Thursday, June 25, 2009

LOCO!

I heard this song on the radio yesterday, and I just love it. It's El Loco Cha Cha by René Touzet. Those horns!! It also fits into my semi-obsession with making musical connections, and discovering the origins of music we take at face value as "american" because it's Cuban, but can you guess which well-known and oft-recorded song it predated?

Here's a hint...

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6 comments:

Blimpy said...

"Fight The Power" by Public Enemy ?

June 25, 2009 at 9:37 PM
BalearicBeat said...

Haha! Close, but no cigar, Blimpy ;-)

I didn't know that either, but it's clearly an earlier version of The Kingsmen's Louie Louie. Well I never. Good spot, steenbeck.

June 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM
steenbeck said...

You got it, BaBe! For the record, I guessed Wild Thing.

WHere the &&^%$%&*(*)())_) is RR?

June 26, 2009 at 12:13 AM
BalearicBeat said...

For some reason, that was a massive record in Manchester in the late 70s/early 80s, as here immortalised in celluloid in 24 Hour Party People:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r48DCMYXXtU

June 27, 2009 at 1:42 AM
BalearicBeat said...

For some reason, that was a massive record in Manchester in the late 70s/early 80s, as here immortalised in celluloid in 24 Hour Party People:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r48DCMYXXtU

June 27, 2009 at 1:42 AM
nilpferd said...

I really enjoyed the brass on this steen, thanks. Made me look out an album by (guess where they're from) Cubanismo, who present me with a dilemma as they are playing their first ever German gig in Stuttgart on July 18..

June 27, 2009 at 10:30 PM

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