landtuna said:
Mr. Wacki expressed the same sentiment to me. Yet he thinks Doo Wop is high art. :
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Mr. Wacki expressed the same sentiment to me. Yet he thinks Doo Wop is high art. :
pattiwacki said:
Patti--that's so similar to Jack making references to "Mrs. Camelback."
Kind of spooky! (Classics IV* pun not intended.)
*: Spooky, Stormy, Traces, et al, not heard on K-Slacks, AFAIK.
pattiwacki said:Mr. Wacki expressed the same sentiment to me. Yet he thinks Doo Wop is high art. :
Mr. Wacki is correct. Takes more than a few studio-produced electronic EFX to do a good Doo Wop song.
Early Rock 'n Roll had the sax.
Doo Wop had.......Mr. Bass Man (give it a listen and you'll see what I mean).
oldiesfan6479 said:
Love the Classics lV, o.f., but no comprendo AFAIK ?!
AFAIK-DOH!
landtuna said:pattiwacki said:Mr. Wacki expressed the same sentiment to me. Yet he thinks Doo Wop is high art. :
Mr. Wacki is correct. Takes more than a few studio-produced electronic EFX to do a good Doo Wop song.
Like four drunk guys in a mood to sing? ;D Actually, The Flamingos "Only Have Eyes For You" is one of the best songs ever, and my sister used to play "Sorry (I ran all the way home)", loved it, Yeah, Mr. Base Man was cute. I would be interested to hear the near handful of Motown songs you find acceptable.
landtuna said:
My brother knew Bobby Fuller of the B.F. Five , my sister was in the school chorus with Bobby Hatfield. We should do a brush with fame thread.
Dr. Akbar said:
You're right. Keith E. called that one too. These stations need to be true to their identities. So, if you're a Van Morrison fan, B.-E. Girl on KOOL, Wild Night on KSLX, Moondance on KYOT, Crazy Love on KEZ, The Keith Richards duet thing on KLOVE......
pattiwacki said:
But what about Domino? I think it qualifies as a crossover--KOOL and K-Slacks.
pattiwacki said:
These are the only ones in my mp3 player currently:
Chi-lites - Oh Girl
Commodores - Three Times A Lady
You mentioned the Flamingos. I have a bunch of "black group" songs that I grew up with from the BeBop and Doo Wop eras but none of those artists are listed as "Motown" (at least, I wasn't able to identify them as such). Some examples:
Dell Vikings
Coasters
Booker T
Chantels
Dubs
Fats Domino
Johnny Mathis
Safari's
etc.
I wasn't so much referring to the Motown label as I was the style of music Barry Gordy produced. Just wasn't my thang.
Nope, none of those were Motown and Johnny Mathis was pretty mainstream, I'm thinking he was on the Mercury label. You're right, Gordy was the architect of Motown. Speaking of Doo Wop, the Drifters were just awesome!
oldiesfan6479 said:
Hey, you're right!
pattiwacki said:
Woa, maybe the Commodores were, I didn't think so. Anyway they were great, good pics,lt. You had mentioned Sax in Doo wop. True, but lots of good sax elsewhere too-Steve Douglas and Jim Horn on Duane Eddy's records, Bobby Keys with the Stones.
pattiwacki said:
He had a few mid-60s Mercs (a Park Lane with the inverted rear window?
)and a late-starter Arista (if you can call 1982 a late starter), but the vast
majority of his single releases were on Columbia.*
*: Labels source is Joel (Whitburn, not Grey).
And, as a recent TV interview showed, Mathis ages even better than Dick Clark.
I can't believe his records were the prime-o "makeout" songs we listened to as pre and teens back in the 50's and he's still going strong (even though virtually all the rest of us have well-passed that "makeout" stage).
He lives in El A now but his long time home was in San Francisco. The old high school rumor that he had a brother who was a toll taker on the Golden Gate Bridge was true. I crossed that bridge many times and even got his autograph once (on New Year's Day, 1967 when toll was only 25 cents).
I can't believe his records were the prime-o "makeout" songs we listened to as pre and teens back in the 50's and he's still going strong (even though virtually all the rest of us have well-passed that "makeout" stage).
He lives in El A now but his long time home was in San Francisco. The old high school rumor that he had a brother who was a toll taker on the Golden Gate Bridge was true. I crossed that bridge many times and even got his autograph once (on New Year's Day, 1967 when toll was only 25 cents).
landtuna said:
I remember seeing him during President Reagan's funeral. The commentators were such big fans they stopped commenting on the funeral and raved at how good Mathis looked!
oldiesfan6479 said:pattiwacki said:
He had a few mid-60s Mercs (a Park Lane with the inverted rear window?
and a late-starter Arista (if you can call 1982 a late starter), but the vast
majority of his single releases were on Columbia.*
*: Labels source is Joel (Whitburn, not Grey).
Thanks, o.f.!
landtuna said:
Anthing Gordy produced WAS on the Motown Label. He didn't produce for other labels. To gripe about Motown being on Kool is ridiculous. The music was a HUGE part of 60's / 70's Pop music. It topped the charts at a time where the British invasion was dominating. That's what Kool is.....Pop music from that era. Not Rock, not R/B, but an equal balance of the 2....just like you would hear on the radio 30 plus years ago. Enough of the biased opinions about disco or anthing that isn't old rock. Turn the station. And for the record, Chi-lites were not on Motown. Neither was Aretha, Ray Charles or James Brown...yet they still get labeled Motown.
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