The Chancellors, 44th Anniversary of Little Latin Lupe Lu

I wish I remembered this on Monday but it didn’t occur to me until today. October 13th was the 44th anniversary of the recording of “Little Latin Lupe Lu”.
“The Chancellors” were a live music entertainment group. Making a record was a promotional move that would introduce our style of music and performance to a wider area of teenagers. More demand meant more money for a gig. I don’t think any of us thought about making a record to become rich and famous. We were happy with who we were at the moment.
Ira Heilicher from Path Musical Productions, our booking agent, arranged for us to record at Kay Bank Studios. Path paid for the studio time and we showed up to play.
We approached playing in the studio the same way we did on stage, rehearsed and prepared. We played through “Little Latin Lupe Lu”. It was perfect on the first take. They wanted us to play through again to see if anything changed, so we did, a couple of times. Ira, Dick and the sound engineers went with the first take.
So now we had all this time still on the clock, what to do? We recorded Mike Judge’s crowd pleasing “Yo Yo”. The later WDGY Top 40 hit, “So Fine” and an instrumental “Surf Beat” were taped. “Charlie Brown” with David Rivkin singing lead and Dan Holm asking, “Why’s everybody always picking on me?”. John Hughes even sang one of his rare solo pieces, “I Can Tell”. “The Chancellors” tight harmony was well represented.