PACHUKO HOP

Created on 20/02/2017
Latest update on 22/02/2017

Artist: Chuck Higgins & his Mellotones
Author: Chuck Higgins/Vernon Haven
Label: Combo
Year: 1952

Jump instrumental named for the zoot suit Chicano style adopted by Kid Creole in the 1980s. With a young Johnny (Guitar) Watson.

Covers:

1953:

Ike Carpenter [with Maynard Ferguson (trumpet)]

1953:

Harmonicats

1969:

Mothers Of Invention [live in Toronto on bootleg Pachuco Hop; as a dance Zappa quotes the Pachuko Hop in the lyrics of Jelly Roll Gum Drop on Cruising With Ruben & The Jets ('68) and in Debra Kadabra from Bongo Fury with Capt. Beefheart ('75)]

1987:

Count Five [B-side reissue Psychotic Reaction]

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