Rock & Roll 50!

[johnfowles]

quite honestly Jimbo I would not trust fortune city they may not allow hotlinking
Think Image Rage[/b] or Image shack[/b] man!!!!
But having said that I pasted the picture's URLsinto my browser address bar and both pix came up a treat so I'll try here

actually I have found before that once the picture has been displayed on your computer it will sometimes then appear in the original posting
Failed!!OK this is not one of those times!!!
John Fowles
Ah yes those wonderful Rockinghams
och aye
Hoots Monthere's a moose loose aboot this hoose. Obviously Canadian eh??
wasn't Cherry an organist??

[ July 27, 2005, 08:16: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[The Rez]

An OOkalali moment:

To me, that was a beautiful high point in that concert. How wonderfully personal and inside.

My oldest son lives on Maui and has become quite an ookalali player himself (that's the way the Hawaiians' pronounce the name.)

Granny (his mom's mom) had this fine old Martin Uke from before WWII, when she lived many yrs on Oahu - there at Pearl Harbor. When she passed, my boy was given her Uke.

Now, when he and I talk by phone, he's always strumming away during our conversations. I love every strum.

Thanks for the reminder. We really are all in this together, arent' we.

The Rez

[Jim Nasium]

Some little time ago I thought I might go into publishing: I had the idea of using my interest in music as the foundation. I own a couple of guitars and thought a guitar magazine might be the way in. There are countless of them out there, so forget that.

Suddenly it came to me. The ukulele, I had a great idea for a title, Ukulele Daily. Sadly I could not find enough material to fill 366 issues. It was a leap year. Bye bye publishing.

Johnny boy, yes Cherry was, and probably still is, an organist. The clue is in my post, I refer to her as

the organ pounding Cherry Wainer

perhaps you thought I was refering to a different organ.

[The Rez]

Jim:

Leap Year . . . Love It! That's my kinda stuff.

There is one Treasure-Man, however, who is no longer Bluesing - Long John Baldry passed.

What a mentor that fellow was. Never met him, but sure have enjoyed his "graduates."

The Rez

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jim Nasium:
Johnny boy, yes Cherry was, and probably still is, an organist. The clue is in my post, I refer to her as quote:the organ pounding Cherry Wainer

perhaps you thought I was refering to a different organ. [/QUOTE]very droll Jim duh!!
Anyway I did a google image search for her and the majority of results were on that
fortunecity site
but this one isn't

the same thing goes for the Rockingham cricket team but I spotted this whilst searching and couldn't resist trying it here even though that link to another fortunecity picture will no doubt fail to appear
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfiel...1/381b5ee0.jpg
Rex you must see that picture so would you and other curious folk please just copy and paste
this correct adress this into your browser (if you just click the URL the same fortunecity symbol appears... pretty dumb in my book!

my earlier "Hoots Mon" and the moose quote refers to their big and superb hit record

John Fowles
"The arrangements are among the most creative and inspired of his long career -- the Farfisa organ on "Flyin` Blind" is
wonderfully exotic -- and while Lightfoot`s vocals are often choked and distant (these were demos), they still manage to
convey the emotion, wit, and steely reserve of the lyrics, allowing the listener the privilege of what feels like an
intimate performance on the front porch."
from the review of the Harmony album at:-
http://www.notlame.com/Browse_by_Art.../CDLIGHT2.html

[Borderstone]

I love looking at and collecting rare 45's like the one pictured above. There's just something cool about them.

[The Rez]

Speaking of Old 45s:
Just for fun, if any of you are interested in hearing some Old 45s from the 60s CA Surf Music Scene, drop me a line.

I recently took in some of my own teenage stuff (only source availabe - Old 45s) and had them committed to CD. Haven't heard the music for 40yrs. Barry White's debut single is there, too. (his web site, of course, doesn't mention it) The Rumblers did stuff w/ Barry when we were all about 18, in Downey, CA.

The original 45s are promised to my oldest son. I'd post a foto of some of 'em here, but I don't know how yet.

The Slow to Learn Rez

[johnfowles]

[quote]Originally posted by johnfowles:

Rex you must see that picture so would you and other curious folk please just copy and paste
this correct address this into your browser (if you just click the URL the same fortunecity symbol appears... pretty dumb in my book!

There is something most peculiar about trying to display a picure stored on a fortunecity site.Sometimes it works here and
similarly pasting the picture's correct URL into your browser's address bar sometimes works but sometimes neither work.
As I am particularly desirous of letting Rex see his "logo" I have copied the picture from my google images search and uploaded
it to my own web site where I know it will be displayed till "the end of all time" or at least as long as I keep paying the hosting fee so here it is in all its glory

John Fowles
Fortune will not find you in your mansion or your truck
Brothers will desert you when you’re down and shit out of luck
from:-
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Gor...and-Suite.html

[The Rez]

Very Cool, Sir John.

A big smile headin' toward your Atlantic from my Pacific.

The Rez

. . . and that is one fine ladylike B-3 for the lady like her.

[Borderstone]

One day,a looong time from now,if i ever get the guts....I'l proboly sell my 45's & LPs and cassettes.

Why?

I have tooo many! .."but for now B,keep 'em seald!" :D

Anyon here know that 50's & 60s vinyl is pretty pricey now? Especially in A+ condition!

[mnmouse]

Originally posted by Borderstone:
Anyon here know that 50's & 60s vinyl is pretty pricey now? Especially in A+ condition!

Well, well, Borderstone....if that's the case, my dad's sitting on a gold mine. He'd never sell them, though, and neither will I. I suspect no one could ever pay what they are worth to the both of us in memories.

Mouse

[The Rez]

A good friend, Doc Vinyl in Santa Barbara makes his living running a record store.

The original Downey Records vinyl LP of The Rumblers BOSS album went on eBay for almost $500.

It's the same music as the CD's I've been referrencing, but oh, that vinyl.

I'm not even sure where mine is from all those yrs ago.

Hang on to that Goldmine.

The Rez

[Borderstone]

Hey Rez,what's the phone # of that store? 'm trying to locate a 45 I had toi throw out last year because in every sense of the phrase,"It had HAD it!" :D It was one of my mother'sthey're mine now and yes she's still here.):
and I want to replace it if possible. Thank you in advance.

[johnfowles]

Originally posted/opined by Borderstone:
As incredible and almost unbelievable as it may sound,the upcoming week of Sunday July
3rd through Saturday July 9th marks the 50th anniversary of what Billboard magazine (and
anyone who was paying attention at the time)dubbed as the dawn of the Rock & Roll era.

I note that nobody dared question the "B's" and Billboard's claim,
But I have to tell you now that having just watched a great PBS pledge begathon yesterday evening
on our local PBS station

that this momentuous date is the subject of debate
I watched
American Masters: Good Rockin' Tonight
an excellent 3 hour documentary on Sam Phillip's Sun recording studios in Memphis TN
details at (click the picture)

this was produced by one Bruce Sinofsky back in 2001 (before Sam Phillips died in July 2003)
IMHO anybody even vaguely interested in Rock and Roll history should watch it if it is ever shown in your area
I particularly noted that New York area music pundit Pete Fornatal (who still broadcasts on the Fordham University radio station

was asked to give his views on the birthplace and date of Rock and Roll and he started by saying there were several claimants such as:-
Cleveland for Alan Freed,
Chicago for Chuck Berry
New York for Atlantic Record's founder Ahmet Ertegun (also in the documentary)
Pete then confidently asserted that it had to be Memphis because July 5th 1954 was the date that Elvis recorded "That's Alright Mama".
OK admittedly an irascible Rufus Thomas strongly disagreed as he considered that R and R started with the Blues long before Sun started (in 1950)
For me I'd go along with Walter's Bill Haley connection as certainly in the UK I think it was Bill who got us involved before Elvis.
The program(me) featured notable performances by Paul McCartney, who sang Elvis' first song with Elvis' backing players (Scotty Moore, Bill Black and J.D. Fontana,)and Watchman Al's favo(u)rite Mark Knopfler who covered "Rock and Roll Baby" backed up by the flamboyant Jules Holland's
piano.Other fascinating performances included the original French rocker (an aging Johhny Halliday)
doing justice to Carl Perkins "Blue Suede Shoes,
and a great 1956 archival film of a very young Johnny Cash performing "I Walk The Line"
Much was made of Sam's 1956 financlal problems that led him to sell Elvis's contract to RCA Victor for $35,000 a rueful Ahmet Eretegun said he offerred all that he could afford ($25,000) but RCA beat him. Still he said he had bought Ray
Charles' for only $3000.
Pete Fornatal later recounted the story behind the "Million Dollar Quartet".This name arose because Carl Perkins booked the Sun studio in December 1956 for a session and had Jerry Lee Lewis as his piano session man, plus he invited Johnny Cash who was "sitting in in the control room".It just so happenned that Elvis who had left Sun a year earlier was in Memphis for the holiday and decided to visit Sun for old times sake.After Carl's session these four spent 2 or 3 hours jamming "playing Gospel,Blues and Rock and Roll" and somebody left the tape recorder running resulting in some fine bootlegs.
Another thing I learned was that in my earlier posting I got Jerry Lee's first controversial UK aborted tour incorrectly positioned soon after Bill Haley's tour and wrote my piece thinking they both came in about 1956.
In fact it was 1957 and 1958
Bill in February 1957

Picture taken in London
and "The Killer" in 1958 which was in fact after his hit "Great Balls Of Fire" in 1957 which should therefore be added to my list of seminal great records from that year.On a site I read:-
"Tom Jones has said that the recording of 'Great Balls Of Fire' was the real beginning of Rock And Roll"
Jerry played live in this programme as the backing pianist to Matchbox20.Another overlooked Sun artist was Billy Lee Riley who quite angrily accused Sam of ruining his potential career when Sam favo(u)red Jerry Lee over him. Another early Sun artist I discovered was Charlie Rich
I was lucky enough to see Bill and The Comets in a Montreal night club in 1969. My front row seat was a few feet from the legendary saxophonist
Rudy Pompilli.
"Bill Haley suffered and died from a heart attack at his home in Harlingen, Texas
on February 9, 1981. He was only 55 years old"
which inevitably prompts me to say
"I hope this has not bored everybody to death"!
John Fowles
Oh such memories!!
Heaven help the devil may he have a few unpleasant memories
from:-
http://gordon-lightfoot-lyrics.wonde...The-Devil.html
OR
Memories of Savannah summertime
Spanish moss
Wish you knew what I was sayin'
from:-
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.n...25695800149C4A

[johnfowles]

Well All Very Alright
As I see no response to my earlier carefully crafted opus I'll try again:-
Our local PBS Station WNET (New York/Newark) is certainly on a roll this week alright, because after Wednesday evening's superb
Sam Phillips/Sun Records/Rock and Roll documentary last night they screened a great 1974 BBC documentary

Super Troupers 30 years of ABBA

who does that naughty hand belong to!!??
This program(me) was made to mark thirty years (Now where did they go to) since I saw on television the Swedes win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest** in Brighton England with their fantastic performance of "Waterloo".They celebrated by three of them reuniting on the London stage of the show Mamma Mia (the Blond one Agnetha declined to attend pity the others obviously missed her)
The documentary was generally excellent tracing their individual beginnings and chronicling their 1976/1977 Australian visits in
particular.

Bang-A-Boomerang!
But to be honest the intermixing of original footage with great footage from one or other of the total of 11 Mamma Mia productions now playing around the world (including Sweden!) was pretty confusing.
Against that were some delightful old archive footage of the 4 stars pre ABBA especially Agnetha's pure voice in rehearsals for the Swedish version of Jesus Christ Superstar singing:-
"I Don't Know How to Love Him"
and Anna Frida's hilarious Swedish version of the Supreme's "Baby love"
I was also amused by the credits at the end included "dubbing editor: Max Bygraves (who as UK readers will know is better known as a well loved comedian)
John Fowles
** UK readers will also be well aware of the annual Eurovision bash that has often stretched the definition of Europe and is
much derided but ABBA was IMHO one of its shining moment narrowly beating the intermission spectacular in Dublin in 1974 when Riverdance amazed those lucky enough to be watching live
There was for years a running joke about the voting for any entry by poor old Norway
who generally received null points
(they got their own back in by breaking a string of wins by Ireland that was getting tedious by the simple expedient of importing an Irish violinist/singer to accompany their Norwegian Male in a duet called Secret Garden
"Irish violinist Fionnuala (fi-NOO-la) Sherry, and Norwegian pianist/keyboardist Rolf Lovland"
who promptly and predictably won; thus "Ireland (had) half the glory and none of the costs by winning the Eurovision Song
Contest for Norway in 1994, "
Not forgetting the contribution by Canada's other famous singer Celine Dion (sorry Cathy) who won in 1988 (albeit singing for Switzerland)
John Fowles
"There was also a solid vote for Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald," a real fun party song. Several freighters
singled out the line: "As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most.""
from:-
THE WORST SONGS EVER RECORDED
by a very rude Dave Barry at:-
http://www.lovedungeon.net/humor/dave/the_bad_song_contest_iii.html

[ August 05, 2005, 12:10: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[Borderstone]

Worst song John? "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro! Feelings by Morris Albert.
Heck John,check my old topic,"Small talk version of the Gong Show". I think we covered it extensivly! :D

Love the ABBA pic. I think they are permanently retired. I did see them on a re-run of SNL from 1975 a few weeks ago. They sang S.O.S. and Waterloo.