Cha (album)

Cha
Studio album by Jo Jo Zep
Released	22 October 1982
Recorded	June 1982
Studio	Richmond Recorders
Genre	Rock, pop
Label	Mushroom, A&M
Producer	Peter Solley
Jo Jo Zep chronology
Step Lively (1981) Cha (1982) The Sound of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (1983)
Singles from Cha
"Taxi Mary" Released: September 1982 "Walk On By" Released: December 1982 "Losing Game (1983 release only) " Released: July 1983

Cha is the seventh studio album by Australian band Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, but first and only to be credited as Jo Jo Zep. It is also the final studio album by the band until Ricochet in 2003. The album was released in November 1982 and peaked at number 28 on the Australian Kent Music Report. David Nichols called Cha primarily a "latin-based dance record".^[1]

In a 2014 interview with Carol Duncan, Camilleri reflected on the album saying "I had this really beautiful 13-piece band and we went around the country and we had two hit singles... but I wasn't very happy with the record. It could have been so much better and it was my fault that it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be, but anyway, it yielded these two songs and we got to play and I got to do something that I wanted to do which was play with the cha band and six horns and high-heeled boots and gay cavalier and all that nonsense, but it just left me wanting. It was nice, but it wasn't what I wanted to do."^[2]

Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons disbanded in 1983.