Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
Not much seems to have been written about this endearingly eccentric trucker tune from 1965. Billboard‘s September 11, 1965 edition confirms this is strictly a home-grown enterprise: “Big Eight Wheeler Roll On“ Lee Rose (1965) Love the relaxed delivery and imaginative use of time suspension — “back phrasing” a la
These selected highlights from Broadcast Music Inc.’s one-time print periodical, BMI: The Many Worlds Of Music, reflect a particularly vibrant time in music and the arts. BMI’s back pages from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s encompass a wide range of artistic works and public events, some of which have
Love To Know serves up this small plate of trivia about the first women to wear pants: Charline Arthur Cash Box ad Sep. 17, 1955 “Discovered” in the early 1950s by Elvis Presley’s future manager, Col. Tom Parker, Arthur (like Elvis) was photographed almost exclusively above the waist in newspaper
Shelly Manne’s sole appearance on a release by Cincinnati-based Fraternity Records is linked to Tommy Wolf and the title track of his 1958 album, “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most,” a song that has been interpreted by a cross section of musicians from all along the jazz spectrum
LINK to PART ONE King’s Pop Dalliances in Billboard‘s Hot 100 1965 – 1973 = The James Brown Era Q – How many prominent musical artists of James Brown‘s stature have recorded for two different labels simultaneously? Just for fun, go ahead and pose that question to the internet, and notice how
In order to broaden the listening base of a rising young talent, whose musical grounding up to that point had been in the gospel field, A&R producer and Flying Dutchman founder, Bob Thiele, flexed his marketing muscle in the following idiosyncratic manner: Billboard Oct. 18, 1969 Ad text: Esther Marrow
Dave Penny‘s opening observation in the liner notes to Doin’ The Tennessee Wig Walk — the 26-song compilation taken from Bonnie Lou‘s King years — reminds me of Roy Lanham‘s similar quandary of being too jazz for country and vice versa: Too pop to be embraced by the country community
1955 was a pivotal year for The Charms. On October 29th, the vocal harmony group had performed on stage at Carnegie Hall, as part of Lou Krefetz‘s “Top Ten Rhythm and Blues Show” — “the first time that the sacred precincts of Carnegie Hall [will] have resounded to the rhythms
Ninety years ago, on August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law so as to provide a basic social safety net that would be of broad benefit to the general public. Social Security not only protects vulnerable populations — the elderly, the young, those
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