The Kinks en espanol

This YouTube clip is cool and sweet, on many levels. Here's the back story, from Friend of the Blog, Mike Webber:

I guess at some point, everything will reach YouTube. I've been telling people for years about three of my brother-in-laws having been in a really popular band in Mexico during the 60's: Los Hitters on Discos Capitol de Mexico.

Their biggest hits were covers of the Kinks and the Animals, apparently because those bands received less exposure in Mexico and therefore the covers were less likely to be compared with the originals than either the Beatles or the Stones.

Anyhow, my mind is thoroughly blown now because I just found a clip of them from '60s Mexican television, covering the Kinks' "Well Respected Man" ("Un Hombre Respetable").

My brother-in-law Guillermo gets some good on-camera time here ... decades before he opened his restaurant in New Orleans and made his name in the culinary, rather than performing, arts. This clip is poignant stuff because he always had the largest repository of Los Hitters' memorabilia: the records, the Capitol promo photos and press releases. But all of it was lost to Katrina when his house was fully submerged for weeks. Enjoy the clip.

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[gsp]

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[Pat]

Great find! In fact the several posts have all been really good.

Next up, make sure to point out those that weren't on time for the Police show missed Elvis and Sting duet on "Alison". They have only been doing this for a few shows now and they nailed it tonight.