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ROCKOLLECTIONS: TOM PETTY’S HIGHWAY COMPANION PT.2 END

It took a while after I began playing Rock & Roll at the radio station for record companies to begin sending us CD’s.
But they did- not too many- after all, I was the only one playing our music (still am), and only for one hour once a week- but enough to keep Engineer Ken Stanley and I fairly up to date with new releases.
We’d split them and take them home to listen.
Occasionally we would play one of these NEW albums all the way through on a show, not an old classic one, just for something different.
Well, Tom Petty’s 3rd solo album Highway Companion in 2006, caught Engineer Ken’s ear.
So he suggested we do that one.
As I recall, I hadn’t even ever heard any of it, but I went along with it.
Hey it was an easy show, any dope can play an album straight through…not much thought goes into that, lol!
As things turned out, we took the chance and the CD was a successful one.
Produced excellently by Jeff Lynne from ELO & The Traveling Wilburys, etc., it topped out at # 4 on the Billboard charts.
It was different from Petty’s previous releases, with songs about the road (as suggested by the title) and aging- they were darker but still rocked.
What we have here is a show from 2006, when this album was new, and we will be playing the songs in their arranged order.
Here is the closing half of what turned out to be a fun time for me, with a rather light-hearted, humorous presentation.
And because I never used to pre-read the copy, out of nowhere I came upon a word I was in no way expecting and not prepared to pronounce- if I had taken a moment to slow down it would have been easy, but no, not me.
So listen for the battle between me and that word…the word won, lol!

Mike

Tags: 2006, Billboard, ELO, Engineer Ken Stanley, Jeff Lynne, Rock & Roll, The Traveling Wilburys

ROCKOLLECTIONS: TOM PETTY’S HIGHWAY COMPANION PT.1

It took a while after I began playing Rock & Roll at the radio station for record companies to begin sending us CD’s.
But they did- not too many- after all, I was the only one playing our music (still am), and only for one hour once a week- but enough to keep Engineer Ken Stanley and I fairly up to date with new releases.
We’d split them and take them home to listen.
Occasionally we would play one of these NEW albums all the way through on a show, not an old classic one, just for something different.
Well, Tom Petty’s 3rd solo album Highway Companion in 2006, caught Engineer Ken’s ear.
So he suggested we do that one.
As I recall, I hadn’t even ever heard any of it, but I went along with it.
Hey it was an easy show, any dope can play an album straight through…not much thought goes into that, lol!
As things turned out, we took the chance and the CD was a successful one.
Produced excellently by Jeff Lynne from ELO & The Traveling Wilburys, etc., it topped out at # 4 on the Billboard charts.
It was different from Petty’s previous releases, with songs about the road (as suggested by the title) and aging- they were darker but still rocked.
What we have here is a show from 2006, when this album was new, and we will be playing the songs in their arranged order.
Here is the opening half of what turned out to be a fun time for me, with a rather light-hearted, humorous presentation.

Mike

Tags: 2006, Billboard, ELO, Engineer Ken Stanley, Jeff Lynne, Rock & Roll, The Traveling Wilburys

ROCKOLLECTIONS: ETTA JAMES PT.1

 

Didn’t have time to do a new show for this week, and considering the circumstances it seemed proper to bring this one back. This show was original broadcast in late December 2008, the show just before New Years, and to bring it truly up to date things do not look good for Etta:

R&B legend Etta James has been hospitalized in Riverside, California after suffering breathing problems.
The terminally ill singer, who is battling leukemia, spent Christmas in hospital and her longtime manager Lupe De Leon admits the 73-year-old is “in pretty bad shape.”
Members of her family were hoping doctors could revive her from her sedation on Sunday, so they could briefly celebrate Christmas with her in her hospital room.

Keeping reasonably up to date, I see that Beyonce is portraying Etta James in the current movie Cadillac Records.
So the featured artist is Etta James- and I sort of asked how she felt about waiting so long for that designation.
Discovered by Johnny Otis, her first hit was The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry), the answer record to Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters.
I should point out that Dancing and Working are euphemisms for things of a more adult nature (GASP!).
In fact, a listen shows she NEVER says DANCE With Me Henry!
Her song was a big hit, but sales were undercut by the cleaned up version done by Georgia Gibbs.
That was not uncommon back in the days of what was called “race music”, where white artists put out, sometimes rushed out, watered-down versions of the original R&B songs.
The result was often those inferior versions becoming the bigger seller, although the young people were tuned in to the more lively, rocking originals.
A trio of songs will demonstrate all about it, and I don’t feel like writing anyway, lol!
Her success with the song though, presented the opportunity for the teenaged Etta James to go on a tour with madman Little Richard- the poor kid, Richard was even wilder than he is today!
We’ll close this one out with an early Women’s Lib song, a good old Rock & Roll song about Rock & Roll, and a standard, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, (and I don’t, but I am working on it, lol!).
This is good, solid, and overlooked for far too long, music.
I’ll have another chapter to follow.

Mike

Tags: "Race Music", Beyonce, Cadillac Records, Dance With Me Henry, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Georgia Gibbs, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, Johnny Otis, Little Richard, Rock & Roll, The Wallflower, Women's Lib, Work With Me Annie

ROCKOLLECTIONS: A SHOW ABOUT NOTHING & SOME COLUMBUS PT.4 END

Moving on with our show about Nothing…I’ve got Nothing left.
I’ve got LOADS of Nothing left!
But it’s time to wrap this up.
I’ll go out with a final bunch of Nothing songs- including going on a Road Trip for some of them, one from my favorite lovable madman, a Steely Dan soundalike by the most unlikely person, and even a critique of this short series.
Then as promised, we’ll hear the REAL story of Christopher Columbus, lol!
These episodes were a lot of fun for me, proving what you can do with Rock & Roll when you have no corporate or commercial restrictions.
Hope you enjoyed listening to them!

Mike

Tags: Christopher Columbus, Road Trip, Rock & Roll, Steely Dan soundalike

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE STRAITS OF DIRE PT.2 END

THIS IS AN ENCORE- I AM ON VACATION!

Continuing on with Dire Straits, their next album was Love Over Gold.
The title was taken from some graffitti they saw!
It was their first # 1 album in the UK.
After a song from that album, I wanna play a good old piece of Rock & Roll, that I knew as a B-side to a single I had by Dire Straits. Turns out, over in England it was on an EP.
As we talked about previously, they still love those EP’s in England.
Brothers In Arms was their next album, a huge hit.
And the title track was the World’s 1st CD single!
In fact, the album was one of the first CD’s around to choose from.
I’ll bring this show home with an appropriate song…but clumsily and I apologize.
I had fun doing this one and I think you can hear it in me!

Mike

Tags: Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits, Engineer Ken Stanley, Love Over Gold, Rock & Roll, World’s 1st CD Single

ROCKOLLECTIONS: WOR-FM, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL FM ROCK STATION PT.4

Moving on with this celebration of WOR-FM bringing Rock & Roll to Commercial FM Radio 45 years ago on July 30th 1966, I should say why I chose this year to honor it.
I know the 50th Anniversary would have more impact,
But who knows where we will all be 5 years from today…the time to do it is NOW!
This time a look at a guy who many people liked and almost just as many found grating, Murray Kaufman, known famously as Murray The K.
To begin, I’ll play a couple of songs ABOUT Murray The K, one so brutally horrid I wonder why I played it, lol!
Ah well, it is probably the only chance I will ever have to play either of them.
Then some Airchecks, and it is his first day too, that Oct. 8th 1966, and he brings with him all the gimmicks he used on AM, but is noticeably toned-down.
And he states that his aim is to appeal to college students, those in their 20’s as well as their parents with an intelligent presentation of the Music.
Sound familiar, lol?
While this is his first show, as things turned out, and I was surprised by this, Murray was the most innovative and creative of all the DJ’s at WOR-FM.
He truly re-invented himself in the next year, and fought hard to play Album Cuts, Psychedelic Music and Long Songs.
Murray, maybe even more than the other guys, was was taking Rock music seriously and presenting it that way.
He and FM Radio- and our music- would never be the same again!
Enjoy the Swingin” Soiree’ in this Brave New World!

Mike

Tags: 50th Anniversary, Airchecks, Album Cuts, AM Radio, Brave New World, FM Radio, July 30th 1966, Long Songs, Murray Kaufman, Murray the k, Oct. 8th 1966, Psychedelic Music, Rock & Roll, Swingin" Soiree'

ROCKOLLECTIONS: WOR-FM, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL FM ROCK STATION PT.3

We will continue this week with the celebration of that First Commercial FM Rock Station, WOR-FM.
I mentioned last week, a union strike over a new pay scale for FM jocks prevented the hired DJ’s to go on the air.
They were anxious to go on that first day, July 30th 1966, but not allowed.
On the 2nd day, July 31st 1966, WOR-FM did a very strange thing.
They started running announcements explaining their position and predicament regarding this labor dispute.
Very very unusual in Radio, where silence rules the day!
You know what I mean- your favorite DJ suddenly disappears…and there is no explanation, hell no MENTION of him or her ever again!
But here was WOR-FM treating us as if we were intelligent, and giving us a look at what was going on behind the scenes.
That foretold well what was to come, as WOR-FM would treat Rock & Roll and us like adults- even if we weren’t yet adults, lol!
And I’ll have a continuing look at my Radio hero, not the only one but certainly the most important to me, Scott Muni.
You’ll hear Scott do a couple of short ads for concerts regarding then contemporary artists.
Back then there were virtually no concert venues, and the Fillmore East was 3 years away!
Concerts in New York City were limitted to discotheques (with dancing and a house band), small clubs in the Village, probably best of all were colleges, and long trips away from the city.
Also, I am sure you have heard of him as a Disc Jockey for many decades- but how about my man Scott as a Newsman/Sportscaster/Weatherman?
It’s in this episode…plus LOTS of Music Of The Period!
I hope you are enjoying this look at Radio History, because I am having a ball!

Mike

Tags: Disc Jockey, DJ's, Fillmore East, FM Jocks, July 30th 1966, July 31st 1966, Music Of The Period, Newsman/Sportscaster/Weatherman, radio, Radio History, Rock & Roll, Scott Muni, The Village

ROCKOLLECTIONS: WOR-FM, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL FM ROCK STATION PT.1

No theme, group or artist featured for the next few weeks- but a Radio Station!
A now-defunct Radio Station, WOR-FM, that had really only about 14 months of glory- and sadly, its call letters no longer even exist.
But it was the FIRST FM to play Rock & Roll, and it laid the groundwork for what was later to be regarded as the best Rock station ever, WNEW-FM.
It debuted on July 30, 1966, 45 years ago…and I didn’t even have an FM radio!
The year before, the FCC made perhaps the ONLY good ruling in their history, to make this extraordinary event possible.
And I will play the first song they played on that historic day.
After all the heat we’ve had and my brain being mush (surprised I could DO a show, lol!), I’ll let Radio Authority Alan Sniffen tell some of the story:
 

WOR-FM: A Brief History
by Allan Sniffen
 
In 1965 the Federal Communications Commission ruled that major market FM radio stations could no longer simulcast their AM sister stations.  FM had to become separate with individual programming.  This was deemed necessary to allow FM to grow and develop its own audience.  The ruling put radio station owners in a bind.  They needed to come up with new formats for these weaker and less desirable stations. Since FM was more difficult to receive,  its universe of potential listeners was much smaller… and so was its billing.  The new formats therefore had to be both different and relatively inexpensive to program. 
 
It was in that environment that RKO General Broadcasting launched its new WOR-FM  (98.7Mhz) “Hot 100” format on July 30, 1966.  The name is deceiving because, in fact, it was the first Progressive Rock station in the country.  It marketed itself as stereo as a way to distinguish itself from AM radio.  The problem was that many of the records played by the station were not in stereo.  While it was true that most record albums were stereo, singles were not.  Since the singles came out before the albums, much of the new music it was breaking was in mono. 
 
The original WOR-FM disc jockeys were Scott Muni (formerly of WABC and WMCA), Murray “the K” Kaufman (formerly of WINS), Rosko (Bill Mercer) and Johnny Michaels.   Even though the format began on July 30, the disc jockeys did not.  There were union problems with AFTRA.  RKO did not want to pay FM disc jockeys the equivalent pay of their AM counterparts.  As a result, the station segued from one record to another (except for taped promotions by the DJ’s) until Saturday, October 8 1966. 
 

Thank you Alan, and more from you coming.
The words GROOVE, GROOVY,  and particularly HAPPENING will pop up frequently during these shows.
As usual, I don’t know how long the series will go.
I just have a bunch of records, actual airchecks, and a desire to re-create what was the first vague inkling for me that I wanted to play music like THIS!
For oldsters and youngsters alike, I invite you to join me, because “The Sound Is WOR-FM…New York!”
 
Mike

Tags: Bill Mercer, FCC, FM Radio, GROOVE, GROOVY, HAPPENING, Johnny Michaels, July 30 1966, Murray “the K” Kaufman, Progressive Rock Station, Radio Authority Alan Sniffen, Radio Station, RKO General Broadcasting, Rock & Roll, Rosko, Saturday October 8 1966, Scott Muni, wabc, WINS, WMCA, WNEW-FM

ROCKOLLECTIONS: COVERED BY THE BEATLES VOL.2 - PT.1

Here’s the next Volume and episode of a now-and-then series I started in February, Covered By The Beatles.
As you should be aware, the Beatles put many older Rock & Roll songs, mostly from America, on their early albums and EP’s.
So the simple idea is to play the Beatle Cover Version followed by the Original Version.
And I’ll be playing these the proper way to hear them, in the order they originally were released over in England.
The selections in this chapter will all be from the LP, With The Beatles.
I never realized this until doing the show- an album that was released in the UK on a fateful day in the United States!
The first time we did this it went very well, and this should be equally enjoyable…with one song in particular that is a rarity I doubt you have ever heard.
Make your comparisons as to the better interpretations, and just HAVE FUN!
 
Mike

Tags: Cover Version, England, EP, February, LP, Original Version, Rock & Roll, The Beatles, UK, United States, With The Beatles

ROCKOLLECTIONS: SALUTE TO MOTHERS PT.6 FINAL

It is time to wrap up our Salute To Mothers.
This final chapter will have a song my buddy Mike and I always laugh along with to begin, followed by an early R&B song from before there was Rock & Roll, but whose sound clearly forecasts what was to come.
After that, as I said a few days ago, I’ll turn serious in this Finale!
There was a Phoebe Snow song I was looking for, and finally found just in time for the end of this series.
It was on an old cassette tape from about 1983, has held up remarkably well, and it is a live-on-the-radio acoustic song performed on the old WNEW-FM here in New York (when it was a listenable station!).
It is dedicated to her brain-damaged daughter, Valerie Rose, called Stand Your Ground.
As far as I can find out, it was never officially released, so this may be one of the only ways to hear it.
So sad Phoebe died last month!
Followed by a song that deals with Mothers and the Thread running through 3 generations.
Then we conclude with the unfortunate but honest part of this series, the inevitable end that comes to us all.
It is the natural order of things that parents are predestined to die before their children.
And Mothers, Angels that they be, are not exempt.
I hope you enjoyed the fun, laughs and tears with our respectful and loving Celebration Of Mothers, Mamas, Moms & Mas.

Mike

Tags: Angels, Brain-Damaged Daughter, Finale, Live-On-The-Radio Acoustic Song, Mamas, Mike Hennessy, Moms & Mas, New York, Old Cassette Tape From About 1983, Phoebe Snow, R&B, Respectful And Loving Celebration Of Mothers, Rock & Roll, Stand Your Ground, Thread Running Through 3 Generations, Valerie Rose Snow, WNEW-FM

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE 2010 CHRISTMAS PARTY PT.1

As I write this on a late Monday evening, it is snowing here in New York City.
Perfect for the opening chapter of our annual Christmas Party!
However I don’t feel like writing, as I have one eye looking out the window waiting for enough snow to stick so I can go out and throw snowballs- those of my friends reading this and who know me, understand the complete truthfulness of that, lol!
It’s what I do.
So in short here’s what I have for you.
A pretty damn good opening set of kicking Rock & Roll.
I always try to play the different Christmas songs, the ones you don’t hear on predictable radio.
Yet there are some enduring classics that I may want to play too, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with them.
That will be case in the next set.
Then I have something new this year, which MAY become another tradition for this show.
The Dreaded Christmas Song!
I say it MAY become a tradition because I don’t know if I can find a song every year that is as awful as the one I have chosen this year.
But I’ll bet I can, lol!
I’ll ride this Dreaded Christmas Song only to the break, sparing you the pain of hearing it in its entirety.
All things considered, I am very satisfied with this opening salvo for our Christmas Party.
And I think you will be too.

Mike

Tags: Christmas Songs, New York City, Predictable Radio, Rock & Roll, The Dreaded Christmas Song

ROCKOLLECTIONS: HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 2010 PT.2

As we continue with our Home For Thanksgiving series, the Free-Form Radio nature of this show led me to take the last song played in the previous half hour and expand on it a bit.
So we will take some rural back roads Home- with none of the selections sung by authentic country folk, lol!
Then another song written by, and I’ve said it before, that most underrated and underappreciated American songwriter in all of Rock & Roll, John Sebastian.
An absolute beauty from him and the Lovin’ Spoonful!
I will take us out this time with songs about those who can’t go home- the homeless, the drunks, the druggies, all those who have no Home to go to.
A bit somber, but I won’t shy away from a part of real life.
As I recall, Engineer Ken Stanley was very deeply affected by the first tune.
I mean surprisingly so- he couldn’t look at me.
And in the final song, you will hear the story of a man’s life in precisely 3 minutes!
Even after many years, and I first heard it in the 60’s when Scott Muni played it on WNEW-FM, that one still gets to me.
When the going Home continues next week, I promise I will counter this with a very Happy beginning.
Please do come back and join me to find out just what I mean.
But until then, I hope you enjoy what is played here.
You can always let me know.
 
Mike

Tags: American Songwriter, Back Roads, Engineer Ken Stanley, Free-form Radio, John Sebastian, Rock & Roll, Scott Muni, The 60's, WNEW-FM

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MUSIC FOR MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS PT.7

This is the next-to-last chapter, and opens with a song I am sure at least a few people have been wondering when I was going to play!
After that, one of the numbers I thought of during the layoff- another variation on that old Barrett Strong tune.
I won’t say who does it, but I will tell you that the group’s name sounds like something I would see during my worst hangovers, lol!
This is followed by one from the most influential group of the early days of Rock & Roll in my opinion, in fact it is R & B, and BEFORE Rock & Roll.
Then I attempted to go back in time even farther, but fortunately for you, that one CD was missing in a Bing Crosby Box Set I have.
But I found an alternative for this song that is historic, and actually dates back to the Great Depression- it came out in 1931 or 1932.
Turns out I had a vague memory of it being on Spanky & Our Gang’s 1967 debut album, and I was right.
So we’ll hear that version…maybe a better choice than Bing Crosby…maybe not.
This song has some very serious lyrics, and I ask you to listen to them- they were of their time, and may well become of our time if things do not improve.
After that, a song from a guy who was called the World’s Oldest Teenager before Dick Clark, and would have been old enough to remember the Depression firsthand.
Incidentally, this song was recorded at the legendary Sun Studios, before Elvis and the other white Rockabilly artists got there.
And after that, some much needed humor to close out this episode.
One contemporary and one that goes back to 1961 and contains some brilliant satire.
And they both have to do with Money!
One last chapter forthcoming, and then I go back to being sweet, innocuous me, lol!

Mike

Tags: Barrett Strong, bing crosby, Dick Clark, Elvis Presley, Rhthym and Blues, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Spanky & Our Gang, Sun Studios, The Great Depression, World's Oldest Teenager

ROCKOLLECTIONS: IT’S BLOOMING TIME PT.1

April Showers Bring May Flowers…as we all know!
We are in the middle of Spring, the weather has gotten very hot here in the Northeast, and I will begin a new Theme series with Gardens, Flowers, Grass and some other things that grow out of the ground.
And this from a CITY GUY!
I may not know much about gardens, flowers, etc. But I do know music.
And I can promise you a truly enjoyable time, as I pick from Rock & Roll, Folk, Soul, Country and anything else to produce a free-form musical bouquet.
I will begin with the 45 RPM SINGLE version of a very long song from the 60’s- it’s so long I didn’t want to scare anyone away. But I’ll play it in full here someday.
Then something live from the old Fillmore East from early 1971, followed by a song from a 1993 CD dedicated to our planet.
When I do these Theme shows, I often take time to look at the topic from a different angle.
In this case, I had a choice of two songs, wanted to play both, but time restraints made me settle for one…well, what was the FIRST Garden?
Closing out this opening seed, we’ll hear Arlo Guthrie doing what he does best- getting into a song and having fun with the audience, and the audience with him.
Using the OLD way of teaching that still works!
And check out the false start- the shows were always either live, or live in the sense that once Engineer Ken and I started, we never stopped for anything short of a very large problem.
In this case, just as I was starting the show, somebody opened the door to my studio totally unexpectedly!
While it surprised me, it also struck me funny because over the years just about everything strange that can happen in radio, eventually will, lol!

Mike

Tags: 45 RPM SINGLE, April Showers Bring May Flowers, CITY GUY, country, Engineer Ken, Fillmore East, Flowers, Folk Music, Gardens, Grass, Rock & Roll, Soul, The 60's, The Audience, The First Garden, The Old Way Of Teaching

ROCKOLLECTIONS: A CELEBRATION OF WINTER PT.1

For years now, I have wanted to do at least a couple of shows on my favorite season, Winter.
But things always intrude.
You have the Christmas and New Year Holidays, and after I recover from them I am usually onto the Tribute/Memorials to all those who passed away the preceding year and have some link to Rock & Roll or our culture.
Well, I cannot wait any longer.
So get your gloves, boots and scarves out, because I will attempt to prove that, although there are far less of them, Winter songs are as literate, poetic, touching and good as Summer songs.
Please join me for this, the first of 4 parts, of our Winter Carnival Of Music!

Mike

Tags: Christmas, New Year's, Rock & Roll, Summer Songs, Tribute/Memorial, Winter Carnival, Winter Songs

ROCKOLLECTIONS: JOHNNY CARSON LEAVES TONIGHT SHOW PT.2

With this one, when you think it is over, it is not!
As stated, May 22 was the anniversary of the night Johnny Carson left the Tonight Show.And you may have noticed a certain trend of “Tonight” songs. We will continue that, double it, and even triple it!
First up, a real pretty one from Sara Evans.
I’ll have a little Carson biography for you, leading right into Karnac The Magnificent.
I will confess one my own personal quirks about opening envelopes.
A little more bio. And my opinion that Johnny Carson was not a big fan of Rock & Roll, he was a fan of the big band era, and if I am not mistaken a drummer.
Of all the late night hosts, he was the last to come around to our music.
It occurred to me, that for younger listeners or perhaps those from another country not familiar with the show, I am trying to “Teach You Tonight”. Ha!
Any Dion fans out there- Dion from BELMONT AVENUE IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK that is- here is an alert.
We will have much much more fun to come.
Dah dah dah dum dum…!
And there is an extra portion at the end, a reminder about Memorial Day and what it means.
Sounds like I called into my own show.
Which I did!
And that raises the question, if I called my own show…who answered, lol?
Have a Great Weekend!

Mike

Tags: Belmont Avenue, Dion, Karnac The Magnificent, Memorial Day, Rock & Roll, Sara Evans, The Bronx

ROCKOLLECTIONS: ETTA JAMES PT.1

Keeping reasonably up to date, I see that Beyonce is portraying Etta James in the current movie Cadillac Records.
So the featured artist is Etta James- and I sort of asked how she felt about waiting so long for that designation.
Discovered by Johnny Otis, her first hit was The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry), the answer record to Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters.
I should point out that Dancing and Working are euphemisms for things of a more adult nature (GASP!).
In fact, a listen shows she NEVER says DANCE With Me Henry!
Her song was a big hit, but sales were undercut by the cleaned up version done by Georgia Gibbs.
That was not uncommon back in the days of what was called “race music”, where white artists put out, sometimes rushed out, watered-down versions of the original R&B songs.
The result was often those inferior versions becoming the bigger seller, although the young people were tuned in to the more lively, rocking originals.
A trio of songs will demonstrate all about it, and I don’t feel like writing anyway, lol!
Her success with the song though, presented the opportunity for the teenaged Etta James to go on a tour with madman Little Richard- the poor kid, Richard was even wilder than he is today!
We’ll close this one out with an early Women’s Lib song, a good old Rock & Roll song about Rock & Roll, and a standard, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, (and I don’t, but I am working on it, lol!).
This is good, solid, and overlooked for far too long, music.
I’ll have another chapter to follow.

Mike

Tags: "Race Music", Beyonce, Cadillac Records, Dance With Me Henry, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Georgia Gibbs, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, Johnny Otis, Little Richard, Rock & Roll, The Wallflower, Women's Lib, Work With Me Annie