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No Strings Attached (Those Darn Accordions album)

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Released
  
June 18, 1996

No Strings Attached (1996)
  
Clownhead (1999)

Release date
  
18 June 1996

Label
  
Globe Records

Length
  
48:30

Artist
  
Those Darn Accordions

Producer
  
Scott Mathews

Genres
  
Polka, Comedy music

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Recorded
  
1996 at Tiki Town, Marin County, United States

Similar
  
Lawnball, Squeeze This!, Squeeze Machine, Vongole Fisarmonica

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No Strings Attached is the third studio album by American accordion band Those Darn Accordions, released on June 18, 1996 by Globe Records.

Contents

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Overview

Released at the height of TDA's popularity, No Strings Attached showcases the band's trademark mixture of accordion-driven rock, pop and polka, as well as boasting ska, funk and jazz influences. The album notably features two cover songs, one of The Who's "Baba O'Riley" and the other of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", the latter sung by TDA's then-81-year-old member Clyde Forsman.

In a positive review, the Memphis Flyer called TDA "the true champions" of the alternative music scene's revival of the accordion, ahead of Brave Combo and They Might Be Giants. The review concluded "This is one recording filled with good-natured humor where the novelty doesn't wear off, because there's a wealth of musical integrity behind it. Those Darn Accordions! are blazing a trail down a path that most fear to tread, and they're doing it with panache and aplomb".

Personnel

Those Darn Accordions
  • Linda "Big Lou" Seekins - accordion, lead vocals (5, 13), background vocals
  • Patty Brady - accordion, lead vocals (13), background vocals
  • Clyde Forsman - accordion, lead vocals (13, 14), background vocals
  • Suzanne Garramone - accordion, lead vocals (13), background vocals
  • Art Peterson - accordion, lead vocals (5, 13), background vocals
  • Paul Rogers - accordion, lead vocals (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13)
  • Bill Schwartz - drums, percussion, background vocals
  • Lewis Wallace - bass guitar
  • Additional musicians
  • Dick Contino - solo accordion on tracks 5 & 12
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic - vocals on track 13
  • John Moore - tuba
  • Danute Janutiene - vocals on track 4
  • Songs

    1Mothra3:20
    2Behind the Bellows3:29
    3Them Hippies was Right4:16

    References

    No Strings Attached (Those Darn Accordions album) Wikipedia