# Radio  Espantoso!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-espantoso/204463>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 29, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-espantoso/204463 "2003-09-29T13:09:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-espantoso/204463/1 "2003-09-29T13:09:54Z")

</div>

The more I listen to this CD the more I love it.

But I’ve got some questions-- I listened to Salsa in the '80s but it was mostly, no totally, the Fania Allstars (El Gran Combo, Willie Colon, Celia Cruz. . .) and the only artist I recognize on the CD is Tito Puente.

Are these songs really all from the '80s? Does anyone know if the original albums are out on CD? I’m most interested in: Deodato, Cachao and Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra.

And just to prove that all my taste can be found directly on my tongue-- my absolute favorite song on the whole entire Vice City CD set is Unaesta’s La Vida es Una Lenteja

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radio-espantoso/204463/2 "2003-09-29T14:28:15Z")

</div>

They’re not from the 80’s. I’m pretty sure, don’t have the album here, there’s a track by Beny More and he died in the 60’s. I’m also pretty sure that Machito was not recording in the 80’s. But I think the concept is that these are songs played on Radio Espantoso in the 80’s, and that would’ve included songs recorded previously.