In '66, Joni Mitchell was a Canadian folkie. Over the next few years, her lyrical and melodic genius would make her a fixture on the international music scene where she would stay for decades. Here's an early glimpse and with my personal favorite of her many wonderful songs.
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Friday, 29 November 2013
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
One of my favorite songs in '66--at age 7--was WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL, a massive radio hit that played into the earliest part of the big nostalgia boom of the era with megaphone vocals and old fashioned...well, everything.
It would be many, many years later before I found out that the group that had this massive favorite hit...didn't actually exist.
Although credited to The New Vaudeville band, it was expected to be just a novelty release and so the Producer just went with the demo vocal, a practice that happened fairly often in those days. The record was made by studio musicians built around that demo vocal.
But then when it became a hit, some musicians were hired to form a real band and a singer was hired who could sing like the record.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Saturday, 9 November 2013
By 1966, the Three Stooges were nearing the end of their surprising career revival which occurred when TV picked up their old Columbia shorts. Their comic book would continue longer than they did, though, and a few photo sessions got new covers that LOOKED like they were from movies but they really weren't.
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