I have asked several times. So pleased requests, we take at least make a small digression and go into the world of boogaloo. But through the front door, which by that time there were also quite boo had little ga much less loo, and this move-and-Nuyorican experiment deserves a little more respect. For So I can not think of anything better to put it on the blog with pianist Pete Rodríguez · · (do not confuse, please!, with Pete Count Rodriguez, excellent singer but not nearly boricua family in fact, one was white boy and the other almost jet). Pete
produced two of the songs that sounded in the middle of 60: Micaela and I Like It Like That , two songs that helped define the sound and intentions of the boogaloo and its little brother, the shing-a-ling.
produced two of the songs that sounded in the middle of 60: Micaela and I Like It Like That , two songs that helped define the sound and intentions of the boogaloo and its little brother, the shing-a-ling.
Pete Rodriguez and his orchestra at the Teatro Puerto Rico in the Bronx |
Several factors came into play to collude and create this rhythm: the avalanche of rock 'n' roll with The Beatles to the head, the tsunami of soul thanks to the triumphs of Motown , the premature death of the big bands in 1966 New Yorkers when you close the Palladium Ballroom on 52nd Street, and the need of the young Hispanic ghetto
New Yorker tell his side of the story, so that combined Latin rhythms with the sounds African-Americans and Anglos. The result was a delicious music, mostly festive, danceable, with lyrics that were either from English to English or Spanglish directly fell, full of funk rhythms and chants, applause, wait and then two in a row, the leading piano rhythm that crazy, whistles and hassles of members the orchestra, more female voices and the ever-useful tambourine banging hip.
This whole craze started in 1966, although there had been some preboogaloos , as is the case El Watusi by Ray Baretto, 1961, or Pennis - but these will be much more charanga that soul.
Obviously, when the boogaloo proved a hit with parents were born everywhere. Tony Pabón, trumpeter and singer of the band of Pete Rodriguez, composer and performer, in addition, I Like It Like That, said in his time was a collective effort: that neither Pete or Joe Cuba or Richie Ray could take over the rhythm.
The success that marked the entrance of this new musical fashion led to unleash a true collective madness, sold millions of copies, many songs came to important positions within the lists prepared by the magazine Billboard, and almost all groups and performers Latinos joined in the taste and recorded several tracks in the wave. Even those who then said to have resisted the tide, as Willie Colon and Eddie Palmieri also recorded one other number (perhaps the only one who stayed away was Johnny Pacheco, but he was always within typical wave).
Excessive exposure, the arrival of gangs of poor quality and tired of people did that three years pass fashion. That does not mean that there is still a must at parties where salsa commands, because it is understood the brew a little boogaloo set half an hour ... even to rest the hip and otherwise hesitation cadence. Particularly, I think it's great to be in a room, whatever it is, to see how suddenly get a boogaloo and enjoy the good feedback from people. It happened to me in cities as diverse as New York, Boston, Caracas, Madrid and Nice.
This shows that sound is part of our world.
As I was saying: Pete Rodriguez and his I Like It Like That (I like that) . A collection album sold over half a million copies, propelled him to fame and allowed him access to markets beyond the Nuyorican ghetto of East Harlem and South Bronx . His band The Magnificent, made by Angelo Rodriguez and Tony Pabón into the trumpet-which marked a fundamental difference with Joe Cuba, which had no wind instruments, "Benny Bonilla on timbales, Gilberto Archeval on bass, Manny Rodriguez in the conga and Alberto Gonzalez on vocals, was well fitted by experience in the dance. Although published in 1967, and Rodriguez sounded very hard last year due to 45-rpm single Alegre Records (the record producer Al Santiago ) was launched I Like It Like That as the main course, and Micaela great b-side:
Micaela Ayayay
was launched (it was launched, which was launched)
When I danced with her, Michelle was launched
The boogaloo I danced and I know she is fire.
Micaela when she dances, the boogaloo snatches
everyone called the queen of the boogaloo.
Compuesta por Pabón y Manny Rodríguez, I Like It... es uno de esos clásicos de la música latina, aunque esté cantada en inglés. Abrió muchos caminos a nuestros músicos, contribuyó notablemente al que el boogaloo fuese un fenómeno de alcance nacional en Estados Unidos, llegó a las listas del Billboard, fue versionada numerosas veces y motivó una película nuyorican en los años 90. Micaela, interpretada en español por Alberto González, fue un acercamiento del ritmo a su esencia latina; un poco para demostrar que se podía cantar sin problemas en ambos idiomas y con el mismo sabor.
The record, however, holds other surprises: Bone is a delightful Son Montuno with Cuban trumpet chords, a piano solo by Pete pretty decent (it was not a virtuoso, really) and a lot of double meaning in the chorus : eat it, to the bone, eat . Pete's Madness is a download rumba rhythm where the whole orchestra seems to dwell at ease; 3 and 1 is a tribute to an afterhours located near the Brooklyn Bridge, which was operated by Ralph Mercado, which some years later became the powerful promoter of the city. If you want to dance is on the same wavelength guaguancó festive album, which features a set of trumpets intone the typical current and I'm the king is but a maximalist claims and guaracha with interludes of boogaloo, was how to put the banner held high in front rival gangs.
In those three years of madness came to market dozens of albums of boogaloo. Most of them were swept away by the wave of fashion, but others-very few-have become as a reference for a very special time. This album of Pete Rodriguez is one of them.
The recording is available in Spotify. Of course, when you put it was cataloged by Pete Count ...
This confusion will last forever, I fear.
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