While checking out album covers this morning, I happened across this oddity from Doc & Les 6 Jets + Tom Collin’s.
Source: rond-carre.blogspot.ca
Based on the album cover, this recording appears to be from the 1960s. Also based on the album cover, you’d think that a serpent—or Russian bassoon as these upright serpents are sometimes called—would feature prominently in the recording.
However, while listening to excerpts of some tracks on rond-carre.blogspot.ca (it’s the 3rd album down from the top of page), you immediately hear a strong saxophone presence on the tracks, but no serpent. And as far as dating the album goes, to me it sounds more like a recording from the mid to late 1960s. As a matter of fact, both Rock-A-Conga and Makin’ Love, remind me of the campy, original Batman series that aired from 1966 – 1968.
Hi Helen,
Actually, I’d put it nearly 10 years earlier. Both “Rock-a-Conga” and “Makin’ Love” have that mid-50s vibe — think all those ‘Mambo’ songs from 1953-1955 and the whole beatnik stereotype. “Dancin’ with My Shadow” is an almost surreally cinematic mix of doo-wop, script by Jack Kerouac, and score by Lennie Niehaus, which would place it later in the decade :saxy:
According to this, it is somewhere in between — 1960, to be exact.
http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/49175.html
Peace,
paul
It’s funny Paul, originally I pegged it from the late 50s to mid 60s, but then rewrote it. Why? I think to fit the Batman thesis. I should have stuck to my original thinking. 😆