Friday, October 30, 2009

Brenda Holloway - Every Little Hurt -

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Memphis (IFS) - The year was 1963, I was a freshman at Antelope Valley High School, in Lancaster, California, and Brenda Holloway was the love of my life. That was the year I met and fell in love with Karen Linda McCray my 13 year old girlfriend. It was doing these years, working in the studio at Del-Fi Records with Barry White that I had the chance to meet a very young Brenda, who would later go on to Motown. I wanted to be apart of Motown Records, and finally years later, I would be a songwriter and record producer at Motown Records starting in 1976. My desire to be at Motown started with this Brenda Holloway song. Thank you Brenda.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

LIMON - The Movie Soundtrack - Kestin & Smith

 

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Linda Lou Kestin & Kenny Smith’s “Wild Horses” D-Town Records

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Toni Ventura’s Frankie Lymon Story

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

SDC Radio Jukebox

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Friday, October 2, 2009

Carolyn Cline “Live at the Playboy Club in Tokyo - 1979″ Vinyl to CD

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DENVER (IFS) - From Television, Movies, recording dates, appearances all over the world, Carolyn Cline - Later Miss Florida 1978 and then Miss America 1979 2nd runner up, and first runner-up to Miss America (Patsy Ramsey) went on to have a very interesting career in the entertainment industry.   Wendy Sue Cheatham, Assumed the crown after Carolyn Cline relinquished the title to continue to pursue her singing career and as a musician.  Known for her large collection of Bill Blass evening growns for her performances at Disneyland for several years.

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Requested by the president of the Playboy International Clubs to come to Tokyo, where she was there for six (6) months.  Below, you find the Disneyland Playdays at the Carnation Ice Cream Plaza Stage in 1980.

Carolyn Cline is a world class performer who has traveled throughout the world performing her unique and excitng show.  She is a veteran of Las Vegas, Hollywood, Dallas, New York, Tahiti, and the Orient.  Carolyn has also perfomed internationally in Tokyo, Japan, Bangkok, Thailand, Manila, Philippines, and Papeete, Tahiti, to name a few.  Having been in the entertainment business for over thirty years, Carolyn has appeared with such mega stars as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Liberace, Jan Murray, Pearl Bailey, Tony Orlando, Lee Greenwood, and Les Elgart’s Orchestra.  Carolyn has earned the titles for Miss New Mexico Universe 1973, First in swimsuit for the 1974 Miss USA Pageant, Miss Florida 1978, Miss America 1979 (2nd runner up), and the talent award for the Miss America 1979 Pageant.  She is a talented and versatile performer who plays a variety of instruments including the piano, organ, guitar, banjo, mandalin, flute, violin, and drums.  Carolyn is a musician, singer, opening act, entertainer, and composer.  She has earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from Eastern New Mexico University and a Master of Arts Degree in Music Education from the University of South Florida.  Carolyn also sings a tribute to her late great cousin Patsy Cline.  Here are the memories of a talented entertainer named Patsy Cline from Winchester, Virginia, who still manages to capture the hearts of everyone through Carolyn Cline’s voice, phrasing, and style to an unforgettable artist. 

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6/16-6/21     Count Basie and His Orchestra

6/22-6/23?   The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Directed By Lee Castle

6/24-6/30     The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Directed By Buddy Morrow
6/31-7/7?     Les Brown and His Band of Renown
7/18-7/14     Freddy Martin and His Orchestra
7/15-7/21     Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring the Bob Cats
7/22-7/28     Louis Bellson and His Big Band Explosion
7/29-8/4       Les Elgart and His Orchestra
                      with vocalist Carolyn Cline
8/5-8/18       The Glenn Miller Orchestra Directed By Jimmy Henderson
8/19-8/25     Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra
8/26-9/1       Woody Herman and His Young Thundering Herd
9/2-9/8         Buddy Rich and His Band
Cline was under the personal management of Kay Saunders-Palmer, executive secretary to Tony Papa, Executive Vice President.  Kenneth Howard Smith was the in-house record producer for ABC and all of it’s acts.  It was Smith’s job to push the record companies into putting out more plastic on their artist(s).  Smith replaced Irwin Azstoff, who was later  named as President of MCA Records, which is now owned by General Electric’s NBC/Universal Pictures.

 

ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORTAION (JOE GLASER)                                Louis Armstrong and His All Stars
Joe Glaser, Associated Booking Corporation. Edition Not Stated. Paperbound, 12 x 9 Inches. Ill.: B&W Photos. Performing Arts, Stiff paper wraps illustrated with B&W photo of Stachmo, blue, fuchsia and white illustration and title. No page numbers. A promotional booklet published by Joe Glaser promoting the great Louis Armstrong, with bio and clips from printed sources. Not dated, circa 1965. Lower corner creased, light edgewear. A clean, collectible copy of a scarce item. MUSIC 3880. Very Good Condition.
 

From Smith’s book, Vinyl Knights:  Welcome To Hollywood - “. . .Cline tackles some of the country’s greatest songwriters, with selections like Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny”; Cory and Cross’ “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”; or John Fogerty’s “Proud Mary” and many more.

On Ms. Cline’s 30th year  visit to Tokyo, Japan, D-Town Records came upon a souvenior album recorded by her while she was there.  It was only with great technical transformation from analog to digital that one gets the real picture of a very talented artist.

The original vinyl album and this CD were Produced by Kenneth Howard Smith, with Tony Papa as the Executive Producer and Kay Saunders-Palmer, Personal Management. . . ”

Offered for US$ 45.00 by: The Prints and The Paper - Book number: 3880
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Lee Rogers - The Hollywood Sessions - Double Love Situation

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DENVER (IFS)- The long awaited CD - The Hollywood Sessions - hits the airwaves at ubetoo.com where D-Town Records has released to the public radio plalist over 12 new songs from it’s very rich audio history library. 

Noted record producers of the time included Russell G. Ingersoll, Kenny Smith, Linda Lou Kestin and Lee Rogers.

Included are the Claridge Records collection with Cardella DiMilo that was played on everything. 

The above release was written by Lee Rogers, Kenny Smith, Russ Ingersoll, Gwen Gordy and Published by EMI Music-Derglenn Music (BMI)

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Wanna buy Gary Moore’s 1958 Les Paul?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

NEWS: Wanna buy Gary Moore’s 1958 Les Paul?

Here’s a 1958 Les Paul that was owned by Gary Moore from 1991 to 1994. For a mere $295,000 it can be yours. This isn’t ‘the’ famous Gary Moore/Peter Green Les Paul but it’s still provenancy as all get-out.
According to the eBay listing:

This guitar is considered to be the Holy Grail to many guitar enthusiasts, collectors and musicians. Sunburst Les Pauls were and are played by the most iconic rock stars of any era. Billy Gibsons, Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, Duane Allman, Ace Frehley, Jeff Beck, Paul Kossoff, Joe Walsh, Gary Richrath, Steve Lukather, Gary Moore, Michael Boomfield, Peter Green, Gary Rossington, Ed King, Slash, Edward Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Rick Nielsen and many many others. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own a vintage Les Paul that has a history that is traceable back to the 1960’s AND was owned by Gary Moore. This guitar is in spectacular condition and has made appearances in numerous magazines and books. The color is fantastic and the top has a very pleasant mild flame. Guitar plays and sounds fabulous. I personally dealt with Gary Moore’s management and tech to acquire this guitar for a collector in 1994 and the experience of working with Mr. Moore’s staff was a great pleasure.
History

This Les Paul was used for all of Gary Moore’s “After Hours” CD photo shoot. It was used for Gary’s 8X10 B&W glossy photos. It was used in two Gary Moore videos: “Cold Day in Hell.” and Since I Met You Baby.” This guitar has been featured in NUMEROUS books and magazines. (ie: “The Electric Guitar, an illustrated history.” Pages 93 and 147.)

CLICK HERE to see the guitar on eBay.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Bob Bogle of The Ventures dies at 75

Bob Bogle of rock band The Ventures dies at 75
Tue Jun 16, 10:59 AM EDT

Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band The Ventures, known for 1960s instrumental hits like “Walk, Don’t Run,” has died at age 75.

Don Wilson, the band’s other co-founder, tells The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., that Bogle became ill over the weekend and died Sunday.

The band sold millions of albums and heavily influenced other rock guitarists. It was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.

Among its other hits were “Perfidia” and the theme from “Hawaii Five-O.”

The band got its start in 1958 in Tacoma. Bogle played lead and bass and Wilson played rhythm guitar. They were soon joined by Nokie Edwards, another guitarist, and drummer Howie Johnson, later replaced by Mel Taylor.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Ousted ‘American Idol’ finalist Lil Rounds: I knew I was going home

By John Bracchitta, 04/23/2009

Lil Rounds says American Idol judge Simon Cowell wasn’t the only one that had a feeling she’d be one of the two eighth-season finalists eliminated during last night’s Top 7 results show.

“I actually had a good feeling that it might’ve been about time right there for me to be ready to go,” the 24-year-old from Memphis, TN told reporters in a Thursday media conference call. “I kinda stared coping with the idea that I might be leaving before the show.”

Cowell had predicted Rounds, who was eliminated along with fellow finalist Anoop Desai, would be going home after she’d sung Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman” on Tuesday night’s live performance show.
 
“I’m glad you had fun because I think this is going to be the last week we’re ever going to see you. I do.  I do,” Cowell had told Rounds. “I’ll tell you why, because there’s no originality. It was very copycat. The arrangement — your vocals — were a mess. I absolutely believe this is your final shot. Sorry.”

Cowell’s Tuesday night comments were just the latest in a series of verbal lashings Rounds had received from the judges, who criticized her for not coming into own and establishing her artistic niche, in recent weeks.  However, while she sometimes disagreed with their opinions, she told reporters that she had always accepted the judges’ feedback as constructive criticism to build on.

“I did feel like the judges gave their critiques based on how they felt the performance may have went.” Rounds said. “Whenever they gave me their comments I took ‘em in stride because I felt like they were giving me constructive criticism to improve me. There were times I felt like they would kinda go back and forth a bit, but it was okay because in the end I’m gonna take everything that they say to me and push forward with it.”

One instance in which Round did feel the judges were going “back and forth” was on Bette Midler’s “The Rose,” which Rounds had performed during last week’s performance show. 

Although Cowell had claimed the song was was too “middle of the road” and “completely wrong” for her, Rounds told reporters she felt she had added her own unique touches and stood by her decision to publicly let him know that she disagreed with him.

“I just felt like [when the judges] would give me their critiques… it seemed to me like it started going back and forth,” Rounds said. “One week they would tell me one thing and the next week the same thing they had told me the week before, they would flip it and tell me to do the opposite of that. So I was kinda like ‘I don’t know which way to go.’”

“But I had to make it clear, not just trying to go toe-to-toe with Simon or the judges,” Rounds added.  “I just wanted America to really know that I really, really am an artist and if in any way I gave the vibe that I didn’t know who I was or what I was trying to do as an artist, I was trying to let everybody know that I’m definitely an artist and I love to do the R&B and soul vibe.”

Rounds also said that she had disagreed with the judges’ frequent comments that she had needed to make more adjustments to her performances to “make them your own.” 

“When I would here that I automatically would think… well I would first of all think that I did make it my own, especially vocally. But I guess they wanted me to do more of a change as far as music-wise because when I would do a song I always stay true to the way that the music went with the song,” she explained to reporters. “But I felt vocally that I did do some changing there because I always wanted it to fit who I am as an artist and of course there would me being the R&B, soulful type singer.”

After her elimination, Rounds said she had sought out Allison Iraheta, a 16-year-old from Los Angeles, CA, to let her know that she was throwing her support behind Iraheta now that she is the competition’s only remaining female finalist.

“I gave Allison the biggest hug that I could possibly give. We were crying like, of course, two girls,” she told reporters with a laugh. “But that’s my baby and I just told her to make sure she keeps her head up and continues to be Allison and go out and nail it each week like she’s been doing and hold it down for the ladies… She’s such an amazing singer, she’s gonna do absolutely fabulous.”

Rounds also reiterated her Wednesday night departure comments that she’s looking forward to returning to Memphis and getting to spend some time with her children before American Idol’s summer tour begins.

“I haven’t gotten a chance to see the babies yet, but they did get to watch the show and I just explained to them that my run on American Idol was up but, of course, I was gonna come home and spend some time with them before I went on tour,” Rounds told reporters. “They feel so very, very proud of their mommy and they’ve been great during this, they’ve tried to understand what I was doing and they’re really proud of me, so I’m happy.”

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