SALSA RAREST ORQUESTA DEE JAY: MGM DJ ('70) HEAR

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A SALSA TREASURE!!! Lo Que Estoy Poniendo Es CREMA!!!

REMARKS:THIS IS AN ORIGINAL SUPER HARD TO FIND (DJ COPY...RAREST!!HAS NEVER BEEN REISSUED)..MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) was a giant record label and one of the big 3 movie studios. They recorded some goodies and even started a short lived division...MGM-Latino (like United Artists), but they were not interested in promoting ($$$) and distributing those great "gems" that is why there are collector's items. Why Rafael De Jesus (Dee Jay) took their great band to MGM? They even have Ralph Lew (one of the early salsa giants..Cotique) as producer...well I don't know, I got this treasure!!! 

PURE SALSA & BOOGALOO!!!!

REMARKS: READ!!!

ORQUESTA DEE JAY

"This is great. Finally I found it on CD after all these years. I grew up with Orquesta Dee Jay. Hanged out with the group as we hanged out where they practice (De Jesus Bridal Shop - where literally Dona Paula was making wedding gowns) Those good all days. This is truly good old 70's Salsa. Hope to see their other albums (I think they had two others)on CD. Gracias CD Baby!!!! Awesome music. Brings Backs memories."

George Jesus put together what I believe still to be one of the strongest orquestas we've heard from the 70's. Both their lps ' Pa'lante Con La Orquesta Dee Jay ' & the recently remastered cd release of ' Forget It' on LatinSoul Records has fantastic strong arrangements.

A Web Review for their 2nd LP (pressed on the Lewgas label)…..(This one MGM, their rarest 1st LP has not being reissued)

“Finally after 35 years out of print, for the first time on CD, the swinging orquesta that performed all over New York City including The Village Gate, Hunts Point Palace...La  Orquesta Dee Jay.

Bandleader and founder George De Jesus began a rock band in the mid 1960’s called The Ravens that had a similar style of music much like the Beatles. Latin music especially in the Salsa genre was becoming more popular in the late 60’s. As a result, in 1968 George started one of the most swingin’ Latin bands with some of the youngest musicians in the Latin Music industry called Orchestra Dee Jay. They had the crowds swingin’ and dancing to their vibrant New York sound. The band performed in all the famous NYC nightclubs including The Cheetah, The Psycho Room and “The Village Gate” which only featured headliners. In addition to their great performances on the New York Club scene, the group also appeared on the Miguelito Valdez TV show. While in the army, George’s fellow soldiers had difficulties pronouncing his last name “De Jesus” so they nicknamed him Dee Jay. Cuban Latin music producer Ralph Lew who spoke English came on board and formed a Spanish name for the group “La Dee Jay” which was derived from “La Orquesta Dee Jay.” Musicians from top performing bands such as Alfredo (Chocolate) Armenteros called them “La Dee Jay”. Although most of the band members with the exception of George De Jesus were born in New York City they loved the idea of keeping the group name in Spanish even though they could not speak Spanish well. The band was not into the Boogaloo craze and wanted to keep their music as typical as possible. In order to conform to record companies’ request, “Black Shadow” was created and this was the only Boogaloo tune recorded by this hard-hitting Salsa band. One may not notice Black Shadow’s opening has a slight arrangement from the theme song to the science fiction movie “2001 Space Odyssey.” Their  first LP recorded in 1970 on MGM Latino “Pa 'Alante Con La Orquesta Dee Jay” (Straight Ahead with Orq. Dee Jay) was a big hit for the group. Approximately a year later, another masterpiece album was created called “Forget it” on Lewgas Records. The sweet Latin Soul tune and the title track of the LP “Forget it” written by Armando Manzanero and sang by the late trombonist and vocalist “Joe Rivera” never peaked to a top ten position on the Latin American Hit Parade Billboard. However once you listen to the sweet velvet sound of Joe Rivera with his stunning English soulful lyrics, backed up with La Orquesta Dee Jay’s Latin ballad arrangement, one can not imagine why this single “Forget it” never peaked to number one or made it to the top ten. Orquesta Dee Jay was a unique band who did not put any of their music on paper. Their music was original and arrangements were created from jam sessions they had before rehearsals in the basement of De Jesus Bridal shop. “If it sounds good and it’s swingin’, the heck with it, let’s record it” said George De Jesus. Orquesta Dee Jay only recorded two smashing hit albums in the 1970’s. Thanks to the research and promotions done by Jerry Hernandez on the Internet with various salsa web sites such as The LatinSoulShow.com & La Voz del Mambo.com, this remarkable band once again is starting to gain popularity with the Dance and Classic Salsa community in South America, Europe and other parts of the globe with their swingin’ classics. Will we ever in our generation witness a reunion of this incredible Salsa Dura Band known as “La Orquesta Dee Jay?”

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