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Mongo Santamaria

Mongo Santamaria is a person from CU, active from 1922.

Person CU 1922–2003 jazz salsa afro-cuban jazz
TOTAL PLAYS
105
SONGS PLAYED
37
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2006-06-10 03:17 · 6 Music — "Watermelon Man"
LAST PLAYED
4 months ago · 6 Music — "Sunshine Of Your Love (DJP Edit)"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2025
20 15 10 5 0
'06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 60 57%
Radio 2 38 36%
1Xtra 4 4%
Radio 1 3 3%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Watermelon Man 42 2025-10-19
2 O Mi Shango 7 2023-05-21
3 Yeh Yeh 6 2018-03-30
4 Sweet 'Tater Pie 4 2025-11-02
5 Afro Blue 4 2023-01-29
6 We Got Latin Soul 3 2019-06-08
7 Twenty Five Miles 3 2019-05-15
8 Sunshine Of Your Love (DJP Edit) 2 2025-12-27
9 Green Onions 2 2025-05-13
10 Sofrito 2 2024-04-09
11 El Pussycat 2 2022-11-16
12 Cold Sweat 2 2020-04-22
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-12-27 19:26 Sunshine Of Your Love (DJP Edit) 6 Music
2025-11-02 12:54 Sweet 'Tater Pie 6 Music
2025-10-19 11:01 Watermelon Man 6 Music
2025-10-06 01:57 Watermelon Man 6 Music
2025-09-15 21:02 Together 6 Music
2025-08-24 23:53 Watermelon Man 6 Music
2025-08-24 12:56 Watermelon Man 6 Music
2025-07-12 17:26 Sunshine Of Your Love (DJP Edit) 6 Music
2025-05-13 21:01 Green Onions 6 Music
2025-05-10 09:46 Wind Jammer 6 Music
2025-02-01 17:21 Afro American (Studio Version) 6 Music
2024-11-17 12:33 Watermelon Man 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

37 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
25 Miles — 1 ▶
Afro American (Studio Version) — 1 ▶
Afro Blue — 4 ▶
Afro-Blue — 1 ▶
Chili Beans — 1 ▶
Cloud 9 — 1 ▶
Cloud Nine — 1 ▶
Cold Sweat — 2 ▶
Congo Blue — 1 ▶
El Pussy Cat — 1 ▶
El Pussycat — 2 ▶
Fat Back — 1 ▶
Funk Down — 1 ▶
Get the Money — 1 ▶
Grass Roots — 1 ▶
Green Onions — 2 ▶
Heighty-Hi — 1 ▶
I Can't Get Next To You — 1 ▶
La La La — 2 ▶
Louie Louie — 1 ▶
March Of The Panther (edit) — 1 ▶
O Mi Shango — 7 ▶
Olé Ola — 1 ▶
Pachanga Pa Ti — 1 ▶
Sofrito — 2 ▶
Sunshine Of Your Love — 1 ▶
Sunshine Of Your Love (DJP Edit) — 2 ▶
Sweet 'Tater Pie — 4 ▶
The Windjammer — 1 ▶
Together — 1 ▶
Twenty Five Miles — 3 ▶
Twenty-Five Miles — 1 ▶
Watermelon Man — 42 ▶
Watermelon Man (Jazz Funk Version) — 1 ▶
We Got Latin Soul — 3 ▶
Wind Jammer — 1 ▶
Yeh Yeh — 6 ▶