Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 30, 2010


DEAR JERRY: Why is “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” not heard anywhere in the film of the same title? The song clearly tells the same western story as the movie script, and should be the theme. What happened?

Not even the all-knowing Internet Movie Data Base mentions this most unusual situation, so anything you can tell me will be appreciated.

Also, what was determined to be the cause of Gene's sudden death?
—Cheryl Gifford, Vincennes, Ind.

DEAR CHERYL: Gene Pitney (February 17, 1940 - April 5, 2006) was found dead in his hotel room in Cardiff, Wales. His body was discovered by his tour manager, who went to check on Gene when he didn't answer his phone. Pitney was at the time in the midst of a very successful UK tour.

An autopsy confirmed the cause of death to be heart disease, more specifically ASVD (arteriosclerotic vascular disease) reflecting enlarged artery walls due to excessive fatty matter.

A few years earlier, in an e-mail we received, Gene admitted even he didn't know the exact reason his theme song never made it into the film:

“Because of my prior success with “Town Without Pity,” I was paid a bundle to record “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” Burt Bacharach wrote the song with Hal David, and Burt produced it.

“However, there was some screw-up between the publishing company, Famous Music, and the parent company, Paramount Pictures, and that is why it never was in the actual film.

“The most bizarre part of the story is something I only found out a few years ago, which is that the actual music, the main theme, used in the film is from a 1939 Henry Fonda film titled “Young Mister Lincoln.” Go figure that out!

“Regards, Gene Pitney”


DEAR JERRY: One of my favorite genres of collecting is recordings made by celebrities more famous for something other than music.

I have records by actors; sports stars; politicians; and even criminals.

Years ago I read about an album by David Jansen, the actor in “The Fugitive” TV show.

Having never laid eyes on such an LP, it would help if I knew the title, label, and any other details you can provide.

I don't even know if he sings or just plays an instrument.
—Rocky Fresnell, Seattle, Wash.

DEAR ROCKY: David Janssen (note correct spelling), with the Tradewinds Orchestra and Chorus, recorded one album for Epic, titled “The Hidden Island (A Compelling Story of Love's Secret Moments and Tender Emotions).” This 1965 issue came in both mono (LN-24150) and stereo (BN-26150).

David neither sings nor plays; however, he narrates these stories.

Janssen is also the narrator on a Bicentennial (1976) production made exclusively for the National Guard: “Voices of Freedom (The Story of America's Citizen Soldier in the National Guard)” (NG-1000).

Accompanying David on these tracks is The United States Air Force Symphony in Blue and the Singing Sergeants.

IZ ZAT SO? Though David Janssen didn't make the charts with his Epic album, quite a few celebrities from other fields do have hit records to their credit.

Here is an alphabetical sampling of familiar names in this category: Rex Allen; Annette; Ann-Margret; Jim Backus; Barbie Benton; Walter Brennan; George Burns; Edd Byrnes; Cassius Clay; Johnny Crawford; Dennis Day; Mike Douglas; Shelley Fabares; Stan Freberg; Jackie Gleason; Bill Hayes; Wink Martindale; Robert Mitchum; Leonard Nimoy; Ken Nordine; Paul Petersen; Red Skelton; John Tesh; John Travolta; and John Wayne.

Though he didn't make the charts, the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, recorded an entertaining collection of, in his words, “mood music in a jugular vein.” The title of this 1958 LP is “Music to Be Murdered By” (Imperial 9052).

The lush orchestrations of standards are provided by Jeff Alexander and His Orchestra, but Hitchcock introduces each of the 10 tracks with some humorous commentary.

My favorite of these Hitchcockian quips precedes “I'll Never Smile Again”:

“It was inevitable that I would make a record. After all, my measurements are 33 1/3, 45 and 78.”

Jerry Osborne answers as many questions as possible through this column. Write Jerry at: Box 255, Port Townsend, WA 98368

E-mail: jpo@olympus.net  

Visit his Web site: http://www.jerryosborne.com/

All values quoted in this column are for near-mint condition.

Copyright 2010 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl

September 2, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Preview Week: August 26 - September 1, 2010

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the culture of vinyl records through 50 years of contemporary art.

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl features work by 41 artists from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, who use vinyl records as subject or medium. The exhibition includes sound work, sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video and performance.

The Record includes rising stars in the contemporary art world (William Cordova, Robin Rhode, Dario Robleto), outsider artists (Mingering Mike), well-established artists (Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Carrie Mae Weems) and artists whose work will be shown in a U.S. museum for the first time (Kevin Ei-ichi deForest, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Taiyo Kimura, Lyota Yagi).

Since the heyday of vinyl, and through its decline and recent resurgence, a surprising number of artists have worked with vinyl records. The Record presents some of the best, rarest and most unexpected examples. The artists in the exhibition use the vinyl record as metaphor, archive, artifact, icon, portrait, or transcendent medium.
- Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum

The exhibition includes a broad range of works, such as a hybrid violin and record player, Viophonograph, a seminal work by Laurie Anderson; David Byrne's original life-sized Polaroid photomontage used for the cover of the 1978 Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food; a monumental column of vinyl records by Cordova; and an important early work by Robleto, who transformed Billie Holiday records in an alchemic process to create hand-painted buttons. Works by Christian Marclay, who has made art with records for 30 years, include his early and rarely seen Recycled Records as well as his most recent record video, Looking for Love.

The Nasher Museum commissioned two works for The Record. Berlin-based artist Satch Hoyt created a 16-foot canoe made of red 45-rpm records with an original soundscape during a 2009 artist residency at Duke. New York artist Xaviera Simmons created photographs of the North Carolina landscape and solicited musical responses from musicians such as Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The original songs will be pressed onto a 12-inch record and played with her installation.

Artists
Artists in the exhibition include Laurie Anderson (1947 USA), Felipe Barbosa (1978 Brazil), David Byrne (1952 Scotland), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (1957 & 1960 Canada)*, William Cordova (1971 Peru), Moyra Davey (1958 Canada), Kevin Ei-ichi deForest (1962 Canada), Jeroen Diepenmaat (1978 Netherlands), Sean Duffy (1966 USA), Yukio Fujimoto (1950 Japan), Jack Goldstein (1945 Canada), Rodney Graham (1949 Canada)*, Harrison Haynes (1973 USA)*, Gregor Hildebrandt (1974 Germany), Satch Hoyt (1957 UK), Jasper Johns (1930 USA), Taiyo Kimura (1970 Japan), Tim Lee (1975 Korea), Ralph Lemon (1952 USA), Christian Marclay (1955 USA), David McConnell (1975 USA), Mingering Mike (1950 USA), Dave Muller (1964 USA), Ujino Muneteru (1964 Japan), Vik Muniz and Carlos da Silva Assunção Filho aka Cafi (1961 & 1950 Brazil)*, Patrick Douthit aka 9th Wonder (1975 USA)*, DJ Rekha (1971 UK)*, Robin Rhode (1976 South Africa), Dario Robleto (1972 USA), Ed Ruscha (1937 USA), Malick Sidibé (1935 Mali), Xaviera Simmons (1974 USA), Mark Soo (1977 Singapore), Meredyth Sparks (1972 USA), Su-Mei Tse (1973 Luxembourg), Fatimah Tuggar (1967 Nigeria), Alice Wagner (1974 Peru), Carrie Mae Weems (1953 USA), and Lyota Yagi (1980 Japan).
* "Cover to Cover" crate curator list

The accompanying Cover to Cover installation features 10 artists and musicians who each curated a crate of 20 albums that tell a story through the cover visuals. Visitors will peruse the crates and with headphones listen to records on record players.

Catalogue

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 216-page color catalogue distributed by Duke University Press and available at the Nasher Museum Store ($45, paperback). It includes an introduction by curator Trevor Schoonmaker, statements by each artist in the exhibition and essays that balance personal reflection with critical exploration and scholarly analysis. Contributors include:

Jeff Chang - whose first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop (2005) won the American Book Award, the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. He edited Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (2007) and was named a 2008 USA Ford Fellow in Literature.

Vivien Goldman - a widely published journalist for publications including the New York Times. The most recent of her five books is The Book of Exodus: the Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century (2006). She is the adjunct professor of punk and reggae at New York University. Her work as a post-punk singer-songwriter is frequently reissued.

Jennifer Kabat - a design writer and critic. Her journalism has appeared in the Financial Times, Wired, Wallpaper, The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, and New York magazine.

Josh Kun - author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (2005) and coauthor of And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost (2008). He is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and a founding member of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation.

Barbara London - a curator of media and the founder of the video-exhibition and collection programs at The Museum of Modern Art. She has organized more than 120 exhibitions, including one-person shows featuring Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Joan Jonas, and Laurie Anderson, and thematic projects such as New Video from China; Anime!; Automatic Update, and Looking at Music: Side 2.

Mac McCaughan - a founding member of the rock band Superchunk and cofounder of Merge Records, based in Durham, N.C. He also records and performs under the name Portastatic.

Carlo McCormick - senior editor of Paper magazine and a popular-culture critic/curator. He lives and works in New York.

Charles McGovern - who teaches American studies and history at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890—1945 (2006), and with Susan Strasser and Mattias Judt coedited Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1998). He is at work on a book tracing the histories of race and citizenship in American popular music. He is a former curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, where he wrote, curated exhibitions, and built extensive recording collections, all on the history of jazz, blues, gospel, country, rock and soul.

Mark Anthony Neal - author of four books: New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), and What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998). Neal is also the coeditor (with Murray Forman) of That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal is a professor of black popular culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. A frequent commentator for National Public Radio, Neal also contributes to several online media outlets, including SeeingBlack.com, The Root.com, and theGrio.com.

Piotr Orlov - a Brooklyn-based critic, curator, and events producer. He co-organized the music program for the exhibition, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has written about house and African techno for the New York Times, and throws a monthly dance-party called Treehouse. By day, Orlov is a creative writer for Mother Industries.

Luc Sante - whose books include Folk Photography (2009), Kill All Your Darlings (2007), The Factory of Facts (1998), Evidence (1992), and Low Life (1991). He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

Dave Tompkins - whose first book How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder, from World War II to Hip Hop (2010) is out on Stop Smiling Books/Melville House. He is from North Carolina.

Curator
Trevor Schoonmaker, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum, organized the exhibition. His previous exhibitions at the Nasher Museum include Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool (2008-10) and Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode (2007-08). Prior to joining the Nasher Museum his exhibitions included The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol (2006), DTroit (2003-04), and Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (2003-05). He edited the book Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway.

Thank You
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Major support is provided by Marilyn M. Arthur, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Duke University's Council for the Arts, the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, Charles Weinraub and Emily Kass, E. Blake Byrne, Barbra and Andrew Rothschild, Christen and Derek Wilson, and the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Duke University. This program is supported in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services. Additional support is provided by Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Allen, Catherine Karmel, Peggy and John Murray, Francine and Benson Pilloff, Caroline and Arthur Rogers, Olympia Stone and Sims Preston, Angela O. Terry, Richard Tigner, Nancy Palmer Wardropper, Peter Lange and Lori Leachman, Lauren and Neill Goslin and Merge Records.

Closer to his heart

Transconian in a mad Rush to get his hands on anything, everything from Toronto prog legends

By: David Sanderson / Collectibles

AFTER 42 years, 39 gold and/or platinum albums, and a bulging catalogue of songs about trees and kings and temples ("...of Syrinx!"), Canadian power trio Rush is sud­denly the rock-and-roll flavour of the month.

Perhaps we should have heard this coming.

Last summer, the Toronto group -- composed of Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart -- figured prominently in the Paul Rudd comedy I Love You, Man. (Nutshell: Rudd's buddy-less character is getting married, and needs to find a best man, pronto. Enter Sydney (Jason Segal), a layabout who spends an inordinate amount of time in his "man-cave" riffing on Tom Sawyer, etc.)

Exhibit B: At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage played to packed houses, and won that fest's 2010 Heineken Audience Award. In the highly acclaimed movie, critics' darlings like Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor heap praise on oft-reviled Rush, citing the band as a major influence in their own musical journeys.

And next month, when the latest edition of Guitar Hero is released, Rush's 1976 album, 2112, will be featured in its entirety -- including the seven-part, 20-minute, 33-second title track.

Which leads us to our first question: When Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock hits store shelves on Sept. 28, should we expect to find Corey Labossiere -- a local collector of all things-Rush -- at the front of the line?

"I want to say yes, but I don't own any game systems," Labossiere says.

Details, details.

Collector Corey Labossiere has the spirit of Rush.

After all, when Labossiere, 18, first brought home an armful of Rush titles from Rockin' Richard's Record Show, the Red River Co-op employee had to wait a while before he was able to slap on his headphones and enjoy them.

"I picked up a bunch of vinyl, even though I didn't have a turntable yet," he says, smiling sheepishly.

These days, Labossiere has all that and more. "More" being a wing in his parents' home devoted entirely to the Canadian Music Hall of Famers. There, tucked in among the requisite LPs, CDs, and DVDs, is Labossiere's assortment of Rush playing cards, light switch covers, and -- who says Rush stinks? -- incense sticks. "I have no idea why I even bought these," Labossiere says, showing a visitor his 20-stick pack. "It's not like I'm ever going to burn them."

In truth, Labossiere is a bit of a Geddy-come-lately. He only twigged into Rush two years ago -- just prior to the band's concert at the MTS Centre on May 24, 2008.

"I had a working knowledge of them, obviously, from listening to the radio through the years. But before getting a ticket to the show, I decided to do some more research, and basically just fell in love with them," says Labossiere, who plays bass in a throw-together band based in Transcona. "What I discovered is that they're just amazing; they can play every genre of music and more importantly, one album doesn't sound the same as the next, which was really refreshing." (Hello, AC/DC.)

While nobody thinks twice about the amount of kitsch generated by acts like the Beatles or Elvis, it is a bit surprising to discover that Rush fans can also purchase ashtrays, key chains and bobble heads bearing their heroes' likenesses. "I do go on eBay from time to time, but most of the stuff there that's worth buying is ridiculously priced. It's not uncommon for some stuff -- especially if it's autographed -- to go for thousands of dollars," Labossiere says.

Labossiere (fave song: The Spirit of Radio) recently took out an ad on Kijiji, asking Winnipeggers if they had any Rush memorabilia they'd be willing to part with -- things like vintage T-shirts, old ticket stubs or concert programs. Heck, Labossiere would even be happy with a Dogs Playing Poker painting, like the one depicted on the jacket of the Moving Pictures album.

"I'd also like to get a television like the one you see on the cover of Power Windows. It's called a Predicta and was made in the 1950s, but the only one I've ever seen in person was in a museum."

Labossiere may be the biggest Rush fan in Winnipeg, but Scotland's Jim Wright is arguably the band's No. 1 supporter worldwide. Wright's website (www.resistmusic.com) lists his exhaustive collection of Rush memorabilia, including hundreds of albums, singles and CDs. (You think you like the song New World Man? Wright owns dozens of copies, including rare pressings from Australia, Holland and Spain.)

"I can remember exactly when I started to collect Rush items," says Wright, 46, from his home in Paisley. "I was in Glasgow city centre in Virgin Megastore in 1981, going through the Rush section. I noticed a Japanese import copy of Exit Stage Left and was immediately fascinated with the Obi Strip, and lyrics in both English and Japanese with a much thicker cardboard cover than the U.K. issue. Then I started collecting in earnest."

Wright sells and trades with people from all over the word, but he has a soft spot for items from Rush's homeland. "I definitely have a preference for Canadian items. The majority of Rush fans believe that their first independent Canadian releases -- the Rush LP and the Not Fade Away 45 on the Moon label -- are the rarest items, but some promotional CDs and test vinyl from Canada are a lot rarer."

In 2007, Wright fulfilled a decades-long dream when he flew to North America to see Rush perform in its own backyard. "A friend came with me, and we caught them in Toronto at Air Canada Centre, where they had just sold out two nights," Wright says.

And what did people back home think of his adventure? "Actually, I was more amazed by the amount of local people in Toronto who had never heard of Rush." (See: "world's most popular cult band.")


RUSH HOUR

Here's a list of the top 10 Rush songs of all time, according to the website http://www.the-top-tens.com/

1. Tom Sawyer (from the album Moving Pictures)
2. YYZ (Moving Pictures)
3. 2112 (2112)
4. The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves)
5. Limelight (Moving Pictures)
6. Subdivisions (Signals)
7. La Villa Strangiato (Hemispheres)
8. Closer to the Heart (A Farewell to Kings)
9. Xanadu (A Farewell to Kings)
10. Working Man (Rush)

SOURCE:  http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/  Reprinted By Permission

We Love Our Records!

An old YouTube video, yes vinyl is old (and funny)!

Top Selling Vinyl Records Sales at eBay - June 2010

Here is the month in review of the top selling ebay vinyl record sales, on a weekly basis, for June of 2010. First and foremost, a special thank you to Norm and Jane at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com/  and Vinyl Record Talk for putting together this interesting data.

The honor of our top seller for the month of June 2010 is for an obscure hard-psychedelic rock LP (reportedly only 54 were manufactured for promotional use) by the Fresh Blueberry Pancake "Heavy" (Private Press Psych) which sold for an even $7,000. Next in line were a couple that sold in the $5000 range, including a jazz LP by Hank Mobley which came in at $5101, and a rare 78 rpm classical music boxed set (Handel: The Messiah-Columbia Masterworks), which sold for an even $5,000.

The Beatles are on the list as well, (in fact, they have a listing for every week this month) with an LP with Frank Ifield selling for $2,800, and another with Ifield LP selling for $3,000, the LP "Yesterday and Today" (Red Carpet Label) selling for an even $4,000, another LP "Please Please Me" (Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo) which sold for $4,108.76 and a copy of the "White Album" (Apple compressed mix matrix A28/B28/A28/B29) which came in at $2000.

Three 78 rpm records also made our list (besides the aforementioned classical boxed set) with a Fury Lewis ("Judge Harsh Blues"/"I Will Turn Your Money Green") on Victor fetching $4,500, one by Kid Brown and his Blue Band ("Bo-lita"/"Saturday Night Hymn") on the Black Patti record label selling for $4,483 and Big Memphis Marainey with "Baby, No, No!"/"Call Me Anything, But Call Me" (Sun 184), which sold for $3,056.

Stay tuned to the CVR Blog for more eBay monthly sales reports!


Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 06/05/2010

1. LP - Fresh Blueberry Pancake "Heavy" Private Press Psych - $7,000.00

2. LP - Hank Mobley "with Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan" Blue Note 1540 - 5,101.00

3. LP - The Beatles & Frank Ifield "On Stage" VeeJay Portrait Jacket - $2,800.00

4. LP - Velvet Underground & Nico self titled Mono Promo yellow label - $2,600.00

5. LP - John Heartsman And Circles "Music Of My Heart" Private - $2,550.00


Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 06/12/2010

1. 78 - Fury Lewis "Judge Harsh Blues" / "I Will Turn Your Money Green" Victor - $4,500.00

2. LP - Beatles "Yesterday And Today" Red Capitol Label - $4,000.00

3. 45 - The Thought Criminals "Hilton Bomber / I Won't Pay" / "Fun / O. Bleak T.V." - $2,929.74

4. LP - Tinkerbells "Fairydust" Decca UK Pressing - $2,910.40

5. LP - Tina Brooks "True Blues" Blue Note 4041 Original Pressing - $2,800.00


Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 06/19/2010

1. 78 - Kid Brown and his Blue Band "Bo-lita" / "Saturday Night Hymn" Black Patti - $4,483.00

2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo - $4,108.76

3. LP - The Rolling Stones promotional album Decca UK Pressing - $3,199.47

4. 78 - Big Memphis Marainey "Baby, No, No!" / "Call Me Anything, But Call Me" Sun 184 - $3,056.00

5. LP - Music Emporium self titled Sentinel - $3,050.00


Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 06/26/2010

1. 78 - Handel: The Messiah Columbia Masterworks Box Set MM-666 - $5,000.00

2. 12" - Chuck Chill Out "Chilling with Chuck Chill Out" Ultramagnetic acetate - $2,827.00

3. LP - Beethoven "String Quartets Op.135 & 18 #2" Aarton 8277 German Pressing - $2,572.99

4. LP - The Beatles "White Album" Apple compressed mix matrix A28/B28/A28/B29 - $2000.00

4. 45 - Bob Dylan "Blowin' In The Wind" / "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" Columbia 42856 w Pic Sleeve - $2000.00

5. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue Note 1568 - $1,925.00


Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 07/03/2010

1. 45 - Piece Kor "All I Want Is My Baby Back" / "Words Of The Raven" Laray - $3,785.00

2. LP - The Beatles & Frank Ifield "On Stage" VeeJay Portrait Jacket - $3,000.00

3. LP - Brimingham Sunday "A Message From" - $2,850.00

4. LP - The Doors "self titled" Mono Promo - $2,576.28

5. 45 - The Elite U.F.O. "Now Who's Good Enough" / "Tarantula" MAI - $1582.77

More on this month's top sellers on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 4:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata. http://shows.radiodentata.com/shows/accidental-nostalgia  

Fresh Blueberry Pancake - Hassles

This Date In Music History - August 31

Birthdays:

Jerry Allison - Crickets (1939)

Wilton Felder - Crusaders (1940)

Roger Dean - English artist. Designed album covers for Yes, Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant, Greenslade, Steve Howe, Asia (1944) I had the distinguished honer of speaking with Mr. Dean last year and found him to be very engaging and friendly. He still dabbles in cover art, but most of his time was devoted to home design and working with his daughter on a myraid of projects. What a pleasure it was to talk to such an iconic artist.







Van Morrison - Them, solo (1945)

Rudolf Schenker - Scorpions (1948)



Anthony Thistlewaite - Waterboys (1955)

Gina Shock - Go-Go's (1957)

Glenn Tillbrook - Squeeze (1957)

Tony DeFranco - DeFranco Family (1959)

Gerard Love - Teenage Fanclub (1967)

Jeff Russo - Tonic (1969)

Debbie Gibson (1970)

Craig Nicholls - The Vines (1977)

Del Marquis (Derek Gruen) - Scissor Sisters (1977)


They Are Missed:

In 2004, Carl Wayne the singer with The Move died from cancer. They had the 1969 UK #1 single "Blackberry Way." Wayne also worked with The Hollies.

In 2007, Hilly Kristal, founder of the New York punk club CBGB, died from complications arising from lung cancer at the age of 75. Kristal was credited with discovering Patti Smith and The Ramones and his club became a breeding ground for punk rock. The New York City venue, whose full title CBGB OMFUG stood for 'country, bluegrass, blues and other music for uplifting gourmandisers', was originally launched to showcase country music. Hmmm country music or punk....I'll take punk anyday...


History:

The top 10 songs in the UK singles chart in 1956 were all by American artists including Elvis Presley, The Platters, Doris Day, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers and Gogi Grant. An American invasion?

In 1957, Elvis Presley appeared at the Empire Stadium in Vancouver, Canada. This was only the third time ever Presley had performed outside of the US and for Elvis it would be the last. 26,000 fans attended the show with tickets costing $1.50, $2.50 and $3.50.

In 1963, the girl trio Angels started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart with "My Boyfriend’s Back." The writers of the song Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer were a trio of Brooklyn songwriter/producers who went on to write the hits "Sorrow" and have the 1965 US #11 single as The Strangeloves with "I Want Candy."

Also in 1963, the Ronettes first entered the US singles chart with "Be My Baby" the girl group’s only top 10 hit. Lead singer, Veronica Bennett who became Ronnie Spector, took producer and ex-husband Phil Spector to court in the late 1990s for unpaid royalties.



During a North American tour in 1965, the Beatles played two shows at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California to a total of 28,700 fans.

Recorded virtually live in the studio in 1966, the Doors finish work on their self-titled debut album. Released the following January, the classic set features "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" and “Light My Fire."

In 1967, following manager Brian Epstein`s death, The Beatles announce they will handle their own business affairs. But soon control of the group`s business interests devolves into a struggle between Allen Klein (representing John, George & Ringo) and Lee and John Eastman (representing Paul).

Danny Kerwin joined Fleetwood Mac in 1968.

Cream`s debut album "Fresh Cream" entered the LP charts in 1968. With Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, the group is heralded as the first Rock 'supergroup.' The album is known for "I Feel Free" and Baker`s five-minute drum solo on "Toad."

In 1968, The Move, The Pretty Things, The Crazy World Of Aurthur Brown, Orange Bicycle, Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention and Tyrannosaurus Rex all appeared at the first Isle Of Wight Festival held over two days. Tickets, 25 shillings, ($3.00).

During a North American tour in 1969, Led Zeppelin appeared at the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville. Also on the bill: BB King, The Incredible String Band, Sam & Dave and Janis Joplin. Wow, what a bill.....

A security guard was stabbed to death at a Who concert in Forest Hills, NY in 1971.

The Rolling Stones released "Goat's Head Soup" in 1974.

In 1974, in federal court, John Lennon testified the Nixon administration tried to have him deported because of his involvement with the anti-war demonstrations at the 1972 Republican convention in Miami, FL.

Carole King's "Jazzman" was released in 1974.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards was quoted as saying in 1974; 'I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had six months to live.' He's still with us!!

The final episode of the Partridge Family aired on ABC-TV in 1974.

Rod Stewart and the Faces, Loggins & Messina, Fleetwood Mac and Lynyrd Skynyrd all appeared at Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California in 1975. I'da skipped Loggins & Messina.....

In 1976, George Harrison was found guilty of 'subconscious plagiarism' of the Ronnie Mack song "He's So Fine" when writing "My Sweet Lord." Earnings from the song were awarded to Mack's estate; The Chiffons then recorded their own version of "My Sweet Lord." Interesting and I did find the music on YouTube.....



Pat Benatar`s "Crimes Of Passion" hits the charts in 1980. The album contained her signature song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot."

In 1984, 'Purple Rain' the movie-starring Prince opened at cinemas across the UK with special late night previews.

'Brothers In Arms' by Dire Straits started a nine-week run at #1 on the US album charts in 1985. The album also topped the charts in 25 other countries and went on to sell over 20 million worldwide.

The largest pre-order of albums in the history of CBS Records occurred in 1987 as 2.25 million copies of Michael Jackson's ‘Bad’ album were shipped to record stores in the US. The LP followed the Jackson album, ‘Thriller’, the biggest Jackson-seller of all time (over 35 million copies sold). ‘Bad’ went on to sell over 13 million copies.

Michael Jackson's "Bad" video was televised for the first time on CBS-TV in 1987.

The Rolling Stones kicked off the Budweiser sponsored 61-date North American 'Steel Wheels' tour at the Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia in 1989.

In 1990, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Wonder sang "Amazing Grace" at a memorial service held for guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan who had been killed in a helicopter crash 4 days earlier.

Guns N' Roses, Skid Row and Nine Inch Nails all appeared at London's Wembley Stadium in 1991. Nice.....

Metallica started a four-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1991 with, 'Metallica.' The album featured "Enter Sandman," "Sad But True," "The Unforgiven" and "Nothing Else Matters" went on to sell over 10 million copies in the US alone.



In 2002, NASA announced that Lance Bass, singer with *NSYNC, was to become the first celebrity astronaut. His $23.8 million, place on a Russian Soyuz module would make him the youngest person at 23 years of age to go into orbit. Bass ended up not taking part in the flight after failing to pay for his $20 million ticket on the craft.

Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee were at #1 on the US singles chart in 2003 with "Shake Ya Tailfeather." Neptunes were at #1 on the US album chart with ‘The Neptunes Present Clones.’

In 2004, UK medical magazine Thorax issued a warning to music fans saying that listening to loud music in the car can give you a collapsed lung. One 19 year-old had been treated in Bristol after his left lung collapsed as his 1,000-watt bass box boomed out in his Fiat Panda.

In 2005, Toby Keith announced that he was starting his own label named Show Dog Nashville Records.

Blondie, Public Enemy and Institute, with former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, performed at a rally in New York in 2005 to support a campaign to save CBGBs. "It's such a legacy, it's insane," Rossdale says of legendary Punk club. CBGBs landlord says the lease has expired and will not be renewed.

In 2006, The Times ran a story on the demands of rock stars when on tour. Ozzy Osbourne insists on an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor at each venue. The Beach Boys require a licensed masseur, Meat Loaf a mask and one small tank of oxygen. David Bowie requests that the dressing room temperature is between 14c and 18c and Paul McCartney must have a large arrangement of white Casablanca lilies in his dressing room. Mick Jagger must have an onstage autocue with the lyrics to all the songs, it would also tell him the name of the city in which they were performing. And all I want are brown M&M's!!

Rob Zombie’s remake of the ’78 horror classic Halloween was in theaters in 2007.

Bruce Springsteen performed at Harley-Davidson's 105th Anniversary Celebration in Milwaukee in 2008. The show culminates with a cover of Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild." Perfect and much, much better than the 'surprise' guest Elton's John a few years back....



John Fogerty's 12-track “The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again” was released in 2009. Fogerty (ex-Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman) says he covered songs that "influenced me and helped form who I am as a musician and certainly as a songwriter." Bruce Springsteen and the Eagles' Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmidt are heard on the album.

In 2009, "She Loves You" was recognized as the best-selling Beatles single of all-time in the U.K. Official Chart Company, which compiles the weekly list of the Top 40 songs in England tallied a Top-10 of the Beatles' best-selling singles. "She Loves You," released in ‘63, was the band's second #1 hit (following "From Me To You").

Disturbed releases their fifth album, “Asylum” in 2010.

“Red Velvet Car," Heart's first album in six years (following '04's "Jupiter's Darling"), is out in stores now. The 12 song set includes a reworking of the Lovemonger’s “Sand.”

New Music Releases - August 31, 2010

Slim pickings this week, but lots of great classics to choose from.  Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Picks Are In Red.

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10 Years - Feeding the Wolves
ABBA - Icon
All Out War - Into The Killing Fields
American Bang - American Bang (vinyl)
Balam Acab - See Birds
Bay City Rollers - Greatest Hits
Bernard Herrman - Alfred Hitchcock's Movie Soundtracks (4-LPs) (vinyl)
Bing Crosby - Voice of Christmas (2 CDs)
Black Crowes - Croweology (vinyl)
Bobby Bare Jr - A Storm A Tree My Mother's Head
Boz Scaggs - Moments (Deluxe Edition)
Boz Scaggs - Other Roads (Deluxe Edition)
Brackles - Songs for Endless Cities
Brothers Young - Good People
Bryan Adams - Icon
Buck Owens - All-Time Greatest Hits
Carl Broemel - All Birds (vinyl)
Cephalic Carnage - Misled By Certainty
Chrispian St. Peters - Follow Me
Coathangers - Coathangers (vinyl)
Comeback Kid - Symptoms + Cures
Complete Failure - Heal No Evil
Culture Club - Greatest Hits (2 CDs)
Devil's Brigade - Devil's Brigade
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Icon
Disturbed - Asylum
Dnte - Early Works Later Versions (vinyl)
Dominant Legs - Young at Love and Life (vinyl)
Don Williams - Icon (1 CD)
Don Williams - Icon (2 CDs)
Etta James - Icon
Film School - Fission (vinyl)
Florence and the Machine - Lungs (vinyl)
For Today - Breaker
Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
Gerald Lavert - The Best Of
Ginuwine - Elgin
Gladys Knight & the Pips - Icon
Gloria Estefan - Essential 3.0 (3 CDs)
Goo Goo Dolls - Something for the Rest of Us
Grails - Burden of Hope (reissue) (vinyl)
Grails - Redlight (reissue) (vinyl)
Heart - Red Velvet Car
Hero Destroyed - Throes
Hives - Tarred And Feathered (vinyl)
Infernaeon - Genesis To Nemesis
Interment - Into The Crypts Of Blasphemy
Jackson 5 - Icon (1 CD)
Jackson 5 - Icon (2 CDs)
James Brown - Icon
Janet Jackson - Icon
Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now (clear vinyl)
Johnny Cash - Icon
Kinks - Misfits
Kiss - Icon (1 CD)
Kiss - Icon (2 CDs)
Klaxons - Surfing the Void
Kyle Andrews - Kangaroo EP ]
Last Nights Vice - Perfect Little Noise
Liv Kristine - Skintight
Lyfe Jennings - I Still Believe
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Icon (1 CD)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Icon (2 CDs)
Madlib - Medicine Show No. 8: Advanced Jazz
Marvin Gaye - Icon (1 CD)
Marvin Gaye - Icon (2 CDs)
Mickey Dolenz - King For A Day
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew: Legacy Edition (2 CDs/1 DVD)
Motorhead - Icon
Murderdolls - Women and Children Last
Neil Diamond - Icon
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
No Age - Glitter (vinyl)
Papa Roach - Time for Annihilation...On the Record, and On the Road
Patsy Cline - Icon (1 CD)
Patsy Cline - Icon (2 CDs)
Patti Austin - Every Home Should Have One
Patti LaBelle - Essential 3.0 (3 CDs)
Philip Selway - Familial (vinyl)
Portico Quartet - Isla
Quest for Fire - Lights From Paradise (vinyl)
Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (reissue) (vinyl)
Ratatat - Ratatat (reissue) (vinyl)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live on Air
Richard Thompson - Dream Attic
Richie Valens - La Bamba
Rick James - Icon
Rob Baird - Blue Eyed Angels
Rod Stewart - Icon
Rose Elinor Dougall - Without Why
Rush - Icon
Ryan Bingham - Junky Star
Sea Wolf - Turn the Dirt Over (vinyl)
She & Him - Thieves (vinyl)
Simon & Garfunkel - Essential 3.0 (3 CDs)
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
Smokey Robinson - Icon
Smokey Robinson - The Stripped Mixes
Sonny & the Sunsets - Tomorrow Is Alright (reissue)
Stan Ridgway - Neon Mirage
Stereoside - Stereoside
Stevie Nicks - Live on Air
Stevie Wonder - Icon
Styx - Icon (1 CD)
Styx - Icon (2 CDs)
Sum 41 - Screaming Bloody Murder
Survivor - Premonition
Survivor - Survivor
TV Buddhas - TV Buddhas
Temptations - Icon (1 CD)
Temptations - Icon (2 CDs)
Terrible Things - Terrible Things
The Clientele - Minotaur
The Contortionist - Exoplanet
The Museum - Let Love Win
The National - The National (reissue) (vinyl)
The Other - New Blood
The Shed - The Traveller (vinyl)
The Two Man Gentlemen Band - Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta
The Weepies - Be My Thrill (vinyl)
The Word Alive - Deceiver
Three Dog Night - Icon
Tracey Thorn - Opposites EP
Various Artists - Beginners Guide to Cumbia
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 11 (vinyl)
Various Artists - NOW 35
Various Artists - Piranha 3D (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Vampires Suck (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Yo Gabba Gabba: Music Is Awesome Volume 2
Venice Is Sinking - Sand & Lines: The Georgia Theatre Sessions May 20th & 24th, 2008 (vinyl)
Vince Gill - Icon
Ween - God Ween Satan (reissue) (vinyl)
Weird Al Yankovic - Essential 3.0 (3 CDs)
Within The Ruins - Invade

New Music releases are put together from a variety of online sources by Robert Benson - http://collectingvinylrecords.blogspot.com

Have new music for the list? Email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com

New Jazz Releases - Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
Alex Tassel - Head Or Tails
Antonio Sanchez - Live In New York At Jazz Standard
Antonio Sanchez - Live In New York
Bill Frisell - Beautiful Dreamers
Bobby Bradford - One Night Stand
Bodines - Played
Brian Simpson - South Beach
Cannonball Adderley - Jazz Manifesto
Chico Pinheiro - There's A Storm Inside
Chris Standring - 21 Soul Jazz Deluxe Collection
Chucho Valdes - Chucho's Steps
Danilo Perez - Providencia
Dom Um Romao - Lake Of Perseverance
Elliott Sharp - Afiadacampos
European Jazz Trio - Best Of Chopin
Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Rise Above
Jesus "Chucho" Valdes - Chucho's Steps
John Coltrane - Slowtrane
Jonathan Butler - Faith Love & Joy: Great Spiritual Inspi
Keith Jarrett - Still Live
Keith Jarrett - Tribute
Kirk Whalum - Everything Is Everything: The Music Of D
Labfield - Collab
Manfred Kniel Reduction & His - Low Down Music
Marcus Miller - Original Album Classics:Sun Don't Lie
Mats Eilertsen - Radio Yonder
Michel Legrand - Archi-Cordes: Di-Gue-Ding-Ding Danse
Michel Legrand - 50 Years Of Music & Movies - DVD-Video
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew: Legacy Edition
Mina Agossi - Just Like A Lady
Nils Petter Molvaer - Hamada
Oli Silk - All We Need
Original Hits: Jazz - Original Hits: Jazz
Patricia Romania - Sou Brasileira
Portico Quartet - Isla
Rebecca Martin - When I Was Long Ago
Schwarz-Bart Jacques Featuring Stephani - Rise Above
Scott Colley - Empire
Simone & Her Hawaiia - Aromas Of Hawaii
Splashgirl - Arbor
Stephanie McKay / Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Rise Above
Valdes. Chucho - Chucho's Steps
Vijay Iyer - Solo
Vinicius Cantuaria - Samba Carioca
Wynton Marsalis - Marsalis,Wynton Vol. 1-Marsalis Standard Time
Yoel Diaz Cuban Jazz Session - Encuentros

Reissues
Sergio Mendes - Timeless

New release information provided by http://www.allaboutjazz.com/.   The Upcoming Release Center at allaboutjazz.com is the most comprehensive new release listing for jazz music on the internet. The information is updated biweekly by John Kelman

Making Of A Vinyl Record

Every now and then I like to shoot over to YouTube and see what's going on with relation to vinyl.  I came across an older video (2008) that is very informative and interesting, check it out:

Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 08/28/2010

A Bob Dylan test pressing with alternate takes and lyrics gets the top spot and a high price seen in many weeks at $8k. Northern Soul has returned to the list with a 45 from The Admirations, and 78s continue to make their presence known.




1. LP - Bob Dylan "Blood On The Tracks" Test Pressing - $8,000.00

2. 45 - The Admirations "I Want To Be Free" / "You Left Me" Peaches - $3,174.00

3. 78 - Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals "Stock Yard Strut" / "Salty Dog" Paramount - $2,801.00

4. LP - Music Emporium "self titled" Sentinel - $2,560.00

5. LP - Janos Starker "Bach Cello Suites" Mercury - $2,4999.00

Tune in with Norm & Jane for more on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata. 

http://www.radiodentata.com/

This Date In Music History - August 29

Birthdays:

Sterling Morrison - Velvet Underground (1942)

Dick Halligan - Blood Sweat & Tears (1943)

Chris Copping - Procol Harum (1945)

Rick Downey - Blue Oyster Cult (1953)



Dan Truman - Diamond Rio (1956)

Elizabeth Fraser - Cocteau Twins (1958)

Chris Gorman - Belly (1967)

Alex Griffin - Neds Atomic Dustbin (1971)

Kyle Cook - Matchbox 20 (1975)


They Are Missed:

Born on this day in 1924, Dinah Washington, US singer, (1959 US #8 single "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes"). She died on December 14, 1963.

Jimmy Reed died in San Francisco in 1976 following an epileptic seizure just before his 51st birthday. Reed was a major influence on The Rolling Stones.

Rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers died in 1998 (age 66). He had hits with "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill" and "Bottle to the Baby'"on Sun Records, Meteor and King Record labels in the 1950s.

Born on this day in 1958, Michael Jackson, singer, songwriter, The Jackson Five, The Jacksons, solo. Jackson on 25th June 25, 2009 at the age of 50, after suffering heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills. Prior to his death, Jackson had been scheduled to perform 50 sold-out concerts to over one million people, at London's O2 arena, from July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010. What a shame......




History:

The real Eleanor Rigby was born in Liverpool in 1895.

Alan Freed's Big Beat Show opened at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn in 1958. Those performing included Frankie Avalon, Jimmy Clanton, Chuck Berry, Bobby Freeman, Bill Haley and his Comets and The Elegants.

George Harrison joined the band Quarrymen in 1958. By the way, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also members.

The Quarry Men (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ken Brown) performed at the Casbah Coffee Club, Hayman's Green, West Derby, Liverpool in 1959. This w2as the opening night of a new teen club in a large Victorian house that was owned by Mrs. Mona Best and the first of seven straight Saturdays that The Quarry Men played here. The band shared one microphone connected to the house P.A.

The Elvis movie 'Kid Gallahad' opened in 1962.

Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" was released in the US in 1964. It went on to reach #1 four weeks later.



In 1966, the Beatles played their last concert before a paying audience, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California to a sold-out crowd of 25,000. John and Paul, knowing what the fans do not (that this will be the last concert ever) bring cameras on stage and take pictures between songs. During this tour, the Beatles have not played a single song from their latest album, ‘Revolver’. They finished the show with a version of Little Richards "Long Tall Sally." Except for the rooftop performance in "Let It Be" this was it. The Beatles never toured again.

The Youngbloods' recorded their immortal hit "Get Together" in 1966.

Edwin Starr started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1970 with "War" ( his only #1).

Led Zeppelin, The Youngbloods, Iron Butterfly and The Ides of March all appeared at the Man Pop Festival, Winnipeg, in Canada in 1970.

The Kinks' single "Lola" was released in 1970.



The Clash, Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks performed together at a Midnight Special Punk event in London in 1976.

A Spirit reunion concert in 1976 in Santa Monica gets quite spirited during the encore - when bassist Mark Andes invited Neil Young on to the stage. Guitarist Randy California had an objection to Young's presence and tried to push him off the stage. Soon the problem was resolved and Young played "Like A Rolling Stone" with the group.

In 1977, three people were arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis' body. As a result his body was moved to Graceland.

Prince's single "Let's Go Crazy"/"Erotic City" were released in 1984.

The former "American Bandstand" studio was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The studio is in Philadelphia, PA.

Los Lobos topped the charts in 1987 with a cover of Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba." Taken from the film about the life of Ritchie Valens.



In 1987, the Beastie Boys' song "Brass Monkey" reportedly increased the sales for the cocktail mix.

Elton John checked into a rehab center in Chicago in 1990 to receive treatment for bulimia, alcoholism and drugs. Freak.....

In 1991, at 7pm EST, DJ Kurt St. Thomas from radio station WFNX in Boston gave Nirvana’s album ‘Nevermind’ its world premiere by playing the album from start to finish.

In 1992, U2 became only the second act ever (Billy Joel was the first) to play at The Yankee Stadium in New York City, during their sold out Zoo TV tour.

While shooting the music video for Meat Loaf's "I'd Lie for You" in 1995, a pilot and cameraman were killed in a helicopter crash in the Sequoia National Forest about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, CA.

In 1996, Isaac Hayes, who co-wrote the Stax classic "Soul Man," sent a protest letter to presidential candidate Bob Dole requesting Dole to stop using his song, which his supporters had changed to "I'm A Dole Man."

Liam Gallagher was reunited with the rest of Oasis in Chicago in 1996 after a week of speculation on their future of the group, after he had walked out on the band a few days earlier.

Slipknot caused chaos at this years Kerrang! Awards in 2000, after smashing glasses, setting fire to their table, throwing a monitor off the stage and destroying a microphone. The band picked up 3 awards including best single and best live act.

In 2003, winners at this years MTV Video Music awards held in New York included, Missy Elliot, Video of the year for 'Work It', Viewers Choice award, 'Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous' Good Charlotte, Rap Video went to 50 Cent for 'In Da Club', Pop Video, Justin Timberlake, 'Cry Me A River.' Madonna stunned a packed Radio City Hall audience by passionately kissing Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera during a racy version of 'Like A Virgin.'

In 2005, 77-year-old Fats Domino was rescued from the flooding in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina. He had earlier told his agent that he planned to remain in his home despite the order to evacuate.

David Gilmour and his band play an intimate three song set at London's famous Abbey Road Studios in 2006. The performance was filmed for a British TV show called The Abbey Road Sessions.

Sam Moore's album, “Overnight Sensational” was released in 2006. The legendary Soul singer’s effort had contributions from Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, Paul Rodgers, Steve Winwood and Sting.

Bob Dylan released "Modern Times" in 2006.

In 2008, US rapper DMX pleaded guilty to trying to buy cocaine and cannabis in Miami. The 37-year-old singer, real name Earl Simmons, entered the plea in a Florida court and was sentenced to time served. Simmons was still in custody awaiting extradition to the state of Arizona on outstanding drug and animal cruelty charges.

Van Halen’s "Right Now" was played at the Dayton, OH in 2008, political rally where Republican presidential candidate John McCain announces his running mate is Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Van Halen is not pleased stating that the McCain camp never submitted a request to use the song, and "had they asked, permission would not have been granted." Meanwhile, ex-Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, who sang on the ’91 hit, issues a statement saying that he didn't object to McCain using the song. 2008

George Strait was at #1 on the US album chart in 2009 with ‘Twang,' the country singer, songwriter’s 26th studio album.

In 2009, the Los Angeles coroner confirmed Michael Jackson's death was homicide, primarily caused by the powerful anaesthetic Propofol. The singer suffered a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home in June (age 50). The report said Propofol and the sedative Lorazepam were the "primary drugs responsible for Jackson's death", but four further drugs were also found.

Also in 2009, 'I Met The Walrus,' an animated short film based on a ’69 Toronto interview with John Lennon during the infamous "bed-in for peace" wins the New Approaches -- Daytime Entertainment honor during the 36th annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. "We're shocked and honored to have won this," says Josh Raskin, who wrote, directed and animated the clip.

Michael Fremer Album Review

Glitter and Doom Live (new release)
Tom Waits
Anti 87053-1 2 180g LPs + MP3 download
Produced by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Engineered by: Karl Derfler
Mixed by: Karl Derfler
Mastered by: Gavin Lurssen at Lurssen Mastering
Lacquer cutting: ??????

Music

Sound





Waits Live In Ten Cities

by Michael Fremer

If you go for Waits’s “Louis Armstrong meets Screamin’ Jay Hawkins meets Captain Beefheart” blues/jazzbo thing, obtaining it live or recorded live is probably as pure as it gets and arguably the best way to consume an artist energized by the crowd’s adulation and an adept touring backup band capable of creating thick, churning atmospherics.

Waits inhabits a mythical 50’s waterfront circus tent filled with sailors, longshoremen, midgets and freaks. He’s part Kurt Weill and part Tod Browning. And part Vaudeville and Tin Pin Alley too. His fans eat it up on this set recorded during his sold out “Glitter and Doom” international tour.

He sings movies on stage here backed by a superb band capable of painting effervescent backdrops that break free of the instrumental confines and spring to life. I don’t how he puts his throat though such torture and comes out singing on the other side.

He abandons the deep growl occasionally to reveal a rich upper register and certain vibrato unharmed by the clenched throat antics. On “I’ll Shoot the Moon,” he manages to hit the high parts, descend into the deepest two-dimensional gravel (sometimes sounding like Robbie Robertson) and come up sounding like Bert Lahr!

He’s part field hand, part city slicker, part Mr. Sincerity and part bullshit shtick seller. Sometimes it sounds as if he’s just doing a cutting Bruce Springsteen parody, as on “Falling Down.” Of course Springsteen appropriately covered Wait’s “Jersey Girl” originally on his 1980 release Heartattack and Vine.

Waits combines the over the top impish humor and occasional darkness with heartbreaking sincerity as on the tender closer “Some Lucky Day.” If you want to hear Waits at his heartbreaking best though, listen to “Day After Tomorrow” from Real Gone.

The double live album was culled from performances recorded in Tulsa, Atlanta, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Milan, Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris. Call me prejudiced but I simply don’t think of Tulsa when I think of Tom Waits.

Waits is “an acquired taste” as they say about over the top artists. He sounds as if he’s burping up the songs as much as he’s singing them and the sense that he’s goofing all of it occasionally finds its way to the surface. He’s certainly having fun and the audience is too. His rap about buying Henry Ford’s last breath on Ebay is hilarious.

The sound is consistently cavernous, dark and echo-y, as if the band is playing at the back of the stage and you’re sitting near the back of the room. There’s not much air and not much sparkle and while that may be because of technical limitations, the sonics are perfectly suited to the subject matter, though even the hand claps sound thick.

I’m sure this was recorded on a computer, hopefully at high resolution and transferred to lacquer from those files. Given the wide range of venues, the sound is remarkably consistent, though “audiophile quality” it’s not. For that go back to the superlative Small Change album recorded live to two track analog by either Wally Heider or Bones Howe. I can't say which because I've misplaced my original promo copy. Damn. Where’s the all-analog reissue of that gem?

Thanks to Michael over at http://www.musicangle.com/ for the exclusive rights to reprint this material.

Copyright © 2008 MusicAngle.com & Michael Fremer - All rights reserved Reprinted by Permission

Music News & Notes

Bon Jovi to Release New Greatest Hits Package

Bon Jovi has recently announced a new greatest hits collection to be released on November 9 via Island Records.  There will actually be two different packages. Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits will be a single-CD/16-song collection with big hits like "Livin' on a Prayer," "Always" and "Wanted Dead or Alive." Two of the songs on the set are new, including "What Do You Got?" which is set to hit the radio by next week.

Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection will be two-CDs with 28 songs, the 16 from the first set plus 12 more from throughout their career like "Bed of Roses," "Blood on Blood" and "These Days." Two additional new tracks are part of the set.

"Music marks milestones in all our lives," said frontman Jon Bon Jovi. "These songs have stood the test of time and they remind us all where we came from, even as we keep our eyes towards the future.

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Lennon Music News

As previously reported, Yoko Ono has been working in conjunction with Lennon and the Beatles' label EMI to release and re-release a number of Lennon-centered albums, in an initiative called the "Gimme Some Truth" campaign.

Eight of the songwriter's post-Beatles albums will be remastered from the original mixes and re-released on Oct. 9."John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" (1970), "Imagine" (1971), "Some Time In New York City" (1972), "Mind Games" (1973), "Walls and Bridges" (1974), "Rock ‘n’ Roll" (1975), "Double Fantasy" (1980) and "Milk and Honey" (1984) will all be repackaged with digisleeves, featuring the original artwork and new liner notes.

"Double Fantasy" is also getting a "Stripped Down" version, with Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas co-producing a rawer edition of the album.  There will be four albums of "Gimme Some Truth" themed compilations, and a two-volume "Power To The People: The Hits."  And then there's "The John Lennon Signature Box," a "deluxe 11-CD and digital collection of the eight remastered albums, a disc of rare and previously unreleased recordings, and an EP of Lennon’s non-album singles."

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This from the "I thought I heard it all" bin and http://www.wired.co.uk/:

Company presses your ashes into vinyl when you die

Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.

A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favourite tunes or their last will and testament. Minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles.

The company was founded by Jason Leach, who co-founded the techno group and record label Subhead in the 1990s and has since founded a number of other labels, including House of Fix, Daftwerk and Death to Vinyl.

Leach explained to Wired.co.uk that there were a number of factors that made him launch the service, including thinking that he was “getting a bit old” and “might not be invincible”. His mother also started working at a funeral directors, which brought the whole funeral process closer to home. A third prompt was when he saw a TV programme that showed someone in America putting their ashes into fireworks, which made him think about how he might want to be remembered. And, he says, “It’s a bit more interesting than being in a pot on a shelf.”

How does it work?

The process of setting human ashes into vinyl involves a very understanding pressing plant. Basically the ashes must be sprinkled onto the raw piece of vinyl (known as a “biscuit” or “puck”) before it is pressed by the plates. This means that when the plates exert their pressure on the vinyl in order to create the grooves, the ashes are pressed into the record.

The site has a very irreverent style and operates under the strapline "live on from beyond the groove". One of Leach’s family stories, he tells Wired.co.uk, suggests why he has a practical attitude to people’s ashes.

He explains how he went out on a boat with his family members to sprinkle the ashes of his grandfather into the sea. His uncle “released them on the wrong side of the boat and so the ashes went all over us." Apparently the same thing happened to his father, too!

And Vinyly also offers personalised RIV (Rest In Vinyl) artwork -- the simple version just carries your name and your life span, or you can have your portrait painted by artist James Hague, using your ashes mixed into the paint.

The basic package costs £2,000 and comprises of the standard artwork along with up to 30 ash-flecked discs with whatever sounds you choose, lasting a maximum of 24 minutes.

Extras include "Bespook Music", where artists from The House of Fix and www.daftwerk.com write a song especially for you and global distribution of your record in vinyl stores.

The main challenge is choosing the music. Leach says: “It’s difficult to think of what to put on your record because you want it to be the best album you can imagine.”

What would he have on his own record? “I would definitely have a recording of my own voice as well as some 'sound photos' of places that are important to me and then I would have some of my own music on there. It’s something I’m working on.”

SOURCE: http://www.wired.co.uk

This Date In Music History - August 27

Birthdays:

Phil Shulman - Simon Dupree And The Big Sound,Gentle Giant (1937)

B.J. Thomas (1942)

Daryl Dragon - Captain and Tennille (1942)

Tim Bogert - Vanilla Fudge (1944)



Jeff Cook - Alabama (1949)

Kevin Kavanaugh - Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (1951)

Alex Lifeson - Rush (1953)

Glen Matlock- Rich Kids and early member of The Sex Pistols and the reformed Sex Pistols (1956)

Mike Johnson - Dinosaur Jr. (1965)

Bobo - Cypres Hill (1968)

Tony Kanal - No Doubt (1970)

Mase- worked with Puff Daddy, Blackstreet, Notorious B.I.G. (1977)

Sarah Neufeld - Arcade Fire (1979)



Jon Siebels - Eve 6 (1979)

R&B singer Mario (1986)


They Are Missed:

In 1967, British music entrepreneur and the manager of The Beatles Brian Epstein was found dead, locked in a bedroom at his London home. A coroner's inquest concluded that Epstein died from an overdose of the sleeping pill Carbitrol. He also managed several other artists including Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black and The Remo Four. The first contract between The Beatles and Epstein was auctioned in London in 2008, and was sold for $370,000.

In 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed when the helicopter he was flying in, hit a man-made ski slope while trying to navigate through dense fog. Vaughn had played a show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin with Robert Cray & His Memphis Horns, and Eric Clapton. Vaughan was informed by a member of Clapton's crew that three seats were open on a helicopter returning to Chicago with Clapton's crew, it turned out there was only one seat left; Vaughan requested it from his brother, who obliged. Three members of Eric Clapton's entourage were also killed. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarist's of all time. No One, I Mean No One, played the guitar like SRV!





R.I.P Mr. Vaughan. We're not worthy!

Percussionist Richard Jaeger died in 2000. Worked with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Pointer Sisters.

Born on this day in 1947, percussionist David Leon ‘Billy’ Knight. Died on 6th December 6, 2002.


History:

Charles G. Conn received a patent for the metal clarinet in 1889.

Connie Francis was the mystery guest on CBS-Tv's 'What's My Line' in 1961.

On the last day of a five-day break from their North American tour in 1965, The Beatles, attended a recording session for The Byrds. Later that afternoon, The Beatles met Elvis Presley at his mansion in Beverly Hills. It was an awkward meeting, leaving The Beatles with the impression that Presley's personality was decidedly "unmagnetic." John Lennon remarked soon after, “Where’s Elvis? It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck.”

Bob Dylan's second electric album, "Highway 61 Revisited," was released in 1965.

The Association's "Cherish" was released in 1966.

Jackson Browne recorded "Stay" and "Running on Empty" at a concert in Columbia, Maryland in 1977.




In 1988, "Monkey" gave George Michael his eighth US #1 single of the 1980s, a record only beaten by Michael Jackson.

Tracy Chapman went to #1 on the US album chart in 1988 with her self-titled album.

Pearl Jam released 'Ten' in 1991.

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to The Beatles song "A Day In The Life" sold at an auction for $87,000 in 1992.

Boyz II Men started a 14 week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1994 with "I'll Make Love To You." The record- breaking 14 week stay came to an end when they knocked themselves from the top with "On Bended Knee."

Neil Young headlined the Redding Festival with Pearl Jam as his backing band in 1995.

In 2003, P Diddy was being sued for $5m by a woman who claimed she was assaulted by a bouncer outside his New York restaurant. Stephanie Grieso, said she was arguing outside Justin's in August 2002 when a bouncer grabbed her by the neck and pushed her down on the pavement, causing leg injuries.

In 2004, Green Day, The Darkness, The White Stripes, Morrissey, The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, 50 Cent, (50 Cent was booed off stage after being greeted by a rain of bottles thrown at him and his G-Unit crew as they came onstage). The Streets, The Vines, Soulwax, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Offspring, Ash, Placebo and Lostprophets all appeared at this years UK Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds, England.

In 2007, Kevin Federline's lawyers asked Britney Spears to pay some of her former husband's legal expenses in their divorce case. His legal team said Federline had "no net income" after various expenses, and that Ms Spears was "clearly the monied party" in the dispute. According to legal documents filed in Los Angeles, the pop star's average monthly income was $737,868. The couple had married in October 2004 and filed for divorce in November 2006.

In 2008, Kevin Cogill, a 27-year-old blogger, is arrested by the FBI for leaking tracks from Guns N' Roses' long-overdue "Chinese Democracy" album online. Cogill was taken into custody at his home in Culver City, CA, on "suspicion of violating federal copyright laws."

LIARS - ­­NEW EP OUT OCTOBER 19th

LIARS

PROUD EVOLUTION – ­­NEW EP OUT OCTOBER 19th

FEATURES THOM YORKE REMIX + 3 NEW B-SIDES

CANADIAN TOUR DATES

9/29/10 – Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON

9/30/10 – Le National, Pop Montreal (Headline)

10/1/10 – Ritual, Ottawa, ON

10/2/10 – This Aint Hollywood, Hamilton

WATCH Liars’ performance at La Route Du Rock festival HERE

“Working their way up to art rock legacy” – Rolling Stone

“Bands that do what they want to do because they believe in it – and trust the intelligence of their listeners – are the future. That is the brave new world of Liars” – Los Angeles Times

“Like a Mayan maze of sonic and lyrical ambiguity that pummels and cajoles... while darting jittery glances down dank alleys.” – HighTimes

Liars will release a new single, Proud Evolution, as a six track EP on October 19th, 2010. The new EP features a remix from Thom Yorke, a live version recorded at Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, plus three exclusive new b-sides “Come Now”, “Total Frown”, and “Strangers”.

Liars on “Proud Evolution”: “A triumphant processional piano part is hijacked by something more lurid and tempting. The clicking and gurgling of what’s kicking. Soon a large rolling mass of bass displaces the equilibrium and redirects it into a groove. The tempting wave reminds you that misplaced confidence can be frightening.”

Liars make a long awaited return to Canada, playing Toronto and Montreal for the first time since 2006, and playing Ottawa and Hamilton for the first time ever! Having taken their critically acclaimed fifth album Sisterworld across the US, Liars head north to devastate Canada including a headline appearance at the Pop Montreal International Music Festival on September 30th.

At this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago Sun-Times observed “A series of owl cries and electronically distorted yowls rose and fell over guitar lines played carefully just a half xtone off where they should be, and the bass lurked and dodged in the lengthening shadows.”

Time Out Chicago raved, “Art-rockers Liars took a cue from the blistering sun, delivering a set that was equally as intense as the sweltering heat beaming down from above.”

Sisterworld is out now on CD, double vinyl and 2CD version. The second disc of the 2CD release sees each track on Sisterworld remixed and reinterpreted by a host of artists including Thom Yorke, Devendra Banhart, Atlas Sound, Blonde Redhead, Fol Chen and Alan Vega while the unique packaging for the 2CD and deluxe vinyl editions, designed by Brian Roettinger / Hand Held Heart (Grammy nominated and Rolling Stone award winning for his work with No Age) allows a surreal glimpse into Sisterworld.

Daytrotter Session HERE

Pitchfork TV’s ‘Surveillance’ series   HERE

John Norris for NoiseVox’s Noisemakers series.   HERE

Proud Evolution Track Listing:

1. Proud Evolution (Album Version)

2. Proud Evolution (Thom Yorke remix)

3. Proud Evolution (Live From Williamsburg)

4.Come Now

5.Total Frown

6. Strangers

For more information and inquiries please contact Sheryl Witlen at Mute.

sheryl@mute.com  

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New Andy Bell Music

NEW SINGLE “NON-STOP”

OUT OCTOBER 12th 2010

FROM THE SOLO ALBUM, NON-STOP, OUT NOW

“For anyone looking for this summer’s new club anthem, Non-Stop delivers the goods” – Venus Zine

“Bell delivers 10 songs packed with relentless beats and dizzying electronic accompaniment.” – M Magazine

“This is pop, house, electro and disco-glam all combined in to one campy cup of perfection.” – Theme Magazine

Andy Bell releases a new single and title track from his latest album, “Non-Stop”, out digitally on October 12th, 2010. The single features remixes from London based remix team Digital Dog (Tinchy Stryder, Britney Spears, Rihanna), plus exclusive tracks “Flying Colours” and the “Non-Stop” instrumental version. In addition, “Say What You Want” (Joy Joy Mix) by Ste Ashworth is included, which is the winning remix from a recent competition on andybell.com.

Non-Stop, co-produced and co-written by Andy Bell and Pascal Gabriel (S’Express, Debbie Harry, Kylie) is a lavish 10 track collection of exquisite dancefloor confessionals from one of the most acclaimed and beloved singers in British pop. The album features a duet with Perry Farrell (of Jane’s Addiction fame), Honey If You Love Him. Farrell, a huge fan of Andy’s voice, suggested the alliance.

Although Andy’s long-running partnership with Vince Clarke in Erasure (recipients of Best British Group at The Brit Awards) remains very much a going concern - since the release of 1986’s debut, Wonderland the duo have gone on to sell over 20 million albums, 5 of them hitting #1 and had 17 Top 10 UK singles - the singer’s second solo album provides a liberating platform for his more clubby, nocturnal, disco-glam side. He has even purposely changed his vocal register and style for much of Non-Stop, putting clear blue water between his soulfully electronic solo voice and his gleaming, poppy Erasure work.

NON-STOP TRACKLISTING

1. Non-Stop – original version

2. Non-Stop - Digital Dog Radio Edit

3. Non-Stop Digital Dog Club Edit

4. Non-Stop – instrumental Version

5.Flying Colours

6.Say What You Want (Joy Joy Mix) by Ste Ashworth

For more information, contact Sheryl Witlen at Mute

sheryl@mute.com

http://www.andybell.com/  http://www.myspace.com/andy_bell  

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