S.O.D. "Loco de Amor" by David Byrne, Johnny Pacheco and Celia Cruz

4/21/2016     There are many songs with this title, sometimes of a slightly different spelling but all meaning the same thing: Crazy For Love.  Written by former Talking Heads front man David Byrne and Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco with some incredible singing by Celia Cruz, it comes off the album by Byrne, "Rei Momo" under the genres of Latin, worldbeat, and alternative rock.  

     Cruz is no longer with us and was internationally renowned as the Queen of salsa and Latin music.  She is worth checking out.  Johnny Pacheco is a 1935 born Dominican musician, composer and record producer who is a very influential figure of Latin and Cuban music and is well known for creating the Fania All Stars and coining the genre, salsa.  "Loco de Amor" also appears as the #1 track on the 1986 film "Something Wild" starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta which is also worth checking out.