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There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Instrumental Hits
From: Bill Craig
2. Drummer on Johnny Angel?
From: Ken Levine
3. Re: Instrumental hits
From: Ron
4. Re: Sounds Inc. / Come Together
From: Eddy Smit
5. Re: Love Is Blue -- Shocking !
From: Jimmy
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 12:57:34 -0000
From: Bill Craig
Subject: Re: Instrumental Hits
Just to add another great instrumental to the list; how about
Stranger on The Shore by Mr. Acker Bilk?
Bill Craig
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 07:27:59 -0700
From: Ken Levine
Subject: Drummer on Johnny Angel?
The drummer on Johnny Angel? Earl Palmer was that drummer.
Earl Palmer was first-call drummer on the New Orleans RB recording
scene from 1950 to 1957. Talk about a supreme recommendation -- in
a city renowned for its second-line rhythms and syncopated grooves,
Palmer was the man, playing on countless sessions by all the
immortals: Little Richard, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Dave
Bartholomew, and too many more to list here. Born to a mother who
was a vaudevillian, little Earl Palmer was learning rhythmic
patterns as a tap dancer at age four. Such contacts led him to be
around drum kits on a regular basis, and it didn't take him long to
master them. Be-bop jazz was his first love, but RB and blues paid
the bills starting in 1947, when Palmer joined Bartholomew's band.
Palmer remained the king of the traps at Cosimo's fabled recording
studio until 1957, when a Shirley Lee session led to an AR offer
from Aladdin Records boss Eddie Mesner. Palmer found studio work
just as plentiful in Los Angeles, making major inroads into the
rock, jazz, and soundtrack fields as well as playing on countless RB
dates with his frequent compadres Rene Hall on guitar and saxist
Plas Johnson. Occasionally, Palmer would record as a leader -- the
instrumental "Johnny's House Party" for Aladdin, a couple of early-
'60s albums for Liberty. But even the best session men grapple with
a certain sense of anonymity. So the next time you pull out Little
Richard's "Tutti Frutti," Smiley Lewis's "I Hear You Knockin'," Lloyd
Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," or Fats Domino's "The Fat Man," please
keep in mind that it's Earl Palmer feverishly stoking that beat --
with a saucy second-line sensibility that drove those songs in fresh,
utterly innovative directions. He also could lay back the subtle
sticks as in Shelley Fabares' 1962 chart topper "Johnny Angel".
(Bill Dahl, All Music Guide)
Ken Levine
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 14:18:36 -0000
From: Ron
Subject: Re: Instrumental hits
This really puts me in mind of one of my favorite instrumentals that
hasn't been mentioned - "Pipeline" by the Chantays. I remember first
hearing it on an out of town AM station while I was sitting in the
basement searching the AM dial. I could hear background interference
sounding like a jumble of low voices because of the distance of the
station. It gave the song a haunting quality I still think of today
when I hear it. A couple of other great on are "Baja" by the
Astronauts, and "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" by the Ventures.
I should also mention Lonnie Mack. He was a local artist in the
early sixties. My friends and I saw him regularly at a "record hop"
in a church hall on Monday nights here in Cincinnati when Memphis hit
the charts. I also thought he did a great non instrumental version
of "Where There's a Will", a gospel song originally done by the Five
Blind Boys. Instrumentally he did so many great things. One of my
favorites is Mann-Weil's "Don't Make My Baby Blue".
Ron
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 17:23:11 +0200
From: Eddy Smit
Subject: Re: Sounds Inc. / Come Together
Everybody seems to be forgetting Sounds Inc. were featured in The
Beatles at Shea Stadium TV special !
Other than the fact that the soundtrack to Come Together was
released on Apple, it has absolutely nothing to do with The Beatles.
Eddy
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 11:28:08 EDT
From: Jimmy
Subject: Re: Love Is Blue -- Shocking !
"Love Is Blue" was the first 45 I ever bought... I played it to death
on a tiny little record player for 45s. that was my mothers when she
was a girl in the mid-1940s. (The kind with a spindle that had to be
adapted with a plastic dealie to accept 45s.) One day I stayed home
"sick" from school so I could play it... and broke the control knob,
which a repairman up the street replaced with a metal knob... and so,
when I went to replay the record each time, I got a small shock. My
cousin told me at the time that the tune was an adaptation of an
ancient melody... Roman, he said. Thoughts?
==Jimmy==
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