1975

In 1975, they recorded the album 1975 - RICARDO RAY & BOBBY CRUZ (Vaya VS-33), which included the songs Gan gan and Gon gon, Richie Ray 1975 and Dónde está mi negra?, compositions by Richie and Bobby; Cristóbal Celai, by Roberto Angleró; Mi mayoral; Jesús en el jardín by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber; and two songs that placed Johann Sebastian Bach in Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Juan Sebastián Fuga and Mi amigo Juan. Ricardo Ray is without a doubt the salsa musician who came closest to the so-called "Classics" with undoubted mastery and success. He made phenomenal arrangements of Frederic Chopin's piano scholars in his famous Sonido Bestial, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in “Nabucodonosor” and of course his genius in bringing the counterpoint and Fugue music of Johann Sebastian Bach to salsa in a majestic arrangement of polyphonies and salsa toccatas performed on his LP titled 1975 that hardly any other salsa musician could do.