Goin' Latin

{{Infobox album

| name = Goin' Latin

| type = Studio

| artist = Ramsey Lewis

| cover = Goin' Latin.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 1967{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CykEAAAAMBAJ&dq=ramsey+lewis+goin%27+latin&pg=PT1|title=Reviews|page=80|number=9|volume=79|date=March 4, 1967|publisher=Billboard|via=Google Books}}

| recorded = December 21–23, 1966

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Cadet

| producer = Esmond Edwards

| prev_title = Wade in the Water

| prev_year = 1966

| next_title = The Movie Album

| next_year = 1967

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/goin-latin-mw0000534207|title=Ramsey Lewis: Goin' Latin|author=Jurek, Thom|publisher=Allmusic}}

}}

Goin' Latin is a studio jazz album with Latin percussion and style by Ramsey Lewis which was released by Cadet Records in 1967.{{cite book|title=Ramsey Lewis: Goin' Latin |date=1967 |publisher=Cadet Records}} The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 16 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart.{{cite book|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1967/Billboard%201967-03-25-OCR-Page-0012.pdf#search=%22ramsey%20lewis%20goin%20latin%22 |title=Best Selling Jazz LPs|date=April 22, 1967|page=12|volume=79|issue=16|publisher=Billboard |via=worldradiohistory.com}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=ramsey+lewis+goin%27+latin&pg=PA32|title=Top Selling R&B LPs|date=April 1, 1967 |page=32 |volume=79 |issue=13 |publisher=Billboard|via=Google Books}}

Critical reception

Thom Jurek of Allmusic noted Richard Evans' "arrangements and bottom-heavy soulful sound mix well with Lewis' indulgence in bossa nova, discotheque boogaloo, and Latin soul-lite on this set."

Track listing

=Side 1=

"Hey, Mrs. Jones" (Marion Miller, Robert L. Reagan) 4:01
"Summer Samba" (Marcos Valle, Norman Gimbel, Paulo Sérgio Valle) 3:09
"One, Two, Three" (David White, John Medora, Leonard Borisoff) 3:26
"Free Again" (Joss Baselli, Armand Canfora, Robert Colby, Michel Jourdan) 2:56
"Down by the Riverside" (Traditional; adapted by Esmond Edwards) 3:43

=Side 2=

"Blue Bongo" (Richard Evans) — 4:19
"I'll Wait for You" (Richard Evans) — 3:17
"Function at the Junction" (Edward Holland, Jr., Shorty Long, Lamont Dozier) — 3:04
"Spanish Grease" (Willie Bobo, Melvin Lastie) — 3:11
"Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" [from Doctor Zhivago] (Maurice Jarre, Paul Francis Webster) — 2:36
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi) — 3:12

Charts

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Album –
Year ! Chart ! Position
1967 \| Billboard Soul Albums \| 16
1967 \| Billboard Jazz Albums \| 2
1967 \| Billboard 200 \| 95

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Album –

Year

! Chart

! Position

1967

| Billboard Soul Albums

| 16

1967

| Billboard Jazz Albums

| 2

1967