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Me and Mongo Santamaria are going foraging for mushrooms this weekend, don't text.

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[now-playing] - mongo santamaria - la bamba - 1965

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Belle Barth meets Mongo Santamaria in Las Vegas

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Poncho Sanchez & Mongo Santamaría - Watermelon Man

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Stanislaw Zagorski artwork for Mongo Santamaria’s album - Mongo ‘70

The Fania All Stars - Yankee Stadium, New York City, August 24, 1973

For your hot August nights in 2023 — a very hot August night in 1973 ... in more ways than one! This Fania All Stars extravaganza must've been an incredibly fun night in the Bronx, a half-century ago this week. A double LP of highlights came out a few years later, as did this somewhat hard-to-come-by documentary. The transfer here on YouTube is not the greatest (it deserves a high-tech cleanup a la the Summer of Soul footage) but that's OK, the footage itself is phenomenal. And hey, we get Geraldo Riviera popping up occasionally to give us some of the finer points of Latin music ... thank you, Geraldo.

Things got fairly wild towards the end of the night, as detailed in Will Hermes classic Love Goes To Buildings On Fire:

"By the time the Fania All-Stars get into their own set, the crowd, which has been prohibited from going onto the field, is getting restless. The band launches into [Larry] Harlow's fire-spitting 'Congo Bongo,' and by the end — with Ray Barretto and Mongo Santamaría dueling furiously on tandem congas, and Billy Cobham, wearing a football jersey, thundering beneath and between the beats, lifting everything skyward — the crowd erupts. They burst past the barricades and swarm out over the field, dancing, cheering, and waving Puerto Rican flags. Jerry Masucci's brother Alex, one of the co-producers, is freaking, because he knows he can kiss that $50,000 deposit on the field adios. He tries to get the orchestra to stop, but they keep pounding it out, Johnny Pacheco conducting wildly in an unbuttoned white dress shirt and stacked heels, hair flying like a crazed Caribbean Beethoven."

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