Oscar D'Leon - Yo Quisera
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Artist:Oscar D' Leon
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Track:Yo Quisera
I helped found a community run non-commercial radio station, KZUM, in the late 70's. My friend Carlos Siso always played Oscar D'Leon's music on his Sunday afternoon program there.Carlos was Venezuelan and couldn't get a radio license from the FCC so I was his engineer.Oscar's salsa band was killin' then like the band that plays for this video, and Oscar always sounded this good when he sang. I'm very happy to find that he's retained his vitality as he's aged.That seems to be the conceit of this video. Oscar's the bald gentleman with moustache doing all of the exercises in the video while he sings.There's lot to love in this music: the salsa rhythm players, the interplay between the screaming trumpets and the trombones, the pianist's driving rhythm, the way the band sings a refrain over and over in the middle and Oscar improvises a response for every rep.
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Incidentally, are you familiar with the documentary called "Calypso at Dirty Jim's" where you find out how calypso was more subversive than people would think? When you watch/read the story behind "Rum & Coca-Cola" (a song about mother and daugthers have to prostitute themselves during the US "occupation" of Trinidad), you hear another accent in The Andrews Sister's hit.