|
Post by cripes on Apr 6, 2008 11:30:50 GMT -5
The Who do the Neil Hefti TV show theme song...it's different from the Jan & Dean song.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 6, 2008 1:08:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the report and for representing The Island for this Ray tour.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 6, 2008 1:06:37 GMT -5
Heh heh....it's kinda surprising how dull Winwood is as a live performer...he has the looks and the voice....it's too bad he can't translate that into any sort of stage presence. Clapton....eh....'how's your blues journey going Eric?'...Ginger Baker may have some sort of charisma among serial killer type guys.
They changed the lyric of a Buddy Holly song--Buddy sang 'well all right so I'm going steady'. Blind Faith were way too cool for that. Cunts.
Final score--Blind Faith-one good song (Can't Find My Way Home). Thanks and fuck right off.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 5, 2008 11:27:29 GMT -5
We here on The Island are vehemently against buying a whole record for one fucking song. Buying tribute records is strictly for jerks. Here ya go.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 4, 2008 0:13:41 GMT -5
More 'Can't Buy Me Love' trivia--the picture sleeve for this US single is the rarest Capitol issued fab sleeve there is. It was only distributed on the east coast and it was hard to find even then. Most of them came in generic Capitol sleeves. This sleeve in VG shape can get upwards of $900.00 today.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 3, 2008 15:18:04 GMT -5
This is what nick was referring to on the Lollypop thing and it bears pasting: Sometimes the success of a record cannot be measured by how many copies it sold, but rather by the impact it had. Such is the case with My Boy Lollipop by Barbie Gaye. If you are a fan of the 60s, you know this song as a huge hit around the world in the summer of 1964. If you are fan of bluebeat and ska, you know this song as a groundbreaker that introduced the Jamaican beat to the world. If you are a Rod Stewart fan, you know this song for the wrong reason. At age 16 or 17 Barbie Gaye had already experienced success as a part of 'The Christmas Shower of Stars' at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater which was organised by the legendary DJ Alan Freed of WINS, a radio station that would figure prominently in 1964 when the Beatles arrived in New York City. Based on her stage success, this young white girl entered a recording studio to record some R'n'B tracks, one of which was My Boy Lollypop. My Boy Lollypop was written by Johnny Roberts and our old friend Morris Levy under the name R. Spencer. Upon release Alan Freed began pushing it on WINS, and while it didn't chart nationally, it did make it to the WINS chart and Freed's Top 25. As a senior in High School, songwriter Ellie Greenwich, who we all know for her talents as a Brill Building song writer with husband Jeff Barry, would hear My Boy Lollipop on WINS. She was so impressed with Barbie's style, that as a first year student in 1958 at Queens College in New York she would pen both sides of her first single, Silly Isn't It b/w Cha-Cha Charming released on RCA Victor records, and credit the writing and her performance to Ellie Gaye after Barbie. Fast forward to 1963. Millicent Smith, of Clarendon in Jamaica would be under the supervision of Chris Blackwell of Island records. She had been recording as a part of a duo called Roy and Millie for the Jamaican Studio One label, and managed to have a local hit with a song called We'll Meet. Rechristened as Millie, or Little Mille Small in the USA, she would record and release the relaese the track as My Boy Lollipop (with an I instead of a Y) and take it to number 2 in the USA and the UK, and number 1 on the CHUM chart in Canada. With a monster sound built for AM radio, the track grabbed you and pulled you in. Millie's version is particularly known for the hot harmonica solo in the middle, a solo that was not played, as rumoured, by Rod Stewart. With production by Chris Blackwell it would be the biggest hit to date for his own Island records, albeit released in the UK on Fontana. Millie managed to eek out one further minor hit in the US and Canada, a track called Sweet William, but would see bigger success in the UK. Barbie Gaye would disappear into obscurity, little realising her impact on the music scene through to the present day, as even the Spice Girls can be heard singing My Boy Lollipop in their film Spice World. As dynamite as Millie's recording is, Barbie's original is by no means a slouch. Barbie's voice brings to mind the styling and sound of her contemporary Brenda Lee. The harmonica solo on Millie's version is found here as a hot sax solo. While Barbie's version is classified as R'n'B, the roots of ska and bluebeat are present here and can be heard loud and clear. The B-side, Say You Understand, is a more typical R'n'B sound that showcases Barbie's talents and re-enforces all comaprisons to Brenda Lee. My Boy Lollypop is much easier to find on 45 than on 78, and even easier to find on CD. However, for some odd reason, most CD versions omit the first 6 notes of the recording! So, if you like the song, dig out your turntable, head to a record shop and get it on the coolest format around and really inpress your friends!
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 3, 2008 14:42:25 GMT -5
Any excuse to post an mp3 of Stan Freberg's Banana BoatI could not find a decent picture of Peter Leeds who played the bongo player in this skit ('Too piercing, man') on the internet so I scanned an old LP. Peter Leeds was a ubiquitous TV character actor. His IMDb page here. The Freberg players: Cartoon fans will know Daws Butler as the voice of Yogi Bear and half of the Hanna/Barbara animals. June Foray is most famous for the voice of Rocky the Squirrel.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 3, 2008 13:27:07 GMT -5
Weren't they from Australia or some other backward place?
You're thinking of The Seekers. The We's hail from San Francisco.
In Canada, them's fighting words
How would Quebecers and San Franciscans feud? Finger wagging and handkerchiefs? I think the We Five's version is sparklier.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 3, 2008 12:15:54 GMT -5
That Ian & Sylvia 'You Were On My Mind' lacks the cool 'whoa whoa' dynamic that the We Five got.
Was My Boy Lollipop the first international hit out of Jamaica?
Not my field of expertise--I do remember when I started hearing the term 'ska' in the early eighties people would point to 'My Boy Lolipop' as an example of the genre. I don't see much correlation between Lolipop and all that Ay yi yi English Beat shit, but there you go.
eta--I guess there is a rhythmic similarity there....
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 3, 2008 11:04:06 GMT -5
B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get?
B.B. King charted in '64? Do you get these from the Top 30? Top 100?
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 2, 2008 23:53:33 GMT -5
The thought of 5 or 6 new songs in a row, plus Lola, You Really Got Me parts got the best of me.
Heh heh....me too.
I've never heard of him doing Harry Rag all the way through...musta been a request.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 2, 2008 23:51:42 GMT -5
I'm such a dork that I have this picture sleeve and record: Not a bad week....I notice a couple of Writing Forum faves there. In the states we had The We Five's version of You Were On My Mind.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 2, 2008 11:23:12 GMT -5
Omnibus did a Joe Meek documentary years ago....Joe's older brother said that 'Please Stay' was his favorite Joe production. I didn't know it was a Drifters song.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 2, 2008 11:15:08 GMT -5
So Zilla--didja make it....looks pretty good:
Ray Davies and Band Tuesday, 1st April, 2008 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
I'm Not Like Everybody Else Where Have All The Good Times Gone Till The End Of The Day After The Fall Well Respected Man Next Door Neighbor The Tourist Working Mans Cafe 20th Century Man
2nd Set
Harry Rag This Is Where I Belong In A Moment One More Time Vietnam Cowboys The Real World No One Listen Sunny Afternoon Come Dancing Tired Of Waiting Set Me Free All Day And All The Night
Encore's Lola You Really Got Me Days Victoria
I'm betting Harry Rag was a truncated shout out.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 1, 2008 20:08:17 GMT -5
Wiki sez: "Suspicion" is a hit song written written by Italian lyricists Ernesto and B.G. de Curtis in 1911 with the English lyrics written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. They originally rewrote it for Elvis Presley at the suggestion of his manager who liked the tune.
First released on the 'Pot Luck' LP.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Apr 1, 2008 11:02:11 GMT -5
Terry Stafford - SuspicionI think this is the only instance of someone taking a song away from Elvis and owning it. Here's Elvis' original version of 'Suspicion'. Elvis' version doesn't have the spooky Star Trek ladies singing 'ooh-oo' or that wacky farty organ sound that make Stafford's 'Suspicion' a classic.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Mar 30, 2008 17:25:15 GMT -5
Big oops on the Fortune Teller...y'all know what I mean tho.
Is there any online resource that lists all the different mixes of early Who songs out there? It seems that lots of their singles have at least three or four different versions.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Mar 30, 2008 1:07:25 GMT -5
So I was riding in car listening to Fortune Teller by Benny Spellman (thanks owen) and it struck me that that's where Magic Bus came from....the knocking those sticks together part.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Mar 29, 2008 16:22:21 GMT -5
the kursaal flyers, little does she know
Not bad, but at 5:26 it goes on 3 minutes too long, so fuck them.
|
|
|
Post by cripes on Mar 28, 2008 14:18:27 GMT -5
The 4 Seasons - Dawn (Go Away) Chimes, harmonies, handclaps and falsettos make Cripes' head explode with glee.
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire) - Tous les chemins Another folk bints thread favorite....I never heard her attempt at a followup hit. Not bad really. I went to Catholic school up to 3rd grade...nuns still make me uncomfortable so I'm not gonna make fun of her.
Eden Kane - Boys Cry Fuckin' A right!
A great week for pop music in the holy month of February 1964.
|
|