Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
I am liberating a special series of “maxi-tweets” tied to King Records‘ lesser known jazz legacy – part of 2018’s King 75th Birthday Celebration – that were otherwise buried in a PDF file attachment. The following research was conducted primarily by scanning the index of Ruppli‘s 2-volume King recording session
Listen carefully and you can count each of the three cymbal crashes in this unjustly obscure – and humorous – rocksteady 45 “The Slot Machine” from Jamaican vocal group The Three Tops: about a “gambling lady” with a yen for the one-armed bandit: “Slot Machine” The Three Tops (1968) I
A key transitional moment in the history of popular music largely went unnoticed when Eric Donaldson took the baton from early rock & roll pioneer, Carl Perkins – author of “Blue Suede Shoes” – upon the release of this great single from 1972 on the Jaguar label, “Blue Boot“: “Blue
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