Johnny Pacheco – Pacheco At The NYC World’s Fair (1964 Fania)

Johnny Pacheco – Pacheco At The N.Y. World’s Fair
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | FLAC |  300 dpi  | Latin, Salsa
1964 Fania LP-326 || Mono gold label

Because everything sucks right now except my record collection.  Nothing provocative, depressing, nor spooky (this being Halloween and all) but rather uplifting and invigorating. This is great early work from Maestro Pacheco, released within the first year of Fania Records’ life as a company that would cast a long shadow in the decades to come.  It features a lead vocal (on most tracks) from Pete Rodriguez before his breakout hit “I Like It Like That”. A couple of tracks feature the Cuban singer Ramon ‘Monguito’ Sardiñas in that role.  The rest of the personnel is not noted anywhere I can find, feel free to leave a comment if you happen to know who played on this.

Label/Cat#: Fania Records – LP 326, Fania Records – L.P. 326
Country: US
Year: 1964
Genre: Latin
Style: Guaguancó, Cha-Cha, Merengue, Salsa
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gold Label / Laminated Cover

Tracklist
A1 – Que Pelota
A2 – El Boniato
A3 – Bomba-Lede
A4 – Se Me Fue
A5 – Goza Negro
A6 – Alto Songo
B1 – Guachinango
B2 – Ocurrencia
B3 – Soy Del Monte
B4 – Galan Galan
B5 – Prefiero El Son
B6 – Carnavales

 

More information: https://www.discogs.com/release/4616463-Pacheco-Pacheco-At-The-New-York-Worlds-Fair

Design – Izzy Sanabria
Photography By – Antonio Cores
Vocals – Johnny Pacheco (tracks: B2), Monguito (2) (tracks: A4, B3), Pete Rodriguez (tracks: A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, B1, B4, B5)

 

LINEAGE: 1964 Fania Records LP 326; cleaned on Music Hall RCM WCS-5 Pro-Ject RM-5SE with Audio Tecnica Signet TK7E cartridge; Audio-tecnica AT-618 disc stabilizer; Speedbox power supply; Pro-Ject Tube Box S2 Audioquest Black Mamba and Pangea Premier interconnect cables; RME Babyface Pro interface ; Adobe Audition at 32-bit float 192khz; ClickRepair with output monitored in real time, Stereo-> Mono; further clicks and pops removed manually with Adobe Audition 3.0; resampled, dithered, converted to FLAC using iZotope RX Advanced. Tags done with Foobar 2000 and Tag and Rename.

 

 

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5 Comments

  1. thanks again!!!

  2. Merci beaucoup !

  3. Hi my friend. You mention: Pete Rodriguez before his breakout hit “I Like It Like That”

    However, the main vocal in this album is Pete “el Conde” Rodriguez, not to be confused with Pete Rodriguez who in fact released “I like it Like That.

    • Oh boy, what a rookie error! I’m not sure what I was thinking. I don’t think the boogaloo Pete had much of a music career outside that genre, did he? Thanks for catching this and I will revise the description accordingly 😉

      • I think when the boogaloo was fading, many artists (if not all) of them who were into it had to start recording something else.

        I do know a song sung by Rubén Blades when he was quite young singing for Mr. Pete Rodríguez in one of his recordings, and it isn’t boogaloo but the most popular son montuno (what most people would call salsa).

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