The Lat-teens
The Lat-teens “Buena Gente” on Cotique. This is a killer boogaloo record from 1968. All the songs are great, but my favorite is one called “Smoke Shop”. Produced by George Goldner.
The Lat-Teen’s were a New York City Latin soul group that made three Cotique LPs, this is their second. ‘The Lat-Teens’, which contained the popular ‘Mary-Wanna’ as well as ‘El Shingaling’ and their version of ‘Louie Louie’ was their first and then later, in 1969, they released “Fuego a la Lata” Their post Cotique material moved away from Latin Soul into a straight salsa bag. Formed by Nestor Colon, the Lat-Teens included Hector Castro at the piano and Rey Davila on voices, plus trumpets, conga drums, timbales, bongos with Carlos Pabon on writing and arrangements,
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February 16th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
My father was a congo player for the Lat-teens. I have been trying to search for their records. Do you know where I can get them?
August 7th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
@angelica monell i dun know if you’re going to read this? hey angelica yo vivo en New York i have the original vinyl willing to give it to you, but i’m looking for members of the band i’m a young musician trying to recreate this sound looking to record with some original flavor barrio heavy hitters!! so you help me find them i’ll give u some hard to find LP? or beter yet copying them to hight def CD or MP3 : ) … u can reach me at drumluck@gmail.com
May 17th, 2023 at 9:30 am
I see one at chelsea market in manhattan — artist and fleas vintage shop has a record store — there is one album with their biggest hits — mary wanna etc – 140 dollars!