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1963

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The Colors returned to New York with Bill Spades waiting. They went straight back into the studio to record a new version on 'We Are, The Colors' with vocalist Tex Stein. Once again, the band had a huge argument in the studio over what the B-side should be, with the brothers insisting it should be an instrumental Belizean folk tune that Nintendo later used for their 'Super Mario Bros' theme. This argument took a turn when Derek Bounty confessed to in fact keeping the old Jemima Snow tapes. Luckily, enough takes were recorded for Bill Spades to piece together both tunes with some crafty tape cutting and pasting. When the album was pressed, however, 'We Are, The Colors' was pressed onto both sides of the record. They ran out of money to repress the album and so Alex decided to store the master tapes at his father’s record shop for when enough cash was saved up.

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