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Post by jk on Oct 28, 2022 14:28:29 GMT -5
This is what I read today on page 171 of Alex Halbertstadt’s page-turner of a biography Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus: "The first time Doc took [his new girlfriend Shirlee Hauser] to the Riverboat, Dusty Springfield was sharing the bill with Buddy Rich, and the headliners had a drag-out fight backstage. Springfield had punched Rich in the jaw. After her set, Dusty sat at their table, all soaring eye shadow and platinum bouffant, and complained about Rich upstaging her. When she left, Buddy Rich sat in her chair and told his version. Both of them cursed like Marines."
Well, looking around for a date for this run-in (and discovering it was during the course of a residency in 1966), this video and this article tell a slightly different story. For a start, the venue by all accounts was called Basin Street East, not Riverboat. And Rich, who had a reputation for badmouthing his own musicians at the drop of a sordino (as in the opening seconds of the linked video), was the one who behaved dreadfully, disrupting her performance and insulting her during his own slot. She closed the evening backed by Buddy's band ( sans Buddy), for whom she had nothing but great respect and kind words. Apparently, Rich had described her as a "f***ing broad", whereupon she confronted him in his dressing room and slapped him, sending his toupee flying! What is it they say about show business?
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Post by jk on Oct 31, 2022 14:20:31 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Nov 6, 2022 14:49:13 GMT -5
Two Chrisses this time. In 1962 Chris Montez briefly exploded onto the pop scene with the rough-and-ready "Let's Dance" (not the Bowie song) and "Some Kinda Fun". After a lean period, he returned four years later with the more mellow likes of "The More I See You": With a voice like his, Londoner Chris Farlowe should have become a household name long ago. As it is, his incredibly soulful voice is known to the public at large from just one record, his UK #1 cover of the Stones song "Out Of Time":
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Post by jk on Nov 7, 2022 3:20:35 GMT -5
Back in 1966, Jacques Dutronc introduced to the world what has been described as "French garage rock". "Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi" broke with the French chanson tradition; Dutronc and his compatriot Michel Polnareff took French pop along a new path that absorbed the prevailing Western pop genres without merely copying them. From Dutronc's debut album, this is the closing track, which I recall hearing on UK "pirate" radio at the time; either as the flip of "Et Moi..." or released later in its own right. The video of "Mini-Mini-Mini" features Dutronc's future wife, the world-famous French balladeer Françoise Hardy:
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Post by jk on Nov 7, 2022 13:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Feb 4, 2023 6:39:22 GMT -5
I see now that the wonderfully atmospheric Moonlight Sinatra album, while recorded in late 1965, was released the following March. So, this is the opening track: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Sinatra
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Post by jk on Mar 29, 2023 14:50:49 GMT -5
Back in '66, one of the shows disc jockey Mike Raven presented on "pirate radio" featured his beloved soul music (he was also a huge fan of blues/r&b and rock and roll). It was there that I first heard O.V. Wright's gorgeous non-charting single "Gone For Good". Maybe I only heard it there -- it doesn't even get a mention in Wright's wiki. A curious feature is that he never sings the title -- that honour is left to the backing vocalists. It's almost as if he doesn't want to face the possibility that his girl is not just gone but gone for ever: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._V._Wright
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Post by jk on Apr 3, 2023 15:46:44 GMT -5
American singer-songwriter-musician Gene Pitney is unique in being the only songwriter to shut themselves out of the US #1 position. His composition "He's a Rebel", attributed to The Crystals but actually sung by Darlene Love and The Blossoms, kept Pitney's own 45 "Only Love Can Break A Heart", his highest-charting single in the US, from the top spot in 1962. His Europe-only release "Nobody Needs Your Love"” took Gene to #2 in the UK in 1966: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Pitney
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Post by jk on Apr 13, 2023 3:44:28 GMT -5
I don't believe we've linked anything yet by The Four Seasons. Maybe it's because it's not my favourite year for their music. Still, with the recent surge of interest in them thanks to this month's polarizing BBT discussion with Robby Robinson (finally I get to spell his name correctly!), they deserve a mention in this thread as much as anyone else. "Working My Way Back To You" is perhaps better known from the UK chart-topping 1979 medley version by The Spinners. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(band)
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Post by jk on Aug 7, 2023 7:37:38 GMT -5
The preposterously named Boo & The Boo Boo's (who an indignant commenter points out are not from The Hague as in the YT blurb but from Amsterdam!) were fronted by the nationally famous Dutch actress and sometime singer Linda van Dyck. There seems to be a Stones connection (did they open for them in The Hague in the mid '60s?) but it's unconfirmed. From the year of years, this is their one and only 45, the sedately psychedelic "Stengun":
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Post by boogieboarder on Aug 7, 2023 8:57:26 GMT -5
I don't believe we've linked anything yet by The Four Seasons. Maybe it's because it's not my favourite year for their music. Still, with the recent surge of interest in them thanks to this month's polarizing BBT discussion with Robby Robinson (finally I get to spell his name correctly!), they deserve a mention in this thread as much as anyone else. "Working My Way Back To You" is perhaps better known from the UK chart-topping 1979 medley version by The Spinners. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(band) That’s a great song, and it’s hard for me to believe that a 1979 Spinners version would be better known. But type in “Working my way…” into Google, and sure enough, the Spinners comes up first.
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Post by jk on Jan 10, 2024 10:23:35 GMT -5
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Post by daytona on Jan 10, 2024 12:29:35 GMT -5
Reminds me a lot of “She’s Got Rhythm” - and that’s a compliment! wonder if Brian subconsciously remembered this while writing that.
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Post by Will/P.P. on Jan 18, 2024 10:53:33 GMT -5
It's a fun line of thought: "What was so-and-so doing in 1966?" Well, Carole King released a 45 of the Goffin-King composition "A Road To Nowhere" (I believe their songwriting and personal relationship was beginning to unravel by then). I know and love the Jack Nitzsche-produced version by Judy Henske. This one has its own charms -- did Jack produce it as well, I wonder? The flip is a song made famous by Dusty Springfield, "Some Of Your Lovin'". Why this fabulous double-sider flopped is beyond me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_KingA fantastic song indeed, as is the flip. (Might actually prefer "Some of Your Love", now that I think about it.) I think it's a major crime that we didn't get a Carole solo album from around this era (though the one she recorded a couple years later as The City is superb). Thankfully about a dozen of her songwriting demos from '65-'67 (of which "Road to Nowhere" was one) have since surfaced and can be compiled into an album of sorts, and what an album indeed. Her demos are never less than completely professional studio takes, often with horns and other backing accoutrement. Vocals: A+. Songs: A+. Production at least a solid B. The only negative is that some of them seem to only exist as copies off of worn acetate recordings.And that's the rub.
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Post by jk on Jan 23, 2024 4:44:50 GMT -5
I don't believe The Shangri-Las have featured in this thread yet. Nineteen sixty-six was the last year they made the US Top 100 -- their second single of that year, "He Cried", got no further than #65: They would only enjoy one more entry, the equally tear-duct-challenging "Past, Present And Future" (#59): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-LasRest in peace, Mary. You were the best.
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