Tuck
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Posted on Jan 05 2012 01:09 PM
Ernesto Lecuona's trio of Latin pops for surf, retro style.
Malaguena (Trashmen)
Siboney (Johnny Fortune)
The Breeze & I a/k/a Andalusia (Vibrants)
In my opinion it's hard to give the Breeze and I enough spine to make it stand up and surf. I think the Vibrants get it into the Woody.
As far as Johnny Fortune and Siboney, check out The Lone Surfer if you can find it.
Here's a challenge: any other selections of the Three? (There's an obvious response here, but there are undoubtedly others I don't know about. Surf is vast!
An alternative challenge, would be, are there any other Lecuona pieces that would work as well as these three? I think these were selected to some extent for pop distribution by the pre-surf jazz market, maybe by Lecuona himself, since he had a long career as a leader of Latin bands in the US in his later years. I believe these were all written while he was fairly young, and composing for the piano in Cuba and Spain. He wrote a great many more.
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 05 2012 01:18 PM
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Ariel
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Posted on Jan 05 2012 01:30 PM
The Bambi's do them all amazingly (obviously, one of the obvious answers).
I always wanted to hear Malaguena and Siboney electric versions closer to the original composition's arrangement. Not necessarily note for note, but also not as simplified/fixed tempo. I think it's achievable with 2 guitars & bass.
I think a talented musician can make any of the famous Lecuona tunes work Surf style, but check this out - Danza Lucumi. Just faster and 'verb it out!
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Tuck
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Posted on Jan 05 2012 05:32 PM
DreadInBabylon wrote:
The Bambi's do them all amazingly (obviously, one of
the obvious answers).
We have a winner ...  Live:
Malaguena
Siboney
The Breeze and I - not currently posted anywhere that I am aware of.
There are some arrangements of Malaguena for big band and for rock band that are closer to to the original I think. Stan Kenton and Roy Buchanan?
Malaguena & Andalucia Lecuona on piano
Malaguena Tirino on piano
Siboney Lecuona on piano
Danza Lucumi Lecuona on piano
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 05 2012 05:45 PM
Los Twang! Marvels and the Hellbenders do phenomenal versions of Siboney.
The Boss Martians did a fantastic version of Malaguena, both studio and live (though it's basically the Trashmen version).
There are a million versions of the Breeze and I. From the '60s, there was:
Jim Messina & the Jesters
Steve & the Emperors
From across the pond:
The Fentones
The Shadows
More modern:
Jon & the Nightriders
The Eliminators
Those are just a few off the top of my head...
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Tuck
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Posted on Jan 05 2012 06:14 PM
I remember the Penetrators and Satan's Pilgrims for Malaguena, apart from the versions mentioned.
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 08:54 AM
"Tabou" is another gorgeous Lecuona track that's been covered in the surf/instro style multiple times. My favorite is by the Jokers, a Belgian '60s Euro-instro band, whose version is just genius! I'm attaching their video of this song below. (I think there's some Bass VI used for lead on there, and some fantastic sound effects with a slide - or maybe just a pick?)
I know other surf/instro bands have covered this track, but I can't thik of any right now....
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 09:48 AM
Wow! The Jokers version is great! Not heard before yet!
Another very nice version is from the german band Looney Tunes (Kahuna Kawentzmanns old but never forgotten band!) on their great album "Modern Sounds of the...". Out on GeeDee in 1995. (I didnt found it on youtube.)
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 09:53 AM
Oh, that's right, that's the version I was trying to think of - thanks, Ralf! To my ears, the Looney Tunes' Tabou seems to be modeled quite closely on the Jokers' version.
Fifty Foot Combo also covered Tabou - see below.
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remora1
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 10:45 AM
IvanP wrote:
There are a million versions of the Breeze and I. From
the '60s, there was:
Jim Messina & the Jesters
Steve & the Emperors
From across the pond:
The Fentones
The Shadows
More modern:
Jon & the Nightriders
The Eliminators
Those are just a few off the top of my head...
Slacktone plays a pretty sweet version too....
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shivers13
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 11:18 AM
The version of "Breeze and I" by Jim Messina and The Jesters is a long time favorite. Super high energy version! Wish it was on YouTube to post it here.
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 11:39 AM
shivers13 wrote:
The version of "Breeze and I" by Jim Messina and The
Jesters is a long time favorite. Super high energy
version! Wish it was on YouTube to post it here.
As you no doubt know, Norm, there are actually two versions - in the sense of featuring different arrangements, not just different recording takes - of The Breeze and I by the Jesters: the original '64 version and then that strange '73 'reissue' version. Which is your preferred one?
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shivers13
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 11:45 AM
I really dig the one off the Dragsters record. The drumming is insane!
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 12:55 PM
That's certainly the tighter and better sounding of the two, Norm. However, the '73 version has this manic energy, a band on the verge of falling apart, with a psychotically loud bass guitar that is causing more disorder than order! (The bass seems to be drifting in and out of playing in time...) Sometimes I prefer that energy....
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 01:10 PM
Oh man, so much great music, so little time to catch up on it all. These are great. It's a surf music history lesson every day here, especially as I go back to the old posts. Thanks!
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 01:23 PM
I first heard of The Jokers and Tabou a few years ago but I never knew until today that was a Lecuona song!
A while back I got one volume of a multi-volume Jokers best-of from Double Crown. I should hunt down those other volumes.
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IvanP
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 06:18 PM
Brian wrote:
I first heard of The Jokers and Tabou a few years ago
but I never knew until today that was a Lecuona song!
Brian, I didn't either (or forgot, anyway), until Alex mentioned it in the interview I did with him for the upcoming Continental. So, you're definiely not alone. I thought that only the above three Lecuona songs have been covered in the surf/instro world.
A while back I got one volume of a multi-volume Jokers
best-of from Double Crown. I should hunt down those
other volumes.
Good luck - I've been hunting down Vols. 2 and 3 FOR YEARS, and I've never even picked up a scent. They're just gone. I did manage to get Vol. 4 somehow, but I don't remember how. It's the only copy of that one I've ever seen, though.
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 09:03 PM
and here I thought that Arthur Lyman wrote Taboo.
But I guess he just popularized it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csqFpTJRKmU
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JONPAUL
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 09:10 PM
Not Ernesto, but his distant cousin Margarita (Is that enough of a connection to include here?)...something made famous by a certain Cuban TV star in the fifties, but actually composed in 1941...
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kick_the_reverb
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Posted on Jan 07 2012 09:26 PM
The Jokers version is really good. This is the first time I heard it, thanks for posting it.
In The Sand Devils we used to cover Tabou in the middle of a medley that was Left Arm of Buddah-Tabou-Hava Nagila
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