacious floor suddenly became tightly packed as sardines - a true indication of the rhythm calling us out. Music is the great equalizer for me, suddenly we all belong and we commune the oneness across the room and to the fringes. Effervescent mix DJDCV2!
@@deensf3201 Dee, you and Eddie with 2 great memories--Thank you for sharing.
@@mikeysuzefour you are of course welcome, though thanks to you as well for reminding me that memories are made for sharing as keys that unlock living moments from our past that deserve replay and fresh air. Let's dance on shall we.
@@deensf3201 Yes let's dance the night away (A Van Halen mix version should be planned Mr. DJ Disco Cat Brother *hint hint*)
Of course, the Gibson Brothers DID record such a song; "Mariana"!
A Disco song forever!
I liked it so much into 1978!!!!
And I like it so much 45 years after!!!! Pure music to dance!
1978 was an incredible time!
Time machine i was 28 when i first heard it,disco dance party never gets old still dsnce today soon 75!!!!!
Love ❤️ it , now that’s what you call MUSIC 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏, thanks for posting this MASTERPIECE, it keeps me dancing, I owned , the 12” vinyl and I’m still playing it in 2024, good music will never grow old 👏❤️💯🇨🇺🇺🇸
The " Carnival Atmosphere " Is Conveyed With " Real Musical Authenticity " By The Gibson Brothers " !! A Truly " Exhilarating " Extended Musical Version Of " Cuba " !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
THIS IS MUSIC
REAL MUSIC.
CLASSIC FOREVER.
Golden OldY !
Thanks For Sharing
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺
This is the first time im hearing the long version of this song plus has a nice beat to 💃 to plus still in 2024 still listening to this and im 69 years old
This is as Massive as it is Brilliant
One of the best. Audible excitement
Cuba
quiero bailar la salsa ... the real essence of one of the most diverse people in the world, Cubans.
I WANT TO DANCE THE SALSA 😂😂😂
One of my favorite songs of all time!!!!
Up their with the Extended "Reflex.." Duran Duran. Among other Leaderboarders.
omg very fantastic ilove music
Epoca Inolvidable cuando me escapaba de mi casa para meterme a una Disco y luego Mi Madre Me Esperaba con Una Tremenda Chancleta oh La Faja Pero Amo Esa Musica saludos desde Nicaragua y California❤❤❤❤
Loved this tune in '78...still love it in '22!
Pure Disco!!!!!! Sensacional!!!!!!
Memories Listening of this Track on KIIS FM, 102.7 here in L.A. All Disco for Southern California & they Played the Long Disco Versions & Mixes from Late 78 into all of 79, those were the Days.
This should be Cuba's national anthem...
Abosolutely!
Luxury disco generation...good times of disco...I love DISCO...🎶🕺❤
C U B A A A A A A A!!!!!!!👍💯 straordinaria!!!!!!;
My whiskers are on FIRE!!!!!! ABSOOOLUTE PUURRRR-FECTION!!!!! 🐱🐈
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😻💜✨🏆🪶✨🎶🪶✨🏆✨🪶✨💜✨🩷💜✨🩷💜✨😻✨🌸✨
"CUBA SONG GREAT MEMORIES GREAT HUSTLE SONG THOSE WERE THE DAYS"
IT IS ... ABSOLUTELY
✨✨FABULOUS✨✨!
Still great
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶
Cuba The Gibson Brothers1987 Disco my DJ disco càt musical background. 💕 Love you my man.
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺
@@musicpersonified9358 From Denise Fields 🌹 well hello I have been just been waiting so patiently to answer your comments 🙏🤍🥀 but you guys I must say really know your Latin 🎶🎶 music 💖🥀and the more I read from you along with hearing the beautiful 💖🥀💖🥀💖🎶💖🥀💖🥀💖🎶music playing in the background🍁yes I know that this lovely 🌹🌹 Latin flavor is by the Gibson Brothers Cuba made in 1978💜💜💜🥀 oh yeah can we salsa I mean all I want to do is not work but just 👠👠dance the night 🌉🥀🌉🥀👠🌉🥀💃🕺away 🌹🌹🤍🕊️🥀 would that be possible 💅you know I am at work and my acting like I get a schoolgirl is just normally not like me 😳🌹 however you just don't understand when I hear the Latin 🔠🥀🔠flavor I'm just all over the place🥀🥀🌺how every friend🪅from whatever music 🎶 company your with/ because I'm starting to smell a rat 🐀🐀 I mean I have heard this wonderful masterpiece before 💘💘if you don't mind me asking /however it does not matter if you do🐦I know this song💫💫my wonderful Boss is in it🍁as I was dancing I taught that I recognize the beat 🪘🪘 oh my God I just played it again💘💘and yes yes it is my wonderful 💯💦 DJ Disco 😽🥀 Cat playing his butt of in the background🪅🪅 so tell me really did you write this comment in 🥺because maybe your looking for my Boss to baby pay him a little something something you know what I mean 💖💖🍁🌹🥀wow I'm so speechless because this is a bad Latin jam 😂😂 well listen 🤬 when I first saw 🪚🪚 your comment🕊️and to be very truthful with you I'm all with it now 😍 so I don't want to let this comment get out of my ✋✋✋ hand i definitely need to speak with my DJ 😺 Cat 🎶🌺🎶🌺DJ 😺 HELP.. I know that normally you don't answer me what I'm trying to reach you but this is important...DJ 😼 please 🥺🥀 please read this🍁and the beautiful 🥀❤️🥀❤️Latin 🎶🎶 music in the background is you 🌹🤍 hey boss I think that you better answer this letter because from the sounds of it you might be leaving me and going to Hollywood 😲 wow DJ. Disco 😽🥀🥀 Boss Man you did it before and you can do it again 💘💒💘💘
First holiday abroad, heard this at club 18-32 in Palma Nova, Majorca 😊
The wonderful sound of disco.
Nothing can compare with it best time in life
Well done ....once again.
HERMOSA ROLA DE MI QUERIDA PATRIA CUBA LA DISFRUTO MUCHO ME ENCANTA ESTA CANCION MUCHAS GRACIAS 🎉🎉🎉
I played this song many times when I was a DJ at the Annex in Montreal ! Great memories !! Bonjour de Los Angeles !
Ultimate DISCO Classic, Takes me back to my days on that dance floor, this jam was a dance floor filler, OMG, fun times, Happy times, lots of dancin' & romancin, movin' & groovin' ......Thank you once again Papacat, for the sweetest of memories...you made my day..! ❤️♫🍸 💃
The 70's was the longest decade in music and the best! Just takes ya' back, doesn't it?...8 tracks , bell bottoms and DISCO boogies!!
My bell bottoms didn't fit me too well Chillin616 - True story LOL. ;-)
@@mikeysuzefour Lol...you are too funny....My mini skirt was too short.. haha!
@@chillin616 Ah but I bet you were still cute in it...If I'd known you in person, I'd have said so politely and not lewdly. :-)
@@mikeysuzefour LOL and much thinner.... lol....💃
@@chillin616 We still love you girlfriend!
It's fitting that one of the most underrated disco songs is one of your more underrated mixes. This is killer stuff.
Viva el vida , no matter color, spirit without those low artificiel meanning..💕💕
14 Minutes. You could get 14 minutes of dancing-madness out of this. Chapeau!
This is a "Suite"
14 minutes of real foot stomping here! Brilliant....
Needs to be 28 minutes.
Ola Disco Gato 🎶🎶👍🏼👍🏼✨👏❤️Cuba quiero bailar la salsa 🎶🎶🎶its like you can't keep your feet still, love mi my salsa...God bless you dj disco 😻 For bringing us such joy when we hear these "bringing back memories music" que viva el dj disco CAT ..wepa..my ❤️ Is on fire, my only desire is making you MINE (that pianooooo uffffffff
Time that was so happy human being man really happy sence those decades just misery
I was a teen at the discos. Loved this song. Found 12" and played and danced to it til I was 52!
I was around in 78 ..still is one of my fave tracks
One of the best songs ever. Great memories!!!!
A New Favourite
Wow awesome!!! Never realised how good this tune is until now... 💯🎶💕🌌💃
Thank you for the upload
Such a summer disco classic, at the beach or in the disco. Video to this is sex wild. Loved this vocal and also the pure disco instrumental flip side. So very sexy danceable. Lifts your soul to happy music. Great orchestral disco mix. Thanks, Gibson Brothers. Well done. Vive les disco freaks...
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺🎶🎶🏆
One of the times my parents went traveling to the Caribbean and they played this song on their cruise ship.
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RA2: Could this song be any more of a party? Maybe... if it was another 10 minutes longer. I still never tire of hearing it.
"My heart is on fire and the night is divine..my only desire is making you mine"(a full moon night on praia da costa)
Written and produced by Daniel "Vangarde" Bangalter
Sounds familiar?
Yes. Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, dad
Thanks for the info, now I can connect the dots.
Cubaaaa
Quiero bailar la salsaaa
It was a huge hit in Spain back in 1979
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶
Wow, another FANTASTIC Disco MIX, I just want Dance 🕺if I hear Disco MUSIC. THANK U so for incredible Work&I Love ❤your INFO about MUSIC🙌
AWESOME !!!! 😀
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺
The closest I've ever gotten to Cuba is Key West, yet this track time & time again makes me feel as if I've been there. I'll settle for Miami if that's okay because I've never been there either.
The Gibson Brothers so disco classical with Cuba forty-four years ago.
Ase o Ase Gibson Brothers.
Beautiful music and singers
Love this Disco song I was 15 when this was released I never knew the name of the song until Disco was dead.I have this song on my Disco playlist
PURE MUSIC TO DANCE💃
This was definitely ahead of it's time in 78'.
I dedicate this dance for you Vick K.S.....my only desire was make you mine....
Been searching for this record..oh yes the 70s.
Love reading your descriptions, Cat. This song holds a similar power over me.
Except I had my fisrt Rum and Coke (Cuba Libre!) and the cologne was Russian Leather..
Maybe you had your first one night stand too that night..😺
I guess it depended on where in the U.S. one lived, because it definitely did not bypass this American! This song was very hot in the NY/NJ metro area(where I'm from), and my friends and I (we were about 9 years old)danced to this every time it played at backyard bbqs, block parties and on the radio. I loved all the Gibson Brothers music, thanks for the flashback to summer in the 70s as a kid.
Oh yeah it was always played in the NYC area. That was the epitome of disco!
Im From Brasil just the Old Guard like me knows about those good times....
Back to my student years ...
...after 46 years
Excellent remix
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺🎶🎶🏆
Great tune. Loved it when I was I. Middle school
Sou Brasileiro e vivi esta época e foi inesquecível. Um abraço pessoal.
A MI ME PASO LO MISMO. UN ABRAZO DESDE LA HABANA CUBA
Sou brasileiro mas era guri nessa época mas esse drop fez sentido pra mim no verão de 2019/2020 por cupla de uma ciclista....
I discovered the Gibson Brothers last year on TH-cam, and I LOVE this song!!! There is also a video of this song on TH-cam as well. I also really like their song called "Ooh! What a Life. It is another great dance tune!!
Thank You. What memories 😄😃😎👍🇫🇮🇸🇪
Souvenir souvenir... c'était bon et ça l'est toujours...
le passé fait la saveur du présent...que du bonheur ....
What a classic !!! Please discocat, upload gibson brothers - que sera mi vida
Un excelente recuerdo para el alma alegré
DJ~DISCO KAT! Had to come back,this sound is an obsession, ( A musical one!)Stopped counting the times I danced "The Hustle" to this one!! Those were the days, this one brought the best moves out of You, whether you wanted them or not!! 💃💜💥🎼🎼😊😊💯DJ~ DISCO KAT,bringing the magic 💯% and more!! Thank you,keep up the amazing work!! The best always & FOREVER! Happy New Year!! 💜 💃🎼🎼🎼🎼😊
Disco 4 Ever 🎤🕺🏻
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This song was played with a cup of tea a fun day God bless keep safe and sound I àm uploading
🐈Yes Yes Yes - this is another favorite of mine!!! Thank you again DiscoCatV2!!!🐈
I am so glad I have always traveled everywhere so that I didn't miss songs like this! Thanks for remix!
Hello DJDiscoCat, Another wonderful remix of a planetary tube. Go! Long live the holidays, long live the beach, long live the funky disco. Thanks. 😉😉😉
Back when I was W I L D & lovin it
Muito show essa e das antigas e e a minha preferida 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Heard this on 92 KTU years ago. Our viva Cuba libre!!!😀😀😀
OMG YASSSSS!! A MILLION RRIMES YASSSSSS!!! ❤️
Espectacular tema.
Wow, powerful and fresh, nice extended mix😀
Thiago.....Thiago.......Thiago Alcantaraaaaaa😍
'CUBA' TIMELESSNESS🎤🎶🎺🎺🎺🎺🎶🎶🏆
Fantastic Remix
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2019......last time I heard this was back when it first came out 1978.
I had a 29 inch waist.all the gold trappings . WOW.
This has left me feline so good ,what a good cat you are purrfect choice yet again thank you 😽
I cant stop DANCIN!
8 days closer 😘😉
Absolutely beautiful, DJDisco🐈
Long version, sensacional, parabéns
DJ DiscoCatV2 your music reaches me everywhere incl. Cuba.thx
Came here from A 1979 movie clip (North Dallas 40) a quick clip from party seen that I never heard fully till I finally found it only on (TH-cam)today...love it even more..
Música Disco en su Máxima Expresión! Un Gran Clásico que nunca faltaba en las Discoteques!
Esta versión está Tremenda Wow!!!! Gracias por subir la Mejor Música de todos los Tiempos!!
Enhorabuena y que sigan los Éxitos!!!!🎵💙👏🌸🎼😍😀🎸🎶👍😁🎼
immortaleeeeeeee!!!!!!💝💯
Quiero bailar salsa con la musica disco, lindo!!! Omg
Saludos DJDISCOCat Buenos Temas.
DJDiscoCatV2:Quería agradecerte por hacer esta ¡¡TREMENDA!! versión de "CUBA",te quedó ¡¡FANTÁSTICAS!!👏👏👏👏¡¡BRAVOOOOO!!.