Symphony Sid's Last Radio Broadcast (FANIA)

[JSngry]

Anybody ever heard this? Or Symphony Sid doing any Latin broadcasts? I've hear of them, but have never actually heard any of them. Just wondering.

http://www.dustygroove.com/item/49992

Beautiful, baby! Symphony Sid was one of the pivotal Latin DJs in New York radio, and throughout his career, he helped many of the city's best players and singers get their start on the scene. In 1972, Sid did his last radio show ever – and the event was broadcast from the famous Cheetah night club, with the help of a host of famous Latin music guest stars like Willie Colon, Willie Rosario, Ray Baretto, Orchestra Harlow, and others! This 2LP captures all the excitement of that broadcast, and has Sid rapping his usual rap in between songs, just as he did on radio. The release is an amazing way to sneak a peek into the NY Latin scene as it really existed, and since it's a double LP set, you get a huge amount of great material, put together and introduced by one of the greatest figures in the business. Very nice, and a priceless treasure!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

pretty awesome. its kinda like the bee gees going disco. would love to hear this. no idea he was into this scene but its kind of funny to me its on FANIA cause i recently got this lp on fania, orchestra harlow, from 1972....in stock copy mono!! STOCK copy!!!

[sgcim]

I was still a kid and had just discovered Sid on WEVD, but he was playing all latin music instead of the jazz that I expected.

I'm pretty sure that I phoned in when he was taking requests on that last broadcast, and asked him to play Tal Farlow.

He said, "Larry Harlow? You got it." He then proceeded to play some Larry Harlow cut that I couldn't give a shit about.