David Salidor sent us this GREAT interview with Micky Dolenz, currently running in Rolling Stone Magazine ...
Now THAT really is a great article and interview -
I'm sorry ... but it just REALLY grates me - because they are so rarely taken seriously by the rock press.
Kent,
Speaking of being on the opposite side of Daylight Saving Time, years ago when I was doing my Wax Museum on KOMA, I initially was on Saturday nights beginning at twelve midnight and going until 5:30 the next morning. You talk about being somewhat tired when 5:30 came around and I had been on the air 6 1/2 hours instead of 5 1/2. That's when Little Willie John's SLEEP would have sounded great.
As for DDDBM&T's BEND IT, for the week of March 16, 1967, the song itself peaked at #2 here in OKC. Not by DDDBM&T, but by a local group the Noblemen.
Larry
>>>I decided to call it a night and politely excused myself to head back to the hotel, playing one of MY Favorite, Forgotten B-Sides, The Angels’ “Thank You And Good Night” as the theme to my exit! (kk)
That's the song I played at the end of my first Top Shelf Oldies show in 2011 ... and again on the 10th Anniversary show (you do the math.)
What song did I open with on those shows?
"Randy" by Blue Mink, of course!
– Randy Price
>>>I'm wondering where I can get a pair of pants like Chuck’s! (lol) kk
Kent,
I recall that my mother had a pair of pants similar to the one worn by Chuck Berry in that Reelin' & Rockin' video from Midnight Special.
And I agree that whoever thought bringing the Bee Gees up on to the stage with Chuck must've been high on something.
Joe Cantello
Marietta, Ga
On Sunday, Clark Besch sent us a link to listen to a brand new interview with Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of The Zombies … which you can STILL hear via this link …
Then, later in the day, Tom Cuddy sent us THIS link to watch The Zombies performing live on Nashville television this past Saturday Night …
It’s all part of their on-going efforts to promote their brand new CD, “Different Game,” which will be out on the 31st of this month …
Kent,
What always amazed me about "Napoleon XIV" was something I found out
about 7 or 8 years after he recorded "They're Coming To Take Me Away"
in 1966.
This same guy, whose real name was Jerry Samuels, wrote "The Shelter of Your Arms," a fairly big hit for Sammy Davis Jr., and one of the most beautiful tunes to make the pop charts.
Never know what you'll hear
...
Mike
It’s true …
The Samuels-penned tune became a National Top 20 Hit in early 1964 … two years before he went off the deep end as his alter-ego, Napoleon XIV. (kk)
A few years ago we told you that the personal diaries, journals and manuscripts of Beatles Roadie Mal Evans were being gathered together in the hopes of putting together a book that would reveal what it was like to work for The Beatles … from the time before they were famous and right on thru the end. (In fact, Mal was working on this project at the time of his death in 1976.)
Well, that book is finally a reality … and will be released on November 14th. (Evans was, unfortunately, shot to death by a Los Angeles policeman under questionable circumstances.)
Kenneth Womack (who has previously written and published a biography on Beatles Producer George Martin, as well as books spotlighting John Lennon, George Harrison and Abbey Road Studios) has taken on the task of sorting all of Mal’s memories, notations, photographs, illustrations and memorabilia into a lifelong testament to the band the whole world fell in love with called “Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans.” Rights to turning over these files were first agreed to by Mal’s family back in 2020, which is most likely when we first mentioned it, too. I won’t say that three years of anticipation have been killing me … but this does promise to be one hell of a book! So much so, in fact, that it will be published in two volumes, with the second edition hitting the streets sometime in 2024. (Womack’s biography of George Martin was also published in two volumes.)
Mal was privy to SO many Beatle details along the way and went from breaking down and then hauling their equipment in the earliest days of their career, years before they hit it big, to running out in the middle of the “Sgt. Pepper” sessions because John suddenly decided he wanted some orange socks. The story goes that it was on a flight back to London with Paul McCartney that Mal inspired the names “Sgt. Pepper” in the first place when Paul misheard him to “pass the salt and pepper.” Word is that on that very flight the concept of The Beatles taking on alter egos and performing as someone else for their new LP took place … and that Mal even helped (uncredited) with some of the lyrics to the title song.
I imagine I’ll be adding these volumes to my much-overloaded coffee table as soon as they are available. (kk)
Forgotten Hitters may also be interested in the newly published memoirs of Barbara Feldon, best remembered as Agent 99 in the “Get Smart” series and as the growling “Top Brass” girl egging on “all you tigers out there” to buy the product. But DIDJAKNOW that she ALSO won the grand prize on “The $64,000 Question”???)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDxMaQuVlF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxDQMWiyGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0TJGvzzdhw
This book covers it all and is available now thru Amazon.com as well as Barbara’s own website: https://www.barbarafeldon.com/
