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THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,579) The Lords — “I’m a Hog for You Baby”
Germany’s Lords (see #335) take the Coasters’ 1959 #38 hit and camp it up as only the Lords can do with their “inimitable double-time Mersey bastardization[]”. (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/shakin-all-over-mw0000846529)
“The Coasters weren’t worried. 😂 “ (rijndertdoting8667, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-cIWlLU4Fk&pp=ygUjVGhlIGxvcmRzIEnigJltIGEgaG9vayBmb3IgeW91IGJhYnk%3D)
It’s from the Lords’ second album (‘66), but Richie Unterberger’s comment about their first LP fits well: “[T]he covers are so eccentric, done as they are with heavy German accents and a hopped-up Merseybeat-like rhythm, that it’s a lot better and more interesting than most such cover-dominated albums of the time.” (https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-black-and-white-in-beat-and-sweet-mw0000843617)
As to the Lords, Unterberger tells us that:
Quite popular in their own country, the Lords made no impression in the English-speaking world until a couple of decades later, when reappreciation of ’60s beat and garage music became so intense that collectors began to investigate the strange and wonderful world of Continental ’60s rock. The Lords are one of those groups that have to be heard to be believed. Although they had the requisite moptop haircuts, their repertoire was surprisingly anachronistic at times, drawing heavily from not only German drinking songs, but American folk tunes, . . . skiffle, and . . . pre-Beatle British rock . . . . Whatever they covered . . . they made their own with frantically fast tempos, heavily accented Teutonic vocals (virtually all of their material was in English), and heavy overuse of tremelo guitar lines with mucho reverb, whammy bar, and Lesley organ-like effects. They also wrote some interesting material of their own that drew from the more contemporary influences of Merseybeat and English mod pop. The Lords were not brilliant musicians or composers, but they were fun, and they had the hearts of true rockers . . . .
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-lords-mn0000082040#biography
On Beat Club — fab video!
Here are the Coasters:
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