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12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« on: May 12, 2016, 10:58:13 am »
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This Place


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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2016, 06:34:49 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=narWoVsof_k

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The Aquatones were a four part harmony band with a female lead vocal, Lynne Nixon. The group began as three guys from Valley Stream, New York. They formed in 1956 as the Rhythm Kings with Dave Goddard, Larry Vannata, and Gene McCarthy as members. They came together to record a song written by Dave for their junior class play at Valley Stream Central High School. All of the guys played instruments as well as sang - Gene the clarinet and tenor sax, Larry the alto and tenor sax, and Dave the piano. Bob Boden would play drums when they performed live.

http://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2009/04/the-aquatones-story.html

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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2016, 06:49:41 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on May 12, 2016, 06:34:49 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=narWoVsof_k

Have that one on cassette tape; it was on the pop charts for 12 weeks, peaking at #21 in '58. Before it was torn down, used to go to the drive-in theater in Valley Stream, NY (on Sunrise Highway)...
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2016, 01:40:13 am »
Quote from: pookie18 on May 12, 2016, 06:49:41 pm
Have that one on cassette tape; it was on the pop charts for 12 weeks, peaking at #21 in '58. Before it was torn down, used to go to the drive-in theater in Valley Stream, NY (on Sunrise Highway)...

What a legend, you certainly have some fascinating stories.

I know there are hundreds of doo wop songs as there are in rockabilly... most I don't know.

That song by the Aquatones is excellent.

Here is a kind of interesting 1950s rock and roll song by Bunny Paul of Detroit, Michigan, the guy who went on to create Motown and that sound (at least in part) was instrumental in this record, producer or something so in a way this is pre-Motown.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZKbK4tm7U

I wonder if anyone has heard of her, this is a good song.  I couldn't really get into some of her others.

I think Pookie mentioned the Sirius radio, yes, I have heard their '50s show, Cousin Brucie and I think Saturday or Sat. night, they have a special doo-wop show.
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2016, 11:06:16 am »
Quote from: TomSea on May 13, 2016, 01:40:13 am
What a legend, you certainly have some fascinating stories.

I know there are hundreds of doo wop songs as there are in rockabilly... most I don't know.

That song by the Aquatones is excellent.

Here is a kind of interesting 1950s rock and roll song by Bunny Paul of Detroit, Michigan, the guy who went on to create Motown and that sound (at least in part) was instrumental in this record, producer or something so in a way this is pre-Motown.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZKbK4tm7U

I wonder if anyone has heard of her, this is a good song.  I couldn't really get into some of her others.

I think Pookie mentioned the Sirius radio, yes, I have heard their '50s show, Cousin Brucie and I think Saturday or Sat. night, they have a special doo-wop show.

Never heard (of) her. None of her songs made the pop top 100 songs.

On SiriusXM, basically all I listen to (in the car) is 50s on 5. I only change to 60s on 6 if my wife is with me & she hears a Connie Francis (crying/whining type of) song. With about 95% of the songs played on 50s on 5, I can ID the title & artist within 5 seconds.

Although I haven't heard their doo-wop show, I have met its host, "Cool Bobby B". We've attended many oldies concerts in our area over Labor Day weekends (something called Lead East...combining vintage cars with oldies music). Bobby was the emcee for the concerts & during intermission he'd walk around meeting audience members & asking how we were enjoying the show so far.
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2016, 01:51:48 pm »
Just have to say how much I love the facts about the singers, where they came from, and other songs they've done.

I don't respond to every song (time constraints) - but this is definitely the most interesting thread on the site and I'm hearing songs I didn't know existed!  So THANKS  :0012:

the DJ's I remember listening to on the TWO stations we got in the 60's were Cousin Brucie and Murray the K.  The news on the two channels was 5 minutes apart, so you could change the dial to avoid hearing the boring news.  How times have changed - now I listen to talk radio the whole time I'm awake  :shrug: 
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2016, 01:55:22 pm »
Quote from: pookie18 on May 12, 2016, 06:49:41 pm
Before it was torn down, used to go to the drive-in theater in Valley Stream, NY (on Sunrise Highway)...

Been there!  After it was gone, my parents would take us further out on Long Island to the 110 Drive In(?) around Massapequa area I think.  When you've got a bunch of kids there's NOTHING like the drive in.  My aunt would take us when we visited her - she'd pull MOST of the way into the space, put a blanket on the ground in front of her car, and we'd lean against the front bumper to all get a front seat view.
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2016, 02:14:56 pm »
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Never heard (of) her. None of her songs made the pop top 100 songs.

On SiriusXM, basically all I listen to (in the car) is 50s on 5. I only change to 60s on 6 if my wife is with me & she hears a Connie Francis (crying/whining type of) song. With about 95% of the songs played on 50s on 5, I can ID the title & artist within 5 seconds.

Although I haven't heard their doo-wop show, I have met its host, "Cool Bobby B". We've attended many oldies concerts in our area over Labor Day weekends (something called Lead East...combining vintage cars with oldies music). Bobby was the emcee for the concerts & during intermission he'd walk around meeting audience members & asking how we were enjoying the show so far.

Generally, I don't think that Aquatones song is played as top 40 play during the week but Sirius '50s has their special show on the weekends for doo wop.  So, that is one song, I'd wager one will not hear except on their specialty shows. Sure, if one wants to hear "Moody River" by Pat Boone, "You're 16" by Johnny Burnette, etc. those songs get played, those are easy to recognize for the most part, I wouldn't be putting Connie Francis down that much in comparison to some of those kinds of songs. One may have heard of the Aquatones but more on a regional basis.

The Platters, Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc. all made it but so many groups didn't with a lot to offer; though the Duprees or Marcels may have had multiple songs, there are probably individual songs one knows by them.

I enjoy Kathy and the Room Mates "Canadian Sunset" but one isn't going to hear something like that normally on a weekday. Again, they may be known again, regionally.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtcBkSKWl0

I really think that a lot of what Rock and Roll was to become, even up until the 1970s was largely laid down in songs like "Caldonia" by Louis Jordan, note, this is not the blues connection but simply rock medleys as early as the 1940s. Some of those early versions even have a nice electric guitar. Not much knew under the sun.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCH_n9CTTbA

And 'the Stroll' by the Diamonds really strikes me as much like heavy rock even way back then.

Jake Scott rockabilly may have been heard of but many would be pressed to name a specific song by him.

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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2016, 02:41:45 pm »
Quote from: oldmomster on May 13, 2016, 01:51:48 pm
Just have to say how much I love the facts about the singers, where they came from, and other songs they've done.

I don't respond to every song (time constraints) - but this is definitely the most interesting thread on the site and I'm hearing songs I didn't know existed!  So THANKS  :0012:

the DJ's I remember listening to on the TWO stations we got in the 60's were Cousin Brucie and Murray the K.  The news on the two channels was 5 minutes apart, so you could change the dial to avoid hearing the boring news.  How times have changed - now I listen to talk radio the whole time I'm awake  :shrug:

Cool! It's my kinda stuff too!

Listened to both Cousin Brucie & Murray The K (with a blast from the past--a big oldie for you...or something to that effect). I think that Brucie was on WABC-770AM & Murray on WINS--1010AM.

I had a Murray The K (may still have it somewhere) Submarine Race Watchers card; his wife, Jackie Zeman Kaufman was on General Hospital (Bobbie Spencer) & still is (with plastic surgery) occasionally. A woman that I dated about 15 years ago went to high school with Jackie.

Cousin Brucie owned a NJ radio station about a mile from where I used to live. He has a show (haven't listen to it) on SiriusXM radio. Back in the mid-80s, I attended one of the oldies shows that he emceed at a place about 2 miles where I now live. Several groups/artists performed, but I've seen so many shows that I can't recall who they were though I know that Joey Dee & The Starlighters was one.

Nowadays, I was a very big talk-radio listener (Rush, Hannity, Gallagher, Levin...) as well as FoxNews viewer, but now can only listen to Mark Levin & no more FoxNews...
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2016, 02:56:22 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on May 13, 2016, 02:14:56 pm
Generally, I don't think that Aquatones song is played as top 40 play during the week but Sirius '50s has their special show on the weekends for doo wop.  So, that is one song, I'd wager one will not hear except on their specialty shows. Sure, if one wants to hear "Moody River" by Pat Boone, "You're 16" by Johnny Burnette, etc. those songs get played, those are easy to recognize for the most part, I wouldn't be putting Connie Francis down that much in comparison to some of those kinds of songs. One may have heard of the Aquatones but more on a regional basis.

The Platters, Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc. all made it but so many groups didn't with a lot to offer; though the Duprees or Marcels may have had multiple songs, there are probably individual songs one knows by them.

I enjoy Kathy and the Room Mates "Canadian Sunset" but one isn't going to hear something like that normally on a weekday. Again, they may be known again, regionally.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtcBkSKWl0

I really think that a lot of what Rock and Roll was to become, even up until the 1970s was largely laid down in songs like "Caldonia" by Louis Jordan, note, this is not the blues connection but simply rock medleys as early as the 1940s. Some of those early versions even have a nice electric guitar. Not much knew under the sun.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCH_n9CTTbA

And 'the Stroll' by the Diamonds really strikes me as much like heavy rock even way back then.

Jake Scott rockabilly may have been heard of but many would be pressed to name a specific song by him.

I've heard The Aquatones' You many times on 50s on 5 as well as on a local NJ Fri. night doo-wop show (Doo-Wop Drive with Allen David Stein).

It's my wife who's not a big Connie fan of maybe 85% of her songs that are sad in nature (always being jilted). Not talking about Lipstick On Your Collar, Where The Boys Are, etc.

Cathy Jean & The Roommates biggest (& only) hit was Please Love Me Forever in 1961.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfct7e7fVIU

However, it was a cover of this (which was the B-side of It's All In The Game):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYO2eGKfEdM
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2016, 03:27:13 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on May 13, 2016, 02:14:56 pm
Jake Scott rockabilly may have been heard of but many would be pressed to name a specific song by him.

Forgot to address this...don't know that any of these are rockabilly, but I've heard the following on SiriusXMs 50s on 5 (which is actually 50s to pre-Beatles):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjAiTQKFrW8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js-PC3iOxlE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihczg3RFZ-E


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0Y2O12OvA

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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2016, 10:38:59 pm »
Speaking of rockabilly and the 1950s, there's a station in town that plays everything from 40s to the 80s, and one of the songs in the playlist is this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZgLcf-DTU
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2016, 10:45:16 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on May 13, 2016, 10:38:59 pm
Speaking of rockabilly and the 1950s, there's a station in town that plays everything from 40s to the 80s, and one of the songs in the playlist is this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZgLcf-DTU

Always liked the lines...

I never kissed a bear, I never kissed a goose,
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2016, 11:25:23 pm »
Quote from: pookie18 on May 13, 2016, 10:45:16 pm
Always liked the lines...

I never kissed a bear, I never kissed a goose,
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room

We can relate! :p
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2016, 01:04:14 am »
There are some good songs, but I am not sure of some of the names but I know this one is a winner though, Lonnie Donegan from Ireland/UK, so not quite a rockabilly song, I guess some call it skiffle though I don't know if this cover of Leadbelly is;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ILbUduwBkg
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2016, 01:12:36 am »
Early Bakersfield sound (which is also the name of the minor league baseball team there); a nice ballad-like rocker (and written or co-written by Wally Lewis):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cffbivcEo8

Also, recorded by Glen Glenn, I believe he is thought to be a rockabilly legend.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNcUFceUekE
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2016, 01:22:23 am »
Quote from: TomSea on May 14, 2016, 01:04:14 am
There are some good songs, but I am not sure of some of the names but I know this one is a winner though, Lonnie Donegan from Ireland/UK, so not quite a rockabilly song, I guess some call it skiffle though I don't know if this cover of Leadbelly is;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ILbUduwBkg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jNiGOb-b8A


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPA8jXxCd5M
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Re: 12 May 2016 - Music Thread
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2016, 01:30:20 am »
Thanks Pookie,  jmyrlefuller  (Yes, everyone has to love Wanda),  OldMomster and all contributors for your posts, songs and responses.
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