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Name: OXO
Album: OXO
Year: 1983
Style: Synth Pop, Dance-pop
Similar Bands: Devo, English Beat, Haircut 100, Rubblebucket, Pointer Sisters, Bee Gees, Heaven 17
"One-Word" Review: Synthy Island Boy Band
Based Out Of: Florida
Label: Geffen, Warner Brothers, Warner Communications, David Geffen Company

Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Lyrics, Record

OXO (1983)

1. Whirly Girl 2:56
2. Dance All Night 2:26
3. My Ride 2:39
4. Wanna Be Your Love 3:45
5. In The Stars 4:14 /
6. You Make It Sound So Easy 3:05
7. Waiting For You 2:41
8. Back In Town 2:37
9. I'll Take You Back 3:31
10. Love I Need Her 2:36
11. Runnin' Low 2:20

Album Rating (1-10): 5.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Ish Angel (Ledesma) - Vox, Horn Arrangement, Percussion, Guitar, Synth Programming, Producer (Foxy, Company B, Blue Moderne, Bubble Solution, Garcia's Super Funk, Wizzzard, Rick Ashton, Sergio Mendes, Boyzone, George & Gwen McCrae, Betty Wright, Tony Wilson, Abba, Space People, Time Traveler, Apollonia, Dimples Tee, Gloria Estefan, 2 Live Crew, Mo Thugs, Santa Esmeralda, Little Beaver )
• Orlando -Guitar, Vox, Synth, Percussion (Vanessa Williams, DJ Don Juan, Ish)
• Frank Garcia - Bass, Programming, Vox
• Freddy Alwag - Drums, Vox (Sylvie Vartan, Smokey Robinson, Tonio K. Stacy Lattisaw, Billy Vera & Beaters, Four Tops)
• Uptown Horns - Horns
• Steve Porcaro - Synth Programming (Chris Squire Experiment, Toto, Bette Midler, Alice Cooper, Hall & Oates, more)
• Ian Underwood - Synth Programming (The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric orchestra, The Mothers, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Jean-Luc Ponty, Sergio Mendes, Quincy Jones, more )
• David Thoener - Re-Recording Engineer, Mixing, Producer
• Umberto Gatica - Re-Recording Engineer
• Bill Bottrell - Re-Recording Engineer
• Richard McKernan - 2nd Engineer
• Steve Marcantonio - 2nd Engineer
• Ricky DeLena - 2nd Engineer
• Stephen Schmitt - 2nd Engineer
• George Marino - Mastering
• Ken Mansfield - Producer
• Carole Childs - Producer
• Mick Haggerty - Album Design
• Aaron Rapoport - Photos

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. But the black & white w/ minimal yellow cover art of the OXO repeating over and over has a feeling of a synth band, although the photo on the back has a 70's power pop vibe.

Album Review: OXO, not to be confused with the home kitchen gadgetry company or tic-tac-toe video game from 1952, was a "one hit wonder" band with top 40 Adam Ant-ish, swingy single "Whirly Girl" (about Ish's wife). Overall, this album has a harmonic island dance boy band style going on. "My Ride" has some Devo & Thomas Dolby elements, but is much more overproduced with the slick, tinny mid 80's synth sound. "In the Stars" sounds like a Pointer Sisters song. 2007's real footage documentary and 2015's comedy remake, both called Frank & Cindy is about bassist Frank Garcia odd marriage told by his filmmaker stepson. 2015 casts Oliver Platt as Frank & Renne Russo as Cindy.

Stand Out Track: My Ride

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Variety Review of 2007's Frank & Cindy

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