Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic

Discoveries of a Pop Music Archaeologist

Tag: Uni Records

"Bolero"
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Jan Davis’s Flamenco Boogie

Jan Davis is a guitarist who once played with B. Bumble & the Stingers, who are among the first groups to rearrange classical works (as the pioneering pianist, Dorothy Donegan had earlier done) into boogie and early rock & roll numbers.  German Wikipedia, interestingly enough, helpfully names the musicians in

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"Shilo"
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“Shilo”: First Pop Use of Toy Piano?

Two songs were recorded in 1971 that featured toy piano lines:  “Butterfly” by Danyel Gerard – a big international hit – and “Only You” by NRBQ, a song from their Scraps album that was released as the B-side to “Ain’t It All Right.” For the longest time I thought (quite

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"Spaceship Races"
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Battle of the “Spaceship Races”

How interesting that Carole King, the musical part of the Goffin-King songwriting partnership, had been writing hits since the very beginning of the 1960s and yet had not released her first solo album until 1970.  The ad campaign that accompanied King’s debut album – an impressive and endless roll call

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