Viva Tirado: The South/East LA Connection

Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Lost Notes explores how the song “Viva Tirado” exemplifies the inter-generational musical conversation between LA’s Black and Brown communities.

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0:00.0	Hey, Michael.
0:01.4	Yes, Novina.
0:02.4	Okay, so I've had this riff stuck in my head all day, and I cannot put my finger on it.
0:08.4	Oh, I hate what that happens.
0:09.8	Yes.
0:10.7	But maybe we can figure it out together.
0:12.1	I mean, this is lost notes from KCRW, after all.
0:14.8	How does it go?
0:15.8	Okay.
0:16.4	It kind of goes...
0:17.8	Doom.
0:19.5	Doon-doom doom.
0:20.4	Doon, doon, doom, do do do do do do. Oh, that's La Rasa from LA's very own
0:25.3	kid Frost. I got that over here. Where is it? Right here. Okay. Let's see. No, no, no, no. It's not
0:32.1	La Rasa. Like, the one I'm thinking of is a little bit faster and it's definitely an instrumental.
0:38.4	Okay.
0:39.6	Well, maybe it's the song that La Rasa sample.
0:43.0	Okay.
0:43.6	What is that one?
0:44.8	Viva Toronto.
0:45.6	It was released in 1970 and recorded in Los Angeles by El Chicano.
0:48.6	Okay, let me hear that one.
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