HEY PACHUCO ROYAL CROWN REVUE LIVE MOVIE

The band formed in 1989, the direct brainchild of Eddie Nichols. It all started with The Mask, though, and the song in that scene was Hey, Pachuco! and the band was Royal Crown Revue. Yet by the end of the decade, three distinct bands capitalizing on that neo-swing sound would crack the top ten, introducing the music of Louis Prima to the modern world. Yet like the rest of the movie, there was a sense of something very modern inside and along with all of the retro sound, a catchy little infectious hook that stuck in the back of the minds of millions of moviegoers as they walked out of that film, humming a song that, sadly, most of them would never hear again.

HEY PACHUCO ROYAL CROWN REVUE LIVE MOVIE

The scene in that movie that really stuck with me was the one in which Cameron and Jim danced together to an excellent swing song, using the steps that my grandpa used to use with grandma back in the day. Remember the 1994 movie The Mask? The one with Jim Carrey in the ridiculous yellow suit and green mask, acting as over the top as he possibly could? Remember the impossibly young Cameron Diaz in that movie, her first big break, still with the glow of youth around her? and in that one moment, it was Royal Crown Revue playing in the background. Most people say that the explosion of the revival of swing music of the late 1990s can be traced back to one moment. The unheralded fathers of the swing revival.

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