The First Salsa Music
Salsa is a partner dance form that corresponds to salsa music, 
however it is sometimes done solo too. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavour or style. According to testimonials from musicologists and historians of music, the name salsa was gradually accepted among dancers throughout various decades. The very first time the word appeared on the radio was a composition by Ignacio Pineiro, dedicated to an old African man who sold butifarras (a sausage-like product) in Central Road in Matanzas. It is a son titled Echale salsita, wherein the major refrain and chorus goes Salsaaaaa! echale salsita, echale salsita. During the early 1950s, commentator and DJ bigote Escalona announced danceables with the title ... The following rhythm contains Salsa. Finally, the Spanish-speaking population of the New York area baptized Celia Cruz as the Queen of Salsa.
(To hear Echale Salsita in MP3 Click Here.)
however it is sometimes done solo too. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavour or style. According to testimonials from musicologists and historians of music, the name salsa was gradually accepted among dancers throughout various decades. The very first time the word appeared on the radio was a composition by Ignacio Pineiro, dedicated to an old African man who sold butifarras (a sausage-like product) in Central Road in Matanzas. It is a son titled Echale salsita, wherein the major refrain and chorus goes Salsaaaaa! echale salsita, echale salsita. During the early 1950s, commentator and DJ bigote Escalona announced danceables with the title ... The following rhythm contains Salsa. Finally, the Spanish-speaking population of the New York area baptized Celia Cruz as the Queen of Salsa.(To hear Echale Salsita in MP3 Click Here.)
Lyrics to Echale Salsita
Echale salsita
Sali de casa una noche aventurera
Buscando ambiente de placer y de alegria
Ay mi Dios, cuanto goce.
En un sopor, la noche pase,
Paseaba alegre por los lares luminosos
Y llegue al bacanal.
En Catalina me encontre lo no pensado,
La voz de aquel que pregonaba asi: Salsa
En Catalina me encontre lo no pensado,
La voz de aquel que pregonaba asi:
Echale salsita, echale salsita,
Ah, ah, ah, ah...
En este cantar profundo,
Lo que dice mi segundo
No hay butifarra en el mundo
Como la que hace el congo.
Echale salsita, Echale salsita,
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
Congo miro embullecido
Su butifarra olorosa,
Son las mas ricas, sabrosas,
Las que en mi Cuba he comido
Echale salsita, echale salsita
Ah, ah, ah, ah...
The word Salsa as such was used in a recording of the Mambo legend Tito Rodriguez titled Sabroso Mambo, recorded in New York City on June 28, 1956, He called the Mambo: Nunca te olvidaras el Mambo porque tiene la Salsa sabroza (You will never forget the Mambo because it has the savory Salsa; loose translation by the author). Remember by this date the Mambo craze was in decadence. 
Arcano y Su Maravillas, a Cuban dance orchestra of which the famous brothers, and creators of the Mambo rhythmic pattern, Orestes and Israel Lopez cachao played piano and cello respectively recorded some early Mambos which at the time was referred to as ritmo nuevo (new rhythm). Modern Salsa is directly related to the Mambo in both its music and dance forms especially New York Salsa dance.
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