Alligator Bogaloo

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Alligator Bogaloo

| type = Album

| artist = Lou Donaldson

| cover = Alligator Bogaloo.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 1967[https://books.google.com/books?id=XygEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Lou+donaldson+Boogaloo+4263&pg=RA1-PA48 Billboard Sept 16, 1967]

| recorded = April 7, 1967

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

| genre = Jazz, Soul Blues

| length = 35:38

| label = Blue Note
BST 84263

| producer = Alfred Lion

| chronology = Lou Donaldson

| prev_title = Lush Life

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Mr. Shing-A-Ling

| next_year = 1967

}}

Alligator Bogaloo is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and featuring Donaldson with Melvin Lastie, Lonnie Smith, George Benson, and Leo Morris (later to be better known as Idris Muhammad).[http://www.jazzdisco.org/lou-donaldson/catalog/#blue-note-blp-4263 Lou Donaldson discography] accessed December 8, 2009.

The success of the title track surprised Donaldson: "[W]e made the date and we were three minutes short. I said we don't have no more material. And the guy said just play anything for three minutes so we can fill out the time. So I just made the riff and naturally the guys could follow it. That's the only damn thing that sold on the record."{{cite interview |last=Donaldson |first=Lou |interviewer=Larry Appelbaum |title=Let's Cool One | type="Before & After" | url=https://larryappelbaum.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/before-after-lou-donaldson/ |format=Transcript |work=Portland Jazz Festival |year=2009 |accessdate= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}