8/15/2023 0 Comments Acapulco gold rainy dazeIt’s all history, it’s all music and it often makes no sense. So the likelihood of hearing a Stereo version of this track are remote at best.īut with all that in mind, you can’t keep a great song down and this is one of the many overlooked classics that are hidden away on the b-sides of singles, or the dusty tape shelves or the initially poorly received follow-up singles. Making matters worse, the original 4-track masters were destroyed in the great fire at Universal City a couple of years ago. Sadder, this track never wound up on the debut Rainy Daze album and has subsequently never been reissued by anyone even recently (as far as I know). The Rainy Daze had one of the biggest Colorado-based hits of the 1960sThat Acapulco Gold, an ode to marijuana crooned in Roaring Twenties vaudeville style. I remember hearing it once when it first came out via my local Top-40 station, and then it was never heard from again. Despite the title change, it didn’t fare well for the band and the single went almost nowhere. Tonight it’s the follow-up single, first issued in May of 1967 under the title Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum and later reissued around August as Blood of Oblivion. G C A D Gm Chords for Rainy Daze - That Acapulco Gold with Key, BPM, and easy-to-follow letter notes in sheet. ![]() Which was a shame, as The Rainy Daze had a lot more to say than merely Acapulco Gold (their big claim to fame). ![]() I realize there are a bunch of you out there who are new to this site, never having heard of the old one, so all this is new to you.Īnd even if you’ve been following the old site, this is still a great almost totally unknown track by a band that quick got pigeonholed as a One-Hit Novelty Act. ![]() I originally posted this track a couple years ago on my now-defunct Newstalgia site. The Rainy Daze – Pigeonholed as one-hit novelty wonders.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |