The New Christy Minstrels...buh

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Pozo-Seco Singers

Presumably this has something to do with Chano Pozo (now that I've just reminded myself who he was--oh "Manteca," right) and the Seco label, a major Latin music label in, I think, the 50s and 60s. (I've read about who swallowed it up later on, but I can't remember the details at this point.)

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Or maybe not. I can't come up with any connection between these guys and anything remotely Latin. Maybe they just liked those names?

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, a Google group search turns this up: The group was called "Pozo Seco Singers." Spanish "Pozo Seco" means "dry
well" in English.

What a name for a band. I think maybe I will pass on the possibility that they are lost geniuses.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Ok, honest question--when did xian music go from this self contained overly earnest oddness to the slick, postmodern, simalcura of really culture that it is today.

what happened to let that occur

― anthony, Monday, 2 August 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Uhm, I'm no expert, but isn't it basically a case of x-ian teens getting into regular Rock/Pop music and the ensuing realization that they weren't gonna go back to x-ian music if it's the New Christy Minstrels? A simple case of moving on with the times in order to not lose contact with the kids?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 2 August 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw a little clip on some cable documentary the other night of Barry McGuire talking about how he had to leave the NCMs so he could sing about, like, how things were changing and all.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

(cable documentaries are where all these people go to not die)

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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