Major Lance "the Matador" Alt Version

[Platters 81]

What is the source of this...CD ..LP..?....tia ...sounds like a later rerecording.....

Edited September 18, 2012 by platters 81

[Pete S]

Think these were done in the 70's for budget label compilation albums: I had a version of Um Um Um Um Um Um on a compilation album (though they called it Curious MInd for some reason)

[Robbk]

That has "much newer" sound than the '60s. It surely doesn't sound like Johnny Pate or Riley Hampton's '60s arranging, nor the Columbia musicians they used. It sounds like a '70s arranger and band trying to "copy" the original.

[Nickinstoke]

It sounds as though it was done at the same session as the Gusto 45 with remakes of "Um, um, um" and "Monkey time", issued in 1979

[Nickinstoke]

I've just found a reference to a 4 track EP put out by Gusto in 2008, including "The matador". You can hear a preview in iTunes - I'm sure it's this version.

Nick

[boba]

It doesn't even sound like it could be from '79, it has digital synth. It could have been recorded in '79 and the synth track changed later.

[Nickinstoke]

Does anyone know if this version of "The matador" exists in a physical format? Vinyl preferred, naturally, but I'd take a CD if that's all there is

Edited June 23, 2016 by nickinstoke