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October 4, 2024
Green & Purple Vinyl
The theme song "You're Dead" to the FX show What We Do in the
Shadows has fostered a new appreciation for the singular talent that
was Norma Tanega. And it's high time, too...Norma was discovered
while singing to Catskill summer campers by producer Herb Bernstein,
who brought her to Four Seasons songwriter Bob Crewe. Crewe
signed her to his New Voice label, and success was instantaneous: the
title song to Walkin' My Cat Named Dog went to #22 on the charts.
But, despite the album's folk-pop trappings, Norma Tanega was
not an artist destined to stay at the top of the charts for long; her
voice was unconventional, and her songs were too idiosyncratic, not
sticking to typical song structure or even meter (for example, "No
Stranger Am I" is set to a 5/4 time signature). In fact, Tanega's songs
were so unusual that she had to hire session musicians to play them
on the North American tour she took to support the album instead
of her erstwhile back-up band The Outsiders! Upon returning, she
then embarked on a British tour that was to change her life forever;
there she met Dusty Springfield, and the two embarked on an
artistic and romantic relationship that prompted Tanega to move
to London for five years. After the pair broke up, Tanega wound
up moving to California and shifted to playing percussion in more
experimental settings, following the wayward muse that makes
Walkin' My Cat Named Dog such an entrancing and unique
listening experience to this day. We're pressing a green and purple
vinyl edition to honor What We Do in the Shadows as it enters the final season of a great, six-year run...and
to give folks another chance to hear the amazing and haunting sounds of Norma Tanega!
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