Now that John Smith died, the actor who lived under the character of Chema, Baker Sesame Street whom we all remember fondly, is a good time to rescue the odd band that belonged to late seventies.
Red de San Luis was a quartet sponsored by Juan Pardo who came to release two albums between 1978 and 1980. A vocal band that sounds like the time that unlike others, had some sense of humor and a carefree spring, victim and executioner of the imminent arrival of the eighties. "Samba Lady" heard much on radio and television, and released them become successful. Saturation possibly fleeing their ultraexitosos syrup "godchildren", the Pecos , Juan Pardo knew how to transmit his usual surrealism perishable to some young actors becoming singers.
His latest endeavor is a capital piece of kitsch homeland, a version of "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" , the classic sixties made popular by Shirley Ellis , which was successfully revised in the seventies by Gary Glitter and in the eighties by Belle Stars. Sung in Castilian, while observing the absurdity of the original lyrics that were able to adapt to his style delirious and overreacted, "Dance!" , reached No. 1 on the Top 40 in 1980 and is a subject worthy of rescuing ... Serve tribute to John, Chema.
"Dance!". Red de San Luis. Applause. TVE. 1980
And of course I can not resist dropping the fantastic original version.
"The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)." Shirley Ellis. TV Show. 1965
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