More rock stars praise the influence of Eddie Van Halen …
https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/eddie-van-halen-remembered-social-media-jimmy-page-john-mayer/
Billboard salutes both Van Halen and Johnny Nash with their “Forever #1” Series, spotlighting recently departed artists who topped Billboard’s Hot 100 Pop Singles list.
Hi Kent,
I wrote about the Whipped Cream and Other Delights LP a few years ago that I posted on FB. Here’s the link if you’re interested.
Keep up the good work!
Jerry Reuss
One reader wrote in to say that I must have posted the cover of that album 1500 times over the past 21 years of doing Forgotten Hits …
Which we all know is a bit of an exaggeration …
It’s been WAY more times than that!
So I think we’re good on this one! (lol)
But the link is there for anyone else who wants to see it.
Thanks, Jerry!
(kk)
I’m not sure where I got this …
But here’s the Whipped Cream lady at 82
Mike Wolstein
OK, so the cream may have curdled a little bit over the past 55 years …
Yes, we ran this photo some time ago … you know, in one of those 1500+ times we ran a shot of the cover! (kk)
Hi, Kent:
Bravo for pointing out that the so-called "Greatest" this and that is just a ploy to stir interest. When they stick the magic words "All-Time" in there, I just laugh. Who are these people and are they self-ordained gurus of all things musical? Hey, I'd like to cast a vote for John Philip Sousa! If you must play this game, the least you can do is separate it into eras. Personally, I couldn't care less, dividing my music into two categories, that which I like and that which I don't like.
Now, about those movies of 1962. First of all, Stanley Kubrick did Lolita and not John Frankenheimer. Let's get that out of the way. I do not revere 1962 as a great year for movies but a good one. And I won't compare 1939 with 1962 for all the same reasons given for the music. I'm a movie nut and won't give in to the temptation unless I am just having fun with another movie nut in a harmless give and take. The only ranking I will ever do, be it music, movies or TV is my FAVORITES ... a safe, inarguable list.
Hil
I’m afraid I’m as guilty as anyone of using that “Greatest” or “Favorites” or “Most Essential” of “All-Time” moniker as much as anybody.
That’s because we’re asking YOU, the readers, to help us build this list of definitive tracks for any given topic or subject matter. (And the truth is NO list will ever not be subject to scrutiny by self-proclaimed know-it-alls who feel they are in a better position to judge these things than we are.)
That’s why I consider OUR lists to be the most definitive in an era where people just LOVE to debate such things. (Let’s face it … you can’t get four people to agree on where to go to lunch … how on EARTH are they going to determine The Most Essential Classic Rock Track Of All Time???)
They aren’t … because no one person can …
But when you capture a million votes … when you weigh airplay and downloads and compile all of the data, you CAN get a pretty good idea of what Joe Average Classic Rock Fan out there likes and wants to hear.
Does that mean radio’s actually going to give it to them?
Of course not!
Because they have their own agenda and team of consultants who have convinced them that mass quantities of people will begin exhibiting suicidal tendencies if they don’t hear something by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC or Queen every fifteen minutes.
We can’t win the battle … but we CAN open the awareness to a better listening experience.
For right now, I can live with that. (kk)
[And meanwhile, don’t forget to vote for your All-Time Favorite TV Themes!!! Lol]
We heard back from Brian Hyland regarding the song “One Night Jimmy,” which he cowrote with Jim Holvay, covered here the other day …
Hi
Kent -
I met Jimmy Holvay on a tour with Shirley Ellis, Jewel Akins and Bobby
Freeman. He was the guitar player in the
band which was contracted by Jimmy Ford, I think, for the tour. We played about
a month of one nighters all over the US and I wrote a number of songs with
Jimmy on the bus. This was one of the
songs we wrote. The bass player on the
tour was James Guercio, who later produced Blood, Sweat and Tears … what
a band!
After this tour, Jimmy wrote Kind of a Drag, Don’t You Care and Susan for the Buckinghams. This all happened in 1965 … (the tour that is.)
As far as that single of One Night Jimmy, it’s probably an acetate from the session.
Take care …
Brian
Meanwhile, Clark Besch came up with another Brian Hyland-related piece …
James Holvay did a lot with Brian Hyland for sure, including writing the 1964 A side single “Stay Away From Her” for Brian when they were on Dick Clark's tour in ‘64. Unfortunately, it got lost in the shuffle being out in April of ‘64 when the Beatles sold the most records. This is a dead ringer for Del Shannon.
Clark
Some more random thoughts from Clark regarding some of the topics we’ve covered recently in FH …
>>>I’m not sure if “One Way Ticket” was released here in The States or not (kk)
Yes, it was. I have a copy.
Clark
>>>but I DO like “I Woke Up In Love This Morning” and “It’s One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)” (kk)
Funny, but in listening to Landecker last night on WGN and reading your blog, I think of having Partridge Family songs on tape of Landecker 50 years ago. Last night, he opened his show with "Talk Talk" by Music machine!
That William Shatner video is what happens when those sleep apnea commercials get to you.
The new Pride of Lions song is fab!
I watched this nice Herb Alpert documentary
the other night, too. It was mono for me as well. It covered what
he is doing now (his paintings mostly) first, but continued throughout.
It gave credit to Sam Cooke and Jan & Dean for being artists who helped
lead the way to his writing and the A&M label. I have Dore Alpert 45s
but never dreamed they were by HERB!
Of course, many A&M artists talk about how nice he is and how important he
was and it being a family because of being a privately owned company.
It is chronological except returning to the present every 20 minutes or so for a bit of current info and then back. Lots of good clips including some "of the band" that he found.
The maker of the film says Herb never threw anything away and thus there’s all the great footage they have, with some have never been aired before.
I still was waiting for him to mention all the
session players in the Wrecking Crew when recording, but he seemed to make it a
better story by saying small pieces about TJB which, TO ME, made it sound like
the TJB were making all the music on the records. He talked all about
writing "The Lonely Bull" but no mention of how the RECORDING really
came to be with the Crew help. I always felt the female singing and
twangy guitar was so much like Duane Eddy with a horn.
There was no mention of his early A&M releases with future/past stars like
Rod McKuen, Claudine Longet, Jimmie Rodgers, Wes Montgomery, Tommy Boyce,
Waylon Jennings, Toni Basil, Bill Dana nor of his early HIT makers We Five, Chris
Montez, the Sandpipers, Parade, Merry-Go-Round, Phil Ochs. No mention of his
Brit signings of the Move or Procol Harum. I believe I read that the Move
showed up at A&M on their first US visit and went to A&M and they did
not know who the band even was. No mention even of the Baja Marimba
Band! This show really WAS all about Herb, I guess.
Nothing much was said about the 60's A&M artists other than Sergio Mendes. There again, no mention of the Crew when I figured they did much of the music for Brasil 66, too.
There was a live questions and answers after the documentary, but it cut off when I was watching and I could not get it back. I hope someone called in and asked about the Wrecking Crew's helping with recordings. Did they? They did have a bit on some 70's bands, but mostly Carpenters. There were so many cool records on A&M that were glossed over completely.
It said how much he seems like such a great
guy and yet, how can he seemingly mislead viewers in the importance of the
Crew, especially on the FIRST 45 hit.
I asked Denny Tedesco about his thoughts, but he did not see it. His
comments were: “That's surprising.
He mentions the guys in other interviews."
Otherwise, a nice documentary, I thought.
Clark
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Hey, Kent,
Thank You so much for all that you do …
and for The Tuesday Morning Belly Laugh ...
“PLAY ‘OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE!!!’”
LJ
