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Chicano Rock/Soul

motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
edited September 2010 in Strut Central
I was just flipping through the stations and came across this great documentary on PBS "Chicano Rock! The Sound of East LA." Here's a link to a summary of the show. Turns out it was originally released in 2008. One of the cool stories was that a Chicano group Cannibal and the Headhunters were the ones who originally wrote and recorded A Land Of 1,000 Dances, which I always associated with Wilson Pickett.

http://www.pbs.org/chicanorock/

One of the guy's interviewed is Ruben Molina who wrote this book Chicano Soul. He has a website with some cool pictures, label scans, etc. Unfortunately his "Rare Soul" section is down right now.

http://www.mictlan.com/index.html

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  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    motown67 said:
    I was just flipping through the stations and came across this great documentary on PBS "Chicano Rock! The Sound of East LA." Here's a link to a summary of the show. Turns out it was originally released in 2008. One of the cool stories was that a Chicano group Cannibal and the Headhunters were the ones who originally wrote and recorded A Land Of 1,000 Dances, which I always associated with Wilson Pickett.

    http://www.pbs.org/chicanorock/

    One of the guy's interviewed is Ruben Molina who wrote this book Chicano Soul. He has a website with some cool pictures, label scans, etc. Unfortunately his "Rare Soul" section is down right now.

    http://www.mictlan.com/index.html

    I highly recommend both. That is, if you're interested in brown-eyed soul.
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    Thank you for this,

    I get enough Chicano sounds yet know bugger all about the music, which artists to check etc,

    cheers again.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    a Chicano group Cannibal and the Headhunters were the ones who originally wrote and recorded A Land Of 1,000 Dances, which I always associated with Wilson Pickett.

    No, they did not.

    Wilson Pickett based his version of the song on theirs, but they didn't originate it. Chris Kenner (the black New Orleans R&B singer best known for "I Like It Like That") recorded it first, but he didn't have the "na na na" that Cannibal & co. inserted later.

    Otherwise, I would like to see this special...
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