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Features Disc of the day
The Champs
Go Champs Go!
(Challenge, 1958)
Tequila hitmakers rev engines, crank out LP.
With its sprightly Latin rhythm, yakkety saxophone, democratic handclaps and
join-in-able lyric, Tequila is an evergreen standard of novelty booze songs.
When this b-side got flipped and charted big in 1958, common sense dictated
that session aces The Champs should make a quick album that sounded like it.
This is where it could have got complicated, as Tequila composer and sax man
Danny Flores had quit soon after the hit, though he’s still there on the
formation riding sleeve. But pros that they were, a reconstituted Champs,
led by guitarist Dave Burgess with Jimmy Seals on sax and Dash Crofts on
drums (later to find fame as Seals & Crofts in the ’70s), got down to
business with an album of sock hop rhythm and bluesers with yet more blaring
saxes and Duane Eddy-ish guitars. Gimmickily referencing trains, Mexico and
robots - it was the late ’50s after all – they’re loose and spontaneous,
not obviously delinquent but perhaps a little too lively for comfort, as on
the fab dive bar piano on Train To Nowhere, Tequila’s downgraded a-side. But
if it can exist without earnest evaluation – see how the band go into
default ballroom mode with the Somewhere Over The Rainbow-like I’ll Be There
– it still captures the daffy excitement of one afternoon fifty-odd years
ago.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 10/02/2009
Further Listening
The Champs – Everybody’s Rockin’ With… (Challenge 1959)
Duane Eddy - Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel (Jamie, 1958)
The Rapiers – 1961 (Ace, 1987)
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