Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs---"Mexican-American" Style Rock n'Roll?
I can't remember exactly when or where I read that. Maybe in a magazine or on some web site.
Frankly I've always thought of those guys as being along the line of a novelty "garage" style band. Best known for their satirical parodies of monster movie imagerisms and children's fairy tales.
These days anything ever recorded by someone Hispanic is somehow automatically considered representative of the "Mexican-American culture", no matter how irrelevant the actual content of their music is to such or how broad-based their music is.
The only image Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ever projected was one of spoofing the modern-day stereotype of ancient Egyptians. There isn't anything even remotely "ethnic" about their style.
It's simply "fun rock" mid-60s style.
I can't remember exactly when or where I read that. Maybe in a magazine or on some web site.
Frankly I've always thought of those guys as being along the line of a novelty "garage" style band. Best known for their satirical parodies of monster movie imagerisms and children's fairy tales.
These days anything ever recorded by someone Hispanic is somehow automatically considered representative of the "Mexican-American culture", no matter how irrelevant the actual content of their music is to such or how broad-based their music is.
The only image Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ever projected was one of spoofing the modern-day stereotype of ancient Egyptians. There isn't anything even remotely "ethnic" about their style.
It's simply "fun rock" mid-60s style.
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