RIAA Gold Record Award, presented to Mongo Santamaría
date: label: date made
content: 1980
name: label: referenced
content: Santamaria, Ramon "Mongo"
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This award was presented to Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in 1980. It is comprised of a gold toned record, miniature album cover, and engraved metal plate in a gold frame with plexiglass. The metal plate is engraved:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>PRESENTED TO<br>MONGO SANTAMARIA<br>TO COMMEMORATE THE SALES OF MORE THAN<br>500,000 COPIES OF THE<br> COLUMBIA / TAPPAN ZEE RECORDS<br>LONG PLAYING RECORD ALBUM<br>”TOUCHDOWN”<br>CERTIFIED RIAA SALES AWARD</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This RIAA gold record was presented to Mongo Santamaría for his work on the album by Bob James, <i>Touchdown,</i> released in 1978.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (1917–2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. From the 1970s, he recorded mainly salsa and Latin jazz, before retiring in the late 1990s. Santamaria made several recordings as a leader of his own group, as well as a sideman with Fania All-Stars, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Charles.</p>
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Percussion
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Nancy Santamaria
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0030.11
label: accession number
content: 2005.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0030.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 13/16 in x 16 7/8 in x 1/2 in; 52.86375 cm x 42.8625 cm x 1.27 cm