“La Gorda”   Exitos de los Llopis con Anardy Lopez   Colonia Records

(38 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)

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El Nuevo Montuno Llego   Roberto y su Nuevo Montuno   UniArt Records   Another gem from Latin Vinyl Junkie!

(38 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)

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“EL PARTY” con LA CREMA   UA Latino   Mellie Mel hooked me up with a great Latin site called Latin Vinyl Junkie

Listen to this there and discover some of the finest in Latina musica.

(40 votes, average: 3.30 out of 5)

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Pete Rodriguez (aka “The King Of The Boogaloo” ) “I Like It Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)”   Alegre Records.   A Latin Soul classic. Personnel include: Pete Rodriguez (piano); Tony Pabon (vocals, trumpet); Alberto Gonzalez, Richie Rodriguez (vocals); Angelo Rodriguez (trumpet); Gilberto “Tiny” Archeval (bass guitar); Manny Rodriguez (congas); Benny Bonilla (timbales).   The group’s having a non-stop party on the album with heavy piano lines, rumbling bass underneath the grooves, tight timbales, and some shouted lyrics in English that are always very catchy.   The title cut, “I Like It Like That”, is the sort of groover that you’ll be singing for years — even after hearing it only once — and the album’s filled with other great cuts, like “Pete’s Madness”, “Micaela”, and “3 and 1” (Dusty Groove)

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(47 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5)

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Daniel Santos “!Candela!   Fuentes Records   This one is just gorgeous!

(46 votes, average: 4.39 out of 5)

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Johnny Ventura y su Combo “El Mamito” con el Hit!! “La Muerte de Martin”   (1974) Kubaney Records

(24 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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“Jimmy La Vaca Swings Cha Cha Cha”   Gone Records

(52 votes, average: 3.62 out of 5)

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Joe Cuba and The Joe Cuba Sextet   “Wanted Dead or Alive”   Tico Records   (1966)   Listen up:

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New York’s Latin music giant Joe Cuba died last week at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s and then became an elder in the salsa scene during the 1970s and beyond.

Born Gilberto Calderon in New York in 1931, and originally a conguerro, Cuba and his band were part of a pivotal generation of NY-raised Puerto Rican Americans (Nuyoricans) who helped define the city’s Latin music styles following the mambo-era of the 1960s.   Cuba gets an asterisk in popular music history for being the first salsa bandleader to record songs in English.

“Bang Bang” wasn’t the first Latin boogaloo song, but its success in 1966 all but officially inaugurated the boogaloo era — first in New York, then across the greater Afro-Cuban music world. The words to “Bang Bang” are largely nonsensical, a mix of Nuyorican food items (“lechon! lechon!”) and the shouts on the chorus (“beep beep! aaaaaah!”), but the whole package proved irresistible.   Latin, black and white audiences across America bought more than a million copies of the single, and the song became a standard.

(32 votes, average: 3.44 out of 5)

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“Let’s Ball” Joey Pastrano and Orchestra   Cotique Records   Listen up:  

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(36 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)

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Harlem River Drive   Eddie Palmieri   Roulette Records   With Charlie Palmieri on Organ and Jimmy Norman, Vocals.   (1971)   Seminal early mix of latin, salsa, soul, funk and jazz.   Have a listen to The

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(50 votes, average: 4.02 out of 5)

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