JOE BATAAN "SUBWAY JOE" FANIA GOLD LABEL #345 -MONO, ORIGINAL (1968) READ-HEAR

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HOLY GRAIL! BOOGALOO-LATIN SOUL-LATIN FUNK OF THE MID-1960s NEW YORK!!! 

Label: Fania Records ?– LP 345

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono, Gold Label
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Latin, Funk / Soul
Style: Guaguancó, Latin Soul, Boogaloo

Format:
Vinyl, LP ORIGINAL MONO

Genre: Latin
Style: Descarga Boogaloo, Latin Funk/Soul, Guaguancó

Tracklist

A1     Subway Joe     

A2     Juanito    

A3     Mujer Mia 

A4     Nuevo Jala Jala        

B1     Special Girl       

B2     Ponte En Algo 

B3     Triste        

B4     Magic Rose  

Companies, etc.....Recorded At – Impact Sound Studio

Credits

Art Direction – Izzy Sanabria

Bass – Louie Devies*

Bells, Coro – Richie Cortez

Bongos [Extra Members] – Milton Albino

Congas – Lorenzo "Chino" Galan

Coro [Extra Members] – Louie Gonzalez (2), Michael Padilla (2)

Engineer [Recording] – Richard Alderson

Lead Vocals [Latin] – Tito Ramos

Leader, Piano, Vocals [English], Written-By – Joe Bataan

Liner Notes – Charles Polizzi

Other [Album Dedicated To] – George Pagan

Photography [Cover] – Marty Topp

Producer – Jerry Masucci

Recording Supervisor [Recording Director] – Johnny Pacheco

Timbales – Eddie Nater

Trombone [1st] – Joe "Chickie" Fuente

Trombone [2nd] – Ruben Hernandez

Notes:
Boogaloo [A1, B1, B4]

Guaguanco [A2]
Bolero-Cha Cha [A3, B3]
Jala Jala [A4]
Descarga [B2]

Recorded at … Impact Sound Studio 

Dead Wax Identifiers:
Side A): #LP-345 A + [Tiny Signature]
Side B): #LP 345 B + [Tiny Signature]

Companies, etc.: Record Company – Fania Records

VINYL CONDITION: IF YOU SEE GLARE, IT WAS THE CAMERA SHOT!! HEAR ......TO BE SOLD AS IS....DEEP GROOVE, HEAVY VINYL ALL  TRACKS HAVE SOME NOISE (HEAR THE CLICKS, BUT ARE PLAYABLE...NO SKIPS)

LABELS CONDITION: CLOSE TO / OR VG+...SEE SCAN

COVER CONDITION: NO COVER!

REMARKS:

Joe Bataan was born Bataan Nitollano (INTERESTING....one guy in the production team was informing people at the time to call Joe or Bataan for any gigs...Joe was the vocalist at the time Joe Pagan) and grew up in the 103rd St. and Lexington Ave. part of East Harlem where he briefly led the Dragons, a local Puerto Rican street gang, before being sent to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility to serve time for a stolen car charge. His father was Filipino and his mother was African American. 

Upon his release in 1965, he turned his attention to music and formed his first band, Joe Bataan and the Latin Swingers. Bataan was influenced by two musical styles: the Latin boogaloo and African American doo-wop. Though Bataan was neither the first nor only artist to combine doo-wop-style singing with Latin rhythms, his talent for it drew the attention of Fania Records. After signing with them in 1966, Bataan released Gypsy Woman in 1967. (The title track is a Latin dance cover of "Gypsy Woman" by The Impressions). He would, in full, release eight original titles for Fania which included his 2nd hit “Subway Joe”and the gold-selling LP Riot!. These albums often mixed energetic Latin dance songs, sung in Spanish, with slower, English-language soul ballads sung by Bataan himself. As a vocalist, Bataan's fame in the Latin music scene at the time was only rivaled by Ralfi Pagan. 

Disagreements over money with Fania Records head Jerry Masucci led Bataan to eventually leave the label. While still signed to Fania however, Bataan secretly started Ghetto Records, a Latin music label which got its initial funding from a local gangster, George Febo. Bataan produced several albums for other artists, including Papo Felix, Paul Ortiz and Eddie Lebron. 

In 1973, he helped coin the phrase "salsoul", lending its name to his first post-Fania album. Along with the Cayre brothers, Kenneth, Stanley, and Joseph, he co-founded the Salsoul label, though later sold out his interest. He recorded three albums for Salsoul and several singles, including "Rap-O Clap-O" from 1979 which became an early hip hop hit. After his 1981 album, Bataan II, he retired from music-making to spend more time with his family and ended up working as a youth counselor in one of the reformatories he himself had spent time in as a teenager.

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