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1 posted on 10/11/2022 7:18:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Great musician. I don’t hold being in a Google Doodle against him!


2 posted on 10/11/2022 7:20:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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Tito Puente - Oye Como Va (Video Oficial)
3 posted on 10/11/2022 7:24:29 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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โ€œY'know, one day, Tito Puente will be dead, and you'll say, "Oh, yes, I've been listening to his work for years."

4 posted on 10/11/2022 7:25:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Wow have not heard his name in years


5 posted on 10/11/2022 7:34:12 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: nickcarraway

Never heard of him.


6 posted on 10/11/2022 7:40:08 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: nickcarraway
My favorite Tito Puente tune, kind of a mellow cross between "Oye Como Va" and "Airegin:

Tito Puente - Cha Cha Cha

7 posted on 10/11/2022 8:21:05 PM PDT by fidelis (๐Ÿ‘ˆ Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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I saw Tito Puente and Celia Cruz at the Blue note in โ€˜92 or โ€˜93, I donโ€™t remember. They were separately great and greater together. My thought at the time was that wished Iโ€™d seen them fifteen years earlier, when they must have been at their peak.


8 posted on 10/11/2022 8:30:12 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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. . . And Variety can’t even spell Nuyorican, rendering it “Nuyroican” (sic).


9 posted on 10/11/2022 8:38:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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10 posted on 10/11/2022 9:17:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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I met Him once. A very nice man.


11 posted on 10/11/2022 9:24:45 PM PDT by Hildy
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12 posted on 10/11/2022 9:28:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Where’s the part where he marries a funny red head?


13 posted on 10/11/2022 10:12:52 PM PDT by IDFbunny (Fat shaming works.)
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