LA Garage Rockers Ba Ba All The Way Home
Label: Kapp
Year of Release: 1968
Nineteen Eighty Four - not to be confused with the UK act 1984 from roughly around the same time - were to all intents and purposes the LA garage act Mark and The Escorts under another name. The Escorts were a local gigging outfit who performed a mix of covers and original and released two scarce singles on GNP Crescendo, "Dance With Me" and "Get Your Baby".
Ernie Hernandez, Mark Guerrero and Rick Rosas of The Escorts were joined by Tony Rodas to complete the Nineteen Eighty Four line-up and issued two singles on the rather more resourceful Kapp Records. The first was "Ba Ba", which sits inconclusively on the border of bubblegum and garage, offering quick and dumb fun (it's common enough for songs to feature "ba ba" in their lyrics, rarer for that to be their title) but also a certain heft and thump too. This may be slicker stuff than Mark and The Escorts, but their roots feel ever apparent.
It wasn't a hit, and nor was the follow up "Three's A Crowd", and shortly afterwards they temporarily disappeared from the recording side of the music industry, but morphed into The Mudd Brothers and eventually Tango who signed to A&M for one album in 1973.
Astonishingly, the group - under their original Escorts name - can still occasionally be found at nostalgia shows on the California circuit, though whether "Ba Ba" has ever featured in one of their sets is not documented.
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