Stone Soul: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Long-playing record and album cover with sleeve. Album cover front features a color image of a place setting with food on a floral tablecloth. At the top center is brown and red text with the album name, artist, and tracks [MONGO/SANTAMARIA/STONE SOUL/CLOUD NINE/LOVE CHILD/STONED SOUL PICNIC/SEE-SAW/SON-OF-A-PREACHER MAN/LITTLE GREEN APPLES/HITCHCOCK RAILWAY/WHO'S MAKING LOVE]. Record features a red-orange center with black and white text throughout. Side One [COLUMBIA/MONGO SANTAMARIA/STONE SOUL/CS 9780 SIDE 1/XSM 139369/1. SEE-SAW -D. Covay - S. Cropper-/2. SON-OF-A-PREACHER MAN -J. Hurley - R. Wilkins-/3. LOVE CHILD/-D. Richard - P. Sawyer - F. Wilson - R. D. Taylor-/4. WHERE WE ARE -R. Grant-/5. HITCHCOCK RAILWAY/-D. L. Dunn - T. L. McCashen-/"360 SOUND" STEREO "360 SOUND"/"COLUMBIA", MARCAS REG. PRINTED IN U.S.A.]. Side Two [COLUMBIA/MONGO SANTAMARIA/STONE SOUL/CS 9780 SIDE 1/XSM 139369/1. STONED SOUL PICNIC -L. Nyre-/2. WHO'S MAKING LOVE/-H. Banks - B. Crutcher - D. Davis - R. Jackson-/3. THE NOW GENERATION -W. Allen-/5. CLOUD NINE/-N. J. Whitfield - B. Strong-/"360 SOUND" STEREO "360 SOUND"/"COLUMBIA", MARCAS REG. PRINTED IN U.S.A.]. The record also includes an inner sleeve with care instructions on the front and advertisements for other albums on the back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1969
• Recorded by: Mongo Santamaría, Cuban American, 1917 - 2003
• Published by: Columbia Records, American, founded 1888
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: record covers
• Type: long-playing records
• Medium: ink on paper and cardboard, vinyl
• Dimensions: Record: 11 13/16 × 1/16 in. (30 × 0.2 cm)
• Dimensions: Cover: 12 3/8 × 12 3/8 × 1/8 in. (31.4 × 31.4 × 0.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sleeve): 11 15/16 × 12 in. (30.3 × 30.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African diaspora
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Latin jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2014.154.12abc
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Columbia Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.