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Post by NoShear on Jul 7, 2024 3:59:29 GMT
Alice Cooper - Diary Of A Mad Housewife (1970) galacticgirrrl, your post here led me down a Carrie Snodgress hole, full of misogyny her Bettina Balser character experiences... She's said to have been lovers with Jack Nitzsche who reminds me of Phil Spector a lot, including the abusive element. Perhaps fittingly, Nitzsche put the baroque in rock with this song: ...or was it Brian Auger, galacticgirrrl: |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jul 8, 2024 13:22:49 GMT
This is an obvious one, but I just love the conceit that in 1956 rock and roll stars like Little Richard were appearing in swanky clubs with plush-lined booths and polite, well-groomed patrons. Sure. Frank Tashlin had stars like Little Richard, Eddie Cochran and The Platters in The Girl Can't Help It, but couldn't resist cutaways during all their numbers, but I suppose with Jayne Mansfield as the star I'd be cutting away too.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jul 8, 2024 21:37:35 GMT
Speaking of Eddie......TCM showed Untamed Youth (1957) with Mamie van Doren last week and as well as a little bit of acting he got to do this number in the cotton fields. He had a ton of good tunes to his credit and was one of the true rockers of his time, but he got stuck doing this. Meh.
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Post by NoShear on Jul 9, 2024 15:17:34 GMT
Speaking of Eddie......TCM showed Untamed Youth (1957) with Mamie van Doren last week and as well as a little bit of acting he got to do this number in the cotton fields. He had a ton of good tunes to his credit and was one of the true rockers of his time, but he got stuck doing this. Meh. Prompted by your recent Eddie Cochran posts here, I Love Melvin, I hunted down the Trouser Press writeup on Cochran in their 1978 top rock guitarists selections for you: "Remembered primarily for the songs he left us ("Summertime Blues," "Twenty Flight Rock," etc.), Cochran was also an accomplished guitarist - one of the few '50s heroes more devoted to axe than image. There's not much soloing on his own sides, but as a session man Cochran enlivened some pedestrian recordings with impressive technique and musical ideas. He also dabbled in one-man instrumental overdubs when the public was figuring out what "stereo" meant. A 1960 tour of England (cut short by a fatal car crash) influenced an impressionable Pete Townshend, among others. Had he not died at 21, Eddie Cochran might have cemented his position as rock'n'roll musician as well as personality." |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jul 12, 2024 15:06:51 GMT
Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars appeared in two or three films, chief among them being High Society (1956). Sure, Bing Crosby was great on his own, but backed by Armstrong and these jazz greats, he was dang near hep.
Edmond Hall -- clarinet
James Young -- trombone
Arvell Shaw -- bass
Billy Kyle -- piano
Barrett Deems -- drums
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Post by NoShear on Jul 29, 2024 19:17:48 GMT
I caught some of Murray Lerner's "FESTIVAL!" (1967) this past weekend on TCM and came away with a couple of comments on guitarist Mike Bloomfield...
First, I found his string-bending noisy yield which must have been particularly irritating to the purist folkies who'd rejected Bob Dylan's selling out to the bitch goddess of rock 'n roll as journalist Nik Cohn might have put it at one time.
And speaking of both Mike Bloomfield and Nik Cohn, it was interesting hearing Bloomfield's words, some of which were culled for the following book, spoken for posterity:
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Oct 12, 2024 20:48:18 GMT
A desert island song for me. From the film "Son of Dracula" which was billed as "The First Rock-and-Roll Dracula Movie." In the film, rock-and-roll band, the Count Downes, include members Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voormann, Keith Moon, Peter Frampton, John Bonham, Leon Russell, Bobby Keyes, and Jim Price who can all be seen rocking away in performance scenes. Memories of Harry Nilsson by Klaus Voorman: www.voormann.com/portfolio-items/harry-nilsson-2/For me, he was – and is – one of the most talented, loving, good-natured humans in the world,
blessed with a warm-heartedness that could have heated a whole community.
Our first collaboration was in 1971, when I had the great joy of “plucking” the bass guitar on his LP ‘Nilsson Schmilsson’, followed by many sessions over the years. His hits – unforgettable.
There would be many stories to tell, started with our sessions in his studio or his home, over the shooting of the film ‘Popey’ in Malta, together with Robin Williams and Robert Altmann, in which I was not only playing the bass but“forced” to act, up to his surprises, he organized for the whole crew of musicians. He loved organizing crazy things, such as engaging the inhabitants of a senior residence as a choir. Two buses of ‚Grey Panthers‘ were driven to he studio in ordert to record the song ‘I’d rather be dead than wet my bed‘.
A wonderful, bizarre and lovely bunch of people, throughout Harrys taste. When monitoring the recordings, one of the audio engineers asked: ‘What is this strange clicking?’.
We did not had any idea what kind of percussion instrument it was, but it was straight hitting the two beats. One of the seniors said in a very dry way: ‘Sounds like a wooden leg!’
The idea of an old man standing behind the microphone with his wooden leg, let us laugh to tears. Oh Harry, I miss you so!Jump Into The Fire - Harry Nilsson - 1974 |
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