The Best of Tito Puente & His Orchestra, Volume 1
Tito Puente
1992: RCA 3369-2-RL
Of course I’d heard Tito Puente’s work before I bought this CD—it’s almost impossible to not have heard SOMETHING of his, with over 100 albums issued—but it was “Mambo Gozón” which finally hooked me. I first heard it at the Canterbury (on top of Capitol Hill in Seattle), where the waitress was alleviating the boredom of a slow night by playing it a few times in a row on the jukebox.
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