To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Los Shakers
Background information
OriginMontevideo
GenresRock, proto-punk, garage rock, beat music, psychedelic rock
Years active1964–1969, 1971, 2005
LabelsEMI
MembersHugo Fattoruso
Osvaldo Fattoruso
Roberto "Pelín" Capobianco †
Carlos "Caio" Vila †

Los Shakers were a popular rock band in the 1960s and was a part of the Uruguayan Invasion in Latin America. They were heavily influenced by the look and sound of The Beatles.[1][2] In the late 1960s they would broaden and expand their musical direction before breaking up in 1969.[1][2]

History

The band was formed in 1964 in Montevideo, Uruguay by brothers Hugo (lead guitar and keyboards) and Osvaldo Fattoruso (rhythm guitar), after watching the movie A Hard Day's Night starring The Beatles.[1][2] They were modeled after The Beatles and even adopted similar haircuts and clothing.[1] As DJ Gaylord Fields put it, "Hugo, Osvaldo, Pelin and Caio are the Realest Fake Beatles to ever record — and, like their role models (but unlike practically every other Moptops manqué), they were as uncannily accomplished at bringing forth the psychedelic Pepperisms as the Merseybeat."[3]

The band sang many songs in English, despite their location, and gained their greatest popularity in Argentina, but also had popularity in other Latin American countries. They signed with the Odeon label of EMI in Argentina.[1] The first single recorded as The Shakers was "Break it All" in late 1964, which reached number 9 on Argentine charts.[4] A self-titled album was released later in 1965.[1] Though the band focused their attentions almost exclusively on Latin America, they did take one crack at the English-speaking market when they released the album Break It All, on the US-based Audio Fidelity Records in 1966.[1] The record (which featured re-recorded versions of many of the songs on their original LP and even a Spanish-language version of The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride") was little more than a curiosity in the United States and was not a hit, but became a collector's item decades later,[1] as would their second album, Shakers for You (released in 1966). Both albums were re-issued, with bonus tracks, on CD in 2007. In 2020, the Spanish/Catalonian label Guerssen Records remastered and reissued their first four albums on vinyl.

Reflecting the move towards psychedelia, their music went in a new direction. Their last studio album with the original line up, La conferencia secreta del Toto's Bar, released in 1968,[1] mixed psychedelic influences with candombe and some tango sounds; the album has been described as a Latin American Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[3] However, their recording label (EMI) did not approve of this new sound, and left them without any promotion or support; it led to the band's split up. In 2005, the original lineup re-united, and recorded a CD Bonus Tracks and played in Argentina and Uruguay. Los Shakers would break up shortly thereafter.

Osvaldo Fattoruso, guitarist and drummer, died on July 29, 2012, due to cancer at the age of 64.

Members

Discography

Albums

Title Album details
Los Shakers
Break It All
Shakers for You
La conferencia secreta del Toto's Bar
En el estudio otra vez
A Los Shakers
  • Released: 1981
  • Formats: LP
Bonus Tracks
  • Released: 2005
  • Formats: CD


Singles

Year Title Album
1965 "Sigue Buscando (Keep Searching)" / "Solo En Tus Ojos (Only In Your Eyes)" Los Shakers
"Rompan Todo (Break It All)" / "Más (More)"
"No Molestar (Do Not Disturb)" / "Déjame Ir (Let Me Go)" Break It All
1966 "Quieres Por Favor (Won't You Please)" / "No Está Mal (It's Not Bad)"
"Diles (Tell Them)" / "No Juegues (Stop The Game)" Non-album single
"Michelle" / "My Bonnie"
"Oh Mi Amigo (Oh My Friend)" / "Siempre Tú (Always You)" La conferencia secreta del Toto's Bar
"Muchachita (Girl)" / "Déjame Solo (Let Me Alone)" Non-album single
"Submarino Amarillo (Yellow Submarine)" / "Espero Que Les Guste 042 (I Hope You'll Like It 042)"
"Nunca Nunca (Never Never)" / "Déjame Decirte (Let Me Tell You)" Shakers for You
1967 "Pelota De Goma Roja (Red Rubber Ball)" / "No Llames Más Por Teléfono, Nena (Don't Call Me On The Telephone Anymore, Baby)" Non-album single
"La Tierra De Las Mil Danzas (The Land Of A Thousand Dances)" / "Aleluya (Hallelujah)"
"Marilú (Peek-A-Boo)" / "Si Lo Supiera Mamá (If I Knew Mother)"
"Cuando Tenga Sesenta Y Cuatro (When I'm Sixty-Four)" / "Adorable Lola (Lovely Lola)"
1968 "Mi Tía Clementina (My Aunt Clementine)" / "El Pino Y La Rosa (The Pine And The Rose)" La conferencia secreta del Toto's Bar
2019 "La Marañanza" Non-album single

Compilations

Title Album details
Archivo Secreto
La Vigencia De Los Shakers
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP
Los Ineditos De Los Shakers
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: LP
All the Best
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Hitland
  • Formats: CD
¡Por Favor!
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Big Beat Records
  • Formats: CD
Los Shakers + Shakers for You
  • Label: Circolo Del Disco Produzione
  • Formats: CD

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Unterberger, Richie. "Los Shakers: Artist Biography". Allmusic.
  2. ^ a b c "Los Shakers". Trans-World '60s PUNK. Translated by Sommariva, Marcelo.
  3. ^ a b Fields, Gaylord (1 July 2008). "Fake Beatles No. 13: ¡Rompan Todo Con Los Shakers!". WFMU's Beware of the Blog. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Hits of the World". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 4 September 1965.

External links

This page was last edited on 12 December 2023, at 04:37
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.