Foxy - Hot Numbers

This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Hot Numbers, the third studio album from the Latin R&B group Foxy who hailed from Miami, Florida. This 1979 album spent sixteen weeks on the US Billboard Album chart, peaking at number 29. It also went to number 10 on the US Billboard R&B chart.

Foxy was Ish Ledesma (guitar and vocals), Richard Puente (percussion), Charlie Murciano (keyboards), Arnold Paseiro (bass) and Joe Galdo (drums). The group also had some additional help with horns and backing vocals on the album.

OXO - OXO

In 1983, four musicians (three from Orlando, one from Los Angelos) got together to form the dance-rock band OXO. The group was made up of Ish “Angel” Ledesma (former lead singer of Foxy), Orlando Nuñez (guitar), Frank Garcia (bass) and Freddy Alwag (drums).

The group put on out one album in April of 1983 entitled OXO before they broke up a year or so later. That makes it a very rare album, only available on vinyl. Thanks to the Internet, today we will give this one a spin in honor of its thirtieth anniversary.