Relly Coloma: Pretty Baby Cha Cha
If you’re anything like me you’ll buy pretty much any record from a foreign country provided it costs a dollar or less. I suppose this is cheaper than traveling for leisure, but still, it adds up – if only in stacks of embarrassingly bland pop vocal records sung in an exotic tongue. Anyhow, it was under these circumstances that I brought home a pile of Filipino lp’s a while back. The listening sessions that ensue are by nature so disappointing that I tend to save the most promising looking finds for last. It’s sort of a nifty trick because when the last 20 records were so bad that you actually pulled them off the turntable and pitched them across the room you’re left in a vulnerable state with dangerously low standards. So it was with defeat hanging thick in the air that Relly Coloma came to bat…
“Fever”
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“Get Back”
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“”25 Miles”
[audio:coloma_25miles.mp3]
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this is seriously great!
Coooooool
jeff, i have a record he made circa 1968. i put one of the songs off that album on the mixtape that i made for the first waxidermy swap.
Rad. I will go back and check it out. Is the record you have mostly covers too?
Wow, this is awesome.
Nice version of Fever. Love the sound.
Yeah, it’s mainly covers.
“The listening sessions that ensue are by nature so disappointing that I tend to save the most promising looking finds for last. It’s sort of a nifty trick because when the last 20 records were so bad that you actually pulled them off the turntable and pitched them across the room you’re left in a vulnerable state with dangerously low standards”
Now this is such a familiar situation…. Only sometimes the rule won’t work, but in a positive way, which should teach us to play new blind-bought records on strictly random position?
Home Run!
All young people say that makes dance dance cha cha good dance thanx