Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
Yesterday’s piece about The Nashville All-Stars inspired me to take a closer look at a 1960s beat group that has generated positive buzz among the musical cognoscenti — The Nashville Teens. Taking a peek at their 45 releases quickly revealed a startling discovery: The Nashville Teens were musical clairvoyants who
2013’s Steven Soderbergh-directed Liberace biopic was ineligible for Oscar nominations since, as Mother Jones points out, the film was released on cable television (HBO) instead of U.S. theaters due to its “conspicuous gayness.” Along with Milton Berle, Liberace was one of TV’s earliest stars and, as pointed out in the
It was hard not to get swept up in Ed Ward‘s enthusiasm in his October 1, 1970 Rolling Stone review of an up-and-coming Texan band (by way of Prunedale, California) that had been “discovered” and mentored by Doug Sahm. The band’s debut, a masterpiece in Ward’s estimation, had been released
Music fans who only know The Who through their album releases are sadly depriving themselves of a whole other world of Who music: Their non-LP tracks. And not just singles and EP tracks but also bootlegged/pirated versions of great recordings that, for whatever reason, were officially kept in the can.
Previous Zero to 180 posts have highlighted the strong cultural connections between Kingston Jamaica and Cincinnati, Ohio, as evidenced by — (a) the radical rocksteady funk of Prince Buster‘s 1966 tip of the hat to “The Cincinnati Kid” himself, James Brown, as well as (b) the Jamaican LP from eight
Really nice toe-tapper of a tune from Ferlin Husky during a brief period in the dawning Rocket Age when he was on Cincinnati’s King Records: “Electrified Donkey” Ferlin Husky (1959) “Electrified Donkey” was the album closer on Ferlin’s 1959 King LP, Ferlin Husky, as well as the A-side of a
Hard to believe this song was a B-side — hopefully, Liberty Records won’t make that mistake again: “I Won’t Make That Mistake Again“ Gary Lewis & The Playboys (1965) The A-side – “She’s Just My Style” – was part of an incredible run of commercial success: the band’s fifth consecutive
They sure don’t make song titles like “Big Honky Baby” anymore. This 1962 release by “Kellie Douglas” was, in actuality, famed Brill Building-era songwriter, Ellie Greenwich, stepping out in front of the microphone with a song penned by long-time partner, Jeff Barry: “Big Honky Baby“ Ellie Greenwich (1962) “Big Honky
There is fascinatingly little to be found on the web about a song called “Uncle Booger Red & Byrdie Nelle.” I discovered this tune on an oddball compilation album of country music obscurities and social commentary songs entitled, Country Comment, on the Charly label, a European import. count The song
Paul McCartney released a posthumous compilation in 1998 of Linda-related recordings, Wide Prairie, that included two tracks from Linda & Paul‘s 1977 sojourn to Lee Perry‘s famed laboratory of sound – The Black Ark – in Kingston, Jamaica. One of those Black Ark recordings — a remake of The McGuire
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