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Post by jinsinna13 on Mar 29, 2023 13:32:51 GMT
Interesting you mention The Monkees. Stephen Stills auditioned for The Monkees but was rejected and then recommended his friend Peter Tork. Needless to say, Tork became one of The Monkees.
Slightly OT: The original bassist of Buffalo Springfield, Bruce Palmer, looks a lot like Peter Tork. Google Bruce Palmer, and you'll see what I mean.
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Post by jinsinna13 on Mar 29, 2023 13:35:47 GMT
Perhaps "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" showcases Stills a little better
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Post by NoShear on Mar 29, 2023 13:47:38 GMT
Perhaps "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" showcases Stills a little better
jinsinna13, lots to chew on with your responses here, and I will give them attention when can - I'm going out of town today and am wondering if I will make it back in time to view woodstock: The Director's Cut which I want to let you know is on TCM this evening... |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 30, 2023 18:20:37 GMT
I can't seem to find Merle Travis' first soundie - "Night Train To Memphis" with the band Jimmy Wakely and his Oklahoma Cowboys and Girls, including Johnny Bond and Wesley Tuttle along with Colleen Summers (who later married Les Paul and became Mary Ford). The Collins Kids version is quite fun to tide me over.
The Collins Kids on Toronto's Country & Western TV show, "Star Route." The Collins Kids (Larry & Lorrie) were rockabilly stars as teenagers in the 1950s. Here they are all grown up. Lorrie dated Ricky Nelson in the '50s and encouraged him to make a record. She appeared on "Ozzie and Harriet" as Ricky's girlfriend and they played and sang together.
The Collins Kids - Night Train To Memphis - 1964
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 30, 2023 18:24:35 GMT
Merle Travis recoded a set of Snader Telescriptions, short music videos intended for local television stations needing "filler" programming. His performances included playful duets with his then-wife Judy Hayden.
Merle Travis - Too Much Sugar For A Dime
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 30, 2023 18:29:21 GMT
Merle's guitar playing style was developed out of a native tradition of fingerpicking in western Kentucky. Among its early practitioners was the black country blues guitarist Arnold Shultz. Shultz taught his style to several local musicians, including Kennedy Jones, who passed it on to other guitarists, notably Mose Rager, a part-time barber and coal miner, and Ike Everly, the father of The Everly Brothers
Merle Travis, "Sixteen Tons" (Western Ranch Party, 1958)
Merle Travis - No Vacancy
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Post by NoShear on Mar 30, 2023 18:57:40 GMT
Interesting you mention The Monkees. Stephen Stills auditioned for The Monkees but was rejected and then recommended his friend Peter Tork. Needless to say, Tork became one of The Monkees.
Slightly OT: The original bassist of Buffalo Springfield, Bruce Palmer, looks a lot like Peter Tork. Google Bruce Palmer, and you'll see what I mean.
jinsinna13, your Buffalo Springfield posts have prompted a greater appreciation of the fairly short-lived band with me. I got RETROSPECTIVE THE BEST OF BUFFALO SPINGFIELD in my youth but only now really appreciate just how special the Los Angeles ensemble was: Buffalo Springfield could point to a pair of heavy axemen but, unlike most other guitar-slinging groups, it included (the same) two superior songwriters as well. |
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 31, 2023 16:26:21 GMT
Merle's guitar playing style was developed out of a native tradition of fingerpicking in western Kentucky. Among its early practitioners was the black country blues guitarist Arnold Shultz. Shultz taught his style to several local musicians, including Kennedy Jones, who passed it on to other guitarists, notably Mose Rager, a part-time barber and coal miner, and Ike Everly, the father of The Everly Brothers Merle Travis, "Sixteen Tons" (Western Ranch Party, 1958) Merle Travis - No Vacancy Lest we forget, it's good to remember Merle lent his talents to motion pictures "From Here To Eternity"--'53 Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 31, 2023 17:44:34 GMT
I quite enjoyed that - no such thing as too much Travis in this example.
I can't imagine living in a time of conscription or the draft but this is a great song...
Buffy Sainte Marie - Universal Soldier
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Post by NoShear on Mar 31, 2023 23:21:28 GMT
Perhaps "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" showcases Stills a little better
jinsinna13, a gripe - of Carl Belz if I correctly recall - about George Harrison's sitar heard during the Beatles' NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN) was that Harrison played the Indian instrument like a guitar. (In fairness to George Harrison, he was still learning to play the drony thing.) Conversely, Stephen Stills used Western strings to produce a successful raga approximation during the bridge of his songwriting staple: |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 5, 2023 4:42:39 GMT
Loretta Lynn - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 5, 2023 16:23:36 GMT
Incredible! Why, she sounds JUST LIKE Sissy Spacek!   How 'bout some more country pickers? I have no idea when this was recorded( or filmed). I know Clark has already been posted on this thread, but until now I've never seen anything this early with him. Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 5, 2023 20:37:05 GMT
Roy - 100% underappreciated. So nice we must play him at least twice, if not thrice....or more. As you know I am on Kinks watch. Is this one a case of the first lie wins? Jimmy or Dave? Or perhaps both? Not the single/album cut below so not the best example but I believed the Jimmy myth. Shame on me. AllMusic: And what about Jimmy Page's contribution?
www.allmusic.com/blog/post/the-kinks-mick-avory-talks-new-anthology-you-really-got-me-and-if-a-reunionAvory: "He did very little as far as I remember. He came into the studio – I think he came in during 'You Really Got Me.' He sort of apparently snickered at what Dave had done, because he was a more 'polished player.' And then he spent the rest of his years saying, 'I played the solo on it.' He must have said it, because everyone else was asking the question. But that was definitely Dave Davies, because even without knowing, you know it's Dave rather than Jimmy Page. It just wasn't in him to play like that. It was just completely off the top of his head – that solo. It fit – the attitude off it. And I never heard that from session men. They just come in and play something they feel – not what is necessarily the right thing. So, not much." You Really Got Me - The Kinks |
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 6, 2023 15:05:12 GMT
Since you're on "Kink watch", you might have seen this before(I remember it's initial broadcast) from one of Leonard Bernstein's televised "Young People's Concerts".
Sepiatone
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 6, 2023 17:42:50 GMT
Subconscious Plagiarism - Part I
I would like to see/hear the other 24 songs on the list.
George Harrison on the 'My Sweet Lord' Lawsuit
George Harrison's Pirate Song Rutland Weekend Television
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