Friday, December 10, 2004
Two of my prized possessions in my CD collection (not to mention one of my vinyl LPs) are the albums by a group called Big Daddy.
Put together by Rhino records back in the 80s, Big Daddy was (supposedly) a '50s rock and roll band who made the mistake of playing a gig near the Bay of Pigs on the day of the invasion. After 20+ years in Cuban prison, they were released, and continued their tour.
Problem was, they only knew how to play 50s music, and people wanted to hear 80s music.
See where this is going?
What Big Daddy did was take familiar songs and stuff them into arrangements that started out and sounded remarkably like another song.
Think Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" performed like "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
Think Sinead O'Connor's (Prince-penned) "Nothing Compares To You" stuffed into "Great Balls of Fire."
Well, eventually, Big Daddy recorded their "Sergeant Pepper" album. It's the entire album, done up like the way they do it. For example:
A Day in the Life: Imagine Buddy Holly doing it: "I read the news today, uh-oh Boy (Dum-de-dum-dum, Oh Boy)...
Benefit of Mr. Kite: Think Freddie Cannon doing "Palisades Park."
Which brings me to what I wanted to talk about.
While Big Daddy has apparently gone into mothballs, the Fab Four are still here.
The Fab Four have been called the ULTIMATE Beatles Tribute group. One of the guys does an imitation of Paul McCartney that is positively scary.
Which brings me to their website for their Christmas album:
http://www.thefabfour.net/christmascd.htm
Check out the six 30-second samples here. "Good King Wenceslas" stuffed into "Tell Me What You See?" I just about wet my pants...
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Work has been very strange this week. Usually December is a slow month around here but this week it's been pretty much non-stop; except for the few minutes I get to write stuff like this.
Being a copywriter in an agency like this, trying to predict when or if you're going to be busy is a tough deal. Clients will say they want something and then after you've worked on it for hours, you'll get the message, "Oh, yeah -- we WANT it, eventually. We didn't mean NOW."
Advertising would be more fun if there were no clients.
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Just booked a gig at The Trunk Space on January 28 at 8 p.m. There could be dancers. I'll keep you posted.
TT
Put together by Rhino records back in the 80s, Big Daddy was (supposedly) a '50s rock and roll band who made the mistake of playing a gig near the Bay of Pigs on the day of the invasion. After 20+ years in Cuban prison, they were released, and continued their tour.
Problem was, they only knew how to play 50s music, and people wanted to hear 80s music.
See where this is going?
What Big Daddy did was take familiar songs and stuff them into arrangements that started out and sounded remarkably like another song.
Think Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" performed like "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
Think Sinead O'Connor's (Prince-penned) "Nothing Compares To You" stuffed into "Great Balls of Fire."
Well, eventually, Big Daddy recorded their "Sergeant Pepper" album. It's the entire album, done up like the way they do it. For example:
A Day in the Life: Imagine Buddy Holly doing it: "I read the news today, uh-oh Boy (Dum-de-dum-dum, Oh Boy)...
Benefit of Mr. Kite: Think Freddie Cannon doing "Palisades Park."
Which brings me to what I wanted to talk about.
While Big Daddy has apparently gone into mothballs, the Fab Four are still here.
The Fab Four have been called the ULTIMATE Beatles Tribute group. One of the guys does an imitation of Paul McCartney that is positively scary.
Which brings me to their website for their Christmas album:
http://www.thefabfour.net/christmascd.htm
Check out the six 30-second samples here. "Good King Wenceslas" stuffed into "Tell Me What You See?" I just about wet my pants...
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Work has been very strange this week. Usually December is a slow month around here but this week it's been pretty much non-stop; except for the few minutes I get to write stuff like this.
Being a copywriter in an agency like this, trying to predict when or if you're going to be busy is a tough deal. Clients will say they want something and then after you've worked on it for hours, you'll get the message, "Oh, yeah -- we WANT it, eventually. We didn't mean NOW."
Advertising would be more fun if there were no clients.
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Just booked a gig at The Trunk Space on January 28 at 8 p.m. There could be dancers. I'll keep you posted.
TT
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