Evening/afternoon/morning [delete as applicable] all! @JimMcCauley here sitting in for @kleptones once more, preparing for a parental visit which means that at some point I'm going to have to vacuum the spare room, which Marmalade isn't going to like one bit. First though, let's get all this sorted.
"This beloved dance band from Puerto Rico played 'salsa' before the New York-bred hybrid of various Afro-Caribbean music traditions (and popular song forms) became known as such.
"This record in particular seems to be the follow-up to a first successful crossover effort into what used to be (?) known as 'Latin Soul': Looking up the discography I find the label put out three, from the looks of it, stylistically related releases in the same year, taking advantage of the trend.
"(Does it give too much away to pinpoint the year as 1967?)
"In case you were wondering, the Spanglish wordplay is full of politically incorrect double-entendres...
"Ashamed to say, this is the only salsa record on my hard disk! My LP's & CD's have been in refrigerated storage back in P.R. since hurricane María threatened in Sept. 2017. Hard drive crashes have erased a fair amount of earlier digitising attempts.
"Full disclosure: from tender childhood, I was more of a budding 'rockero', starting my LP collection with discs by Chubby Checker and The Ventures around my first communion at age seven, going on to become a full-bore (ouch) Beatlemaniac...
"I was something of a latecomer to the jiggy enjoyment of grooves playing all around.
"To likely misquote Captain Queeg (played by Humphrey Bogart) at his court martial, 'Well, if there's anything else you need to know, just ask me the questions and I'll do my best to answer them, one by one...' Enjoy!"
Right you are! Download's here or simply stream below.
See you at 8PM! (BST!)
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