Bobby Pauneto – Bobby's Boogaloo LP

Bobby Pauneto – Bobby's Boogaloo

- First EVER album featuring Bobby Pauneto’s complete Seeco recordings
- Includes Cal Tjader’s tribute to Bobby ‘Pauneto’s Point’
- A vibrant music legacy that emerged from the Bronx at a time when New York Latin music was at its glorious best
- A World exclusive

In a parallel universe it would be Cuban rooted Latin music, not rock that would have dominated late 20th Century American popular culture. Certainly, if the record industry had had its way, the mambo would have been the craze with staying power, not rock and roll. And for a while it could have happened. Mambo and by extension Latin music was truly massive.

East (Spanish) Harlem, and the Bronx had the most thriving musical communities, New York melting pots of Latin music and and home to its biggest figures, Bandleaders Harvey Averne and the owner of Fania Records Jerry Masucci. Bobby Pauneto was of Spanish Catalan heritage on his mother’s side and Italian on his father’s, but being brought up in the Bronx, he found himself surrounded by the sounds that forged his career and obsession.

He signed to Sidney Siegel’s Seeco label where he recorded 8 tracks in 1965, all of which are compiled here for the first time. The second side of this exclusive playlist includes Cal Tjader’s tribute track ‘Pauneto’s Point’, as well as recordings that formed the influences on Bobby Pauneto through the 50s and 60s that help to contextualise the sounds of Latin New York and how they affected Bobby's unique music.

Tracklist:
A1 Olvidado
A2 No-Van-Co
A3 Mi Paso
A4 De Mi Amor
A5 Guajira Dulce
A6 Aqui Voy Yo

B1 Algo Para "O.M."
B2 Aguantando
B3 La Culpa La Tiene El Gallo
B4 Cool
B5 Mambo Of The Times
B6 Pauneto's Point

Label: Charly Records
Released: 2024