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"Iko Iko" by The Dixie Cups remains an all-time fab tune of mine... a comparable version was later recorded for the 1980's movie "Satisfaction" -- both of which are great sing-a-longs.
IKO IKO always sounded so lame
and the sound of a garage recording.
Awful acoustics wherever it was done.
Mix doesn't get any points either.
I hated it but do enjoy it as an oldie.
"Iko, Iko" is a Mardi Gras song in which Indian tribes, dressed in extraordinary costumes, chant this song during a mock battle between the tribes. It has been translated in many ways and leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
BTW: my preferred version is the updated rocking version performed in the 1988 movie "Satisfaction" starring Justine Bateman.
Wasn't it also in RAIN MAN?
ANSWER TO BILL EARL'S QUERY:
yes, "Iko, Iko" was also recorded by The Belle Stars (courtesy of Stiff Records) for the 1988
movie release RAIN MAN.
COME BACK BABY was a so so song
but not bad. I remember it from 45 years ago. Never heard again after it's
cycle on the charts.
Has a few catchy hooks.
You will find it on youtube.
"BABY COME BACK" was also recorded by The Tempos during the same period as Roddie Joy, however, neither disk charted nationally on The Top 100...
The Temps' version had a completely different arrangement and production by a band (compared to Roddie Joy's vocal group) that makes it sound like a different song altogether.
"Come Back Baby" did in fact make the Billboard Hot 100,peaking at # 86.
"Iko Iko" and "Come Back Baby" (Rody Joy version) were both on red Bird Records
THANKS TO BOB HARLOW for info about "Come Back Baby" actually hitting the BILLBOARD Hot 100 (stand me corrected, Sir)...
upon further research, have notised varying references to 'RODDIE JOY' as both a vocal group (perhaps due to a backing trio of female vocalists on some of her recordings) and as a singular songstress -- first known as Rita Coleman from Detroit. Her first 'Northern Soul' records were on Leiber and Stoller's
Red Bird label and then she transferred to
Parkway for three singles - she seems to have dropped out of the business when Cameo / Parkway
went bankrupt.
All of her records were written /produced by Mike
Lewis and Stu Wiener, a New York team who'd
sang in white doowop groups before concentrating
on a back-room role around '64.
Roddie Joy Discography
Red Bird 10-021 - Come Back Baby / Love Hit Me With A Wallop - 1965
Red Bird 10-031 - He's So Easy To Love / The La La Song - 1965
Red Bird 10-037 - If There's Anything Else You Want (Let Me Know) / Stop - 1965
Parkway 101 - Stop / Something Strange Is Going On - 1966
Parkway 134 - Every Breath I Take / Walkin' Back - 1967
Parkway 151 - I Want You Back / Let's Start All Over - 1967
Parkway 991 - Stop / A Boy Is Just A Toy - 1967
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