Podcasts about daytonas

Segunda entrega dedicada a recordar singles que llegaron a su puesto más alto en el Billboard Hot 100 de EEUU en enero de 1965. Arrancamos con una andanada de nombres de la invasión británica y seguimos con girl groups, bandas de garaje, voces del country y varias anomalías.(Foto del podcast por Gered Mankowitz; Marianne Faithfull, 1965)Playlist;(sintonía) THE WAIKIKIS “Hawaii tatoo” (top 33)THE SEARCHERS “Love potion number 9” (top 3)THE DAVE CLARK FIVE “Anyway you want it” (top 15)MARIANNE FAITHFULL “As tears go by” (top 22)THE ANIMALS “Boom boom” (top 43)MANFRED MANN “Sha la la” (top 12)THE HULLABALLOOS “I'm gonna love you too" (top 56)THE NOVAS “The Crusher” (top 88)THE YOU KNOW WHO GROUP “Roses are red my love” (top 43)DEL SHANNON “Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)” (top 9)DICK AND DEE DEE “Thou shalt not steal” (top 13)THE SHANGRI-LAS “Give him a great big kiss” (top 18)THE DETERGENTS “Leader of the laundromat” (top 19)ROGER MILLER “Do wacka do” (top 31)GEORGE JONES “The race is on” (top 96)CHUCK BERRY “Promised land” (top 41)RONNY and THE DAYTONAS “Bucket T” (top 54)GARNET MIMMS “A Little bit of soap” (top 95)DEAN MARTIN “You’re nobody till somebody loves you” (top 21)LITTLE MILTON “Blind man” (top 86)Escuchar audio

Segunda entrega dedicada a canciones que alcanzaron su puesto más alto en listas pop de EEUU en noviembre de 1964. Un mes con una cosecha lo suficientemente interesante como para sacar otra entrega en donde rescatamos canciones que -en su mayoría- quedaron en la parte baja del Top 100. Ahí encontramos a varios pioneros peleando por mantener su hueco en la actualidad musical del momento, a las últimas bandas de espíritu festivo o a varias figuras del soul que encontraban su espacio en las audiencias blancas.Playlist;(sintonía) RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO “Something you got” (top 63)ELVIS PRESLEY “Ain’t that lovin you baby” (top 16)ROGER MILLER “Chuck-a-lug” (top 9)JOHNNY CASH “It ain’t me baby” (top 58)CHUCK BERRY “Little Marie” (top 54)JERRY LEE LEWIS “High heel sneakers” (top 91)BOBBY BLAND “Ain’t doing too bad (part 1)” (top 49)B.B. KING “Beautician Blues” (top 82)RUFUS THOMAS “Jump back” (top 49)MICKEY LEE LANE “Shaggy dog” (top 38)BOBBY FREEMAN “S-W-I-M” (top 56)THE CHARTBUSTERS “Why (doncha be my girl)” (top 92)RONNY and THE DAYTONAS “California bound” (top 72)SAM COOKE “Cousin of mine” (top 31)SAM COOKE “That’s where it’s at” (top 93)OTIS REDDING “Chained and bound” (top 70)JACKIE ROSS “I’ve got the skill” (top 89)ARETHA FRANKLIN “Runnin’ out of fools” (top 57)IRMA THOMAS “Times have changed” (top 98)Escuchar audio

Nueva entrega de la serie Hits del Billboard recordando canciones que alcanzaron su puesto más alto en listas de EEUU en este mismo mes de hace 60 años. Todas estas canciones, aunque fuesen de muy distintos estilos, pasaron a convertirse en la música popular del momento. Buena andanada de bandas británicas, con The Animals haciendo cima con su primer single en EEUU. Roy Orbison se reconsolida como icono del pop y Chuck Berry se despide de las listas con el que será su último éxito en años. The Shangri-Las comienzan a escribir su leyenda y el hot rod de secano de Ronny and The Daytonas encuentra también su hueco.(Foto; The Animals a comienzos de 1964 con la formación que grabó “The house of the rising sun”)Playlist;(sintonía) JIMMY SMITH “The cat” (top 67)THE ANIMALS “The house of the risin’ sun” (top 1)ROY ORBISON and THE CANDY MEN “Oh pretty woman” (top 1)THE NEWBEATS “Bread and butter” (top 2)THE DAVE CLARK FIVE “Because” (top 3)GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS “How do you do it?” (top 9)THE SEARCHERS “Some day I’m gonna love again” (top 34)THE BEATLES “And I love her” (top 12)THE ROLLING STONES “It’s all over now” (top 26)CHUCK BERRY “You never can tell” (top 14)JOHNNY RIVERS “Maybelline” (top 12)DION DIMUCCI “Johnny B Goode” (top 71)LESLEY GORE “Maybe I know” (top 14)THE SHANGRI-LAS “Remember (walkin’ in the sun)” (top 5)THE ORLONS “Knock knock (who’s there)” (top 64)RONNY and THE DAYTONAS “GTO” (top 4)P.J. PROBY “Hold me” (top 70)JACKIE ROSS “Selfish one” (top 9)Escuchar audio

Welcome back car guys and gals! This one's called Hey Little Cobra. Besides the great classic tune by Ronnie and the Daytonas, you all have certainly heard of the Cobra. No other car could be as famous. Sure, we all had Countach posters on our wall, but let's combine gorgeous lines, speed, and illustrious racing history with a STORY... Comments or questions email me: 928reb@gmail.com

Nachdem ich erst vor kurzem verlautbart habe, dass Chronographen langweilig sind - habe ich mich sofort umentschieden und eine Daytona erworben, lach. Wie scheinheilig, haha. Tja, was kuemmert mich das Geschwaetz von gestern, wenn ein guter Deal vorbeikommt.Ich bleibe also weiterhin meiner Sammlungsphilosophie treu: Oportunistisches Durcheinander.Ich vergleiche dabei aber auich gleich die alten mit den neuen Daytonas - falls Dich das interessiert.Danke für Deine Zeit und für's Zuhören. Sendet mir eine Voicemail und wir hören uns im Podcast:https://www.speakpipe.com/opportunistischesdurcheinanderBitte folgt mir/uns auf instagram IG: @leuchtmasse_podcast oder schreibt mir: opportunistischesdurcheinander@gmail.com

My guests this week are Phil Toledano and Mike Nouveau.Phil is no stranger to Hodinkee, having been on Talking Watches and this podcast previously. He's an artist and photographer, bon vivant as well as a collector of all kinds of stuff, including watches. Most recently, he's the co-founder of Toledano & Chan, which just released its first watch, the brutalist B1. He's also a frequent undercard on Mike's social videos.Mike is a vintage dealer and the king of WatchTok – he's got hundreds of thousands of followers across social media who tune into his daily updates on life as a dealer in New York City. He has, in particular, become known for his love and expertise in vintage Cartier, which we certainly talk about.The odd couple are friends and collectors, and they just love watches. We talk about vintage Cartier, Breitling, Patek, and pre-Daytonas, as well as the first release from Toledano's new brand. Along the way, we all get in a few friendly jabs.Show Notes00:01: Mike Nouveau on TikTok and Instagram Phil Toledano on Instagram1:00: Introducing: The B/1 Is An Audaciously Designed Watch By Newcomer Toledano & Chan1:21: Phil on Hodinkee Radio in 20202:30: Hands-On: Cartier Brings Back The Tortue – Monopusher Chronograph And All11:05: Phil's rectangular Patek with blue sapphire numerals11:25: Buying, Selling, & Collecting: The Audacious Design Of 1970s Patek11:56: Mike and Phil picking up the Rolex Zerograph15:30: Mike's Patek 96 with Breguet numerals16:44: The steel Patek 96 that sold at Antiquorum in May19:45: Auctions: Sylvester Stallone's Grandmaster Chime Sells For $5.4 Million, Evaluating Vintage Patek Philippe Condition, And More From New York23:52: Talking Watches with Phil Toledano

It is hard to believe that in May of 2024 it will have been fifteen years since I carved out a hole in my basement and started recording this podcast! Many listeners have tuned in and followed along as I met people from all across the automotive world and simply asked the questions we all wanted to know about business and cars. I had no idea that 15 years later I'd still be in the business, nor did I have a clue what a life defining thing this would become. In a nutshell, this podcast (and you) have changed my life. I am blessed to have started the show during the pre-podcast boom and have been able to use it to go places and see things that were far above my punching weight. I've had backstage passes, met stars, and attended events with all of you listeners along for the ride. I've raised a family along with way too, lost a parent, and had the chance to build and drive cars with my best friends. You have given back to me with friendship and support for chasing my dreams while creating a place we all can enjoy, The Muscle Car Place. Many great and exciting things have happened since that start but one of my most memorable was getting to talk to the King himself, Richard Petty. At the time the "new" Challenger was still fairly new,  and who knew it would go on for another twelve years and the most amazing cars that were not even imagined yet. It was pretty exciting to see Daytonas once again on the streets, even if in limited numbers, as Petty Garage made special editions of the Challenger with the iconic nose and wing of the NASCAR heydays. I did get to ask him about his racing career and recorded every glorious second of the conversation in Episode #76 way back in 2011. In every great sitcom there is the throwback episode where they queue the wobbly lines and memories from previous episodes come back based on a vague story line. This week the throwback episode, is my interview with Richard Petty. Enjoy! The post TMCP #564: 15 Year Anniversary Throwback – The Time I Landed Richard Petty, The King of NASCAR! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1058, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '60s Muscle Cars 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". GTO. 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. Barracuda. 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. Camaro. 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet. Firebird. 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark. American Motors (AMC). Round 2. Category: Top Ten. With Ten in quotes 1: Squid have 8 arms and 2 of these longer limbs. tentacles. 2: Once a teacher is granted this, it's hard to dismiss him. tenure. 3: During the '90s Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras performed together as "The Three" these. Tenors. 4: Papaya contains an enzyme that breaks down connective tissue, so it is often used as one of these for meat. a tenderizer. 5: It's the slender part of a vine that often wraps around another plant. a tendril. Round 3. Category: Word Play. With Word in quotes 1: Psychological "test" of verbal stimuli given to induce revelatory verbal responses. word association. 2: The first of these was seen in the New York World newspaper Dec. 21, 1913. Crossword puzzle. 3: An introductory chapter or essay. Foreword. 4: This game show premiered on CBS Oct. 2, 1961. Password. 5: At the turn of the 19th century, he penned the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us". (William) Wordsworth. Round 4. Category: Hunger Games 1: Nona Sivley won season 8 of this devil of a cooking competition that's on Fox. Hell's Kitchen. 2: An "All Stars" version of this Bravo cooking show brought back 18 contestants who'd almost won in past seasons. Top Chef. 3: "Ryori No Tetsujin" is the original title of this Japanese import. Iron Chef. 4: Meals on wheels, indeed! Teams competed in a coast-to-coast culinary battle in a great race of these. food trucks. 5: After each course, a chef is "cut" from the competition on this show hosted by Ted Allen of "queer eye". Chopped. Round 5. Category: Write, Patterson 1: James Patterson's first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number", won this literary award named for Mr. Poe. the Edgar Award. 2: Patterson's love of this sport inspired him to write "Miracle at Augusta". golf. 3: Patterson came along in 1993 with "Along Came a Spider", his first book about this psychologist and detective. Alex Cross. 4: While working in advertising, he wrote the slogan "I don't want to grow up, I'm a" this kind of kid. Toys "R" Us. 5: Patterson's young adult series about siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood is titled "Witch and" this. Witch and Wizard. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Okie Dokie Smokie, Have at it if you dare! Today we take a look at Rolex look a likes, not knock offs. I know you purists are thumbing your nose, but you'd be surprised at the prices and quality available. How about $299 for Daytonas, Submariners and Pateks and Royal Oaks with a Seiko Movement and good quality cases? For a knock around watch, its a deal. Listen and learn, my friends. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lee-jackson93/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lee-jackson93/support

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 933, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: cars in song 1: According to the Beach Boys, "She'll have fun, fun, fun 'til her daddy takes" this car "away". a T-Bird. 2: In the '50s, Dinah Shore always closed her show by singing "See The U.S.A." in this. a Chevrolet. 3: Pontiac model Ronnie and the Daytonas could have driven at Daytona. a GTO. 4: Johnny Cash got this car 1 piece at a time and it didn't cost him a dime. a Cadillac. 5: Person who drives the car described here"If you see her on the street, don't try to choose her / Go Granny, go Granny, go Granny, go". The Little Old Lady From Pasadena. Round 2. Category: '60s muscle cars 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". GTO. 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. Barracuda. 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. Camaro. 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet. Firebird. 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark. American Motors (AMC). Round 3. Category: medical matters 1: Hemicrania, literally "pain on one side of the head", gives us this word for a terrible pain in the head. migraine. 2: On the minus side, it's a type of food poisoning; on the plus, the toxin that causes it can be used to smooth wrinkles. botulism. 3: Until the 1940s and this test named for its creator, cervical cancer was killing more women than any other kind. a Pap smear. 4: Studying dementia and epilepsy are 2 common subspecialties within this ‑ology. neurology. 5: Because it mainly affects babies and children, this disease is also called infantile paralysis. polio. Round 4. Category: first lines 1: "Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh". "Jingle Bells". 2: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream...". The Old Man and the Sea. 3: "Hey, there! Stella, baby!". A Streetcar Named Desire. 4: "There once lived in a sequestered part of...Devonshire, one Mr. Godfrey Nickleby...". Nicholas Nickleby. 5: "All children, except one, grow up.". Peter Pan. Round 5. Category: summer songs 1: This tune by the Percy Faith Orchestra was the biggest instrumental single of the past 30 years. "Theme From a Summer Place". 2: This girl group's "Cruel Summer" heated up the summer of 1984. Bananarama. 3: Only animals mentioned in George Gershwin's "Summertime (An; the Livin' is Easy)". fish. 4: Bryan Hyland hit which began, "Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer". "Sealed with a Kiss". 5: A song from this opera says, "Summertime and the livin' is easy, fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high". "Porgy and Bess". Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

"It was a beautiful day, the sun beat downI had the radio on, I was drivin'Trees went by, me and Del were singin' little runaway I was flyin' Yeah, runnin' down a dream that never would come to meWorkin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leadsRunnin' down a dream"Please join me Tom & Del as we chase our dreams on a beautiful first weekend of Summer. Joining us are Ben Sidran, Lenny Kravitz, Peter Gabriel, Chris Standring, XTC, Supertramp, Tears For Fears, Beach Boys, Phil Collins, Michael Franks, Steely Dan, Styx, The Lovin' Spoonful, Doors, Hondells, Drifters, Rolling Stones, Who, Chicago Transit Authority, Steve Miller Band, Ronny & The Daytonas, Lee Ritenour, Simon & Garfunkel and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers...

Nueva entrega del coleccionable dedicado a recordar grandes canciones que dieron forma a la música popular de la primera mitad de los años 60, la edad dorada del pop. (Fotos del podcast; The Zombies) Playlist; (sintonía) RAY CONNIFF “Around the world” THE ZOMBIES “She’s not there” THE SUPREMES “Come see about me” MARVIN GAYE “How sweet is to be loved by you” THE RONETTES “Walking in the rain” MARIANNE FAITHFULL “As tears go by” ARTHUR ALEXANDER “You better move on” THE DYNAMICS “Mysery” THE WHO “The kids are alright” THE BLUE RONDOS “Little baby” THE GESTURES “Run run run” ROGER MILLER “Do-wacka-do” THE ORLONS “Knock knock” THE RIP CHORDS “Hey little Cobra” RONNY and THE DAYTONAS “G.T.O.” THE CHALLENGERS “Raunchy” THE ROCKIN’ BERRIES “He’s in town” THE TOKENS “The lion sleeps tonight” THE SHADOWS “Theme for young lovers” Escuchar audio

Abundancia de relojes nuevos presentados durante Watches and Wonder 2023 y en este episodio les comentamos nuestros favoritos. Hoy también hacemos un ejercicio donde creamos una colección de 3 relojes por $10,000 cada uno. ¡Gracias por escuchar! Musica Intro: Serge Quadrado - Gypsy Jazz Intro https://freemusicarchive.org/search/?quicksearch=Gypsy+Jazz+Intro# Wicked Weed Brewing Mezcal 400 Conejos Anejo  Drive de Cartier Moonphase Cuervo y Sobrinos Historiador Pequenos Segundos  Cuervo y Sobrinos Lonsdale IWC - Ingenieur  Baume and Mercier Riviera Tag Heuer - Carrera Chrono Glassbox, Carrera Date y Aquaracer de oro Oris - ProPilot Kermit Grand Seiko - Tentagraph SLGC001 A Lange - Odysseus Chrono Rolex - YM Titanium, Perpetual 1908, OP Burbujas, GMT Gold/Two Tone, DDate Rompecabezas, Explorer 40, Daytonas. Tudor - BB41, BB54, BB normal, BBGMT Opaline Panerai   Zenith - Pilots Patek - Calatravas deportivos y de 24 horas Hermes - H08 Chrono Picks: Panerai PAM01294 Nomos Club Campus Absolute Gray Cartier Tank Must CRWSTA0052 Sinn 144 St DIAPAL Maen Brooklyn 36   Tudor Black Bay Pro Ted Lasso Musica Outro: Shaolin Dub - Rebel Dub https://freemusicarchive.org/search/?quicksearch=Rebel+Dub --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quartzomatic/message

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 750, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Pour Me A Stiff One 1: Nonpotent potable in common to a fuzzy navel and a screwdriver. orange juice. 2: Stolichanya, or stoli to its friends, is a brand of this. vodka. 3: Invented in Cuba, a mojito is made with lime juice, club soda, sugar, ice, mint leaves and this kind of alcohol. rum. 4: This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974. Bailey's (Irish Cream). 5: Mon dieu! This French liqueur was originally made at the Abbey of Fecamp by the monks for which it is named. Benedictine. Round 2. Category: Lost 1: TV show whose theme says, "The Minnow will be lost". Gilligan's Island. 2: Lost in the forest, this pair happens upon a house made of bread, cake and sugar. Hansel and Gretel. 3: Presumably she was lost at sea after vanishing in the central Pacific in July 1937. Amelia Earhart. 4: It's said that this gem was cut from a stone called the French Blue, which was lost after a crown jewel heist in 1792. Hope Diamond. 5: Performed annually in North Carolina, "The Lost Colony" is an outdoor drama about this lost colony. Roanoke Island. Round 3. Category: Classic Comic Catchphrases 1: "Well, excuuuuuse me!". Steve Martin. 2: "You look mahvelous!". Billy Crystal. 3: "Woo woo woo woo woo woo!". Curly. 4: "Here's another nice mess you've gotten us into". Oliver Hardy. 5: To Rochester: "Now cut that out!". Jack Benny. Round 4. Category: When You're Having Fun 1: When you're having fun playing the strategy game "Richtofen's War", you'll be using planes from this war. World War I. 2: When you're having fun playing this party game, you could call it "Attach the terminal vertebrae to the jackass". "Pin the tail on the donkey". 3: When you're having fun playing this board game invented in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles. Scrabble. 4: You might play 301, 501 or 1001 when you're playing when you're having fun playing this barroom favorite. darts. 5: When you're having fun in Japan playing this sport, you'll learn it's known there as besuboru. baseball. Round 5. Category: '60s Muscle Cars 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". GTO. 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. Barracuda. 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. Camaro. 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet. Firebird. 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark. American Motors (AMC). Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

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Hodinkee Radio returns for the second installment of The Collector's Edition With Ben Clymer. Follow along with Hodinkee's founder as he speaks with notable friends and watch enthusiasts about what it means to be a collector. As you may recall, we launched the series last year with pop star Ed Sheeran. In this episode, we are thrilled to sit down with comedian, actor, producer, and serial entrepreneur Kevin Hart. If it seems like Hart is everywhere all the time, that's because he is – from the current "Reality Check" stand-up tour and the big screen in hits like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and The Secret Life of Pets to television ads for the likes of DraftKings and JPMorgan Chase. On top of that, he also runs a media company called HartBeat Productions. And on top of that – and what brings us here today – he's also a legit watch enthusiast.We caught up with Kevin at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, right before he was about to hit the stage for back-to-back "Reality Check" shows. We learned that his love of watches dates to the early days of his career and that over the years Submariners, Daytonas, Pateks, and Richard Milles adorned his wrist. Today, his collecting has evolved to the point where he has a partnership with Audemars Piguet. As a "friend of the brand," Kevin has access to some very special pieces, including the ceramic chronograph he famously leaked to the world and the piece he'll be wearing in the upcoming Netflix movie Lift.Show Notes: 0:27Kevin Hart0:30Ben Clymer0:56A stop on the "Reality Check" tour2:00Audemars Piguet4:57Rolex Submariner 166105:14Rolex Daytona 1165085:40Jacob the Jeweler6:25Richard Mille RM 0299:07Kevin's first Tourbillon: The Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon Chronograph in Rose Gold 26223OR10:51Revealing the Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph "50th Anniversary" in Black Ceramic13:28Watch worn in the movie Lift14:05Chadwick Boseman and the AP x Marvel Royal Oak Concept Black Panther Flying Tourbillon17:58Royal Oak Openworked Extra-Thin "40th Anniversary" In Platinum18:46Kevin's car collection20:24Celebrity friends into collecting watches20:48Corey Gamble watch collection

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Today's guest, John Buckley, casts a long shadow over the world of vintage Rolex. He's a veteran of the New York watch scene who has seen trends come and hype go, which makes the fact that he's TikTok famous somewhat surprising. Buckley's TikTok's follow him on his visits to the dealers of 47th street and gives you a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing of watches far removed from the white glove service of the boutique environment. Gem-set Daytonas sit in plastic pouches, waiting to be plucked out by John, who will inevitably ask, “how much is this $60,000 watch.” We find out what John thinks about the watch market's state, why he's on TikTok and why a reality watch TV show might be coming to a streaming service near you. This episode is sponsored by G-Shock Australia. This week, in our retrospective exploration of the iconic model, we discuss the watch in the 2000s. Eminem, Bieber and all the other cool kids wear them. Stay tuned for more on the future of the digital icon, and discover more at G-Shock Australia. Artem straps! They're great. Find out about them here. Disagree with the jury? Got some other category suggestions?Join our Discord and tell us. Show Notes: www.otpodcast.com.au/show-notes Eminem interviewed by Anderson Cooper John Buckley on Tiktok Vookum on Tiktok Vookum How to follow us: Instagram: @ot.podcast Facebook: @OTPODCASTAU Follow hosts: @fkscholz + @andygreenlive on Instagram. Send us an email: otthepodcast@gmail.com If you liked our podcast - please remember to like/share and subscribe.

First, why is a man so enthused about his interaction with a gator?  Next, why does a new electric "muscle car" need one specific feature?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karen knows her stuff. Not only does she race some of the toughest cars around to drive - Cobras and Daytonas from Factory 5 Racing, but she's also highly educated and extremely engaging to talk to! Karen is a personal life coach, driver development coach, career path coach, and even has expertise she can share in motorsports team organizational development. On top of all that, Karen has over 200 first place finishes in various forms of motorsports; she talks the talk and walks the walk! We had a great time getting to know her we know you will too.

We spend the day hot roddin' on a cold day. Heaps of music from Eddie & The Hotrods, Stray Cats, Ronny & The Daytonas and more.

In this bonus, solo-Steve episode, we explore the genre of music known as surf-rock or surf-music. It actually is comprised of two different types of music. The vocal type (The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean) and the instrumental guitar kind (The Surfaris, The Ventures, Dick Dale). We have both kinds within this episode.  Here are all the artists played within: The Beach Boys, The Bel Airs, The John Barry Seven, The Tornadoes, The Chantays, Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, Eddie & The Showmen, The Lively Ones, The Marketts, The Surfaris, The Jokers, The Fantastic Baggys, John Paul Jones, The Rip-Chords, The Daytonas, The Sunrays, The Ventures, Agent Orange, Dead Kennedys.   On the Air on Bedford 105.1 FM Radio      * 5pm Friday *      * 10am Sunday *      * 8pm Monday * Stream live at http://209.95.50.189:8178/stream Stream on-demand most recent episodes at https://wbnh1051.podbean.com/category/suburban-underground/ Twitter: @SUBedford1051 Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio Instagram: SuburbanUnderground And available on demand on your favorite podcast app!    

On this episode of the Mallory Bros. Podcast, the bros start with a recap of Terrell's trip to Costa Rica. They then get to a discussion about Drake's recent leaked verse on Jack Harlow's track. This leads to a discussion around Drake's beef with Pusha T. They then talk about J Cole's reign as Feature King and Terrance takes a very "Terrance" take on J Cole's status in the Game and challenges J Cole's fans with perspective. They then get into some TV with a discussion about Peacocks "Bel Air" and Netflix's newest #1, "The Ultimatum". 

#173 - Andrew Stone @daytonas_stone BACK in the studio this time, breaking it down how Daytona's new menu is swinging and what is happening in the restaurant business side of things. There are some amazing things lined up ready to be revealed. Top secret though it seems. But it is happening!! A special room inside Daytona's. Building up. Thank kind of guy is Andrew Stone. Always improving and taking things in. 7 years now at Daytonas and hitting 40 years of age! Happy belated Birthday! Now also teaching at the college, finally that deserved spot to be able to pass on knowledge as well as inspiration. Andrew is not fishing, not hunting but family time at camp, that's where it's at. Lucas likes pickles. Andrew likes pickles. I do not like them. Unless they are on a burger. If you want to know more about burgers might as well follow @bayofthunder as Damien with the Beefcake KING himself are smashing burgers the last couple days. Thats right, damn Derek @heytbayitsderek those white vans AGAIN! Thank you Andrew for being back and sitting down with us catching up on the last couple months!

⚙️  Roman, Love everything you're doing currently! I actually have a question about comparing the rising prices of certain whiskey to the continuing prices of platinum Daytonas. For example Pappy is now $2,600…when it originally retailed for Close to $80! LUDACRIS! Do we see the prices only getting higher or will it eventually crash and burn – Owen ⚙️ Roman I am considering buying either the new 41mm Seamaster 300 but then I came across the new Tudor Black Bay 58 if you take price point out of the equation which would you be more inclined to go with? This is my first luxury watch and I want to eventually give this to my son without him thinking “That's such an old man watch” – Jericho ⚙️ Roman im not sure If this is a Nico Question or a you question….but im a big fan of the wolf of wall street aka Jordan Belfort and I was wondering if he's actually wears a Hublot? Why is it that all of the big name ceos wear non hype pieces – Ben ⚙️ Roman, we all know that they bring in money but why do you hate Bustdowns so much? Is there not as much as a profit margin on them? – ChuckieHave a watch or industry-related question? Email me at RomanSharf@LuxuryBazaar.com and you might be featured on the next Q&A Tuesday!➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖Q&A Tuesday is where I answer fan questions that I receive on my YouTube, Instagram, or those emailed to me at RomanSharf@LuxuryBazaar.com. Submit your question and I'll answer it on the next Q&A Tuesday!If you have a question or are looking for a watch, you can text me at 215.731.0107. 

this week as per usual I'll get into the history behind last week's song & artist and talk about exactly who was this band & if they were real or fake, and I also talk about some of the transitions Nashville went through in the city in the mid 60's compared to where they were in the late 50's early 60's and what they tried to do to keep up with the times. but I also go in depth as to the behind the scenes details on the album last week's song was recorded on (as far as the studios it was recorded in). and I also mention a really cool fact about the co writer of this song that ties in with what is considered by most people the greatest band of all time. here's the link to last week's song just in case you wanted to listen to it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2f9eCvznY&list=PL66sgq_GAmRcXy8yKZJfVmAD14HUYj7Nf&index=109You can also follow me on Instagram right here:https://www.instagram.com/iheartoldies/You can also check out more of my original music right here:https://www.samwilliamsmusic.netPlease do also check out my recent interview I did with Honk Magazine, I really poured my heart & soul into this interview and you will know so much more about me after reading it. here's the link to that right here:https://honkmagazine.com/sam-l-williams-talks-about-his-career-path-influence-and-new-music/Please do also check out my three singles that are out right now, they are all different stylistically but they still fall under the umbrella of the 60's with a little bit of today's flavor mixed in there I also produced these songs and played most of the instruments on them, so please do check them out and lmk whatcha think of them, and you can do that by emailing me at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies:https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samlwilliams/keep-her-in-my-back-pockethttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samlwilliams/turquoise-apricot--she-said-noAlso check out the official Spotify and Youtube playlists for this podcast. there you'll be able to find all of the songs that I have talked about on my podcast plus some of the ones that I have mentioned in interview episodes of my show. if you liked any of these songs and would want to suggest some new songs I should talk about next on my podcast that I haven't yet, please send those suggestions to me at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can also message me on Instagram @iheartoldies. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21f3uBS6kU4hUF6QAC5JMj?si=zuepns7jS928bq2ndaDMJQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1sYR7xky8&list=PL66sgq_GAmRcXy8yKZJfVmAD14HUYj7NfPlease do also check out the official Redbubble Merch Store for this podcast. there you'll be able to find this super cool merch items with my own custom logo specifically for this podcast. if you like the logo and find it cool and you would like to give me some feedback on the logo plus the prices of each item in the store, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies and you can also reach out to me on my website samwilliamsmusic.net: https://www.redbubble.com/people/60ssam95/works/36806158-keep-things-groovy?asc=u&ref=recent-ownerIf you found out some really cool facts & information about this week's song & artist and you have never heard of them before and you were fascinated by this group's history and your a millennial, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com

This week's episode is on one of my all time FAVORITE 60's sort of deep tracks, this song did not get very high up charts nor did it stay on the charts for very long, but it's probably one of the best tracks from the 60's where you can clearly see how much a huge 60's band influenced another group that was having a few hits at that time. and as per usual, I dive into what makes this song so great both musically and lyrically, a change up from last week because last week I did my first song from the 60's I don't like, so now I'm reeling it back in and doing another song from the 60's that I love, and here's the link to it just in case you wanted to listen to it. next week I'll go over the history behind this group and whether or not they were a real group or not:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvJbdr63owgHere's where you can find me on Instagram, please follow me and get in touch with me here:https://www.instagram.com/iheartoldies/please do also check out my latest interview I did with this really cool publication. This will definitely help you get to know me better if you wish to do so: https://honkmagazine.com/sam-l-williams-talks-about-his-career-path-influence-and-new-music/Please do also check out my singles that are out currently. they are all self produced where I played most of the instruments on them and they all sound different stylistically but they all tie in with the 60's (specifically the mid and late 60's). here are the links to them, they can be found wherever you stream your music. if you listened to these singles, please let me know what you thought of them by emailing me at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies. I would love to know what do you think of these songs cause this is really a different part of who I am that compliments my podcast quite nicely so please let me know what you think of this as well:https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samlwilliams/keep-her-in-my-back-pockethttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samlwilliams/turquoise-apricot--she-said-noPlease do also check out the official Spotify and Youtube playlists for this podcast. there you'll be able to find all of the songs I have talked about on my show so far including some of the ones that I have mentioned in interview episodes of my podcast, and after listening to these playlists, this should give you a good idea for the kind of music I usually talk about on my podcast, and if listening to these playlists gives you any ideas as to songs I should talk about next on my podcast that I haven't yet, please email those ideas to me at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21f3uBS6kU4hUF6QAC5JMj?si=NRi0K0F_T62yH2ZkQeMe6Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1sYR7xky8&list=PL66sgq_GAmRcXy8yKZJfVmAD14HUYj7NfPlease do also check out the official Redbubble Merch store for this podcast. there you''ll be able to find this super cool merch logo that I personally had the idea for that someone else did the design for, it's basically the catch phrase I say at the end of every episode in Keep On Trucking Tie Dye Font, and it's attached to a bunch of cool super cool merch items that you can all find here, and if you like the logo and would like to buy something or you would like to give me some feedback on the logo plus the prices of each item in the store, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com:https://www.redbubble.com/people/60ssam95/works/36806158-keep-things-groovy?asc=u&ref=recent-ownerIf you liked my analysis on this week's song and you have never heard of this song before and your around my age and you fell in love with it and want to learn more about this band when I talk about the history behind this band next week, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies.

Welcome to our take on the top 5 new Rolex releases of 2021. We discuss every detail you can imagine on the newly released line up of new watches from Rolex. Join two Rolex watch enthusiasts Anthony and Vinnie (both own Rolex Explorers) and half a watchmaker Alex (not for Rolex) as we go watch by watch, Rolex by Rolex to discuss what we like and what we don't like from the recent Rolex drop. Make sure to listen to our accompanying podcast to join our conversation. Rolex Explorer Upgrade The biggest shock from the new Rolex releases for 2021 is certainly the Rolex Explorer. It was the Rolex release that got us all talking and it was the first one we wanted to discuss on the podcast. While some find the Rolex Explorer the most traditional of the steel sports family that might all be changing with the Explorer being released in 2 tone? The reference 124273 heralds the return to traditional sizing coming in at 36mm but also with a hefty price tag of $11650 USD. A bit of a shock since a bicolour Rolex Explorer is something that nobody has ever asked for at any point in history. Lucky for the more conservative Rolex lovers the 36mm Explorer also makes a return in stainless steel, Rolex Explorer 2 With No Ceramic We were all expecting to finally see a ceramic Rolex Explorer 2  released in 2021 but it just wasn't to be this time. We do still get a new Rolex Explorer though with the reference 226570 in both Polar and Black dial. Updating them from the 3187 movement to the latest 3285 Rolex manufacture movement giving it a boost from 48 hours of power reserve to a far healthier 70 hours. Otherwise the size appears to remain the same at 42mm. Daytona... Three new Daytonas that we can never afford or be able to buy at retail price. In three different colours of gold and with the now incrediblyh pedestrian meteorite dial on all of them. There must be meteorites just dropping from the sky all over the place. Datejust Welcome to the Datejust jungle with this olive green palm dial following on from the colourful oyster perpetual hits of 2020. The reference 126200 will be sure to be another popular choice for those looking for something a little bit different from the Rolex 2021 releases. This is another release to use the 3235 movement that will offer the user 70 hours of power reserve. Discontinued Models... Well the 39mm Explorer is gone so look out for their prices sky rocketing any minute now.

Episode one hundred and nineteen of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks, and the song that first took distorted guitar to number one. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “G.T.O.” by Ronny and the Daytonas. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ (more…)

Mrs. Professor Bubblegum declares this the best Echo Valley Christmas Special ever! Barbie and Ken celebrate a Barbie Christmas! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!, A big gift box full of bubblegum music from David Cassidy, The Archies, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Neil Diamond, Bobby Sherman, Sally Field, Ricky Segall, Banaroo, Chris and Peter Allen, Johnnie and the High Keys, The Rocky Fellers, The Rockfield Chorale, Roy Winters, Ronny and the Daytonas, Linn Sheldon and Showaddywaddy!

Episode seventy-nine of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Sweet Nothin’s” by Brenda Lee, and at the career of a performer who started in the 1940s and who was most recently in the top ten only four months ago. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “16 Candles” by the Crests. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/  —-more—- Errata: I say that the A-Team played on “every” rock and roll or country record out of Nashville. This is obviously an exaggeration. It was just an awful lot of the most successful ones. It has also been pointed out to me that the version of “Dynamite” I use in the podcast is actually a later remake by Lee. This is one of the perennial problems with material from this period — artists would often remake their hits, sticking as closely as possible to the original, and these remakes often get mislabelled on compilation CDs. My apologies. Resources As always, I’ve put together a Mixcloud playlist of all the songs excerpted in the episode. Most of the information in here comes from Brenda Lee’s autobiography, Little Miss Dynamite, though as with every time I rely on an autobiography I’ve had to check the facts in dozens of other places. And there are many decent, cheap, compilations of Lee’s music. This one is as good as any. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript  A couple of months ago, we looked in some detail at the career of Wanda Jackson, and in the second of those episodes we talked about how her career paralleled that of Brenda Lee, but didn’t go into much detail about why Lee was important. But Brenda Lee was the biggest solo female star of the sixties, even though her music has largely been ignored by later generations. According to Joel Whitburn, she was the fourth most successful artist in terms of the American singles charts in that whole decade — just behind the Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Ray Charles, and just ahead of the Supremes and the Beach Boys, in that order. Despite the fact that she’s almost completely overlooked now, she was a massively important performer — while membership of the “hall of fame” doesn’t mean much in itself, it does say something that so far she is the *only* solo female performer to make both the rock and roll and country music halls of fame. And she’s the only performer we’ve dealt with so far to have a US top ten hit in the last year. So today we’re going to have a look at the career of the girl who was known as “Little Miss Dynamite”: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee, “Sweet Nothin’s”]  Lee’s music career started before she was even in school. She started performing when she was five, and by the time she was six she was a professional performer. So by the time she first came to a wider audience, aged ten, she was already a seasoned professional. Her father died when she was very young, and she very quickly became the sole breadwinner of the household. She changed her name from Brenda Tarpley to the catchier Brenda Lee, she started performing on the Peach Blossom Special, a local sub-Opry country radio show, and she got her own radio show. Not only that, her stepfather opened the Brenda Lee Record Shop, where she would broadcast her show every Saturday — a lot of DJs and musicians performed their shows in record shop windows at that time, as a way of drawing crowds into the shops. All of this was before she turned eleven. One small piece of that radio show still exists on tape — some interaction between her and her co-host Peanut Faircloth, who was the MC and guitar player for the show — and who fit well with Brenda, as he was four foot eight, and Brenda never grew any taller than four foot nine. You can hear that when she was talking with Faircloth, she was as incoherent as any child would be: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee and Peanut Faircloth dialogue] But when she sang on the show, she sounded a lot more professional than almost any child vocalist you’ll ever hear: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee and Peanut Faircloth, “Jambalaya”] Her big break actually came from *not* doing a show. She was meant to be playing the Peach Blossom Special one night, but she decided that rather than make the thirty dollars she would make from that show, she would go along to see Red Foley perform. Foley was one of the many country music stars who I came very close to including in the first year of this podcast. He was one of the principal architects of the hillbilly boogie style that led to the development of rockabilly, and he was a particular favourite of both Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis — Elvis’ first ever public performance was him singing one of Foley’s songs, the ballad “Old Shep”. But more typical of Foley’s style was his big hit “Sugarfoot Rag”: [Excerpt: Red Foley, “Sugarfoot Rag”] Foley had spent a few years in semi-retirement — his wife had died by suicide a few years earlier, and he had reassessed his priorities a little as a result. But he had recently been tempted back out onto the road as a result of his being offered a chance to host his own TV show, the Ozark Jubilee, which was one of the very first country music shows on television. And the Ozark Jubilee put on tours, and one was coming to Georgia. Peanut Faircloth, who worked with Brenda on her radio show, was the MC for that Ozark Jubilee show, and Brenda’s parents persuaded Faircloth to let Brenda meet Foley, in the hopes that meeting him would give Brenda’s career a boost. She not only got to meet Foley, but Faircloth managed to get her a spot on the show, singing “Jambalaya”. Red Foley said of that performance many years later: “I still get cold chills thinking about the first time I heard that voice. One foot started patting rhythm as though she was stomping out a prairie fire but not another muscle in that little body even as much as twitched. And when she did that trick of breaking her voice, it jarred me out of my trance enough to realize I’d forgotten to get off the stage. There I stood, after 26 years of supposedly learning how to conduct myself in front of an audience, with my mouth open two miles wide and a glassy stare in my eyes.” Foley got Brenda to send a demo tape to the producers of the Ozark Jubilee — that’s the tape we heard earlier, of her radio show, which was saved in the Ozark Jubilee’s archives, and Brenda immediately became a regular on the show. Foley also got her signed to Decca, the same label he was on, and she went into the studio in Nashville with Owen Bradley, who we’ve seen before producing Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, and Wanda Jackson, though at this point Bradley was only the engineer and pianist on her sessions — Paul Cohen was the producer. Her first single was released in September 1956, under the name “Little Brenda Lee (9 Years Old)”, though in fact she was almost twelve when it came out. It was a version of “Jambalaya”, which was always her big showstopper on stage: [Excerpt: Little Brenda Lee (9 Years Old), “Jambalaya”] Neither that nor her follow-up, a novelty Christmas record, were particularly successful, but they were promoted well enough to get her further national TV exposure. It also got her a new manager, though in a way she’d never hoped for or wanted. Her then manager, Lou Black, got her a spot performing at the national country DJs convention in Nashville, where she sang “Jambalaya” backed by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. She went down a storm, but the next night Black died suddenly, of a heart attack. Dub Albritten, Red Foley’s manager, was at the convention, and took the opportunity to sign Brenda up immediately. Albritten got her a lot of prestigious bookings — for example, she became the youngest person ever to headline in Las Vegas, on a bill that also included a version of the Ink Spots — and she spent the next couple of years touring and making TV appearances. As well as her regular performances on the Ozark Jubilee she was also a frequent guest on the Steve Allen show and an occasional one on Perry Como’s. She was put on country package tours with George Jones and Patsy Cline, and on rock and roll tours with Danny & the Juniors, the Chantels, and Mickey & Sylvia. This was the start of a split in the way she was promoted that would last for many more years. Albritten was friends with Colonel Tom Parker, and had a similar carny background — right down to having, like Parker, run a scam where he put a live bird on a hot plate to make it look like it was dancing, though in his case he’d done it with a duck rather than a chicken. Albritten had managed all sorts of acts — his first attempt at breaking the music business was when in 1937 he’d helped promote Jesse Owens during Owens’ brief attempt to become a jazz vocalist, but he’d later worked with Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Ernest Tubb before managing Foley. Brenda rapidly became a big star, but one thing she couldn’t do was get a hit record. The song “Dynamite” gave her the nickname she’d be known by for the rest of her life, “Little Miss Dynamite”, but it wasn’t a hit: [Excerpt: Little Brenda Lee, “Dynamite”] And while her second attempt at a Christmas single, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, didn’t chart at all at the time, it’s been a perennial hit over the decades since — in fact its highest position on the charts came in December 2019, sixty-one years after it was released, when it finally reached number two on the charts: [Excerpt: Little Brenda Lee, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”] Part of the problem at the beginning had been that she had clashed with Paul Cohen — they often disagreed about what songs she should perform. But Cohen eventually left her in the charge of Owen Bradley, who would give her advice about material, but let her choose it herself. While her records weren’t having much success in the US, it was a different story in other countries. Albritten tried — and largely succeeded — to make her a breakout star in countries other than the US, where there was less competition. She headlined the Paris Olympia, appeared on Oh Boy! in the UK, and inspired the kind of riots in Brazil that normally didn’t start to hit until Beatlemania some years later — and to this day she still has a very substantial Latin American fanbase as a result of Albritten’s efforts. But in the US, her rockabilly records were unsuccessful, even as she was a massively popular performer live and on TV. So Bradley decided to take a different tack. While she would continue making rock and roll singles, she was going to do an album of old standards from the 1920s, to be titled “Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!” But that was no more successful, and it would be from the rockabilly world that Brenda’s first big hit would come. Brenda Lee and Red Foley weren’t the only acts that Dub Albritten managed. In particular, he managed a rockabilly act named Ronnie Self. Self recorded several rockabilly classics, like “Ain’t I’m A Dog”: [Excerpt: Ronnie Self, “Ain’t I’m A Dog”] Self’s biggest success as a performer came with “Bop-A-Lena”, a song clearly intended to cash in on “Be-Bop-A-Lula”, but ending up sounding more like Don and Dewey — astonishingly, this record, which some have called “the first punk record” was written by Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis, two of the most establishment country artists around: [Excerpt: Ronnie Self, “Bop-A-Lena”] That made the lower reaches of the Hot One Hundred, but was Self’s only hit as a performer. While Self was talented, he was also unstable — as a child he had once cut down a tree to block the road so the school bus couldn’t get to his house, and on another occasion he had attacked one of his teachers with a baseball bat. And that was before he started the boozing and the amphetamines. In later years he did things like blast away an entire shelf of his demos with a shotgun, get into his car and chase people, trying to knock them down, and set fire to all his gold records outside his publisher’s office after he tried to play one of them on his record player and discovered it wouldn’t play. Nobody was very surprised when he died in 1981, aged only forty-three. But while Self was unsuccessful and unstable, Albritten saw something in him, and kept trying to find ways to build his career up, and after Self’s performing career seemed to go absolutely nowhere, he started pushing Self as a songwriter, and Self came up with the song that would change Brenda Lee’s career – “Sweet Nothin’s”: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee, “Sweet Nothin’s”] “Sweet Nothin’s” became a massive hit, reaching number four on the charts both in the UK and the US in early 1960. After a decade of paying her dues, Brenda Lee was a massive rock and roll star at the ripe old age of fifteen. But she was still living in a trailer park. Because she was a minor, her money was held in trust to stop her being exploited — but rather too much was being kept back. The court had only allowed her to receive seventy-five dollars a week, which she was supporting her whole family on. That was actually almost dead on the average wage for the time, but it was low enough that apparently there was a period of several weeks where her family were only eating potatoes. Eventually they petitioned the court to allow some of the money to be released — enough for her to buy a house for her family. Meanwhile, as she was now a hitmaker, she was starting to headline her own tours — “all-star revues”. But there were fewer stars on them than the audience thought. The Hollywood Argyles and Johnny Preston were both genuine stars, but some of the other acts were slightly more dubious. She’d recently got her own backing band, the Casuals, who have often been called Nashville’s first rock and roll band. They’d had a few minor local hits that hadn’t had much national success, like “My Love Song For You”: [Excerpt: The Casuals, “My Love Song For You”] They were led by Buzz Cason, who would go on to a very long career in the music business, doing everything from singing on some Alvin and the Chipmunks records to being a member of Ronnie and the Daytonas to writing the massive hit “Everlasting Love”. The British singer Garry Mills had released a song called “Look For A Star” that was starting to get some US airplay: [Excerpt: Garry Mills, “Look For A Star”] Cason had gone into the studio and recorded a soundalike version, under the name Garry Miles, chosen to be as similar to the original as possible. His version made the top twenty and charted higher than the original: [Excerpt: Garry Miles, “Look For A Star”] So on the tours, Garry Miles was a featured act too. Cason would come out in a gold lame jacket with his hair slicked back, and perform as Garry Miles. Then he’d go offstage, brush his hair forward, take off the jacket, put on his glasses, and be one of the Casuals. And then the Casuals would back Brenda Lee after their own set. As far as anyone knew, nobody in the audience seemed to realise that Garry Miles and Buzz Cason were the same person. And at one point, two of the Casuals — Cason and Richard Williams — had a minor hit with Hugh Jarrett of the Jordanaires as The Statues, with their version of “Blue Velvet”: [Excerpt: The Statues, “Blue Velvet”] And so sometimes The Statues would be on the bill too… But it wasn’t the Casuals who Brenda was using in the studio. Instead it was the group of musicians who became known as the core of the Nashville A-Team — Bob Moore, Buddy Harmon, Ray Edenton, Hank Garland, Grady Martin, Floyd Cramer, and Boots Randolph. Those session players played on every rock and roll or country record to come out of Nashville in the late fifties and early sixties, including most of Elvis’ early sixties records, and country hits by Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, George Jones and others. And so it was unsurprising that Brenda’s biggest success came, not with rock and roll music, but with the style of country known as the Nashville Sound. The Nashville Sound is a particular style of country music that was popular in the late fifties and early sixties, and Owen Bradley was one of the two producers who created it (Chet Atkins was the other one), and almost all of the records with that sound were played on by the A-Team. It was one of the many attempts over the years to merge country music with current pop music to try to make it more successful. In this case, they got rid of the steel guitars, fiddles, and honky-tonk piano, and added in orchestral strings and vocal choruses. The result was massively popular — Chet Atkins was once asked what the Nashville Sound was, and he put his hand in his pocket and jingled his change — but not generally loved by country music purists. Brenda Lee’s first number one hit was a classic example of the Nashville Sound — though it wasn’t originally intended that that would be the hit. To follow up “Sweet Nothin’s”, they released another uptempo song, this time written by Jerry Reed, who would go on to write “Guitar Man” for Elvis, among others: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee, “That’s All You Gotta Do”] That went to number six in the charts — a perfectly successful follow-up to a number four hit record. But as it turned out, the B-side did even better. The B-side was another song written by Ronnie Self — a short song called “I’m Sorry”, which Owen Bradley thought little of. He later said “I thought it kind of monotonous. It was just ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry’ over and over”. But Brenda liked it, and it was only going to be a B-side. The song was far too short, so in the studio they decided to have her recite the lyrics in the middle of the song, the way the Ink Spots did: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee, “I’m Sorry”] Everyone concerned was astonished when that record overtook its A-side on the charts, and went all the way to number one, even while “That’s All You Gotta Do” was also in the top ten. This established a formula for her records for the next few years — one side would be a rock and roll song, while the other would be a ballad. Both sides would chart — and in the US, usually the ballads would chart higher, while in other countries, it would tend to be the more uptempo recordings that did better, which led to her getting a very different image in the US, where she quickly became primarily known as an easy listening pop singer and had a Vegas show choreographed and directed by Judy Garland’s choreographer, and in Europe, where for example she toured in 1962 on the same bill as Gene Vincent, billed as “the King and Queen of Rock and Roll”, performing largely rockabilly music. Those European tours also led to the story which gets repeated most about Brenda Lee, and which she repeats herself at every opportunity, but which seems as far as I can tell to be completely untrue. She regularly claims that after her UK tour with Vincent in 1962, they both went over to tour military bases in Germany, where they met up with Little Richard, and the three of them all went off to play the Star Club in Hamburg together, where the support act was a young band called the Beatles, still with their drummer Pete Best. She says she tried to get her record label interested in them, but they wouldn’t listen, and they regretted it a couple of years later. Now, Brenda Lee *did* play the Star Club at some point in 1962, and I haven’t been able to find the dates she played it. But the story as she tells it is full of holes. The tour she did with Gene Vincent ended in mid-April, around the same time that the Beatles started playing the Star Club. So far so good. But then Vincent did another UK tour, and didn’t head to Germany until the end of May — he performed on the same bill as the Beatles on their last three nights there. By that time, Lee was back in the USA — she recorded her hit “It Started All Over Again” in Nashville on May the 18th: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee, “It Started All Over Again”] Little Richard, meanwhile, did play the Star Club with the Beatles, but not until November, and he didn’t even start performing rock and roll again until October. Brenda Lee is not mentioned in Mark Lewisohn’s utterly exhaustive books on the Beatles except in passing — Paul McCartney would sometimes sing her hit “Fool #1” on stage with the Beatles, and he went to see her on the Gene Vincent show when they played Birkenhead, because he was a fan of hers — and if Lewisohn doesn’t mention something in his books, it didn’t happen. (I’ve tweeted at Lewisohn to see if he can confirm that she definitely didn’t play on the same bill as them, but not had a response before recording this). So Brenda Lee’s most often-told story, sadly, seems to be false. The Beatles don’t seem to have supported her at the Star Club. Over the next few years, she continued to rack up hits both at home and abroad, but in the latter half of the sixties the hits started to dry up — her last top twenty pop hit in the US, other than seasonal reissues of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, was in 1966. But in the seventies, she reinvented herself, without changing her style much, by marketing to the country market, and between 1973 and 1980 she had nine country top ten hits, plus many more in the country top forty. She was helped in this when her old schoolfriend Rita Coolidge married Kris Kristofferson, who wrote her a comeback hit, “Nobody Wins”: [Excerpt: Brenda Lee, “Nobody Wins”] Her career went through another downturn in the eighties as fashions changed in country music like they had in pop and rock, but she reinvented herself again, as a country elder stateswoman, guesting with her old friends Kitty Wells and Loretta Lynn on the closing track on k.d. lang’s first solo album Shadowland: [Excerpt: k.d. lang, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, and Brenda Lee, “Honky Tonk Angels Medley”] While Lee has had the financial and personal ups and downs of everyone in the music business, she seems to be one of the few child stars who came through the experience happily. She married the first person she ever dated, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, and they remain together to this day — they celebrate their fifty-seventh anniversary this week. She continues to perform occasionally, though not as often as she used to, and she’s not gone through any of the dramas with drink and drugs that killed so many of her contemporaries. She seems, from what I can tell, to be genuinely content. Her music continues to turn up in all sorts of odd ways — Kanye West sampled “Sweet Nothin’s” in 2013, on his hit single “Bound 2” – which I’m afraid I can’t excerpt here, as the lyrics would jeopardise my iTunes clean rating. And as I mentioned at the start, she had “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” go to number two on the US charts just last December. And at seventy-five years old, there’s a good chance she has many more active years left in her. I wish I could end all my episodes anything like as happily.

Mrs. Professor Bubblegum declares this the best Echo Valley Christmas Special ever! Barbie and Ken celebrate a Barbie Christmas! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!, A big gift box full of bubblegum music from David Cassidy, The Archies, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Neil Diamond, Bobby Sherman, Sally Field, Ricky Segall, Banaroo, Chris and Peter Allen, Johnnie and the High Keys, The Rocky Fellers, The Rockfield Chorale, Roy Winters, Ronny and the Daytonas, Linn Sheldon and Showaddywaddy!