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**It's The Relax With Rendell Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. Rendell Featured 60's/70's/Easy Listening Cuts From Roy Orbison, Unit 4 2, Springfields, Spinners, Scaffold, Ricky Nelson, Platers, Marvin Gaye, Long John Baldry, Marcels, Little Richard, Lesley Gore, Johnny Cymbal, Jim Reeves, Jan & Dean, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Four Pennies, Equals, Eddie Cochran, Chiffons, Brenton Wood, Bobby Vee, The Beatles, Archies & More. #originalpirates #60s #70s #retro #popmusic #easylistening Catch Rendell Every Saturday From 8PM UK Time The Stations: Trax FM & Rendell Radio Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm **
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**It's The Relax With Rendell Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. Rendell Featured Soul & Boogie/Rare Groove/80's & 70's Grooves Cuts From Marvin Gaye, Toys, Sonny & Cher, Seekers, Ricky Nelson, Ray Charles, Poni, Newbeats, Mark Wynter, Lonnie Donegan, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Kenny Rogers,, Johnny & The Hurricanes, Jimmy Justice, Jan & Dean, Gene Pitney, Foundations, Fats Domino, Craig Douglass, Chuck Berry, Chiffons, Bobby Vee, Billy Fury, Beach Boys & More. #originalpirates #easylistening #soulclassics Catch Rendell Every Saturday From 8PM UK Time The Stations: Trax FM & Rendell Radio Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**
Hero or Villain? These archetypal characters are the stock-in-trade of the fantasy genre, and so you’ll definitely enjoy this newest poetry anthology compiled by Ana Sampson, an experienced curator of poetry collections, and illustrated by the instantly recognizable pencil of Chris Riddell, multi-award-winning illustrator and former UK Children's Laureate. Today on Mythmakers, in conversation with Julia Golding, Ana and Chris journey through history and genres, unearthing the gems. They reflect on the poems that inspired them as children, the role of compendiums in nurturing the artistic imagination, and why different approaches are often used to tell the same tale. They also explore the influence of politics on the anthology—and vice versa, and so much more. And if that wasn’t enough, Chris treats us to a live dragon sketch while several poems are read aloud—making this a truly unmissable episode! Their book, Heroes and Villains: Poems about Legends (Macmillan), is available for purchase now. Credits for the poems read in full are: 'Nan Hardwicke Turns into a Hare' by Wendy Pratt, 'St Margaret of Antioch Speaks' by Jan Dean, 'If...' by James Carter, and 'The Dragons are Hiding' by Brian Moses. For more information on the Oxford Centre for Fantasy, our writing courses, and to check out our awesome social media content visit: Website: https://centre4fantasy.com/website Instagram: https://centre4fantasy.com/Instagram Facebook: https://centre4fantasy.com/Facebook TikTok: https://centre4fantasy.com/tiktok 0:10 Welcome to Mythmakers 1:32 Childhood Poems That Shaped Us 5:27 The Lady of Shalott and Lockdown 10:15 The Role of Poetry Anthologies 12:05 Creating the Heroes and Villains Anthology 16:40 Exploring Heroes and Villains Through Poetry 20:2Research Gems in Poetry 36:19 Creative Tips for Aspiring Writers 39:04 Contemporary Issues in Fantasy 43:01 Collaborating with Publishers 46:56 The Intersection of Politics and Fantasy 52:46 Closing Thoughts and Inspiration
It's almost summer but the tunes are already blazing hot this hour! Our "You're The Inspiration" segment returns with Alex Chilton and the Ramones covering Jan & Dean. Beth Riley has a solo track from Carl Wilson in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We've got a tune from an album by The Astronauts celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment. As always, we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (song by Henry Gross with Carl Wilson and Ricky Fataar on backing vocals). We kick off the hour paying tribute to Duane Eddy who passed away on April 30th and a classic from his 1st album. Plus, we've got tunes from Bloodshot Bill, Messer Chups, Magnatech, The Desolate Coast, The Whys, The Shadows, Los Dedos, Jeff Larson, God Of Surf, Kincaid & The Memetics, Cowabunghouls and Gary Usher! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Remembering the late, great Duane Eddy (April 26, 1938-April 30, 2024): Duane Eddy- "Stalkin'" The Shadows- "The Savage" Jeff Larson- "This Summer" Messer Chups- "Charade" Good Time segment: The Astronauts 60th anniversary of Competition Coupe (1964) The Astronauts- "The Hearse" God Of Surf- "Summer Stomp" Magnatech- "(Theme From) Exodus" Surf's Up- Beth's Beach Boys Break: Carl Wilson- "The Grammy" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Bloodshot Bill- "Tres Tacos" The Desolate Coast- "Vanish From Vertigo Point"* Kincaid and The Memetics- "Alone Together" You're The Inspiration segment: Jan & Dean- "Drag City" Alex Chilton- "New Girl In School" Ramones- "Surf City" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Henry Gross- "One More Tomorrow" (feat. Carl Wilson & Ricky Fataar on BGV's) Gary Usher- "Power Shift" The Whys- "Negative King"* Cowabunghouls- "Saint Lou Rougarou" Outro music bed: Link Wray- "The Wild One"
We get another Two-nami in the forecast on this week's Catching A Wave with 2 in a row from The Exbats! Beth Riley has an early instrumental track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We hear a tune from an album by Jan & Dean celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. Plus, we get rockers from Amphibian Man, Galvezton, The Outta Sites (appearing at Surf Guitar 101 Festival Weekender), Barrence Whitfield and The Savages, The Bahareebas, Surf Muscle, Stephie James, The Cynz, Kincaid & The Memetics, Secret Agent, Rangers, Hipbone Slim and Atomic Tom! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Amphibian Man- "Zenith" Surf Muscle- "Neptune's Bassoon" The Bahareebas- "Sal's Got Sand Between Her Toes" Galvezton- "Temptation Inside Your Heart" Kincaid & The Memetics- "AC Fontana" Good Time segment: Jan & Dean 60th anniversary of Deadman's Curve/ New Girl In School (1964 Liberty) Jan & Dean- "My Mighty GTO" Stephie James- "Surf" The Cynz- "Crow Haired Boys" Surf's Up- Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Honky Tonk" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Secret Agent- "Disguise" Barrence Whitfield and The Savages- "Rumble Strip" Rangers- "Telstar" Hipbone Slim AKA Sir Bald- "Persian Rug Ride" Two-nami: The Exbats- "Ghost In The Record Store" The Exbats- "Riding With Paul" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Scarlets- "Stampede" The Outta Sites- "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Atomic Tom- "Let Me Show Yow It's Done" Outro music bed: Link Wray- "The Wild One"
The Unit Of Sleep By Jan Dean
On this Catching A Wave, we introduce a new segment we'll hear at least monthly this year called Head 2 Head! This first one has "California Sun" by Dick Dale and Ramones. Let us know which one you like the best (we know...it's tough to choose since they're both great!). We also spin a tune by Jan & Dean from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time Segment. Beth Riley has a deep track by The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (it's a piano man covering another piano man). Plus, we've got songs by Slowey & The Boats, Chrome Castle, The Beatles, The Nut Jumpers, The Routes, The Breakers, Guitarmy Of One, Man Or Astro-man?, The Joyful Hope, Amphibian Man, Monster Wave, Playa Amarilla and Los Reverb! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Breakers- "Escaping Through The Window" Slowey and The Boats- "Si Tu Vois Ma Mere" The Nut Jumpers- "Blue Voodoo" The Routes- "Train Of Thought" Guitarmy Of One- "The Sea And The Seventh Veil Of Surveilence" Good Time Segment: Jan & Dean 60th Anniversary of The Little Old Lady From Pasadena (1964) Jan & Dean- "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" Man Or Astro-Man?- "Put Your Finger In The Socket" The Joyful Hope- "Crimson Weed" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Bells Of Paris" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Beatles- "You Can't Do That" (2023 mix) Amphibian Man- "Reaction" Monster Wave- "Pazuzu Luau" Chrome Castle- "Lucky Bee" Head 2 Head: Ramones- "California Sun" Dick Dale- "California Sun" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Hassles (feat. a young Billy Joel)- "Great Balls Of Fire" Playa Amarilla- "Seagull" Los Reverb- "Fat Fenders" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
It's our annual Halloween show! A full hour of tunes so fun it's scary! Beth Riley has a tune from The Beach Boys that even scared Brian Wilson while they recorded it in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break! Our Jammin' James Jukebox is a fun Jan & Dean tune about a car you take your last ride in. Plus, great Halloween rockers from Magnatech, The Malibooz, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, Satan's Pilgrims, Man Or Astroman, Jim & The Seadragons, The Tiki Tones, Ichi-Bons, Los Straitjackets, Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys, Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts, Laramie Dean, The Ghouls, Shaun Young, Olivia Jean and Messer Chups! Listen if you dare HERE: Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys/ "Ghostbusters"- Los Straitjackets Magnatech- "Christopher Lee" Olivia Jean- "Raving Ghost" Messer Chups- "Hard Times For Dracula" Shaun Young- "Vampire" Laramie Dean- "Little Wednesday" Man Or Astro-man?- "Invasion Of The Dragonmen" Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys- "Trick Or Treat" Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts- "Dark Harbor" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "The Elements: Fire (Mrs. Oleary's Cow)" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Satan's Pilgrims- "Ichibod Crane" The Ghouls- "Dracula's Deuce" Los Straitjackets- "Goo Goo Muck" Ichi-Bons- "The Witch" Mark Malibu & The Wasagas- "Web Of The Spider" Jim & The Sea Dragons- "Caught In The Spider's Web" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Jan & Dean- "Surfin' Hearse" The Tiki Tones- "Ghost & Mr. Chicken" The Malibooz- "The Surfin' Ghost" Outro music bed: Ben Vaughan- "Psycho Beach Party"
There is SO much great NEW and CLASSIC tunes we try to get to every week on Catching A Wave. We'll pack as much of 'em into this hour as we can. We'll play a tune from a Jan & Dean album that's celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment. Beth Riley has a summery instrumental from America's band The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. Speaking of them...we spin the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun for 3 randomly chosen cover tunes OF The Beach Boys (by Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, Thomas Lauderdale and Satan's Pilgrims and Gary Hoey) and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (also has a connection to The Beach Boys). Plus, we've got tunes from Shaun Young, Magnatech, The Anderson Council, The Midnight Callers, The Surfrajettes, Kurt Baker, Lazer Gun Saloon, The SurfAnauts, Little Kahuna, The Tikiyaki Orchestra, Sir Bald Diddley and Ian Candler! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Surfrajettes- "Heart Of Glass" Sir Bald Diddley- "Happy Surfer" Magnatech- "Death To Fu Manchu" Kurt Baker- "Anchors Up" The Midnight Callers- "Baby Let Me Be" "Good Time" segment: Jan & Dean 60th Anniversary of Drag City (1963) Jan & Dean- "I Gotta Drive" Shaun Young- "Bronco" The Anderson Council- "Give It Time" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Summer Means New Love" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Ian Candler- "The Lonely Girl" The SurfAnauts- "Torque Wrench" The Tikiyaki Orchestra- "Hotel St. Serenade" Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun: Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem- "God Only Knows" Thomas Lauderdale & Satan's Pilgrims- "Girls On The Beach" Gary Hoey- "Fun, Fun, Fun" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Eric Carmen- "She Did It" (with Brian Wilson & Bruce Johnston on BGV's) Lazer Gun Saloon- "The Sasquatch" Little Kahuna- "Salt Air" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
Catching A Wave has a world premiere of a NEW track from Magnatech from an upcoming release on Sharawaji Records later in the show. We spin a tune from The Halibuts from an album celebrating it's 30th anniversary in our Good Time segment. Beth Riley has a sentimental deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean fame is in our Green Room segment telling a fun story of a fictional radio station Jan Berry made up so he could get free records (plus we hear a Jan & Dean tune too). We also drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (to help you dream of the beach). Plus, we've got tunes from The Eliminators, Deke Dickerson & The Whippersnappers (The Eliminators and Deke will both be at Surf Guitar 101 Festival Weekender), El Borko, Sam & Dave (feat. The Courettes), Robin Taylor Zander, Sheverb, The Super Stocks, The Wankats, Kitten and The Tonics, The Atom Jacks, The NineteenElevenS and Papa Surf (covering Nirvana)! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys El Borko- "Unlucky Dragon" The NineteenElevenS- "Jug" Robin Taylor Zander- "What Am I To Do" Sam & Dave (feat. The Courettes)- "Hold On I'm Comin'" Papa Surf- "Come As You Are" "Good Time" segment: The Halibuts 30th Anniversary of Chumming (1993) The Halibuts- "Blackball" Sheverb- "Redemption Of The River Witch" The Atom Jacks- "Dead Hand System" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Carry Me Home" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Kitten and The Tonics- "Ghost Of Bob Wills" The Eliminators- "Revenge Of The Cowabunga Thunder Melvins" The Wankats- "Wankat a Go-Go" Deke Dickerson & The Whippersnappers- "High Noon" Green Room segment: Dean Torrence on Jan Berry's fictional KJAN radio station Jan & Dean- "A Surfer's Dream" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Buddy Skipper- "Back On The Beach" WORLD PREMIERE: Magnatech- "Tika Hates Tiki" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
The weather is warming up and so are the tunes here on Catching A Wave! We hear a track from The Chantays from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment. Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. You're The Inspiration returns as we hear Jan & Dean covering The Beach Boys (with The Beach Boys backing them and adding BGV's) and The Beach Boys covering Jan & Dean! As always, we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week!! Plus, we've got tunes from Brian Wilson, The Bayonets, Los Dedos, The Rides, GA-20, Beach Towels, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, Royal Fingers, Now That's What I Call Surf, The Krontjong Devils, Stein and The Compartmentalizationalists! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Stein- "Grand Canyon" The Compartmentalizationalists- "Golden Youth" The Bayonets- "Argentina" Now That's What I Call Surf- "You Oughta Know" The Krontjong Devils- "Botas (Boots)" "Good Time" segment: The Chantays 60th Anniversary of Pipeline (1963) The Chantays- "Runaway" Royal Fingers- "Go Royal Fingers Go" Mark Malibu & The Wasagas- "Fireball 407" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "I'll Bet He's Nice" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Beach Towels- "Warmest One" (Mono mix) Brian Wilson- "What Love Can Do" The Rides (Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills, Barry Goldberg)- "Search And Destroy" You're The Inspiration segment: Jan & Dean- "Surfin'" (with backing by The Beach Boys) The Beach Boys- "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Knights- "Hot Rod High" GA-20- "By My Lonesome" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
Time Machine, new tunes, deep tracks and a whole lot more are in store for you this hour on Catching A Wave! We hear a track from Jan & Dean's Surf City & Other Swingin' Cities that is celebrating it's 60th anniversary this year. Beth Riley has a "friend"ly tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We'll board the Catching A Wave Time Machine for the week ending October 31st, 1964 to hear some tunes on the Billboard Hot 100 (including the #1 song) and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. Plus, ride the killer wave of rockers from The Atlantics, Al Jardine, Resonadores, The Neanderthals, Colony House, Surfmaster, The Tentakills, The Tourmaliners, The Cruncher, Kincaid & The Memetics and Dave Myers & The Surftones! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Atlantics- "Surfing The Wedge" Resonadores- "republica banana" The Neanderthals- "Devil or Angel" Colony House- "Cannonballers" Kincaid and The Memetics- "Skaters Ain't Haters" "Good Time" segment: Jan & Dean 60th Anniversary of Surf City And Other Swingin' Cities Jan & Dean- "Kansas City Surfmaster- "Don't Let Me Down" The Tentakills- "Seaweed" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Passing Friend" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Tourmaliners- "Loco Moco" The Cruncher- "My Favorite Martian" Catching A Wave Time Machine week ending October 31st, 1964: #49 Del Shannon- "Do You Want To Dance" #32 The Kinks- "You Really Got Me" #1 The Supremes- "Baby Love" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Honeys- "He's A Doll" Al Jardine- "California Saga" * Dave Myers & The Surftones- "Surf Breaker" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild" *"California Saga" features among others David Crosby on background vocals. RIP David Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023)
R&SRNR_174 – “THEY PLAYED ON THE MOST HITS” There's one group of recording artists that played on more hits than anybody else in the history of rock, pop, and country music. It's the Wrecking Crew – an amorphous collection of studio musicians based in Los Angeles from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. They backed countless acts in a wide variety of genres, including rock, pop, folk, and jazz. You heard them supporting such stars as the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Revere & The Raiders, and the Mamas & Papas. Also, the Byrds, the Monkees, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Ike & Tina Turner, and Simon & Garfunkel, among many others. The Wrecking Crew remained mostly anonymous until a 2008 documentary film by Denny Tedesco, the son of the Wrecking Crew's most prolific guitarist, Tommy Tedesco. Now, Denny Tedesco has even more Wrecking Crew history, and he shares it with our resident Rockologist, Ken Deutsch. We'll sample 30 hit selections from the Wrecking Crew's distinguished discography, along with more of the greatest rock and roll stories on record. Here it all here.
There's more great tunes coming in as well as Christmas rockers this week too on Catching A Wave! Crank up the latest from Satan's Pilgrims, The Beach Berserkers, Arno De Cea & The Clockwork Wizards, The Tulsa Doom, The Kaisers, The Orions, Ocean Alley and a classic from The Atlantics. Plus, since you're on the "Nice" list, we've got Christmas tunes from Magnatech, Jan & Dean, Jason Janik, Travis Koester, JD McPherson, Underwater Bosses, The Dubceks and The Green Reflectors (with guest Mark Malibu). Beth Riley has a great deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and as always we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Beach Berserkers- "Brand New Speedos" Arno De Cea & The Clockwork Wizards- "Everything Under The Sun Is For Everyone" Jason Janik- "Oh Come Emmanuel" The Dubceks- "The First Noel" Jan & Dean- "Frosty The Snowman" The Green Reflectors (with guest Mark Malibu)- "Toboggan Hop" JD McPherson- "Bad Kid" Underwater Bosses- "Yuleride" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "It's About Time" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Magnatech- "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" Travis Koester- "A Very Surfy Christmas" The Tulsa Doom- "Right Turn Clyde" The Orions- "Sneaky Heart" Ocean Alley- "Perfume" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: B. Bumble & The Stingers- "Nut Rocker" Satan's Pilgrims- "Typhoon" The Kaisers- "Sugary" The Atlantics- "The Sheriff Of Nottingham" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
Omnivore Recordings has become a music fan's dream reissue label. They've done archival releases from the likes of the Beach Boys, Big Star, Raspberries, Jellyfish, Laura Nyro, and NRBQ, just to name a few. Their latest batch of fall releases is diverse: Bakersfield Gold - a two-disc set featuring every Buck Owens' song to hit the Top Ten; Dean Torrence & Friends - The Teammates, tracing the history of the other half of Jan & Dean; and Rhythm of the World - the first new studio album in 30 years from the Cowsills.We chat with label co-heads Cheryl Pawelski and Brad Rosenberger and get insight into how these releases originated, plus what formats they'll be available on. In addition, they give some details on what the label is cooking up next.
On this Catching A Wave hour, we've got a trio of skateboard themed tunes from Jan & Dean, The Challengers and The Hondells to honor the super cool skateboarding dog, Bamboo. We continue our 10th anniversary celebration of The Beach Boys' album That's Why God Made The Radio with another track from that. Beth Riley has a cool deep track from them in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. Plus, we've got tunes from 77s, Bloodshot Bill, Didi Wray, The Young Barons, Black Valley Moon, The Trashmen, The Atlantics, Dick Dale (with Huey Lewis on harmonica), Surf Ghost, The Outpost, Surf Monster and The Rumtones! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Black Valley Moon- "Russian Roulette" The Young Barons- "Perfidia" Bloodshot Bill- "Busted Tail" Dick Dale- "F Groove" (feat. Huey Lewis on harmonica) The Rumtones- "Nazare" Skateboard trio: Jan & Dean- "Sidewalk Surfin'" The Challengers- "Asphalt Spinner" The Hondells- "Little Sidewalk Surfin' Girl" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Time To Get Alone" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Atlantics- "Whitewash" The Trashmen- "True Love" (previously unreleased Carl Perkins cover) Didi Wray- "Peter Gunn" Surf Ghost- "California Dyin'" 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Beach Boys- That's Why God Made The Radio The Beach Boys- "From There To Back Again" The Outpost- "Santa Cruz" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Tremolos- "The Weird One" 77s- "Do It For Love" (stadium mix) Surf Monster- "Piercing" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
Tonight on Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Rock ‘N Roll Party: Cousin Brucie takes your requests and plays some of the best solid-gold oldies of yesteryear. Bruce takes a step back and reflects on September 11th. Plus, Bruce interviews Cousin Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean!
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There's so much great new and vintage tunes rolling in here every week on Catching A Wave! We've got some rockin' tracks from Todd Bradley, JD McPherson, The Surfrajettes, Televisionaries, Cop Shop, The Rondells, The Smithereens, Los Dedos, Jan & Dean, The Wave Chargers, The King Beez and a trio of songs to help you get "down" by Los Straitjackets (with Reverend Horton Heat), Mr. Mister and Bruce Johnston! Beth Riley has a great deep track by The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We hear from Kurt Reil of The Grip Weeds in our Green Room segment and as always we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox for our selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Todd Bradley- "Round Midnight" King Beez- "Hound Dog" Televisionaries- "Mad About You" Cop Shop- "Sub-Rock" The Wave Chargers- "Bombora" Time to get "Down": Bruce Johnston- "Down Under" Mr. Mister- "Don't Slow Down" Los Straitjackets (with Reverend Horton Heat)- "Down The Line" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Salt Lake City" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Rondells- "El Chicken" Jan & Dean- "Girl, You're Blowing My Mind" The Surfrajettes- "Roller Fink" Los Dedos- "March Of The Crabs" Green Room segment: Kurt Reil on Brian Wilson tribute and love of The Beach Boys The Grip Weeds- "You're So Good To Me" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The T-Bones- "Rail-Vette" JD McPherson- "Let's Rock" The Smithereens- "Back To Balboa" Outro Music Bed: Jan & Dean- "Girl, You're Blowing My Mind" (instrumental backing track)
Get ready for another fun hour of Catching A Wave! We continue our celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Beach Boys album That's Why God Made The Radio with another stellar track from that release. Speaking of The Beach Boys, Beth Riley has a deep track from them singing about their favorite late night talk show host. We have a trio of tv show themes from Danny Gatton, Los Straitjackets and The Ventures and of course we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Plus, we've got tunes from The Courettes, Jan & Dean, Duane Eddy, The Jackets, Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts, Secret Agent, Slink Moss Explosion, Danny B. Harvey, Frogman (with Hershel Yatovitz), Slacktone, The Krontjong Devils, The Rip Chords and The Eye Five. Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Shorty's Swingin' Coconuts- "Il Cavaliere" The Eye Five- "Hang Five" The Jackets- "What About You" The Krontjong Devils- "Gangsters" Slacktone- "Skateboard Commando" Trio of TV themes: Danny Gatton- "The Simpsons" Los Straitjackets- "Batman Theme" The Ventures- "Hawaii Five-O" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Johnny Carson" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Duane Eddy- "Banana Peels" Secret Agent- "Rockaway Beach" Slink Moss Explosion- "Pass It Around" Frogman (with Hershel Yatovitz)- "Golden Town" 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Beach Boys- That's Why God Made The Radio The Beach Boys- "The Private Life Of Bill And Sue" Jan & Dean- "Palisades Park" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Michael Blessing (Nesmith)- "A Journey With Michael Blessing" The Courettes- "Trash Can Honey" Danny B. Harvey- "Snake Charmer Blues" The Rip Chords- "'40 Ford Time" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Mustang"
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!
In this episode Bob rewinds to a UPI Roundtable episode he produced in 1987 for the radio network. Amazing music, interviews with Dean of Jan & Dean, the Beach Boys and more. It aired over New Years weekend when the folks in the midwest and east were eating their hearts out over this one! LOL. Enjoy It runs 26:00 minutes
LOTS of new tunes and classics on this hour of Catching A Wave! We have a trio of "drive" tunes from Los Straitjackets, The Ventures and Jan & Dean. Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys that everyone is in love with. We continue our 10th Anniversary celebration of The Beach Boys' album, That's Why God Made The Radio and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox! Plus, we've got great tunes from Greg Townson, Christian Love, Danny B. Harvey, Erik Alesi, The Razerbills, The Rumtones, The Babalooneys, Ramones, Cameronoise, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Jeremy Slemenda and Link Wray! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Razerbills- "Rossito's Revenge" Davie Allan & The Arrows- "Straight 'N Arrow" Ramones- "Go Lil' Camaro Go" Cameronoise- "Wheel Of Misfortune" Jeremy Slemenda- "Out Of Nowhere" Trio of "Drive" tunes: Los Straitjackets- "Galaxy Drive" The Ventures- "Night Drive" Jan & Dean- "I Gotta Drive" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Everyone's In Love With You" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Babalooneys- "Wide-Track Weekend" Greg Townson- "My Crush On You" Erik Alesi- "Last Breath" Danny B. Harvey- "Surf Cat" 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Beach Boys- That's Why God Made The Radio The Beach Boys- "Spring Vacation" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Jack Nitzsche- "The Lonely Surfer" The Rumtones- "Terror In The Trench" Christian Love- "Talk About The Things" Link Wray- "Green Hornet" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
It might be cold where you are right now but it's summer all year long here on Catching A Wave! Beth Riley rescues us with a great track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. A "Two-Nami" is in the forecast with 2 in a row from The Surfaris (released 52 years apart) and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. We've got a fun variety of tunes in the mix too from Susanna Hoffs, B.A. Charles, Jan & Dean, Darren Michael Boyd, Whistle Bait, The Red Elvises, The Terrorsurfs, Underwater Bosses, The Silicon, Marmalade Wake, Voodoo Surf Tribe, Bali Lamas, The Go-Go's and Twang Inspectors! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Underwater Bosses- "Aqualizer" Marmalade Wake- "Coconut Crackers" Whistle Bait- "At The Beach" Voodoo Surf Tribe- "Tijuana Tombstone" Twang Inspectors- "Snails On Speed" Susanna Hoffs- "You Just May Be The One" The Silicon- "Black Dory" Jan & Dean- "Sidewalk Surfin'" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Rock 'N' Roll To The Rescue" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE B.A. Charles- "Marston Beach Break" The Terrorsurfs- "The Great Tuna Tumour" Bali Lamas- "Twang Ten" The Go-Go's- "Vision Of Nowness" Two-nami: The Surfaris- "Memphis" (1963) The Surfaris- "Point Panic" (2015) Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Flame- "See The Light" Darren Michael Boyd- "Amphibian Rhapsody" The Red Elvises- "Love Pipe" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
The Wheel of Fun, Fun, Fun returns this week with randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys including The Grip Weeds, The Hot Doggers and Dino, Desi & Billy. Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys that you're sure to remember and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Plus, we'll spin tunes from Underwater Bosses, The Bomboras, The Smithereens, The 5678's, The Super Stocks, 12AX7, Big Mick & The Curl, The Mighty Gordinis, Jan & Dean, Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks, Lo Moon, The Surf Dawgs, Frankie & The Poolboys and Surf Zombies! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Big Mick & The Curl- "Beatnik Rick" The Mighty Gordinis- "Shockwave" Jan & Dean- "Waimea Bay" Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks- "Movin'" Lo Moon- "Dream Never Dies" (radio edit) The Bomboras- "Planet Of The Ape Hangers" The Surf Dawgs- "Eight Days A Week" Frankie & The Poolboys- "Game Of Thrones" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Do You Remember" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE 12AX7- "Lone Pine" Surf Zombies- "Iron Invasion" Underwater Bosses- "The Volcano Boys" Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun: The Grip Weeds- "Heroes & Villains/ Roll Plymouth Rock" The Hot Doggers- "Surfin' Safari" Dino, Desi & Billy- "Fun, Fun, Fun" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Astronauts- "Come Along Baby" The Smithereens- "Hold Me Tight" The 5678's- "Cat Fight Run" The Super Stocks- "427 Super Stock" Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
We're getting 2022 ready to rock in style! We've got a "green" theme trio from Duane Eddy, Bruce Johnston and The Chantays. Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. A Two-Nami is in the forecast with 2 in a row from Jeremiah Burnham and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. We've also got rockers from Messer Chups, Rondo Hatton, Del Sotos, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Jan & Dean, Allah-Las, Rondo Hatton, The Surf Hermits, Sean Eddy, 12AX7, Didi Wray, The Hang Ten Gallon Hats and Reverberati! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Messer Chups- "Batman Taboo" Sean Eddy- "Slo Burn (Cigar Box Guitar) 12AX7- "Broken Stiletto" Didi Wray- "Speak Softly Love" The Hang Ten Gallon Hats- "Cactus Juice" "Green" theme: Bruce Johnston- "Green Onions" The Chantays- "Green Room" Duane Eddy & The Rebels- "Tiger Love & Turnip Greens" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Girl Don't Tell Me" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Del Sotos- "Surfing Around Fort Boyard" Davie Allan & The Arrows- "As Bad As It Gets" Jan & Dean- "Surfin'" (with The Beach Boys backing) Allah-Las- "In The Air" Two-Nami: Jeremiah Burnham- "A Place In California" Jeremiah Burnham- "California Baby" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Frogmen- "Underwater" Rondo Hatton- "Storm Surge" The Surf Hermits- "Kyle's Robo-Cybernetic Super Jaw" Reverberati- "Fishbone" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
We've got a trio of songs with artists named Paul...Paul Johnson, Paul Carrack and Paul Revere & The Raiders. Beth Riley has a deep track of The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We've got a Two-Nami in the forecast with 2 in a row from Southern Culture On The Skids and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! We've got rockers from from Surfer Joe, The Fantastic Baggys, Sail On, Beware Of Blast, Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited, Bob Spalding, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, The Me-Gustas, Los Surfer Compadres plus some Christmas tunes hitting the playlist from The Hi-Risers, The Tremolo Beer Gut and The Neptunas!! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Surfer Joe- "Stay Stoked" Beware Of Blast- "Special Forces" Los Surfer Compadres- "Escape From Toxic Laguna" The Me-Gustas- "Monterrey" Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited- "The Flawless Ms Drake" Trio of "Paul's" Paul Johnson- "Wave Perfect" Paul Carrack- "Sunny" Paul Revere & The Raiders- "Moon Dawg" Surf Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "She Knows Me Too Well" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Fantastic Baggys- "Wax Up Your Board" Sail On- "Sail On Sailor" Jan & Dean- "Bucket T" The Ventures- "He Never Came Back" Two-Nami: Southern Culture On The Skids- "Rumors Of Surf" Southern Culture On The Skids- "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" Jammin' James Jukebox Selection Of The Week: The Piltdown Men- "Brontosaurus Stomp" Bob Spalding- "Skull Head Shifter" Christmas tunes: The Hi-Risers- "What Christmas Means To Me" The Tremolo Beer Gut- "Santa Duane" The Neptunas- "Mistletoe Twist" Outro Music Bed: The Ventures- "Joy To The World"
We remember Elvis who passed away August 16th, 1977 with a track from the King (from Blue Hawaii celebrating it's 60th anniversary), Johnny Ramone with Danny B. Harvey & Slim Jim Phantom (with a rockin' instrumental) and Dean Z (with a track from Fun In Acapulco). We also spin the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun to hear some great covers of The Beach Boys by The Grip Weeds (from the new Jem Records tribute to Brian Wilson), The Martian Denny Orchestra and Jan & Dean. Beth Riley has a great deep track of The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we'll drop a quarter in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. Plus, we've got rockers from Didi Wray (covering Blondie), The Halibuts, The Coffin Daggers, Los Blue Marinos, The Charades, Girl Over Planet, The Metalunas, The Guantanamos, Trevor Lake and The Trashmen!! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Halibuts- "Mr. Mysterioso" The Coffin Daggers- "Black Sand Beach" Didi Wray- "Sunday Girl" The Trashmen- "Keep A Knockin'" Trevor Lake- "At The Beach" Elvis tribute: Elvis Presley- "Slicin' Sand" (takes 5, 6, 7) Johnny Ramone, Danny B. Harvey & Slim Jim Phantom- "Viva Las Vegas" Dean Z with the Fabulous Blackwood Quartet- "Bossa Nova Baby" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "The Surfer Moon" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Guantanamos- "Asylum Escape" The Metalunas- "Jump The Shark" Girl Over Planet- "Space Snowplow" Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun: Jan & Dean- "Little Deuce Coupe" Martian Denny Orchestra- "Warmth Of The Sun" The Grip Weeds- "You're So Good To Me" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Ventures- "The 2,000 Pound Bee (parts 1 & 2) Los Blue Marinos- "Big Mamma" The Charades- "Surfin' Albatross" The Kaisers- "Theme From Vengeance" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
This bonus, Steve-solo episode of Suburban Underground is about BATMAN! All songs are connected in some way to the DC superhero...predominantly, the 60's TV series, but just about every incarnation after that is represented here, including the Lego version. The playlist below looks very long but don't be deterred. Many of the songs listed are represented by excerpts just to give a flavor of it. 1. "Batman And Robin" by The Spotlights (1966) 2. "The Capture" by Burgess Meredith (1966) 3. "Batman To The Rescue" by LaVern Baker (1966) 4. "Don't Call Me Batman" by The Chud (1985) 5. "Batman" by Dentist (2014) 6. "Look Out For The Batman" by The Merriettes (1966) 7. "(Zap! Pow!) Do The Batman" by Gate Wesley & Band (1966) 8. "The Ballad Of Batman" by The Camps (1966) 9. "Vicki Waiting" by Prince (1989) 10. "The Story of Batman" by Adam West (1976) 11. "Batland (Around Gotham City)" by Batgirls & The People (1989) 12. "A Bedpost, a Belt and a Batman Suit" by Rivershores (2017) 13. "The Joker Is Wild" by Jan & Dean (1966) 14. "The Riddler" by Frank Gorshin (1966) 15. "That Man Batman" by Mike & Bernie Winters (1966) 16. "Batman At The Go Go" by Butch Baker (1966) 17. "I'm Gonna Unmask The Batman" by Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra (1974) 18. "The Penguin Chase" by The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale (1966) 19. "Batman & Robin" by Cazzi Opeia & Jin X Jin (2017) 20. "I'm Batman" by Jo Paciello (2017) 21. "Main Titles" by Kristopher Carter (1999) 22. "The Batman Theme" by Danny Elfman (1989) 23. "The Batman" by Gene Simmons [rockabilly artist] (1966) 24. "Batman And Robin" by Thor-Ables (1962) 25. "The Batman Sees the Ball" by Guided By Voices (2021) 26. "Batman a Go-Go" by The Combo Kings (1966) 27. "Batman & Robin" by Earl Sixteen Batman & Robin [single] (1984) 28. "I Saw Batman (Moneytown)" by Tommy & The Derbys (1967) 29. "(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)" by The Shapes Wot's For Lunch Mum? [EP] (1979) 30. "Batman Stinks" by Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! (1989) 31. "Batman" by Mark Mothersbaugh (2014) 32. "Batman" by The Batmen (1968) 33. "The Joker" by The Marketts (1966) 34. "Batman Theme Medley" by Link Wray/The Who/The Jam/The Batboys/Sheena & The Rokkets 35. "Batman Rides Again" by Invisible Burgundy Bullfrog (1969) 36. "Batman" by Rocky And The Riddlers (1966) 37. "Who's the (Bat) Man" by Patrick Stump (2017) 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!
This week Steve picked a set of songs for expats and Drew picked a set of surf rock tunes. Artists this week: The Smiths, The Drums, The Sherlocks, The Clash, The Academic, Beck, Geddy Lee, The Pretenders, The Electric Mess, Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, The Tornadoes, Jan & Dean, Stretch Princess, Ships Have Sailed, Southern Avenue, Art Of Noise, The Cars, Go-Go's. 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!
There's so many great new and vintage tunes on this week's Catching A Wave!! Hear Darrel Higham, The Cherry Drops, The B. Christopher Band, Greg Townson, The Tangees, King Ghidora, Surfer Joe, Al Dual, Televisionaries, The Super Stocks, Captain Rico & The Ghost Band, Guitar Up and a trio of "Aqua" bands: Aqualads, The Aqua Velvets and The Aqua Barons. Beth Riley has another great tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we hear a snippet of an interview with Joel Selvin in our Green Room segment and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Greg Townson- "The Locomotion" The B. Christopher Band- "Orange Whip" Darrel Higham- "Summertime Blues" Al Dual- "Riders In The Sky" Televisionaries- "Cuckoo Clock" "Aqua" theme bands: The Aqua Barons- "Gulag Party" The Aqua Velvets- "Surfmania" Aqualads- "Night Tide" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Angel Come Home" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Surfer Joe- "Batman" Guitar Up- "Pure Imagination" Captain Rico & The Ghost Band- "Epic Wave" The Cherry Drops- "The Grooviest Girl In The World" The Green Room segment: Joel Selvin on the Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys relationship Jan & Dean- "Surfin' Safari" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Dick Dale- "Breaking Heart" The Tangees- "Doo Wop Dandelion" King Ghidora- "Intrepid Vimana" The Super Stocks- "My First Love" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Mustang"
It's the 1st annual Car Show on Catching A Wave to celebrate Collector Car Appreciation Day on July 9th as announced by the SEMA Action Network (SAN). More info here: https://www.semasan.com/collector-car-appreciation-day We've got Mike Love of The Beach Boys talking about "Fun, Fun, Fun" in our Green Room segment, Beth Riley has a deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our car themed selection of the week and we get a trio of Mustang tunes from Dick Dale, Chuck Berry and The Neanderthals! Plus, we spin car tunes from Al Jardine, Jan & Dean, Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos, Billy F. Gibbons, Elvis Presley, The Vettes, The Untamed Youth, Ronnie Dawson, David Marks & The A-Phonics, Hal Blaine & The Young Cougars and more!! Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Jan & Dean- "Drag City" The Untamed Youth- "Go, Go Ferrari" Ronnie Dawson- "Waxahachi Drag Race" *Speed Racer theme The De-Fenders- "Little Deuce Coupe" David Marks & The A-Phonics- "Kustom Kar Show" "Mustang" theme: Chuck Berry- "My Mustang Ford" Dick Dale- "Wild, Wild Mustang" *1964 Ford Mustang spot The Neanderthals- "Go Mustang" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Car Crazy Cutie" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos- "Fink Rod 409" Billy F. Gibbons- "I Was A Highway" The Super Stocks- "Draggin' Deuce" *The Blues Brothers snippet Hal Blaine & The Young Cougars- "The Phantom Driver" Green Room segment: Mike Love on "Fun, Fun, Fun" (recorded in Alabama in 2014) The Beach Boys- "Fun, Fun, Fun" Jimmy Dale Richardson- "'58 Buick" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Fender Benders (with Link Wray)- "Drag Strip Elvis Presley- "Spinout" The Vettes- "Happy Hodaddy (With Ragtop Caddy)" Al Jardine- "PT Cruiser" Outro Music Bed: Chuck Berry- "My Mustang Ford" (instrumental)
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his handWalking through the streets of Soho in the rainHe was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook'sGoing to get a big dish of Beef Chow Mein."Please join me for a late Brunch this afternoon, no Chow Mein but I'll be serving up tasty morsels from Billy Joel, Paul McCartney & Wings, Marc Cohn, The Hooters, Lynyrd Skynyrd, XTC, Todd Rundgren, Traveling Wilbury's, Mike Post, Bruce Hornsby, Kid Rock and Warren Zevon. Plus to Celebrate The July 4th Holiday and unofficial start of Summer. I'll be featuring 2 American treasures The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean.
First official day of Summer is June 20th, but it's Summer all year long here on Catching A Wave! We've got tunes from The Hilo Hi-Flyers, Mark Malibu & The Wasagas, Martin Cilian, The Kaputniks, Jan & Dean, Los Misterios, King Of Hawaii, The Spiratones, The Neptunas, Th Hondels, The Hi-Risers, Surf School Dropouts, The Ventures, Ramonetures and more!! We spin the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun to hear some covers of The Beach Boys by Todd Rundgren, Los Straitjackets and Fleetwood Mac. Beth Riley brings another great deep track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys King Of Hawaii- "Ratchaser" Los Misterios- "Oh, Carino" Jan & Dean- "Surfin' Wild" The Spiratones- "Starcrashed" The Neptunas- "Point Panic" Martin Cilia- "Scarborough Hotel" The Kaputniks- "Chalk & Cheese" The Hondells- "Death Valley Run" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "California Calling" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE The Hi-Risers- "Blast Off" Ramonetures- "Beyond & Back" The Ventures- "The Creeper" Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun: Fleetwood Mac- "Farmer's Daughter" Los Straitjackets- "In My Room" Todd Rundgren- "Good Vibrations" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Brian Wilson- "He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body To Move" The Hilo Hi-Flyers- "Let's Go Flyin'" Mark Malibu & The Wasagas- "Scooter Girl" Surf School Dropouts- "Baby, I Long To Be Yours" Outro Music Bed: The Beach Boys- "Do It Again"
Author Joel Selvin joins James and Beth Riley on Artist Spotlight Podcast Series to talk about his amazing new book, Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise. It bookends between Jan Berry, Dean Torrence and others harmonizing in the showers after football practice at University High School in 1957 through "Good Vibrations" and Jan Berry's car accident in 1966. It was only a short period but it changed the landscape of music forever. There was both triumph and tragedy and we touch on a lot of that with key players like Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, Dick Dale, Nancy Sinatra and more! It's a fascinating conversation that you don't want to miss!
Catching A Wave has no shortage of killer new and vintage tunes for you to enjoy (and share). This week, Beth Riley has another classic and underrated tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we predict a Two-Nami in the forecast (also Beach Boys related) and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (which is ALSO Beach Boys related)! We'll spin tunes from Cayucas, Jan & Dean, The Neptunas, Dick Dale, Los Straitjackets, Mike Love, Shoot The Pier, Ry Bradley, Jason Janik, Secret Agent, The Frogenstein, Jeremy & The Harlequins and Masters Of The University as well. Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Didi Wray & Los Tango Boys- "Caminito" Masters Of The University- "Bella Ciao" Dick Dale- "The Eliminator" The Frogenstein- "Surf Nation" Jeremy & The Harlequins- "California Rock" Los Straitjackets- "Surf #49" Cayucas- "Champion Of The Beach" Secret Agent- "Ghost Riders In The Sky" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Let Him Run Wild" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Jan & Dean- "Rockin' Little Roadster" Shoot The Pier- "Surf Meditation" Jason Janik- "Nonstop" Mike Love- "California Beach" Two-Nami: Southern Pacific with The Beach Boys on BGV's- "G.T.O." Chicago with Al, Carl & Dennis on BGV's- "Wishing You Were Here" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Sidewalk Surfers- "Skate Board" Ry Bradley- "Pipeline" The Neptunas- "Hai Karate" Outro Music Bed: The Beach Boys- "Let Him Run Wild" (instrumental)
It's summer all year long here on Catching A Wave! Hear an interview snippet with Randell Kirsch talking about Jan & Dean in our Green Room segment, Beth Riley brings another great tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. We pay tribute to Dave Busacker (AKA "Dave Pilgrim") of Satan's Pilgrims who passed away on March 31st, 2021. We've also got tracks from Messer Chups, Girl Over Planet, Chris Isaak, Sheverb, Hawthorne, The Tarantinos, Hershel Yatovitz, Elvis Presley, The Memphians (with Dale Watson), Guitar Up!, Don Diego, Toro Jones and the Ramones!! Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Girl Over Planet- "Most People Call Me Jim" Messer Chups- "Wicked Game" Chris Isaak- "Summer Holiday" Elvis Presley- "Moonlight Swim" The Memphians- "Agent Elvis" Don Diego- "Whooper Snooper" Hawthorne- "Paradise Cove" Guitar Up!- "Nocturne 9.2" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Soulful Old Man Sunshine" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Satan's Pilgrims- "Downshiftin'" (RIP Dave Pilgrim March 31st, 2021) Toro Jones- "Trailblazer" Ramones- "Palisades Park" Green Room- Randell Kirsch on Jan & Dean Randell Kirsch- "Roll The Window Down" (feat. Jan & Dean on BGV's) Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week- Ronny & The Daytonas- "Hot Rod Baby" Sheverb- "Throwing Bones" Hershel Yatovitz- "New Narrabeen" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
Joel Selven, a music journalist and author of the new book “Hollywood Eden," tells the story of the young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the sound of the California dream. It's the story of how West Los Angeles's University High School class of 1958 — which included Jan & Dean and Nancy Sinatra — helped create an image of the West Coast as an idyllic land of sand and surf.
Joel Selvin in conversation with David Eastaugh From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. Compelling, evocative, and ultimately tragic, Hollywood Eden travels far beyond the music into the desires of the human heart and the price of living out a dream. A rock 'n' roll opera loaded with violence, deceit, intrigue, low comedy, and high drama, it tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads, crashed cars, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
This episode of Catching A Wave should be enjoyed at top volume with the windows down! Hear NEW tunes from The Explorers Club, The Kaputniks, The Royal Pacifics, Creature Preachers, The Shootouts and 2 NEW tunes from Greg Townson in our Two-nami segment. We also have rockers from Chris Isaak, The Cherry Drops, The Blasters, Baja Bug, The Hula Girls, The Surfin' Gorillas, Dick Dale and Jan & Dean. Beth Riley has a great tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear selection of the week! Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Kaputniks- "S.O.S." The Blasters- "Boneyard" The Cherry Drops- "Just A Chance" The Explorers Club- "Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy" The Royal Pacifics- "Gypsy Beat" Wiped Out- "Waves Of Panic" Jan & Dean- "Summer Means Fun" Dick Dale- "Secret Surfin' Spot" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Sail On Sailor" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Secret Agent- "Penetration" Baja Bug- "Pacific Punch" The Hula Girls- "Longboard Baby" Two-nami: Greg Townson- "Off And Running" Greg Townson- "Able Mable" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Fendermen- "Beach Party" The Shootouts- "Bullseye" Creature Preachers- "Surf A.D." The Surfin' Gorillas- "Train To Nowhere" Outro Music Bed: Jan & Dean- "Old Ladies Seldom Power Shift"
¿Qué musica sonaba en EEUU antes de la llegada de los Beatles? Con Peter, Paul & Marty, The Topsiders, Bob Dylan, Dick Dale, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, Lawrence Walk, Chubby Checker, The Beatles, The Chartbuster, The Gestures, The Beau Brummels, The Rolling Stones y Dave Clark Five.
In this episode of the RBP podcast, we welcome San Francisco Chronicle legend Joel Selvin into the virtual cupboard to talk about Hollywood Eden, his terrific new book about L.A.'s pop scene in the early '60s.After explaining how he first came to write for "the Chron" at the end of that decade, Joel recalls his early fascination with L.A. as the burgeoning "surf city" celebrated by Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. Barney & Mark press him for stories about the scurrilous but brilliant "bottom feeder" Kim Fowley, after which we hear three audio clips from John Tobler's 1973 interview with (Jan &) Dean Torrence. (Among those namechecked along the way: Jan Berry, inevitably, and Lou Adler, Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher & Jill Gibson...)Staying in a Southern California groove, Joel also reminisces about the troubled Jack Nitzsche, whom he interviewed for Melody Maker in 1978. We discuss Nitzsche's achievements as a producer-arranger, his big influence on the Rolling Stones, and his regrettable decline in the last years of his life. Handily, Joel also turns out to know his stuff when it comes to the role played in Stevie Wonder's synthesized '70s soul by the late Malcolm (Tonto's Expanding Head Band) Cecil, who passed away last week...Mark wraps matters up with observations on such recent RBP library additions as Maureen O'Grady's 1965 Rave interview with the visiting Byrds; Richard Goldstein's 1968 New York Times profile of the splendidly eccentric Van Dyke Parks; and — from 1980 — Glenn O'Brien's Interview interview with the Marianne Faithfull of Broken English.Many thanks to special guest Joel Selvin. Hollywood Eden is published by House of Anansi and Joel can be found online at joelselvin.com.Pieces discussed: Beach Boys, Lenny Waronker, Dean Torrence audio, Jack Nitzsche, Joel on Jack, Jack Nitzsche and the Stones, Stevie Wonder, Stubbs on Stevie, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, The Byrds, Bill Graham, Phil Spector, Phil Spector Again, The Stone Roses, Stash de Rola, Van Dyke Parks, Marianne Faithfull, Madonna, J.J. Fad, Brandy, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz.
This episode is with Joel Selvin, Joel was one of the writers of the Pop Music section of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper for over 30 years. His latest book is titled: Hollywood Eden - Electric Guitars, Fast Cars and the Myth of the California Paradise. It's all about the rock/surf music world in the late 50s to the early 60s and features the stories and connections with Jan & Dean, Nancy Sinatra, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & the Papas, Phil Spector, Lou Adler and many more that were all just immerging at this time.
In this episode of the RBP podcast, we welcome San Francisco Chronicle legend Joel Selvin into the virtual cupboard to talk about Hollywood Eden, his terrific new book about L.A.'s pop scene in the early '60s.After explaining how he first came to write for "the Chron" at the end of that decade, Joel recalls his early fascination with L.A. as the burgeoning "surf city" celebrated by Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. Barney & Mark press him for stories about the scurrilous but brilliant "bottom feeder" Kim Fowley, after which we hear three audio clips from John Tobler's 1973 interview with (Jan &) Dean Torrence. (Among those namechecked along the way: Jan Berry, inevitably, and Lou Adler, Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher & Jill Gibson...)Staying in a Southern California groove, Joel also reminisces about the troubled Jack Nitzsche, whom he interviewed for Melody Maker in 1978. We discuss Nitzsche's achievements as a producer-arranger, his big influence on the Rolling Stones, and his regrettable decline in the last years of his life. Handily, Joel also turns out to know his stuff when it comes to the role played in Stevie Wonder's synthesized '70s soul by the late Malcolm (Tonto's Expanding Head Band) Cecil, who passed away last week...Mark wraps matters up with observations on such recent RBP library additions as Maureen O'Grady's 1965 Rave interview with the visiting Byrds; Richard Goldstein's 1968 New York Times profile of the splendidly eccentric Van Dyke Parks; and — from 1980 — Glenn O'Brien's Interview interview with the Marianne Faithfull of Broken English.Many thanks to special guest Joel Selvin. Hollywood Eden is published by House of Anansi and Joel can be found online at joelselvin.com.Pieces discussed: Beach Boys, Lenny Waronker, Dean Torrence audio, Jack Nitzsche, Joel on Jack, Jack Nitzsche and the Stones, Stevie Wonder, Stubbs on Stevie, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, The Byrds, Bill Graham, Phil Spector, Phil Spector Again, The Stone Roses, Stash de Rola, Van Dyke Parks, Marianne Faithfull, Madonna, J.J. Fad, Brandy, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz.
We start a new segment on Catching A Wave called "The Green Room" with an interview snippet from drummer, Jason Smay! Beth Riley brings an awesome classic from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox and play the latest from Al Jardine, The Royal Pacifics, Surfoniani, The Reverbivores, Jet Jaguars and rockers from Man Or Astro-Man?, Brian Wilson, Jason Lee & The R.I.P.Tides, Los Straitjackets, Surfnado Tiki Squad, Elvis Presley, Lucky 757, The Green Reflectors, Dick Dale and Jan & Dean. Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Man Of Astro-Man?- "Taco Wagon" Brian Wilson- "California Sun" Lucky 757- "Apache" The Reverbivores- "Costa Mesa Curl" Jan & Dean- "Surfin'" The Green Reflectors- "Tune Up" Jet Jaguars- "Death Chase" Elvis Presley- "Slicin' Sand" (Take 4) Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Darlin'" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Al Jardine- "Waves Of Love 2.0" Surfnado Tiki Squad- "Orang-O-Twang" The Royal Pacifics- "Telstar Twist" The Green Room: Jason Smay interview snippet on Los Straitjackets' masks Los Straitjackets- "Blowout" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Surfaris- "Point Panic" The Frogenstein- "In Reverb We Trust" Surfoniani- "Rocket To Mars" Jason Lee & R.I.P.Tides- "Hollywood Slime" Outro Music Bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"
As summer beach reading season approaches, the new music novel, "Hollywood Eden" could be the first great read of the season! From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist & author Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. In this week's episode of "Behind The Scene with Colleen", take a listen to Colleen's chat with Joel... about his life as a musician, music critic & what motivated him to write this book, then you can pre-order the book here.
Time to spin the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun again to hear some randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys. This time we hear M Ward, The Untamed Youth and The Neanderthals covering America's band. Speaking of The Beach Boys, Beth Riley brings a cool ballad from them in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break! We also drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (and it has a Beach Boys connection too). Plus, hear rockers from Insect Surfers, Bali Lamas, Cheap Trick, The Explorers Club, Marco Di Maggio, Satan's Pilgrims, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Todd Bradley, Dave Del Monte, The Mysterics, The Creature Preachers, Jan & Dean with The Flirts, The Super Stocks, Nuclear Juarez and The Surferific Dudes! Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Insect Surfers- "Red Mesa" The Mysterics- "Neb's Tune" The Explorers Club- "California's Callin' Ya" Todd Bradley- "Next Summer" Dave Del Monte- "Stampede" Cliff Richard & The Shadows- "On The Beach" The Creature Preachers- "The Horror Of Party Beach" Jan & Dean with The Flirts- "(Bop Bop) On The Beach" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Lonely Sea" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Marco Di Maggio- "Surfandango" The Surferific Dudes- "Roswell 1947" Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun: M Ward- "You're So Good To Me" The Untamed Youth- "Chug-A-Lug" The Neanderthals- "Be True To Your School" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Gamblers- "Moon Dawg" Bali Lamas- "Boogie Board" Nuclear Juarez- "The Debt Collector" Cheap Trick- "The Summer Looks Good On You" The Super Stocks- "Midnight Run" Outro Music Bed: The Atlantics- "Flight Of The Surf Guitar"
From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. "Hollywood Eden beautifully captures our sixties California music scene - a time when life was truly fun, fun, fun." - Bruce Johnston, the Beach Boys From surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959 ― a class that included Jan & Dean, Nancy Sinatra, and future members of the Beach Boys ― who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who created the idea of modern California for the rest of the world. From the Beach Boys' "California Girls" to the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'," they crafted an image of the West Coast as the promised land ― a sun-dappled vision of an idyllic life in the sand and surf. But their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later, as, one by one, each met their destinies head-on. Compelling, evocative, and ultimately tragic, Hollywood Eden travels far beyond the music into the desires of the human heart and the price of living out a dream. A rock 'n' roll opera loaded with violence, deceit, intrigue, low comedy, and high drama, it tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads, crashed cars, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream. "Hollywood Eden beautifully captures our sixties California music scene - a time when life was truly fun, fun, fun." - Bruce Johnston, the Beach Boys From surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise. Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959 ― a class that included Jan & Dean, Nancy Sinatra, and future members of the Beach Boys ― who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who created the idea of modern California for the rest of the world. From the Beach Boys' "California Girls" to the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'," they crafted an image of the West Coast as the promised land ― a sun-dappled vision of an idyllic life in the sand and surf. But their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later, as, one by one, each met their destinies head-on. Compelling, evocative, and ultimately tragic, Hollywood Eden travels far beyond the music into the desires of the human heart and the price of living out a dream. A rock 'n' roll opera loaded with violence, deceit, intrigue, low comedy, and high drama, it tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads, crashed cars, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.
Singer-songwriter Randell Kirsch joins James and Beth Riley on this week's Artist Spotlight Podcast Series! Topics include how they've been spending time during the pandemic, his early influences, his band The Pranks (with Jeff Foskett), Show Of Hands (a trio he was in with his wife LuAnn Olson who also joins us in the conversation), touring with Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys, desert island discs, a time period he'd travel back to, what is on the horizon and a LOT more!
Not only do we get a great track from The Beach Boys from Beth Riley in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we also hear solo tracks from Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Jardine and David Marks!! Our "Two-Nami" feature has a couple of tracks from Deke Dickerson (one with The Trasmen and the other with Los Straitjackets) and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear a rocker from the Safaris! Plus, we spin tracks from The Electric Heaters, Surfnado Tiki Squad, Jan & Dean, Nick Waterhouse, Blue Stingrays, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives and The Cranzers!! Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Electric Heaters- "Coronacation" David Marks & The A-Phonics- "Summertime Blues" Surfnado Tiki Squad- "Sharknado" Jan & Dean- "School Days" The Cranzers- "Longboard" Brian Wilson- "Love and Mercy" Carl Wilson- "Rockin' All Over The World" Dennis Wilson- "River Song" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Baby Blue" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE Bruce Johnston- "Malibu" Blue Stingrays- "Stingray Stomp" Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives- "Torpedo" Nick Waterhouse- "Place Names" Two-Nami: Deke Dickerson & The Trashmen- "Lotta Lovin'" Deke Dickerson & Los Straitjackets- "Kawanga" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Safaris- "Kick Out" Al Jardine- "Drivin'" Mike Love- "California Sun" Outro Music Bed: Link Wray- "Scatter"
Hear the latest from The Supraphonics, Southern Culture On The Skids, Jimmy Buffett, Al Dual, The Explorers Club, The Reverbivores, North Melbourne Surf Club and classics from Link Wray, Bruce Johnston, The Surfaris, Jan & Dean, Bloodshot Bill, Satan's Pilgrims, Al Jardine and Surf City Allstars! Plus, Beth Riley plays a great track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break, we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week and we start a new segment called "Two-Nami" where we play a couple of tracks back to back from an artist. This week, it's 2 rockin' tracks from The Bangles. Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys The Supraphonics- "Driving Guitars" North Melbourne Surf Club- "Salt Shaker" Link Wray- "Mustang" Bruce Johnston- "The Hamptons" The Reverbivores- "Slipstream" Southern Culture On The Skids- "Is Anybody Going To San Antone" The Surfaris- "Hot Rod Graveyard" The Explorers Club- "Run, Run, Run" (Under Construction Mix) Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "Little Bird" Jan & Dean- "Tallahassee Lassie" Satan's Pilgrims- "The Fireball" Al Dual- "Cadillac Funk" Bloodshot Bill- "Shark Tank" Two-Nami: The Bangles- "Bitchen Summer/ Speedway" The Bangles- "Anna Lee (Sweetheart Of The Sun)" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: The Astronauts- "Surf Party" Jimmy Buffett- "Down At The Lah de Dah" Al Jardine- "Waves Of Love" (feat. Carl Wilson & Matt Jardine) Surf City Allstars- "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" (feat. Dean Torrence) Outro Music Bed: The Surfin' Gorillas- "Rumble"
It's the NEW and improved Catching A Wave and we have an exciting hour of music and features planned for you! Beth Riley starts a segment called "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" with a tune from The Beach Boys of course. We'll jump in our time machine for the week ending December 29th, 1962 to hear some tunes on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time. Our Jammin' James Jukebox is a great tune from The Ventures! We'll debut a NEW tune from Christian Love and spin rockin' tunes from The Memphians, Los Straitjackets, Lucky 757, The Explorers Club, The Cherry Drops, The Hula Girls, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, The Challengers and more!! Intro music bed "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys Los Straitjackets- "Space Junket"The Hula Girls- "Jungle Girl" Christian Love- "Unconditionally" The Memphians- "Alone Ranger" The Sunrays- "I Live For The Sun" Lucky 757- "Monsta" The Explorers Club- "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite" The Cherry Drops- "Brand New Day" Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break- The Beach Boys- "You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone" Dick Dale- King Of The Surf Guitar The Monkees- "You Bring The Summer" Jan & Dean- "Down At Malibu Beach" Catching A Wave Time Machine week ending December 29th, 1962/ Billboard Top 100: #84 (debut) The Rebels- "Wild Weekend" #33 (down from #22) Duane Eddy & The Rebels with The Rebelettes- (Dance With The) Guitar Man #1 (2nd week at the top) The Tornados- "Telstar" Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week The Ventures- "The McCoy" The Challengers- "Mr. Moto" The Revelaires- "Peter Gunn" Outro Link Wray- "Rawhide" (from Bullshot)
Episode 107 of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs looks at "Surf City" and the career of Jan and Dean, including a Pop Symphony, accidental conspiracy to kidnap, and a career that both started and ended with attempts to get out of being drafted. 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 "Hey Little Cobra" by the Rip Chords. 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---- Resources No Mixcloud this week, due to the number of songs by Jan and Dean. Stephen McParland has published many, many books on the California surf and hot-rod music scenes. The Grand High Potentates of California Rock: Jan and Dean "In Perspective" 1958-1968 is the one I used most here, but I referred to several. His books can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks I also used Dead Man's Curve and Back: The Jan and Dean Story by Mark Thomas Passmore, and Dean Torrence's autobiography Surf City. The original mono versions of the Liberty singles are only available on an out-of-print CD that goes for over £400, and many compilations have later rerecordings (often by Dean without Jan) but this has the proper recordings, albeit in stereo mixes. This compilation contains their pre-Liberty singles, including the Jan & Arnie material. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript A warning about this episode -- it features some discussion of a car crash and resulting disability and recovery, which may be upsetting to some people. Today we're going to look at one of the most successful duos in rock and roll history, but one who have been relegated to a footnote because of their collaboration with a far more successful band, who had a similar sound to them. We're going to look at Jan and Dean, and at "Surf City": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Surf City"] The story of Jan and Dean begins with Jan and Arnie, and with the Barons. We discussed the Barons briefly in the episode on "LSD-25", a few months ago, but only in passing, so to recap -- the Barons were a singing group that formed at University High School in LA in the late fifties, centred around Jan Berry. Various people involved in the group's formation went on to be important parts of the LA music scene in the sixties, but by 1958 they were down to Berry and his friends Arnie Ginsburg -- not the DJ we talked about last episode, Dean Torrence, and Don Altfeld. The group members all had a love for R&B, and hung around with various of the Black groups of the time -- Don Altfeld has talked about him and Berry being present, but not participating, for Richard Berry's recording of "Louie Louie", though his memories of the time seem confused in the interviews I've read. And Jan Berry in particular was a real music obsessive, and had what may have been the biggest R&B and rock and roll record collection in LA -- which he obtained by scamming record companies, which seems to be very in character for him. He got a letterhead made up for a fake radio station, KJAN, and wrote to every record company he could find asking for promo copies. He ended up getting six copies of every new release "to play on the radio", and would give some of the extra copies to his friends -- and others he would use as frisbees. According to Torrence, Berry would often receive two hundred new records a day, all free. Berry had a reel-to-reel tape recorder belonging to his father -- his father, William Berry, was important in the Howard Hughes organisation, and had been in charge of the Spruce Goose project, even flying in the famous plane with Hughes, and Hughes had given him the tape recorder, which unlike almost all recording equipment available in the fifties had a primitive reverb function built in. With that and a microphone stolen from the school auditorium, Berry started recording himself and his friends, and he'd wanted to play one of the tapes he'd made at a party, so he'd taken it to a studio to be cut as an acetate, where it had been heard by Joe Lubin of Arwin Records, who took the tape and got session musicians to overdub it: [Excerpt: Jan and Arnie, "Jennie Lee"] That record was released as by Jan and Arnie, rather than the Barons -- Dean Torrence was off doing six months in the army, to get out of being conscripted later. Torrence has always said that he could hear himself on the recording, and that it was one the Barons had done together, but everyone else involved has claimed that while the Barons did record a version of that song, the finished version only features Jan and Arnie's vocals. Don Altfeld didn't sing on it, because he was never allowed to sing in the Barons -- he was forced to just mouth along, which given that both Jan and Dean were known for regularly singing flat must say something about just how bad a singer he is -- though he did apparently hit a metal chair leg as percussion on the record. "Jennie Lee" went to number three on the Cashbox chart -- number eight on Billboard -- and was a big enough hit that it set a precedent for how all the records Jan Berry would be involved in for the next few years would be made -- he would record vocals and piano in his garage, with a ton of reverb, and then the backing track would be recorded to that, usually by the same group of musicians that played on records by people like Sam Cooke, Ritchie Valens, and other late-fifties LA singers -- a group centred around Ernie Freeman on piano and organ, Rene Hall on guitar, and Earl Palmer on drums. This was a completely backwards way of recording -- normally you'd have the musicians play the backing track first and then overdub the vocals on it -- but it was how they would carry on doing things for several years. Jan and Arnie's follow-up, "Gas Money", written by Berry, Ginsburg, and Altfeld, did less well, only making number eighty-one in the charts: [Excerpt: Jan and Arnie, "Gas Money"] And their third single didn't chart at all. By this point, Arnie Ginsburg was getting thoroughly sick of working with Jan Berry -- pretty much without exception everyone who knew Berry in the fifties and early sixties says two things about him -- that he was the single most intelligent person they ever met, and that he was a domineering egomaniac who used anyone he could remorselessly. Jan and Arnie split up, and Arwin Records seems to have decided to stick with Arnie, rather than Jan -- though this might have been because Arnie seemed *less* likely to have hits, as Dean Torrence has later claimed that Arwin was a tax dodge -- it was owned by Marty Melcher, Doris Day's husband, and seems to have been used as much to get out of paying as much tax on the family's vast wealth as it was a real record label. Whatever the reason, though, Arnie made one more single, as The Rituals, backed by many of the people who had played with The Barons -- Bruce Johnston, Sandy Nelson, and Dave Shostac, plus their regular collaborators Mike Deasy, Richie Polodor and Harper Cosby. It didn't chart: [Excerpt: The Rituals, "Girl in Zanzibar"] Dean Torrence, who had by now left the Army, saw his chance, and soon Jan and Arnie had become Jan and Dean -- after a brief phase in which it looked like they might persuade Dean to change his name in order to avoid losing the group name. They hooked up with a new management and production team, Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, who had both been working at Keen Records with Sam Cooke. Kim Fowley later said that it was him who persuaded Adler to sign the duo, but Kim Fowley said a lot of things, very few of them true. Adler and Alpert got the new duo signed to Doré Records, a small label based in LA, and their first release on the label was a cover version of a record originally by a group called the Laurels: [Excerpt: The Laurels, "Baby Talk"] Herb Alpert brought that song to the duo, and their version became a top ten hit, with Jan singing the low parts and Dean singing the lead: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Baby Talk"] The hit was big enough that budget labels released soundalike cover versions of it, one of which was by a duo called Tom and Jerry, who had been one hit wonders a year earlier: [Excerpt: Tom and Jerry, "Baby Talk"] That cover version was unsuccessful, something Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were probably very grateful for when they reinvented themselves as sensitive folkies a couple of years later. Around this time, Jan got his girlfriend pregnant. In order not to spoil their son's promising career -- as well as being a singer, he was also at university and planned to become a doctor -- Jan's parents adopted his son and raised the boy as their own son. The duo went on a tour with Little Willie John, Bobby Day, and Little Richard's old backing band The Upsetters, playing to mainly Black audiences -- a tour they were booked on because almost all West Coast doo-wop at that time was from Black singers. Once the mistake was realised, a decision was made to promote the new duo's image more -- lots of photos of the very blonde, very white, duo started to be released, as a way to reassure the white audience. The duo's film-star good looks assured them of regular coverage in the teen magazines, but they didn't have any more hits on Doré -- of the seven singles they released in the two years after "Baby Talk", none of them got to better than number fifty-three on the charts. Eventually the duo left Doré, and Jan released one solo single, "Tomorrow's Teardrops": [Excerpt: Jan Berry, "Tomorrow's Teardrops"] That was actually released as by Jan Barry, rather than Jan Berry, at a point when the duo had actually split up -- Dean was getting tired of not having any further hit records, and wanted to concentrate on his college work, while Berry was one of those people who needs to be doing several things simultaneously. Berry's new girlfriend Jill Gibson added backing vocals -- by this time he'd dumped the one he'd got pregnant -- and the song was written by Berry and Altfeld. Jan actually started his own label, Ripple Records -- named after the brand of cheap wine -- to release it, and Dean created the logo for him -- the first of many he would create over the years. However, the duo soon reunited, and came up with a plan which would have them only touring during the summer break, and doing local performances in the LA area on those weekends when neither had any homework. Now they needed to get signed to a major label. The one they wanted was Liberty, the label that Eddie Cochran had been on, and whose owner, Si Waronker, was actually the cousin of the owners of Doré. And they had recorded a track that they were sure would get them signed to Liberty. The Marcels had recently had a hit with their doo-wop revival of the old standard "Blue Moon": [Excerpt: The Marcels, "Blue Moon"] Jan had decided to make a soundalike arrangement of another song from the same period, using the same chord changes -- the old Hoagy Carmichael song "Heart and Soul": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Heart and Soul"] They were sure that would be a hit. But Herb Alpert wasn't -- he thought it was a dreadful record, He hated it so much, in fact, that he broke up his partnership with Lou Adler. The division of the partnership's assets was straightforward -- they owned Jan and Dean's contract, and they owned a tape recorder. Alpert got the tape recorder, and Adler got Jan and Dean. Alpert went on to have a string of hit records as a trumpet player, starting with "The Lonely Bull" in 1962: [Excerpt: Herb Alpert, "The Lonely Bull"] He later formed his own record label, A&M, and never seems to have regretted losing Jan & Dean. Jan and Dean took their tape of "Heart and Soul" to Liberty Records, who said that they did want to sign Jan and Dean, but they didn't want to release a record like that -- they told them to take it somewhere else, and then when the single was a flop, they could come back to Liberty and make some proper records. So the duo got a two-record deal with the small label Challenge Records, on the understanding that after those two singles they would move on to Liberty. And "Heart and Soul" turned out to be a big hit, making number twenty-five on the charts: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Heart and Soul"] Their second single on Challenge only made number one hundred and four, but by this time they knew the drill -- they'd release their first single on a new label, it would be a big hit, then everything after that would be a flop. But they were going to a new label anyway, and they were sure their first single on Liberty Records would be a huge hit, just like every time they changed labels. The first record they put out on Liberty was a cover of another oldie, "A Sunday Kind of Love", suggested by Si Waronker's son Lenny, who we'll be hearing a lot more about in future episodes. By this point Lou Adler was working for Aldon Music as their West Coast representative, and so the track was credited as "produced by Lou Adler for Nevins-Kirshner", but Jan was given a separate arrangement credit on the record. But despite their predictions that the single would be a hit because it was a new label, it only made number ninety-four on the charts. The follow-up, "Tennessee", was a song which had been more or less forced on them -- it was originally one of the recordings that Phil Spector produced during his short-lived contract with Liberty, for a group called the Ducanes, but when the Ducanes had made a hash of it, Liberty forced the song on Jan & Dean instead: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Tennessee"] By this time, while Ernie Freeman was still the studio leader of the session musicians, Jan was requesting a rather larger group of musicians, and they'd started recording the backing tracks first. The musicians on "Tennessee" included Tommy Allsup and Jerry Allison of the Crickets, Earl Palmer on drums, and Glen Campbell on guitar, but even these proven hit-makers couldn't bring the song to more than number sixty-nine on the charts. And even that was better than their next two singles, neither of which even made the Hot One Hundred -- though the fact that by this point they were reduced to recording versions of "Frosty The Snowman", and attempting to recapture their first hit with a sequel called "She's Still Talking Baby Talk" shows how desperately they were casting around for something, anything that could be a hit. Eventually they found something that worked. A group called the Regents had recently had a hit with "Barbara Ann": [Excerpt: The Regents, "Barbara Ann"] The duo had cut a cover version of that for their most recent album, and they thought it had worked well, and so they wanted something else that would allow Dean to sing a falsetto lead, over a bass vocal by Jan, with a girl's name in the title. They eventually hit on an old standard from the 1940s, originally written as a favour for the songwriter's lawyer, Lee Eastman, about his then one-year-old daughter Linda (who we'll be hearing more about later in this series). Their version of "Linda" finally gave them another hit after five flops in a row, reaching number twenty-eight in the charts: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Linda"] Their career was on an upswing again, and then everything changed for them when they played a gig with support from a local band who had just started having hits, the Beach Boys. The story goes that the Beach Boys were booked to do their own support slot and then to back Jan and Dean on their set. The show went down well with the audience, and they wanted an encore, but Jan and Dean had run out of rehearsed songs. So they suggested that the Beach Boys play their own two singles again, and Jan and Dean would sing with them. The group were flattered that two big stars like Jan and Dean would want to perform their songs, and eagerly joined in. Suddenly, Jan and Dean had an idea -- their next album was going to be called Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfin', but as yet they hadn't recorded any surf songs. They invited the Beach Boys to come into the studio and record new versions of their two singles for Jan & Dean's album, with Jan and Dean singing the leads: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys, "Surfin'"] The Beach Boys weren't credited for that session, as they were signed to another label, but it started a long collaboration between the two groups. In particular, the Beach Boys' leader Brian Wilson became a close collaborator with Berry. And at that same session, Wilson gave Jan and Dean what would become their biggest hit. After the recording, Jan and Dean asked Wilson if he had any new songs they might be able to do. The first one he played them, "Surfin' USA", he told them they couldn't do anything with as he wanted that for the Beach Boys themselves. But then he played them two others. The one that Jan and Dean saw most potential in was a song he'd completed, "Gonna Hustle You": [Excerpt: Brian Wilson, "Gonna Hustle You"] The duo wanted that as their next single, but Liberty Records flat out refused to put out something that sounded so dirty as "Gonna Hustle You". They tried rewriting it as "Get a Chance With You", but even that was too much. They put the song aside, though they'd return to it later as "The New Girl In School", which would become a minor hit for them. Instead, they worked on a half-completed song that Wilson had started, very much in the same mould as the first two Beach Boys singles, with the provisional title "Goodie Connie Won't You Please Come Home". This song would become the first of many Jan and Dean songs for which the songwriting credit is disputed. No-one argues with the fact that the basic idea of the song was Brian Wilson's, but Jan Berry's process was to get a lot of people to throw ideas in, sometimes working in a group, sometimes working separately and not even knowing that other people had been involved. The song is officially credited to Wilson and Berry, but Don Altfeld has also claimed he contributed to it, Dean Torrence says that he wrote about a quarter of the lyrics, and it's also been suggested that Roger Christian wrote the lyrics to the first verse. Christian was an LA-area DJ who was obsessed with cars, and had come to Wilson's attention after he'd said on the air that the Beach Boys' "409" was a great song about a bad car. He'd started writing songs with Wilson, and he would also collaborate with both Jan Berry and Wilson's friend Gary Usher (who was a big part of this scene but hardly ever worked with Jan and Dean because he hated Jan). Almost every car song from this period, by the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, or any number of studio groups, was co-written by Christian, and we'll be hearing more about him in a future episode. This group of people -- Jan and Dean, Brian Wilson, Roger Christian, and Don Altfeld -- would write together in various combinations, and write a lot of hits, but a lot of the credits were assigned more or less randomly -- though Jan Berry was almost always credited, and Dean Torrence almost never was. The completed song, titled "Surf City", was recorded with members of the Wrecking Crew -- the studio musicians who usually worked with Phil Spector -- performing the backing track. In this case, these were Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Earl Palmer, Bill Pitman, Ray Pohlman and Billy Strange -- there were two drummers because Berry liked a big drum sound. Brian Wilson was at the session, and soon after this he started using some of those musicians himself. While it was released as a Jan and Dean record, Dean doesn't sing on it at all -- the vocals featured Jan, three singers from another Liberty Records group called the Gents, and Brian Wilson, with Wilson and Tony Minichello of the Gents singing the falsetto parts that Dean would sing live: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Surf City"] That went to number one, becoming Jan and Dean's only number one, and Brian Wilson's first -- much to the fury of Wilson's father Murry, who thought that Wilson's hits should only be going to the Beach Boys. Murry Wilson may well have been more bothered by the fact that the publishing for the song went to Columbia/Screen Gems, to whom Jan was signed, rather than to Sea of Tunes, the company that published Wilson's other songs, and which was owned by Murry himself. Murry started calling Jan a "pirate", which prompted Berry to turn up to a Beach Boys session wearing a full pirate costume to taunt Murry. From "Linda" on, Jan and Dean had ten top forty hits with ten singles -- one of the B-sides also charted, but they did miss with "Here They Come From All Over The World", the theme tune for the TAMI Show, a classic rock concert film on which Jan and Dean appeared both as singers and as the hosts. That was by far their weakest single from this period, being as it is just a list of the musicians in the show, some of them described incorrectly -- the song talks about "The Rolling Stones from Liverpool" and James Brown being "the King of the Blues". All of these hits were made by the same team. The Wrecking Crew would play the instruments, the Gents -- now renamed the Matadors, and sometimes the Blossoms would provide backing vocals on the earlier singles. The later ones would feature the Fantastic Baggies instead of the Matadors -- two young songwriters, Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan, who were also making their own surf records. The lead would be sung by Jan, the falsetto by some combination of Brian Wilson, Dean Torrence, Tony Minichello and P.F. Sloan -- often Dean wouldn't appear at all. The singles would be written by some combination of Wilson, Berry, Altfeld and Christian, and the songs would be about the same subjects as the Beach Boys' records -- surf, cars, girls, or some combination of the three. Sometimes the records would be just repetitions of the formula, like "Drag City", which was an attempt at a second "Surf City": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Drag City"] But often there would be a self-parodic element that wasn't present in the Beach Boys' singles, as in "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena", a car song written by Berry, Christian, and Altfeld, based on a series of Dodge commercials featuring a car-racing old lady: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena"] And the grotesque "Dead Man's Curve", equal parts a serious attempt at a teen tragedy song and a parody of the genre, which took on a new meaning a few years after it was a hit: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"] But while 1963 and 64 saw the duo rack up an incredible run of hits, they were making enemies. Jan was so unpleasant to people by this point that even the teen mags would call him out, with Teen Scene in March 1964 running an article which read, in part, "Blast of the month goes to half of a certain group whose initials are J&D. Reason for the blast: his personality, which makes enemies faster than Carter makes pills... (It's the Jan Half)... Acting like Mr. Big Britches gets you nowhere, and your poor partner, who is one of the nicest guys on earth, shouldn't be forced to go around making apologies for your actions." And while Torrence may have been "one of the nicest guys on Earth", not all of his friends were. In fact, in December 1963, his closest friend, Barry Keenan, was the ringleader in the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. Keenan told Torrence about the plan in advance, and Torrence had lent Keenan a great deal of money, which Keenan used to finance the kidnapping. Torrence was accused of being a major part of the plot, though he was let off after testifying against the people who were actually involved -- he's always claimed that he thought that his friend's talking about his plan for the perfect crime was just talk, not a serious plan. Torrence had even offered suggestions, jokingly, which Keenan had incorporated -- and Keenan had left a bag containing fifty thousand dollars at Torrence's home, Torrence's share of the ransom money, which Torrence refused to keep. However, Sinatra Sr was annoyed enough at Torrence that a lot of plans for Jan and Dean TV shows and film appearances suddenly dried up. The lack of TV and film appearances was a particular problem as the music industry was changing under them, and surf and hot rod records weren't the in thing any more -- and Brian Wilson seems to have been less interested in working with them as well, as the Beach Boys overtook Jan and Dean in popularity. 1965 saw them trying to figure out the new, more serious, music scene, with experiments like Pop Symphony Number 1, an album of orchestral arrangements of the duo's hits by Berry (who minored in music at UCLA) and George Tipton: [Excerpt: The Bel-Aire Pops Orchestra, "Surf City"] The duo also tried going folk-rock, releasing an album called Folk 'n' Roll, which featured another variation on the "Surf City" and "Drag City" theme -- this one "Folk City": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Folk City"] That album didn't do well at all, not least because the lead-off single was a pro-war protest song, released as a Jan Berry solo single. Berry had become incensed by Buffy Saint-Marie's song "The Universal Soldier", and had written a right-wing response, "The Universal Coward": [Excerpt: Jan Berry, "The Universal Coward"] As you can imagine, that was not popular with the folk-rock crowd, especially coming as it did from someone who was still managing to avoid the draft by studying medicine, even as he was also a pop star. Torrence became so irritated with Berry, and with the music they were making, during the recording of that album that he ended up going down the hall to another studio, where the Beach Boys were recording their unplugged Party! album, and sitting in with them. He suggested they do a new recording of "Barbara Ann", and he sang lead on it, uncredited: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Barbara Ann"] That went to number two on the charts, becoming the biggest hit record that Torrence ever sang on. Torrence was happier with the next project, though, an album spoofing the popular TV show Batman, with several comedy sketches, along with songs about the characters from the TV show: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Batman"] But by this point, in 1966, Jan and Dean's singles were doing absolutely nothing in the charts. In March, Liberty Records dropped them. And then on April the twelfth, 1966, something happened that would end their chances of another comeback. Jan Berry had been in numerous accidents over the previous few years -- he was a thrill-seeker, and would often end up crashing cars or breaking bones. On April the twelfth, he had an appointment at the draft board, at which he was given bad news -- depending on which account you read, he was either told that his draft deferment was coming to an end and he was going to Vietnam straight away, or that he was going to Vietnam as soon as he graduated from medical school at the end of the school year. He was furious, and he got into his car. What happened next has been the subject of some debate. Some people say that a wheel came off his car -- and some have hinted that this was the result of some of Sinatra's friends getting revenge on Jan and Dean. Others just say he was driving carelessly, which he often did. Some have suggested that he was trying to deliberately get into a minor accident to avoid being drafted. Whatever happened, he was involved in a major accident, in which he, though luckily no-one else, was severely injured. He spent a month in a coma, and came out of it severely brain damaged. He had to relearn to read and speak, and for the rest of his life would have problems with his memory, his physical co-ordination, and his speech. Liberty kept releasing old Jan and Dean tracks, and even got them a final top twenty hit with "Popsicle", a song from a few years earlier. Dean made a Jan and Dean album, Save For a Rainy Day, without Jan, while Jan was still recovering, as a way of trying to keep their career options open if Jan ever got better. Dean put it out on the duo's own new label, J&D, and there were plans for Columbia to pick it up and give it a wider release, but Jan refused to sign the contracts -- he was furious that Dean had made a Jan and Dean record without him, and would have nothing to do with it. Torrence tried to have a music career anyway -- he put out a cover of the Beach Boys song "Vegetables" under the name The Laughing Gravy: [Excerpt: The Laughing Gravy, "Vegetables"] But he soon gave up, and became an artist, designing covers and logos for people like Harry Nilsson, Canned Heat, the Turtles, and the Beach Boys. Jan tried making his own Jan and Dean album without Dean, even though he was unable to sing again or write yet. With a lot of help from Roger Christian, he pulled together some old half-finished songs and finished them, got in some soundalike session singers and famous friends like Glen Campbell and Davy Jones of the Monkees and put together Carnival of Sound, an album that didn't get released until 2010: [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, “Girl You're Blowing My Mind"] In the mid-seventies, Jan and Dean got back together and started touring the nostalgia circuit, spurred by a TV movie, Dead Man's Curve, based on their lives. There seemed to be a love-hate relationship between them in later years -- they would split up and get back together, and their roles had reversed, with Dean now taking most of the leads on the shows -- Dean had to look after Jan a lot of the time, and some reports said that Jan had to relearn the words to the three songs he sang lead on every night. But with the aid of some excellent backing musicians, and with some love and tolerance from the audience for Jan's ongoing problems, they managed to regularly please crowds of thousands until a few weeks before Jan's death in 2004. Since then, Dean has mostly performed with the Surf City All-Stars, a band that sometimes also features Al Jardine and David Marks of the Beach Boys, playing a few shows a year. He released an autobiography in 2016 -- it came out at the same time as the autobiographies of Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, ensuring that even at this late date, he would be overshadowed by his more famous colleagues.
Episode one hundred and two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Twist and Shout" by the Isley Brothers, and the early career of Bert Berns. 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 "How Do You Do It?" by Gerry and the Pacemakers. 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---- Resources No Mixcloud this week, due to the number of songs by the Isleys. Amazingly, there are no books on the Isley Brothers, unless you count a seventy-two page self-published pamphlet by Rudolph Isley's daughter, so I've had to piece this together from literally dozens of different sources. For information about the Isley Brothers the main source was Icons of R&B and Soul by Bob Gulla. The information about Bert Berns comes from Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues by Joel Selvin. There are many compilations of the public-domain recordings of the Isleys. This one seems the most complete. This three-CD set, though, is the best overview of the group's whole career. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today we're going to look at one of the great Brill Building songwriters, and at a song he wrote which became a classic both of soul and of rock music. We're going to look at how a novelty Latin song based around a dance craze was first taken up by one of the greatest soul groups of the sixties, and then reworked by the biggest British rock band of all time. We're going to look at "Twist and Shout" by the Isley Brothers. [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Twist and Shout"] When we left the Isley Brothers, they had just signed to Atlantic, and released several singles with Leiber and Stoller, records like "Standing on the Dance Floor" that were excellent R&B records, but which didn't sell: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Standing on the Dance Floor"] In 1962 they were dropped by Atlantic and moved on to Wand Records, the third label started by Florence Greenberg, who had already started Tiara and Scepter. As with those labels, Luther Dixon was in charge of the music, and he produced their first single on the label, a relatively catchy dance song called "The Snake", which didn't catch on commercially: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "The Snake"] While "The Snake" didn't sell, the Isley Brothers clearly had some commercial potential -- and indeed their earlier hit "Shout" had just recharted, after Joey Dee and the Starliters had a hit with a cover version of it. All that was needed was the right song, and they could be as big as Luther Dixon's other group, the Shirelles. And Dixon had just the song for them -- a song co-written by Burt Bacharach, and sung on the demo by a young singer called Dionne Warwick. Unfortunately, they spent almost all the session trying and failing to get the song down -- they just couldn't make it work -- and eventually they gave up on it, and Bacharach produced the song for Jerry Butler, the former lead singer of the Impressions, who had a top twenty hit with it: [Excerpt: Jerry Butler, "Make it Easy on Yourself"] So they were stuck without a song to record -- and then Dixon's assistant on the session, Bert Berns, suggested that they record one of his songs -- one that had been a flop for another group the previous year. The story of "Twist and Shout" actually starts with a group called the Five Pearls, who made their first record in 1954: [Excerpt: The Five Pearls, "Please Let Me Know"] The Five Pearls recorded under various different names, and in various different combinations, for several different mid-sized record labels like Aladdin throughout the 1950s, but without much success -- the closest they came was when one of the members, Dave "Baby" Cortez, went solo and had a hit with "The Happy Organ" in 1959: [Excerpt: Dave "Baby" Cortez, "The Happy Organ"] But in 1960 two members of the Pearls -- who used different names at different points of their career, but at this point were calling themselves Derek Ray and Guy Howard, signed to Atlantic as a new duo called The Top Notes. Their first single under this name, "A Wonderful Time", did no better than any of their other records had -- but by their third single, they were being produced by a new staff producer -- Phil Spector, who had started taking on production jobs that Leiber and Stoller weren't interested in doing themselves, like a remake of the old folk song "Corrina, Corrina", which had been an R&B hit for Big Joe Turner and which Spector produced for the country singer Ray Peterson: [Excerpt: Ray Peterson, "Corrina, Corrina"] But soon after that, Spector had broken with Leiber and Stoller. Spector was given the opportunity to co-write songs for the new Elvis film, Blue Hawaii. But he was signed to a publishing contract with Leiber and Stoller's company, Trio Music, and they told Hill & Range that he could only do the songs if Trio got half the publishing, which Hill & Range refused -- there was apparently some talk of them going ahead anyway, but Hill & Range were scared of Trio's lawyer, one of the best in the entertainment industry. This wouldn't be the last time that Phil Spector and Lee Eastman ended up on the opposite sides of a disagreement. Shortly after that, Spector's contract mysteriously went missing from Trio's office. Someone remembered that Spector happened to have a key to the office. But by this point Spector had co-written or co-produced a fair few hits, and so he was taken on by Atlantic on his own merits, and so he and Jerry Wexler co-produced singles for the Top Notes, with arrangements by Teddy Randazzo, who we last heard of singing with accordion accompaniment in The Girl Can't Help It. The first of these Top Notes singles, "Hearts of Stone", was an obvious attempt at a Ray Charles soundalike, with bits directly lifted both from "What'd I Say" and Charles' hit "Sticks and Stones": [Excerpt: The Top Notes, "Hearts of Stone"] But the next Top Notes release was the song that would make them at least a footnote in music history. The writing credit on it was Bert Russell and Phil Medley, and while Medley would have little impact on the music world otherwise, the songwriter credited as Bert Russell is worth us looking at. His actual name was Bertrand Russell Berns -- he had been named after the famous philosopher -- and he was a man on a mission. He was already thirty-one, and he knew he didn't have long to live -- he'd had rheumatic fever as a child and it had given him an incurable heart condition. He had no idea how long he had, but he knew he wasn't going to live to a ripe old age. And he'd wasted his twenties already -- he'd tried various ways to get into showbiz, with no success. He'd tried a comedy double act, and at one point had moved to Cuba, where he'd tried to buy a nightclub but backed out when he'd realised it was actually a brothel. On his return to the US, he'd started working as a songwriter in the Brill Building. In the late fifties he worked for a while with the rockabilly singer Ersel Hickey -- no relation to me -- who had a minor hit with "Bluebirds Over the Mountain": [Excerpt: Ersel Hickey, "Bluebirds Over the Mountain"] Berns was proud just to know Hickey, though, because "Bluebirds Over the Mountain" had been covered by Ritchie Valens, and "La Bamba" was Berns' favourite record -- one he would turn to for inspiration throughout his career. He loved Latin music generally -- it had been one of the reasons he'd moved to Cuba -- but that song in particular was endlessly fascinating to him. He'd written and produced a handful of recordings in the early fifties, before his Cuba trip, but it was on his return that he started to be properly productive. He'd started producing novelty records with a friend called Bill Giant, like a song based on the Gettysburg Address: [Excerpt: Bert and Bill Giant, "The Gettysburg Address"] Or a solo record about the Alamo -- at the time Berns seemed to think that songs about American history were going to be the next big thing: [Excerpt: Bert Berns, "The Legend of the Alamo"] He'd co-written a song called "A Little Bird Told Me" with Ersel Hickey -- not the same as the song of the same name we talked about a year or so ago -- and it was recorded by LaVern Baker: [Excerpt: LaVern Baker, "A Little Bird Told Me"] And he and Medley co-wrote "Push Push" for Austin Taylor: [Excerpt: Austin Taylor, "Push Push"] But he was still basically a nobody in the music industry in 1961. But Jerry Wexler had produced that LaVern Baker record of "A Little Bird Told Me", and he liked Berns, and so he accepted a Berns and Medley cowrite for the next Top Notes session. The song in question had started out as one called "Shake it Up Baby", based very firmly around the chords and melody of "La Bamba", but reimagined with the Afro-Cuban rhythms that Berns loved so much -- and then further reworked to reference the Twist dance craze. Berns was sure it was a hit -- it was as catchy as anything he could write, and full of hooks. Berns was allowed into the studio to watch the recording, which was produced by Wexler and Spector, but he wasn't allowed to get involved -- and he watched with horror as Spector flattened the rhythm and totally rewrote the middle section. Spector also added in backing vocals based on the recent hit "Handy Man" -- a "come-a-come-a" vocal line that didn't really fit the song. The result was actually quite a decent record, but despite being performed by all the usual Atlantic session players like King Curtis, and having the Cookies do their usual sterling job on backing vocals, "Twist and Shout" by the Top Notes was a massive flop, and Berns could tell it would be even during the session: [Excerpt: The Top Notes, "Twist and Shout"] The Top Notes soon split up, making no real further mark on the industry -- when Guy Howard died in 1977, he had reverted to his original name Howard Guyton, and the Top Notes were so obscure that his obituaries focused on his time in one of the later touring versions of the Platters. Berns was furious at the way that Spector had wrecked his song, and decided that he was going to have to start producing his own songs, so they couldn't be messed up. But that was put on the back burner for a while, as he started having success. His first chart success as a songwriter was with a song he wrote for a minor group called the Jarmels. By this time, the Drifters were having a lot of success with their use of the same Latin and Caribbean rhythms that Berns liked, and so he wrote "A Little Bit of Soap" in the Drifters' style, and it made the top twenty: [Excerpt: The Jarmels, "A Little Bit of Soap"] He also started making non-novelty records of his own. Luther Dixon at Wand Records heard one of Berns' demos, and decided he should be singing, not just writing songs. Berns was signed to Wand Records as a solo artist under the name "Russell Byrd", and his first single for the label was produced by Dixon. The song itself is structurally a bit of a mess -- Berns seems to have put together several hooks (including some from other songs) but not thought properly about how to link them together, and so it meanders a bit -- but you can definitely see a family resemblance to "Twist and Shout" in the melody, and in Carole King's string arrangement: [Excerpt: Russell Byrd, "You'd Better Come Home"] That made the top fifty, and got Berns a spot on American Bandstand, but it was still not the breakout success that Berns needed. While Berns had been annoyed at Spector for the way he'd messed up "Twist and Shout", he clearly wasn't so upset with him that they couldn't work together, because the second Russell Byrd session, another Drifters knockoff, was produced by Spector: [Excerpt: Russell Byrd, "Nights of Mexico"] But Berns was still looking to produce his own material. He got the chance when Jerry Wexler called him up. Atlantic were having problems -- while they had big vocal groups like the Drifters and the Coasters, they'd just lost their two biggest male solo vocalists, as Bobby Darin and Ray Charles had moved on to other labels. They had recently signed a gospel singer called Solomon Burke, and he'd had a minor hit with a version of an old country song, "Just Out of Reach": [Excerpt: Solomon Burke, "Just Out of Reach"] Burke was the closest thing to a male solo star they now had, and clearly a major talent, but he was also a very opinionated person, and not easy to get on with. His grandmother had had a dream, twelve years before he was born, in which she believed God had told her of her future grandson's importance. She'd founded a church, Solomon's Temple: The House Of God For All People, in anticipation of his birth, and he'd started preaching there from the age of seven as the church's spiritual leader. Rather unsurprisingly, he had rather a large ego, and that ego wasn't made any smaller by the fact that he was clearly a very talented singer. His strong opinions included things like how his music was to be marketed. He was fine with singing pop songs, rather than the gospel music he'd started out in, as he needed the money -- he had eight kids, and as well as being a singer and priest, he was also a mortician, and had a side job shovelling snow for four dollars an hour -- but he wasn't keen on being marketed as "rhythm and blues" -- rhythm and blues was dirty music, not respectable. His music needed to be called something else. After some discussion with Atlantic, everyone agreed on a new label that would be acceptable to his church, one that had previously been applied to a type of mostly-instrumental jazz influenced by Black gospel music, but from this point on would be applied almost exclusively to Black gospel-influenced pop music in the lineage of Ray Charles and Clyde McPhatter. Burke was not singing rhythm and blues, but soul music. Wexler had produced Burke's first sessions, but he always thought he worked better when he had a co-producer, and he liked a song Berns had written, "Cry to Me", another of his Drifters soundalikes. So he asked Berns into the studio to produce Burke singing that song. The two didn't get on very well at first -- Burke's original comment on meeting Berns was "Who is this Paddy mother--" except he included the expletive that my general audience content rating prevents me from saying there -- but it's hard to argue with the results, one of the great soul records of all time: [Excerpt: Solomon Burke, "Cry to Me"] That made the top five on the R&B chart, and started a run of hits for Burke, whose records would continue to be produced by the team of Berns and Wexler for the next several years. After this initial production success, Berns started producing many other records, most of them again unsuccessful, like a cheap Twist album to cash in on the resurgent Twist craze. And he was still working with Wand records, which is what led to him being invited to assist Dixon with the Isley Brothers session for "Make it Easy on Yourself". When they couldn't get a take done for that track, Berns suggested that they make an attempt at "Twist and Shout", which he still thought had the potential to be a hit, and which would be perfectly suited to the Isley Brothers -- after all, their one hit was "Shout!", so "Twist and Shout" would be the perfect way for them to get some relevance. The brothers hated the song, and they didn't want to record any Twist material at all -- apparently they were so vehemently against recording the song that furniture got smashed in the argument over it. But Luther Dixon insisted that they do it, and so they reluctantly recorded "Twist and Shout", and did it the way Bert Berns had originally envisioned it, Latin feel and all: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Twist and Shout"] It's a testament to Ronald Isley's talent, in particular, that he sounds utterly committed on the record despite it being something he had no wish to take part in at all. The record made the top twenty on the pop chart and number two in R&B, becoming the Isleys' first real mainstream hit. It might have even done better, but for an unfortunate coincidence -- "Do You Love Me" by the Contours, a song written by Berry Gordy, was released on one of the Motown labels a couple of weeks later, and had a very similar rising vocal hook: [Excerpt: The Contours, "Do You Love Me"] "Do You Love Me" was a bigger hit, making number three in the pop charts and number one R&B, but it's hard not to think that the two records being so similar must have eaten into the market for both records. But either way, "Twist and Shout" was a proper big hit for the Isleys, and one that established them as real stars, and Berns became their regular producer for a while. Unfortunately, both they and Berns floundered about what to do for a follow-up. The first attempt was one of those strange records that tries to mash up bits of as many recent hits as possible, and seems to have been inspired by Jan & Dean's then-recent hit with a revival of the 1946 song "Linda": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Linda"] That song was, coincidentally, written about the daughter of Lee Eastman, the lawyer we mentioned earlier. "Twistin' With Linda", the brothers' response, took the character from that song, and added the melody to the recent novelty hit "Hully Gully", lyrical references to "Twist and Shout" and Chubby Checker's Twist hits, and in the tag Ronald Isley sings bits of "Shout", "Don't You Just Know It", "Duke of Earl", and for some reason "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man": [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Twistin' With Linda"] That only made the lower reaches of the charts. Their next single was "Nobody But Me", which didn't make the hot one hundred, but would later be covered by the Human Beinz, making the top ten in their version in 1968: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Nobody But Me"] With Berns still producing, the Isleys moved over to United Artists records, but within a year of "Twist and Shout", they were reduced to remaking it as "Surf and Shout", with lyrics referencing another Jan and Dean hit, "Surf City": [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Surf and Shout"] Oddly, while they were doing this, Berns was producing them on much more interesting material for album tracks, but for some reason, even as Berns was also by now producing regular hits for Solomon Burke, Ben E King and the Drifters, the Isleys were stuck trying to jump on whatever the latest bandwagon was in an attempt at commercial success. Even when they were writing songs that would become hits, they were having no success. The last of the songs that Berns produced for them was another Isleys original, "Who's That Lady?": [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Who's That Lady?"] That would become one of the group's biggest hits, but not until they remade it nine years later. It was only two years since "Twist and Shout", but the Isley Brothers were commercially dead. But the success of "Twist and Shout" -- and their songwriting royalties from "Shout" -- gave them the financial cushion to move to comparatively better surroundings -- and to start their own record label. They moved to Teaneck, New Jersey, and named their new label T-Neck in its honour. They also had one of the best live bands in the US at the time, and the first single on T-Neck, "Testify", produced by the brothers themselves, highlighted their new guitar player, Jimmy James: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Testify"] But even while he was employed by the Isleys, Jimmy James was playing on other records that were doing better, like Don Covay's big hit "Mercy, Mercy": [Excerpt: Don Covay and the Goodtimers, "Mercy, Mercy"] And he soon left the Isleys, going on first to tour with a minor soul artist supporting Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson, and then to join Little Richard's band, playing on Richard's classic soul ballad "I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me", also written by Don Covay: [Excerpt: Little Richard, "I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me"] We'll be picking up the story of Jimmy James in a couple of months' time, by which point he will have reverted to his birth name and started performing as Jimi Hendrix. But for the moment, this is where we leave Hendrix and the Isley Brothers, but they will both, of course, be turning up again in the story. But of course, that isn't all there is to say about "Twist and Shout", because the most famous version of the song isn't the Isleys'. While the Beatles' first single had been only a minor hit, their second, "Please Please Me", went to number one or two in the UK charts, depending on which chart you look at, and they quickly recorded a follow-up album, cutting ten songs in one day to add to their singles to make a fourteen-track album. Most of the songs they performed that day were cover versions that were part of their live act -- versions of songs by Arthur Alexander, the Cookies, and the Shirelles, among others. John Lennon had a bad cold that day, and so they saved the band's live showstopper til last, because they knew that it would tear his throat up. Their version of "Twist and Shout" was only recorded in one take -- Lennon's voice didn't hold up enough for a second -- but is an undoubted highlight of the album: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Twist and Shout"] Suddenly Bert Berns had a whole new market to work in. And so when we next look at Bert Berns, he will be working with British beat groups, and starting some of the longest-lasting careers in British R&B.
My podcast is doing VERY well! Thank you for downloading, listening on Podbean, iTunes, and wherever good podcasts are found. I love doing this work. Obscure music is a passion of mine. Billy Bossman - Up The Road (1965) Junco Partner rip-off The Bompers - Do The Bomp (1965) Written by Carol Connors and Roger Christian The Creations IV - Dancin' In The Sand (1965) Featured in an episode of the Flintstones, this was the work of studio musicians including Larry Goldberg, the man entrusted to run the label's rock output. Also likely to be involved from the start was Danny Hutton, later of the Three Dog Night. Jean King - Watermelon Man (1966) Taken from her live-in-the-studio HBR long-player "Sings For The In-Crowd". Recent pro-draft duo Jan & Dean are among those supplying the live ambiance. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Calico Silver (1972) Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Elvira (1970) Later, a massive hit for long-time gospel group The Statler Brothers. Skafish - Sign Of The Cross (rarely heard studio version) (1976) Jim Skafish on Facebook: "When I wrote Sign of the Cross in 1976, it was the first blatantly sacrilegious rock song in history. I was rebelling against a lifetime of religious abuse. The recording most of you know of the song is from the concert film Urgh! A Music War! You might also like the first known live recording of the song at this time, which is from my 21st birthday party concert in Chicago! The intensity is otherwordly! Get bonus points for blasting it on Sundays!" This reporter opines that the live version you know from Urgh! A Music War kicks this version's ass. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Tell It All, Brother (1970) Kenneth Rogers - That Crazy Feeling (1958) Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Dirty Work (1974) A pretty awful version of the Becker/Fagen classic sound-wise, I know. But it speaks to KR's band's attempts to broaden their audience before ol' KR split for greener pastures. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Lena Lookie (1973) Almost prog! Jimmy Ellis (aka Orion) & "Carl Perkins" - Matchbox (1975) The Carl Perkins recording was probably way before Orion came to Sun Studios and "duetted" with Perkins. I did a whole show segment of a previous show on Orion and his "duet" with Jerry Lee Lewis. Murray's Monkeys - Gipsy [sp] (1966) Songwriter Mitch Murray and his group. Scatman Crothers - What's A Nice Kid Like You Doing In A Place Like This? (1966) Airing in March '66 on ABC, "The New Alice In Wonderland" was an animated special featuring Sammy Davis Jr. among its stellar voiceover cast. When Davis couldn't be secured for the soundtrack LP, veteran actor/musician Crothers took his place as the Cheshire Cat on the only track to see release on a 45. Simon T. Stokes - Big City Blues (1966) The First Edition - Marsha 2 AM (1967) The Riot Squad - I Take It That We're Thru (1966) Featuring Joe Meek of Telstar fame. The WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band -Hippy Elevator Operator (1966) Oh to be a record collector in the late '60s. Thema Camacho - Take Me To The River (1980) Charlie Ross - Without Your Love (Mr. Jordan) (1976) The Guess Who? - Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (1967) Sylvester & The Hot Band - Southern Man (1973) Burson Enterprise - Mr. Soul (1968)
The one about "Dead Man's Curve" (Jan & Dean cover). Featuring Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean. Dean shows up around 1:33:04. Get more episodes of Blink-155 at http://www.patreon.com/blink155
First broadcast at 9.30am on Wednesday 15th April 2020. This was our sixtheenth radio show, we ran a live blogging activity alongside our broadcast with our hosts Pie Corbett, Deputy Mitchell, Ian Rockey and Russell Prue. This is about Creative Writing, Writing for a Purpose and engaging young folks in Storytelling and Story-writing. This project was setup to assist colleagues in their classrooms during the Coronavirus School Closures and to help those home educating. We're running all this week during the holidays. Follow us on Twitter @RadioBlogging Twitter.com/RadioBlogging We're also on Facebook www.Facebook.com/RadioBlogging Please visit our page and share as widely as possible. Today our opening starter games were,What I Like, What I Hate, Thyme Game and How to Make A Monster. Today we had Brian Moses on the show, he read two poems. Comment Corner was featured where we work live online with your writing during the show. Today our Authors were Sue Hardy-Dawson and Jan Dean. You can also join Russell and Ian on Sundays at 3pm for their Radio Blogging All Request Sunday Live Show here on RadioBlogging.Net Get your messages in early. Text the Studio whilst listening for a mention 07624 802 272 Email the team for a shoutout RadioBlogging@gmail.com Find out more about our project www.RadioBlogging.Net and to Blog along with the Show. The blog is open 24/7 so please keep blogging until we're next on AIR. WE ARE LIVE WEEKDAYS FROM 9.30AM Copyright music has been removed. Find out more about our Live Broadcasting Workshops at www.AndertonTiger.com/Workshop and the equipment that we use that costs a lot less than you think, details at www.AndertonTiger.com/HUB
First broadcast at 9.30am on Tuesday 14th April 2020. This was our fifteenth radio show, we ran a live blogging activity alongside our broadcast with our hosts Pie Corbett, Deputy Mitchell, Ian Rockey and Russell Prue. This is about Creative Writing, Writing for a Purpose and engaging young folks in Storytelling and Story-writing. This project was setup to assist colleagues in their classrooms during the Coronavirus School Closures and to help those home educating. We're running all this week during the holidays. Follow us on Twitter @RadioBlogging Twitter.com/RadioBlogging We're also on Facebook www.Facebook.com/RadioBlogging Please visit our page and share as widely as possible. Today our opening starter games were, Sentence by Sentence, Sasy a Sentence from a Fairy Tale, Riddle and Previously. In today's show we played some recordings from Breaking News from our Thursday's show and went into our first activity, Ingredients for a Story, then Dangerous Sentences and Comment Corner. Today our Authors were Sue Hardy-Dawson and Jan Dean. You can also join Russell and Ian on Sundays at 3pm for their Radio Blogging All Request Sunday Live Show here on RadioBlogging.Net Get your messages in early. Text the Studio whilst listening for a mention 07624 802 272 Email the team for a shoutout RadioBlogging@gmail.com Find out more about our project www.RadioBlogging.Net and to Blog along with the Show. The blog is open 24/7 so please keep blogging until we're next on AIR. WE ARE LIVE WEEKDAYS FROM 9.30AM Copyright music has been removed. Find out more about our Live Broadcasting Workshops at www.AndertonTiger.com/Workshop and the equipment that we use that costs a lot less than you think, details at www.AndertonTiger.com/HUB
First broadcast at 9.30am on Wednesday 25th March 2020. This was our third radio show, we ran a live blogging activity alongside our broadcast with our hosts Pie Corbett, Deputy Mitchell, Ian Rockey and Russell Prue. This is about Creative Writing, Writing for a Purpose and engaging our folks in Storytelling and Story-writing. This project was setup to assist colleagues in their classrooms during the Coronavirus School Closures and to help those home educating. Follow us on Twitter @RadioBlogging Twitter.com/RadioBlogging Today we played a starter with Ian an Pie, Alliterative Alphabet plus Unfortunately / Luckily, then went onto The Toughest Things, Rainbow image, things you can do with a rainbow. Wolf image was next then Jan Dean's poem, Observation writing, Sue Hardy-Dawson and interview. Skater story moved forward one episode ad some extension activity. Text the Studio whilst listening for a mention 07624 802 272 Email the team for a shoutout RadioBlogging@gmail.com Find out more about our project www.RadioBlogging.Net and to Blog along with the Show. The blog is open 24/7 so please keep blogging until we're next on AIR. WE ARE LIVE WEEKDAYS FROM 9.30AM Copyright music has been removed. Find out more about our Live Broadcasting Workshops at www.AndertonTiger.com/Workshop and the equipment that we use that costs a lot less than you think, details at www.AndertonTiger.com/HUB
First broadcast at 9.30am on Tuesday 24th March 2020. This was our second radio show, we ran a live blogging activity alongside our broadcast with our hosts Pie Corbett, Deputy Mitchell, Ian Rockey and Russell Prue. This is about Creative Writing, Writing for a Purpose and engaging our folks in Storytelling and Story-writing. Today we played a quick-fire starter game with Pie and Ian, then moved onto Similes with the photo of a crescent moon to stimulate discussion. Jan Dean's poem The Grasshopper featured in the show with discussion around the topic, we also listened again to Coral Rumble's Delicate Things. Skater the story was moved forward by Pie and we talked about Character writing. This project was setup to assist colleagues in their classrooms during the Coronavirus School Closures and to help those home educating. Follow us on Twitter @RadioBlogging Twitter.com/RadioBlogging Text the Studio whilst listening for a mention 07624 802 272 Email the team for a shoutout RadioBlogging@gmail.com Find out more about our project www.RadioBlogging.Net and to Blog along with the Show. The blog is open 24/7 so please keep blogging until we're next on AIR. WE ARE LIVE WEEKDAYS FROM 9.30AM Copyright music has been removed. Find out more about our Live Broadcasting Workshops at www.AndertonTiger.com/Workshop and the equipment that we use that costs a lot less than you think, details at www.AndertonTiger.com/HUB
It's our 3rd "Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun" game where we spin a wheel and play whichever Beach Boys cover tune it lands on. This time we hear Beach Boys covers from The Neanderthals, The Astronauts, Dave Edmunds, Dave Alvin and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Plus, we spin tunes from Jan & Dean, The Chantays, Black Flamingos, Man Or Astro-Man, The Ventures, Chris Casello Trio, Die Space Hobos, our weekly trivia question and more!! Intro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Catch A Wave" Die Space Hobos- "Splashback" The Ventures- "The Switch" The Beach Boys- "Hawaii" The Margraves- "That Somethin'" Chris Casello Trio- "Apache" Black Flamingos- "The Gurch" Bruce Johnston- "Green Onions" Man Or Astro-Man?- "Clean Up On Isle #9" The Fender IV- "Highway Surfer" The El Caminos- "Shock Wave" Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun 3: The Neanderthals- "Be True To Your School" The Astronauts- "Surfin' USA" Dave Edmunds- "God Only Knows" Dave Alvin- "Surfer Girl" Red Hot Chili Peppers- "I Get Around" The Surfaris- "Wipe Out" Jan & Dean- "I Gotta Drive" The Kilaueas- "Black Phantom Twang" The Chantays- "Tragic Wind" Outro music bed- Jan & Dean- "Skateboarding (Part 1)"
We spin newly released tracks from the archives of Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys on this week's Catching A Wave! We also hear from Dick Dale, Freddy Cannon, Terry Anderson, The Lively Ones, Southern Culture On The Skids, The Volcanics, our weekly trivia question and more! Intro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Catch A Wave" Jan & Dean- "Prelude/ Honolulu Lulu" The Huntington Cads- "Never To Return" The Beach Boys- "Aren't You Glad" The Bobby Fuller Four- "Our Favorite Martian" Doyley & The Twanglords- "D-Twang" The New Dimensions- "Rumblebee" The Lively Ones- "Tranquilizer" Jan & Dean- "Brass Sectional Introductions/ Dead Man's Curve" The Persuaders- "Surfer Strip" The Volcanics- "Girls, Girls, Girls" The Beach Boys- "Can't Wait Too Long" The Verbtones- "Saturday Night On Mars" Jan & Dean- "Hang On Sloopy/ Jan & Dean, They'll Be Back" Dick Dale- "Surfin' Rebel" Freddy Cannon- "Tallahasse Lassie" The Flame- "See The Light" Terry Anderson- "Carl Wilson" The Beach Boys- "Surfer Girl (1967 A Cappella Mix) Southern Culture On The Skids- "The Sweeper" Outro music bed: The Beach Boys- "That's Why God Made The Radio" (instrumental)
Veteran musician Randell Kirsch is our guest on this week's Catching A Wave! We discuss early influences, early group The Pranks (with Jeff Foskett), playing with multiple bands (Jan & Dean, The Beach Boys, Papa Doo Run Run, Al Jardine & Friends, Bamboo Trading Company, etc.), playing in Show Of Hands with his wife LuAnn and friend Chris Hickey, writing songs for Full House, playing with Christian Love and so much more! Intro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Catch A Wave" Papa Doo Run Run- "Summertime Summer Nights" Randell Kirsch segment 1 The Pranks- "What's The Point" Segment 2 Jan & Dean- "Sidewalk Surfin'" Jane Wiedlin- "Blue Kiss" Segment 3 Show Of Hands- "Try Too Hard" Segment 4 Snippet of John Stamos- "Michelle's Smiling" Segment 5 Papa Doo Run Run- "I'll Meet You On The Sand" Randell Kirsch- "Gimme A Hug" Segment 6 Randell Kirsch- "God Only Knows" Segment 7 Randell Kirsch & Christian Love- "Big Electricity" Al Jardine & Friends- "Surfin' USA" Segment 8 The Bamboo Trading Company- "Don't Say It's Over" Segment 9 Randell Kirsch- "True Love Again" Jan & Dean- "I Get Around" Outro music bed: Papa Doo Run Run- "The Giant Dipper"
Mike Love is our guest again for part 2 of our interview on Catching A Wave. We discuss the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations", recent interview with Dan Rather, 2015's single release of "You'll Never Be Alone On Christmas Day", new music, special request and more! We also hear more Christmas tunes from Jan & Dean, The Ventures, Los Straitjackets, Phil Keaggy and surfin' tunes from The Chantays, Dick Dale, Bang Mustang, The Sabres, Al Casey and Southern Culture On The Skids! Intro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Catch A Wave" Los Straitjackets- "Feliz Navidad" Jan & Dean- "Frosty The Snowman" Al Casey- "Surfs You Right" The Sabres- "Stink Bomb" Southern Culture On The Skids- "Rumours Of Surf" Mike Love interview The Beach Boys- "I Get Around" Segment 1 The Beach Boys- "Good Vibrations" Segment 2 The Beach Boys- "Goin' To The Beach" Segment 3 Mike Love- "Hungry Heart" Segment 4 Mike Love- "You'll Never Be Alone On Christmas Day" Segment 5 The Beach Boys- "All This Is That" The Ventures- "Blue Christmas" Phil Keaggy- "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" Bang Mustang- "Stranded" Dick Dale- "Mr. Eliminator" The Chantays- "Banzai" Outro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Carl's Big Chance"
Keith Sykes, singer-songwriter and former member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, is our guest this week as we discuss writing with Jimmy Buffett, songwriting tips and his latest EP, Songs From A Little Beach Town. Plus, we have a quick chat with Chris Isaak about Dick Dale. We also hear tracks from Jerry Cole & His Spacemen, Elvis Presley, The Martian Denny Orchestra, Jan & Dean, The Beach Boys, Jinx Jones, The Kanaloas and The El Caminos! Intro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Catch A Wave" Jerry Cole & His Spacemen- "Papa Oom Mow Mow" The El Caminos- "Surf Teen Beat" Keith Sykes interview Keith Sykes- "Come As You Are Beach Bar" Segment 1 Jimmy Buffett- "Volcano" Segment 2 Keith Sykes- "Little Beach Town" Segment 3 Keith Sykes- "The Best Day" Eddie & The Showmen- "Movin'" Jan & Dean- "Walk Like A Man" The Beach Boys- "We Got Love" The Kanaloas- "The Day Of Malibu War" Jinx Jones- "Thunderball" Elvis Presley- "Hawaiian Sunset" Chris Isaak- "Sweet Leilani" Chris Isaak on Dick Dale Dick Dale- "The Wedge" The Martian Denny Orchestra- "On The Move" Outro music bed: Junior Brown- "Surf Medley"
Dean Torrence joins us again for part 2 of our interview as we discuss the T.A.M.I. show, working with Steve Martin, Kittyhawk Graphics, Jan & Dean's tv pilot vs The Monkees, on stage with The Beach Boys, longevity and more! We also hear tunes from Duane Eddy, The Belairs, Dennis Wilson, The Beach Boys, Hal Blaine, Bamboo Trading Company and the Ramones covering Jan & Dean! Intro music bed: The Beach Boys- "Catch A Wave" Duane Eddy- "Yep" The Belairs- "Volcanic Action" Dennis Wilson- "Pacific Ocean Blue" The Beach Boys- "Rock N Roll Music" Hal Blaine & The Young Cougars- "Dance With The Surfin' Band" Dean Torrence interview Segment 1 Jan & Dean- "(Here They Come) From All Over The World" Segment 2 Jan & Dean- "Like A Summer Rain" Segment 3 Snippet of The Monkees- "(Theme From) The Monkees" Dean Torrence- "Baby Talk" Segment 4 Laughing Gravy- "Vegetables" Segment 5 Jan & Dean- "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" The Bamboo Trading Company- "Shrewd Awakening" Segment 6 Jan & Dean- "Drag City" Ramones- "Surf City" Outro music bed: Dick Dale- "Del-Tone Rock"
Je hoort muziek van Showaddywaddy, Jan & Dean, Sarah Lee Langford, The Lasses, Fairport Convention en Dr. John.
With Chubby Checker, Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, The Mello Kings, The Shirelles, Lloyd Price... The Rock & Roll Era still sees the light of day with the weekly show. Our twin spin this week is Billy Bland's "Let The Little Girl Dance" and its b-side "Sweet Thing" for the class of '60. A few interesting throw-ins this week by Donnie Elbert and his cover version of "I Can't Help Myself" and a Frankie Valli sounding Razor's Edge and their minor mid-60s tune called "Let's Call It A Day".
IncLuding Buddy Holly, Roy Hamilton, The Beach Boys, The Platters, Dean & Jean, Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline... We get things started with a new enhanced version of Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy" then move onto a captivating "Ebb Tide" by Roy Hamilton. This week's twin spin includes a refreshing "Surf City" by Jan & Dean and it's b-side "She's My Summer Girl."
Including Nat King Cole, The Rivieras, Sam Cooke, Jan & Dean, Billy Vaughan, Brian Hyland... Right after we kick it off with Nat King Cole, you'll hear the '65 of California Sun by the Rivieras. Our twin spin is Freddy Cannon's "Palisades Park" and its b-side "June, July & August". Later on you'll hear the very original "See You in September" by the Tempos for the class of '60.
Featuring The Shutdowns, Connie Francis, Bruce & Terry, Gary U.S. Bonds, Steve Lawrence, Jan & Dean, Ruby & The Romantics... Summer is here and join us for a sizzling show of all summer oldies themed songs. Our twin spin is the Danleers' "One Summer Night" and its b-side "Wheelin' & Dealin'"
The Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee who’s been called The Father of Nashville Rock talks about a successful career that’s seen his songs covered by everyone from Martina McBride to The Beatles. EPISODE DETAILS: PART ONE Scott and Paul talk about the last chance to enter to win a signed copy of Layng Martine's memoir, Permission to Fly, as well as ask listeners to send in their recordings they've had produced by our friend Justin at Pearl Snap Studios. PART TWO - 3:18 mark The guys talk about Rocketman, the new Elton John film, and get into a larger discussion about whether or not factual accuracy is important when it comes to music biopics. PART THREE - 11:54 mark Paul and Scott call up Buzz at his studio to get the lowdown on how he launched Nashville’s first rock band with a saxophonist who could only play one note; how gigging with Jerry Lee Lewis landed his group a job as Brenda Lee’s backup band; the time he snuck into a radio station after hours to record one of his earliest original songs; why he didn’t know The Beatles had covered one of his tunes until 20 years after the fact; which record he produced that has a dirty joke hidden in the master number on the label of the 45; the way he ended up recording as “Alvin” on the Chipmunks records; why a Bible verse inspired his biggest hit; what he thought when he heard U2’s interpretation of “Everlasting Love,” and how an album project that didn’t go anywhere still led to one of his biggest hits as a songwriter. ABOUT BUZZ CASON Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee Buzz Cason has been called The Father of Nashville Rock. He is best known as the co-writer of two R&B classics: “Soldier of Love” - which has been recorded by Arthur Alexander, The Beatles, and Pearl Jam – and “Everlasting Love,” which was recorded by Robert Knight, Carl Carlton, Gloria Estefan, and U2. Cason began his music career with his own group, The Casuals, which eventually became Brenda Lee’s backing band. He scored one Top 20 pop hit as an artist with “Look For a Star” under the name Gary Miles before hitting the charts as a songwriter with Jan & Dean’s recordings of the songs “Tennessee” and “Popsicle,” as well as Ronny & The Daytonas’ recording of “Sandy.” Robert Knight’s version of “Everlasting Love” became a Top 20 hit on both the Pop and R&B charts around the same time Cason produced soul singer Clifford Curry’s classic “She Shot a Hole in My Soul.” Cason later found success in the country market with Tommy Overstreet’s chart-topping “Ann (Don’t Go Runnin’)," T.G. Sheppard’s Top 20 hit “Another Woman,” a string of Top 40 singles with Freddy Weller, as well as Top 10 with singles by Mel Tillis and the McCarters. Martina McBride had a major country hit with “Love’s the Only House,” which Buzz co-wrote with Tom Douglas. Additionally, his songs have been recorded by a diverse range of artists, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Rick Nelson, Dolly Parton, the Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Buffett, Alan Jackson, and Placido Domingo.
Looks like the dynamic duo are now both in trouble with mother after she tuned in for last weeks show. Brother Peter is the new golden child but can the crazy duo redeem themselves ??? […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_murphyslaw/p/joy.org.au/murphyslaw/wp-content/uploads/sites/209/2019/05/190513-MurphysLaw-Anna-Hawaii-Tshirt.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:52 — 17.1MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Mother is -not happy Jan! Dean has a love story and Anna makes a fashion faux pas appeared first on Murphys Law.
**It's The Relax With Rendell Show Replay On Trax FM & Rendell Radio. This Week Rendell Featured Tracks Like 3rd Force, 7th Wonder, Azymouth, BB Boogie, Barry Mann, The Beach Boys, Chris Jasper, Con Funk Shun, The Dazz Band, Fantasy, Imaa, Jan & Dean, Johnnie Taylor, m People, Whitfield Batson…..& More. Catch Rendell Every Saturday From 7PM UK Time The Stations: Trax FM & Rendell Radio #traxfm #rendellradio #soul #funk #70ssoul #80ssoul #60s #boogie #disco #easylistening #soulclassics #reggae #nusoul #relaxwithrendell Listen Here: www.traxfm.org Free Trax FM Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.traxfmradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/original103.3/ OnLine Radio Box: http://onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs=uk.trax Tune In Radio : https://tunein.com/radio/Trax-FM-s225176/ Radio Deck: http://www.radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: http://traxfmlondon.radio.net/ Stream Radio : http://streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: http://www.liveonlineradio.net/english/trax-fm-103-3.htm **
Today we are joined by Dean Torrence, Doug Cavanaugh and Bamboo Ben from the private debut of Jan & Dean's Tiki Lounge in Huntington Beach, California. Jan & Dean's Tiki Lounge is a fun tiki and surf themed dining space located in Ruby's Diner at the end of the Huntington Beach Pier built by our friend, Bamboo Ben. We chat with Ben about the build of this special space along with Doug Cavanaugh, the son of Ruby herself and of course, Dean Torrence from the iconic musical group Jan & Dean, from which the room is named! This episode is sponsored by Tanduay Rum, Tonga Hut, Tiki Bar T-Shirt Club, Jason's Tiki Adventures, Steadfast Pomade and Tiki-Ti. Stop by their FB and IG pages and give them a like!
This episode of Back to Mono originally aired on COOLMOVESRADIO in 2018. As part of an effort to restore the entire Back to Mono catalogue to podcast services, I have uploaded it here for your enjoyment. However, please be aware that as a result of this the sonic quality of this episode is not up to scale with more recent episodes, but the music and discussion most certainly is. Here's my original description: With tracks from the likes of Jan & Dean, Same Cooke, David Bowie, The Monkees and The Beatles, you don't want to miss Freddie's 3rd installment of Back to Mono! Happy Listening - Frederick backtomonoradio@gmail.com backtomono.podbean.com
RARE & SCRATCHY ROCK 'N ROLL_065 - PART 1 OF A 2-PART ROCKUMENTARY ON THE COMPLETE HIT SINGLES HISTORY OF GLEN CAMPBELL This is part one of a two-part series saluting the six-decade career of one of the most prolific recording artists in rock, pop, country, and even religious music history. When his initial 45s failed to click, he became an acclaimed session guitarist for nearly a decade. He played on hundreds of hits, backing countless acts such as Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, the Righteous Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, the Monkees, Jan & Dean, and the Beach Boys. In fact, our featured artist was a touring member of the Beach Boys before he achieved his own superstar status. He’s ranked with the greatest guitarists of all time, yet he reportedly couldn’t read a note of music. He’s Glen Campbell. And in this part one of this two-part rockumentary, we’ll cover his career from the late 1950’s through the early 1970s, including some extremely rare 45s, along with every hit single he placed on the rock, pop, and country charts.
Johnny meets Sam, Glen strums for Jan & Dean, Merle has a number one album, “Little House” wraps, Clint Black cruises with a number one single, and we meet the Robertson family for the first time.
As artists back photographer Nan Goldin's call to hold arts patrons the Sackler family to account over the US opioid crisis, we discuss the ethics of funding the arts. Soul singer Mica Paris talks about her current projects exploring the life and work of legendary jazz pioneer Ella Fitzgerald, and performs live in the studio.Jim Crace has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. He talks to John about his new novel The Melody. Set in an unnamed town on the Mediterranean, its main character is a composer facing loneliness as a recent widower. The novel, Jim Crace says, has its roots in seeing child foragers on a rubbish dump in India. And to mark the centenary of some women being granted the vote in 1918 we hear the poem Suffragette written by Jan Dean. It's from the anthology Reaching the Stars which contains poems about extraordinary women and girls.Presenter : John Wilson Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
Episode 17 — Dean Torrence discusses Filet Of Soul Redux Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean discusses the duo's long lost comedy/music skewering project.[Airdate: 2017] Visit ESQuarterly.com to learn more about Endless Summer Quarterly magazine. Filet Of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings
The son of guitarist Tommy Tedesco pays tribute to his late father and a core group of studio musicians who played on some of the biggest hits of the 1960s and '70s, including "California Girls" and "Mrs. Robinson.The Wrecking Crew was a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 1960s who played on hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. The amount of work that they were involved in was tremendous. They were also involved in groups that I like to call the Milli Vanillis of the day. A producer would get the guys in and lay down some instrumental tracks. If it became a hit, they would record an album and put a group together to go on the road. This happened many times with groups like the Marketts, Routers, and T-Bones. The next day they would do the same thing and call it another name. Same musicians, but different group name.
This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Surf City USA at the new Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach, California. Joining Peter will be Dean Torrence, co-founder, co-lead singer, and co-writer of Jan & Dean, discusses the history of the group, from its early years to the newly evolved Surf City AllStars, along with how he trademarked the iconic name “Surf City USA.” The legendary PT Townend, world surfing champion, talks about the upcoming 40th anniversary of pro surfing, as well as what changes have come to the sport, and the future of surfing in the 2020 Olympics. Chris Epting, historian and author of Huntington Beach California, shares a story about Rock n’ Roll legend Elvis Presley and his connection to Huntington Beach, along with what many may find surprising about Surf City’s ten miles of uninterrupted coastline. Diana Dehm, executive director of the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum, talks about the surfing legends who call Huntington Beach home and how the museum highlights the surf community and culture. There’s all of this and more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Surf City USA at the new Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach, California.
This week, Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Surf City USA at the new Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach, California. Joining Peter will be Dean Torrence, co-founder, co-lead singer, and co-writer of Jan & Dean, discusses the history of the group, from its early years to the newly evolved Surf City AllStars, along with how he trademarked the iconic name “Surf City USA.” The legendary PT Townend, world surfing champion, talks about the upcoming 40th anniversary of pro surfing, as well as what changes have come to the sport, and the future of surfing in the 2020 Olympics. Chris Epting, historian and author of Huntington Beach California, shares a story about Rock n’ Roll legend Elvis Presley and his connection to Huntington Beach, along with what many may find surprising about Surf City’s ten miles of uninterrupted coastline. Diana Dehm, executive director of the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum, talks about the surfing legends who call Huntington Beach home and how the museum highlights the surf community and culture. There’s all of this and more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Surf City USA at the new Paséa Hotel & Spa in Huntington Beach, California.
When Batman hit the airwaves in January 1966, its instant popularity led to an explosion of all kinds of Bat-merchandise -- including records! Singles and albums by musicians (Nelson Riddle, Neal Hefti) and actors (Adam West, Burt Ward, and some Bat-villains too!) associated with the show, as well as some with no connection who just wanted to ride the Bat-wave (for example, Dickie Goodman). In this episode, Tim and Paul count down their favorite Bat-records, a crazy journey in which we cross paths with Frank Zappa, Jan & Dean, the Allman brothers, and other actual professional musicians. With a nod to the late, great Casey Kasem, we present -- B-A-T 40!
Wipeout! This week Kyle, Matthew and Producer Natalie kick off the Summer of Rad with the lovely Gabriela Contreras. They hang ten and talk about surf rock from the past to present, including its three waves (no pun intended). Other topics include Rockabilly vs. Tiki culture, Dick Dale vs. The Beach Boys, and The Munsters vs. Addams Family (*snap snap*). Surf's up, radsters! Weekly Rads: The Late Show Podcast with Stephen Colbert, The Black Tapes Podcast, The No Sleep Podcast, the Women's U.S. Soccer Team Raddendums: Murder at Party Beach, Jan & Dean, Rick and Morty, Walk Hard, Agent Orange, Tiki Oasis, The Growlers, The Reigning Monarchs, Surf Rock Museum in Huntington Beach, Venice Slam Jam, Man or Astroman, Guantanamo Baywatch, Tijuana Panthers, Deadbolt, Los Straightjackets, The Red Elvises
Alternative Country duo Crimson Calamity, Lauren Harding and past Music FridayLive! guest Mallory Trunnell are no strangers to intricate songwriting and the bright lights of the stage on their own, but together, they deliver firecracker lyrics and glistening harmonies.Crimson Calamity was born from an initial songwriting experiment that turned out the hard hitting single, “Line ‘em Up and Shoot ‘em Down.” which became the catalyst that inspired them to take their collaborative style to the next level. Their debut EP, “All in the Cards” is built on country-rock with a little blues for color. They just released their CD so this interview from March will re-acquaint everyone to these two hot talents Denny Tedesco joins us for the opening of his documentary film, The Wrecking Crew, about a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70's who played on hits for the "Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. They were led by Tommy Tedesco, Denny's father, and became the sound of rock and roll in its birth years, playing on literally thousands of recordings, regardless of whose name was on the cover. The film is now out and playing nationwide, so listen to this interview from a few months ago and then go see the film.
Denny Tedesco joins us for the opening of his documentary film, The Wrecking Crew, about a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70's who played on hits for the "Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. They were led by Tommy Tedesco, Denny's father, and became the sound of rock and roll in its birth years, playing on literally thousands of recordings, regardless of whose name was on the cover. Doña Oxford is an extraordinary, soulful and passionate singer, songwriter and keyboardist who’s old school soul vocals and high octane keyboard piano infuses create music crowds off all ages go wild for. Doña has played with legends including Keith Richards, Bob Weir, Levon Helm, Albert Lee, Buddy Guy, Son Seals, Shemekia Copeland and her idol, former Chuck Berry sideman and Father of Rock & Roll Piano, Johnnie Johnson! She has played keyboard forf Van Morrison in his latest studio recording. Doña is on tour with Albert Lee in the UK. This is a classic recording from June.
We are back with yet another collection of great songs! If you caught the #Grammy's last Sunday, some of these will sound familiar to you! This week, we are featuring Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney, Carole King, Beck, Jens Lekman, Juanes, Grant Green, King Tubby, Jan & Dean, Gil Scott Heron, Electric Light Orchestra, AND Diana Ross and The Temptations!
The Elvis Birthday Bash segment continues this week with solo tracks from each member of the Stray Cats. Dean Torrence from Jan & Dean recalls playing football with Elvis as well. We get another installment of "Ask The Clowns" with The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns plus tunes from Gene Vincent, Buck Owens, Johnny Powers, Chuck Berry and an instru-Mental Breakdown with Dick Dale and Link Wray. As always, there is lots more so don't miss a moment! Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey Gene Vincent- "Double Talkin' Baby" Dave Edmunds- "Dynamite" Bloodshots- "Waste Away" Bo Diddley- "Hey Bo Diddley" Buck Owens- "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" Planet Rockers- "Big Wheel" Jimmy Sutton's Four Charms- "Up Jumped The Devil" Johnny Powers- "Be Mine All Mine" Dick Dale- "Night Rider" Link Wray- "Mustang" Elvis Birthday Bash segment Katmen- "Big Hunk Of Love" Brian Setzer- "Just Because" Dean Torrence interview segment Elvis Presley- "Ready Teddy" Elvis Presley- "Teddy Bear" Lee Rocker- "That's Alright Mama/Blue Moon Of Kentucky" "Ask The Clowns" The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns- "King Of The Slot Car Track" Chuck Berry- "Maybellene" Little Richard- "Good Golly Miss Molly"
This episode we're revving up our engines and taking the show on the road with a special car themed show! Coupes, Cobras, Fords, Lincolns, Cadillacs...they're all here! Roll down the windows and crank up tunes from The Beach Boys, Stray Cats, The Rockats, Eddie Cochran, Howlin' Wolf, The Rip Chords, Deke Dickerson, Jan & Dean, Brian Setzer with Brian Wilson and so much more! Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey Brian Setzer with Brian Wilson- "Little Deuce Coupe" Jackie Brenston- "Rocket 88" The Rockats- "Pink & Black Cadillac" Polecats- "Big Green Car" Dick Dale- "The Scavenger" The Beach Boys- "409" The Rip Chords- "Hey, Little Cobra" Sonny Burgess- "Truckin' Down The Avenue" Gene Vincent- "Race With The Devil" Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray- "Red Cadillac & A Black Mustache" Howlin' Wolf- "Cadillac Daddy (Mr. Highway Man)" Vince Taylor & His Playboys- "Brand New Cadillac" Eddie Cochran- "Somethin' Else" Deke Dickerson- "Hot Rodder's Lament" Jan & Dean- "Drag City" Johnny Bond- "Hot Rod Lincoln" Sammy Masters- "Pink Cadillac" Dave Edmunds- "Get Out Of Denver" Dr. Rubin's Pomade
El programa de hoy, lo dedicamos a una buenísima serie americana de televisión llamada Mad Men. Las razones para hacer este especial, además de por su calidad cinematográfica, se deben también a su extraordinaria banda sonora, plagada de canciones que te mantendran pegado a los altavoces. Gente tan potente como Ella Fitzgerald, Edd Henry, Rinky Dinks, Brenda Lee, Chubby Checker, Astrud Gilberto, Bob Dylan, The Cardigans, Decemberist, Doris Day, The Gigalos, Simon & Garfunkel, Baby Washington & The Plants, Brand New World, Jan & Dean, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Etta james, y asi hasta más de 30 artistas que conforman la selección que os ofrecemos en este fantástico programa. Escúchanos en Ivoox, itunes, facebook, o contacta con nosotros en carreteressecundaries@gmail.com
This show plays great hits and lost hits of the 50s,60s,and 70s. You will hear Jan & Dean, Martha and the Vandelas, Hermin's Hermits, Jack Scott,and many more. Enjoy!!
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