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17/06/2024

Want some NEW MUSIC to check out?
Tierra Whack "SHOWER SONG" from her LP World Wide Whack.
Video Directed by Alex Da Corte for ADC Studio
Straight out of Philadelphia, PA

Stream Tierra Whack’s debut album ‘WORLD WIDE WHACK’ out everywhere now: https://TierraWhack.lnk.to/WORLDWIDEWHACKFollow Tierra Whack:http://www.instagram.co...

15/06/2024

Want some NEW MUSIC to check out?
Straight out of Leeds... English Teacher "The World's Biggest Paving Slabe" from their debut LP, This Could Be Texas is a winner!

Listen to World’s Biggest Paving Slab here: https://englishteacher.lnk.to/twbpsID Director: .chongConcept by: Starring: English Tea...

04/06/2024

This week in 1967: Jimi Hendrix & The Experience perform at the Saville Theatre in London on June 4th, 1967 and opened with a cover of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Hearts Club Band". Paul McCartney and George Harrison were in attendance. The amazing thing was the album, "Sgt. Pepper" had only come out a few days prior, meaning the Experience learned it over the weekend. Jimi continued to open with it on the subsequent tour. Here they are at the Hollywood Bowl two months later...

Music video by The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Live at The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA - August 18, 1967 - Of...

04/06/2024

This week in 1957: The debut 45 from The Isley Brothers "The Cow Jumped Over The Moon" b/w "Angels Cry" on Teenage Records outta New York City.

01/06/2024

On this day in 1986: The underground-classic, HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT Rockumentary. Featuring interviews with several groups of young heavy metal fans gathered for a tailgate party in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland on May 31, 1986, as they prepare for a Judas Priest / Dokken concert being held later that evening. Enjoy...

1986, directed by Jeff Krulik

06/05/2024

This week in 1987: Prince releases the single "If I Was Your Girlfriend" The track was originally recorded in 1986 for a planned LP under the pseudonym, "Camille", a feminine alter ego via pitch-shifting Prince's vocals up to an androgynous register. When the LP was scrapped the "Camille" tracks ("Housequake", "If I Was Your Girlfriend", and "Strange Relationship") appeared on the double LP, Sign o' the Times.
All instruments by Prince.

Provided to YouTube by Legacy RecordingsIf I Was Your Girlfriend · PrinceThe Hits 2℗ 1987 NPG Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Legacy RecordingsRelea...

28/04/2024

Why bands had a better shot back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, & 70s... The B-Side becomes the HIT. Back in the day, the record company executives put all their hopes and dreams into a record, predicting that it would be a smash, only to find Radio DJ's (who could PICK THE SONG THEY PLAYED!) would favour the B-Side i.e. the track the record company thought little of, or even considered a throwaway. Here is the debut record from Phil Spector's first band, The Teddy Bears "Don't You Worry My Little Pet". It's the B-Side that was played by a station in Fargo, North Dakota, and KDWB in Minneapolis that started to get some traction. And convinced Doré Records to press another 500 copies with the labels switched (A>B, B>A) and it became a #1 HIT.
B-Side / A-Side song in the comments...

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31/03/2024

Today in 1949: The 45rpm single is born...
Did you know the first 45 were in 7 different colours?
Each one a different genre (blog attached)...
1. Cerise (Orange) disc for Blues & Rhythm
2. Green disc for Country & Western Music
3. Sky-Blue disc for International Music
4. Midnight Blue disc for Popular Classics
5. Red disc for Red Seal Classical
6. Yellow disc for Children's Entertainment
7. Jet Black disc for Popular Music

RCA Victor, Birth of 45, 45RPM

29/02/2024

This week in 1989: Oranges & Lemons by XTC, their 11th studio album (and second double album) on Virgin Records.
XTC Fan Appreciation Society

On this day in 1989, XTC released their eleventh studio album “Oranges & Lemons” featuring singles “Mayor of Simpleton" “King for a Day" and “The Loving"

27/02/2024

#1 this week in 1961: It's Pony Time! Did you know Chubby Checker had several hits? Here he is with instructions at the top on how to "Do The Pony."
The dance is name-checked in Wilson Pickett's "Land of a Thousand Dances", Nick Lowe's "I Knew the Bride", and in The Go-Go's song "We Got the Beat"!

Chubby Checker - Pony Time

13/01/2024

50 gigs that changed music...

Writers reflect on the concerts that have left a mark, from Billie Holiday to Billie Eilish.

20/12/2023

Great article on David Bowie and Carlos Alomar and the D.A.M. trio behind several Bowie albums (Station to Station, the Berlin Trilogy, and Scary Monsters +) (and one Iggy album)...

Spring 1974: David Bowie enters the RCA office in Manhattan to produce a couple of tracks for Lulu, the Scottish singer coming off the success of the Brian Eno routinely gets credit for David Bowie's artistic heights of the mid to late '70s, but Carlos Alomar makes a strong case that the golden Berl...

13/12/2023

Congrats to Billie Eilish & FINNEAS for their Golden Globes nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture.
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie

Listen to “What Was I Made For?”, out now: https://BillieEilish.lnk.to/WhatWasIM...Directed by Billie EilishFollow Billie Eilish:Facebook: https://BillieEili...

11/12/2023

Congrats to Lenny Kravitz for his Golden Globes nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture.
“Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz from "Rustin"

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.Listen...

11/12/2023

Congrats to Bruce Springsteen for his Golden Globes nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture.
“Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen from “She Came to Me”

Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaAddicted to Romance (from the film 'She Came to Me') · Bruce Springsteen · Patti ScialfaAddicted to Romance℗ 2023 Columbia Rec...

26/11/2023

The fifth Grammy Awards in 1963. Even though (in the prior year), the Grammys created two categories for BEST ALBUM COVER—"Classical" and "Other Than Classical"—they had fourteen nominees. Here are the eight "Other Than Classical" nominees for BEST ALBUM COVER. The award went to the Art Director.
What's your favorite?
The Comedy by Modern Jazz Quartet
Lonely Woman by Modern Jazz Quartet
Lena... Lovely and Alive by Lena Horne - WINNER!
My Son, the Folk Singer by Allan Sherman
The First Family by Vaughn Meader
Jazz Samba by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
The Great Years Frank Sinatra
Potpourri par Piaf by Edith Piaf

05/11/2023

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04/11/2023

There seems to be some confusion regarding what AI does and doesn't do. AI can do anything, how it is used is important. Even the smart tech expert Kara Swisher was mistaken regarding The Beatles new NOW AND THEN. It actually is real John Lennon audio where “AI” was used to separate his voice from a badly recorded demo of voice & piano together. One of the reasons the Threetles abandoned work on it in 1995, was that if you wanted to turn the vocal up you had to have the piano up. If they tried to clean it up and remove the piano frequencies you would then lose the fidelity of his vocal.
Only now in 2023 can “AI" recognize the unique audio qualities of piano vs voice and separate them.
As Paul McCartney clarified in June 2023... "nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It's all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years."
It's nice to hear the boys again (period).

Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that...

03/11/2023

#1 this week in 1962: "He's a Rebel" by The Crystals
Produced by Phil Spector on his Philles Records label. The song was written by Gene Pitney for The Shirelles, but they declined. Spector had learned that Vikki Carr was to record the track for Liberty Records as her debut 45, and wanted his own version on sale first. At the time The Crystals were touring on the east coast of the US, so Spector had The Blossoms, with Darlene Love, record the track with the agreement that the record would still be credited to the Crystals. The Crystals first heard the track on the radio!

29/10/2023

This week in 1973: MIND GAMES the fourth Long Player from John Lennon...

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMind Games (Remastered 2010) · John LennonMind Games℗ 2010 Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Univers...

20/10/2023

This week in 1973: The Original Soundtrack to the Hall Bartlett film ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ by Neil Diamond. Special shout out to Conductor Lee Holdridge for the beautiful arrangements.

Today marks 50 years since the release of Neil Diamond’s soundtrack album ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull.’ ~ Team Neil

https://NeilDiamond.lnk.to/JonathanSeagull

16/10/2023

This week in 1989: The second studio album from Scottish band, The Blue Nile (Official).
Headphones/earbuds are recommended...

'The Downtown Lights' by The Blue Nile taken from 1989 album 'Hats'.Listen to the official full album stream of 'Hats' here: http://bit.ly/2syeVbNThe Blue Ni...

11/10/2023

This week in 2022: One of the BEST LP's of 2022 was released.
LOOSE FUTURE by Courtney Marie Andrews on Fat Possum Records
Enjoy "These Are The Good Old Days"...

Courtney Marie Andrews' new song, "These Are The Good Old Days," off her forthcoming album 'Loose Future', out on Fat Possum on October 7th. Pre-order 'Loose...

07/10/2023

This week in 1962: The Beatles release their debut 45, "Love Me Do". Manager Brian Epstein owned a record store and ordered 10,000 copies hoping to hype it into the charts. He sold them all.
This is the original version with Ringo on drums!

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLove Me Do · The BeatlesPast Masters℗ 2009 Universal Music Operations Ltd.Released on: 1988-03-07Associated Perf...

01/10/2023

The third Grammy Awards in 1961. This year BEST ALBUM COVER expanded to nine nominees. RCA Victor's Artistic Director, Marvin M Jones is nominated six times!!!
Here are the nominees for BEST ALBUM COVER.
The award went to the Art Director.
What's your favorite?
Bean Bags by Milt Jackson and Coleman Hawkins
Carlos Montoya by Carlos Montoya
Latin ala Lee! by Miss Peggy Lee - Winner!
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky: Petruchka by Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovskt: Nutcracker Suite by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wild Percussion and Horns A’Plenty by Dick Schory
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Song Book by Ella FitzgeraldNOW! by Astaire

15/09/2023

This week in 1994: The Cold War officially and symbolically ended on Sept 8th 1994. But many of you probably missed it, if you saw it at all. It was in an unlikely place, The MTV Video Music Awards of 1994...

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23/08/2023

This week: Al Green covers Lou Reed with his cover of "Perfect Day"
I guess Al doesn't like Sangria?!?

Premiering August 21st at 9AM ESTOfficial Lyric Video Al Green's new single "Perfect Day".Stream: https://algreen.ffm.to/perfectdayShop Al Green's Catalog on...

01/08/2023

Brand new Wilco "Evicted" from their upcoming LP, COUSIN.

Official Lyric Video for "Evicted" by WilcoStream Wilco: https://WilcoHq.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Wilco YouTube channel: https://WilcoHq.lnk....