Odeon Cinema Tunes

[pinz02]

Can someone please tell me what songs the odeon play at the beginning of the films, theres a jazzy kinda one and then theres the laid-back ones, i just love them all and need to know what they are. btw i think this is for the essex cinema's, i dont know if they apply to everywhere. thanks alot to whoever can help. cheers.

[mikewith]

The song is "I Like It Like That", recorded by Pete ('Mr Boogaloo') Rodriguez. Available on a compilation called 'Latin - The Essential Album'. The tune was written and first recorded in 1961 by New Orleans legends singer Chris Kenner and producer Allen Toussaint. Kenner is best kown now for writing "Land of 1000 Dances", but his original version of "I like it like that" reached #2 on the Billboard pop chart. He died in 1976. Toussaint was a pianist/ arranger in the 50s, moving on to become THE great producer of New Orleans - The Meters, Lee Dorsey, Lady Marmalade and about a million otheres - and a musician in his own right ("Southern Nights"). Still working, I think.