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Here's a couple of recent pictures..
My band, The Fourtune-Tellers. L-R, Andreas, Me, Hank & Pete
Photo by Johanna Riklund
Me, live at Funhouse in Oslo
Photo by Frode Sjkold
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it's been awhile, so here's a few....
me playing dr. treves in "the elephant man" biloxi, ms. :
Cool stuff beatbo, I had no idea you use to act!
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...got me a couple of 45's too:
THE SILHOUETTES - Headin' For The Poorhouse / Miss Thing (Ember 1958)
THE WILLOWS - Sit By The Fire / Such A Night (Heidi 1964/65)
THE HOLLYWOOD SAXONS -
/ It's You (Swingin' 1962)THE BLENDERS -
/ Everybody's Got A Right (Witch 1962/63)JERRY MCCAIN & HIS UPSTARTS - Run Uncle John! Run / Things Ain't Right (Excello 1956)
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Like I needed them (already got the vinyls since I was a kid)...
Remastered CD's:
KISS - Kiss, Hotter Than Hell, Dressed To Kill, Destroyer, Rock And Roll Over and Love Gun.
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Marv Johnson - All The Love I've Got
Amazing tune, and a great voice.
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W-A-S-T-E-D with Bobby King.
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When we played in Oslo last friday we did the gig together with another band called The Mobsmen. They were really good!
Check em out at:
and their myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/themobsmen
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...and I got these too:
THE INTERLUDES - I Shed A Million Tears /
(RCA 1958)TABBY THOMAS - Hoodo Party / Roll On Ole Mule (Excello 1962)
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Oowee, I have been on a shopping spree and awaiting these killer r'n'b 45's to drop down in my mail someday soon:
TEDDY & THE TWILIGHTS - Woman Is A Mans Best Friend / Goodbye To Love (Swan 1962)
THE SURBURBANS - TV Baby / I Remember (Baton 1956)
THE GLADIOLAS - Shoop Shoop / Say You'll Be Mine (Excello 1958)
BIG JAY McNEELY and BAND - There Is Something On Your Mind / Back.. Shack.. Track.. (Swingin' 1958)
THE SILHOUETTES - Rent Man / Your Love Is All I Need (Junior 1963)
THE CADETS - Wiggie Waggie Woo / You Belong To Me (Modern 1957)
THE TEENAGERS - Flip Flop / Everything To Me (Gee 1958)
THE STEREOS -
/ Do You Love Me (Cub 1962)THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES - Frankenstein's Den / Strollin' On The Beach (Ebb 1958)
THE TURBANS - When You Dance / Let Me Show You (Around My Heart) (Herald 1955)
ARTHUR GUNTER - Trouble With My Baby / Baby You Better Listen (Excello 1956)
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I am listening to Rock And Roll Over by Kiss.
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I got me another three really great 45's:
Little Bob And The Lollipops -
/(LA LOUISIANNE 1965)Jerry McCain & His Upstarts - Run Uncle John! Run / Things Ain't Right (EXCELLO 1956)
Blues By Five -
/ I Cried (DECCA 1964) -
"Chess Blues Box Set" - Various
"The Sky Is Crying: The History Of Elmore James" Elmore James
Excellent choices! What an incredible catalog Chess got, many great artists and classic songs. I know they've released a Chess Singles Box Set a couple of years back, I still have it on my "got to get" list.
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I'm listening to a comp with different r'n'b and blues tunes.. J.B. Lenoir, Elmore James, Lavern Baker and Bobby Freeman to mention a few.
Here's a though cut by J.B. Lenoir:
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A great 45:
Jimmy Anderson - Going through the park / I'm a king bee (Excello 1962/63)
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Waiting for these awesome 45's to drop down in my mail anyday now..
Sonny Boy Williamson - Trust your baby / Too close together (Checker 1960)
Bo Diddley - Mama keep your big mouth shut / Jo-ann (Checker 1964)
Lavern Baker - You'd better find yourself another fool / Go away (Atlantic 1964)
Betty Lavett - My man, he's a lovin' man / Shut your mouth (Atlantic 1962)
Beat Merchants -
/ Messin' with the man (Columbia 1964)Four + One - Time is on my side / Don't lie to me (Parlophone 1965)
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I'll look around to see if I can rent it somewhere or maybe view online. The only Townes I have is Legend which is a 2 cd best of. I thought it was a good place to start but I will check out the two you recommended, especially the live one.
"Live At The Old Quarter" is indeed a great live album. Also his self titled LP "Townes Van Zandt" is a gem.
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More 45's:
The Breakers - Don't Send Me No Flowers (I Ain't Dead Yet) / Love of My Life (AMY 1965)
A real classic and very sought after 45 for garage rock collectors. Quite expensive but worth every cent! Nice FUZZ!
The Olivers - I Saw What You Did / Beeker Street (Phalanx 1966)
A two-sided gem! B-side got an outragous FUZZ! Great farfisa organ on A-side! I love it!
Dave Myers & The Surftones -
/ Let The Good Times Roll (Wickwire 1964)Wicked guitar riff, really cool!
J.B. Lenoir - Oh Baby / Do What I Say (VeeJay 1960)
J.B. is one of my favourite blues artist. Unfortunatly he died way too early.
Elmore James and His Broomdusters -
/(VeeJay 1957)Another favourite of mine. Great single!!
Elmore James - Stranger Blues / Anna Lee (Fire 1961)
Awesome single! Anna Lee is an Elmore favourite of mine.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand / Glory Be (Fire 1960)
What a deadly 45! Awesome songs, both of 'em!
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Been spending a lot of doe this month...
45's:
Terry knight & The Pack - I (Who have nothing) / Numbers (Lucky Seven 1966)
These guys evolved to Grand Funk Railroad. Numbers is a great heavy fuzz rocker!
Joe Hinton - There's no in-between / Better to give than to recieve (Back Beat 1963)
B-side is a great southern r'n'b dancer. My copy has less scuffs and scratches then the on in the youtube-link
Joe Hinton - I want a little girl / True love (Back Beat 1965)
B-side is awesome!
The Classics - Till Then / Enie Minie Mo (Musicnote 1963)
Nice garage doo wop.
The Pastel Six - The cinnamon cinder / Bandido (Zen 1962)
Got this because of the B-side (again!), which is a great instrumental. Cool guitars!
Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man (the way I love you) / Do right woman, do right man (Atlantic 1967)
Classic two-sider, a must have! A-side is one of my all-time Aretha favorites!
Arthur Alexander -
/(Dot 1962)Awesome and underrated artist!
The Shangri-las - Maybe / Shout (Red Bird 1964)
I love their version of Maybe!
O.V. Wright -
/ Monkey Dog (Back Beat 1965)Great southern soul. A-side is beautiful, B-side is a great dancer!
Marv Johnson - Ain't gonna be that way /
(United Artists 1960)Great two-sider, B-side written by Berry Gordy of Motown.
Ray and Bob - Air Travel / Palms of paradise (Ledo 1962)
A-side is an ace mod-dancer!!
Eugene Church - Miami /
(Class 1959)Swingin' r'n'b from the late 50's!
The Raindrops - That boy John / Hanky Panky (Jubilee 1963)
The original version of Hanky Panky, which Tommy James & The Shondells later recieved a hit with. Ellie Greenwich wrote it together with Jeff Barry.
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A great couple of early r'n'b and blues singles:
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Someday / Come And Get It (Herald 1961)
The Cashmeres - Satisfied Pt 1 / Satisfied Pt 2 (Lake 1960)
Aaron Neville -
/ Every Day (Minit 1960)Little Milton - Ain't No Big Deal On You / Who's Cheating Who (Checker 1965)
The Olympics - The Chicken / Your Love (Demon 1959)
Funny song with a really cool saxophone solo sounding like a chicken!
Jackie Lee -
/ Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (Mirwood 1965)Jackie Lee a.k.a. Earl Nelson in Bob & Earl which had a big hit with Harlem Shuffle.
Patti LaBelle & The Blue Belles - You Never Walk Alone / Decatur Street (Parkway 1964)
Earnie K-Doe -
/ I Cried My Last Tear (Minit 1961)The Ad-Libs - The Boy From New York City / Kicked Around (Blue Cat 1965)
I also got two great rockers:
The Guess Who - Shakin' All Over / Till We Kissed (Scepter 1965)
The Mad Hatters - I Need Love / Blowin' In The Wind (Ascot 1965)
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I went to The House of Oldies during my lunch hour today and bought this fabulous single by the Swedish pop band The Mascots. These guys were a great beat band and had several hits in Sweden in the mid- to late sixties.
The Mascots - Stones Fell / From My Love (DECCA 1965)
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I've bought a shitload of singles the last thirty days... Two of 'em are my all time favourite songs (see links):
The Squires - Going All The Way / Go Ahead (Atco 1966)
Story about the band and the single:
Being from Connecticut I feel it's my duty to shout about any record from the Nutmeg state that folks worldwide should know about, and they should really know about this two-sided gem because it ranks with the greatest USA garage records of 60's. Of course seasoned garage freaks will know both of these tunes by heart as they were on the very first garage compilations such as Pebbles and Psychedelic Unknowns. Both sides of the 45 were also covered by a mysterious UK outfit called The Remayns in the mid 80's (I think the group had a connection to UK eccentric Clive Pig.)
The Squires hailed from Bristol, Connecticut, which is a small working class city about 25 miles from the state capitol of Hartford. Bristol was once home to the Bristol Red Sox who were the AA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox in the 70's & 80's, playing their home games at ultra cool Muzzy Field (which still stands to this day.) Many of the Red Sox greats of the 70's such as Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and later Bruce Hurst & Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd passed through Bristol. Outside of that the only other notable landmark in Bristol is that it is the home base of "dork factory" ESPN network (a very uncool place!)
All that aside The Squires began life as The Rogues and cut a cool garage 45 called "It's The Same All Over The World" in 1966. A name change to The Squires found the group signed as a "one off" with mega USA label Atco Records. "Going All The Way" is quite simply one of the top 10 USA garage 45's of the era. Musically it comes on as strong as 1966 Byrds blended with the toughness of the early Who. Lyrically it is in the same ballpark as Third Bardo's "I'm 5 Years Ahead Of My Time" & The Who's "I Can See For Miles" in that it is a teenage declaration of intent. Clear the field The Squires are coming through! I should also mention lead singer Mike Bouyea's vicious scream about midway in.
On the flip "Go Ahead" is in a different bag altogether, this one is a chiming folk-rock ballad that brings to mind California folk-rockers The Dovers. The lead vocals on this song remind me of a very young Feargal Sharkey of The Undertones. At one time this 45 was ultra rare but a warehouse find in the mid 80's leaked a few more copies onto the market. I got my copy in a swap with Connecticut radio legend "Fast Eddie" Budds for the first 45 by Squeeze, talk about a steal! That was like the Orioles getting Frank Robinson from Cincinnati for Milt Pappas!
For those unwilling to search out the 45, luckily Crypt Records issued a sensational Squires anthology simply titled "Going All The Way" back in the 80's, I think it's still in print, it's a great album with many superb out-takes. Squires lead singer Mike Bouyea later became a radio personality in Canada.
The Mysterions - Is It A Lie / Why Should I Love You (JOX 1965)
I don't know much about this band, but they hailed from San Antonio Texas and at least one of the members was later in Bubble Puppy. Is It A Lie was a big local hit in SA at the time.
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Sounds good...
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Two great DVD's:
You See Me Laughing - The Last of the Hill Country Bluesmen (2002)
You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods.
You See Me Laughin' takes us on the road and into the homes of R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, Cedell Davis, Johnny Farmer and Asie Payton -- musicians who've labored for the blues tradition despite lives steeped in poverty and violence. The result is a raw, powerful music that is fused with the cultural landscape of its musicians.
[Directed by Mandy Stein - 77min - NR - USA 2002] (IMDB)
Down From The Mountain (2001)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Down from the Mountain is a treasurable record of a unique event: a live concert from Nashville featuring the artists and songs from the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Anyone who was delighted by that enchanting film and its traditional Americana soundtrack will find this concert an irresistible delight. It's not just a rehashing of the songs from the film, however, but an opportunity for some of the finest names in Bluegrass to perform a variety of traditional songs. Here we have Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris playing separately before coming together for an a cappella rendition of "(Didn't Leave) Nobody but the Baby". Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley chills the spine with his lonesome "O Death", while bluesman Chris Thomas King wails "John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto'". There are other marvellous performances from old-timey stalwarts The Cox Family and The Whites, more Gospel-infused singing from the Fairfield Four, and impressively authentic fiddling from John Hartford. Oddly, the only song not to be heard is the original film's standout item, "Man of Constant Sorrow". The concert is also available on CD.
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Awesome albums! Both of 'em.
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Thank you Deborah. You can listen to a couple of tunes from our EP's at our myspace page.
Cheers!