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<Click on song titles below 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
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
<LINK to related Spotify playlist: . Merry Clayton Steals The Show> From Terri Gross‘s 2013 interview on NPR’s Fresh Air radio program, we learn that it was Bobby Darin who had signed Merry Clayton to Capitol Records when the New Orleans-born vocalist was barely fifteen years old. And yes, it
The week ending January 27, 1968 — just days before Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched the Tet Offensive, a “watershed” moment” history would later show as having “played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam,” according to the U.S. State Department —
Sixteen-year-old Janis Ian, for her third single for Verve Forecast, bravely tackled the subject of suicide — currently the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-14 as well as 20-34, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The DJ/promo version of this November 1967 single includes
In 1963, Buffy Sainte-Marie had the courage to speak out against an undeclared war in which the United States had conscripted 16,000 troops to serve as “advisors,” and consequently, was banned from singing “The Universal Soldier” on US radio and TV until 1965. It is curious to see which countries
Billboard‘s special October 19, 1968 issue devoted to ‘The World of Country Music‘ includes a 2-page article by Bill Williams – “Ladies in the Driver’s Seat” – that highlights a number of Nashville’s powerful female executives who worked without fanfare behind the scenes within the country music industry. Williams devotes
The full-page ad placed in Billboard‘s August 17, 1968 issue promised controversy: Bill Gavin, publisher of the influential Gavin Report is on record as saying “Mom (Can I Talk To You?)” by Jan Rhodes should be given airplay. If Gavin were still with us, I would very much like to
In the course of compiling arresting ads from four of the major music industry trade publications — Billboard, Cash Box, Record World, and Beat Instrumental — I came across a number of artists from the mid-to-late 1960s who had announced themselves with great fanfare and youthful optimism, only to vanish
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