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It's been two straight weeks of polarizing What If episodes for us, but could episode 8 be the bridge between what we're looking for? Join us and special guest TK as we dive into What if Ultron Won!If you're looking to have what we've seen in episode eight of What If...? discussed, you're in the right place! Each week we'll be breaking down the latest stories in the MCU beat by beat by discussing what works, what doesn't, and what it all means.The episode in review is called, What If...Ultron Won? It was written by Matthew Chauncey and directed by Bryan Andrews.We're also joined by the wonderful host of There Was an Idea...A Marvel Cinematic Universe Podcast, TK, this week to talk What If and more! If you want more of TK you should follow them here:Twitter: @AnIdea_PodcastInstagram: @AnIdea_PodcastPodcasts Links: https://linktr.ee/therewasanideaMovie Draft with UsWe also continue the trend this week with breaking the episode down into three acts rather than most important topics. We follow along in pretty sequential chunks of the recent episode. This episode remains spoiler free until around the 15 minutes and 17 seconds mark! It's also important to note that given the recency and limited access of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, it is exempt from the spoiler zone this week as well! This will continue until a week after Shang-Chi hits Disney Plus! In this episode we reference:MCU Writer Teases 'Weirder' Season 2 For Marvel's What If by Richard NebensTranscripts are available on the episode's page here! The transcripts are generated through Descript.Don't forget you can follow us on Twitter or Instagram to let us know what you think about What If...? or this episode! We're also sharing extra end tags not used in the episode, so if you want more extras, follow us below!Twitter: @MCUNeedtoKnowInstagram: @MCUNeedtoknowIf you'd like to join our discord you can find that here:https://discord.gg/7EEFXSkIf you want to follow Jude you can find them here!Twitter: @JhubbitInstagram: @JhubbitIf you want to follow Trey you can find them here!Twitter: @TheTapStreamInstagram:@TheTapStreamwww.thetapstream.comAlso would like to give a special thanks to Nick Sandy for the use of our theme song! You can find more of his work here!Twitter: @Nick_SandyInsta: @Nick_SandyPhotographySoundCloud: MusicWant more of our podcast? Check out our website for more episodes and news!www.mcuneedtoknow.comThis episode was recorded with Remotely.fm and edited by Jude.
An often requested topic that can be polarizing, but doesn't have to be: Homeschooling preschool! Join us as we discuss preschool from a far bookend and a near bookend point of view! As usual, we provide ideas for making it personal, share our Homeschooling Moments of the Week, and end with a hack or encouragement! 1:36 Homeschooling Moments of the Week 4:07 Topic Talk: Homeschooling Preschool? 13:28 Rachel being a neuroscientist on the podcast 19:08 Physical development matters 19:33 Slingerland Institute for Literacy 20:00 Curriculum? 20:46 Counting Bears 20:54 Trudy Palmer's The Gift of Reading 21:47 In One Ear (and Hopefully) Not Out the Other 22: 58 There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly 23:10 Caps for Sale Brown Bear, Brown Bear 23:16 Honey for a Child's Heart 23:28 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 23:31 The Read Aloud Family 24:00 Learn From Mindy's Mistakes 26:43 Beads to string 29:09 Make It Personal: Near Bookends 30:06 Make It Personal: Far Bookends 31:36 Take This With You: Mindy (birthday hack) 32:07 Birthday hat 33:00 Take This With You: Rachel (encouragement) Bookend Homeschoolers on Instagram Mindy at gratefulforgrace Rachel at colemountainhomeschool
James's credits include touring with Harry Belafonte (Backup Singer), a lead role in the first national tour of Rent (Benny), Saturday Night Fever on Broadway (Booth Singer), Off Broadway, extensive Regional Theatre credits, Tokyo Disney Resort (Lead Singer/Vocal Captain) lead roles in national commercials as well as guest star roles on Everybody Loves Raymond and As the World Turns. Behind the scenes, James was an Assistant Costume Designer on the Emmy Award winning season 2 of Dancing With the Stars, Artistic Director/Assistant for Randall Designs, Costume Designer for That's Dancing (Crystal Cruises), and he designed costumes for numerous regional theater productions. He is the creator of There Was a Boy a two-act Broadway style musical about the life of nat King Cole. The show pulls back the curtain on his successes and failures as a performer. a husband. a father and a son. James has a unique perspective in the creative arts that gives him a strong ability to move easily between being out front and behind the scenes. More about James at www.james-rich.com
Ms. Amanada and Ms. Shelia share information about virtual programs for kids featuring Kindergarten Readiness Books. Children's books mentioned include: Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Maurice Sendak. Ms. Shelia shares information about our book club and next month's book, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.Adult books discussed include: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, Quiet in her Bones by Nalini Singh, The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth, The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, Along a Storied Trail by Ann H. Gabhart, How Happiness Happens by Max Lucado, and Chasing Vines by Beth Moore.
Fabulous new boxed sets from Arrow, memorable classics from Warner Archive and top tier TV old and new, only on the DigiGods! DigiGods Podcast, 08/03/21 (M4a) — 55.90 MB right click to save Subscribe to the DigiGods Podcast In this episode, the Gods discuss: 48 Hours (Paramount Presents) (Blu-ray) Almost Famous (4k Remastered) (4k UHD Blu-ray) American Gods: Season Three (Blu-ray) Annie Get Your Gun (Blu-ray) Another 48 Hours (Paramount Presents) (Blu-ray) Another Thin Man (Blu-ray) Athena (Blu-ray) Bachelor in Paradise (Blu-ray) Baki (Blu-ray) The Bermuda Depths (Blu-ray) Bordertown Season 3 (Blu-ray) Broadway Melodry of 1940 (Blu-ray) C.B. Strike: Lethal White (DVD) Chain Lightning (Blu-ray) Charmed Season 4 (Blu-ray) The Critic: The Complete Series (DVD) Crossfire (Blu-ray) The Dead Zone - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) Doctor Who: The King's Demons (DVD) Doctor Who: The Visitation: Special Edition (DVD) Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen: Special Edition (DVD) Doctor X (Blu-ray) Dororo (Blu-ray) Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet Season 9 (DVD) Drop Dead Gorgeous (Blu-ray) Drunk History: The Complete Series (DVD) Drunken Master II (Blu-ray) Each Dawn I Die (Blu-ray) Earwig and the Witch (Blu-ray) Elfen Lied (Blu-ray) Emma: Victorian Romance Season One (Blu-ray) Emma: Victorian Romance Season Two (DVD) Escape from Fort Bravo (Blu-ray) Gangs of London, Season 1 (Blu-ray) Genius Season 3: Aretha (DVD) Green Dolphin Street (Blu-ray) Grisaia Complete Collection (Blu-ray) Guns for San Sebastian (Blu-ray) Heartland Docs, DVM Season 3 (DVD) The Herculoids: The Complete Original Series (Blu-ray) His Dark Materials: The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray) I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (Blu-ray) Isle of the Dead (Blu-ray) It Happened at the World's Fair (Blu-ray) Karakuri Circus (Blu-ray) Killing Bites (Blu-ray) Knights of Sidonia (Blu-ray) Laidbackers (Blu-ray) Life below Zero: Next Generation Season 2 (DVD) The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 (Blu-ray) The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2 (Blu-ray) Lucky (DVD) Madame Curie (Blu-ray) Maoyu - Archenemy & Hero (Blu-ray) Mortal Kombat (4k UHD Blu-ray) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Blu-ray) Mysterious Girlfriend X (Blu-ray) Objective, Burma! (Blu-ray) Our Cartoon President Season 3 (DVD) Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series (Blu-ray) Pennyworth: The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray) Percy vs. Goliath (DVD) The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (Blu-ray) Pump Up the Volume (Blu-ray) Queens Blade Rebel Warriors (Blu-ray) Quick Change (Blu-ray) Reversal of Fortune (Blu-ray) Rugrats: The Complete Series (DVD) Running Wild with Bear Grylls Season 6 (DVD) Seance (Blu-ray) The Sergio Martino Collection (Blu-ray) Shameless: The Eleventh and Final Season (DVD) Snatch (4k UHD Blu-ray) Star Trek: Discovery: Season Three (Blu-ray) Step by Step (Blu-ray) Swordgai (Blu-ray) Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Blu-ray) The Tender Trap (Blu-ray) There Was a Crooked Man (Blu-ray) They Won't Believe Me (Blu-ray) To Love Ru Darkness (Blu-ray) Ultraman Galaxy Mega Monster Battle (Blu-ray) Vengeance Trails: Four Classic Westerns (Blu-ray) The Walking Dead Season Ten (Blu-ray) Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection (Blu-ray) The Wild Life of Dr. Ole Season 1 (DVD) The Yearling (Blu-ray) Your Honor (DVD) Ziegfeld Follies (Blu-ray) Please also visit CineGods.com.
All uploads on this channel are for promotional purposes only! The music has been converted before uploading to prevent ripping and to protect the artist(s) and label(s). If you don't want your content here (that goes for audio or images) please contact me immediately via email: unpluggedtube@outlook.it and I WILL REMOVE THE EPISODE OR ARTWORK IMMEDIATELY! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 14, 2018 – Singer-songwriter Andrew Marlin and multi-instrumentalist Emily Frantz formed Mandolin Orange in Chapel Hill, NC back in 2009. In the years since they've built a steady and sizable fanbase around their unique blend of Americana, bluegrass, folk, gospel, country, and pop. A few hundred fortunate WGBH members got the chance to experience this special performance by Andrew and Emily (along with their full touring band) in our intimate Fraser Performance Studio. Mandolin Orange is set to release their newest offering “Tides of a Teardrop” due out February 1, 2019 featuring both “Golden Embers” and “Suspended in Heaven” played this evening. Set list: Take This Heart of Gold 0:18 Daylight 5:43 Hey Stranger 9:56 Suspended in Heaven 14:46 Into the Sun 19:03 Wildfire 24:22 There Was a Time 31:30 Echo 37:54 Old Ties and Companions 43:12 Golden Embers 47:29 Time We Made Time 52:21 -- Hard Travelin' 1:00:04 Team UNPLUGGED.
Mike and Ting talk about Death Stranding. Contains SPOILERS for Death Stranding! Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Late Game Mechanics Once, There Was an Explosion (YouTube) Highway Zip-line All-terrain skeleton Assault rifle Strand (item) Bola gun Quadruple rocket launcher Hologram generator Power gloves Chiral Network Pros and Cons of Using the Delivery Bot Squid | Death Stranding Boss Four-legged beast | Death Stranding Boss Clifford Unger in Chapter 4 | Death Stranding Boss Story Strands (YouTube) Death Stranding | Full Story Explained | Everything You Need To Know (YouTube) Death Stranding In 15 Minutes - Full Story Recap (YouTube) Extinction entity Amelie Bridget Strand Bridge baby Sam Cliff Unger Higgs Monaghan Die-Hardman Deadman Death Stranding - Sam Taking a Shower With Deadman (YouTube) Mama Lockne DEATH STRANDING - Mama Becomes ONE with her Sister Lockne - Mama Reunites with Lockne (YouTube) Heartman Fragile BB-28 Memorable Moments The Severed Bond (YouTube) Mike's Death Stranding stats Ting's Death Stranding stats Ride with Norman Reedus Sticky gun Peter Englert Order 38: Emergency Provisions Delivery: South Knot City Fragile's Backstory Flashback - How Higgs Betrayed Fragile - Death Stranding (YouTube) Order 62: Repair: Chiral Relay - How to Get to the Chiral Relay, Crossing the Tar Belt Death Stranding - Sam Vs Higgs Epic Showdown (YouTube) Death Stranding - Mario And Princess "Beach" Scene (YouTube) Episode 12: Bridges - Order 68: Cryptobiote Delivery: Capitol Knot City Isolation Ward, Final Boss Summary A Final Waltz (YouTube) Hideo Kojima at Summer Games Fest 2021 (YouTube) Death Stranding Director's Cut adds a racing mode Death Stranding: Director's Cut Brings PC Exclusive Cyberpunk 2077, Half-Life Content to PS5 Two Point Hospital
mexico.sae.edu Referencias: Ludvig Forssell - Death Stranding Soundtrack (Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2019) - Mules - Bridges - Once, There Was an Explosion Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Soundtrack (Reprise, 2001) - The Breaking of the Fellowship (feat. In Dreams) Extracto del video The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy Trailer [HD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddmcFDoCAq8&t=3s
Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes Courtney Gains, Actor / Musician (QUEEN BEES; Comedy Drama Romance) to the Show! ● Web: queenbeesfilm.com ● Facebook: @Courtney-Gains-201049850116 ● Instagram: @courtneygains Celebrated actor Courtney Gains, known for his roles in some of the most successful films of the ‘80s and ‘90s BACK TO THE FUTURE, CHILDREN OF THE CORN, COLORS, CAN'T BUY ME LOVE and THE BURBS, will be discussing his 30 years in showbiz. Directed by Michael Lembek, QUEEN BEES is the story of independent senior Helen (Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn), who moves into a nearby retirement community ― just temporarily. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying “mean girls” the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics Helen discovers that it's never too late to make new friends and perhaps even find a new love. In addition, Gains promoting his entrance into music. With his band Ripple Street, Gains has released both EPs and LPs, winning new fans the world over. His latest venture is a solo album, ACOUSTIC GAINS Vol.1, with new single ‘There Was a Time' currently available on all good music platforms. ● Media Inquiries for the Actor Courtney Gains: October Coast www.octobercoastpr.com
I spoke to actor & writer Millie Wood-Downie about the success of her debut one-woman show There Was a Little Girl, receiving arts council funding, and finding her own way into the world of acting. - Millie's Hidden Gem - Millie's Website
This week we'll welcome a guest essayist from Norway, Erling Rantrud. A trained gardener, husband, father, and pastor in Sandefjord, Norway, Erling will share about God's life-giving invitation to both His work and His rest in a place where heaven and earth meet. And he'll sing a benediction for us in his native tongue! The post S3:E28 – Erling Rantrud, There Was a Garden appeared first on Matthew Clark.
TM4R ponder the shift in things since being vaccinated. The devastating but inspiring 40 Days of Musa Dagh and There Was and There Was Not highlight an exploration of the Armenian genocide and its historical ripples. Mark interviews Eric about his new album The Year of Seeing Clearly before Mr. Peach figures out the expansive uses of barbed wire and that Star Wars is fiction. https://ericmaring.hearnow.com
Nick Morris joins the duo to discuss writing the screenplay for the film BECKY. Nick won Amateur Showdown with his script, “There Was a Little Girl.” Nick soon received a phone call from a producer who wanted to make it. Three years later, the film, now titled, “Becky,” is being released! BECKY: A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10686634/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2 Also, here's an interview with him: http://scriptshadow.net/screenwriter-interview-with-nick-morris-writer-of-becky/
Brandon, Clinton and Emmy are joined by a very special guest, TK from the "There Was an Idea - A Marvel Cinematic Universe Podcast". We give our thoughts on the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the pros, the cons, the underlying themes, math facts and everything in between. We also hear thoughts from our listeners as well!This was a fun show, and we cannot thank TK enough. Please check her podcast out on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud and wherever podcasts are available! You can also find her show on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/anidea_podcast.She provides incredible insight to themes and overall narratives of the MCU through various guests and well thought out conversation.Thank you for joining us TK, and thank you to our wonderful listeners who participated in their thoughts as well!
"There Was a Time" from "Princess Diana The Musical" by Karen Sokolof Javitch
mexico.sae.edu Referencias: Ludvig Forssell - Death Stranding Soundtrack (Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2019) - Once, There Was an Explosion - The Face of Our New Hope - BB's Theme Levar Allen - Metal Gear Solid Theme (2014)
Today I read, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" by Lucille Colandro! I hope you enjoy it! If YOU would like to choose the next book to be read on the Gumdrop Readers Podcast then you can send me an email including your name, age, and book request! Ask an adult to help you send it over to; gumdropreaders@gmail.com. You can check me out on Facebook @ "Gumdrop Readers Podcast" and on Instagram @ "gumdrop_readers" Thanks for listening!
What if There Was a Solution for Everything? Thankfully, there is. Even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes. Join me in today’s episode of Liberate Your People Pleaser for a power process to take you from feeling like there’s no solution (victim mode) to finding a solution (possibility and power mode.) Today I’m interviewing Lori Baker-Schena who is a coach, motivational speaker and leadership trainer. Lori and I had a dynamic conversation about finding solutions and the gap between and awareness of something that needs to change, and the ability to actually change it. You won’t want to miss this episode of Liberate Your People Pleaser. You can contact Lori directly, I know she'd love to hear from you, via email: www.loribakerschena.com. FREE - People Pleaser’s Power Training: https://freepowertraining.pages.ontraport.net/ Book a call to explore working with me: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=11249251&appointmentType=8395116 Join my Facebook Group, Liberate Your People Pleaser, HERE. Ask a question to be addressed on a future episode, HERE or email me at brenda@brendaflorida.com
This week Tara from There Was an Idea joins us to discuss the second episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier!
Mike and Ting talk Death Stranding. No spoilers! Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: What is Death Stranding? Once, There Was an Explosion (YouTube) Death Stranding Death Stranding on Metacritic Death Stranding Review - IGN Death Stranding Review - Giant Bomb Death Stranding – E3 2016 Reveal Trailer | PS4 (YouTube) Death Stranding is going to be part of a new genre of gaming called strand games, according to Kojima Death Stranding (Video Game 2019) Every Death Stranding Cameo in the game and where to find them Timefall MULE Beached thing Playthrough and Impressions BRIDGES (YouTube) Does Birthday Affect DOOM Abilities? Her Story (podcast episode) What Is The Chiral Network? DEATH STRANDING - All LOW ROAR Moments + EXTRAS (YouTube) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain More than half of Death Stranding’s team defected from Konami Bola gun Floating carrier BB BREAKS OPEN ITS POD || DEATH STRANDING [EASTER EGG] (YouTube) Death Stranding guide: How to avoid and kill BTs Urination EX grenade Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – How to manage your inventory Order 26: URGENT Fresh Pizza Delivery: Peter Englert - How to Deliver Pizza Death Stranding Is Getting Away With One Thing No Other Game Could DEATH STRANDING - Sam Bridges (Reedus) all sink actions , get lot of likes from BB (YouTube) Summary The Face of Our New Hope (YouTube) Death Stranding Is the Defining Game of 2020 (Despite Releasing in 2019) Hideo Kojima: 'Metal Gear questions US dominance of the world'
On female superstardom and public scrutiny. Plus our (late) thoughts on the Golden Globes, the farmers' protest in India, and Framing Britney Spears. Further Reading: If You Don't Know, Now You Know - India's Farmer Protest (The Daily Show) Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show (YouTube) In the Beginning, There Was a Nipple (ESPN) P.S. Did you happen to watch Namaste Wahala on Netflix? Head over to Namase Wahala Reactions to record your thoughts on the film, and we may include your voice note in a future episode!
Here we have another topic that was too big for one episode! Aislinn wants to tell Miranda about Scientology, but she first has to talk about its founder: L. Ron Hubbard. Why did a pulp fiction writer manage to create a new religion? What qualified him to pioneer a new realm of psychology? And how much science is really in Scientology? Featuring: the blending of sci-fi and reality, bizarre naval misadventures, temporary bigamy, and even a message from Aleister Crowley himself And we haven't even gotten to the cult* stuff yet. *Scientology.org is pretty adamant that they are not a cult. We'll let you decide for yourself. Sources: Official Church of Scientology: What is Scientology? https://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/#slide6 L. Ron Hubbard The History of Excalibur Yes, There Was a Book Called "Excalibur" by L. Ron HUBBARD Thelema Babalon Forrest J Ackerman - L Ron Hubbard's Literary Agent - Secret Lives - Scientology Thetan, Source of Life, Immortal Spiritual Being: Official Church of Scientology Video Scientology --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/madderthanacaterpillar/support
I once knew a guy who wanted to be a writer. The problem was, he couldn't get himself to sit down and write. He'd get spurts where he would outline and maybe draft a few pages… but he'd always end up "getting blocked" and fail to show up and ship anything. It's not that he wasn't serious, he just couldn't get himself to be effective. If I were to talk to that guy today, I'd ask him: what do you do with your free time when you AREN'T writing? If he was being honest, he'd say: Party, watch porn, play videogames, surf the internet. I'd tell him that this was his problem. I'd explain that compared to the instant gratification dopamine highs that he was used to, anything "productive" was going to feel like a slog through hell! I'd go on to let him know that if he just put some time into cutting out all that crap BEFORE he started trying to amp up his writing game, he'd be WAY more effective. If he did that, not only would he be able to build a writing discipline… he could get HOOKED on it to the point where he WANTED to do it. But knowing that guy, he would have ignored me because he would have felt it would "take too long" to fix all of that and he just wanted to get that writing habit! Now the reason I know so much about this guy is because this story is about me. The truth is that sometimes you need to focus on cutting out your bad habits before you can build the good ones you're most excited for. Start with removing your most damaging habits first and replacing them with basic self-care. For example: quit porn and replace it with journaling, daily walks, and planning the following day each evening. Once you get your baseline healthy you can effectively start playing bigger and bigger games. UYAP! Mark Queppet P.S. There WAS a way for the old me to clean his act up AND build his writing habit at the same time… but there's a trick to it that I'll be teaching you in this month's Apex Report - sign up now if you want to put your personal development on warp-speed!
Totally Tuned In with Ms. Lois broadcasting her #liveradioshow from Canada. Every Wednesday at 10:00 AM EST - Only on Cowboy's Juke Joint Radio www.cowboysjukejoint.com 1. The Bluesbones - Better Life 2. Jack DeKeyser – Good Life 3. John Dartnell – Crazy Little town 4. Eva Capelli – Two Wheels and Steel 5. Ivory Tower Project – Burning 6. Indie Butterflies Dream – The One 7. South River Slim – I Wish It Would Rain 8. Jimmy and the Revolvers – Whistle for My Love 9. Glen Foster Group – I Do Not Do Like You Do 10. Damn the Wind – Country Blues 11. Helen Arbour – Old Sane Guy 12. Helen Arbour – Thoughts in Between 13. James Anthony – Twilight Zone Blues 14. Dead Show Dealers – Who Knows 15. Joe Cleary – Love You for Life 16. Paul Sage – Spin 17. Barry Mac – There Was a Day 18. Spenser Mackenzie – Next Door Neighbour 19. Bad Bob Bates – Delaware Slide 20. E. D. Brayshaw – When the Walls Come Down
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It's basically Marvel Christmas and we have a boat load of new MCU news to sift through. Who better to get excited with than Tara from There Was an Idea Podcast?
The three young Winzenburg daughters share Christmas stories, songs, and poems in the annual "Von Winzenburg Family Singers" episodes, edited together from 1997, 1998, and 1999. Copyrighted songs were removed due to licensing, but they sing public domain songs Jingle Bells and There Was a Little Baby, as well as playing Angels We Have Heard On High on the organ. From WHO radio in Iowa, with Kate Winzenburg, Mary Winzenburg Uran, Jenna Winzenburg, Judy Brown and the Mark Vander Tuig family.
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In perhaps our darkest topic yet, this week we take on the topic of maternal infanticide. We talk about the legend of La Llorona, some of La Llorona's exploits, and some real cases of mothers who drown their children. We have to give a shout out to Mariana Esquivel, whose unpublished research shed light on some of La Llorona's contemporary representations. Sources:Axtman, Kris. 2001. “Why Juries Often Spare Mothers Who Kill.” Christian Science Monitor, July 9, 2001. https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0709/p3s1.html.Elbein, Asher. 2015. “The Return of La Llorona.” The Texas Observer. February 23, 2015. https://www.texasobserver.org/la-llorona-return/.Jones, Pamela. 1988. “‘There Was a Woman’: La Llorona in Oregon.” Western Folklore 47 (3): 195–211.Leon-Portilla, Miguel, ed. 1990. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press.Limon, Jose E. 1990. “La Llorona, the Third Legend of Greater Mexico: Cultural Symbols, Women, and the Political Unconscious.” In Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History, edited by Adelaida R Del Castillo, 399–432. La Mujer Latina Series. Encino, CA: Floricanto Press.Perez, Domino Renee. 2008. There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture. University of Texas Press.“Woman Who Threw Six Children in Bayou Gets Probation.” 1987. UPI. 1987. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/06/19/Woman-who-threw-six-children-in-bayou-gets-probation/9409551073600/.
Episode 2 of There Was an Idea focuses on everyone's favorite holiday, Halloween. Ryan O'Donnell, Tim O'Donnell, and Kevin Tilli discuss our favorite Halloween traditions, movies, video games and more!
Learn how deliberate practice makes perfect, what the New England Vampire Panic is, and how baby tortoises are attracted to faces from birth. Curiosity Daily is a finalist in the 2020 Discover Pods Awards, and we need your vote to win! Please vote for Curiosity Daily for Best Technology & Science Podcast via the link below. It's free and only takes a minute. Thanks so much! https://awards.discoverpods.com/vote/ Practice Won't Make Perfect, But Deliberate Practice Might by Ashley Hamer Scott Barry Kaufman. (2014, July 15). Practice Alone Does Not Make Perfect, Studies Find. Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/practice-alone-does-not-make-perfect-studies-find/ The Making of an Expert. (2007, July). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2007/07/the-making-of-an-expert Anders Ericsson, K. (2016, April 10). Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: Our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified. Salon; Salon.com. https://www.salon.com/2016/04/10/malcolm_gladwell_got_us_wrong_our_research_was_key_to_the_10000_hour_rule_but_heres_what_got_oversimplified/ Anderson, J. (2017, March 2). How to make your kid good at anything, according to Anders Ericsson, an expert on peak performance and originator of the 10,000-hour rule. Quartz; Quartz. https://qz.com/915646/how-to-make-your-kid-good-at-anything-according-to-anders-ericsson-an-expert-on-peak-performance-and-originator-of-the-10000-hour-rule/ After the Salem Witch Trials, There Was the New England Vampire Panic by Reuben Westmaas Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/exercising-for-different-body-types-new-england-va/ Baby tortoises are attracted to faces from birth, which means faces have been important for a long time by Grant Currin Tortoise hatchlings are attracted to faces from birth. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/qmuo-tha091120.php Versace, E., Damini, S., & Stancher, G. (2020). Early preference for face-like stimuli in solitary species as revealed by tortoise hatchlings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 202011453. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011453117 Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Ashley Hamer and Natalia Reagan (filling in for Cody Gough). You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome back my friends! Wilk here with episode 28 of the Derate The Hate podcast and this week we’re talking about things that have happened in days gone by and not letting that bring your future down. Episode 28 will be “There Was a Time”.As I lay out in this episode, one of the biggest personal battles I am constantly fighting is reliving the past and wondering if I could have done things different. I think this is something, or a struggle that a lot of people face on a day to day basis. I am a member of several groups online and I see constant posts where people struggle with this. I see people constantly asking the question, “how do I get past X topic from my past so I can have a positive future?”. There is no doubt that this is a serious battle for a lot of people, but one of my greatest tools is the serenity prayer.“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”It is our responsibility as an individual to live the best and most positive life we can. What has happened in our past cannot be changed, but what we can do is learn from those things and make tomorrow a better day. Whether it be the last conversation we had with someone who has passed, the last time we hung out with a certain group of friends, or how we handled a relationship that has come and gone, there was a time and that time has passed. We can do nothing to change that time, but hopefully we learned from it, we take those lessons and make tomorrow a better day because of that wisdom.In this week’s feel good story I talk about a youngster in north Texas by the name of Orion Jean. Orion is a 5th grader doing extraordinary things by looking to provide 100,000 meals to those in need by Thanksgiving. This young man is ambitious and doing something everyone should be incredibly proud to see. In an interview Orion did with CNN, he said “This has been a rough year for everybody, and now it’s more important than ever to show support and love to anyone who needs it.” You can see more about young Orion’s story on the Good News Network here.As I do every week, I ask you, “what have you done today to make your life a better life?, what have you done today to make the world a better place?” The world is a better place if we are better people, and that begins with each of us leading a better life. Be kind to one another, be grateful for everything you’ve got, and make each and every day the day that you want it to be! Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and subscribe to us wherever you enjoy your audio. Send me a message on any media platform and leave us a review. Let us know about your local feel good stories and if I use it on our podcast I’ll send you a free gift!
To continue our classic horror, ghost story October oh, I will read you to sleep tonight with Montague Rhodes James' short story: There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard, first published in 1924.
With great fandom comes great responsibility. Thankfully we have special guest Tara Kearns from "There Was an Idea... A Marvel Cinematic Universe Podcast" to dive into that responsibility this week!
Thirty seven minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on the founding experience of the exemplary church Paul writes to at Thessalonica.A church born in and for battle and going forward with God.An inspiring example with clear lessons for our time.Notes: Last week we began a series of sermons looking at Paul’s very encouraging letter to the reasonably young church in Thessalonica by opening up the account of how that church came into being – it is necessary background to understand Paul’s subsequent letter to them. And the issue we’re looking at today in the origins of that church is what the response of their community was TO that new church, and how that was handled by them and by the Apostles whose preaching had brought that church into being. That’s relevant for us as we increasingly live in a world that doesn’t know what a Christian is or is about and marginalises those of us who hold to a Biblical pattern of faith and conduct. We are ourselves going back to what over the course of history has been the more normal experience of Christians, the experience and some might say the calling to minister from … not TO but FROM … the margins of society..•In the Synagogue, vv. 1-4•There WAS a synagogue•The missionary strategyCultural apologeticBiblical teaching•Outcome•Jews persuaded•God-fearing Greeks persuaded•Role of womenAnd they all JOINED the Apostles•At the market place, v. 5•Jealousy•Alliance with bad characters•Populism (mob)•Violence v. 5c “They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.”•Before the magistrates, vv. 6-9•Hostility directed at the preachers•Frustrated hostility fell on new converts who were WITH them•Jews alleged defiance of Caesar•Turmoil caused v. 8 “When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil.”•Conclusion, v. 10 “As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.”The believer and the local church are born for battle.Christ’s death on the Cross sealed the victory of God’s Kingdom but these are days when that Kingdom must be established in a mopping up campaign against the enemy.it is a battle that is won but there are still casualties and costs in the on-going campaign that presses the advantage and inaugurates the new era.But trouble is NOT what we look for … the establishment of God’s Kingdom truly ISGiven the feeling that was generated against the Apostles and the legal bind-over applied to the new church’s leaders, there was nothing to be gained FOR THE GOSPEL by Paul and Silas carrying on slugging it out.New believers and old can be entrusted to GodThere’s a very spiritually realistic and humbling principle to be learned here: the promise of Matthew 10:17 following doesn’t simply apply to ‘super-saints’, it applies to all the followers of Jesus who trust in Him.And it is those who persevere to the end that are saved.Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)
On the morning of October 20, 1991, towering clouds of black smoke blocked out the sun as “diablo winds” whipped flames hot enough to melt gold throughout the hills above Oakland and Berkeley. By the end of that day, 25 people were dead and more than 3000 homes lay in ashes and charred rubble, little remaining but chimneys and the blackened skeletons of trees. Nearly 30 years later, as California suffers its most widespread wildfire season in living memory, this episode looks back at the inferno that gave us a terrifying glimpse of the future we’re now living through. Retired East Bay Regional Parks Department firefighter Bill Nichols provides a first-hand account of battling the blaze and the lessons he learned that day that shaped the rest of his career. Risa Nye, author of the memoir “There Was a Fire Here,” discusses how she coped with watching her entire neighborhood burn down, including her home and all her family’s possessions, and explains how she navigated the lengthy recovery process. See images for this story here: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/a-home-burned-every-11-seconds/ East Bay Yesterday can’t survive without your support. Please donate to keep this show alive: www.patreon.com/eastbayyesterday
There’s more than one way to do something Show note links: Grab your FREE ‘Stressed To Success’ meditation https://franexcell.lpages.co/stressed-to-success/ Make sure you’re following me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/imfranexcell/ and tag me into your key takeaways! Book in a discovery call to see how I can help you: https://calendly.com/franexcell/20min Email me at hello@franexcell.com with any questions or take aways! For more, head over to: www.franexcell.com/ To sign up for The Positive Pants Planner Waitlist: https://www.franexcell.com/pppw There’s more than one way to do something. I know you’re thinking, ‘well, yeah obviously Fran.’ But bear with me here. You may CONSCIOUSLY know there are different ways to do different things. But if you want to do something in particular and you have unconscious programmes running telling you all the things you ‘can’t’ do as if it’s just a fact...what happens? That’s exactly what you get...it will be a ‘fact’ to you. You won’t find another way, even if it’s staring you in the face! Are you with me? If you have a programme running of the way things ‘have’ to be or ‘should’ look, then why would you look for another way? This goes for everything in life. There really are always other options. But you have to look for them. That’s the part that most of us miss out. We take our stories and assumptions and just unconsciously run with them and let them govern 95-99% of what we do. But what if there was another way? There will be! I remember getting SO annoyed with Tobyn for doing this. I used to HATE cooking anything in front of him (I mean why wouldn’t I, he’s a crazy good high level chef with 20 years experience vs my mince based dishes only repertoire) He always used to say ‘why are you doing it like that?’ and it used to trigger me big time! Cue, angry rebuttal and potential argument! I already know I have a big trigger for if someone says something that makes me feel ‘stupid’ or not good at something. So it definitely stung. It was a big enough deal for me to cook for him without him criticising HOW I was cooking for him! But he wasn’t actually criticising me. I made that story up in my head because I was triggered. Now, the delivery wasn’t perfect from his side, tonality counts for a lot, ha! But the sentiment was there and he was absolutely right. Essentially he was trying to get me to think it through. Literally asking ‘WHY’ I was doing it that way. My response was usually along the lines of ‘it’s how my mum does it’ or ‘it’s how i’ve always done it’ and I’d say it with such an air of authority and self righteousness. But he was totally right to challenge it. If I had really thought it through I didn’t actually know the answer. There WAS a much better way of doing it, and many reasons why the way I wasn’t doing it wasn’t the best or didn’t even make sense. But we all sleep walk through these moments at times. We let our triggers, our beliefs, our experiences get in the way of our growth. And often, get in the way of the things that we want. I remember YEARS ago when I really wanted to become a coach, I didn’t because I told myself a story that it wouldn’t work in the area I was living in. I had the idea that it had to be in person, face to face. I just accepted that. So until I had a lightbulb moment that you can coach people from anywhere in the world using the wonders of the internet, and felt a little silly for not seeing something so obvious, I delayed having what I really wanted. This is why it’s so important to have people around you to challenge your ways of thinking. If they don’t, or you don’t learn to do it for yourself, you’ll always repeat loops. You’ll always do things the way you’ve always done them, rather than finding a potentially better, more efficient, more beneficial way to do things. So my example was cooking but this really does apply to everything. Communication, your business, your routines, the shopping, relationships, work, anywhere where you’re doing something just because it’s ‘how you’ve always done it’ or because it’s how someone else does it. Everything. This is why I love curiosity so much. The more curious you are, the more you question everything, the better life gets. You find other ways of doing things. Better ways. You feel the weight lift from your shoulders. You stop doing the things you don’t like or want to be doing. You find another way. There is always one! The bottom line is if something is not working for you it needs to be changed. It needs to be looked at differently and through fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. So where are you doing this at the moment? Take your business, or being in your job. If you don’t allow for ‘outside the box’ thinking you’ll get trapped in the ‘way it has to be’ loop. And you don’t need to. Same for if you’re in a job or running a company. The more you go through the motions and don’t ever look at things and how they could be better, what are you going to get? With Covid 19 it’s going to fundamentally have to change so many things because everyone has been catapulted out of their habitual thinking and had to look at EVERYTHING. Take offices, unless something big happens the 9-5 chained to your desk in an office image is likely to be a thing of the past. There will be more companies offering working from home functionality. It’s a game changer. It’s going to become a real benefit to help gain and retain staff. It will become a case of if you’re NOT offering it, people will go elsewhere. So companies are going to have to innovate. Look at independent businesses, there are new business models coming up ALL the time because people have been forced to innovate. Forced to consciously think things through. There is so much more potential in outside the box thinking. So many more viable options than ‘the way it’s always been’. Now as a sociology and communications graduate and someone who’s obsessed with how we’re wired and human behaviour this has been SO fascinating for me to watch. I look at something and see all the potential options. ‘OOoooh if Y happens then the knock on effect could be X over here and Z over there’ but that’s how I think. I’ve wired myself that way. And even I can’t always see extra options and get caught up in ‘the way things are’ thinking in the areas I'm not looking for it...like cooking for Chef Tobyn ha! So where are you accepting things as the way they are? Are you prepared to think outside the box? There are so many opportunities to be had if you’re ready to take them. Business isn’t the way it was. Corporations are changing. How you can earn money for yourself is changing. More and more side hustles, self employed people and limited companies are starting every single day. The game has changed! I’ve got a special episode coming for you next week with my friend Lisa Johnson who you’ve met before which I think you’re going to LOVE. If you haven’t listened to her episode on the bounce back series then go head there pronto! It’s time to shake things up. It’s time to build the life that we actually want. The one we deserve. You get one life (depending on your beliefs ha!) so why not stop just accepting things and start taking ownership over it. Amazing things wait on the other side of it! Fx
Brandon was right! There WAS something big coming for the women's division...a karaoke contest! Oh and Shayna Baszler, too. So we discussed what could be coming as well as the rest of the week in WWE, NXT and AEW...but seriously, who does Mox face Labor Day weekend? (1:12:43) Sami Callihan returns to the program to preview Saturday night's "Slammiversary" Pay-Per-View. He and Ken Shamrock were JUST trying to murder each other at Rebellion a few weeks back. Now they're...teaming together to face The North for the tag titles? How did this happen???
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Airdate - 7/1/2020 First Pick M21 Preview Stream Thoughts Gather the Townsfolk Jumpstart Roundup Card Image Gallery:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/jumpstart Decklists:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/jumpstart-decklists-2020-06-18 Stop Using TN Art:https://twitter.com/nicknprince/status/1273643424382500864?s=21 Timeline Clarifies Things:https://twitter.com/nerdtothecore/status/1273657973387255814?s=20 A Viable Alternative:https://twitter.com/mtgRikipedia/status/1273636077568438272?s=20 No More TN Art:https://clips.twitch.tv/HeartlessMoralBurritoDeIlluminati https://twitter.com/HipstersMTG/status/1273752266865029123?s=20 https://twitter.com/ChrisKMooney/status/1273782520627073024?s=20 https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/wizards-ends-their-relationship-with-terese-nielsen/ Release Delays:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/jumpstart-release-delays-2020-06-18 Shortage: https://twitter.com/starcityben/status/1274055532450656258?s=21 #MagicArtChallenge:https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/the-magic-art-challenge-will-auction-magic-art-to-raise-money-for-black-lives-matter/?fbclid=IwAR1PRJumleTieu8QFiQaUVKpJc3PZ3gGKkedmbt8VfMh1l1r0dJJXqNvoD8 Scryfall’s Support: https://twitter.com/scryfall/status/1274087670826893314 There Was a Player Tour? Roundup Coverage Team:https://twitter.com/ChannelFireball/status/1273667685637857280 Most Popular Cards (Spoiler Alert: They’re UG):https://twitter.com/MagicEsports/status/1274328544848551938 PT Online 4 Day Two Highlights:https://magic.gg/news/players-tour-online-4-day-two-highlights WotC Doesn’t Know Who Akira Asahara Is:https://twitter.com/mtgzen/status/1274864748371210240?s=20 Arena Roundup MTG Arena on macOS:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/announcing-mtg-arena-macos-2020-06-22 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/410942703623208960/724656350814273536/IMG_20200622_110451.jpg State of the Game - June 2020:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-game-june-2020-06-23 Brawl is Now Free on Arena:https://old.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/hf9ac3/we_won_brawl_is_now_free_arenabrawlnet_will_soon/ Pre-ordering Teferi Play Bundle Accidentally Came With 10 Free Mastery Levels:https://twitter.com/MTG_Arena/status/1276176939187793922?s=20 Desperate Ravings Noah Bradley Roundup The Apology:https://twitter.com/noahbradley/status/1274670378296774658?s=21 … After He Was Called Out:https://twitter.com/AlyciaQuacker/status/1274678898924584965?s=20 Riki on Seeing the Fire Through the Smoke:https://twitter.com/mtgRikipedia/status/1274720479459278848 Analysis of the Apology:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/410942703623208960/724293494952165396/image_from_ios.png Squire Oof:https://twitter.com/niphette/status/1274756064177774592?s=20 https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1275193351805874176?s=20 Christine Sprankle on Speaking Out:https://twitter.com/cspranklerun/status/1274771228801130496?s=20 WotC Cuts Ties:https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1275188133819228161?s=21 We’ll Still See His Cards for a While:https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1275194445378420738?s=20 Rachel Bradley’s Post:https://twitter.com/ImRachelBradley/status/1276504018987220992?s=19 Dani Hartel Speaks Up:https://twitter.com/DaniHartel/status/1275441880868634630?s=20 FFG’s Statement:https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/6/26/a-statement-on-noah-bradley/ MTG Creator Program Roundup Creators Dropped (Including LRR):https://twitter.com/BengineeringTV/status/1275288200609583105?s=20 https://twitter.com/Graham_LRR/status/1275296544732835840?s=20 https://twitter.com/MishyFishyWhoo/status/1275476900719124480?s=20 Olivia Still In:https://twitter.com/goberthicks/status/1275428467614420999?s=20 Challenges for Non-Arena Players, Please?:https://twitter.com/ManaCurves/status/1275468043485884416?s=20 Plans to Expand Outside of Arena:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/410942703623208960/725040567293313114/unknown.png Emma Partlow’s Thoughts:https://twitter.com/emmmzyne/status/1275484244677144582?s=20 Ian on How Creator Program Compares to Moderating Twitch Chat:https://twitter.com/dixonij/status/1275548970073362433?s=20 https://twitter.com/BehrendNinja/status/1275551802335858695?s=20 https://twitter.com/BehrendNinja/status/1275555169690963970?s=20 Lizbeth Eden Dropped: https://twitter.com/LizbethEden/status/1278413999332380674 Rebecca Guay Working on Something:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbYb0wwVAAAoNgG Red Zone Splash Damage Planeswalker Plushies:https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/46001/wizkids-unveils-huggable-magic-the-gathering-planeswalkers Mixer Roundup Shutting Down:https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299032/microsoft-mixer-closing-facebook-gaming-partnership-xcloud-features Streamers Blindsided:https://twitter.com/BearUNLV/status/1275143945417142277?s=20 Where Do Ninja and Shroud Go?:https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1275145243478892544 Twitch Partnering Mixer Partners:https://twitter.com/iamBrandonTV/status/1276312966816837635
There Was a House Fire, The Should He Shave It Poll and Judd Apatow Calls In
There Was a Show Engagement, Monica Cannon-Grant Joins Us and BPS Propsal For Fall Schooling
Copperplate Time 312 presented by Alan O'Leary www.copperplatemailorder.com 1. The Bothy Band: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill. 1975 2. Frankie Gavin’s 20’s Orch:The Limestone Rock. By Heck 3. Danu: The Poor Man’s Fortune/The Long Strand/Gan Ainm. 10,000 Miles4. John Doyle: The Rambler from Clare. The Path of Stones5. Mary McNamara: The Sweetheart Set. Mary McNamara 6. Bobby Casey: Poll Ha’penny/Scully Casey’s HP. The Spirit of West Clare 7. Sarah & Rita Keane: There Was a Maid in her Father’s Garden. Bring My Love to Connemara 8. Paddy Carty & Conor Tully: Red Tom of the Hill/Tommy Coen’s. Trad Music of Ireland 9. James Morrison & John McKenna: The Tailor’s Thimble/The Red Haired Lass. From Ballymote to Brooklyn 10. Danny O’Mahony: My Former Wife/Paidin O’Raifeartaigh. In Retrospect 11. Patsy Moloney: Humour s of Carrigaholt/Donal O’Pumpa. The Temple in the Glen 12. Mick O’Brien: Statia Donnelly/I Will If I Can/Patsy Geary’s. May Morning Dew 13. Christy Moore: The Crack Was 90. Live in Dublin 14. John Joe Gordon: The Ivy Leaf/Maids of Castlebar. Humours of Glendart 15. Niamh ni Burca: My Johnny Was A Shoemaker. Where Your Heart Lies 16. Jackie McAuley: St George’s Day. Shadowboxing 17. Ron Kavana: The Irish Ways. Irish Ways18. Terry Clarke : Irish Rockabilly Blues. The Shelley River 19. Johnny Cash: 40 Shades of Green/Big River. Compilations 20. Terry Clarke: The Edge of Shamrock City. The Shelley River 21. The Bothy Band: Martin Wynne’s/ The Longford Tinker. 1975 22. The Bothy Band: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill. 1975
Part 1: Zach, Michael and Miranda discuss movies they saw this week, including: Onward, Down with Love and There Was a Father.Part 2 (31:40): The group continues a set of picks from their Patreon patrons with 2006's Paprika, selected by Cam Watson.See movies discussed in this episode here.Also follow us on:FacebookTwitterLetterboxdSpotifyStitcher RadioRadio Public
The number one lesson is this: Pain is not your problem. Seriously, pain is not the problem. The CAUSE of the pain IS the problem. Look for it. Discover it. Are you so busy that you’re forgetting to take care of yourself? Yes, I understand. It happened to me too, but…if we don’t take time TODAY, tomorrow we’ll deal with the consequences. It’ll take MORE time, and be far more painful. Remember, you’re not only what you eat BUT…you’re also what’s eating you. Be willing to look past the pain, and discover the cause. All drugs, whether we like it or not, cause side effects. There’s a consequence to every single thing we think, feel, and do. I wasn’t suffering from a migraine because I was lacking a pain reliever. I was having a migraine because of specific reasons. There WAS a cause. If you’re experiencing any type of pain, it’s VITAL for you to discover the cause. Not merely mask the symptoms of the problem. Uncover and discover the cause of your symptoms. Don’t simply mask pain, or try to run from the pain or problem. Pursue the pain in your life. Find out where it’s coming from. Uncover and discover the cause of it. Stop trying to run from it. Stop backing away from the pain or symptom. Lean into it, my dear. Look at it — eye to eye, face to face, heart to heart— and figure out what’s behind it. There are lessons in your pain. I promise. What are they? Please grab your SACRED S.O.L. D.A.T.E. JOURNAL (Daily Action To Engage with yourself.) TODAY’S SACRED S.O.L. STEP: Write down where you’re hurting — experiencing mental, physical, spiritual, and/or emotional pain. Take a look at it. Begin to identify the cause of the pain. Seek professional help, if needed. When you correct the cause you can experience healing at such a deep level. From above, down, inside, and out. Thank you for being here, and allowing me to sip on life with you. 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Episode forty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Train Kept A-Rollin'" by Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, and how a rockabilly trio from Memphis connect a novelty cowboy song by Ella Fitzgerald to Motorhead and Aerosmith. 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 "Jump, Jive, an' Wail", by Louis Prima. ----more---- Resources For biographical information on the Burnettes, I've mostly used Billy Burnette's self-published autobiography, Craxy Like Me. It's a flawed source, but the only other book on Johnny Burnette I've been able to find is in Spanish, and while I go to great lengths to make this podcast accurate I do have limits, and learning Spanish for a single lesson is one of them. The details about the Burnettes' relationship with Elvis Presley come from Last Train To Memphis by Peter Guralnick. Before Elvis by Larry Birnbaum has a chapter on "Train Kept A-Rollin'", and its antecedents in earlier blues material, that goes into far more detail than I could here, but which was an invaluable reference. And this three-CD set contains almost everything Johnny Burnette released up to 1962. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript There are some records that have had such an effect on the history of rock music that the record itself becomes almost divorced from its context. Who made it, and how, doesn't seem to matter as much as that it did exist, and that it reverberated down the generations. Today, we're going to look at one of those records, and at how a novelty song about cowboys written for an Abbot and Costello film became a heavy metal anthem performed by every group that ever played a distorted riff. There's a tradition in rock and roll music of brothers who fight constantly making great music together, and we'll see plenty of them as we go through the next few decades -- the Everly Brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, the Beach Boys... rock and roll would be very different without sibling rivalry. But few pairs of brothers have fought as violently and as often as Johnny and Dorsey Burnette. The first time Roy Orbison met them, he was standing in a Memphis radio station, chatting with Elvis Presley, and waiting for a lift. When the lift doors opened, inside the lift were the Burnette brothers, in the middle of a fist-fight. When Dorsey was about eight years old and Johnny six, their mother bought them both guitars. By the end of the day, both guitars had been broken -- over each other's heads. And their fights were not just the minor fights one might expect from young men, but serious business. Both of them were trained boxers, and in Dorsey Burnette's case he was a professional who became Golden Gloves champion of the South in 1950, and had once fought Sonny Liston. A fight between the Burnette brothers was a real fight. They'd grown up around Lauderdale Court, the same apartment block where Elvis Presley spent his teenage years, and they used to hang around together and sing with a gang of teenage boys that included Bill Black's brother Johnny. Elvis would, as a teenager, hang around on the outskirts of their little group, singing along with them, but not really part of the group -- the Burnette brothers were as likely to bully him as they were to encourage him to be part of the gang, and while they became friendly later on, Elvis was always more of a friend-of-friends than he was an actual friend of theirs, even when he was a colleague of Dorsey's at Crown Electric. He was a little bit younger than them, and not the most sociable of people, and more importantly he didn't like their aggression – Elvis would jokingly refer to them as the Daltons, after the outlaw gang, Another colleague at Crown Electric was a man named Paul Burlison, who also boxed, and had been introduced to Dorsey by Lee Denson, who had taught both Dorsey and Elvis their first guitar chords. Burlison also played the guitar, and had played in many small bands over the late forties and early fifties. In particular, one of the bands he was in had had its own regular fifteen-minute show on a local radio station, and their show was on next to a show presented by the blues singer Howlin' Wolf. Burlison's guitar playing would later show many signs of being influenced by Wolf's electric blues, just as much as by the country and western music his early groups were playing. Some sources even say that Burlison played on some of Wolf's early recordings at the Sun studios, though most of the sessionographies I've seen for Wolf say otherwise. The three of them formed a group in 1952, the Rhythm Rangers, with Burlison on lead guitar, Dorsey Burnette on double bass, and Johnny Burnette on rhythm guitar and lead vocals. A year later, they changed their name to the Rock & Roll Trio. While they were called the Rock & Roll Trio, they were still basically a country band, and their early setlists included songs like Hank Snow's "I'm Moving On": [Excerpt: Hank Snow, "I'm Moving On"] That one got dropped from their setlist after an ill-fated trip to Nashville. They wanted to get on the Grand Ole Opry, and so they drove up, found Snow, who was going to be on that night's show, and asked him if he could get them on to the show. Snow explained to them that it had taken him twenty years in the business to work his way up to being on the Grand Ole Opry, and he couldn't just get three random people he'd never met before on to the show. Johnny Burnette replied with two words, the first of which would get this podcast bumped into the adult section in Apple Podcasts, and the second of which was "you", and then they turned round and drove back to Memphis. They never played a Hank Snow song live again. It wasn't long after that, in 1953, that they recorded their first single, "You're Undecided", for a tiny label called Von Records in Boonville, Mississippi; [Excerpt: The Rock and Roll Trio, "You're Undecided", Von Records version] Around this time they also wrote a song called "Rockabilly Boogie", which they didn't get to record until 1957: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio, "Rockabilly Boogie"] That has been claimed as the first use of the word "rockabilly", and Billy Burnette, Dorsey's son, says they coined the word based on his name and that of Johnny's son Rocky. Now, it seems much more likely to me that the origin of the word is the obvious one -- that it's a portmanteau of the words "rock" and "hillbilly", to describe rocking hillbilly music -- but those were the names of their kids, so I suppose it's just about possible. Their 1953 single was not a success, and they spent the next few years playing in honky-tonks. They also regularly played the Saturday Night Jamboree at the Goodwyn Institute Auditorium, a regular country music show that was occasionally broadcast on the same station that Burlison's old bands had performed on, KWEM. Most of the musicians in Memphis who went on to make important early rockabilly records would play at the Jamboree, but more important than the show itself was the backstage area, where musicians would jam, show each other new riffs they'd come up with, and pass ideas back and forth. Those backstage jam sessions were the making of the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, as they were for many of the other rockabilly acts in the area. Their big break came in early 1956, when they appeared on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour and won three times in a row. The Ted Mack Amateur Hour was a TV series that was in many ways the X Factor or American Idol of the 1950s. The show launched the careers of Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, and Gladys Knight among others, and when the Rock and Roll Trio won for the third time (at the same time their old neighbour Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan show on another channel) they got signed to Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca Records, one of the biggest major labels in the USA at the time. Their first attempt at recording didn't go particularly well. Their initial session for Coral was in New York, and when they got there they were surprised to find a thirty-two piece orchestra waiting for them, none of whom had any more clue about playing rock and roll music than the Rock And Roll Trio had about playing orchestral pieces. They did record one track with the orchestra, "Shattered Dreams", although that song didn't get released until many years later: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette, "Shattered Dreams"] But after recording that song they sent all the musicians home except the drummer, who played on the rest of the session. They'd simply not got the rock and roll sound they wanted when working with all those musicians. They didn't need them. They didn't have quite enough songs for the session, and needed another uptempo number, and so Dorsey went out into the hallway and quickly wrote a song called "Tear It Up", which became the A-side of their first Coral single, with the B-side being a new version of "You're Undecided": [Excerpt: The Rock and Roll Trio, "Tear It Up"] While Dorsey wrote that song, he decided to split the credit, as they always did, four ways between the three members of the band and their manager. This kind of credit-splitting is normal in a band-as-gang, and right then that's what they were -- a gang, all on the same side. That was soon going to change, and credit was going to be one of the main reasons. But that was all to come. For now, the Rock 'n' Roll Trio weren't happy at all about their recordings. They didn't want to make any more records in New York with a bunch of orchestral musicians who didn't know anything about their music. They wanted to make records in Nashville, and so they were booked into Owen Bradley's studio, the same one where Gene Vincent made his first records, and where Wanda Jackson recorded when she was in Nashville rather than LA. Bradley knew how to get a good rockabilly sound, and they were sure they were going to get the sound they'd been getting live when they recorded there. In fact, they got something altogether different, and better than that sound, and it happened entirely by accident. On their way down to Nashville from New York they played a few shows, and one of the first they played was in Philadelphia. At that show, Paul Burlison dropped his amplifier, loosening one of the vacuum tubes inside. The distorted sound it gave was like nothing he'd ever heard, and while he replaced the tube, he started loosening it every time he wanted to get that sound. So when they got to Nashville, they went into Owen Bradley's studio and, for possibly the first time ever, deliberately recorded a distorted guitar. I say possibly because, as so often happens with these things, a lot of people seem to have had the same idea around the same time, but the Rock 'n' Roll Trio's recordings do seem to be the first ones where the distortion was deliberately chosen. Obviously we've already looked at "Rocket 88", which did have a distorted guitar, and again that was caused by an accident, but the difference there was that the accident happened on the day of the recording with no time to fix it. This was Burlison choosing to use the result of the accident at a point where he could have easily had the amplifier in perfect working order, had he wanted to. At these sessions, the trio were augmented by a few studio musicians from the Nashville "A-Team", the musicians who made most of the country hits of the time. While Dorsey Burnette played bass live, he preferred playing guitar, so in the studio he was on an additional rhythm guitar while Bob Moore played the bass. Buddy Harmon was on drums, while session guitarist Grady Martin added another electric guitar to complement Burlison's. The presence of these musicians has led some to assume that they played everything on the records, and that the Rock 'n' Roll Trio only added their voices, but that seems to be very far from the case. Certainly Burlison's guitar style is absolutely distinctive, and the effect he puts on his guitar is absolutely unlike anything else that you hear from Grady Martin at this point. Martin did, later, introduce the fuzztone to country music, with his playing on records like Marty Robbins' "Don't Worry": [Excerpt: Marty Robbins, "Don't Worry"] But that was a good five years after the Rock 'n' Roll Trio sessions, and the most likely explanation is that Martin was inspired to add fuzz to his guitar by Paul Burlison, rather than deciding to add it on one session and then not using it again for several years. The single they recorded at that Nashville session was one that would echo down the decades, influencing everyone from the Beatles to Aerosmith to Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. The A-side, "Honey Hush", was originally written and recorded by Big Joe Turner three years earlier: [Excerpt: Big Joe Turner, "Honey Hush"] It's not one of Turner's best, to be honest -- leaning too heavily on the misogyny that characterised too much of his work -- but over the years it has been covered by everyone from Chuck Berry to Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello to Jerry Lee Lewis. The Rock 'n' Roll Trio's cover version is probably the best of these, and certainly the most exciting: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, "Honey Hush"] This is the version of the song that inspired most of those covers, but the song that really mattered to people was the B-side, a track called "Train Kept A-Rollin'". "Train Kept A-Rollin'", like many R&B songs, has a long history, and is made up of elements that one can trace back to the 1920s, or earlier in some cases. But the biggest inspiration for the track is a song called "Cow Cow Boogie", which was originally recorded by Ella Mae Morse in 1942, but which was written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in an Abbot and Costello film, but cut from her appearance. Fitzgerald eventually recorded her own hit version of the song in 1943, backed by the Ink Spots, with the pianist Bill Doggett accompanying them: [Excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots, "Cow Cow Boogie"] That was in turn adapted by the jump band singer Tiny Bradshaw, under the title "Train Kept A-Rollin'": [Excerpt: Tiny Bradshaw, "The Train Kept A-Rollin'"] And that in turn was the basis for the Rock 'n' Roll Trio's version of the song, which they radically rearranged to feature an octave-doubled guitar riff, apparently invented by Dorsey Burnette, but played simultaneously by Burlison and Martin, with Burlison's guitar fuzzed up and distorted. This version of the song would become a classic: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] The single wasn't a success, but its B-side got picked up by the generation of British guitar players that came after, and from then it became a standard of rock music. It was covered by Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages: [Excerpt: Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] The Yardbirds: [Excerpt: The Yardbirds, "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets: [Excerpt: Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets, "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] Aerosmith: [Excerpt: Aerosmith, "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] Motorhead: [Excerpt: Motorhead: "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] You get the idea. By adding a distorted guitar riff, the Rock 'n' Roll Trio had performed a kind of alchemy, which turned a simple novelty cowboy song into something that would make the repertoire of every band that ever wanted to play as loud as possible and to scream at the top of their voices the words "the train kept rolling all night long". Sadly, the Rock 'n' Roll Trio didn't last much longer. While they had always performed as the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, Coral Records decided to release their recordings as by "Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio", and the other two members were understandably furious. They were a band, not just Johnny Burnette's backing musicians. Dorsey was the first to quit -- he left the band a few days before they were due to appear in Rock! Rock! Rock!, a cheap exploitation film starring Alan Freed. They got Johnny Black in to replace him for the film shoot, and Dorsey rejoined shortly afterwards, but the cracks had already appeared. They recorded one further session, but the tracks from that weren't even released as by Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, just by Johnny Burnette, and that was the final straw. The group split up, and went their separate ways. Johnny remained signed to Coral Records as a solo artist, but when he and Dorsey both moved, separately, to LA, they ended up working together as songwriters. Dorsey was contracted as a solo artist to Imperial Records, who had a new teen idol star who needed material -- Ricky Nelson had had an unexpected hit after singing on his parents' TV show, and as a result he was suddenly being promoted as a rock and roll star. Dorsey and Johnny wrote a whole string of top ten hits for Nelson, songs like "Believe What You Say", "Waiting In School", "It's Late", and "Just A Little Too Much": [Excerpt: Ricky Nelson, "Just a Little Too Much"] They also started recording for Imperial as a duo, under the name "the Burnette Brothers": [Excerpt: The Burnette Brothers, "Warm Love"] But that was soon stopped by Coral, who wanted to continue marketing Johnny as a solo artist, and they both started pursuing separate solo careers. Dorsey eventually had a minor hit of his own, "There Was a Tall Oak Tree", which made the top thirty in 1960. He made a few more solo records in the early sixties, and after becoming a born-again Christian in the early seventies he started a new, successful, career as a country singer, eventually receiving a "most promising newcomer" award from the Academy of Country Music in 1973, twenty years after his career started. He died in 1979 of a heart attack. Johnny Burnette eventually signed to Liberty Records, and had a string of hits that, like Dorsey's, were in a very different style from the Rock 'n' Roll Trio records. His biggest hit, and the one that most people associate with him to this day, was "You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful, And You're Mine": [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette, "You're Sixteen"] That song is, of course, a perennial hit that most people still know almost sixty years later, but none of Johnny's solo records had anything like the power and passion of the Rock 'n' Roll Trio recordings. And sadly we'll never know if he would regain that passion, as in 1964 he died in a boating accident. Paul Burlison, the last member of the trio, gave up music once the trio split up, and became an electrician again. He briefly joined Johnny on one tour in 1963, but otherwise stayed out of the music business until the 1980s. He then got back into performing, and started a new lineup of the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, featuring Johnny Black, who had briefly replaced Dorsey in the group, and Tony Austin, the drummer who had joined with them on many tour dates after they got a recording contract. He later joined "the Sun Rhythm Section", a band made up of many of the musicians who had played on classic rockabilly records, including Stan Kessler, Jimmy Van Eaton, Sonny Burgess, and DJ Fontana. Burlison released his only solo album in 1997. That album was called Train Kept A-Rollin', and featured a remake of that classic song, with Rocky and Billy Burnette -- Johnny and Dorsey's sons -- on vocals: [Excerpt: Paul Burlison, "Train Kept A-Rollin'"] He kept playing rockabilly until he died in 2003, aged seventy-four.
Episode forty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Train Kept A-Rollin'” by Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, and how a rockabilly trio from Memphis connect a novelty cowboy song by Ella Fitzgerald to Motorhead and Aerosmith. 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 “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail”, by Louis Prima. —-more—- Resources For biographical information on the Burnettes, I’ve mostly used Billy Burnette’s self-published autobiography, Craxy Like Me. It’s a flawed source, but the only other book on Johnny Burnette I’ve been able to find is in Spanish, and while I go to great lengths to make this podcast accurate I do have limits, and learning Spanish for a single lesson is one of them. The details about the Burnettes’ relationship with Elvis Presley come from Last Train To Memphis by Peter Guralnick. Before Elvis by Larry Birnbaum has a chapter on “Train Kept A-Rollin'”, and its antecedents in earlier blues material, that goes into far more detail than I could here, but which was an invaluable reference. And this three-CD set contains almost everything Johnny Burnette released up to 1962. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript There are some records that have had such an effect on the history of rock music that the record itself becomes almost divorced from its context. Who made it, and how, doesn’t seem to matter as much as that it did exist, and that it reverberated down the generations. Today, we’re going to look at one of those records, and at how a novelty song about cowboys written for an Abbot and Costello film became a heavy metal anthem performed by every group that ever played a distorted riff. There’s a tradition in rock and roll music of brothers who fight constantly making great music together, and we’ll see plenty of them as we go through the next few decades — the Everly Brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, the Beach Boys… rock and roll would be very different without sibling rivalry. But few pairs of brothers have fought as violently and as often as Johnny and Dorsey Burnette. The first time Roy Orbison met them, he was standing in a Memphis radio station, chatting with Elvis Presley, and waiting for a lift. When the lift doors opened, inside the lift were the Burnette brothers, in the middle of a fist-fight. When Dorsey was about eight years old and Johnny six, their mother bought them both guitars. By the end of the day, both guitars had been broken — over each other’s heads. And their fights were not just the minor fights one might expect from young men, but serious business. Both of them were trained boxers, and in Dorsey Burnette’s case he was a professional who became Golden Gloves champion of the South in 1950, and had once fought Sonny Liston. A fight between the Burnette brothers was a real fight. They’d grown up around Lauderdale Court, the same apartment block where Elvis Presley spent his teenage years, and they used to hang around together and sing with a gang of teenage boys that included Bill Black’s brother Johnny. Elvis would, as a teenager, hang around on the outskirts of their little group, singing along with them, but not really part of the group — the Burnette brothers were as likely to bully him as they were to encourage him to be part of the gang, and while they became friendly later on, Elvis was always more of a friend-of-friends than he was an actual friend of theirs, even when he was a colleague of Dorsey’s at Crown Electric. He was a little bit younger than them, and not the most sociable of people, and more importantly he didn’t like their aggression – Elvis would jokingly refer to them as the Daltons, after the outlaw gang, Another colleague at Crown Electric was a man named Paul Burlison, who also boxed, and had been introduced to Dorsey by Lee Denson, who had taught both Dorsey and Elvis their first guitar chords. Burlison also played the guitar, and had played in many small bands over the late forties and early fifties. In particular, one of the bands he was in had had its own regular fifteen-minute show on a local radio station, and their show was on next to a show presented by the blues singer Howlin’ Wolf. Burlison’s guitar playing would later show many signs of being influenced by Wolf’s electric blues, just as much as by the country and western music his early groups were playing. Some sources even say that Burlison played on some of Wolf’s early recordings at the Sun studios, though most of the sessionographies I’ve seen for Wolf say otherwise. The three of them formed a group in 1952, the Rhythm Rangers, with Burlison on lead guitar, Dorsey Burnette on double bass, and Johnny Burnette on rhythm guitar and lead vocals. A year later, they changed their name to the Rock & Roll Trio. While they were called the Rock & Roll Trio, they were still basically a country band, and their early setlists included songs like Hank Snow’s “I’m Moving On”: [Excerpt: Hank Snow, “I’m Moving On”] That one got dropped from their setlist after an ill-fated trip to Nashville. They wanted to get on the Grand Ole Opry, and so they drove up, found Snow, who was going to be on that night’s show, and asked him if he could get them on to the show. Snow explained to them that it had taken him twenty years in the business to work his way up to being on the Grand Ole Opry, and he couldn’t just get three random people he’d never met before on to the show. Johnny Burnette replied with two words, the first of which would get this podcast bumped into the adult section in Apple Podcasts, and the second of which was “you”, and then they turned round and drove back to Memphis. They never played a Hank Snow song live again. It wasn’t long after that, in 1953, that they recorded their first single, “You’re Undecided”, for a tiny label called Von Records in Boonville, Mississippi; [Excerpt: The Rock and Roll Trio, “You’re Undecided”, Von Records version] Around this time they also wrote a song called “Rockabilly Boogie”, which they didn’t get to record until 1957: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio, “Rockabilly Boogie”] That has been claimed as the first use of the word “rockabilly”, and Billy Burnette, Dorsey’s son, says they coined the word based on his name and that of Johnny’s son Rocky. Now, it seems much more likely to me that the origin of the word is the obvious one — that it’s a portmanteau of the words “rock” and “hillbilly”, to describe rocking hillbilly music — but those were the names of their kids, so I suppose it’s just about possible. Their 1953 single was not a success, and they spent the next few years playing in honky-tonks. They also regularly played the Saturday Night Jamboree at the Goodwyn Institute Auditorium, a regular country music show that was occasionally broadcast on the same station that Burlison’s old bands had performed on, KWEM. Most of the musicians in Memphis who went on to make important early rockabilly records would play at the Jamboree, but more important than the show itself was the backstage area, where musicians would jam, show each other new riffs they’d come up with, and pass ideas back and forth. Those backstage jam sessions were the making of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, as they were for many of the other rockabilly acts in the area. Their big break came in early 1956, when they appeared on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour and won three times in a row. The Ted Mack Amateur Hour was a TV series that was in many ways the X Factor or American Idol of the 1950s. The show launched the careers of Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, and Gladys Knight among others, and when the Rock and Roll Trio won for the third time (at the same time their old neighbour Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan show on another channel) they got signed to Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca Records, one of the biggest major labels in the USA at the time. Their first attempt at recording didn’t go particularly well. Their initial session for Coral was in New York, and when they got there they were surprised to find a thirty-two piece orchestra waiting for them, none of whom had any more clue about playing rock and roll music than the Rock And Roll Trio had about playing orchestral pieces. They did record one track with the orchestra, “Shattered Dreams”, although that song didn’t get released until many years later: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette, “Shattered Dreams”] But after recording that song they sent all the musicians home except the drummer, who played on the rest of the session. They’d simply not got the rock and roll sound they wanted when working with all those musicians. They didn’t need them. They didn’t have quite enough songs for the session, and needed another uptempo number, and so Dorsey went out into the hallway and quickly wrote a song called “Tear It Up”, which became the A-side of their first Coral single, with the B-side being a new version of “You’re Undecided”: [Excerpt: The Rock and Roll Trio, “Tear It Up”] While Dorsey wrote that song, he decided to split the credit, as they always did, four ways between the three members of the band and their manager. This kind of credit-splitting is normal in a band-as-gang, and right then that’s what they were — a gang, all on the same side. That was soon going to change, and credit was going to be one of the main reasons. But that was all to come. For now, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio weren’t happy at all about their recordings. They didn’t want to make any more records in New York with a bunch of orchestral musicians who didn’t know anything about their music. They wanted to make records in Nashville, and so they were booked into Owen Bradley’s studio, the same one where Gene Vincent made his first records, and where Wanda Jackson recorded when she was in Nashville rather than LA. Bradley knew how to get a good rockabilly sound, and they were sure they were going to get the sound they’d been getting live when they recorded there. In fact, they got something altogether different, and better than that sound, and it happened entirely by accident. On their way down to Nashville from New York they played a few shows, and one of the first they played was in Philadelphia. At that show, Paul Burlison dropped his amplifier, loosening one of the vacuum tubes inside. The distorted sound it gave was like nothing he’d ever heard, and while he replaced the tube, he started loosening it every time he wanted to get that sound. So when they got to Nashville, they went into Owen Bradley’s studio and, for possibly the first time ever, deliberately recorded a distorted guitar. I say possibly because, as so often happens with these things, a lot of people seem to have had the same idea around the same time, but the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio’s recordings do seem to be the first ones where the distortion was deliberately chosen. Obviously we’ve already looked at “Rocket 88”, which did have a distorted guitar, and again that was caused by an accident, but the difference there was that the accident happened on the day of the recording with no time to fix it. This was Burlison choosing to use the result of the accident at a point where he could have easily had the amplifier in perfect working order, had he wanted to. At these sessions, the trio were augmented by a few studio musicians from the Nashville “A-Team”, the musicians who made most of the country hits of the time. While Dorsey Burnette played bass live, he preferred playing guitar, so in the studio he was on an additional rhythm guitar while Bob Moore played the bass. Buddy Harmon was on drums, while session guitarist Grady Martin added another electric guitar to complement Burlison’s. The presence of these musicians has led some to assume that they played everything on the records, and that the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio only added their voices, but that seems to be very far from the case. Certainly Burlison’s guitar style is absolutely distinctive, and the effect he puts on his guitar is absolutely unlike anything else that you hear from Grady Martin at this point. Martin did, later, introduce the fuzztone to country music, with his playing on records like Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry”: [Excerpt: Marty Robbins, “Don’t Worry”] But that was a good five years after the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio sessions, and the most likely explanation is that Martin was inspired to add fuzz to his guitar by Paul Burlison, rather than deciding to add it on one session and then not using it again for several years. The single they recorded at that Nashville session was one that would echo down the decades, influencing everyone from the Beatles to Aerosmith to Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. The A-side, “Honey Hush”, was originally written and recorded by Big Joe Turner three years earlier: [Excerpt: Big Joe Turner, “Honey Hush”] It’s not one of Turner’s best, to be honest — leaning too heavily on the misogyny that characterised too much of his work — but over the years it has been covered by everyone from Chuck Berry to Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello to Jerry Lee Lewis. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio’s cover version is probably the best of these, and certainly the most exciting: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, “Honey Hush”] This is the version of the song that inspired most of those covers, but the song that really mattered to people was the B-side, a track called “Train Kept A-Rollin'”. “Train Kept A-Rollin'”, like many R&B songs, has a long history, and is made up of elements that one can trace back to the 1920s, or earlier in some cases. But the biggest inspiration for the track is a song called “Cow Cow Boogie”, which was originally recorded by Ella Mae Morse in 1942, but which was written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in an Abbot and Costello film, but cut from her appearance. Fitzgerald eventually recorded her own hit version of the song in 1943, backed by the Ink Spots, with the pianist Bill Doggett accompanying them: [Excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots, “Cow Cow Boogie”] That was in turn adapted by the jump band singer Tiny Bradshaw, under the title “Train Kept A-Rollin'”: [Excerpt: Tiny Bradshaw, “The Train Kept A-Rollin'”] And that in turn was the basis for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio’s version of the song, which they radically rearranged to feature an octave-doubled guitar riff, apparently invented by Dorsey Burnette, but played simultaneously by Burlison and Martin, with Burlison’s guitar fuzzed up and distorted. This version of the song would become a classic: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] The single wasn’t a success, but its B-side got picked up by the generation of British guitar players that came after, and from then it became a standard of rock music. It was covered by Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages: [Excerpt: Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] The Yardbirds: [Excerpt: The Yardbirds, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets: [Excerpt: Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] Aerosmith: [Excerpt: Aerosmith, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] Motorhead: [Excerpt: Motorhead: “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] You get the idea. By adding a distorted guitar riff, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio had performed a kind of alchemy, which turned a simple novelty cowboy song into something that would make the repertoire of every band that ever wanted to play as loud as possible and to scream at the top of their voices the words “the train kept rolling all night long”. Sadly, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio didn’t last much longer. While they had always performed as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, Coral Records decided to release their recordings as by “Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio”, and the other two members were understandably furious. They were a band, not just Johnny Burnette’s backing musicians. Dorsey was the first to quit — he left the band a few days before they were due to appear in Rock! Rock! Rock!, a cheap exploitation film starring Alan Freed. They got Johnny Black in to replace him for the film shoot, and Dorsey rejoined shortly afterwards, but the cracks had already appeared. They recorded one further session, but the tracks from that weren’t even released as by Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, just by Johnny Burnette, and that was the final straw. The group split up, and went their separate ways. Johnny remained signed to Coral Records as a solo artist, but when he and Dorsey both moved, separately, to LA, they ended up working together as songwriters. Dorsey was contracted as a solo artist to Imperial Records, who had a new teen idol star who needed material — Ricky Nelson had had an unexpected hit after singing on his parents’ TV show, and as a result he was suddenly being promoted as a rock and roll star. Dorsey and Johnny wrote a whole string of top ten hits for Nelson, songs like “Believe What You Say”, “Waiting In School”, “It’s Late”, and “Just A Little Too Much”: [Excerpt: Ricky Nelson, “Just a Little Too Much”] They also started recording for Imperial as a duo, under the name “the Burnette Brothers”: [Excerpt: The Burnette Brothers, “Warm Love”] But that was soon stopped by Coral, who wanted to continue marketing Johnny as a solo artist, and they both started pursuing separate solo careers. Dorsey eventually had a minor hit of his own, “There Was a Tall Oak Tree”, which made the top thirty in 1960. He made a few more solo records in the early sixties, and after becoming a born-again Christian in the early seventies he started a new, successful, career as a country singer, eventually receiving a “most promising newcomer” award from the Academy of Country Music in 1973, twenty years after his career started. He died in 1979 of a heart attack. Johnny Burnette eventually signed to Liberty Records, and had a string of hits that, like Dorsey’s, were in a very different style from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio records. His biggest hit, and the one that most people associate with him to this day, was “You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful, And You’re Mine”: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette, “You’re Sixteen”] That song is, of course, a perennial hit that most people still know almost sixty years later, but none of Johnny’s solo records had anything like the power and passion of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio recordings. And sadly we’ll never know if he would regain that passion, as in 1964 he died in a boating accident. Paul Burlison, the last member of the trio, gave up music once the trio split up, and became an electrician again. He briefly joined Johnny on one tour in 1963, but otherwise stayed out of the music business until the 1980s. He then got back into performing, and started a new lineup of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, featuring Johnny Black, who had briefly replaced Dorsey in the group, and Tony Austin, the drummer who had joined with them on many tour dates after they got a recording contract. He later joined “the Sun Rhythm Section”, a band made up of many of the musicians who had played on classic rockabilly records, including Stan Kessler, Jimmy Van Eaton, Sonny Burgess, and DJ Fontana. Burlison released his only solo album in 1997. That album was called Train Kept A-Rollin’, and featured a remake of that classic song, with Rocky and Billy Burnette — Johnny and Dorsey’s sons — on vocals: [Excerpt: Paul Burlison, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] He kept playing rockabilly until he died in 2003, aged seventy-four.
Episode forty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Train Kept A-Rollin'” by Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, and how a rockabilly trio from Memphis connect a novelty cowboy song by Ella Fitzgerald to Motorhead and Aerosmith. 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 “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail”, by Louis Prima. —-more—- Resources For biographical information on the Burnettes, I’ve mostly used Billy Burnette’s self-published autobiography, Craxy Like Me. It’s a flawed source, but the only other book on Johnny Burnette I’ve been able to find is in Spanish, and while I go to great lengths to make this podcast accurate I do have limits, and learning Spanish for a single lesson is one of them. The details about the Burnettes’ relationship with Elvis Presley come from Last Train To Memphis by Peter Guralnick. Before Elvis by Larry Birnbaum has a chapter on “Train Kept A-Rollin'”, and its antecedents in earlier blues material, that goes into far more detail than I could here, but which was an invaluable reference. And this three-CD set contains almost everything Johnny Burnette released up to 1962. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript There are some records that have had such an effect on the history of rock music that the record itself becomes almost divorced from its context. Who made it, and how, doesn’t seem to matter as much as that it did exist, and that it reverberated down the generations. Today, we’re going to look at one of those records, and at how a novelty song about cowboys written for an Abbot and Costello film became a heavy metal anthem performed by every group that ever played a distorted riff. There’s a tradition in rock and roll music of brothers who fight constantly making great music together, and we’ll see plenty of them as we go through the next few decades — the Everly Brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, the Beach Boys… rock and roll would be very different without sibling rivalry. But few pairs of brothers have fought as violently and as often as Johnny and Dorsey Burnette. The first time Roy Orbison met them, he was standing in a Memphis radio station, chatting with Elvis Presley, and waiting for a lift. When the lift doors opened, inside the lift were the Burnette brothers, in the middle of a fist-fight. When Dorsey was about eight years old and Johnny six, their mother bought them both guitars. By the end of the day, both guitars had been broken — over each other’s heads. And their fights were not just the minor fights one might expect from young men, but serious business. Both of them were trained boxers, and in Dorsey Burnette’s case he was a professional who became Golden Gloves champion of the South in 1950, and had once fought Sonny Liston. A fight between the Burnette brothers was a real fight. They’d grown up around Lauderdale Court, the same apartment block where Elvis Presley spent his teenage years, and they used to hang around together and sing with a gang of teenage boys that included Bill Black’s brother Johnny. Elvis would, as a teenager, hang around on the outskirts of their little group, singing along with them, but not really part of the group — the Burnette brothers were as likely to bully him as they were to encourage him to be part of the gang, and while they became friendly later on, Elvis was always more of a friend-of-friends than he was an actual friend of theirs, even when he was a colleague of Dorsey’s at Crown Electric. He was a little bit younger than them, and not the most sociable of people, and more importantly he didn’t like their aggression – Elvis would jokingly refer to them as the Daltons, after the outlaw gang, Another colleague at Crown Electric was a man named Paul Burlison, who also boxed, and had been introduced to Dorsey by Lee Denson, who had taught both Dorsey and Elvis their first guitar chords. Burlison also played the guitar, and had played in many small bands over the late forties and early fifties. In particular, one of the bands he was in had had its own regular fifteen-minute show on a local radio station, and their show was on next to a show presented by the blues singer Howlin’ Wolf. Burlison’s guitar playing would later show many signs of being influenced by Wolf’s electric blues, just as much as by the country and western music his early groups were playing. Some sources even say that Burlison played on some of Wolf’s early recordings at the Sun studios, though most of the sessionographies I’ve seen for Wolf say otherwise. The three of them formed a group in 1952, the Rhythm Rangers, with Burlison on lead guitar, Dorsey Burnette on double bass, and Johnny Burnette on rhythm guitar and lead vocals. A year later, they changed their name to the Rock & Roll Trio. While they were called the Rock & Roll Trio, they were still basically a country band, and their early setlists included songs like Hank Snow’s “I’m Moving On”: [Excerpt: Hank Snow, “I’m Moving On”] That one got dropped from their setlist after an ill-fated trip to Nashville. They wanted to get on the Grand Ole Opry, and so they drove up, found Snow, who was going to be on that night’s show, and asked him if he could get them on to the show. Snow explained to them that it had taken him twenty years in the business to work his way up to being on the Grand Ole Opry, and he couldn’t just get three random people he’d never met before on to the show. Johnny Burnette replied with two words, the first of which would get this podcast bumped into the adult section in Apple Podcasts, and the second of which was “you”, and then they turned round and drove back to Memphis. They never played a Hank Snow song live again. It wasn’t long after that, in 1953, that they recorded their first single, “You’re Undecided”, for a tiny label called Von Records in Boonville, Mississippi; [Excerpt: The Rock and Roll Trio, “You’re Undecided”, Von Records version] Around this time they also wrote a song called “Rockabilly Boogie”, which they didn’t get to record until 1957: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio, “Rockabilly Boogie”] That has been claimed as the first use of the word “rockabilly”, and Billy Burnette, Dorsey’s son, says they coined the word based on his name and that of Johnny’s son Rocky. Now, it seems much more likely to me that the origin of the word is the obvious one — that it’s a portmanteau of the words “rock” and “hillbilly”, to describe rocking hillbilly music — but those were the names of their kids, so I suppose it’s just about possible. Their 1953 single was not a success, and they spent the next few years playing in honky-tonks. They also regularly played the Saturday Night Jamboree at the Goodwyn Institute Auditorium, a regular country music show that was occasionally broadcast on the same station that Burlison’s old bands had performed on, KWEM. Most of the musicians in Memphis who went on to make important early rockabilly records would play at the Jamboree, but more important than the show itself was the backstage area, where musicians would jam, show each other new riffs they’d come up with, and pass ideas back and forth. Those backstage jam sessions were the making of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, as they were for many of the other rockabilly acts in the area. Their big break came in early 1956, when they appeared on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour and won three times in a row. The Ted Mack Amateur Hour was a TV series that was in many ways the X Factor or American Idol of the 1950s. The show launched the careers of Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, and Gladys Knight among others, and when the Rock and Roll Trio won for the third time (at the same time their old neighbour Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan show on another channel) they got signed to Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca Records, one of the biggest major labels in the USA at the time. Their first attempt at recording didn’t go particularly well. Their initial session for Coral was in New York, and when they got there they were surprised to find a thirty-two piece orchestra waiting for them, none of whom had any more clue about playing rock and roll music than the Rock And Roll Trio had about playing orchestral pieces. They did record one track with the orchestra, “Shattered Dreams”, although that song didn’t get released until many years later: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette, “Shattered Dreams”] But after recording that song they sent all the musicians home except the drummer, who played on the rest of the session. They’d simply not got the rock and roll sound they wanted when working with all those musicians. They didn’t need them. They didn’t have quite enough songs for the session, and needed another uptempo number, and so Dorsey went out into the hallway and quickly wrote a song called “Tear It Up”, which became the A-side of their first Coral single, with the B-side being a new version of “You’re Undecided”: [Excerpt: The Rock and Roll Trio, “Tear It Up”] While Dorsey wrote that song, he decided to split the credit, as they always did, four ways between the three members of the band and their manager. This kind of credit-splitting is normal in a band-as-gang, and right then that’s what they were — a gang, all on the same side. That was soon going to change, and credit was going to be one of the main reasons. But that was all to come. For now, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio weren’t happy at all about their recordings. They didn’t want to make any more records in New York with a bunch of orchestral musicians who didn’t know anything about their music. They wanted to make records in Nashville, and so they were booked into Owen Bradley’s studio, the same one where Gene Vincent made his first records, and where Wanda Jackson recorded when she was in Nashville rather than LA. Bradley knew how to get a good rockabilly sound, and they were sure they were going to get the sound they’d been getting live when they recorded there. In fact, they got something altogether different, and better than that sound, and it happened entirely by accident. On their way down to Nashville from New York they played a few shows, and one of the first they played was in Philadelphia. At that show, Paul Burlison dropped his amplifier, loosening one of the vacuum tubes inside. The distorted sound it gave was like nothing he’d ever heard, and while he replaced the tube, he started loosening it every time he wanted to get that sound. So when they got to Nashville, they went into Owen Bradley’s studio and, for possibly the first time ever, deliberately recorded a distorted guitar. I say possibly because, as so often happens with these things, a lot of people seem to have had the same idea around the same time, but the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio’s recordings do seem to be the first ones where the distortion was deliberately chosen. Obviously we’ve already looked at “Rocket 88”, which did have a distorted guitar, and again that was caused by an accident, but the difference there was that the accident happened on the day of the recording with no time to fix it. This was Burlison choosing to use the result of the accident at a point where he could have easily had the amplifier in perfect working order, had he wanted to. At these sessions, the trio were augmented by a few studio musicians from the Nashville “A-Team”, the musicians who made most of the country hits of the time. While Dorsey Burnette played bass live, he preferred playing guitar, so in the studio he was on an additional rhythm guitar while Bob Moore played the bass. Buddy Harmon was on drums, while session guitarist Grady Martin added another electric guitar to complement Burlison’s. The presence of these musicians has led some to assume that they played everything on the records, and that the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio only added their voices, but that seems to be very far from the case. Certainly Burlison’s guitar style is absolutely distinctive, and the effect he puts on his guitar is absolutely unlike anything else that you hear from Grady Martin at this point. Martin did, later, introduce the fuzztone to country music, with his playing on records like Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry”: [Excerpt: Marty Robbins, “Don’t Worry”] But that was a good five years after the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio sessions, and the most likely explanation is that Martin was inspired to add fuzz to his guitar by Paul Burlison, rather than deciding to add it on one session and then not using it again for several years. The single they recorded at that Nashville session was one that would echo down the decades, influencing everyone from the Beatles to Aerosmith to Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. The A-side, “Honey Hush”, was originally written and recorded by Big Joe Turner three years earlier: [Excerpt: Big Joe Turner, “Honey Hush”] It’s not one of Turner’s best, to be honest — leaning too heavily on the misogyny that characterised too much of his work — but over the years it has been covered by everyone from Chuck Berry to Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello to Jerry Lee Lewis. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio’s cover version is probably the best of these, and certainly the most exciting: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, “Honey Hush”] This is the version of the song that inspired most of those covers, but the song that really mattered to people was the B-side, a track called “Train Kept A-Rollin'”. “Train Kept A-Rollin'”, like many R&B songs, has a long history, and is made up of elements that one can trace back to the 1920s, or earlier in some cases. But the biggest inspiration for the track is a song called “Cow Cow Boogie”, which was originally recorded by Ella Mae Morse in 1942, but which was written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in an Abbot and Costello film, but cut from her appearance. Fitzgerald eventually recorded her own hit version of the song in 1943, backed by the Ink Spots, with the pianist Bill Doggett accompanying them: [Excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots, “Cow Cow Boogie”] That was in turn adapted by the jump band singer Tiny Bradshaw, under the title “Train Kept A-Rollin'”: [Excerpt: Tiny Bradshaw, “The Train Kept A-Rollin'”] And that in turn was the basis for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio’s version of the song, which they radically rearranged to feature an octave-doubled guitar riff, apparently invented by Dorsey Burnette, but played simultaneously by Burlison and Martin, with Burlison’s guitar fuzzed up and distorted. This version of the song would become a classic: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] The single wasn’t a success, but its B-side got picked up by the generation of British guitar players that came after, and from then it became a standard of rock music. It was covered by Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages: [Excerpt: Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] The Yardbirds: [Excerpt: The Yardbirds, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets: [Excerpt: Shakin’ Stevens and the Sunsets, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] Aerosmith: [Excerpt: Aerosmith, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] Motorhead: [Excerpt: Motorhead: “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] You get the idea. By adding a distorted guitar riff, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio had performed a kind of alchemy, which turned a simple novelty cowboy song into something that would make the repertoire of every band that ever wanted to play as loud as possible and to scream at the top of their voices the words “the train kept rolling all night long”. Sadly, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio didn’t last much longer. While they had always performed as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, Coral Records decided to release their recordings as by “Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio”, and the other two members were understandably furious. They were a band, not just Johnny Burnette’s backing musicians. Dorsey was the first to quit — he left the band a few days before they were due to appear in Rock! Rock! Rock!, a cheap exploitation film starring Alan Freed. They got Johnny Black in to replace him for the film shoot, and Dorsey rejoined shortly afterwards, but the cracks had already appeared. They recorded one further session, but the tracks from that weren’t even released as by Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, just by Johnny Burnette, and that was the final straw. The group split up, and went their separate ways. Johnny remained signed to Coral Records as a solo artist, but when he and Dorsey both moved, separately, to LA, they ended up working together as songwriters. Dorsey was contracted as a solo artist to Imperial Records, who had a new teen idol star who needed material — Ricky Nelson had had an unexpected hit after singing on his parents’ TV show, and as a result he was suddenly being promoted as a rock and roll star. Dorsey and Johnny wrote a whole string of top ten hits for Nelson, songs like “Believe What You Say”, “Waiting In School”, “It’s Late”, and “Just A Little Too Much”: [Excerpt: Ricky Nelson, “Just a Little Too Much”] They also started recording for Imperial as a duo, under the name “the Burnette Brothers”: [Excerpt: The Burnette Brothers, “Warm Love”] But that was soon stopped by Coral, who wanted to continue marketing Johnny as a solo artist, and they both started pursuing separate solo careers. Dorsey eventually had a minor hit of his own, “There Was a Tall Oak Tree”, which made the top thirty in 1960. He made a few more solo records in the early sixties, and after becoming a born-again Christian in the early seventies he started a new, successful, career as a country singer, eventually receiving a “most promising newcomer” award from the Academy of Country Music in 1973, twenty years after his career started. He died in 1979 of a heart attack. Johnny Burnette eventually signed to Liberty Records, and had a string of hits that, like Dorsey’s, were in a very different style from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio records. His biggest hit, and the one that most people associate with him to this day, was “You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful, And You’re Mine”: [Excerpt: Johnny Burnette, “You’re Sixteen”] That song is, of course, a perennial hit that most people still know almost sixty years later, but none of Johnny’s solo records had anything like the power and passion of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio recordings. And sadly we’ll never know if he would regain that passion, as in 1964 he died in a boating accident. Paul Burlison, the last member of the trio, gave up music once the trio split up, and became an electrician again. He briefly joined Johnny on one tour in 1963, but otherwise stayed out of the music business until the 1980s. He then got back into performing, and started a new lineup of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, featuring Johnny Black, who had briefly replaced Dorsey in the group, and Tony Austin, the drummer who had joined with them on many tour dates after they got a recording contract. He later joined “the Sun Rhythm Section”, a band made up of many of the musicians who had played on classic rockabilly records, including Stan Kessler, Jimmy Van Eaton, Sonny Burgess, and DJ Fontana. Burlison released his only solo album in 1997. That album was called Train Kept A-Rollin’, and featured a remake of that classic song, with Rocky and Billy Burnette — Johnny and Dorsey’s sons — on vocals: [Excerpt: Paul Burlison, “Train Kept A-Rollin'”] He kept playing rockabilly until he died in 2003, aged seventy-four.
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