Bazooka – not the bubblegum kind!

Remember the time when singles were released and the B-side was an instrumental version of the A-side? If you don’t then I’m probably getting old.

It was usually meant as a karaoke thing, for you to sing along to (at least that’s what I always figured it was all about). Most of the time, the A-side is what would get the most plays, because seriously…what is a musak instrumental B-side good for, besides irony?

Well this single was quite the opposite: French band Bazooka’s “Dada Dodo”. The A-side is the vocal version, with a beefy voiced male singer. When I first heard it I thought it was so bad I half-heartedly turned it over to listen to the instrumental version. I’m very glad I did! The instrumental version has some insane Moog as a vocal replacement. In fact, I would say this entire version stands on its own as a demented, crazy Moog freak orgy. Not that I would even know what that means.

This record is found nearly everywhere in Montreal (even though the band was French), yet there is little info about them out there. If anyone can enlighten us, please do.

I didn’t have a cover for this record, so the image seen here is taken from L’Encyclopédie du disque.

Bazooka – Dada Dodo (instrumental version)