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| Brent Gair wrote: | | Speaking of Gary Puckett: what a hugely under-rated singer. He was a star who might have been a superstar with a few more breaks. His voice was as good as ANY voice during that era and he's still active. I like a LOT of stuff from the 1950's, 60's and 70's because the music entertains me even if the singers are mediocre (think: Gary Lewis and The Playboys). But Gary Puckett has SERIOUS singing chops. |
He's down-keyed his singing lately (see some of his live performances from 2011 on YouTube), but, oh man, his earlier recordings are what I refer to as "dangerous" for karaoke. You think they're safe because he starts out low and mellow, but by mid-song he's up among the rafters. A good way to rip out your vocal cords if you're not forewarned.
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| Gary Puckett started out as the town bad boy in Union Gap Wa. A narrow spot in the Yakima River Canyon. Rugged scenery just an apple core toss from the best apple orchards in North America. |
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Just picked up the latest issue of Filmfax (#138). It contains an 11-page article on Bobby Rydell's career (go figure)... continued next issue.
And one on Barbara Payton, too.
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| orzel-w wrote: | Just picked up the latest issue of Filmfax (#138). It contains an 11-page article on Bobby Rydell's career (go figure)... continued next issue.
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How much do I like Bobby Rydell, you ask? OK...maybe you didn't ask but I'll tell you anyway.
I own 800 Blu-ray Discs. Of that, there is only ONE movie of which I own two Blu-ray Disc copies. I have two copies of the movie BYE BYE BIRDIE because I love that movie so much I got two copies just in case something happened to one!
Bobby Rydell is one of the stars of the movie (although, everybody pales next to Ann-Margret).
This is a rather long production number from BYE BYE BIRDIE:
http://youtu.be/ADYHnVE9c4A
Here's his best know hit (this is a lengthy clip and I stopped watching when the song finished):
http://youtu.be/VB5hM79efPw
Rydell was a technically perfect singer, a hard worker and, by all accounts, a prince of a guy (and I assume he still is). A lot of guys from this era in pop-music don't get much respect or notice. There was a "bad boy" era with guys like pre-Army Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. There was the British Invasion. In between there was a period of clean-cut boy/girl next door singers and this time of the early 1960's is largely squeezed out of rock/pop history. |
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Every time I listen to his "That Old Black Magic" I envision it being performed in a nightclub, much like the styling he displays in that second clip above from the Perry Como show. (Remember nightclubs?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OdJHblr0PY
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| orzel-w wrote: | | Every time I listen to his "That Old Black Magic" ... |
The horns in that song reminded me of SOUTH STREET by the ORLONS:
http://youtu.be/y8aFcR9IrCw
Sometimes I think I should have been born in 1945 rather than 1958. I love seeing the kids dance in that clip (likely just a generic American Bandstand clip edited as a video for the song). The guys look so "adult" in their suits and ties. |
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| Brent Gair wrote: | | How much do I like Bobby Rydell, you ask? OK...maybe you didn't ask but I'll tell you anyway. |
I've got a few hundred cassette tapes of Oldies I made myself, one song at a time, from various sources like radio stations, CDs, satellite stations, etc.
Bobby's songs are prominently featured on my tapes, like Swingin' School, The Cha Cha Cha, and my favorite -- Volare.
What a great performer. Brent, thanks for praising Mr.
Here's Bobby Rydell with a song dedicated to you, sir! 
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"I'm a little bit country..."
Funny how taste in music develops. As a hapless 18 year old, just out of high school, I was working in a hangar where one of the mechanics (I remember his name: Don Stratton) played country music on the radio. Needless to say, I was horrified  ! A few months later, I was a country music fan.
This girl could have been the Taylor Swift of my generation. In 1983, Sylvia Kirby was a big star and that star was rising fast. She was the 1982 Academy of Country Music Female Vocalist of the Year. She was Billboard's #1 Female Country Artist. In 1983, "NOBODY" was the BMI Song of the Year for Most Air Play. It was one of a number of Sylvia's crossover hits. But things went off the rails. Country music turned more traditional and her country pop went out of style. She never gained enough traction in the pop music world to build a career there. One the biggest stars of 1983 was soon singing at small county fairs. It's hard to believe that the tall, leggy. lovely Sylvia is now 58 years old...older than me! But, at the top of her game, she was really something:
http://youtu.be/CBACEa-onkY
The following piece of music may be the hokiest, corniest, most syrupy song ever written and, god help me, I do love it so. If you are a new-age cynic, don't even click on this link...it could kill you. I was born poor, had cancer a couple of times and I've been shot at (don't ask) but I have no time for sad-sack mopers who can't be grateful for being alive. Whiners and cynics, click this link at your own risk:
http://youtu.be/DD0L0nyM7OY?t=4s
It ain't a country music post without a truck drivin' song:
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I've been listening to some great stuff from Jimmy Jones. I finally found a good video of HANDYMAN. Previous videos were so fuzzy that I thought he was standing beside a Jaguar XK150. I see now that the car is a Triumph TR3. I took some Triumph pics locally (just saw that red one parked a few blocks away).
http://youtu.be/CKpbNvDg6zY
There is no video of GOOD TIMIN' but here's the song with some stills.
http://youtu.be/modfq47onwU
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LOVE AT FIRST BITE is coming out on Blu-ray tomorrow. It includes the classic disco anthem I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE. For years, I would deny my affection for disco but I finally came out of the closet...yes, I like disco. I'm the ideal disco demographic. Born in 1958, I was about 20 years old when disco started to peak. This was the music on the radio when me and my buddy Brad were cruising; me the 455 Trans Am and Brad in his hot-rodded Camaro.
I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE was replaced when the DVD was released in 2007. Scream Factory reports that it has been restored to the Bu-ray!
http://youtu.be/pu2NzXb4x1s
Also from the 1970s, this song by The Three Degrees. Great thing about the 1970s is that there was still room for elegance. Sure, not everything was classy but it could still find room on Top 40 radio. As I've said before, I'm tired of women singing about their bootys.
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| Brent Gair wrote: | | For years, I would deny my affection for disco but I finally came out of the closet...yes, I like disco. |
I, too, had no use for disco until I learned the street hustle. Then I started buying up the LPs and mixing my own cassettes. I would drive along with my cassette player on boogie, envisioning new dance moves. Probably as unsafe as texting while driving. Even now I have my XM Sirius radio pretuned to the 50s, 60s, and 70s stations.
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