How can we not get behind THIS promotion?!?!?
All day Wednesday (May 15th) Me-TV-FM will be saluting the “Whipped Cream And Other Delights” album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass on the 59th Anniversary of its release.
We’ve featured the infamous album cover a time or two over the years in Forgotten Hits … but give a listen tomorrow and you'll find that there’s good stuff INSIDE the record jacket, too …
You can always listen live here: https://metv.fm/
Trust me … you’ll like what you hear!) kk
And then be sure to tune back in on Thursday when Me-TV-FM salutes Three Dog Night, playing their biggest hits throughout the day. (It was 56 years ago that the band made their debut at the Whisky a Go-Go in West Hollywood while they were making their first album.)
Three Dog Night had 21 straight Top 40 Hits beginning with “Try A Little Tenderness” (#22, 1969) thru “Til The World Ends (#22, 1975)
In between, they watched 13 of those hits make it into The Top Ten … with seven of those going all the way to #1.
At one point, they were the biggest selling act on the planet … so please plan on stopping by to hear some of their timeless and memorable music ... all day long this Thursday (May 16th) on Me-TV-FM. (kk)
If you’ve been following our Saturday Super Charts, you know all about Louis Armstrong toppling The Beatles from the #1 spot 60 YEARS AGO this past week.
Here, Billboard Magazine salutes ol’ Satchmo, too!!!
I am (like a lot of people) a 60s and 70s chart junkie. I came across a reference to Randy Price’s Super Charts on Mixcloud, and was sent to forgottenhits.com to find them. I found the website (it’s great!) but not the Super Charts.
Can you please help direct me? I would love to see these charts.
JL Condren
Absolutely!
They run every Saturday - just scroll back!
Word is, after releasing a series of EP’s, Ringo Starr is working on a complete new album … and a COUNTRY album no less!
Famed Producer T-Bone Burnett is calling the shots from behind the glass … and Ringo says we may hear the results (nine new tracks) as early as October of this year. (His “Crooked Boy” CD just came out!)
Starr has always shared a love of country music, releasing “Beaucoups Of Blues” in 1970 after his album of standards, “Sentimental Journey.” (How many people thought, in 1970 after The Beatles broke up, that Ringo Starr would still be recording new music … and fronting a VERY successful annual tour … some 54 years later?!?! AMAZING!) kk
And, speaking of Country Music, how about this ...
Fans of Randy Travis are thrilled that he’s been able to record again. (Travis, Country Music’s Top Recording Star during his hey-day, had a debilitating stroke in 2013 and has been unable to make music since … until now!)
Randy’s new song “Where That Came From” was created thru the much ballyhooed and criticized technique of AI … in this case, using the “dreaded” technology for the good and allowing Travis to speak again thru his music. (This may just be the first positive thing I've read about AI technology to date!) kk
https://randytravis.lnk.to/WhereThatCameFrom?eml=2024May10/6461076/6226477&etsubid=250731209
Saxophone Jazz Great David Sanborn has passed away from prostate cancer. He was 78. Sanborn was first diagnosed with the disease in 2018.
During the course of his career, he amassed eight gold albums, one platinum album and won six Grammy Awards. He also earned the respect of other musicians of every genre in the process. (kk)
The young actress who became the first shark victim in the opening scene of the blockbuster movie “Jaws” has died. Actress Susan Blacklinie, who portrayed Chrissie Watkins (for a brief view minutes after deciding to take a moonlight swim), was 77. (kk)
And cult movie director Roger Corman also passed away earlier this week. We received several notices about this one … but Harvey Kubernik provided perhaps the most succinct recap of Corman’s career …
Legendary film producer Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as actors Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro, and directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, died May 9th at age 98 at his home in Santa Monica, California.
“His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,'” the family said in a statement.
He may also have been the most important person in the history of Hollywood if we view him as an A&R man / talent scout, thanks to all of the people he gave first opportunities to and the careers he initiated.
Hollywood never really treated his films / catalog properly, reducing him to a "B-movie" hack, or acknowledging his role as a distributor for foreign films in the North American market, which is rarely cited. I was honored to have met him a few times and I thanked him in every book I have written.
He encouraged being an independent. I once told him I saw "Wild Angels" at a drive-in movie. He remarked, "Never forget the ozone market," a reference to drive-ins and outdoor movie houses. His biker flock, with Nancy Sinatra and Peter Fonda in "Wild Angels," paved the highway for "Easy Rider." He also picked up the reggae movie "The Harder They Come" for North American distribution after it was screened at the FILMEX festival on Hollywood Blvd. We saw Jimmy Cliff in 1973 on screen because Roger Corman made it possible. In 1979 his New World Pictures company financed the Ramones' "Rock 'n' Roll High School," directed by Alan Arkush.
HK
After playing a number of sold out shows, Lulu has extended her farewell “Champagne For Lulu” Tour, adding ten more shows to the list.
(All dates are in the UK … boy, I wish she’d reconsider and come to The States to say goodbye as well … we’d be there in a heartbeat!) kk
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
5/14/64 – Jan and Dean begin recording “Little Old Lady From Pasadena”
