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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Big Daddy
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Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 12:13:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  5 12:13:22 1984
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Rhino Records (you've never heard of Rhino Records? Where HAVE you been?)
has recently released a new album titles 'Big Daddy'. The basic premise
behind this is that a rock group of the 1950's was captured in Laos and
held prisoner for 30 years. After being released, they recorded an album of
current hits. Unfortunately, since they hadn't heard any music in 30 years,
all of these hits are done in the style of the 50's. 

This may be my nomination for the mind warp of the year award. It is, of
course, a gimmick album (many of Rhino's are), but like most of them, this
is a high quality gimmick. The songs are all very familiar, and the new
(old?) orchestrations are done very well. If you can imagine an electric
acoustic version of the Star Wars theme or Little Richard singing 'Ebony
and Ivory' you have an idea of what you're in for. Other songs include
'Whip it', 'Hotel California', and 'Betty Davis Eyes'. In many cases
(especially 'Ebony and Ivory' and 'Eye of the Tiger') I found I
significantly preferred this version to the original. 

People who like the music of the 50's will have to find this album. The
rest of you should probably try to grab a listen to it first, but my
feeling is that it is bizarre enough and good enough to deserve a place on
many shelves, if only so you can play it at parties and watch people try to
figure out what is going on...


-- 
From the Citadel of the Autarch:	Chuqui the Plaid
{fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui		P.S. Nuke Wobegon!

A relationship is like a shark. It has to keep moving forward or it dies.
What we have here is definitely a dead shark.