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Sisters, 1971Irma Thomas, We Won't Be In Your Way Anymore.Carole King, It's Too Late.Lynn Anderson, Rose Garden.Loretta Lynn, One's On The Way.Jean Knight, Mr. Big Stuff.Vicki Anderson, I'm Too Tough For Mr. Big Stuff (Hot Pants).Honey Cone, Want Ads.Merry Clayton, Southern Man.Ruth Copeland, Play With Fire.Joni Mitchell, Little Green.Betty Wright, Clean Up Woman.Bonnie Raitt, Women Be

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What Now?"If this prologue goes on much longer, it will be 1972."Anonymous wit, on the previous post.So, yes, after making a big deal about reviving the site and changing direction, etc., I stop posting again. This is owed to a number of reasons, including lack of inspiration and work-related exhaustion, but primarily it's because Blogger has made it quite clear that this site is getting axed if

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1971: A Prologue, Starring Richard NixonRod Stewart, Amazing Grace.John Fahey, Amazing Grace.I would like to leave a renewed conviction in America that the system does work, that democratic government is better than the alternatives, that reforms can be made through peaceful change...In a sense it's all right here in this room, right here in this chair. Whoever is President of the United States,

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The Organization Ain't Really Organized, 1970John Ashbery, Song.The Insect Trust, Be a Hobo/Hoboken Saturday Night.Ornette Coleman Quartet, Forgotten Songs.Bruce Cockburn, Going To the Country.Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Bellerin' Plain.Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (TV rehearsal).Alice Cooper, Beautiful Flyaway.The Kinks, Get Back In the Line.Elaine Stritch and cast of

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Hello. In a bid to revive this site, I'm doing a couple of radical things. First, as the very look of the place was getting me down--it was shabby and ugly and dated--this new template (with which I will keep tinkering) is a first step towards bringing Locust St. into the 2010s. Sadly, as yet I've been unable to move all the old comments over, and worst-case scenario is that they'll be unmovable.

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Howard Zinn, 1922-2010.The Clash, Rebel Waltz.Woody Guthrie, Better World A-Comin'.Phil Ochs, I Ain't Marchin' Anymore.Medicine Head, All For Tomorrow.The prisoners of the system will continue to rebel, as before, in ways that cannot be foreseen, at times that cannot be predicted. The new fact of our era is the chance that they may be joined by the guards. We readers and writers of books have

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Absent FriendsJim Carroll, People Who Died.John Martyn, Over The Hill.Jim Dickinson and the New Beale Street Sheiks, You'll Do It All the Time.Eddie Bo, Check Your Bucket.The Seeds, Pushin' Too Hard.Buck Griffin, Bawlin' and Squallin'.The Ronettes, Baby, I Love You.Billy Lee Riley, Red Hot.The Cramps, Human Fly.Hank Locklin, Please Help Me I'm Falling.Blossom Dearie, Tea For Two.Les Paul and Mary

C.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-50560833316734759122009-12-19T14:23:00.004-05:002010-02-11T09:36:56.537-05:00

My life as a mistaken Jew is the final installment of Boogie Woogie Flu's Hanukkah series. With a preface by John Berryman (thanks, JB!)Merry Christmas and happy (belated) Hanukkah!

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New People, 1924Eddie Hunter and Alex Rogers with Luckey Roberts, I'm Done.Clarence M. Jones, Hula Lou.Jimmy Blythe, Chicago Stomp.Old Southern Jug Band, Hatchet-Head Blues.The Mound City Blue Blowers, Red Hot!Blossom Seeley with the Georgians, Lazy.Viola McCoy with Fletcher Henderson's Jazz Five, I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gonna Settle Down.Rosa Henderson & the Choo Choo Jazzers, Hard Hearted

C.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-17553056782849332562009-10-30T13:55:00.002-04:002010-02-07T17:06:11.884-05:00

The Second Line, 1923Wendell Hall, It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.Belle Baker with the Virginians, Jubilee Blues.I.J. Hochman & the Jewish Orchestra, Rusishe Sher (Russian Sher).Fiddlin' John Carson, The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Gonna Crow.Piron's New Orleans Orchestra, West Indies Blues.Darius Milhaud, La Création du Monde: Premier Tableau.Jesse Crump, Mr. Crump Rag.Q. Roscoe Snowden,

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A Weary AnniversaryRonnie Lane, Anniversary.Count Basie, Jive At Five.Willie Brown, Future Blues.They were wheeling wheeling in each other's arms heedless at the far end where they had drawn up one of the white blinds. Above a rather low ceiling five great chandeliers swept one after the other almost to the waxed parquet floor reflecting in their hundred thousand drops the single sparkle of a

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The Imperial Roman Jazz, 1923King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Chimes Blues.King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Snake Rag.Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Joys.Jelly Roll Morton, Wolverine Blues.Clarence Williams' Blue Five, Kansas City Man Blues.Mamie Smith and the Harlem Trio, Lady Luck Blues.James P. Johnson, Scouting Around.Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, The Dicty Blues.Bessie Smith, Jail House

C.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-15127189877769865902009-09-14T06:50:00.004-04:002009-12-02T12:38:12.237-05:00

Decade: 2 (2002-2003)the unknown bomber, Baghdad, 2003Ivor Cutler, Once a Fortnight.The Mekons, Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem.The New Pornographers, The Laws Have Changed.Auguries and imprecations: Ivor Cutler, the last eccentric: recorded in 2002, dead in 2006; Mekons on OOOH!, their best LP of the decade, 2002; New Pornographers on 2003's Electric Version ("What you have already lost, consider as

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The Beneficent Spider, 1922 Marcel Proust on his deathbed (photo by Man Ray).Lizzie Miles, She Walked Right Up and Took My Man Away.Paul Hindemith, Suite '1922': Ragtime.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo.George Antheil, Airplane Sonata (As Fast As Possible).Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra, Society Blues.Husk O'Hare's Super Orchestra of Chicago, San.Friars Society Orchestra, Tiger Rag.Trixie Smith

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1922: The Morning the Fiddlers CameEck Robertson and Henry C. Gilliland, Arkansas Traveler.Eck Robertson, Sallie Gooden.Eck Robertson, Ragtime Annie.The talent manager at the Victor Talking Machine Co. sits in the office of his colleague who runs publishing. He often comes in here when his colleague is out, mainly to hide from his own prospects. He drinks a cup of coffee as he sits in the spare

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Les VacancesAugust is going to be a very quiet month here, as I need time to recharge, sleep, legitimately work and plan some lengthy (as ever) posts coming up for the fall. So stay cool and relax and have a drink on me.If you're starved for music-related writing, you might like the Bowie song-by-song blog, which I started as a lark and will keep going until I'm tired of it.Happy August. It's

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Decade: 1 (2000-2001): 2The Dirtbombs, Cedar Point '76.Bantam Rooster, Shitlist +1.The Greenhornes, Stayed Up Last Night.The White Stripes, Fell In Love With A Girl. The Wildbunch, She's Guatemala.Lightning Bolt, Ride The Sky.Young punks, mainly of Michigan stock: Detroit's The Dirtbombs' pinball lust ode (first released in '99 as a split-side single with the White Stripes' "Hand Springs" and

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Decade: 1 (2000-2001): 1Cultural prophecy is always a mug's game.Harold Bloom.Dave Chappelle, Black President.One night on stage in Washington DC, in June 2000, Dave Chappelle summoned the "first black president," much in the same way as Richard Pryor had done 25 years earlier--offering it as a figure of future myth and, for much of the audience, a scenario so surreal that when they took it as

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Songmasonry: There'll Be Some Changes MadeEthel Waters (1921).Marion Harris (1924).Josie Miles (1924).Edith Wilson and "Doc" Straine (1925).Chicago Rhythm Kings (1928).Eddie Lang (1928).The Boswell Sisters (1932).Fats Waller (1935).Roy Newman and His Boys (1935).W. Lee O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys (1937).Ocie Stockard and the Wanderers (1937).Pee Wee Russell (1938).Bunny Berigan (1939).Mildred

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Normalcy, 1921Southern Negro Quartette, I'll Be Good But I'll Be Lonesome.Al Bernard, Frankie and Johnny.Luigi and Antonio Russolo, Corale."Anonymous Jazz Band," Muscle Shoals Blues.Sissle's Sizzling Syncopaters, Long Gone.Lanin's Southern Serenaders, Shake It and Break It.Ladd's Black Aces, Aunt Hagar's Children's Blues.Mary Stafford, Strut Miss Lizzie.Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds (with Johnny Dunn

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Michael Jackson, 1958-2009The Jackson Five, The Love You Save.The Jackson Five, 2-4-6-8.Michael Jackson, Farewell My Summer Love.Michael Jackson, Get On the Floor.Michael Jackson, Billie Jean (demo).Michael Jackson, Baby Be Mine.The Minutemen, Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing.I leant upon a coppice gateWhen Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolateThe weakening eye of

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1921: An Aria of CanariesEubie Blake, Sounds of Africa.Eubie Blake, Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me).Zez Confrey, Poor Buttermilk.Frank Banta, Wild Cherry Rag.James P. Johnson, Harlem Strut.James P. Johnson, Carolina Shout.James P. Johnson, Keep Off the Grass.Fletcher Henderson, Unknown Blues.Fats Waller, Birmingham Blues.Pianists in jazz, like canaries in a mineshaft, are messengers of change.Allen

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Paradise Is Just a Curse, 1920Maurice Burkhart, It's the Smart Little Feller Who Stocked Up His Cellar That's Getting the Beautiful Girls.Van and Schenck, All the Boys Love Mary.Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, Crazy Blues.Louisiana Five, Weeping Willow Blues.Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Wang Wang Blues.Frank Crumit, My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle.Isham Jones and His Rainbo Orchestra, When

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Everything DiesBruce Springsteen, Atlantic City.Fats Domino, Detroit City Blues.Sonny Boy Williamson, Pontiac Blues.Peppermint Harris, Cadillac Funeral.General Motors Corp., the century-old automaker battered by the economic downturn, mounting debt and management problems, filed for bankruptcy Monday as part of an Obama administration plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a

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Broken Blossoms: 1919IWW headquarters after Palmer raid, NYC, 15 November 1919.Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto: 2nd Movement.Al Bernard with the Kansas Jazz Boys, Bluin' the Blues.Wilbur Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra, Kansas City Blues.All Star Trio, Shimmee Town.Louisiana Five, Clarinet Squawk.Nora Bayes, Just Like a Gypsy.Art Hickman's Orchestra, Rose Room.Art Hickman's Orchestra, On the Streets of

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Armistice: 1918Courtland and Jeffries, Oh, It's a Lovely War.Igor Stravinsky, L'Histoire du Soldat: Marche du Soldat.Van and Schenck, Tackin' Em Down.Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra, Aloha Land.Honey-Land Jazz Band, Steve.The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Tiger Rag.Wilbur Sweatman, Indianola.Courtland and Jeffries, Good-Bye-ee.While I am in his office, a neighbor hands him a copy of the Prefect's

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Songmasonry: After You've GoneMarion Harris (1918).The Versatile Four (1919).Bessie Smith (1927).Sophie Tucker (1927).The Charleston Chasers (1927).The California Ramblers (1927).Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers (1927).Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (with Jack Teagarden) (1930).Alphonse Trent Orchestra (1930).Fats Waller (1930).Benny Goodman Trio (1935).Roy Eldridge Orchestra (1937).Judy

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The Day of the Women's Death Battalion: 1917Al and Monroe Jockers, The Dixie Volunteers.Erik Satie, Parade: Petite Fille Americaine.Eubie Blake, Charleston Rag.Harry Kandel's Orchestra, Freylekhs Fun Der Khupe.Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band, A Coon Band Contest.Frisco Jass Band, Johnson's Jass Blues.Handy's Orchestra of Memphis, Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag.The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Ostrich Walk.The

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The Troglodyte World: 1916French woman working at munitions factory, ca. 1915-1916Nora Bayes, Homesickness Blues.Marion Harris, Paradise Blues.The Versatile Four, Circus Day In Dixie.Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra, I Can Dance With Everybody Except My Wife.Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck, L’Amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer.I see men arising and walking forward and I go forward

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Threads: Guns! Guns! Guns!John Cale, Gun.Nas, I Gave You Power.Gene Autry, Guns and Guitars.Cat Stevens, I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun.Julie Brown, The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun.Ray Ellington Quartet, I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded.The Bobbettes, I Shot Mr. Lee.Jimmie Rodgers, Pistol Packin' Papa.Al Dexter, Pistol Packin' Mama.Lulu, The Man With the Golden Gun.Blondie, Rifle Range.Bradley Kinkcaid,

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Planes and Lines: 1915Australian soldier with wounded comrade, Gallipoli.Peerless Quartet, Alagazam (To the Music of the Band).Lionel Belasco, Bajan Girl.Ernest Farrar, English Pastoral Impressions: Over the Hills and Far Away.Alfred Lester, A Concientious Objector.Sam Mayo, Bread and Marmalade.John Young and Frederick Wheeler, When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder.Claude Debussy, Sonata For Flute,

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Red War Yet Redder: 1914John McCormack, It's a Long Way to Tipperary.Irving Berlin, Follow the Crowd.James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra, Down Home Rag.James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra, Castle House Rag.Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra, Bregeiro.Van Eps Banjo Orchestra, Sans Souci (Maxixe Bresilienne).Victor Military Band, Memphis Blues.Felix Arndt, Desecration Rag (A Classic

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John Cale, Wall.Keene Brothers, The Naked Wall.Johnny Cash, The Wall.George Harrison, Awaiting On the Wall.Tom Robinson Band, Up Against the Wall.Louise Johnson, On the Wall.Folks, I've been horribly sick, (thankfully) overworked and generally very, very (very!) uninspired of late, so it's going to be a while yet before we get things going again on this site. Until then, you've gotta face the

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We Went Canoeing and We've Been a-Wooing: 1913The Hedges Brothers and Jacobson, On San Francisco Bay.The Hedges Brothers and Jacobson, The Land of Cotton.Al Jolson, Everybody Snap Your Fingers With Me.Al Jolson, You Made Me Love You.The New York Military Band, Hungarian Rag.Gauhar Jan, Dadra.Grupo Chiquinha Gonzaga, Sultana.We are poor, with the accumulated poverty of over a thousand years...

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50 Years OnBuddy Holly, Dearest.Buddy Holly, Love Is StrangeBuddy Holly, Slippin' and Slidin'.In honor of the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death, I've reposted this piece, which I first put up in Feb. 2007.Also, thankfully, at long last, the Holly demos and home recordings are officially available, after a half-century of existing almost entirely as bootlegs. Down the Line: The Rarities is

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John Updike, 1932-2009Titus Turner, Sticks and Stones.Junior Walker and the All-Stars, Clinging To the Thought That She's Coming Back.The Pretenders, Mystery Achievement.Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels.Willie Nelson, Bandera.Sometime around 2001, for some long-forgotten reason, I made a series of CD mixes that were imaginary soundtracks to John Updike's four Rabbit novels (and the neglected

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They All Talk Like Crows: 1912Apollo Jubilee Quartette, Shout All Over God's Heaven.Mike Bernard, Everybody Two-Step.Roy Spangler, Red Onion Rag.Orchester vom "Palais de Dance" Berlin, Temptation Rag.Albert C. Campbell and Irving Gillette, Good Night Mr. Moon.There was a young fellow singing a song, accompanied on the piano by a short, thick-set, dark man. Between each verse he did some dance

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First DaySarah Vaughan, Great Day.Jabbo Smith, Till Times Get Better.I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come, and that...it will be seen that the larger the extent of country, the more firm its republican structure, if founded, not on conquest, but in principles of compact and equality. My hope of its duration is built on...the belief that men are disposed to

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So Natural That You Want To Go To War: 1911Hine, Noon recreation, Danville [Va.] cigarette factory, June 1911 (Shorpy).Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan, Alexander's Ragtime Band.Stella Mayhew, That Devilin' Tune.Béla Bartók, Allegro Barbaro.Arthur Pryor's Band, Canhanibalmo Rag.Grupo Bahianinho, El Cavito.Grupo Bahianinho, Bambino.Claude Debussy, Preludes: Voiles.Claude Debussy, Preludes: La Fille

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The Suffragette That Knew Jiu-Jitsu: 1910Sophie Tucker, That Lovin' Rag.Stella Mayhew, That Beautiful Rag.Nora Bayes, Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?Ada Jones, Before I Go and Marry I Will Have a Talk With You.And now I will hazard a second assertion, which is more disreputable perhaps, to the effect that on or about December 1910 human character changed.I am not saying that one went out, as one

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Absent FriendsFreddie Hubbard, Cold Turkey.The Four Tops, Bernadette.Miriam Makeba, Mbube.Bob and Earl, Harlem Shuffle.Nappy Brown, Don't Be Angry.Mikey Dread, Saturday Night Style.Jody Reynolds, Endless Sleep.Bo Diddley, She's Alright.Bobby Lee Trammell, If You Ever Get It Once.Dee Dee Warwick, Foolish Fool.Johnny Adams, I Wish It Would Rain.Nathaniel Mayer and His Fabulous Twilights, Village of

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WinterWarren Zevon, Winter Wonderland.Blind Willie McTell, Cold Winter Day.Neil Young, Winterlong.Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, Wintersong.Nico, Winter Song.Vashti Bunyan, If In Winter.Lucille Hegamin, Cold, Cold Winter Blues.Edith Wilson with "Doc" Straine, It's Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Winter.The Durutti Column, Sketch For Winter.Winterreise: Die Krähe.Kokomo Arnold, Cold Winter Blues.Blood,

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Nailed To the North Pole, 1908-1909Hubert Latham attempting to fly across the English Channel, July 1909 (he didn't make it; a while later he was killed by a buffalo).1908Monet, Twilight, Venice.Chris Chapman, Dill Pickles Rag.Arthur Collins, Parson Jones' Three Reasons.Edward Meeker, I'm a Yiddish Cowboy.Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la Nuit: Le Gibet.Banda Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires,

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Modern Songsters: Bert WilliamsColumbia Orchestra, I Thought I Was a Winner, or, I Don't Know, You Ain't So Warm.Silas Leachman, The Fortune Telling Man.Bert Williams and George Walker, My Little Zulu Babe.Bert Williams, Nobody.Bert Williams, Let It Alone.Bert Williams, Play That Barbershop Chord.Nora Bayes, You Can't Get Away From It.Bert Williams, You Can't Get Away From It.Bert Williams, It's

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The Life of Violets, 1906-1907Shinn, Stage Scene1906Danny Hoffman, outfielder, Philadelphia AthleticsBilly Murray, You're a Grand Old Rag.Pryor's Band, A Coon Band Contest.First of all, I don't think Basini matters one bit. Whether we report him now, or beat him, or torture him half to death just for the pleasure of it. Because I can't imagine such a person having any significance in the

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The Impressions, This Is My Country.Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land.Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (demo).Of strange, discordant,and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy.Did we brave all then, to falter now?--now--when that same enemy is wavering,

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Threads: The Wretched RefuseDuke Ellington, Immigration Blues.Bob Dylan, I Pity The Poor Immigrant.Arthur Kylander, Siirtolaisen Ensi Vastuksia (The Immigrant’s First Difficulties).Little Oscar Gang, Ole (A Norwegian Immigrant Arrives In the USA).Pat White, I'm Leaving Tipperary.Frank Quinn, An Irish Farewell.The Pogues, Thousands Are Sailing.Cherish the Ladies, The Back Door.Big Audio Dynamite,

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You Don't Own the State, 1904-19051904Tap room, San Francisco, 1904 (Shorpy).Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Dovunque al mondo.William Tuson, Heart Bowed Down.Hager's Orchestra, Rooster Dance.Peerless Orchestra, Smoky Mokes.Charlie Rogers, Smoky Mokes.Haydn Quartet, Sweet Adeline.Mr. Governor, you notified your dogs of war to put me out of the state. They complied with your instructions. I

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The President Is Seven Years Old, 1902-1903White, The Orchard"We must never forget that the President is seven years old," possibly apocryphal quote by a British ambassador about Theodore Roosevelt.1902Bedford Street, London, 1902 Dinwiddie Colored Quartet, Down On the Old Camp Ground.Abdal Ali, Kurdish Death Lament.Cantrell and Williams, Bye Bye Ma Honey.Arthur Collins, Bill Bailey Won't You

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Elite Syncopations, 1900-1901"Clarence and Alonzo," photo taken by Wilbur or Orville Wright, back of the Wright Cycle Co. in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900 (from Shorpy) 1900Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall, Swipesy Cakewalk.Vess Ossman, Ethiopian Mardi Gras.Arthur Collins, The Mick Who Threw The Brick.Dear Evelyn: Your letter was waiting for me when I came home, but was not the less interesting because

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Overtures OvertureMulberry Street, NYC, 1900.Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, This Is It (Bugs Bunny Overture).Duke Ellington, Three Suites: Overture.Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera: Overture.The Who, Overture.Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady: Overture.Al Duffy and Tony Mottola, Light Cavalry Overture.Mobb Deep, Intro.Richard Strauss, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Ouverture.Rush, 2112 Overture.Arnold

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All the Money's Gone, Nowhere to GoMichael Douglas, Greed Is Good.The Ethiopians, Everything Crash.The Beatles, You Never Give Me Your Money.Jimmy Witherspoon, Money Getting Cheaper (Times Getting Tougher).Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, We Need Some Money.Gus Cannon, My Money Never Runs Out.Howlin' Wolf, Work For Your Money.Duke Ellington, Wall Street Wail.The Federal Reserve, in an attempt

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OutonoElla Fitzgerald and Joe Pass, 'Tis Autumn.Françoise Hardy, Autumn Rendez-vous.Hugh Hopper and Richard Sinclair, Long Lingers Autumn Time.The Moody Blues, Forever Autumn.Gene Autry, When Golden Leaves Are Falling.Chet Atkins, The Red Leaves of Autumn.Yves Montand, Les Feuilles Mortes.Jerry Lee Lewis, Autumn Leaves.Ahmad Jamal Trio, Autumn Leaves.Lena Horne, Autumn in New York.Bud Powell,

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6 Easy Pieces: The PressThe Beatles, A Day In the Life.Ferde Grofé, Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Run of the News.Pete Seeger (with the Almanacs), Newspaper Man.The Kinks, Mr. Reporter.The Marx Brothers, Harpo Marx, Ace Reporter.Wire, Reuters.Joe Jackson, Sunday Papers.The Jam, News of the World.Public Enemy, A Letter to the New York Post.Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Cover of the

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6 Easy Pieces: In DreamsFrank Sinatra, Deep In a Dream.Robert Desnos, Description of a Dream.Ray Noble Orchestra, Dreaming a Dream.Ruth Brown, Oh What a Dream.Neko Case, Dreaming Man.Max Romeo, Wet Dream.John Lennon, #9 Dream.Peggy Lee, Street of Dreams.The Electric Prunes, I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night.Artie Shaw, Nightmare.The Kinks, Dreams.The Beatles, Jessie's Dream.Randy Newman, Last

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6 Easy Pieces: Everybody's In Movies III (in 3-D)Abandoned movie palace, Middletown, CT, 1977There Ain't No Color In My Memories (1963-1999)WithThe Velvet Underground, New Age.David Bowie, Cracked Actor.Lee Perry and The Upsetters, Eastwood Rides Again.Madness, Michael Caine.Yo La Tengo, Tom Courtenay (Georgia Version).Serge Gainsbourg, Initials B.B.The Go-Betweens, Lee Remick.The Embarrassment,

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6 Easy Pieces: Everybody's In Movies IIMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents:Where You're Terrific If You're Even Good (1930-1962)Starring:Anita O'Day, Hooray For Hollywood.Dory Previn, Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign.Judy Garland, Dear Mr. Gable (You Made Me Love You).Roxy Music, 2 H.B.Billy Bragg and Wilco, Ingrid Bergman.Leadbelly, Jean Harlow.New Bomb Turks, Veronica Lake.The Upsetters, Big

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6 Easy Pieces: Everybody's In MoviesThe Kinks, Celluloid Heroes.Velvet Glove, Movie Star.Prince, Movie Star.The picture pride of Hollywood.Too many fall from great and goodFor you to doubt the likelihood.Die early and avoid the fate.Or if predestined to die late,Make up your mind to die in state.Robert Frost, "Provide, Provide."Singers and songwriters, despite their arrogance, talents and

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Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008.Buffalo Springfield, On the Way Home.Neil Young, Flying On the Ground Is Wrong (demo).Buffalo Springfield, Expecting to Fly.He wanted them, he said, to understand the wonder and glory of flight. There was nothing, he declared, so glorious, no ecstasy so sublime. What was it, he asked rhetorically, to fly? What did it mean? It was the act of love and the vision of God;

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6 Easy Pieces: Stuttering SongsLloyd Stalcup, Stuttering Song.Edward Meeker, Stuttering Dick (and His Stuttering Sweetheart).Billy Murray, K-K-K-Katy.LMP (La Musique Populaire), K-K-K-Katy.Arthur Fields, Oh Helen!The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Stuttering Lovers.Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, You Tell Her, I Stutter.Frank Guarente's Georgians, You Tell Her, I Stutter.The Cotton Pickers,

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VeranoMeatballs, Are You Ready For the Summer?War, Summer.The Woods, Love Me Again This Summer.The Beach Boys, Your Summer Dream.Bob Dylan, In the Summertime.Les Paul and Mary Ford, In the Good Old Summertime.Al Green, Summertime.Sidney Bechet, Summertime.Roy Richards and the Soul Vendors, Summertime.Gene Vincent, Summertime.Antonio Vivaldi, L'Estate: Presto.Astor Piazzolla, Verano Porteño.Woody

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1961Dick and Dee Dee, The Mountain's High.Ernie K-Doe, A Certain Girl.Roy Hamilton, You Can Have Her.The Texans, Rockin' Johnny Home.Stan Getz, I'm Late, I'm Late.Jacques Brel, Les Biches.Jean Ritchie, Barbara Allen.Patsy Cline, Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue).Ron Carter and George Duvivier, Bass Duet.Frits Weiland, Study In Layers and Pulses.The Outlaws, Tune For Short

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1961Jackie Brenston, Trouble Up the Road.The story of one of fortune's fools: Jackie Brenston was a 21-year-old singer and saxophonist working in Clarksdale, Mississippi, when he landed a gig with Ike Turner's band. The band drove up to Memphis to cut some records for a new producer named Sam Phillips, and one track they cut was Brenston's rewrite of Jimmy Liggins' "Cadillac Boogie": "Rocket 88",

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1961Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Crazy Rhythm (1937).Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Crazy Rhythm (1961).Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Honeysuckle Rose (1937).Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Honeysuckle Rose (1961).One day in springtime, in Paris, 1937, two expatriate American saxophone players met to immortalize an afternoon. Coleman Hawkins had left the U.S. in 1934, sailing to the

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1961The Showmen, It Will Stand.Lee Dorsey, Ya Ya.Some folks don't understand it,That's why they don't demand it.The Showmen.Why New Orleans rules, part upteenth in a series:The Showmen were from Norfolk, Va. They came together in the late '50s and were signed to Atlantic, which, however, never released a single record by them. So the band went to New Orleans, auditioned for Minit Records owner

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1961Bob Dylan, Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming).Bob Dylan, Death Don't Have No Mercy.Bob Dylan, Talking Columbia.Bob Dylan with Ramblin' Jack Elliot, The Great Divide.Bob Dylan (with Oscar Brand interview), Sally Gal.Bob Dylan, In the Pines.Bob Dylan, Long Time A Growin'.Bob Dylan, House Carpenter.Bob Dylan, This Land Is Your Land.Bob Dylan, Dink's Song.Bob Dylan, Wade in the

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1961Count Basie, Segue in C.Lennie Tristano, C Minor Complex.Exuberant thoughts in parallel keys:This version of "Segue in C" was recorded by Count Basie and his orchestra at Birdland, NYC, on 27 July 1961, and then was shelved and forgotten until the mid-'90s, when it finally turned up on a wonderful, comprehensive, long out-of-print and unaffordable (are there any other kind?) Mosaic

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1958 (Revisited and Corrected)Back in January 2007, I wrote a post on the recording of the Beatles' first-ever disc, "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger." Proving that history is indeed bunk (and that anything published about the Beatles is quite possibly wrong), the Beatles histories I used for background turned out to be incorrect about many of the details of that recording. I know

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1961Little Milton, So Mean to Me.June Carter, The Heel.A session of couples counseling:He said: you treat me like the dirt down on the ground. How can one woman be so unkind?Little Milton's "So Mean to Me" was released as Checker 994 c/w "I Need Somebody" (guess things didn't work out); on Greatest Hits.She said: why must I just sit here and grieve? Why don't I just pack up and leave? That dirty

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1961Mighty Sparrow, Royal Jail.Wanda Jackson, Riot in Cell Block #9.I done tell my friends and my family, not to worryAny one of them interfere with me, take it easy.Don't worry to beg the jurySave the lawyer feeAnd if you have any mailSend it to me at the Royal Jail.Mighty Sparrow.The calypsonian Mighty Sparrow was born Slinger Francisco in Grenada in 1935; his family moved to Trinidad when he

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1961Noel Coward, Why Do the Wrong People Travel?Rick Nelson, Travelin' Man.Or what happened when the Côte d'Azur set wound up on the same flight as the Omaha car salesman convention.This version of Noel Coward's "Why Do the Wrong People Travel" is a demo recording of a song Coward wrote for his 1961 show Sail Away--it's echt anti-American (and anti-middle-class) snobbery delivered with such gusto

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1961Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, The Beautiful American.I loved and respected Louis Armstrong. He was born poor, died rich and never hurt anyone on the way.Duke Ellington.They had run into each other over the years, but had recorded together only once, on a forgotten track called "Long, Long Journey" in

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1961The Simms Twins, Soothe Me.Bo Diddley, Pills.Bo Diddley and Sam Cooke moonlighted as record producers: Diddley cut his own records at home, while Cooke ran his own independent label, SAR, with such assured taste that SAR could have become a rival to Stax/Volt had Cooke not died in 1964.SAR, founded in 1959 with Cooke's friend J.W. Alexander, recorded gospel (Cooke's old group, the Soul

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1961Nappy Brown, Coal Miner.Coleman Wilson, Passing Zone Blues.Elmore James, Shake Your Moneymaker.The man who builds a factory builds a temple, the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.Calvin Coolidge.Orare est laborare, laborare est orare. (To worship is to work, to work is to worship.)St. Benedict.I guess I'll die with a shovel

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1961Richard Wilbur, Shame.Depiano and Beguen Band, Gouvernment Ya Congo.Revolution, imagined: Richard Wilbur's "Shame" was first published in Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems.Their complete negligence is reserved, however,For the hoped-for invasion, at which time the happy people(Sniggering, ruddily naked, and shamelessly drunk)Will stun the foe by their overwhelming submission,Corrupt the

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1961The One-Car AccidentMary Wells, Bye Bye Baby.The Supremes, Buttered Popcorn.The sound of raw, young America: the debut single of Mary Wells, the first major artist that Berry Gordy's Motown produced, and the second single by The Supremes, who would become Motown's biggest act in the mid-'60s.Wells' "Bye Bye Baby" is an ocean's remove from the poised, demure sensibilities of "My Guy," her

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1961The Party Boys, We Got a Party.Charlie Feathers, Wild Wild Party.Jerry Lee Lewis, Save the Last Dance For Me.Parties don't exist in the present tense: they live in the jittery conditional mood, or as a void in the future tense (expected, planned, anticipated--or dreaded) or they are walled up in the preterite or the pluperfect tense (remembered hazily, recounted as legends to others). During

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Theme SongThe Black Crowes, Locust Street.There is a Locust Street in every city and town in America east of the Mississippi. It’s a song about the other part of America that is never shown in the media. It’s a broken place, a fragment of some weird industrial revolution and the empty lots in cities like New York and upstate New York. It’s invisible, and you’d think in an election year, they

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1960Art Farmer and Benny Golson, Killer Joe.The Shirelles, Boys.The Fleetwoods, Outside My Window.Billy Miranda, Go Ahead.Bobby Hebb, Night Train to Memphis.The Coasters, Shopping For Clothes.Derrick Morgan, Fat Man.Serge Gainsbourg, L'Eau à la Bouche.Gary U.S. Bonds, New Orleans.The Devotions, Rip Van Winkle.Eddie Cochran, Cut Across Shorty.Lattimore Brown, Somebody's Gonna Miss Me.Connie

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1860Unknown French person, Au Clair de la Lune.We'll be wrapping up 1960 next week, but as a prologue, here's the greatest hit of the year one century before--the first song ever recorded in human history, as it turns out."Researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

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PrimaveraThe Carter Family, When The Springtime Comes Again.Nina Simone, Here Comes the Sun.The Lemon Drops, I Live In the Springtime.Tanya Tucker, Spring.Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring: The Adoration of the Earth--Dances of the Young Girls.Gustav Mahler, The Drunkard In Spring.Donovan, The Lullaby of Spring.Edith Piaf, Enfin le Printemps.Biz Markie, Spring Again.Reno and Smiley, Springtime In

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1960Bobby Marchan, There's Something On Your Mind.Bobby Hendricks, Psycho.Hank Locklin, Please Help Me I'm Falling."There's Something On Your Mind" opens with the singer realizing that his woman's found someone new--he takes the blow calmly, even with tenderness, quickly accepting that he no longer has a place in her heart. When the band cuts out, Bobby Marchan delivers a succinct, step-by-step

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1960Ben Webster, Renaissance Blues.John Coltrane, Like Sonny.Eric Dolphy, Les.Ornette Coleman, The Tribes of New York.Ornette Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. People.Four saxophonists in the year of Kennedy and Greensboro, in the autumn of jazz's official golden age: older men, young men, established men, ruthless men.The master Ben Webster, 51 years old, rumbles through "Renaissance Blues." After a brown

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1960George Jones, The Window Up Above.Jean Shepard, The Root of All Evil (Is a Man).Irreconcilable differences:Heard you whisper to him softly,that our marriage was all wrong.But I hope he makes you happyand you will never lose his love,I lost mine while I was watching (you)from the window up above.George Jones' "Window Up Above," which has one of his most god-like vocals, was released in

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1960The Revels, Church Key.The Gamblers, Moon Dawg.Johnny and the Hurricanes, Beatnik Fly.The Ramrods, (Ghost) Riders In the Sky.The Ramrods, Zig Zag.The Fireballs, Bulldog.The Ventures, Walk Don't Run.Down with lead singers! Down with their cults of personality, their second lives as dream dressing and t-shirt logos, their shameless wish to be a mirror for our crudest, most desperate desires,

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1960Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 In C Minor.Over three days in July 1960, in a house in Dresden, in what was once known as East Germany, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his eighth string quartet.The quartet, debuted later that year, was officially dedicated to "the memory of the victims of fascism and war"; Soviet and American critics of the period praised the piece for its atonement,

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Another Day Older and Deeper In DebtWoody Allen, Love and Death.Ivor Cutler, I'm Happy.Jack Teagarden and Fats Waller, You Rascal You.Serge Gainsbourg, Vieille Canaille (You Rascal You).Christer Bladin, Wildkatze.DJ Riko, Whistler's Delight.Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer, Mister Meadowlark.Papa Charlie Jackson, Baby Please Loan Me Your Heart.Ray Bolger and Judy Garland, If I Only Had a Brain.Bob

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1960Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Finger Poppin' Time.The Stanley Brothers, Finger Poppin' Time.Syd Nathan, owner of Cincinnati's King Records, was one of the United States' secret integrationists from the late '40s through the '60s, mixing white and black popular music together--mainly for the cash, certainly, but creating some essential records in the process.Nathan's King Records, founded

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1960Muddy Waters, I Feel So Good (live).Howlin' Wolf, Spoonful.Elmore James, Rollin' and Tumblin'.Lightnin' Hopkins, Glory Be.Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's DayAll in the morning betime,And I a maid at your windowto be your Valentine.Ophelia, Hamlet, iv:v.Men lies about a littleSome of 'em cries about a littleSome of 'em dies about a littleEverything fight about a spoonful.Howlin' Wolf.Happy

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1960The Beatles, I'll Follow the Sun.The Beatles, I'll Always Be In Love With You.The Beatles, Hello Little Girl.The Beatles, Movin' and Groovin'/Ramrod.The Beatles, One After 909.John gets after me whenever I drift off and pulls me back, and then there I am again, sitting about and playing with him and Paul and Paul's little brother and that sour wet George. Sitting in the living room, sometimes

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1960Maxine Brown, All In My Mind.Aretha Franklin, Today I Sing the Blues.Two debut singles, two blueprints of soul.Maxine Brown, born in South Carolina in 1939, grew up in the Pentecostal Church and moved to New York as a teenager. Then, as she recalled in an interview with William Gooch, she got a job singing with the Charles Taylor Singers, a hot gospel group of the late '50s. Some of the

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1960Gil Evans Orchestra, La Nevada.Gil Evans Orchestra, Where Flamingos Fly.Something is always happening on this record, and some passages have a hallucinatory vividness that nonetheless conceals vital evidence...Gary Giddins, on Gil Evans' Out of the Cool.Gil Evans is remembered primarily as a collaborator, an amplifier of others' voices, such as his work with Miles Davis, from LPs like

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1960Ray Bryant Combo, The Madison Time.Elmore James, Madison Blues.William (Bubbles) Holloway was with Sonny Payne and Larry Steele in front of the Birdland in New York. Bubbles asked Larry how to get to Madison Avenue from the Birdland and he answered: “Take it to the left, young man, take it to the left.”That remark laid the groundwork for the Madison dance which starts on the left foot, the

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1960Jessie Hill, Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Pts. 1 & 2).Jessie Hill, Whip It On Me.Allen & Allen, Tiddle Winks.Aaron Neville, Over You.The Del Royals, Always Naggin' (Crumblin' Fussin' Nag Nag).All hail Minit Records, New Orleans' finest exporter of the 1960-63 period, and whose sound was primarily the work of pianist/songwriter Allen Toussaint.Well before Phil Spector, Toussaint was a studio mastermind--

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1960Kay Starr, You're Just In Love.Kay Starr, Share Croppin' Blues.Kay Starr, Garbage Can Blues.Kay Starr, born in Oklahoma in 1922, of Iroquois and Irish ancestry, was singing in a swing band (Joe Venuti's orchestra) when she was barely 15. During WWII, she sang with Glenn Miller, Wingy Malone and Charlie Barnet, but as the '40s ebbed, Starr cast her lot with mainstream pop and novelty songs,

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1960Cleveland Crochet, Sugar Bee.Cleveland Crochet, Drunkard's Dream.Rusty and Doug, Louisiana Man.I spent five years trying to find a Cajun band that could play rock and roll. Everyone thought I was nuts.Eddie Shuler.Cajun music had begun gaining a wider audience ever since Huey Long built highways through the Louisiana bayou country in the '30s, connecting the Cajuns with the cities. There was

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1960The Bobbettes, I Shot Mr. Lee.He hollered 'help-help-murder-policethe girl's after me with a gun!'He hollered 'help-help-murder-police!the girl's after me with a gun!'There are cheap sequels, ambitious sequels, pointless sequels, and then there's "I Shot Mr. Lee."The Bobbettes--Emma Pought, Jannie Pought, Laura Webb, Helen Gathers, and Reather Dixon--had met at P.S. 109 (99th St. and Second

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1960Joyce Harris, I Got My Mojo Working.Joyce Harris, Dreamer.Joyce Harris, No Way Out.The Sixties begin with the first five seconds of Joyce Harris' version of "I Got My Mojo Working."The track opens with a summoning, a howled note Harris holds until she shreds her voice to pieces. She starts the verse, slides into the song, but soon enough the madness returns: she shreds her voice again, howls

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A Century in Jumps (Slight Return)1997The Hentchmen (w/Jack White), Some Other Guy.Kim Richey, I Know.Lisa Stansfield, Never Never Gonna Give You Up.Arto Lindsay, Erotic City.David S. Ware Quartet, The Way We Were.Handsome:I asked you three weeks ago to please be sensitive to what I am going through right now and to keep in contact with me, and yet I'm still left writing notes in vain. I am not a

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Absent FriendsIke Turner, I'm Lonesome Baby.Ike and Tina Turner, Sexy Ida (Pt. 1).Porter Wagoner, Midnight.Janis Martin, Will You Willyum.Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Powell's Prances.Oscar Peterson, Blues Etude.Cannonball Adderley, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.Karlheinz Stockhausen, Studie ii.Nellie Lutcher, Come and Get It, Honey.Hank Thompson, A Six Pack To Go.The Mamas and Papas, I Saw Her Again Last

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