Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
According to the Country Music Hall of Fame, it was the thrill of witnessing Jerry Byrd‘s musicianship on the Grand Ole Opry that inspired an eighteen-year-old Pete Drake to purchase a steel guitar after he returned home to Georgia. One year after his arrival in Nashville, Pete Drake’s weeping steel
Is it possible that the renegade spirit behind Roulette’s ad campaign for a song considered insanely long for radio would fuel Steppenwolf’s ambition two years later to see how much musical information could be crammed within the confines of a 45’s B-side? 6:13 means some D.J.’s won’t play it;some stations
Howard Kessel — like the Delmore Brothers — is linked to the King Record Company’s earliest beginnings. In a November 15, 1944 article entitled, “Cincinnatian Ignores Swooners – Puts His Chips on Hillbilly ‘Gittar’ Tunes,” The Cincinnati Post‘s Leo Hirtl explains that “Sinatra may come and Crosby may go,” but
If you discount the first two King releases (King 500 and King 501) — four songs that were recorded north of Cincinnati in a small Dayton sound studio under assumed names, since the two artists involved, Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones were already under contract to WLW — The Delmore Brothers were the
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) I love the relaxed delivery and imaginative use of time suspension — “back phrasing” a
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
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