Feminina O'Ladybrain posted: " No spoilers of any kind. That Mr. Lucky stuff doesn't count, it was written on the cover. Oh dear.... In eBay news, cleaned up a record last week. I'm going to sell it and I read the back.... "Too frequently, the term 'Latin music' refers t" Play First. Talk Later.
No spoilers of any kind. That Mr. Lucky stuff doesn't count, it was written on the cover.
Butch:
Oh dear....
In eBay news, cleaned up a record last week. I'm going to sell it and I read the back....
"Too frequently, the term 'Latin music' refers to wild, exotic and primitive rhythms. Although the rhythm is certainly a part of Latin music, there should obviously be more to it than that. And there is. When properly presented [sweet Naked Zeus properly presented] there is melody, romance humor and sophisitication."
The Album is "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin." I keep quoting:
"Mr. Lucky is on hand, his now famous theme gone delightfully native."
Delightfully native.
I listened to this one, as I listen to all the records I sell. If this really is the music of "natives," this is the music "natives" play in their elevators.
I guess in 1961 this was exotic or something.
Feminina:
[blank stare in Mr. Lucky's direction]
Man, they sure knew how to write copy in those days, didn't they?
Though I'm sure in 60 years people will be just as aghast at the stuff we think is normal right now, so I shouldn't pretend to any inherent superiority.
Although, I don't know, do we think ANYTHING is normal right now?
"Too frequently"! "Delightfully native" Latin music! My oh my.
Butch:
Nah, we're at a point where everything is so offensive, record labels can't even say "music" because that might offend deaf people. In sixty years, there'll be nothing to analyze. Mrs. McP joked the other day that she couldn't fire someone if the died because HR would accuse her of discriminating against the "mortally challenged."
That said, we can certainly stare blankly at the past.
The cover has a stylized cat in a sombrero with what I think is a maraca in its tail cuz of course.
You can just picture old people dancing badly to this thinking they are so....something.
Whatever. I'm still charging 35 bucks.
Feminina:
And yet, by the standards of the time, they WERE so...something!
The mainstreaming of "delightfully native" Latin music had to start somewhere.
Butch:
Well, maybe it started in 1961, when Henry Mancini took his "Mr. Lucky" themes and turned them all native and shit.
Maybe I should ask $39.99.
I want to point out that this, Johnny O'Clock and the Polka 78 I listed last week all came from the same box. Not just the same person, the same BOX. Dude had eclectic tastes. I haven't even cleaned off "Heart's Greatest Hits" which is also in there.
I have another box of stuff from this person downstairs. What wonders are in there, one ponders?
Feminina:
Wait, this was Mancini? I love his work on the Pink Panther!
Ooh, Heart. I think I have a greatest hits album from them somewhere on some drive. My grandfather, who also had eclectic tastes, collected tons of stuff on cassettes and used to record them for us. I don't remember Mr. Lucky or Johnny O'Clock, but he had Heart.
Butch:
Man, a drive ain't good! Can't sell a drive, man!
This dude has some normal stuff. He has a great Clapton double album that would be worth a pretty sum if it had, well, both albums. For some reason, half a double album isn't worth half a pretty sum. Should be, I think. But it's not.
Feminina:
I know, the age of ephemeral, rented, electronic-only media is a boon for publishers and a sad time for resellers. And libraries. Not that I have a dog in this fight.
Maybe you can purchase the other half for a paltry sum and then resell them both together!
Butch:
It could be in the other box!
Don't want to go down that rabbit hole today, though. Can't handle any more vintage after that last record.
Feminina:
People in the past can't win. We mock them for what they thought was edgy and cool, yet we also mock them for being conformist and not being able to see beyond their limited horizons and try something new.
It'll happen to us, no doubt. You can already see it in some of the Gen X memes out there.
More and more, I quote Grandpa Simpson: "I used to be with it! Then they changed what It was. Now what I'm with isn't It, and what's It seems weird and scary to me."
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