Pachanga in New York

Rolando La'Serie & Tito Puente - Pachanga in New York. Available thanks to Global Groove.

El ritmo UPA UPA!

There's tons of great music to be found at Bermudezyezid Musica y Mas, such as the complete Tito Puente on 78s set, various interesting looking vintage mambo and cha cha albums, and the album that accompanies the image below, that admittedly looks like a piece of rancid braunschweiger...but it's el ritmo UPA UPA!! Do not disrespect the UPA UPA!

Happy out-of-the-womb-day, Baikinange!

I thought about knitting you a space helmet for your birthday. But then I realized you probably only want the real thing. And, to be honest, knitting was ... a long time ago. It's so 1980s.

So I come up with nothing.

Then I thought about coming up with a nice long speech full of wit and complicated words.
To be a honest such a speech would probably sound best in Swedish if I was to write one.
Luckily there have been poets like Johnny Mercer who really knew how to put down the words ... and still ... he had problems.
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Above track was taken from this great album.

You marvelously cope with us boys being boys on a daily basis here and still carve out some of the best pop cultural posts in this environment and in the whole blogosphere.
I am proud to say: Baikinange is on my team. Not yours. Mine!

Anyway, Ange, You are the best!

Boogaloo and Shing-a-ling with Tito

Shake it in ways you never thought possible, with help from the stellar compilation Tito Puente: The Best of the Sixties.