🍀Tune Tag #136 with Tamara Casey Pt. 2☘ABBA, Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Todd Rundgren, Las Ketchup, Sergio Mendes, Kool & The Gang, The Rutles, Jimmy Buffett

🎩Happy St. Patrick's Day! Happy International Women's Month! Happy Brad's Birthday Eve! So much to celebrate, and Taz is the perfect celebratory singer/songwriter ordered just for this Tune Taz!☘

Welcome back Tamara Casey of Rare Groove Productions for your 2nd Tune Taz!

We call her Taz, cuz she’s been called that for years!

“Singer, songwriter, producer that hates to perform. What else do you need to know? Lifelong career in technology. Lifelong dabbling in music and dance. Former pilot and current sailor. My Substack is for the stories behind the songs.”

Musicstack vs Substack

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Last week, we were pleased as punch to host Alex O'Brien of Vinyl Hour, which amassed over 100 positive comments!

Tune Tag #135 with Alex O'Brien: Bruce Springsteen, Al Green, Prince, John Cowsill & Vicki Peterson, Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Trade Winds, Death Cab for Cutie

Next week, be sure and tune in for the debut Tune Tag for Bob Tooker of Music and Muffins! We just met IRL!

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Tune Taz #136, yonder👇She and I decided on a bit of a Latin theme, of sorts, for this one! So, many/most of our song selections may feature that alluring element!

Taz’s song #1 sent to Brad: ABBA, “Fernando,” 1976

Where ABBA asks the musical question as to chosen genre: Metal? Alternative? Punk? I guess they’re solidly MOR…middle-of-the-road!🚗Beep Beep!

Taz’s rationale: I was 10 years old when this song came out. While I know it will be disappointing to Pe (The Twelve Inch (Disco/80s)) that I was not a huge disco fan, I did love ABBA, and still do. At that age, I was also enthralled by the western novels of Louis L’Amour.

At that age, I also spoke Spanish almost as well as I spoke English. I went to grade school in Berkeley, California, where I was enrolled in Hispanic American studies, so I also knew as much about Mexican history as I did California or U.S. history!

All kids in Berkeley schools at that time had to be enrolled in Hispanic American, African or Asian-American studies. We were probably ground zero for “woke,” but we loved it! As a 4th-generation Californian, yeah, my family had Hispanic roots.

Imagine 10-year-old me then, hearing this song come on the radio and thinking OMG, this sounds like it’s about the Mexican Revolution! I was very excited—the flutes, martial-sounding drums, the perfect arrangement, the beautiful harmonies and that amazing chorus about fighting for liberty; I thought it was one of the most patriotic things I had ever heard. I still do! I would sing along to this song every time it came on the radio. I still do.

Brad’s response: The original, would ya believe (written by Stig Anderson, Benny Andersson, and Björn Ulvaeus)? Originally planned (and recorded, in Swedish) for a solo Frida (Anni-Frid Lyngstad) album (click here to see and hear the song on YouTube), the ABBA members loved the melody so much, they recorded it all together (and altered the lyrics….instead of Frida’s heart-broken girl comforting an old friend, they morphed into two veterans remembering a past war), and released theirs in March 1976!

Brad’s song #1 sent to Taz: Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Bonita,” 1969