“NOWHERE TO RUN” (Earl Van Dyke INSTRUMENTAL) * Martha & The Vandellas * 1965
Month: May 2015
THE ESSENCE OF ‘SOUL’ 60S GENERATION: ’66 DEFINED!
THE HOLIDAYS * 1966
— BILLBOARD: Peaked #63 June 25, 1966 —
MCRFB note: The Holidays lead vocalist, heard in this recording, is that of Charles Edwin Hatcher — a.k.a. Edwin Starr.
THE ESSENCE OF ‘SOUL’ 60S GENERATION: ’65 DEFINED!
THE PACKERS * 1965
— BILLBOARD: Peaked #43 December 11, 1965 —
MCRFB Note: In releasing this single, note the authors credited having wrote the music under the song title. The Packers were none other than Booker T. Jones and the M.G.’s having assumed a different name — one time only — for this label’s release late-1965.
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’65!
“RESCUE ME” * Fontella Bass * Checker Records (1965)
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’65!
“1-2-3” * Len Barry * Decca Records (1965)
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’65!
“1-2-3” * Len Barry * Decca Records * Rare Extended Version 1965
B. B. KING, LEGENDARY KING OF THE BLUES, 1925-2015
“DON’T ANSWER THE DOOR” * B. B. King * 1966
B. B. KING, WHO INSPIRED A GENERATION, DIES AT 89
OBITUARIES
BLUES LEGEND B. B. KING, INSPIRATION TO GENERATIONS OF MUSICIANS, DIES AT 89
By Randy Lewis | LA TIMES Staff Writer | May 15, 2015, 12:04 AM
B.B. King, the singer and guitarist who put the blues in a three-piece suit and took the musical genre from the barrooms and back porches of the Mississippi Delta to Carnegie Hall and the world’s toniest concert stages with a signature style emulated by generations of blues and rock musicians, has died. He was 89..
The 15-time Grammy Award winner died Thursday night in his Las Vegas home, said Angela Moore, representative for his youngest daughter, Claudette. He had struggled in recent years with diabetes.
King died peacefully in his sleep, Claudette King told The Times.
Early on, King transcended his musical shortcomings — an inability to play guitar leads while he sang and a failure to master the use of a bottleneck or slide favored by many of his guitar-playing peers — and created a unique style that made him one of the most respected and influential blues musicians ever.
“B.B. King taps into something universal,” Eric Clapton told The Times in 2005. “He can’t be confined to any one genre. That’s why I’ve called him a ‘global musician.'”
Because King couldn’t figure out how to play and sing simultaneously, he separated the two functions, laying the blueprint for the sung verse followed by the extended solo passage that would become a crucial element in blues as well as in rock music rooted in the blues. That template was exploited by subsequent generations of players, from Clapton and Jimi Hendrix on through to John Mayer and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Finding that he couldn’t make his elegantly long but thick fingers work the beer bottlenecks and metal slides used by so many other blues guitarists, he discovered that he could emulate that effect by rocking the fingers of his left hand rapidly on the guitar’s frets similar to the way a classical violinist creates vibrato, establishing a ringing tremolo that became his hallmark.
MCRFB Note: For the rest of this Los Angeles Times B. B. King Obituary article (May 15, 2015) please GO HERE.
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Randy Lewis | Copyright © 2015 Los Angeles Times
QUAD COMES TO DETROIT . . . NOVEMBER 7, 1970
A MCRFB news brief: 1970
DETROIT — Quadrasonic sound will be heard here for the first time in the Motor City, Sunday November 1, as WABX-FM and WDET-FM combine to present a show programmed by Tim Powell, WABX music director, and Bud Spangler, music director of WDET. The program will consist of all types of music including folk, jazz, rock, classical and some adult-oriented instrumentals and contemporary music. The technical end will be handled by Vince Capizzo of WABX and Paul Grezibik of WDET-FM.
(Information and news source: Billboard; November 7, 1970).
MCRFB COMMERCIALS: PONTIAC GTO NEW FOR 1966!
PONTIAC MOTOR DIVISION. GM CORP. * “The Tiger Scores Again!” * 1966
