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Content: This album placed Harlow among the top five 
most popular bandleaders and the LP enjoyed enormous sales. After this, mostly 
every recording of Afro-Cuban rhythms and anything that was exciting in Latin 
music was labeled salsa and the anglo market which had abandoned the music went 
the cha cha cha followed the mambo popularity in 1956, came back into the fold. In Billboard’s magazine June 12, 1976 issue dedicated to Latin music, there was 
a 24 page supplement magazine called “Salsa Explosion.”… If what is written here is accepted as its best 
evidence, then it appears that Jimmy Sabater coined the word salsa to mean 
uptempo Latin music. Cal Tjader’s Soul Sauceand Santana’s Oye Como 
Va gave the salsa movement thrust and its beginning was with the Mexicans in 
San Francisco. But it did not become popular usage until after Latin New York  
magazine used it over and over in its ads and stories and the Fania All Stars 
used it to describe its music outside New York. After that kid kicked the can 
in the opening scene of the movie Our Latin Thing and the wow wow synthesizer of 
Luis Cruz Jr. to Ray Barretto’s Cocinando Suave began to sound and raise goose 
bumps on flesh, did the Salsa explosion detonate. The mushroom cloud fallout 
has been felt around the world.