Los Shakers: Alternate Global Timeline

  As a result of the Toto’s Bar fiasco in January 1968, Odeon forced Capitol to drop Los Shakers from the label and although these events affected Los Shakers and Odeon, ultimately the final double-disc album was finished and released later in the year. As the group was working on the album, Odeon signed a deal with Columbia Records for American and Canadian distribution of their material and as a consequence of the fallout, Odeon did not allow another one of their artists to have their records released by Capitol in the United States until the label became rebranded and regrouped into EMI during the 1970s.  Los Shakers’ releases from this point onwards mirror the intended Argentinian albums/singles perfectly regarding track listings, artwork and titles and edits. The first release under this practice was the two disc edition of ‘La Conferencia Secreta Del Toto’s Bar’ released in August 1968. As Los Shakers focused solely on albums from this point onwards, very few singles wer...

  After the immediate success of ‘Red Rubber Ball’ and ‘Hallelujah’ across the world, Los Shakers returned to Argentina to record what would become their double album ‘La Conferencia Secreta Del Toto’s Bar.’ It was decided that the project would be recorded as two separate parts with a break in between to allow for several months of touring. The album was set to be released in June of 1968 and recording of the album began in June of 1967, allowing the group a full year to complete the project comfortably. A memo in August 1967 was sent to Capitol Records, alerting the fact that a Los Shakers release could not be produced until January 1968 at the very earliest if permission was given to produce the first disc’s worth of material on its own, and not until June or July 1968 when the entire double album was finished. To combat this large gap in their release schedule, Capitol Records decided to create a fourteen track compilation album entitled ‘Escala Musical: The Best Of Los Shakers...