Richie Chodes-electric and acoustic guitars, electric bass guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer, vocals
Influences
70’s am radio, Joe Raposo, Elephant 6, Monkees, Beatles, Bread, vaudeville music, Raspberries, Badfinger, Randy Newman, Tom Lehrer,Allan Sherman,Weird Al, Emmet Rhodes, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, the Hollies, Big Star, England Dan and John Ford Coley,Gilbert O’Sullivan, Left Banke, Beach Boys, Zombies, Supertramp, The Byrds, Lovin Spoonful, Paul Davis, the Archies, the Banana Splits, Billy Joel, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, Barry Mannilow,etc.
Sounds Like
To create King Sauce, add a pinch of the following and stir well:
Beatles, Monkees, Raspberries, Joe Raposo, Badfinger, Bread, Todd Rundgren, Emmet Rhodes, vaudeville music, 70’s am radio,Tom Lehrer, Weird Al, Randy Newman, Elephant 6, the Hollies, Steely Dan, Big Star, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Zombies, Beach Boys, Left Banke, Supertramp, Paul Davis,Allan Sherman,The Byrds, Lovin Spoonful, the Archies, Banana Splits, Billy Joel, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, Barry Mannilow,etc.
King Sauce is a "novelty-pop" project out of Columbus, NJ headed by Richie Chodes. Combining 70's am radio, 60's pop, and a touch of vaudeville, King Sauce creates catchy tunes with silly, tounge in cheek lyrics ala Randy Newman. Aptly named for a Burger King condiment, King Sauce sometimes borders on the offensive but all in the name of fun! Picture the Monkees meet Weird Al and you'll get the picture. They have released a 7" vinyl EP for hhbtm records in 1999, a split vinyl EP for Obtuse records in 2001, and a full length cd "Please don't change the channel" for hhbtm records in 2002, as well as various compilations. Richie Chodes also was the bass player/keyboardist for the Elephant 6 based "Vince Mole and his Calcium Orchestra" headed by former Apples in Stereo guitarist Chris Parfitt.
Update: King Sauce will be releasing a Holiday EP next Christmas 2008, possibly on vinyl, consisting of 4 unreleased songs from the "Cancelled" and "PLease dont change the channel" sessions. They may also be playing the Toledo Indie pop festival this summer. Stay tuned!
To order new cd "Cancelled", please send $10.00 (includes postage) to:
King Sauce c/o Richie Chodes
53 Birmingham Drive
Columbus,NJ 08022
USA
To order other King Sauce items, go to:
http://www.hhbtm.com/kingsauce
or email:kingsauce67@yahoo.com
"Flatsound, Iamb and Kingsauce Split CD"
Buy it at:
http://www.myspace.com/pacificnaturerecording
"Cancelled" Reviews:
Chris, from IndiePages, wrote: "It's been a while since the last Kingsauce record, but he's found a new home with our good friends at Little Pocket Records (who did a good job assembling a nice-looking package!)."
Read more of this review here...
"IndiePages review"
Optical Atlas' Jeff Kuykendall said, "The album revealed his true concept for Kingsauce as a satirical guitar-pop band, singing about 70’s sitcoms and films while channeling, so to speak, the music of the same period."
Read more of this review here...
"Optical Atlas review"
Hi, Just to let you know I will be playing your music Tuesday on my show on www. HGRNJ. org between 12 noon and 3 pm Eastern Time ( 5-8 pm England or 6-9 pm Central Europe Time). I hope you can tune in, if you miss the show you can Check out my Playlist's Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think! cheers sher "Sher Delight"
so i finished the Cd if you guys would like a copy to keep for yourself. :) and if you could make a mention of it in a bulletin or on you myspace page that would be awesome and help me out in selling them to your fans.
Welcome to the IndieCan community. Please make yourself at home here and we might be broadcasters, but we're listening too. We're all in this together!
Thanks for being our friend.
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Thanks for saying Rich, you've done some good stuff yourself (what I've heard of Cancelled is great) :) I hope you and Chris decide to get back to Vince Moling sometime soon!
Hey Rich, this is Chris Gilbert, I ordered some records from you a while back, and I just thought I'd drop you a line saying how much I love them! Keep making groovy tunes.
