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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 26, 2024 23:43:03 GMT
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 27, 2024 2:59:22 GMT
Thanks to Freddy the Flute, I'll be here all night taking requests.
The Rattles - The Witch
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 28, 2024 22:02:13 GMT
I hope everyone had a great World Theatre Day yesterday. I was thrilled to celebrate in a Marathon Man-ner at my local Theatre of Dentistry. The reviews are strong. Newsweek rates the chewing ability at a 10/10.  Two more days until the big show. Not even a violent email from the concert promoter warning of dire parking and traffic consequences in the area will dampen my ribbon festooned spirits. Ain't no traffic jam high enough, ain't no number of parking spaces low enough to keep me from getting to my simply stupendous sonic screaming sirens. The Last Dinner Party - Caesar on a TV Screen |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 5, 2024 16:45:21 GMT
The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind (French TV, 1967)
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 14, 2024 3:18:15 GMT
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 14, 2024 16:03:34 GMT
Happy Birthday, Ritchie Blackmore! (14 April 1945)
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Post by NoShear on Apr 20, 2024 14:51:13 GMT
BunnyWhit, happy for the totality of your recent Monday:
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 20, 2024 15:22:52 GMT
Happy Record Store DayComing April 20, 2024 to record stores, a "mini" celebration of The Beatles' historic Ed Sullivan appearances, sixty years ago. A revamped mini-turntable, and 3" records for four of the songs they played on that explosive television moment. And as Yul would say, etc, etc, etc recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/11073 The Beatles on Ed Sullivan remains one of the most defining and indelible moments in the history of music, television and pop culture. For weeks, celebrities were calling in to get tickets for their kids. Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar scored seats for their girls; composer Leonard Bernstein tried but failed; while Richard Nixon’s 15-year old daughter, Julie, became one of the lucky few to get a seat. Even Sullivan himself had trouble getting extra tickets. www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles/The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand - Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 2/9/64
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 21, 2024 0:47:29 GMT
I'm still riding high after seeing Fran Lebowitz on Thursday. She is such a tonic and great lover of music. She told her tales of driving The New York Dolls around to their gigs, and of her great friendships with the more difficult musicians out there like Lou Reed and Charles Mingus. And she loves to sing. What's not to love? I always say I probably have seen more great music live than I've listened to as recorded music.
Lisa Robinson, David Johansen and Fran Lebowitz, NYC - 1978
Charles wrote a book called Beneath the Underdog, and I've always wondered what that book seems like to someone who didn't know him, because it's almost Cubist. It's not a book about jazz in that way that someone like a critic would write. I always recommend it to people because it's the closest thing to his music that you could get in writing. - Fran Lebowitz Charles Mingus - She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 21, 2024 1:35:45 GMT
Happy Birthday, Lionel Hampton! (20 April 1908 -- 31 August 2002)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 25, 2024 19:16:02 GMT
Do you ever awaken in the morning humming a shanty? No? Have a listen to the Fisherman's Friends.....and tomorrow you will.....
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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 26, 2024 12:05:21 GMT
It's that time of year and I've been out in the yard lugging around the old-school boombox I inherited from my brother while I do the yard work, listening to my old mix tapes. The other day featured the trashy teen epics of my youth, because even then I guess I had an ironic taste for idiocy in all its forms. So, sorry, Taylor Swift, you'll just have to wait your turn, because Judy just walked back into Lesley Gore's birthday party wearing Johnny's ring, so take a seat, Taylor, and I'll get to you when I get to you. Maybe never, because in a head-to-head matchup with Taylor and Leslie Gore, I know who I'm rooting for.
And, Taylor, come up with as incisive a look at a failed relationship as Tommy Roe did in this one and then we can talk.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 26, 2024 15:44:54 GMT
Happy Birthday, Johnny Shines! (26 April 1915 -- 20 April 1992)
Shines was one of the last original Delta bluesmen. He toured for a few years with Robert Johnson. He recorded fairly extensively from the mid-1930s until about 1950, but none of his tracks were released. Fed up with the music business, Shines made his part-time construction job his full-time work. When he was rediscovered in the 1970s, Shines had lost none of his original spark, and in fact he was probably even better.
For my money, Too Wet to Plow (1977) for Blue Labor Records is his best solo album. The title track is superb. I'm also very partial to Shines' final studio album, Back to the Country (1991), on Blind Pig with Snooky Pryor, which won a W.C. Handy Award.
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Post by NoShear on Apr 29, 2024 20:13:03 GMT
It's that time of year and I've been out in the yard lugging around the old-school boombox I inherited from my brother while I do the yard work, listening to my old mix tapes. The other day featured the trashy teen epics of my youth, because even then I guess I had an ironic taste for idiocy in all its forms. So, sorry, Taylor Swift, you'll just have to wait your turn, because Judy just walked back into Lesley Gore's birthday party wearing Johnny's ring, so take a seat, Taylor, and I'll get to you when I get to you. Maybe never, because in a head-to-head matchup with Taylor and Leslie Gore, I know who I'm rooting for. The M-G-M label stood out to me with you, I Love Melvin: Little do you know in your youth how much M-G-M will become a part of your future. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 29, 2024 21:54:14 GMT
The M-G-M label stood out to me with you, I Love Melvin: Little do you know in your youth how much M-G-M will become a part of your future. Good point. I was already an MGM fan on the basis of this, one of the highlights of my youth:  I also had this other MGM "hit" on 45. |
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