Doo-wop, boogaloo, Latin soul and other Afro/Latin/American mutants

Doo-Wop
Seminal New York City doo-woppers Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers

From left to right, Jimmy Merchant, Herman Santiago, Frankie Lymon, Joe Negroni, and Sherman Garnes. Negroni and Santiago were Puerto Rican; Merchant, Lymon and Garnes African-American.

Boogaloo: "Cha-cha-chá with a backbeat"(1966-'68)
The quote is from the late Prof. Juan Flores, in an important chapter in his book From Bomba to Hip Hop, reproduced here.

From the documentary I Like It Like That 

Musically, boogaloo was piano vamps and percussion patterns from mambo and cha-cha-chá with soul music's backbeat, plus Spanglish lyrics, and a brash and youthful rock n' roll spirit.
 

Joe Cuba's "Bang Bang" (don't let the false end at 2:45 fool you!). Keep an eye out for the timbales.

Joe Cuba's previous hit, "El Pito (I'll Never Go Back to Georgia)" (which gets some of its DNA from a famous predecessor we've seen in this class before).

Pete Rodríguez "I Like It Like That."  The bassline is essentially borrowed from Peggy Lee's "Fever" and some of the lyrics from Chris Kenner's 1961 "I Like it Like That."

  

Héctor Rivera "At the Party"

Johnny Colon's "Boogaloo Blues"

Proto-boogaloo

Noro Morales' before-its-time "Mississippi Mambo"

Ray Barretto's "El Watusi." (Bonus: LA R&B group The Orlons' "Wah-Wahtusi" with some pretty awesome video of the original Watusi dance). Willie Torres' "To Be with You". Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz "Lookie Lookie",  "Mr. Trumpet Man", and "Colombia's Boogaloo"
(Based in part on the Anglo Californian Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, especially "Whipped Cream" and "Lonely Bull")

Boogaloo travels:
Boogaloo by boogaloo-hater Eddie Palmieri : "Ay Que Rico", featuring Cachao on bass and Cheo Feliciano singing) and "The African Twist" (in English)
From Puerto Rico (not New York) "Gran Combo's Boogaloo"

Boogaloo, Latin Soul, and other Black-Latino fusions

African-American Latin Soul:

Willie Bobo "Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries"

Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers "Got Myself a Good Man"

Cuban and Puyerto Rican Latin Soul:
Mongo Santamaría's "Watermelon Man" King Nando: "Fortuna" (from the LP "Orchard Beach Sing-a-ling")

Lebrón Blues: "Funky Blues"

Afro-Filipino-Nuyorican Joe Bataan in a category of his own
 "Gypsy Woman", "What Good Is a Castle",  "Ordinary Guy"

Nuyorican rock?

Barrio Band 1971

(In Puerto Rico itself, salsa- and rock-lovers would end up being opposing sub-cultures)