I first came across Bacarra on the 1977 album ‘Disco Fever’ where their number one hit ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’ was the first track on side one. A forerunner to the ‘Cheeky Girls’, Bacarra were two Spanish girls who had a couple of hits in the 1970s of which this was their second one.
Listening to this again it sounds so wonderfully dated and lines like ‘Have you got a light?’ remind us of the days when lighting up a fag in a bar was the height of sophistication, however this record is a kitsch masterpiece and deserves to be enjoyed by a completely new audience. Despite the fact that it sounds like a comedy song that would be best suited to the chaps from ‘Little Britain’ in their Lady like finery it was a seriously massive hit back in 1978 and conveys a message about being ‘respectable’ from a time when such things were still considered important.
A true disco classic with fantastic production values it deserves to be revived and so I give you…Bacarra……
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