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Album Review

The Twenty 20s: Uh! Oh!

Read "Uh! Oh!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Are these people nuts? That could be the question when the title tune to the The Twenty 20's Uh! Oh! begins to spin. It sounds like surf guitar legend Dick Dale found a cheeky--but really good--girl singer influenced by Alvin and the Chipmunks, then recruited Phil Spector to produce--on a lower budget than the famed producer was used to. Throw in a couple of horns from the local Salvation Army Band and it becomes one of the more idiosyncratic recordings ...

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Extended Analysis

The Twenty 20s: Uh! Oh!

Read "The Twenty 20s: Uh! Oh!" reviewed by Chris May


The Twenty 20sUh! Oh!Self Produced2011 Late summer 2011 has produced two off-piste jazz vocal gems. The first was CTI Masterworks' reissue of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral's A Wilder Alias (CTI, 1974). The second is Hetty Kate and The Twenty 20s' Uh! Oh!. The disc focuses, lovingly, on standards from the 1950s and laces them, bizarrely but immaculately, with vestigial psychedelia, electro-acoustica and surf twangadelica. The result sounds like a David ...


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