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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | DeFrancomania |
| Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:27:03 -0500 |
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> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Steve Yaver <syaver@jps.net>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: First 45
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> I've got the DeFranco Family album and I actually like that song. Maybe
> it's because I hear it's potential in my head as a revved up cover, maybe
> by a band like the Queers or someone of that ilk.
>
It's been covered in exactly that manner by at least one band of
which I'm aware, Chicago goof-punks the Vindictives. I saw them do a snotty
and amphetamined version of "Heartbeat (It's a Lovebeat)", and I noticed on
AMG that they also included it on their covers album, *Party Time For
Assholes*. Their live version wasn't as good as it would've been done by the
unchallenged masters in the field of speeded-up punk covers, the Dickies,
but it was still pretty entertaining.
> The chorus is catchy as hell.
>
I had a friend in college who insisted that the beep-beep-beep
middle eight of "Heartbeat (It's a Lovebeat)" was lifted wholesale from the
opening theme to the TV show *Emergency*. He figured that it was stuck in
there because the DeFranco girls had a jones for Randolph Mantooth.
Gregory Sager
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