Here is a complete history of the Latin Soul Show Radio from the beginning since its launch in 1960's with Symphony Sid to its revival in 2005 when Andres Padua relaunches the show on the internet calling the radio station LATIN SOUL SHOW RADIO. Click on the blue links for a few surprises.
December 14th 1909 - Sidney Tornapol AKA Sidney Torin was born lower East Side of New York City.
1940s - Sidney Torin becomes a Jazz Disc Jockey at WBNX in The Bronx. His handle name was Sidney Torin. He was given the moniker "Symphony Sid" from customers where he worked in a record shop called "Symphony Records."
1960s - The Latin Soul Show launches on the radio station WEVD in NYC. Disc Jockey Symphony Sid aired Latin Jazz, Boogaloo, Sweet Latin Soul and Sweet R&B. Symphony Sid was considered a traitor by many including former colleagues of the Jazz Music Industry.
January 25th 1968 - Andres Padua was born in South Bronx of New York City.
1970 - Joe Bataan recorded the opening theme song "Jumpin with Sid." Theme song was only used a couple of months for the opening of the Symphony Sid Show.
1972 - Andres Padua at the age of 5 discovered a promotional test press acetate copy of Joe Acosta's single "I Need Her" owned by his aunt Sonia. Andres fell in love with the Sweet Latin Soul tune "I Need Her." At this point, Andres hated all Hard Salsa Music including Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Celia Cruz, Eddie Palmieri and even Joe Acosta's Salsa Music.
1972 - The Latin Soul Show-Symphony Sid Show went off the air. Fania Records recorded and released the album "The Last Broadcast of Symphony Sid" featuring Willie Colon, Ralfi Pagan, Santos Colon and a host of others. Symphony's last show was broadcasted remotely at the famous Cheetah club.
1982 - While playing with his Atari home video game, Andres was listening to his 45rpm records and accidently placed the wrong side of Joe Acosta's single on his photograph that played the Salsa song "Bendita Illusion" the B side of "I Need Her." Andres was trying to beat his high score and did not switch the song. It was the beginning of Andres becoming fond of Salsa music.
September 14th, 1984 - Radio Disc Jockey Sidney Torin died.
1992 - 1999 Andres and his uncle Enrique decided to repurchase many of his uncle's and aunt's records Andres destroyed during his younger years. He and his uncle also attended many record conventions in New York City in an effort to collect all the records he damaged. Hundreds of records were purchased.
July 18th 2005 - Andres Padua from The Bronx of NYC launched The Latin Soul Show Radio on Live365.com after 34 years of the show's cancellation. The playlist included all of Andres collection including the records he repurchased with his uncle between 1992 - 1999. The playlist only included Sweet Latin Soul, Boogaloo and Chicano Latin Rock.
August 1st 2005 - The Latin Soul Show Radio changed its format and added Doo Wop Ballads, Lowrider R&B Slow Jams and limited Hard Salsa.
August 12th, 2005 - Latin Soul Show launched a single web page at www.copyanydvdforfree.com/latinsoulshow. The Latin Soul Radio did not own their own domain.
August 19th, 2005 - The Latin Soul Show assisted Yoko and Sam with the promotion of Joe Bataan's concert at The Herbst Theatre in San Fransisco, California. Andres Padua recorded a promotional ad for Bataan's concert and aired it through September 2nd, the date of his performance. Sam and Yoko distributed the first Latin Soul Show T-Shirts and flyers at the concert.
August 29th, 2005 - The Latin Soul Show Radio launched their official website WWW.THELATINSOULSHOW.COM
September 5th, 2005 - The Latin Soul show aired an iPOD Contest. The first contest aired.
October 3rd, 2005 - The Latin Soul Show enhanced their format and added classic salsa, descarga, cha cha cha, mambo and guaguanco to their playlist.
November 1st 2005 - Andres Padua decided to close the doors of Latin Soul Show Radio and go off the air due to low listeners. There were only 10 peaked listeners from its 4 months broadcast.
November 16th 2005 - Andres received an email from a stranger name Nick Aguirre who later became the savior of The Latin Soul Show and responsible for the renaming of the station to HARD SALSA RADIO.
December 16th 2005 - Andres received a package from Nick Aguirre with over 500 songs including rare out print Hard Salsa, Sweet Latin Soul and Boogaloo classic tunes.
January 29th, 2006 - Nick Aguirre "Salsa Dura Show" launched on The Latin Soul Show Radio. The Show received rave feedbacks and reviews from listeners. Latin Soul Show radio peaked over 80 listeners during the broadcast and listeners demanded an encore and new future shows.
February 10th 2006 - Andres Padua decided to keep the Latin Soul Show Radio on the air due to improvements on the new format and the increase of listeners. At this time the station was peaking over 200 listeners.
May 5th 2006 - Andres Padua meets his childhood favorite musician and pianist, Joe Acosta. Andres invites Acosta to a lunch meeting to discuss the reissue of Acosta's album he recorded in 1971 on Ghetto Records "The Power of Love," the first album Andres owned when he was the age of 5.
May 10th, 2006 - Andres Padua launches Latin Soul Records in The Bronx of New York City under the advisement of Joe Acosta.
June 15th, 2006 - Latin Soul Records releases their first CD, "Joe Acosta - The Power of Love" remastered by DigiTech. The Power of Love was out of print for 35 years and never reissued. Record Label "Latin Soul Recordings" released their first Latin Soul CD titled "The Sweeter Side of Latin Soul."
June 17th 2006 - Andres meets Eliot Rivera former lead singer for the Lebron Brothers from the 1970s.
July 29th 2006 - Andres meets his favorite childhood Latin Soul vocalist, The King of Latin Soul - Joe Bataan at the Boriqua Festival at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York.
September 2nd 2006 - Andres meets Jerry Hernandez, the lead trombonist for Orquesta Dee Jay at the Salsa Congress in New York City. Jerry Hernandez is now the new leader for La Nueva Orquesta Dee Jay.
September 24th 2006 - Dustin Anthony aka (DJ Duste) from Bombay India debuts on Nick Aguirre's Salsa Dura Show. DJ Duste was the first guest DJ on Nick's Salsa Dura Show. The Latin Soul Show Radio peaked over 300 listeners during the broadcast. This led to other guest DJs featured on Nick Aguirre's Salsa Dura Show.
March 15th 2007 - DJ Duste remixes Joe Acosta's Sweet Latin Soul song " I Need Her."
November 3rd 2007 - At the 4th Annual Record Collectors festival in NYC, Andres meets Dustin Anthony (DJ Duste) and many others including Benny Vargas (Dax Pacem), DJ Tono La Conga and DJ Cuartobate.
January 25th 2008 - On Andres 40th birthday he decided to change the name of the radio station to HARD SALSA RADIO and redesigns and relaunches a new website WWW.HARDSALSA.COM Latin Soul Show's website was not closed.
February 2nd 2008 - Fernando Rivera (King Nando) dies. Hard Salsa Radio goes off the air for a 3-day moment of silence in honor of King Nando.
February 8th 2008 - Hard Salsa Radio launches their myspace page and streams live on myspace.
February 27th 2008 - Local and National Salsa bands began to submit their music to Hard Salsa Radio and also rotated regularly on Hard Salsa Radio including Melina Almodovar, La Orquesta Remembranza, Siglo XXI and many others.
March 19th 2008 - Nick Aguirre's Salsa Dura Show was now being PODcasted.
November 1st 2008 - At the 5th annual record collectors festival in NYC, Andres Padua finally meets the savior of The Latin Soul Show Radio and after working with him for approximately 5 years, NICK AGUIRRE. Andres also meets Tony Rojas (TNT Band), Los Hermanos Colon and Sol.
December 17th 2008 - DJ Carmen Salsera4Ever launches her radio show La Salsa Vive on Hard Salsa Radio.
January 25th 2009 - Andres 41st birthday released the 2nd compilation album SALSA DURA MUNIDAL - WORLDWIDE HARD SALSA featuring the first international Hard Salsa artists that were aired on HARD SALSA RADIO in 2008.
January 30th 2009 - Hard Salsa Radio encores the show Latin Jazz and Salsa with host DJ Speedy Gonzalez
February 15th 2009 - The God Father of Boogaloo Joe Cuba dies at 78.
February 25th 2009 - Andres Padua launches Worldwide Salsa Radio to support independent Romantic Salsa Artist.
March 25th 2009 - Salsa Legend and Timbalero Manny Oquendo dies at 78.
May 10th 2009 - Viejoteca Show with DJ Gury Gury reached 50,000 PODCASTERS.
September 11th 2009 - Andres Padua hosts Mambo Legends Orchestra at club SOBs in New York City.
November 14th 2009 - Andres Padua surprises DJ Speedy Gonzalez with a surprise visit at WMNF 88.5 FM Tampa Florida.
December 25th 2009 - Andres Padua launches The Hard Salsa TV Show on MNN4 and BronxNET television.
January 3rd, 2009 - Hard Salsa TV Show is PODCASTED on iTUNES.
The Time Line-History of Latin Soul and Hard Salsa Radio
