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By O-Dub 
Los Freddy’s: Vuelve Mi Amor (Never My Love)
From 7″ (Peerless, 196?)
Los Xochimilcas: Y La Amo (And I Love Her)
From Cumbias y Dengues (Eco, 196?)
I recently got the Los Freddy’s in…I always did love the original version by The Association and the Los Freddy’s pull off a pretty loyal cover musically. I could be wrong but doesn’t this sound like a bunch of teenagers? Either that or the lead has a naturally “young” sounding voice.
The Los Xochimilcas’ cumbia flip on “And I Love [...]
Continue reading RANDOM PILE: ’60S POP SONGS EN ESPAÑOL
By O-Dub 
While I am a fan of salsa and of the Fania All-Stars more specifically, I’m not such an aficionado as to be a completionist of their catalog. As a result, I never bothered to pick up Cross Over since I assumed (both rightly and wrongly) that it wouldn’t be my cup of tea, especially coming so late in the 1970s. However, I recently came across it while sample-hunting for the source of this track:
Thanks to the sleuths at Soulstrut, it turned out to be this song:
Fania All-Stars: [...]
Continue reading RANDOM PILE: FANIA ALL-STARS
By O-Dub
For real…I thought I didn’t like this song much, (mostly) because A) it’s overplayed way too much at sporting events and B) much as I like “the hook = the song” this pushes things a bit too far. But that said, “Na Na Hey Hey” has a delicious backstory that I’m still not 100% clear on except to say that the group “Steam” never really existed outside of this song and supposedly, it was built from a drum track from a previous single by one of the core songwriters.1
The thing is though…I totally forgot that the song has [...]
Continue reading NA NA HEY HEY, BREAKS BREAKS
By O-Dub 
Banda Fiebre: Fiebre Nocturna (Fever Night)
Que Tan Grande Es Tu Amor (How Deep Is Your Love)
From 7″ (Musart, 1978?)
The Bee-Gees may have been the first musical group I have any memory of. Disco fanatics can debate whether the group propelled or ultimately helped kill disco but I still have a fond place for their tunes which I still think stand the test of time as good pop songs even if they weren’t the pinnacle of disco saber. Speaking of which: recently came across this 7″ out of [...]
Continue reading FIEBRE DISCO, COGERLO!
By O-Dub 
My latest KCET piece is on the new spate of record stores that have opened in L.A. over the last few years, many of which are out in my neck of the woods on the eastside. Of the batch, my favorite has been the Record Jungle, Andy Perez’s spot out in Montebello. As I suggest in the piece, it’s got an old mom-and-pop feel to it but Andy knows his soul, funk and Latin records on par with the best, upper-end boutiques. His is like the best of all worlds and over the last year [...]
Continue reading IN THE JUNGLE, BABE
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