More Dylan Covers - The former "Robert Zimmerman" was born May 24th, 1941, and is now 83 years old. Listener Harold suggested a set of tracks from from the Pacific North West / Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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REQ:Request
BED:Music Played Whilst Talking
NEW:New Release
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From the evening of Sunday, June 18, 1967. The original vinyl album was - Side 1: Hendrix, Side 2: Otis Redding // click on the Link above, left, to view it
They were a British rock band that originally formed as Joe Cocker's backing group, and appeared with Cocker during the 1960s, including at the Woodstock. Their name originated from an interview Cocker had read with Jimmy Smith, who had approvingly described another performer as having "a lot of grease", with "grease" referring to soull.
* - Picked up by Dot Records for national release, Aug 1966 / ** - "The Great Northwest Music Company" / Click on the Link above, to see the original local single.
FUN FACT - despite being on a PNW label (Jerden), the group is from Norman, Oklahoma. / * - YES, that's how it's spelled // Click the Link above, left to view the original local single.
* - when I say "record", I amost always mean singles, as when 1960's Garage bands issued only one vintyl record, it was almost _never_ an album, almost always always a single (MUCH cheaper to record and press - LsA)
LINEUP: Dylan – vocal, piano; Hudson – organ; Manuel – tambourine, backing vocal; Danko – bass, backing vocal; Robertson – drums (before Helm arrived in Woodstock). / Critic Greil Marcus identifies the tune as that of the ancient children's ditty "Froggy Went A-Courtin'" and quotes Danko's description of the recording: "It all felt natural, we didn't rehearse. One or two takes from conception, on paper, to the finish. We all knew it would never happen twice."
* - Concert at L'Olympia, Paris, France: July 3rd, 1995 / ** - Listed at #1!!, on "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list, 2010 // *** - YES, It's confusing ... - LsA / Click the Link above, left to view the CD
This was ranked 3rd on Rolling Stone's ranking of the "100 Greatest Dylan songs" in 2016, with the staff describing it as "where emotional truths meet the everlasting comfort of the American folk song"; also # 68 on their 2011 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
The song was originally on 'Blonde On Blonde', released June 20th, 1966. // SUGGESTED by Lawrence Arrin ("overflow" from his Mon/ May 13th, 2024 show).
In a 2005 "Mojo Magazine" poll, this was the #55 all-time Bob Dylan song. / In 2002, "Uncut" listed it as the #34 all-time Bob Dylan song.[9] * - It was Dylan's first single from this album
'Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs' #190. / * - from the 1973 soundtrack to the film 'Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid' / ** - "ROIR" started as a was a cassette-only label
Initial working title : "Black Dally Rue" / PERSONEL include: Al Kooper - organ / Mike Bloomfield - guitar / Bobby Gregg - drums // Click on the Link above, to view many of the variations in pressings and other total Collector-geek info ...
Drummer John Barbata died May 8th, at age 79. He played in The Sentinels, The Turtles and in this group _after_ CSN&Y (temporarily) broke up, and _before_ he joined Jefferson Airplane (soon to be 'Jefferson Starship'). // MEMBERS: "Hill" = Joel Scott Hill (Canned Heat, Flying Burrito Brothers) ... / "Barbata" = John Barbata / "Ethridge" = Chris Ethridge (Flying Burrito Brothers) //
Click the Link above, left to view the original album
Drummer John Barbata died May 8th, at age 79. He played in The Sentinels, The Turtles and in this group _after_ CSN&Y (temporarily) broke up, and _before_ he joined Jefferson Airplane (soon to be 'Jefferson Starship'). / MEMBERS: "Hill" = Joel Scott Hill (Canned Heat, Flying Burrito Brothers) ... / "Barbata" = John Barbata / "Ethridge" = Chris Ethridge (Flying Burrito Brothers) / Click the Link above, left to view the original album
* - "Lyme" = Warren Zevon / This was their first (and only?) single not to chart at all.// This song was also recorded by Duluth, MN Garage group 'The Sounds Like Us' in Sept 1966 (Jill-Ann, Fontana labels)
* - Recorded at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona: March 28, 1973. // ** - part of the "Neil Young Archives Official Release Series"'
Drummer Dick Allix died March 13th, at age 78. In 1965 he started out in The Sages, who became "Vanity Fare" in 1968. He left them in 1970. Their two big hits were 'Early In The Morning' and 'Hitchin' a Ride'. / * They were English, so it's odd that this was _not_ released in England // ** - Subtitled {inaccurately for this particular track, as it's not from a US group} '18 U.S. Folk Punk Garage & Moody Cuts 1965 - 1968' // Click on the Link above, to view the original single
* - With a record so H O R R I B L E , I dare not even mention it in these Comments {even though it was co-written by Local icon Peter Wolf ....}. H O W B A D was it? - the magazines "Blender" and "GQ" both called it, "the worst song of all time". - LsA
The "New Race's project was intended to be a one-off project that introduced Deni Tekz' Detroit music friends to Australia and vice versa. Click on the Link above, to view the original Australian album
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6:04
Artist:
The New Order [Billed as 'The New Order Featuring Ron Asheton, Dennis Thompson']
From Canton, OH. From the comments of a group member, on the Youtube post: "Definitely recorded in 1966 at the Mills Recording Studio in Canton area - the demo got us a Reprise Records deal." / * - on the Turtles 1st LP, 'It Ain't Me Babe'
Greek Garage band - formed in 1994 in Thessalonski, Greece/ MORE useless details - MEMBERS: Alex Klimentopoulos (Drums), Manolis Chatzidakis (Bass) , Chris Kiriazis (Vocals) and Kostas Kapetanakis (Guitar). They met in a garage party at bar "Berlin" in Thessaloniki, started talking for hours about garage music, movies and stuff and finaly they decided to join their forces and form a band.
* - Full title: ' Mindblowing Encounters Of The Purple Kind! (16 Obscure American Sixties Garagepunkers With A Psychedelic Flavour)' // Click on the Link above, left to view the original single.
From Greeley, Colorado, they later became "The Higher Elevation {'The Diomond Mine'} . / Click on the Link above, left to view the original local single.
Click on Link above, to read a biography of Tullos (spoiler alert - he died in Nov 2020). All the artists on this album grew up in South Louisiana in the River Parishes, Joe Tullos started the project and enlisted drummer Kevin Aucoin and Subdudes guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Malone. Tullos got cancer and died before the project could be completed, Malone and Aucoin finished the release. / Click on the Link above, left to read his biography.
Brian Wilson and Mike Love began writing this on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated// Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original single with a picture sleeve, also scroll down to read a spirited debate on songwriting credits / * - Capitol released 5 singles by The Beach Boys in 1964, plus two EP's ("Extended-Play" records); pretty much par for the course for a major label then, as they released 7 singles by The Beatles that year, plus three EP's ("Extended-Play" records); - LsA
