Tito Rodríguez
Singer, bandleader
1923–1973, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico
Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Tito Rodríguez to Morrisania, the Bronx. A tie, not always an origin
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Palladium Ballroom
1946–1966“The home of the mambo”, per PalladiumMambo.com, on the northeast corner of Broadway and 53rd Street. It opened in 1946; in 1948 the Big Three, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Machito, raised its standing, and their careers grew on the strength of their bookings there. A 1961 drug raid cost it its liquor license, and it closed in 1966, per Wikipedia.
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Venue
Webster Hall
1953–1968Built in 1886 as a hall for hire. In the 1950s Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Pete Seeger played here, and from 1953 to 1968 RCA ran it as a recording studio, where Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett recorded. On 2 February 1962 Bob Dylan played harmonica here on the title track of Belafonte’s Midnight Special, per Wikipedia.
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