“Cha Cha Cha Mambos”   Los Latinos on MusicDisc.

(63 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)

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“Juicy”   Willie Bobo.   Verve.   Another great one from 1967.   Includes the title tune and funky Latin soul/jazz covers of sixties hits including “Music to Watch Girls By,” “Knock On Wood,” “Ain’t to Proud to Beg,” “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”.   Bobo played bongo, timbales, conga, and trap-drum and after stints with Machito, Mongo Santamaria, Perez Prado, Tito Puente, George Shearing, Cal Tjader and Herbie Mann helped pioneer the Boogaloo sound.

(34 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5)

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Brazilian RCA Victor. Convite Para Dancar. Maurilio E Seu Pistao.

(34 votes, average: 2.88 out of 5)

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“Ya! Ya!”   The GREAT Lee Dorsey! on Fury Records (1961)   “Oh well I’m uh sitting here la la waiting for my ya, ya, uh huh”   Lee Dorsey opened for the Clash on their 1980 U.S. tour.   He passed away in 1986.   There are so many great soul and funk songs by Lee Dorsey.   He worked with Allen Toussaint on this, his first hit, and often including on his album “Yes, I Can” in 1970.   Always positive and funky.   His song “Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky” from 1969 is a DJ favorite.

(31 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

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Con la Orq. de Pacho Galan   Regis Label.   Beautiful illustration.

(26 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5)

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Baby’s First L.P. Record!! Remember yours?

(30 votes, average: 2.70 out of 5)

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Prison Worksongs Recorded at Angola Prison in Louisiana.   A Folkways field recording.   Collected by Harry Oster.

(50 votes, average: 3.84 out of 5)

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“Li’l Abner Fo Chillun” Created and illustrated by Al Capp for United Features Syndicate, Inc. 20th Century Fox Records.

Li’l Abner was the title character in the long-running (1934-1977) syndicated newspaper strip by cartoonist Al Capp. Hardly “li’l,” Abner was a hulking, naive man-child, and the frequent foil for Capp’s satiric stories about American life and politics. This simple-minded citizen of humble Dogpatch was a paragon of virtue in a dark and cynical world. Abner often found himself far from home, whether in the company of unscrupulous industrialist General Bullmoose, in hapless snowbound Lower Slobbovia, or wherever Capp’s whimsical and often complex plots led our heroic hillbilly.

Li’l Abner was the unlikely son of tiny Mammy (Pansy) and Pappy (Lucifer) Yokum. Mammy was the industrious “sassiety leader” of backward Dogpatch who instilled honesty and All-American ideals in Li’l Abner. Pappy, in contrast, was an illiterate and hopeless parasite. From the inception of the strip, Abner was vigorously pursued by Daisy Mae, a beautiful Dogpatch damsel hopelessly in love with the bumbling, unappreciative and seldom amorous bachelor. Abner spent nearly two decades outracing Daisy in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race but the couple finally married in 1952, a fictional event that captured national attention and was a cover story for Life magazine. Their only child, Honest Abe was born in 1953.

Li’l Abner generally had no visible means of support but he sometimes earned his living as a mattress tester. When not involved in worldwide escapades, he was engrossed by his favorite “comical strip,” Fearless Fosdick He interacted with many marvelous and fantastic characters creating language and situations which have become permanent parts of the American lexicon. — Li’l Abner.com

(32 votes, average: 2.63 out of 5)

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Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band (Aka, “Hot Heat and Sweet Groove”) (1968)   Warner Records.   Includes “Spreadin’ Honey,” and “Fried Okra”.       Bill Cosby writes the liner notes here as he brought the band to Warner Bros. after they backed him on his comedy LP “Silver Throat”.   They were the first soul group to be signed by Warner Bros.   The band’s biggest hit was “Express Yourself” which was on their second album out a year later.   Love it, love it, love it.   And what a funky cover!

(32 votes, average: 2.97 out of 5)

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Brenton Wood “Oogum Boogum” Double Shot Records. (1967) This lp features the AM radio staple “Gimme Little Sign” and “Oogum Boogum” another charting hit. Coming out of Compton, Los Angeles there’s a Chicano or Latin-soul vibe to Brenton’s records. I love his songs, especially the sweet soul sounds of “Catch You On the Rebound,” “Baby You Got It” and also on this album “I Like the Way You Love Me”.

(24 votes, average: 3.13 out of 5)

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