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Champagne

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When Eddie's La Perfecta put out a boogaloo record everybody thought they had just fallen prey to the latest fad. How wrong!!! This is the best, baddest and hardest swinging boogaloo record that you can put your hands on! And is much more than that... With the addition of Chocolate Armenteros on trumpet, Israel Lopez "Cachao" on bass and Cheo Feliciano singing "Ay que Rico" and "Busca lo tuyo" La Perfecta expands and blows everyone away! This is another of Eddie's classics. "Cinturita" is in my opinion the best boogaloo ever recorded. Listen to it and you'll agree with me. Add to that Arsenio Rodriguez' "Si las nenas me dejan" with Barry Rogers playing the tres and with Chocolate's amazing trumpet and you get the perfect blend of the new and the traditional.

Great album from the days of good salsa music. Here you have Cheo Feliciano (of Joe Cuba Sexttet fame) and Ismael Quintana sharing the vocal duties, while Eddie & Co. blow the house down.

A couple of boogaloos (Ay Que Rico, Cinturita, Palo de Mango), with some guaguanco (Busca Lo Tuyo and Yo No Engaño A Las Nenas) and a throw-away twist (African Twist).

This one also has a really cool cover. Get it for the boogaloo and guaguanco, skip the twist. You will really dig it!!

Because it's big hit was the "African Twist" boogaloo, many people failed to realize just how good this album is. While not as well-known, the ultra-hot "Busca Lo Tuyo", "Cinturita" and "Ay, Que Rico" are the real reasons for getting this classic CD. Interstingly enough, Eddie Palmieri always said that despite the "African Twist"'s having been a major crossover hit for him (it apparently DID get some airplay on R&B/Soul music stations at the time) he most definitely did NOT approve of the Boogaloo style--something which, apparently, his brother Charlie also felt the same way about. While not as riveting as most of his other Tico albums, "Champagne" is a near-classic from Eddie Palmieri's vast catalog. Enjoy!

Champagne es sin duda una rareza dentro del largo listado de albumes de Palmieri. Mostrando una versatilidad incomparable se deja tentar por el ritmo que por el momento era el boom... el boogaloo. Aca en Colombia se goza CINTURITA subiendo el pitch del tiempo de la cancion, exigiendo aun más al bailador. Que sabrosura!!!
CD recomendadísimo

Eddie Palmieri has been compared to the Greatful Dead, obviously not in style or in the type of music played but in the devotion and cliqueness of his followers. To be a Palmieri fan meant that you knew what was really hip and true. Other bands came and went but Palmieri fans always knew that his albums were something else. New, refrehsing but at the same time true to the origins and conventions of primordial Salsa.
People stationed in Vietnam in the late sixties and early seventies would swear by this album, for some it was there conection to Puerto Rico, New York or whatever other Latin venue they came from, ( or if they were non Latino from whatever Latin venue they had hanged out.)
The only other Palmieri album which could rival this one in Quality and influence and pure "dancefulnes" is Superimposition.
If you want to hear sone of the best "Salsa Gorda" or Heavy Salsa from the good old days which sounds better every day these two are it!