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Post by sirrastus on Aug 12, 2022 23:33:24 GMT
Along with other staff writers including Smokey Robinson they turned out an incredible number of great great songs starting in the late 50's writing for the great Jackie Wilson early 60's hits for Marv Johnson and the first Spinners tunes produced by Harvey Fuqua of The Moonglows and a young Marvin Gaye on drums for The Spinners earliest hit That's What Girls Are Made For.Eddie Holland had some hits of his own.They changed the face of music fer sure:
A must see claymation video of Jackie Wilsons first single Reet Petite:
As the '50's-'70's pop giants pass, kudos to sirrastus for the keen historical details. They obviously don't write 'em like "That's What Girls Are Made For" anymore. I faintly remember hearing that once or twice on radio somewhere in the NY metro market. And as funny as that claymation video of Jackie Wilson is, it does nothing to portray how attractive a man and an artist he was. My epiphany of the power of popular music came when I heard "Shop Around" by the Miracles as a grade schooler. Changed my life. Shop Around has the big three in great craft-peformance,arrangement and lyric.My two fave Jackie Wilson stories is when Clyde McPhatter left Billy Wards Dominoes in '53 to join the fledgling Drifters this brash kid Jackie Wilson went to the group to tryout and said "I'm better than Clyde" they all laughed until he opened his mouth and magic came out.The other story is he was doing a show down south and started dancing with a white girl.A cop tried to break it up and Jackie goes 'I'm doing my show here and decked the cop Jackie being an ex-golden gloves boxer).The story goes the cop couldn't arrest him because the place would have gone crazy but Jackie probably never played there again.
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Post by joe on Aug 13, 2022 2:10:05 GMT
Bill Pitman - age 102 American guitarist and "session musician". Session musicians are not normally a member of a band, but a loosely formed group of musicians with various talents that are called in to bring their unique craft to support a recording session or a live performance. They supplemented a number of "beginning" bands that were lacking experience in a particular area and were basically an on-call group to fill in wherever needed. Pitman was a member of the session musicians known as "Wrecking Crew"/"The Wrecking Crew". They were in high demand, go-to musicians, for some of the biggest names in the business. Although not confined to these dates, they were most active from 1963 to 1971. Pitman's primary gear was the Gibson ES-335 guitar with a Polytone amp. For some rock music he used a Fender Telecaster coupled with a Fender Twin Reverb amp. He also played a twelve-string guitar, Fender bass and Gibson mandolin. Pitman's role in the Wrecking Crew, along with the long list of supported artists, is too long and complex to describe here, but below are a couple of links to browse if you are so inclined. You WILL recognize a number of the names mentioned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pitmanen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musicianen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)
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Post by edog40 on Aug 13, 2022 21:03:05 GMT
Along with other staff writers including Smokey Robinson they turned out an incredible number of great great songs starting in the late 50's writing for the great Jackie Wilson early 60's hits for Marv Johnson and the first Spinners tunes produced by Harvey Fuqua of The Moonglows and a young Marvin Gaye on drums for The Spinners earliest hit That's What Girls Are Made For.Eddie Holland had some hits of his own.They changed the face of music fer sure:
A must see claymation video of Jackie Wilsons first single Reet Petite:
As the '50's-'70's pop giants pass, kudos to sirrastus for the keen historical details. They obviously don't write 'em like "That's What Girls Are Made For" anymore. I faintly remember hearing that once or twice on radio somewhere in the NY metro market. And as funny as that claymation video of Jackie Wilson is, it does nothing to portray how attractive a man and an artist he was. My epiphany of the power of popular music came when I heard "Shop Around" by the Miracles as a grade schooler. Changed my life. If rock and roll had color commentators, Sirrastus would be the Vin Scully of them.
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Post by Buck on Aug 14, 2022 4:57:03 GMT
As the '50's-'70's pop giants pass, kudos to sirrastus for the keen historical details. They obviously don't write 'em like "That's What Girls Are Made For" anymore. I faintly remember hearing that once or twice on radio somewhere in the NY metro market. And as funny as that claymation video of Jackie Wilson is, it does nothing to portray how attractive a man and an artist he was. My epiphany of the power of popular music came when I heard "Shop Around" by the Miracles as a grade schooler. Changed my life. If rock and roll had color commentators, Sirrastus would be the Vin Scully of them. Mel Allen and Bob Murphy as well! Kudo's to the width and depth of Sirrastus' music appreciation and supporting and getting to meet so many of the doo-wop era greats. I'd always thought doo-wop or at least vocal pop music would make a comeback. I'm grateful to have been a kid with a crystal radio in its heyday. But then I never thought drum machines would catch on.
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Post by sirrastus on Aug 14, 2022 5:43:22 GMT
Appreciate the kind words of course Scully,Allen and Murphy had their counterparts in DJs like Alan Freed,Jocko(my fave),Murray The K,Scott Muni and many others from coast to coast.Murrays son actually offered to trade with me cuz I had one of his dads shows that he didn't have.I've been lucky enough to collect airchecks from all over the country listening to some of the greats had some good convos with Sam about the Atlanta and southern greats like John R and have a bunch of WAKE airchecks the station Lanier always talked about.Here in N.Y. it was WMCA,WABC,WINS and Long Islands WGBB.I actually could get late Sunday nights the WBZ in Boston Sports Huddle in the early 70's.As for Bob Murphy I grew up with Murphy,Kiner and Lindsay Nelson doing Mets games.
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Post by Buck on Aug 14, 2022 5:56:33 GMT
WGBB was the station I fell asleep with the headphones on when I was a kid.
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Post by sirrastus on Aug 14, 2022 15:13:55 GMT
WGBB was the station I fell asleep with the headphones on when I was a kid. Great station they had a slightly different playlist than the N.Y. stations.I think it was at 1240 on the AM dial.
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Post by sirrastus on Aug 14, 2022 15:20:48 GMT
Never had headphones but I'd place the radio under my pillow when catching Mets games from the west coast.My mom had AM radio on in the mornings as we had breakfast so we always heard music .Once in the 70's I had WINS on for news since it was all news by then and my mom goes "Are they still playing music" which is funny cuz I don't recall her having WINS on when they played music.
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Post by marty on Aug 14, 2022 20:58:47 GMT
WGBB was the station I fell asleep with the headphones on when I was a kid. Great station they had a slightly different playlist than the N.Y. stations.I think it was at 1240 on the AM dial. My childhood station was WLS Chicago for top 40 and Beaker Street KAAY with Clyde Clifford, out of Little Rock, for underground rock. But we could only pick it up on cloudy nights, late.
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Post by sirrastus on Aug 14, 2022 23:04:12 GMT
Great station they had a slightly different playlist than the N.Y. stations.I think it was at 1240 on the AM dial. My childhood station was WLS Chicago for top 40 and Beaker Street KAAY with Clyde Clifford, out of Little Rock, for underground rock. But we could only pick it up on cloudy nights, late. I've got lots of WLS airchecks especially with Dick Biondi.There's a famous WLS aircheck that ran for an hour and the DJ would announce a record but would only play Mope-Itty-Mope by The Bosstones.LOL:
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Post by edog40 on Aug 16, 2022 0:32:26 GMT
Steve Grimmet, guitarist for Grim Reaper dies at 63.
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Post by joe on Aug 16, 2022 0:42:57 GMT
Steve Grimmett - 62 years old
English heavy metal vocalist Lead vocalist for the band "Grim Reaper" Briefly appeared with the British thrash metal band "Onslaught ", going on to form "Lionsheart", "The Steve Grimmett Band" and "GrimmStine"
Grim Reaper's most notable albums appear to include "See You in Hell" (1983), "Fear No Evil" (1985), and "Rock You to Hell" (1987) The title tracks for these three albums were featured in MTV's classic cartoon series "Beavis and Butt-Head"
Grim Reaper gained brief mainstream success with "Rock You to Hell" being featured frequently in MTV's "Headbangers Ball".
(looks like edog40 and I cross-posted again)
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Post by joe on Aug 17, 2022 2:05:48 GMT
David Raskin (performing as Kal David) - age 79 American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter with a 50 year career Played with "Kal David and the Exceptions", "The Big Thing", "The Rovin' Kind", "Illinois Speed Press", "The Fabulous Rhinestones", "Kal David and the Real Deal", and a number of other collaborations. Miss Lauri Bono was a music partner of Kal David for many years kaldavid.com/
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Post by joe on Aug 22, 2022 1:43:57 GMT
Q Lazzarus - age 61 on July 19, 2022 Her birth name was Diane Luckey, the name her obituary was in. Due to that her death just came to public attention. Led the New York band "Q Lazzarus And The Resurrection" Her song "Good Bye Horses" was used in a key scene in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs". Also in the movie "Married To The Mob". Her public career was relatively short. From her obit: "At the time of her death, Diane was finishing work on a feature documentary about her life and music.." to be released in 2023. www.imdb.com/name/nm0494010/
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Post by joe on Aug 23, 2022 1:04:37 GMT
Jerry Allison - age 82
Drummer for Buddy Holly and the Crickets In 1957, Allison and Holly teamed up with bassist Joe Mauldin and formed the Crickets The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 Allison co-wrote “That’ll Be the Day,” and Holly’s classics “Peggy Sue” and “More Than I Can Say”
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