JSngry

Gotta be!

Here's some post-history then:

15/per seems high. I might go 7.99. But @ 15, there's Jordiodes aplenty if all you want is to go to a pull your own parts type place...although of course having them pull it for you costs more

I like the ballads.

Wing Flinkerstick - Shakin' It Up Tonight!!! (Recorded Live at Aunt Ethel's Butthouse)

Oh yeah - it would be irresponsible of me to give kudos to the Gitler book without saying that an essential corollary is Dizzy's "autobiography" To Be Or Not To Bop. There's obviously more in that book about life before and after the "BeBop Revolution", but there is more than enough there about it that is invaluable. Especially valuable are the comments both from and about Budd Johnson, who quiet as it's been kept was a key figure in all the transitions going on.

Maybe because a lot of the people felt more or less the same way. For this American reader, that came as no surprise and very much mirrored real-time real-life experiences I was having. There's actually a lot of individually nuanced answers within the "sameness". And Lockjaw in particular has some very specific things to say. Maybe time for a re-read? Or a visit to America? Or both! Come to Texas, I'll take you around. Don't say you weren't warned, though!!!!

Rangers ain't ready yet. Still haven't won a game where they have trailed after 7. Choked it up in the 9th today. It's a good team but not a great one. Not yet.

I thought that "Dave Seville" did all three voices? Ross Bagdasarian (sp???)

This notion of "pre-history" is an artificial construct erected by the gatekeepers of The Industry in order to control the narrative and direct the money. If the music was there before the name, that's the name's problem. There's no such thing as "pre-history" when everything is right there to be seen and had.

It's a wonderful book! And there are airshots of the Henry Jerome band mentioned in the book. If there's a shortcoming to the book, it's that it starts to stray over into documenting the white players who were still following and catching up to the real forefront of the music. Still, it's a most valuable book. But so is Notes and Tones. Those aren't "leading questions", those are intentionally consistent questions meant to elicit a range of responses from a range of people. Letting the musicians speak for themselves to one of their own. That was the stated goal of the book, and it did what it set out to do.

She was from Mansfield. Texas, a town of very dubious pedigree in terms of race relations. And yet. Ella Mae Morse not only sold well to African-American audiences, she was, apparently, thought to actually BE African-American by many who had not seen her picture. AFAIK, there's no story about how she absorbed that feel so young. Mansfield was (and might still be for some) a Klan town. So this little white girl was getting something somewhere to sing like that, so totally unaffected. Maybe she got out of Mansfield and moved up to Dallas. But even then, a young white girl would not have unlimited access to all the cultural opportunities that were available... Sam Phillips was wanting a White boy who (supposedly) sang black. And Wanda Jackson gave Capitol a teenage wildcat/sex kitten. Exploitation. Business. Distraction and distortion. Ella Mae Morse was to one degree or another all of that, minus the hype. She was natural. Now, is it just me, or does that sound like Rex Middleton's Hi-Fi's joining in on "Rock Me All Night Long"?

Did a little looking on the shelves, and #13 is Radio Citizen. That's a really good record! And they don't mention "Las Vegas Tango" at all, but oh well... Still, a fine record. It played in my car for weeks when I got it.

Exactly.

I looked at it like those guitarists were making their own records, so if I wanted to hear them, I could buy those. But I found a promo LP cheap and bought it anyway. I was greatly relieved that Cumbia and Jazz Fusion was what it was.

Walter Brennan as "Pop"? Not Neil Diamond? Pop, right? But Buffalo Springfield, Rock. And Gail Fisher as Peggy.

1954!

20th Century Texas women! She got Jimmy Dorsey to hire her in Dallas when she was 14. It took a letter from the Mansfield. Tx school board to uncover her real age. But she was back at 17, with Freddie Slack. The rest is history, or should be. Sexy as phuvk.

Why?

Satch Booker's Choir Of Redemption - The Lessons Of Loudness

Who is W.I.T.C.H?

Petty criminals are vso petty.

Ready for more. The Guy/Braud/Greer rhythm section was NASTY!!!

Obscured by it's commonness.