Sharon Osbourne revealed a “secret disco band track” titled “You Can Strike Oil – In Hollywood” that she recorded with a bunch referred to as the Sheikettes greater than 40 years in the past.
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The Osbournes matriarch detailed the track on a latest episode of The Osbournes podcast, which additionally options her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, and their youngsters Kelly and Jack. The household acquired a fan-submitted query that stated, “Had you discovered Sharon’s secret disco band track but?”
Certainly that they had. “You aren’t the one singer on this household,” Jack advised Ozzy. “Who knew Kelly and I got here from such greatness in the case of music?”
The Prince of Darkness appeared perplexed to be taught his spouse sang on the observe, commenting, “She’s fucking tone-deaf.”
The household then performed a portion of the track, which opens with the favored “Arabian riff” (also called “The Streets of Cairo” or “the snake charmer track”) earlier than coming into conventional disco territory.
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Sharon then defined the inspiration behind the Sheikettes observe, which got here out in 1978.
“There’s a home on Sundown Boulevard, and it is an unsightly white home now … it was once an attractive, white, traditional dwelling,” she stated. “I went into the home a number of occasions. It had an unbelievable speakeasy that you simply obtained by beneath the staircase. … Anyway, the home was up on the market, and a younger Arab couple purchased it, and the spouse stuffed the backyard and stuffed the wall, which had these large urns on [it] initially, with plastic flowers.”
She continued: “It was so ridiculous, it made the information that any person had put plastic flowers right here. And folks used to come back down on the weekend, and the automobiles would sluggish, and so they’d put plastic flowers [in the garden]. And this younger Arab couple beloved it, so then they obtained statues of girls, bare, and painted them, painted nipples on and pubic hairs and all of that, in order that the visitors would hold taking a look at their home. And it went throughout America. After which they fell out, and the chauffeur set hearth to the home and it burned down.”
“So, you made the correlation of like, ‘Oh, they struck oil in Hollywood as a result of they turned the home right into a spectacle,'” Jack then stated to Sharon, which she affirmed.
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The Sheikettes launched “You Can Strike Oil – In Hollywood” on Jet Information, the label based by Sharon’s father, Don Arden (and which launched Osbourne’s first two solo albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman). In response to Discogs, the group additionally included Carol Connors, who co-wrote the Rocky theme track “Gonna Fly Now,” and a girl named Avril Giacobbi.
Jack, Kelly and Ozzy all agreed that the Sheikettes ought to reunite and play a present. (“It is all about reunions, mum,” Kelly argued.) Sharon, nonetheless, was much less satisfied, telling her household, “I feel you’ve got misplaced the plot.”
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