I bought
Sonia Dada’s self-titled debut CD (used, for $2.99) based on their catchy (if
ungrammatical) ditty “You Don’t Treat Me No Good”, which got quite a bit of
airplay on WHFS and was revived in 2010 by Jerrod Niemann. Retitled “Lover,
Lover”, the surprisingly faithful cover went to #1 on Billboard’s country
charts. The original actually hit #1 in Australia, where the band had
considerably more success than in the U.S.
“The Edge Of
The World” is even better, a fantastic soul ballad that really should be
revived, although I doubt that anyone else could come up with a version that’s
better than the original.
My copy of
the CD lists “Daniel Laszlo” as the songwriter for both tracks – he’s actually
the writer or co-writer of all 12 tracks – and as a member of the band. The
band’s Wikipedia page and official web site, however, list “Daniel Pritzker” as
the band’s co-founder and primary songwriter, with no reference to “Laszlo”. I
did track down a couple of websites that indicated that Pritzker used Laszlo as
an alias, at least at the beginning of the band’s career. None provided any
explanation, but my theory is that Pritzker felt that his status as an heir to
the Hyatt hotel chain might have damaged his rock cred. (As of the date of this
posting, Forbes listed his net worth at $2.1 billion.)
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