Alligator Bogaloo

Alligator Bogaloo
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1967
RecordedApril 7, 1967
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz, Soul Blues
Length35:38
LabelBlue Note
BST 84263
ProducerAlfred Lion
Lou Donaldson chronology
Lush Life
(1967)
Alligator Bogaloo
(1967)
Mr. Shing-A-Ling
(1967)

Alligator Bogaloo is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and featuring Donaldson with Melvin Lastie, Lonnie Smith, George Benson, and Leo Morris (later to be better known as Idris Muhammad).

The success of the title track surprised Donaldson: "[W]e made the date and we were three minutes short. I said we don't have no more material. And the guy said just play anything for three minutes so we can fill out the time. So I just made the riff and naturally the guys could follow it. That's the only damn thing that sold on the record."