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THE LATIN BLUES BAND Take a Trip Pussycat LUIS AVILES Speed Records VINYL LP

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THE LATIN BLUES BAND Featuring LUIS AVILES TAKE A TRIP PUSSYCAT

Speed Records was started in 1966 by Stan Lewis and Morty Craft

Lewis had worked for George Goldner’s Cotique label
before heading out on his own

Louis Avilés and The Latin Blues Band
were backed by session players in the New York
scene most notably Bernard Purdie on drums

For their third album they were re-named The Moon People

Produced by Louie Ramírez

Lyrics by Bobby Marin

Vocals by Frankie Delgado and Luis Aviles

"I'll Be a Happy Man" was later released
as "Happy Soul (With a Hook)" by Dave Cortez with the Moon People

and Hippy, Skippy, Moon Strut (Opus #1)
minus the Dave Cortez organ part

Christina Aguilera sampled The Moon People's
"Hippy, Skippy, Moon Strut (Opus #1)" on "Ain't No Other Man."

TRACK TITLES
TAKE A TRIP

PUSSYCAT

(ILL BE A) HAPPY MAN

LAY AN OZ ON ME BABY

HASTA CUANDO

OYE MI GUAGUANCO

RUMBA CON GUAGUANCO

PURA FALSEDAD

THE COW (S. Lewis, L. Ramirez)

SPEED RECORDS 101

Limited-edition, high-quality vinyl LP reissue

NEW & SEALED!

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