Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic

Discoveries of a Pop Music Archaeologist

Tag: Straight Records

"I Don't Care"
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Mayf Nutter Doesn’t Care

Just a few minutes into the 1970 country music documentary, The Nashville Sound, there is a quick succession of “man-in-the-street” interviews with various passersby that include – most unexpectedly – Straight Records recording artist, Mayf Nutter, who states his current professional affiliation (artist signed to Frank Zappa’s label) in jarring

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"Little Boy Blue"
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“Little Boy Blue”: Name That Opening Instrument

YouTube contributor, RoswellReptilian, tells us that Tim Dawe‘s “Little Boy Blue” was “used as bumper music for WMMS‘s ‘Cleveland Buzzard Morning Zoo’ in the 1970-80s.”  Can you name the electronic musical instrument that you hear at the opening of the song, as well as during each repeated instrumental passage leading

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