Once again thank you to KFAI hosts, Ron Thums and Jean Silverberg, of Radio Rumpus Room, for resurrecting “The Chancellors”. This time for my birthday and the song… “Charlie Brown”.
“Charlie Brown” was written by the song writing team of Leiber and Stoller, and released by “The Coasters”. It is one of those songs like “Purple People Eater” or “Great Balls Of Fire” that everybody has fun with. I like doing voices and mimicry so I got to sing the tagline “Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?”
“The Chancellors” recorded “Charlie Brown” in the same session as “Little Latin Lupe Lu” on October 13, 1964. We weren’t expecting to record more then two songs that day so “Charlie Brown” was just time filler and there was no surprise when it was never “officially” released.
Imagine the surprise when we discovered the 3 volume series “The SOMA Records Story” put out by Sundazed Records in 1998 that included long forgotten “Charlie Brown”. Also included, the instrumental “Surf Beat” and one of the rare vocal numbers sung by drummer, John Hughes, “I Can Tell”.
“Charlie Brown” sung by “The Chancellors” can be heard on the KFAI website for the next 2 weeks on the January 23rd show archive. It will play within the first 10 minutes of broadcast.
http://www.kfai.org/node/103
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