Goin' Latin

Goin' Latin
Studio album by
Ramsey Lewis
ReleasedFebruary 1967
RecordedDecember 21–23, 1966
GenreJazz
LabelCadet
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Ramsey Lewis chronology
Wade in the Water
(1966)		 Goin' Latin
(1967)		 The Movie Album
(1967)
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Goin' Latin is a studio jazz album with Latin percussion and style by Ramsey Lewis which was released by Cadet Records in 1967. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 16 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart.

Critical reception

Thom Jurek of Allmusic noted Richard Evans' "arrangements and bottom-heavy soulful sound mix well with Lewis' indulgence in bossa nova, discotheque boogaloo, and Latin soul-lite on this set."

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Hey, Mrs. Jones" (Marion Miller, Robert L. Reagan) 4:01
  2. "Summer Samba" (Marcos Valle, Norman Gimbel, Paulo Sérgio Valle) 3:09
  3. "One, Two, Three" (David White, John Medora, Leonard Borisoff) 3:26
  4. "Free Again" (Joss Baselli, Armand Canfora, Robert Colby, Michel Jourdan) 2:56
  5. "Down by the Riverside" (Traditional; adapted by Esmond Edwards) 3:43

Side 2

  1. "Blue Bongo" (Richard Evans) — 4:19
  2. "I'll Wait for You" (Richard Evans) — 3:17
  3. "Function at the Junction" (Edward Holland, Jr., Shorty Long, Lamont Dozier) — 3:04
  4. "Spanish Grease" (Willie Bobo, Melvin Lastie) — 3:11
  5. "Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" [from Doctor Zhivago] (Maurice Jarre, Paul Francis Webster) — 2:36
  6. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) — 3:12

Charts

Year Chart Position
1967 Billboard Soul Albums 16
1967 Billboard Jazz Albums 2
1967 Billboard 200 95
Year Single Chart Position
1967 "One, Two, Three" Billboard Hot 100 67

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Reviews. Vol. 79. Billboard. March 4, 1967. p. 80 – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. "Ramsey Lewis: Goin' Latin". Allmusic.
  3. 1 2 3 Ramsey Lewis: Goin' Latin. Cadet Records. 1967.
  4. 1 2 Best Selling Jazz LPs (PDF). Vol. 79. Billboard. April 22, 1967. p. 12 – via worldradiohistory.com.
  5. 1 2 Top Selling R&B LPs. Vol. 79. Billboard. April 1, 1967. p. 32 – via Google Books.