Track 1. I Can Dig It Baby 8:44
Ines Bergara, lead vocal
Hugo Fattoruso piano, keyboards,voice
Felix Pastorius, electric bass

Track 2. Para Candombear 3:00
Washington Pintos lead vocal
Anibal Pintos piano
Apolo “Popo” Romano electric bass
Hugo Fattoruso keyboards

Tracks One & Two percussionists
Fernando “Lobo” Nunez, Gustavo Oviedo, Walter “Nego” Haedo, Jorge “Foque” Gomez,
Washington Pintos, Noe Nunez, Mariano Barroso, Pablo “Pirana” Silva

Tracks One & Two chorus
Maiana Garcia Vigil, Silvana Lombardini, Gabriela Gomez, Norma Galfetti,
Urbano Moraes, Gustavo Montemurro, Carlos Quintana, Cesar Martinez, Marcello Irabarne

Willie "Little Beaver" Hale 'I Can Dig It Baby' (featuring Jaco Pastorius) 1974 In the year 1974, Florida based soulman-extraordinaire Willie Hale released, on the Cat label, the album Party Down. The personnel included Willie "Little Beaver" Hale (electric guitar, lead vocal), Robert "Governor" Ferguson (drums, percussion), Latimore and Timmy Thomas (keyboards), Glen "Zeke" Holmes, Willie Clarke (percussion), Betty Wright (additional vocals). Of the seven tunes on the LP, the bass playing is credited to four, George "Chocolate" Perry, Ron Gordon, "Little Beaver", and one Nelson "Jocko" Padron.

One track in particular, track number one on the B Side of this LP, composed by Willie Hale, Betty Wright, and (producer, engineer) Willie Clarke, has gained much attention through the years, that tune being "I Can Dig It Baby". The reason, is quite simple to understand. The bass player, credited as Nelson "Jocko" Padron, called in to lay down the bass on this track, was mistakenly credited, when in fact his name was actually John Francis Pastorius III "Jaco", who laid down that unmistakable groove. "I Can Dig It Baby" was, to the best of anyone's knowledge, at about 23 years of age, Jaco's first studio release as a sessionman.

Grupo del Cuareim - 'I Can Dig It Baby' (featuring Felix Pastorius) 2003 Including Hugo Fattoruso (arranger, acoustic piano, keyboards, voice), 8 percussionists, a vocal chorus consisting of five women and five men, the basic track was recorded in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1999. In 2000, Hugo departed Montevideo, I departed New York with tape in-hand, Felix Pastorius (one of Jaco's two twin sons, Julius the other) left his home with bass in-hand, and all converged on a Florida recording studio, where Felix, then 17, on this, his first studio release as a sessionman, laid down his groove. After all has been said and done, only one question remains, "can you dig it?"

Candombe      Hugo Fattoruso      Felix Pastorius

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