Man, I just heard a Joe Cuba song, "Gimme Some Love" so I revisited some other stuff and it hit me. The Joe Cuba Sextet was like a Latin version of Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. Hear me out here. Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts were essentially a frat house circuit band. All sorts of sexual innuendos and puns. Their records were like a soul/r&b version of a Rusty Warren record. "Panty Raid", "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box", "Double Stroke of My Twelve Inch Pet", song titles like that. For his part, though not in frat houses, Cuba and his conveniently named Sextet, did "Bang Bang", "Push Push Push" and "Pud-Da-Din", and like Clark and the Nuts, there was often no lead singer, just a bunch of guys hollering in unison. That gets the guys riled up. You know, like a Sham 69 audience. But Cuba did tamer stuff as well, He was like some sort of link between Ray Barretto and the Hot Nuts. Whatever, that's what ran in my head.
Joe Cuba Sextet - Bang, Bang mp3 at LP Cover Lover
Joe Cuba Sextet - Push, Push, Push (streaming) at YouTube
Joe Cuba Sextet - Pud-Da-Din mp3 at Super Sonido
Jose Cuba Sextet - Gimme Some Love mp3 at Art Decade
Joe Cuba Sextet - Ooh Ah! mp3 at Super Sonido
Joe Cuba Sextet - Una Nenita mp3 at Soul Sides Go there to get it.
Joe Cuba Sextet - You Better Believe It mp3 at Groove Addict
Joe Cuba - Around the World mp3 at Groove Addict
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