Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Moonlights s/t 197 "Hoy" 1976 1976

Active since 1967, the band with the most stable work in Uruguay, Moonlights recorded a  couple single for the Opheus imprint: "It was very Piola De Mina b/w "Marabou", and "Goodbye Suzsnna b/w "Looking Love" in 1970 before getting picked up  by London for two more singles. One a cover of Led Zeppelin's  "Immigrant Song" b/w "San Bernardino" and "Baby I Got New For You" b/w "Montygo Bay." (both 1971).

Their First LP came out in 1972 on Plant Disks, (De La Planta). With the coup in Uruguay in 1973, The Moonlights among other bands, suffered through a mandatory censorship. The band tried to keep surviving by continuing to  playing live shows, witch proved fruitless.

The group had always revolved around the Sergio Iriate brothers on guitar and vocals, with Octavo Iriratte on bass, Also including Casar Jover on first guitar, and Cico Ciccone on drums. Rudolpho Fuentes comments that the first recording in Spanish was the theme to the simple "EL Circo" ("The theme for the 1947 movie) of 1971.

After the limited commercial impact of their second  album: "Hoy'' (Today), in 1976, the band broke up and Dino continued his solo career.  The band also appears on a split 7" single with a band called; Munlay Set (1974) and preforms  "Only Want You". And again on a CD compilation in 1998 The Killers and Dolphin. 
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