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WEPAwebTV-NEW EDGE THEATER EL EXTREMES ELECTRIC CABARET: AN OVERVIEW Bronx, NYC based New Edge Theater presents contemporary comedic musical theater performances drawn from the many creative influences of pop culture in the United States. It is the direct result of the off center multicultural experiences of the companies dozen core performers led by Nuyorican Playwright/Poet/Creative Anarchist Luis Chaluisan (aka El Extreme) - a former CBS/Telemundo/PBS news reporter/producer turned Theater Director with thirty years experience under his belt.

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    Learning

  • # Episodes

    489 episodes

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    TV-UN

Episodes of WEPAwebTV

    • Play I'll Always Love You Salsa Whitney Houston - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      I'll Always Love You Salsa Whitney Houston

      This is how we choose to remember her. A Brown Beauty Incarnate. http://www.facebook.com/groups/salsamagazine/

      • Release date
        May 15, 2012
      • Runtime
        03:06
    • Play Mr Salsa Presents Joe Bataan salsamagazine Salsa Awards 2012 special report - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Mr Salsa Presents Joe Bataan salsamagazine Salsa...

      I first met Joe Bataan in 1979 at the Salsoul Record Offices as he was preparing his "Mestizo" LP for the Label. The focus of the interview for Latin NY was Bataans work with youth offenders in the prison system. But he allowed me to hear some of the work that was being produced for Mestizo and it was ten steps ahead of the Boogaloo work he had recorded begining in 1967. However, while the canon of boogaloo/Latin soul work subsided in popularity in NYC, Bataan attracted an ever increasing huge...

      • Release date
        May 15, 2012
      • Runtime
        41:03
    • Play Salsa And The Mob: How The DeCavalcante and Genovese Crime Families Stirred The Pot - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Salsa And The Mob: How The DeCavalcante and Geno...

      (1) Gambling, Payola, Loan Sharks and Extortion all helped stoke the fire under the Salsa industry as it developed dating back to the nineteen-forties. It was rumored on the street all throughout the seventies that Fania Reccords was mob controlled. That has never been proven. However, at the same time in the seventies, Allegedly mobbed up Morris Levy leased Tico Records and Alegre (which it purchased in 1966 from Al Santiago) to Fania. In 1988 a Federal jury in Camden, N.J., convicted Levy of...

      • Release date
        May 14, 2012
      • Runtime
        04:29
    • Play Mr Salsa Presents Eddie Palmieri Champagne 1968 salsamagazine.com salsa awards 2012 - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Mr Salsa Presents Eddie Palmieri Champagne 1968 ...

      Eddie Palmieri Champagne Tico 1968 1) Ay Que Rico 2) Medley Delirio/Ese Dia Lluvioso 3) Cinturita 4) Busca Lo Tuyo 5) Twist Africano 6) Palo De Mango 7) Si Las Nenas Me Dejan, Que A transitional recording during a time of rapid societal change, “Champagne” marks the morphing of mambo to salsa in New York City with boogaloo as its bridge. Although mortally criticized by established bandleaders, the industry, and musicians alike, these groups could not afford to ignore this fusion of Latin rhyth...

      • Release date
        May 14, 2012
      • Runtime
        32:45
    • Play The Mystery Of African Twist from Champagne Eddie Palmieri Tico 1968 - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      The Mystery Of African Twist from Champagne Eddi...

      Eddie Palmieri has always said that despite the "African Twist"'s having been a major crossover hit for him (it apparently DID get some airplay on R&B/Soul music stations at the time) he most definitely did NOT approve of the Boogaloo style--something which, apparently, his brother Charlie also felt the same way about. However, if you're going to do a Boogaloo then take it to th limit and Palmieri certainly does it in African Twist Blending a Motown Groove with a Latino Swing. Champagne was a ...

      • Release date
        May 13, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:46
    • Play Soul Seed: My 45 RPM Record Album from 1969 (Luis Chaluisan: El Extreme Al Mahdi) - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Soul Seed: My 45 RPM Record Album from 1969 (Lui...

      We use to buy 45's at Palomba's Academy Of Music 974 E Gun Hill Rd and at the local supermarket After moving to the Bronx in 1963. My cousin Angel Chaluisan also gave me a stack of 45's in 1968 he no longer wanted which launched me on a buying binge which lasted through 1984 when I donated the bulk of my 18,000+ LP/45/78 collection spanning from Soul Music through 1984 Rap-HipHop/Disco/Salsa to Bowling Green State University Music Library-Pop Culture Department. Contents of 1969 45 Album "Baby...

      • Release date
        May 13, 2012
      • Runtime
        55:09
    • Play Mr Salsa Presents La Maxima De Puerto Rico Mothers Day Special Concert - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Mr Salsa Presents La Maxima De Puerto Rico Mothe...

      Featuring: EL ALACRAN and 1. abuelito 2. aqui llegue 3. internet 4. llego la maxima 5. ritmo inigualable 6. zandunguera 7. zun zun babae More Than A Mother When God set the world in place, when He hung the stars up in space, when He made the land and the sea, then He made you and me. He sat back and saw all that was good, He saw things to be as they should. Just one more blessing He had in store; He created a mother, but whatever for? He knew a mother would have a special place to shine His re...

      • Release date
        May 12, 2012
      • Runtime
        35:35
    • Play Mr Salsa Presents Willie Colon Lo Mato 1973 Fania salsamagazine.com salsa awards 2012 special report - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Mr Salsa Presents Willie Colon Lo Mato 1973 Fani...

      1. Senora Lola 3:23 2. Todo Tiene Su Final 5:03 3. La Maria 3:35 4. Junio 73 7:10 5. Calle Luna Calle Sol 3:48 6. Voso 4:25 7. El Dia De Suerte 5:28 8. Guajira Ven 4:08 Willie Colon was an architect of the Fania sound. His partnership with Hector Lavoe on vocals has left a lasting legacy on the genre of salsa. Colon was also a composer as well as a producer and trombonist. Originally released in 1973, this classic features both men at their peak. From beginning to end the tracks are layered wi...

      • Release date
        May 12, 2012
      • Runtime
        37:10
    • Play Mr Salsa Presents Eddie Palmieri Sentido salsamagazine.com salsa awards 2012 hall of fame recording - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Mr Salsa Presents Eddie Palmieri Sentido salsama...

      Sentido 1973 No other Salsa album has had the creative impact the impact on me as the Sentido LP by Eddie Palmieri. I bought it along with the Willie Colon album "Lo Mato" in a little record shop on Gun Hill Road that had a simple sign that said "Salsa Record Shop" near Montefiore Hospital on September 27th, 1973 with money my parents gave me for my birthday that same day. I beloved the music of Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe but I fell in love with Palmieri's compositions. We had just finished...

      • Release date
        May 11, 2012
      • Runtime
        30:27
    • Play Palante Premiere Show Nov 15, 1975 Amherst College La Causa - WEPAwebTV on Blip WEPAwebTV episodes on Blip

      Palante Premiere Show Nov 15, 1975 Amherst Colle...

      My high school friends (15 in all split 8 women/7 men) and I formed the Adoracion Dance Company with my brother Ron and his friends in May 1974 presenting a combination cabaret show (comedy skits to open for 15 minutes/choreographed pieces to close for a half hour). We performed Salsa, Hustle, Swing and African dance numbers. And we had a small quintet of writers drawn from the Cardinal Hayes School Newspaper who created original material the group . These inluded . John Russell (future PHd Ha...

      • Release date
        May 10, 2012
      • Runtime
        49:17
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