Los Cochinos
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| Producer | Lou Adler | |||
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Los Cochinos ("The Pigs") is a 1973 comedy album recorded by Cheech & Chong. The Spanish term cochino is a derogatory way of referring to a pig, as it also means "dirty", in contrast to cerdo, a more neutral word for a pig as an animal. In this context, "cochino" ("[dirty] pig") equates to the American derogatory term "pig" for "police officer".
Packaging
The album cover of Los Cochinos had concept origination, design and art direction by Peter Corriston. The package design was nominated for a Grammy award. The first
The credits and track listing consisted of a black and white photograph of hand written graffiti also on a car door (four pairs of feet suggestively situated in the driver's side window) enclosed on a single sheet in the album. Additional graffiti includes the early 1970s arithmetic statement:
2 Good
+ 2 Be
________
4 Gotten,
a "↑ Made in U.S.A." and the classic "Wash Me!"
Reception and performance
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
Allmusic |   [1] |
In a review of the album published in
Track listing
All material written by
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sargent Stadanko" | 6:31 |
| 2. | "Peter Rooter" | 0:20 |
| 3. | "Up His Nose" | 3:24 |
| 4. | "Pedro and Man at the Drive-Inn" | 12:44 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Strawberry Revival Festival" | 3:24 |
| 2. | "Don't Bug Me" | 1:27 |
| 3. | "Evelyn Woodhead Speed Reading Course" | 0:36 |
| 4. | "Les Morpions" | 5:55 |
| 5. | "Cheborneck" | 1:12 |
| 6. | "White World of Sports" | 3:02 |
| 7. | "Basketball Jones by Tyrone Shoelaces and Rap Brown Jr. H.S. Band" | 4:04 |
Personnel
- Guitar – George Harrison
- Bass – Klaus Voormann
- Organ – Billy Preston
- Electric Piano – Carole King
- Piano – Nicky Hopkins
- Horns – Dick "Slyde" Hyde, George Bohanon, Paul Hubinon
- Percussion – Jim Keltner
- Drums – Jim Karsten
- Saxophone – Tom Scott
- Cheerleaders – The Blossoms (Darlene Love, Fanita James, and Jean King) and Michelle "Trixie" Phillips
Production
- Producer – Lou Adler
- Engineer – Norm Kinney
- Recorded by [All Recording-Studio-Live-Mixing And More], Mixed by – Bongo Norm Kinney
- Artwork [Collages] – Paul Zammit
- Artwork [Tinting] – Andy Reichline, Reed Hutchinson
- Design – Peter Corriston
- Photography by – Ed Caraeff
"Evelyn Woodhead Speed Reading Course"
This track is a parody of the numerous
Voiced by
Ever since I took the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Riddin' course, my riddin' has [Cheech carefully sounds out the syllables somewhat incorrectly] im-PROVVed one hunert percent [pause] and "comprenshun" has increased "won-der-full-lee". I recommend the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Riddin' course to all mah friends out there, and you tell 'em you heard it here first on
Roller Derby.
The short spoken word testimonial style skit was an efficient parody of commercials that were prevalent on the television and radio stations in that era.
"Basketball Jones"
The album's final track, "Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces", is a music track which features George Harrison on guitar, Carole King, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann, Nicky Hopkins, Jim Karstein and Tom Scott, with Darlene Love, Fanita James, Jean King, Ronnie Spector and Michelle Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas) as cheerleaders.
Animated in 1974, parts of this music video were featured in the 1979 movie Being There. This track was also released as a single and reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #36 in Canada.
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Maslin, Janet (November 22, 1973). "Los Cochinos". Rolling Stone. No. 148. Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. p. 82.
- Personnel & Production : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Cheech-Y-Chong-Los-Cochinos/release/1604635