Shango was a rock quartet in the late 1960s, led by Tommy Reynolds, later of
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, which included actor
Stuart Margolin.
Shango's best-known recording was a 1969 song, a modest novelty hit called "Day After Day [[It's Slippin' Away)" from their self-titled album Shango. Produced by
Jerry Riopelle and co-written by Margolin, Riopelle and Reynolds, it mocked contemporary doomsday predictions that
California was destined to be destroyed [[presumably
very soon) by an
earthquake. It was sung in
Calypso style:
Day after dayMore people come to L.A.Shh! Don't you tell them thatThe whole place slippin' awayIt was later adapted into a car ad:
Day after dayMore people drive Chevrolet...
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