153  Tango Not Credited on Film

Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:35:52 EDT
From: Clifton Chow <TangoPassionMoon@AOL.COM>
Subject: Tango Not Credited on Film

Hola, my fellow Tangueros y Tangueras,

I want to communicate something that is a bit troubling to me. It concerns a
recent comedy that I am not sure did very well in the cinema. It's an
American film called "Double-Take." It's a comedy about two men, one a
successful investment banker, and another an apparent thief, who trade
places. Anyway, the plot of the film is unimportant. The main point here is
that one of the title songs is a Tango played with some sort of hip hop
rhythm and by a mariachi band. The song is "El Choclo." At the end of the
film I waited until the credits scrolled down to music and there was no
mention of "el choclo." Instead, some other band was given credit for that
song. This is ridiculous. The song is a rip-off.

That's all I have. If you do rent the movie from Blockbusters, just fast
forward to the scene when the two men are in Mexico for the first time.
There the song comes on and they do some sort of hip hop dance to El Choclo.

Cheers,
Clifton de Boston

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:58:21 -0700
From: john trimble <john.trimble@EXCITE.COM>
Subject: Re: Tango Not Credited on Film

Clifton's not alone in being angry at the Double-Take Soundtrack credits.
An artist whose output was sampled for a song on the CD that became a big
hit is suing the label.

https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1443539/20010510/story.jhtml

BTW the song with a snippet of El Choclo is Return of the Tres by Delinquent
Habits. I don't know who the mariachis are they sampled El Choclo from,
though.


On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:35:52 EDT, TangoPassionMoon@AOL.COM wrote:

> Hola, my fellow Tangueros y Tangueras,
>
> I want to communicate something that is a bit troubling to me. It

concerns a

> recent comedy that I am not sure did very well in the cinema. It's an
> American film called "Double-Take." It's a comedy about two men, one a
> successful investment banker, and another an apparent thief, who trade
> places. Anyway, the plot of the film is unimportant. The main point

here is

> that one of the title songs is a Tango played with some sort of hip hop
> rhythm and by a mariachi band. The song is "El Choclo." At the end of

the

> film I waited until the credits scrolled down to music and there was no
> mention of "el choclo." Instead, some other band was given credit for

that

> song. This is ridiculous. The song is a rip-off.
>
> That's all I have. If you do rent the movie from Blockbusters, just fast
> forward to the scene when the two men are in Mexico for the first time.
> There the song comes on and they do some sort of hip hop dance to El

Choclo.

>
> Cheers,
> Clifton de Boston

john.trimble@excite.com