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Artist: Lou Johnson
Album: B-side single to the original version of "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me"
Cut: "Wouldn't That Be Something?"
1964 Big Top Records
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
Artist: Freddy Fender
Album: Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Cuts: "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" / "Vaya Con Dios"
1974 Dot Records
Go with God, dudes!
A great Tex-Mex singer. Born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, "Fender" was an American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados.
In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights". The song was a hit, but he was beset by legal troubles in May 1960 after a band member and he were arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After serving nearly three years in the Angola prison farm, he was released through the intervention of then-governor Jimmie Davis, also a songwriter and musician. Davis requested that Fender stay away from music while on probation as a condition of his release. However, in a later interview, Fender said that the condition for parole was to stay away from places that served alcohol. By the end of the 1960s, Fender was back in Texas working as a mechanic, and attending a local junior college, while playing music only on the weekends.
In May 1975, "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" went into the pop charts top 10. While notable for his genre-crossing appeal, several of Fender's hits featured verses or choruses in Spanish. Bilingual songs seldom hit the pop charts, and when they did, it was because of novelty. Bilingual songs reaching the country charts was even more unusual.
When he retired he moved to Corpus Christi TX and started a recording studio "Freddie Music" which still exists today. He recorded a lot more songs that never made it onto the radio, and many that were never released until long after his death. The studio is on Airline Road in Corpus Christ. If you contact them you may still be able to get a copy of his last CD compilation of songs. It is well worth it for fans of Freddie and great Tex-Mex music. You might also ask about their current artists and check some of them out.
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A song being sung in the last episode of Ray Donovan I completely forgot about until then. Aussie group from back in the 60's. I guess they had some more hits down under but in the US I think this was there one hit.
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(08-14-2016 01:13 AM)WWDog Wrote: A song being sung in the last episode of Ray Donovan I completely forgot about until then. Aussie group from back in the 60's. I guess they had some more hits down under but in the US I think this was there one hit.
The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
I have found many good songs from tv shows amigo. Some of them I knew a long time ago, some of them were completely new to me. I usually use either Shazam or SoundHound apps to find out who they are.
I love finding new stuff for my playlist no matter how I find it.
I think you or Good Owl would be great at the job of finding obscure stuff for tv shows. That's a pretty tits job whoever does it.
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--Such a kick ass instrumental off Mother's Milk
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik was such a great album. Really kind of broke them through to the mainstream and continued and improved on the start Mother's Milk had put them on to super stardom.
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(08-13-2016 08:24 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: Artist: Freddy Fender
Album: Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Cuts: "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" / "Vaya Con Dios"
1974 Dot Records
Go with God, dudes!
A great Tex-Mex singer. Born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, "Fender" was an American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados.
In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights". The song was a hit, but he was beset by legal troubles in May 1960 after a band member and he were arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After serving nearly three years in the Angola prison farm, he was released through the intervention of then-governor Jimmie Davis, also a songwriter and musician. Davis requested that Fender stay away from music while on probation as a condition of his release. However, in a later interview, Fender said that the condition for parole was to stay away from places that served alcohol. By the end of the 1960s, Fender was back in Texas working as a mechanic, and attending a local junior college, while playing music only on the weekends.
In May 1975, "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" went into the pop charts top 10. While notable for his genre-crossing appeal, several of Fender's hits featured verses or choruses in Spanish. Bilingual songs seldom hit the pop charts, and when they did, it was because of novelty. Bilingual songs reaching the country charts was even more unusual.
When he retired he moved to Corpus Christi TX and started a recording studio "Freddie Music" which still exists today. He recorded a lot more songs that never made it onto the radio, and many that were never released until long after his death. The studio is on Airline Road in Corpus Christ. If you contact them you may still be able to get a copy of his last CD compilation of songs. It is well worth it for fans of Freddie and great Tex-Mex music. You might also ask about their current artists and check some of them out.
I have passed by that studio many times in Corpus Christi as well as the water tower with his face painted on it in his home town of San Benito on the way to South Padre Island. The guy definitely had a flair!
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(08-14-2016 09:59 PM)dahbeed Wrote: I have found many good songs from tv shows amigo. Some of them I knew a long time ago, some of them were completely new to me. I usually use either Shazam or SoundHound apps to find out who they are.
I love finding new stuff for my playlist no matter how I find it.
I think you or Good Owl would be great at the job of finding obscure stuff for tv shows. That's a pretty tits job whoever does it.
Cool, but you should know, I'm not using any apps at all. Just my ol' mind and memory. Would love to have one of those jobs. Still have tons of stuff to post. Remember this one?
Artist: Billy Swan
Album: I Can Help
Cut: "I Can Help"
July 1974 Monument Records
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Who on here couldn't listen to this one for all eternity? One of the all time great songs coupled with outstanding guitar playing and songwriting.
Artist: Dire Straits
Album: Dire Straits (this is the "Alchemy" album version)
Cut: "Sultans of Swing (live)"
May 1978 (Original) Vertigo Records
January 1979 (Reissue) Warner Bros. Records
The music for "Sultans of Swing" was composed by Mark Knopfler on a National Steel guitar in an open tuning, though Knopfler did not think very highly of it at first. As he remembered, "I thought it was dull, but as soon as I bought my first Strat in 1977, the whole thing changed, though the lyrics remained the same. It just came alive as soon as I played it on that ’61 Strat which remained my main guitar for many years and was basically the only thing I played on the first album and the new chord changes just presented themselves and fell into place."
Inspiration for the song came from witnessing a jazz band playing in the corner of a practically deserted pub in Deptford, South London. At the end of their performance, the lead singer announced that they were the "Sultans of Swing", and Knopfler found the contrast between the group's dowdy appearance and surroundings and their grandiose name amusing.
Knopfler improvised and expanded the solo during live performances. The coda of the live recording on the 1984 album Alchemy features one of Knopfler's most notable guitar improvisations, stretching the song to nearly 11 minutes.
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(08-15-2016 11:15 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:
(08-14-2016 09:59 PM)dahbeed Wrote: I have found many good songs from tv shows amigo. Some of them I knew a long time ago, some of them were completely new to me. I usually use either Shazam or SoundHound apps to find out who they are.
I love finding new stuff for my playlist no matter how I find it.
I think you or Good Owl would be great at the job of finding obscure stuff for tv shows. That's a pretty tits job whoever does it.
Cool, but you should know, I'm not using any apps at all. Just my ol' mind and memory. Would love to have one of those jobs. Still have tons of stuff to post. Remember this one?
Artist: Billy Swan
Album: I Can Help
Cut: "I Can Help"
July 1974 Monument Records
Good on you Señor Memory Banks! Lol. Wait until you're 56 and gonna be a Peepaw and see if that memory is what it is now. (Peepaw watch is at 5 days and counting down...due the 21st).
Actually, a lot of the songs I find I didn't previously know. That's where Shazam is amazing. I use it riding down the road listening to Western's hipster college radio. Those guys are too hipster to EVER tell who was just playing.
And that song was delicious. Thank you. It was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school. Had left Lake Weir High School in Florida and enrolled at Bowling Green High School where I'd graduate midterm senior year only to run off to the Marine Corps in January of 77.
I'll be honest, I was primarily a southern rocker at that time but there was no way to avoid the song you shared. I know my mom and dad loved it. Hearing it now brings back good memories to me. Gracias and keep em coming.
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Found this on a YouTube ramble this morning.
We always think of athletes having swag. I remember when Elvis Costello came onto the music scene in the US. Dude had way more SWAG than any guy with a half inch gap between his teeth and thick glasses should have had. He carried it well though in my opinion.
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to ptnc and nelly......told ya, "I couldn't resist"
and rhcp is always a good vibe....
have posted two of the following before....but for shites and gigs on another rainy shittty day....
here's a drummer that made it good in the land of compare/contrast.....another rainy day from the tesla/edison 'down under version'
in the beginning, they thought they were a hopped up quart of beatles with tude....then the youngs realized the drummer could belt balls through the mic...a great story how these guys progressed....it was bon that told 'em about mr. johnson if/when he perished.....such is the life of the buttercup roller.....
an aside; well wishes to ya malcom....it hit you far too early pal (dementia)....I'm not far away....
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