I'd love a little help from a knowledgeable authority out there to add some more detailed information regarding this single, the band, and composer John Sluszny.
- - Or even to help confirm some of the 'facts' I've presented.
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(ADDENDUM, 8/12/08: It begins! Please click on the comments to this post for some GREAT additional info from folks in the know!)
From what I have been able to determine so far, this single is the only U.S. release for Belgian studio group El Chicles.
The B-side of the 45 is a sort of generic disco instrumental that sounds like it would have fit in nicely in a trashy European film soundtrack from the era.
I'll guess that the title was an afterthought intended to capitalize on the marketability of the streaking craze that was occurring in the U.S. at the time.
As to the A-side, with provocative vocals of a man and woman exchanging sounds of passion, it sounds like a cousin to Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg's 'Je t'aime... moi non plus', released a few years earlier in 1968.
- - But in fact the song is much more directly connected to the supremely steamy
'Jungle Fever', the fabulously bizarre and slightly mysterious hit from 1972 by
The Chakachas.
As near as can be determined, El Chicles and The Chakachas were different aliases for the same group of Belgian studio musicians.
They worked for producer Roland Kluger's RKM group, recording commercial 'library' music and backing up many other artists on their releases.
Composer / Musician John Sluszny was credited with some solo recordings around the same era, and worked a few years later with Plastic Bertrand of 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' fame.
(- - And perhaps you can give me an answer to this 'googling' query: Is this the same John Sluszny who turns up now in several Belgian steel guitar forums?)
Looking at the U.S. 45 label (with El Chicles credited as 'El Chicle') I'm wondering if perhaps 'La La La' co-composer 'R. Dero' might be another nom de plume for arranger Will Albimoor, who used the name 'Bill Ador' on his 'Jungle Fever' and other tunes.
It seems to fit his M.O....
Listen to:
El Chicles -
La La La
(Shakat Records 45, 1974)
(click for audio)
(MANY THANKS to Joe Sixpack for the generous loan of this 45 from the Slipcue collection)
Listen to:
El Chicles -
Streaking A Go Go
(Shakat Records 45, 1974)
(click for audio)
I'll guess that the title was an afterthought intended to capitalize on the marketability of the streaking craze that was occurring in the U.S. at the time.
Listen to: 
