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By O-Dub 
I wrote a piece for the LA TImes the other week about cumbia peruana and its use of surf guitar. Fun piece to research and write (big ups to Barney Hoskyns’s Waiting For the Sun), especially given my interest in 1) cumbia styles and 2) L.A. music.
Coincidentally, the day my piece came out, I was in NOLA and turned up a single by The Tornadoes, a pioneering surf band out of Redlands, CA. Their best known hit was probably “Bustin’ Surfboards” though this single was released under the name “The [...]
Continue reading THE TORNADOES + SEPTIMA REGION: THE LONG SURF
By O-Dub 
Back in January 2010, I posted a few songs from Harrington (WA)’s Emerson brothers – this family group whose private press album was a lovely, surprising mix of folk, soul, psych and funk. As it turns out, two years before their album, the Emersons released a 7″ with songs that never made the LP. 1
Don, Joe & Eldon: Take It
From 7″ (Enterprise & Co., 1977)
“Take It,” the better (IMO) of the two sides is more on the folksy tip as Donnie and Joe are joined by a third relative(?) [...]
Continue reading DON AND JOE EMERSON: THE EARLY YEARS
By O-Dub 
Revelacion 2,000: Tu Y No Nena
Viviras Como Yo Vivo (Danny’s Song)
From S/T (Gas, 197?)
I was turned onto Mexico’s Revelacion 2,000 via Super Sonido, who posted up the 7″ version of “Tu Y No Nena” (You and Me Baby) last month. It’s a rather incredible cover, especially since that distinctive echo effect on the guitar isn’t on the Spinners’ original. It was nagging me why it sounded so damn familiar and with Jay Smooth’s help, I finally remembered why: it sounds a lot like [...]
Continue reading DEEP COVERS: 3 OF 4, REVELACION 2,000
By O-Dub 
Orquesta Hnos Flores: La Mula
Estoy En Onda
From La Bala (Cicesa, 1970)
(For the next few days, I’ll be posting about random singles and albums with notable cover songs.)
La Bala, “the bullet,” was the first full-length LP recorded by El Salvador’s Qrquesta Hnos Flores. I wasn’t able to find too much on them in English (sí, lo sé, realmente debería aprender español) but I’m fairly certain they weren’t small time, but rather, a band of significance into the 1980s and ’90s. Their inaugural LP is a mix of different [...]
Continue reading DEEP COVERS: 1 OF 4, HNOS FLORES
By O-Dub 
The Hassles: 4 O’Clock In the Morning
From 7″ (UA, 1968).
The Hassles: 4 O’Clock In the Morning
From Hour of the Wolf (UA, 1969). Also on Billy Joel and the Hassles.
One of the best/worst things about getting hooked on the 7″ as a format is that you feel compelled to find 7″ versions of LP songs you really like. It makes good sense – why not tote along a louder, smaller version of a great song instead of the full (and often quieter) LP? It’s just an expensive habit, especially in those [...]
Continue reading THE HASSLES: TWICE OVER
By O-Dub 
Jerry Butler: Never Gonna Give You Up
From The Iceman Cometh (Mercury, 1968).
Thee Midniters: Never Gonna Give You Up
On 7″ (Whittier, 1968). Also on Thee Complete Midniters.
Eddie Floyd: Never Give You Up
From I’ve Never Found a Girl (Stax, 1968). Also on Rare Stamps.
Shirley and the Shirelles: Never Give You Up (Never Gonna Give You Up)
From 7″ (Bell, 1969)
Lyn Collins: Never Gonna Give You Up
From Think (About It) (People, 1972). Also on Mama Feelgood.
The Black Keys: Never Gonna Give You Up
Continue reading NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
By O-Dub You might remember, last March, I posted this song:
As it turns out, I’m not the only fan. So were Jennifer Lopez’s producers:
Apparently, someone forgot to clear the sample which is pretty frickin’ obvious considering they’re using at least eight bars of Great Pride’s song.
Look, I’m all for more liberalized sampling statutes but if none of J-Lo’s people even bothered to do proper clearance for a sample of this length? No sympathy. Get ‘em Gene!
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Continue reading DID J-LO BOOST GREAT PRIDE?
By O-Dub 
I “discovered” “Viva Tirado” back around 1990, when Kid Frost sampled/interpolated parts of it for “La Raza” but I didn’t realize the greater genealogy of the song until later in the decade when one of my academic mentors, Josh Kun, put me up on how Frost was flipping an El Chicano song that, in turn, was based on a Gerald Wilson original.
The connection planted a tenacious seed in my head and for the dozen years after that, I slowly began to flesh out the story behind what I call the song’s “multiple iterations” and specifically, [...]
Continue reading THE STORY BEHIND “VIVA TIRADO”
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