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The Lee Kings (Sweden) 1965-67
Posted: 30 Jul 2019 03:18 PM PDT
https://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-lee-kings-sweden-1965-67.htmlThe Lee Kings was a pop group from Sweden, established in 1964 as Lenne &
The Lee Kings, and scoring several hits on the Tio i topp chart.
The group originally consisted of Lenne Broberg, Bengt Dahlén, Bjarne
Möller, Olle Nordström and Lasse Sandgren. In 1966, Olle Nordström left the
band and was replaced by Mike Watson. Watson was born in Sheffield and
later he played with the Swedish group ABBA.
In 1967, Lasse Sandgren left the band and was replaced by Tony Walter, and
for a while, Bengt Dahlén and Bjarne Möller also left, and was replaced by
Johnny Lundin.
Singles"Stop the Music""L.O.D." (Love On Delivery)"Why, Why, Why""I Can't
Go On Living, Baby, Without You"
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Girls In The Garage (Oriental Special) Vol 9
Posted: 30 Jul 2019 01:50 PM PDT
https://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2019/07/girls-in-garage-oriental-special-vol-9.htmlFlac And MP3 Format.
"A collection of asian girl sounds from the '60s!". Asian girl singers
covering popular American rock songs in the 60's.With the eventual rise of
bands such as Dara Puspita and an overall excitement and impatience to form
a band, the Asian continent stirred with the sound of rock and roll thanks
to the arrival of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Assisted by
Rediffusion and various other British colonial networks, the sound and the
fury were being absorbed by a new generation. Where else will you hear a
Mandarin Nancy Sinatra chewing on Sugar Town Or an indescribably baffling
masterpiece of Chinese Bubble-gum Toss away your potential pop prejudice
and absorb the hidden treasures of life in an esteemed selection of
forgotten 45s from the Far East. Past and Present presents an Oriental
twist on pop with professionally re-mastered original audio, expanded
liners and a plethora of rare archival photos.
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Mason Williams (Classical Gas) EP (Australia) 1969
Posted: 30 Jul 2019 03:04 AM PDT
https://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2019/07/mason-williams-classical-gas-ep.htmlA One Hit Wonder and a Classic in itself...
"Classical Gas" is an instrumental musical piece composed and originally
performed by Mason Williams with instrumental backing by members of the
Wrecking Crew. Originally released in 1968 on the album The Mason Williams
Phonograph Record, it has been re-recorded and re-released numerous times
since by Williams. One later version served as the title track of a 1987
album by Williams and the band Mannheim Steamroller.
Originally named "Classical Gasoline", the song was envisioned to be "fuel"
for the classical guitar repertoire. The title was later shortened by a
music copyist.
Williams was the head writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the
time of the piece's release and premiered the composition on the show.
Williams performed it several times over several episodes.
After the piece had reached the Top Ten, Williams asked an experimental
filmmaker named Dan McLaughlin to adjust a student video montage that he
had created of classical art works using Beethoven's 5th Symphony and edit
it in time to "Classical Gas", using the visual effect now known as
kinestasis. The work, 3000 Years of Art, premiered in 1968 on an episode of
the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The song peaked at number 2 for two
weeks in August that year, behind "Hello, I Love You" by The Doors. On the
US Easy Listening chart, it went to number one for three weeks.
It is sometimes erroneously thought that "Classical Gas" was performed, or
even composed, by Eric Clapton. This may be due to the fact that Clapton
was musical director of, and played much of the guitar music for, the
feature film The Story of Us in which Williams' own solo-guitar
re-recording of it, from his 1970 album Handmade, appeared. Clapton has
actually never recorded the song.
Williams re-recorded "Classical Gas" as a solo guitar piece on his 1970
album Handmade. This version was re-released by Sony in 2003, after being
featured in the film Cheaper by the Dozen, which starred Williams's
Smothers Brothers protégé, actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin.
Awards and honorsIn 1969, the piece won three Grammy Awards: Best
Instrumental Composition, Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental,
and Best Instrumental Arrangement.In 1998, Broadcast Music Incorporated
(BMI) awarded Williams a special Citation of Achievement. The piece has
logged over five million broadcast performances to become BMI's all-time
number-one instrumental composition for radio air play.
Mason Williams – Classical GasLabel:Warner Bros. Records –
EPW-164,Series:Also Available In This Series –Format:Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
Country:AustraliaReleased: 1969
Genre:Classical, Folk, World, & CountryStyle:AcousticTracklist Hide
CreditsA1 Classical GasWritten-By – Mason Williams3:00A2 Long Time
BluesWritten-By – Mason Williams3:36B1 Baroque-A-NovaWritten-By – Blye,
Williams2:15B2 WanderloveWritten-By – Mason Williams3:11
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Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames (Rhythm And Blue Beat) EP 1964
Posted: 30 Jul 2019 12:14 AM PDT
https://allmusic-wingsofdream.blogspot.com/2019/07/georgie-fame-and-blue-flames-rhythm-and.htmlLabel:Columbia – SEG 8334Format:Vinyl, 7", EP, 45 RPM, Mono
Country:UKReleased:1964Genre:Rock, Reggae, BluesStyle:Ska, Rhythm & Blues,
Pop RockTracklistA1 Madness A2 Tom Hark Goes Blue BeatWritten-By – BopapeB1
Humpty DumptyWritten-By – MorrisB2 One Whole Year, Baby
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were a noted British rhythm and
blues/soul, jazz, ska, pop group during the 1960s. They were also the
backing band for Billy Fury. At the end of 1961, their piano player Georgie
Fame took over as vocalist and they went on to enjoy great success without
Fury. They were influenced by Jon Hendricks, Mose Allison and blues
musicians such as Willie Mabon. The group found other influences in ska,
which could be heard in Jamaican cafes in and around Ladbroke Grove
frequented by the group's Jamaican born trumpeter Eddie Thornton. During
the group's three-year residency at The Flamingo Club, Fame heard the
latest jazz and blues from America, and it was Booker T. & the
M.G.'s "Green Onions" which inspired him to take up playing Hammond organ
with the band.
FormationColin Green and Georgie Fame (then known as Clive Powell) worked
together in 'Colin Green's Beat Boys', who had backed Gene Vincent and
Eddie Cochran during UK tours. In 1961 piano player Fame, drummer Red
Reece, bassist Tex Makins and Green were hired by Larry Parnes to back
Billy Fury as the Blue Flames. Fury's manager dismissed them in February
1962 as he felt they were "too jazzy" and replaced them with The Tornados.
1961–1963In December 1961 Alan "Earl" Watson fronted The Blue Flames,
playing tenor saxophone and singing. In May 1962 the group was augmented by
Ghanaian percussionist Neeomi "Speedy" Acquaye and Green left the group.
Fame took over as the lead vocalist, Green was replaced by Joe Moretti and
in turn was later replaced by John McLaughlin. During that time Rod "Boots"
Slade had taken over as bass player while Makins toured with Johnny
Hallyday. Saxophonist Mick Eve joined the group during 1962 and eventually
the line up was completed by Johnny Marshall.
McLaughlin departed in April 1963 when he joined The Graham Bond
Organisation, leaving the group without a guitarist for 18 months and
during this period Rik Gunnell took over the management of the band. In
September 1963, they recorded their debut album Rhythm And Blues at the
Flamingo which was produced by Ian Samwell, engineered by Glyn Johns and
released on the Columbia label.
1964–1966
Fame with Rick Brown on bass in Amsterdam, October 1966)Rhythm And Blues at
the Flamingo failed to enter the UK chart, as did the single "Do The Dog"
which was taken from this album and released in 1964. Two other
singles, "Do Re Mi" and "Bend A Little", were also released during 1964,
achieving no commercial success.
In July 1964, Peter Coe replaced Marshall and was soon joined by baritone
saxophonist Glenn Hughes and trumpet player Eddie "Tan-Tan" Thornton who
had previously appeared occasionally with them and Green rejoined the group
in October 1964.
Reece became ill in 1964 and was replaced by Tommy Frost. Jimmie Nicol
spent a brief period as drummer, then left to replace Ringo Starr for 13
days on a Beatles tour. Phil Seamen and Micky Waller sat in for Nicol until
Bill Eyden became the band's full-time drummer in September 1964.
In October 1964 the album Fame at Last reached No.15 in the U.K. album
chart. The band's version of the song "Yeh, Yeh" was released as a single
in the U.K. on 14 January 1965 and reached No.1 on the U.K. Singles Chart
for two weeks (out of a total of twelve weeks on the chart).
The song "In The Meantime" was released as a single in February 1965 and
reached the U.K. Top Twenty, however the band's next two single releases
were not chart entries. Success followed with Fame's self penned song Get
Away (released on 17 June 1966), which climbed to the top of the UK chart
for a solitary week in late-July. The song was originally written as a
jingle for a television petrol advertisement (National filling stations).
It was later used as the theme tune for a long-running travel and lifestyle
show on Australian television called Getaway. The two subsequent
singles, "Sunny" and "Sitting in the Park" reached chart positions of No.
13 and No. 12 respectively. After the album Sweet Thing (1966) was
released, Fame signed to CBS and became a solo artist.
Eyden and Makins remained as the group's rhythm section until they were
replaced in December 1965 by Cliff Barton and Mitch Mitchell. That lineup
recorded the album Sweet Things, then on 1 October 1966 Fame disbanded the
Blue Flames to pursue a solo career. Within a week Mitchell had been
selected over Aynsley Dunbar to be the third member of what would be called
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
AppearancesThe group were resident at a number of London clubs including
The Whiskey-A-Go-Go, in Soho's Wardour Street and the Flamingo Club. In
August 1963 the band took a weekly Friday night spot at The Scene on Great
Windmill Street. They also performed at The Roaring Twenties club near
Carnaby Street, run by Count Suckle. They did 22 midweek gigs at Klooks
Kleek in 1964/65, The Ricky Tick in Windsor and The Scene, during week days.
In 1964 Fame and the band appeared on five episodes of ITV's Ready Steady
Go! Fame also appeared on television in 1965 in the New Musical Express
Poll Winners' Concert held at the Empire Pool, Wembley on 11 April 1965,
playing "Yeh, Yeh" and Rufus Thomas's "Walking the Dog".
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were the only act from the UK invited to
perform with the first Motown Review in the UK during the mid-1960s. The
Tamla Motown Package Show was a 21-date UK tour featuring amongst others,
The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas.
On 26 December 1966 Fame, backed by the Blue Flames, opened the "Fame
in '67' Show" alongside Cat Stevens and the show ran for two weeks at
London's Saville Theatre.
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames on stage at the 1983 Leeds Folk FestivalIn
later years Fame was billed again with the Blue Flames and in the early
2000s he led a new line-up which included his son.
Georgie Fame and the Aussie Blue FlamesFame ventured to Australia annually
from 1977 to 1988 in order to play his music, and escape the English
winter. Speaking to Kate Deamer of The Sydney Morning Herald, he explained
that "there are several attractions to coming over, not least of which is
the climate. Also, I've now got a very warm relationship with Australian
musicians and look forward to coming out each year to play with them". Each
year an all-Australian backing band was hired to accompany Fame on tour,
who were "top Sydney Jazz musicians". For the 1980 tour, they were called
The Thrill Seekers, and were led by a front line of Keith Stirling
(trumpet), Col Loughnan (saxophones, flute), and Herb Cannon (trombone)
with Steve Murphy (guitar), Greg Lyon (bass), and Willie Qua (drums)
completing the line-up.
The next year the band changed their name to the Aussie Blue Flames, and
Charlie Gould was the guitarist. Over the years, the band featured Dave
Coulton (guitar, 1983), and Bob Johnson (trombone, 1987–88). In September
1988, Fame seconded the Aussie Blue Flames to Albert Studios in Sydney to
record the album No Worries, borrowing from the Australian habit of
saying "No worries" often. The musician credits were:
Georgie Fame – vocals, keyboardsKeith Stirling – flugelhorn, trumpetJames
Greening – tromboneCol Loughnan – saxophone, fluteJimmy Doyle – guitarGreg
Lyon – bassRussell Dunlop – drumsSunil D'Silva – percussionThe album was
released in 1988, under the name "Georgie Fame" with no mention of the
Aussie Blue Flames, on the Swedish label Four Leaf Clover. Paul Speelman of
The Age praised the touring band in 1988, saying, "One would be hard put to
find many better combos in the world than this particular sextet of Aussie
Blue Flames". Fame continued to tour in Australia until 2006; however the
visits were more sporadic than before 1988.
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