A Bailar Surf
(The Surf Dance)
El Esqueleto (The Skeleton) / Tampico / Como Te Extraño Mi Amor (How I Miss You My Love) / La Pera Madura (The Ripe Pear) / Reynosa / Tijuana / Cocktail Margarita / Mira Como Me Balanceo (Look How I Swing) / Surf A La Jarocha (Surfing at La Jarocha)/ Despeinada (Dishevled)/ Merida Surf
Nacho Rosales and His Orchestra
// 1964 on Musart Records (D 1009)
3.0
Album Review:
Another Mexican surf release from1964 on the Musart label. A Surf Bailar features Nacho Rosales and His Orchestra. Tracks are followed by their English translation in parenthesis when applicable.
'El Esqueleto' (The Skeleton) is a bouncy sax-driven instrumental in the vein of Alvin and the Chipmunks. 'Tampico' is a 50s-style number with an organ. 'Como Te Extraño Mi Amor' (How I Miss You My Love) features an electric guitar lead and some punchy saxophones. Reminiscent of the music in AIP Beach Party films, 'Bello Acapulco' (Beautiful Acapulco) is closer to the surf style. 'La Pera Madura' (The Ripe Pear) dances along, while 'Reynosa' is rather a forgettable tune with a Lawrence Welkian organ solo. 'Tijuana' sounds very much like an outtake from the Marketts' Surfers Stomp album. The meandering 'Cocktail Margurita' is followed by another hookless number, 'Mira Como Me Balanceo' (Look How I Swing). 'Surf A La Jarocha' (Surfing At La Jarocha) does a fair job of emulating the surf style with it's strumming guitars and saxophone wailing over a big band swing groove. 'Despeinada' (Disheveled) sounds a bit like Billy Vaughn's 'Wheels.' 'Merida Surf' finishes out the album well.
A Surf Bailar has more in common with the early "stomp" sound of the Marketts, Bruce Johnston, and select Dick Dale tracks than the aggressively wet overdriven crunch reverberating out of Southern California at the time. Though only surf music by proxy, Nascho Rosales' sound is as innocuous as a tropical Hawaiian breeze that the Beach Boys sang about. If you find a copy, why not pick it up?
CHOICE CUTS:
Bella Acapulco (Beautiful Acapulco) / Surf A La Jarocha (Surfing At La Jarocha
