Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1962 (pg 69)

[mancity111]

Same bloke who had a big hit in the UK with The Streak in the 70s I think?

Correct and Everything is Beautiful as his signature tune as such departing from his praxis.

Your knowledge of music variety knows no bounds TP and like a number of entertainers in the 50's 60's and 70's in the US he hosted his own show on the box with guests who were flavor of the month etc during airing but that probably wouldn't have got much if any air time in the UK.

 

[threespires]

Though I'm sad, i'm not yet sad enough to have worked out my 100 favourite individual lyrics from songs. If however I were, I'm pretty sure...

"Some day when my crying's done,
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun"

would be a contender.

Crying In The Rain - The Everly Brothers

Bizarrely Carole King and Gerry Goffin decided to swap song writing partners with another pair of Aldon Music songwriters just for a day to see what would happen. Goffin and Keller produced nothing but King paired with Howard Greenfield (who wrote a lot of Neil Sedaka's hits) and created this! They never tried to write anything together again whether because of it upsetting the King/Goffin dynamic or whether they thought it was a lightning in a bottle moment who knows?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Though I'm sad, i'm not yet sad enough to have worked out my 100 favourite individual lyrics from songs. If however I were, I'm pretty sure...

"Some day when my crying's done,
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun"

would be a contender.

Crying In The Rain - The Everly Brothers

Bizarrely Carole King and Gerry Goffin decided to swap song writing partners with another pair of Aldon Music songwriters just for a day to see what would happen. Goffin and Keller produced nothing but King paired with Howard Greenfield (who wrote a lot of Neil Sedaka's hits) and created this! They never tried to write anything together again whether because of it upsetting the King/Goffin dynamic or whether they thought it was a lightning in a bottle moment who knows?

Carol King is some songwriter. One of my very favourite favourites.

 

[threespires]

Correct and Everything is Beautiful as his signature tune as such departing from his praxis.

Your knowledge of music variety knows no bounds TP and like a number of entertainers in the 50's 60's and 70's in the US he hosted his own show on the box with guests who were flavor of the month etc during airing but that probably wouldn't have got much if any air time in the UK.

Mostly my ability to use Google knows no bounds but in this case I vividly remember The Streak (and Everything is Beautiful).

There are pros and cons of being the youngest child of older parents. Musically I grew up in a house where Mario Lanza would be one in one room and The Herd in another. Thinking about it there was probably a close to 40 year span of music that I subliminally absorbed as a small child in the late 60s/early 70s. So while I would pose as a trench coat wearing miserablist in the 80s I could still play a passable version of Midnight In Moscow if I wanted!

 

[mancity111]

Mostly my ability to use Google knows no bounds but in this case I vividly remember The Streak (and Everything is Beautiful).

There are pros and cons of being the youngest child of older parents. Musically I grew up in a house where Mario Lanza would be one in one room and The Herd in another. Thinking about it there was probably a close to 40 year span of music that I subliminally absorbed as a small child in the late 60s/early 70s. So while I would pose as a trench coat wearing miserablist in the 80s I could still play a passable version of Midnight In Moscow if I wanted!

I would have to eat Humble Pie to admit I am an aficionado of Kenny Ball whose version I assume you are referring to albeit my late father who was a huge fan apparently took me along to his show in Melbourne at Festival Hall in 1965.

 

[threespires]

I would have to eat Humble Pie to admit I am an aficionado of Kenny Ball whose version I assume you are referring to albeit my late father who was a huge fan apparently took me along to his show in Melbourne at Festival Hall in 1965.

Yes I was indeed referring to Kenny Ball and His jazzmen's version, though I also like the slower tempo traditional Russian original too.

Depending on when in '65 your Dad took you, I would either have been in-utero or a babe in arms :-)

Peter Frampton was only 16 when he joined The Herd, not sure but he might still have been a teenager when he joined a 'supergroup'!

Edit: Just looked it up, Frampton was still only 19 when Humble Pie formed !!

 

[mrbelfry]

A quick moment of research in order to contribute something meaningful - In 1962 Gene Pitneys "Only Love Can Break A Heart" hit number 2 in the US. The song keeping it from number 1 was "He's a Rebel" by the Crystal's - the writer of this song was, you guessed it, Gene Pitney.

Please add The Locomotion by Little Eva to the playlist. I'm not smart enough to track all the songs but it seems like in the evolution of rock music then this period seems to be the major influence for Stock, Aitken and Waterman . Although they obviously went a pop route I'll bet some people formed bands in response to the stuff they were churning out.

 

[Saddleworth2]

My all time favourite John Lee Hooker song is Boom Boom a worthy Blues classic. It should be included in the playlist.

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom.

 

[threespires]

My all time favourite John Lee Hooker song is Boom Boom a worthy Blues classic. It should be included in the playlist.

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom.

Some musical moments are a let down but others are just as good as you imagined they would be. Watching JLH live plonk himself down on his chair and growl out Boom Boom amongst others was definitely in the latter camp. Lots of artists try a bit too hard be cool but, by definition, the act of trying counts against them. Hooker gave off the air of a man who knew exactly who he was and felt no need to try to be anything but.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Cool as fuck. :-)