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Music Weird: Cathy Carroll: The Drama Queen
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Cathy Carroll: The Drama Queen. Among the female teen pop singers of the '60s, Cathy Carroll might be the most dramatic stylist of them all. She didn't quite outdo Johnnie Ray in the histrionics department, but she did record Ray's signature hit, "Cry," in what I assume was a tribute to one of her spiritual forebears. Like the unforgettable teen tragedy song " Jimmy Love. It's hard to f...
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Music Weird: Cristy Lane: The United Artists and Liberty recordings on CD
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Monday, July 6, 2015. Cristy Lane: The United Artists and Liberty recordings on CD. One of these labels, LS Records, is run by Lane's husband, Lee Stoller. Lane's earliest country hits—including the Top 10 hits " Let Me Down Easy. I'm Gonna Love You Anyway. And " I Just Can't Stay Married to You. The album peaked at #17 on the Christian chart, but that. Number probably doesn't reflect the actual sales. Her lack o...
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Music Weird: A Faulty Chromosome: An interview and retrospective
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. A Faulty Chromosome: An interview and retrospective. A Faulty Chromosome. Eric on the right, Mike second from left. Do we value originality in music or not? I ask because I sense that A Faulty Chromosome never got the respect they really deserved, even though they were true originals. Nevertheless, A Faulty Chromosome was a super-interesting band. Their hallmarks were novel, lo-fi so...
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Music Weird: Cristy Lane's first record, "Janie Took My Place" (1966)
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Cristy Lane's first record, "Janie Took My Place" (1966). Cristy Lane's first record was "Janie Took My Place" b/w "Stop Foolin' with Me," which was released on the K-Ark label in 1966. K-Ark also released records by Onie Wheeler, Weldon Rogers, Benny Martin, and Eddie Noack, including Noack's oddball 1968 single " Psycho. One Day at a Time. About Lane's Capitol/EMI CDs, I'm from Muncie and...
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march april & may | February Records
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March, April and May. Category Archives: march april and may. March, April and May’ No. 2. May 23, 2016. The second issue of the February Records zine, March, April and May, is now officially available to order through our Bandcamp. Inside are band interviews, essays and even a little bit of humor. Interviews include: Duglas T Stewart of BMX Bandits, The Arctic Flow, Tiny Fireflies, Jigsaw Records, Lost Tapes, Big Quiet, The Very Most and Cozy Catastrophes. March april and may. December 31, 2015. Here, i...
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Music Weird: Music Weird interviews Joe Dowell, part 1
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Monday, April 14, 2014. Music Weird interviews Joe Dowell, part 1. Joe Dowell topped the pop chart in 1961 with his recording of "Wooden Heart" from the Elvis Presley film G.I. Blues. Dowell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, where I live, and is one of two artists from Bloomington who topped the Billboard. Charts. (The other is Bobby Helms. Eventually, Bear Family said that they'd do it. Because of the length of ...
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Music Weird: February 2015
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Betty Smith's "Hand Jive": The hit that never was. The hand jive was supposed to sweep the nation in 1958. The clapping game, which originated in England and was later depicted in the film Grease. Was "destined to become the biggest teenage fad in the history of the record business.". Which was accurately billed as the "first hand jive LP.". Smith sang the lead vocal on "Hand Jive," but...
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Music Weird: May 2015
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John": Sequels, parodies, and answer songs. Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" has to be one of the most parodied songs in the history of popular music. It spawned more answer songs and spoofs than any other song I can think of. The song was even made into a. Today on Music Weird, we'll look at the many songs that "Big Bad John" spawned. Chart positions are from Billboard.
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Music Weird: Hula-hoop songs of 1958-59
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Friday, October 17, 2014. Hula-hoop songs of 1958-59. Although hoops like the hula hoop had been around for millennia, the Wham-O toy company introduced the plastic hula hoop in the summer of 1958. The toy's name coincided with a surge of interest in Hawaiian music and reflected the similarity of hoop users' gyrating hips to those of hula dancers. Which gave her one of the last Top 40 hits of her career. She was ...
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Music Weird: June 2015
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The Music Weird originates from the elemental place of music, and attacks all living things. Friday, June 19, 2015. G Stands for Go-Betweens: The promotional sampler. To promote the limited-edition Go-Betweens box set G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 1. Domino Records issued this promo-only sampler, which is also titled G Stands for Go-Betweens. Even though the box set was a limited edition that has already sold out, this sampler is a manufactured disc, not a CD-R. Cattle and Cane (from Before Hollywood.
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