Career

He was the leader and pianist of a Puerto Rican Boogaloo band from The Bronx in the mid-1960s, sometimes known as Pete Rodríguez y Su Conjunto. The band"s most successful song, "I Like lieutenant Like That", made it to the national Billboard charts and has since been covered several times including by the Blackout All-Stars. lieutenant was re-recorded by lead singer and composer Tony Pabón for the soundtrack of the 1994 movie I Like lieutenant Like That and received renewed exposure as the soundtrack to the main ident at Odeon Cinemas from 1998–2003.