TINA AND THE TOTAL BABES
This month’s entry, Wild Blue is another band that had a hard time settling on a name. I guess that this is something of a sequel to the article on last month’s UARB, Tina and the Total Babes, since this band is a part of the scene that T&TB’s were saluting in their 2001 album. The Wild Blue album showed up just as the New Wave was ebbing, and that might have been the reason that it was overlooked.
(June 2012)
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Normally, in writing the UARB/UARA posts, I find a narrative thread of some kind. One that came to me pretty quickly was for Tina and the Total Babes, the UARB for May 2012. That album and my Trashwomen album were among the first several dozen that I cleaned up from Katrina; I don’t remember how I discovered that Tina Lucchesi had been a member of both bands, but that was a definite connection that I could talk about. The Trashwomen led obviously to, who had a big hit song in 1963 called “”. But that’s all most people know about , who are unfairly labeled as a “one-hit wonder” band – worse yet, a “one-novelty-hit wonder”. Well, IMHO, not only is “” not at all a novelty song in my book, are actually a top-notch band that have a pretty extensive body of work – they even have a four-CD box set to their credit, and there are a host of well-known rock bands that can’t make that boast. Thus, once I started riffing on one-hit wonders, the article just came together very quickly.
(December 2012)
