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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
This unforgettable album design – UNESCO World Heritage site Lisbon Goes Pop Released in Portugal (1968) This full-length release is a “split” LP that primarily includes tracks by Os Chinchilas, a quartet that featured Filipe Mendes (i.e., Phil Mendrix – “the Portuguese Jimi Hendrix”) on guitar and vocals, along with
Last month as I was preparing to depart Ann Arbor on a Monday morning shortly before midday, I tuned into the University of Michigan’s student-run freeform radio station, WCBN, and was instantly transfixed by a loping funk groove that was imbued with a distinct Eastern melodicism and underpinned by a
Before the “klacker toy” had been banned by federal authorities, a New York City-area beat group with two 45 releases under its belt, The 8th Wonders of the World, seized an opportunity to record a song of praise for the dangerously hyperkinetic play object marketed squarely at the teenybopper demographic.
<Click on song titles for streaming audio> Shad O’Shea — one of Cincinnati’s last great “record men” — left a trail of 45s in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s under the publishing name, Counterpart Music. When you pull up all the cataloged items for Counterpart Music in Discogs and rearrange
Nothing like an open letter (as Ben Folds discovered in 2014) for venting one’s spleen — especially if that communiqué has the potential to rack up international sales. Click on song titles below for streaming audio (where available) “Open Letter To Duke” Charles Mingus Released 1959 on Columbia “An Open
Led Zeppelin has found itself on the receiving end of a few memorable misprints, thanks to Atlantic and its international affiliates: Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut 8 track tape Canada spine title: “LED ZEPPLELIN“ The first pressings in Australia for Led Zeppelin’s huge radio hit “Whole Lotta Love” dared to spell
Back in 2006, I was still making the compact disc equivalent of the “mix tape.” CD players were still in common use then and a convenient device for playing back digitally-transferred selections from my vinyl collection. Varying levels of effort went into my CD compilations from this period — some
“It’s country music with a sort of massive Ray Charles feeling,” explained Buddy Killen in Billboard‘s August 2, 1969 edition for a news item entitled “Budden Killen Cuts Black Chorus in Country Album“: NASHVILLE — A chorus of 40 voices from predominately Negro Tennessee A & I State University were
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