Chris Montez - Lets Dance! The Monogram Sides '1992

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 Everybody knows Lets Dance. A million seller that has charted three times in
the UK, it now enjoys the kind of status that lets you know that rocknroll
classics are the folk songs of our time. On the back of that one big success,
Montez regularly tours the oldies and night club circuits of America and Europe
(he was in the UK at the end of last year on a similar visit with Len Barry).
This album collects together Montezs sides for the Los Angeles label. Monogram,
including, of course, Lets Dance and Some Kinda Fun (a No.10 in the UK in 1963).
Montez started out as a ballad singer and like Ritchie Valens, a fellow
Hispanic-American, was influenced as much by the rancheras (Spanish folk songs)
of his youth as by his peer group??s rocknroll. Lets Dance featured an ace group
including Jesse Sailes on drums, Ray Johnson on organ, sometime Doors?? bassist
Ray Pohiman and Joel Hill (later to work with Canned Heat) on guitar. Stan
Ross??s engineering gave the session it??s distinctive sound. This collection is
a mixture of ballads and big sound rockers that show Montez deserved more than
the one-hit wonder tag he seems to be stuck with.
:: TRACKLIST ::

1 Lets Dance 2:28
2 No! No! No! 2:14
3 Some Kinda Fun 2:22
4 It Takes Two 2:24
5 I Ran 2:16
6 Its Not Puppy Love 2:04
7 Shoot That Curl 2:22
8 My Baby Loves To Dance 2:08
9 All You Had To Do (Was Tell Me) 2:27
10 Rockin Blues 1:55
11 Chiquita Mia 2:10
12 Youre The One 2:07
13 Lets Do The Limbo 1:32
14 Tell Me (Its Not Over) 3:39
15 I Feel Like Dancing 1:57
16 Hes Been Leading You On 2:05
17 In An English Town (In A Turkish Town) 2:35
18 Monkey Fever 2:41
19 Say Youll Marry Me 1:39
20 Love Me 2:27

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