Brilliant band in their most angular trio years. The single appeared on the 1982 album Send Me a Lullaby.
dinsdag 20 september 2011
zondag 18 september 2011
2. Three years earlier, Booker plays piano on the Randy Newman penned "Have You Seen My Baby" aka "Hold On" on Ringo Starr's 1973 album, Ringo The guitar player is Marc Bolan of T. Rex.
3. One year earlier, T. Rex scores its fourth and final #1 UK hit with "Metal Guru". Backing vocals are provided by Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan ( Flo & Eddie), formerly of The Turtles.
4.In 1969 The Turtles record "Love in the City" as a single for their album Turtle Soup , produced by Ray Davies of The Kinks.
5. In 1971 The Kinks contribute "All God's Children" to the soundtrack for Percy.Among the stars of the film: Britt Eckland.
6. We're back in 1976. Britt Eckland provides sensual whispers and appears in the video of US #1 hit "Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)" with then-flame Rod Stewart.
zaterdag 17 september 2011
Some songs really do have a life of their own. After Smokie's 1976 cover of an Australian band's single "Living Next Door to Alice" became the group's biggest hit (UK#5, Billboard #25), that should have been the end of it. But while visiting a bar called Gompie in the Netherlands, some dutch musicians heard the disc jockey who was playing "Living Next Door to Alice" turn down the volume at "Alice" and the crowd chant 'Alice, who the fuck is Alice?'. They released "Who the F is Alice", as Gompie and had a European hit. Not to be outdone, what was left of Smokie teamed up with foul-mouthed comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown to record their own version ...which hit #3 in 1995. Smokie now holds the record as the first group to get a record in the Top Ten with the word "fuck" in it.
That hasn't really pleased the band's original singer Chris Norman who told the Get Ready To Rock blog he didn't like it.
vrijdag 16 september 2011
megan jasper today
"Lamestain"
"Cob-nobbler"
"Swinging on the Flippity Flop"
Back in the glory days of grunge, these were just a few of the slang phrases people were slinging around Seattle.
At least according to The New York Times in a now infamous article.
In fact, a then 25 year old hyper-caffeinated record rep named Megan Jasper--in a fit of inspiration-- made up the phrases on the spot.
And the reporter asking for the grunge lexicon?
He bought it!
Megan:
I actually thought the call was a prank at first because it seemed so silly and when I realized it wasn't, I sat there and thought "Oh this will be fun" and I wrote a bunch of words that sounded funny or goofy
So there was Cobnobbler the grunge word for an uncool person.
Tom Tom Club--an outsider. Someone not from Seattle.
Bound and Hagged --someone who stays home on party nights.
These are words also some of us --I mean a couple of us--would use kind of as a joke but I mean that was it. A joke. So we would say lamestain. Or cobnobbler.
Lamestain?
Yes That's a big fat loser.
With each word that was being translated it got goofier and goofier and I thought the phone call would end with him saying "Oh come on!" you know?
But that never happened. Even when she defined:
Swinging on the Flippity Flop --means "hanging out".
He was concentrating so hard on just getting everything accurately that all I could hear was the typing.
The article ran November 15th, 1992.
I think my mom called up and said " You're in da New Yawk Times" ( laugh)
I was like "What?" so I ran down and got a copy.I could not stop laughing.I was shocked that that made it into the most prestigious newspaper.
Word of the grunge hoax spread quickly through the Seattle music scene.
Mudhoney's Mark Arm:
One thing that Mudhoney did after that is we made a concerted effort over the new year or so to use those terms as much as possible ( laugh) to kind of keep the thing going.
Today Megan is vice president of Seattle's Sub Pop Records. She's helping people discover the new sounds of Seattle. But the grunge hoax may very well be what she goes down in history for.
Well Thank God it's not something worse ( Laughs)
woensdag 14 september 2011
In the fall of 1979, former Brinsley Schwarz rhythm guitarist ( and co writer with Nick Lowe of "Cruel to Be Kind") Ian Gomm had a Top 20 US hit with this terrific tune. Nothing beats a bass that tumbles its way into the tune. Gomm's chart success led to his opening for Dire Straits on their Sultans of Swing tour, more albums and high expectations for a solo career that never really took off.
But at a time when US radio offered few alternatives to disco (other than The Knack and Styx), it was nice to hear something that involved strumming guitars.The sax line I could have done without.
maandag 12 september 2011
1. In 1970, for his album Bryter Layter, Nick Drake records "Poor Boy" which features backing vocals by UK hitmaker P.P.Arnold.
2. P.P. Arnold also provides the backing vocals on the Small Faces 1967 hit "Tin Soldier", written and sung by Steve Marriott. (Marriott originally wrote it for P.P. Arnold to record but changed his mind.)
3.A 16 year old Steve Marriott--who played the Artful Dodger in the 1960 London stage production of "Oliver!"-- plays the drummer in the 1963 film "Live It Up!". The singer is Heinz Burt. The guitar player is David Hemmings.
4. In the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film "Blow Up" Hemmings sees a Yardbirds gig. While Jeff Beck is having all kinds of problems with his guitar, Jimmy Page is chilling on stage. (There's a cleaner version of this scene here .)
5. In his session musician days Page plays guitar on this rockin 1967 cut by singer Dana Gillespie.The song is written by Donovan.
6. There is no evidence Dana Gillespie inspired Donovan's song "Superlungs (My Supergirl) " for his 1969 album, Barabajagal. But one can see how one might make the mistake
vrijdag 9 september 2011
I think it's probably fair to assume that John Hartford, best known as the songwriter behind "Gentle On My Mind", is a breast man. The Grammy winning artist played banjo on The Byrds' legendary foray into country music, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and sang on the best selling soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou? Somewhere in between, he recorded this tribute to his girlfriend's breasts "Ah, those golden globes, there ain't none better / Gotta have 'em both 'cause they both go together."
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