The Latin Blues Band

American group from New York. Originally known as The Latin Blues Band featuring [a=Luis Aviles], for their third album they were renamed to Los Astronautas or – in English – the [a=Moon People]. Their best known track was originally called "(I'll Be A) Happy Man", released in 1968 on the Latin Blues Band's "Take A Trip Pussycat" album. It was later re-released on the [a=Moon People] album "Land Of Love" as "The Happy Soul". Subsequently, "The Happy Soul" was edited and overdubbed with organ solos by [a=Dave "Baby" Cortez] and released as "Happy Soul (With A Hook)". In 1969 yet another [a=Moon People] re-edit of this track titled "Hippy, Skippy, Moon Strut (Opus #1)" was released on Roulette. The [a=Christina Aguilera] song "Ain't No Other Man" produced by [a=DJ Premier] uses samples from "Hippy, Skippy, Moon Strut".