''Lo Mato (Si No Compra Este LP)'', in English: "I'll kill him. (If you don't buy this LP)", is the eighth studio album of

Willie Colón William Anthony Colón Román (born April 28, 1950) is a Puerto Rican and American Salsa musician and social activist. He began his career as a trombonist but also sings, writes, produces and acts. Colón was a pioneer of Salsa music and a be ...

Héctor Lavoe Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez (September 30, 1946 – June 29, 1993), better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican salsa music, salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa’s most important and influential vocalist ...

issued in 1973 by

Fania Records Fania Records is a New York City, New York–based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and his American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964 in music, 1964. The label took its name from a popular luncheonette fre ...

. It was the fourth of Colón and Lavoe's records to go gold, after Cosa Nuestra (1970), La Gran Fuga (1971), and El Juicio (1972). The cover shows a variant of the National Lampoon, January 1973 cover '' If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog''.Pablo Yglesias - 2005 ''Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art'' p 113 156898460X "Taken as a unit, Colon's early album covers trace a cinematic trajectory of the Latino as criminalized outlaw, starting with ... (La Gran Fuga) and trial (El Juicio), and finally culminating with the artist as a hostage-taking terrorist (Lo mato). " The man being held up on the cover, while reversing the roles with Willie on the floor on the reverse, was José R. Padrón.

Track listing

#"Señora Lola" #"Todo Tiene Su Final" #"La María" #"Junio 73" #"Calle Luna, Calle Sol" #"Voso" #"El Día De Mi Suerte" #"Guajira Ven"

Personnel

* Composer - C. Alonso Curet * Composer - E. "Chino" de Padrón * Trombone - Eric Matos * Linear Notes - Ernesto Lechner * Composer, Vocals - Héctor Lavoe * Producer - Jerry Masucci * Piano - Joe Torres * Choir/Chorus, Recording Director - Johnny Pacheco * Engineer - Jon Fausty * Bongos - Jose Mangual Jr. * Model - José R. Padrón * Choir/Chorus - Justo Betancourt * Timbales - Louis Romero * Congas - Milton Cardona * Design - Ron Levine * Bass - Santi González * Choir/Chorus, Composer, Primary Artist, Producer, Trombone - Willie Colón

References

{{Authority control 1973 albums Willie Colón albums Héctor Lavoe albums