A short but sweet edition this week (as I had to run into work this weekend) ...
We lost another Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer this past week
when drummer and founding member of The Doobie Brothers, John Hartman, passed
away.
There were not a lot of details floating around when his
death was first announced, but Hartman was with the band from their very first
album thru “Minute By Minute” in 1979.
He retired from music the following year (to raise Arabian horses,
believe it or not!) but did come back for a couple of special reunion
albums.
Between 1972’s “Listen To The Music” and 1979’s “Minute By
Minute,” The Doobie Brothers placed fourteen songs in The National Top 40,
including the #1 Hits “Black Water” and “What A Fool Believes” as well as
Classic Rock Classics like “Long Train Runnin’” and “China Grove.” (kk)
According to Best Classic Bands, Loggins and Messina sounded
great at their rescheduled Hollywood Bowl concert Thursday Night (9/22),
performing a ten song set. (The original
July concert dates had to be postponed due to Covid issues)
After their reunion set, Kenny Loggins went on to perform
thirteen additional songs from his solo career.
You can read more about it … and view a few concert clips …
here …
https://bestclassicbands.com/loggins-messina-reunion-2022-hollywood-bowl-9-23-22/
The Doobie Brothers and Loggins and Messina were two more
artists whose careers first took off in 1972 … fifty years ago. (kk)
We told you before about an upcoming Chicago documentary …
Tom Cuddy shared a little more information with us …
Chicago Celebrates 55th Anniversary
with New Album and Documentary, Even as Band Asks ‘If This Is Goodbye’
https://variety.com/2022/music/news/chicago-celebrates-55th-anniversary-new-album-documentary-last-band-on-stage-1235382236/
Much was made about the first single release from the album,
“If This Is Goodbye.” While the group
denied this was their way of letting the fans know, it sounds like they have
come to terms with the eventuality of when “goodbye” becomes a reality. This should be an interesting
documentary. (kk)
The Rolling Stones have issued another vintage set of videos
for their 1966 Hit “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows.”(#9
US in Billboard, but #3 in Record World and #4 in Cash Box … and #5 UK)
Bob Merlis tells us more about these new ABKCO releases …
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TWO VERSIONS OF THE ROLLING STONES’ “HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR MOTHER, BABY,
STANDING IN THE SHADOW?” 1966 MUSIC VIDEO GET FIRST OFFICIAL ONLINE RELEASE
PROMOTIONAL
FILMS DIRECTED BY PETER WHITEHEAD CAPTURE HYSTERICAL CROWD AT LONDON
CONCERT AND BAND MEMBERS IN DRAG DURING MANHATTAN VISIT
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The
Rolling Stones and ABKCO Music & Records Inc. have released the
official music videos for the hit single “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby,
Standing in the Shadow?” Both versions were filmed in 1966 by director
Peter Whitehead but were rejected at the time by the few outlets that would
play what were then referred to as “promos” or “promotional films” of rock
and roll bands. The live performance video captures the mayhem during The
Rolling Stones’ September 23, 1966, performance at the Royal Albert Hall in
London; while the video of the band in Drag was created using film footage
of the photoshoot for the single’s back cover in Manhattan, depicting all
five original members (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill
Wyman, Charlie Watts.)
Watch:
Have You Seen Your Mother (Official Music Video) directed by Peter Whitehead
here on The Rolling Stones Official YouTube Channel:
https://therollingstones.lnk.to/HYSYM
Watch: Have You Seen Your Mother (Official Video) [Royal Albert
Hall] directed by Peter Whitehead: ABKCO VEVO: https://abkco.lnk.to/hysymrah
A Top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic (UK #5; US #9), “Have You Seen
Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” was recorded in August and
September of ’66 at RCA Studios in Hollywood as well as IBC Studios in
London. Released simultaneously in the US and UK 56 years ago to this day,
the instrumentation on the Jagger/Richards composition includes a horn
section consisting of three trumpets, put together by arranger Mike Leander
(The Beatles, Marianne Faithfull, Gary Glitter, Cliff Richard, Joe Cocker
and The Drifters) with piano by both Richards and Jack Nitzsche. Regarding
the lyrics, Jagger told Keith Altham at the NME in 1966, “This is simply
about a boy and his bird. Some songs I write are just for a laugh. Others
are extensions of ideas. This is a mixture of both. You must listen to it
and place your own interpretation on the lyric. There is no attempt to
present a controversial ‘Mother’ theme.”
Filmmaker Peter Whitehead, who directed The Rolling Stones’ tour
documentary Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965 and went on to make many
more music videos for the band (including “We Love You,” officially
released on 4K by The Rolling Stones and ABKCO last month), captured the
band at a strange moment in their tenure as a live band. The rock concert
industry was still in its infancy, and security was ill-equipped at
handling the throngs of screaming fans who rushed the stage at the Royal
Albert Hall to grab band members mid-song, before getting pushed back into
the crowd. Decades before the launch of MTV, there was no way for the
general population to view this original version of the music video until
it was incorporated into the documentary Heroes of Rock and Roll, narrated
by Jeff Bridges and televised in early 1979.
A second version of the music video, consisting of entirely different
footage shot on September 9, 1966, was also made by Whitehead. Footage of
the photo shoot with photographer Jerry Schatzberg for the back cover of
the single (US version only, as the UK version didn’t come in a picture
sleeve) is captured in black and white. The band, entirely in drag, stands
around a wheelchair-bound Bill Wyman at 124 East 24th Street, between
Lexington and Park Avenues in Manhattan.
When asked about the concept behind the shoot, Keith Richards commented to
the NME:
“The photograph was just a laugh. There’s no deeper interpretation to be
placed on it than that . . . We adopted the names of ‘Molly’ and ‘Sarah’
for fun.” He went on to say, “I think Bill must get the ‘king of the queens’
award for his portrayal of the bird in the bathchair in the uniform. I mean
just look at her . . . I mean that’s the one who pressed the button isn’t
it?”
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OK, this is pretty cool …
With the 2022 premier just a week away for the 48th
season of “Saturday Night Live,” Billboard Magazine takes a look back at the
host and musical artist for EVERY season opener dating back to the very first
episode in 1975. (For the record, George
Carlin was the host and TWO musical guests were featured … Billy Preston and
Janis Ian)
https://www.billboard.com/lists/saturday-night-live-host-and-musical-guest-every-season-premiere-episode/season-1-4/#recipient_hashed=fa7e92da6f6e66bffcf0bcbf863670c6eb37d7159eb4d0ea1e44fecd5ec87eeb&recipient_salt=3a1d6b09af3b92ad7e38f8327cf18febeb049fd1c9a251b66957a07d9375735c
>>>As
for the Variety charts, I would love to research those someday. The
biggest obstacle is tracking down all of the charts. It would require
some digging and I'm simply way too busy for that at this time! If
anybody out there knows where to locate a complete collection, I'd be
interested. (Paul Haney)
There are two
that I know of in Illinois alone ...
Governor's State University in
University Park has issues on microfilm up to 1972. For issues later
than that, there's the University Of Illinois in Urbana.
Ed #1
And presto, change-o, just like that we're off and running! It would cool to see a Variety chart book come to light ... another one of Joel Whitburn's long-time dreams! (kk)
Doing a little bit of digging of my own, I found this (which kinda makes it sound like Variety didn't consistently publish a chart throughout the years) ... but it would still be pretty cool to see a recap of what they DID publish! (kk)
And a final smile from Timmy C to get you thru the rest of the weekend ...
