Song of the Week: Johnson Rag
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Esquivel!
Johnson Rag
I cannot believe that I have been writing this blog for 2 1/2 years without mentioning Mr Juan Garcia Esquivel, or Esquivel! as he apparently preferred to be known. This was a man who was not put off by silly lyrics, odd instruments or experimentation with weird arrangements. No, he embraced them whole-heartedly – only to create the ultimate in big band ’space age pop’.
File under: the sound of 50s summer
Goes with: a Mai Tai
‘Johnson Rag’, Esquivel, 1960
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