Monday, April 5, 2010

Aki Aleong and his Teen Twenty - C'Mon Let's Dance


The Black Sea Surfer just posted Aki Aleong's excellent 1963 surf album which pushed me to get this up here. I bought it intrigued by the monster surf instro "Body Surf" but is there more to him than that? Just look at the guy in the picture down there (and the blurb) of course there is! He looks so happy to put this album out! This 1962 album is full of dance scorchers at a high energy level. Just listen to that yell introducing "Mashed Potatoes". It makes me wanna do it! New Orleanians, dig the cover of Eddie Bo's "Popeye". There's some great instrumentals too, including "The Fly" and "Pony-Time". Seriously, this is one of the more fun twistin' albums I own. And you would hope so if he really has a 20 piece band backing him up (no, it doesn't sound that way). Then again if they're all teenagers who knows.

Go ahead and twist

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

thank you - good idea to post this album too! No surf, but also good tunes.

Brandonio! said...

Wow I didn't know Aki had this album too.I've had the Nobles album for 18 years now,and I never tire of it! Great post Hunter!

Anonymous said...

The Roach has a fault it jumps. Pity its a good track any chance of a version without the jump? Thank you

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