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
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!)."
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"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."
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"Optical Atlas review"
Series Two Records released a new 9 CD compilation album. CLICK HERE FOR Full Track list and Purchasing information for the January 2009 compilations by Series Two Records The compilation 9 CD set features 204 artists and 700 minutes of music. The Compilations feature artists from all over the world including bands from (13) states of the USA, Canada, Australia, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, France,Italy, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Croatia, Indonesia, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Brazil, Belgium, Switzerland, and Israel.
Hello music lovers Napoleon's UK debut single, I Love My Baby (But If Anyone Touches Her I'll Kill Them), will be released Feb 16th. The song is already regularly played on BBC Radio 2 and has been chosen as this week's Record of the Week on BBC6 Music. http://www. bbc. co. uk/6music/shows/shaun_keaveny/rotw. shtml
The video is soon to be seen on MTV, until then, log on to http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=TjQechwXd2w and watch our beloved singer Johan Barrett get his ass kicked by some mean dogs!
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Series Two Records released a new 5 CD compilation album. Read more information here Full Track listing The compilation 5 CD set features 118 artists and 390 minutes of music. The Compilations feature artists from all over the world including bands from (12) states of USA, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Costa Rica, Australia, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Indonesia,New Zealand, Serbia, China, Canada, Germany, Russia, Switzerland and Philippines.
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