PLEDGE WEEK: “La conferencia secreta del Toto’s Bar” by Los Shakers

Andrew Hickey· Host0:00

This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey. Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one.

Speaker 1· Soundbite0:21

[singing] rock and roll. [singing] yeah. Rock and roll. Roll and rock away. On the down round and round we'll sway. We'll be swell. In the spell. Of the rock and rocking rhythm of the sea.

Andrew Hickey· Host0:40

This episode is going to be a little different from normal because I'm covering a band about whom there's almost no information in English. Normally, I do all the research myself, but in this case I've had to ask Tilt, who can speak a little Spanish, to help with finding some of the information and also with the pronunciation of some words and names. Any mistakes I make are still mine, and I will definitely still be mispronouncing things as I have a mild speech impediment, which means I literally can't make some of the phonemes in Spanish. But anything I've got right, you can probably credit him for. That's because today we're going to take a look at Los Shakers, Uruguay's most important band of the '60s, and at their masterpiece, La Conferencia Secreta del Toto's Bar.

Speaker 1· Soundbite1:21

[singing] read the newspaper