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Fantastic Oldies Game!

[You don't often get a chance to link to the word peppermint, so you gotta take the opportunity...]

In the early '60s, anyone who was anybody -- from Jackie Kennedy to Truman Capote and Judy Garland to Liberace -- stopped by New York's Peppermint Lounge to join in on the latest dance craze and #1 hit "The Peppermint Twist," performed by the house band Joey Dee & the Starliters.
 
Oooh Oooh Oooh!

In addition to Peppermint Twist, Joey Dee & The Starlighters had a record called "Lorraine" that you've probably never heard but it would knock your socks off, but I was thinking of one of the more controversial 'banned' songs of the 50's recorded by The El Chords called "Peppermint Stick" in which supposedly the lyric is "Peppermint Stick won't you by my chic," but some have said that if you listen close enough, you can obviously hear that the lyric is "Peppermint Stick won't you eat my d%#&!

I don't know the actual lyric, but I do know that because of the above, the song was banned from certain radio stations.
 
Some argue that the Chords, the doo-wop quintet led by Carl Feaster and discovered singing in a Bronx subway station, had the first true rock 'n roll single with their original version of "Sh-Boom," although the Crew-Cuts' cover of it was the one that made it to #1 in the summer of 1954.
 
There was also a 1970s British group known as The Chords, but I don't think their music made it to the United States; I don't know if they took their name from the 1950s doo wop The Chords, or whether the British group was simply clueless but I do remember that Sh-Boom was named after an atom bomb explosion, which, as we know, could be survived by hiding under a school desk.
 
In 1967, The Music Explosion blew up to number 2 in the charts with "A Little Bit O'Soul."
Their next, and last charted tune, "Sunshine Games" bombed at number 63.
 
How about a little bit of Jimmy Soul, "If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife, so from my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you...and if you have the original 45, dig it out and flip it for a great soulful medium tempo ballad called "Don't Release Me!"
 
Speaking of "Release Me," in 1962 Little Esther Phillips had a big hit with it at number 8. Five years later, she was no longer "Little" but the sales of the re release of the tune were much smaller as it only got to 93.
 
Drug problems interrupted her career in the 1960s, but Esther Phillips returned to the Top 20 in 1974 with her disco single "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes," a remake of an old big band hit by the Dorsey Brothers.
 
"My name is Angel Marie, I've come from across the sea to find the boy I love, so married we can be..." part of the lyric to "Angel Marie" by Ernie & The Halos on Guyden Records from '63...Ernie, by the way, was Ernie K. Doe of "Mother-In-Law" fame.
 
The Irish pop trio The Bachelors enjoyed some success with their recycling of songs that had been hits decades before, including, in 1964, "Marie," which was written by Irving Berlin and was the very first million seller, in 1937, for Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra.
 
One of the best concert films ever, recently a staple of public television pledge drives, is "Black & White Night" starring Roy Orbison joined by a star-studded cast that included Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, Jennifer Warnes, T-Bone Burnett, James Burton, and more!
 
AlexBrowne said:
One of the best concert films ever, recently a staple of public television pledge drives, is "Black & White Night" starring Roy Orbison joined by a star-studded cast that included Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, Jennifer Warnes, T-Bone Burnett, James Burton, and more!
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The Beach Boys had a concert LP in the mid-60s called Beach Boys In Concert. Actually, they had several "concert" LPs as fillers for their 3-LPs a year contract while genius Brian Wilson composed masterpieces such as God Only Knows, When I Grow Up To Be A Man, California Girls, Wouldn't It Be Nice, and Good Vibrations. Lotta hits there. .
 
"Reet Petite" was one of the best far and wide, but I did Mr. Wilson's hep tune called "I'll Be Satisfied!"
 
Mama and Papa Michelle and John Phillips' daughter Chynna got together in 1990 with Beach Boy Brian Wilson's daughters Carnie and Wendy to form their own vocal group, Wilson Phillips.
 
Some say that The Beatles changed the face of music in the states, but their earlier tunes were actually closer to "real oldies," it actually wasn't until July of 1965 with the number one hit called "House Of the Rising Sun" by the Animals that the second generation of oldies began.
 
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