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Subject: TACO?
Does anyone remember TACO?? It's funny that there is so much biographical information on all the one-hit-wonderers of the world..but I have found very little info on what Taco is up to. I may have only been 7 or 8 years old..but I LOVED Taco! Puttin on the Ritz was big of course..my dad used to dance everytime it came on like a rich dapperchap..we laughed hysterically. But I actually have the whole TACO album! And I don't remember actually doing this, but I guess I did..I taped it onto a blank tape about 15 years ago! Did anyone else like Taco?? What was he about?? Was he gay? Just curious..I was so young back then but have always been curious
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This won't answer all of your questions but here is his website (translated in English): http://www.taco-online.de/us-version/
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Nothing like being a one-hit wonder with a song that came out DECADES before they/he was even born. It was ok. I liked it.
Cat
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Nothing like being a one-hit wonder with a song that came out DECADES before they/he was even born. It was ok. I liked it.
Cat
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I have his 1982 album with the Ritz n it..every one of his songs is something from the 1920s-40s. His first song on the album is "singing in the rain" lol.
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"Puttin On The Ritz"is basically all of his songs that I'm familiar with.I do not remember any of his others.This is such a fun one.I also like the video with his black hat and white gloves.Looking like an aristocrat! ;D
Howard :D
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"Puttin On The Ritz"is basically all of his songs that I'm familiar with.I do not remember any of his others.This is such a fun one.I also like the video with his black hat and white gloves.Looking like an aristocrat! ;D
Howard :D
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Yep great song! I know not many people liked that song but I did! Oh well thier loss! :o
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Yep great song! I know not many people liked that song but I did! Oh well thier loss! :o
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I love that song, too. Especially the version in Young Frankenstein. ;D
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I love that song, too. Especially the version in Young Frankenstein. ;D
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Whenever someone mentions the song, I just think of Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle doing that song and just laugh. But I do like the song. I remember seeing an old movie with Clark Gable singing it. Can't remember the movie.
Cat
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Sorry guys and gals, just my opinion, the video was awful and he's darn freaky lookin'. The song still makes my skin crawl to this day. Blech. :P
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Sorry guys and gals, just my opinion, the video was awful and he's darn freaky lookin'. The song still makes my skin crawl to this day. Blech. :P
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I agree ::)
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I remember seeing an old movie with Clark Gable singing it. Can't remember the movie.
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I keep wanting to say "San Francisco" but I don't think that was the 1. He had so many movies around that time I can't think of which it would be.
This was a song I know Fred Astaire sang, but again, I can't recall in what. It's probably been in several movies.
Also, at the end of Taco's rendition, he goes into "Gotta Dance"....which is part of some Arthur Freed song; in any case it was part of his "Broadway Melody/Rhythm" sequence in "Singin' in the Rain".
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He had only one hit, yet he released a Greatest Hits album???? I don't get it...