"Yellow Submarine" and more!

Get it? Yellow submarine? Ha, ha!

Ohh-kay....

So, we start with some fab sounds from my vinyl collection--seven of them. Best of the lot, in my opinion, is Ferrante and Teicher's very creative treatment of (you'll never guess) Yellow Submarine. Second-best would be, um....

I guess, Peggy Lee's version of My Sweet Lord. No, make it Gabor Szabo's version of Dear Prudence. Of course, I also like F&T's version of My Sweet Lord a lot.

I guess I have trouble making decisions sometimes. Well, not really. I mean... yeah, sort of. Then again....

What was I talking about?

Yellow Submarine--Ferrante and Teicher, 1969.

I Feel Fine--Enoch Light and His Light Brigade, 1965.

Dear Prudence--Gabor Szabo, 1969.

My Sweet Lord (G. Harrison)--Peggy Lee, 1971.

All You Need Is Love--Norman Percival and His Orch., 1970.

Let It Be--Ferrante and Teicher with Nick Perito's Orch., 1971.

Eight Days a Week--Enoch Light and His Light Brigade, 1965.

And we continue with Enoch Light and His Light Brigade....

The Jerk (D. Julian)--Enoch Light, 1965.

Easy Go, Go Easy Baby (E. Light-L. Davies)--Enoch Light, 1965.

Any Way You Want It (D. Clark)--Enoch Light, 1965.

La Bostella (Viens Danser La Bostella) (P. Perez)--Enoch Light, 1965.

Downtown (T. Hatch)--Enoch Light, 1965.

And we close with Jerry Colonna....

My Sweet Adeline--Jerry Colonna, 1953.


Lee

Fab sounds! (With more to come)

Five fab tracks for Wednesday morning, with more to come once I get them uploaded. (But not, of course, before):

Mother (John Lennon)--Maynard Ferguson, 1972.

Hey Jude--Maynard Ferguson, 1972.

She's a Woman--Chet Atkins, 1966.

Can't Buy Me Love--Johnny Rivers, 1964.

I'll Cry Instead--Johnny Rivers, 1964.

Were those fab, or gear? I mean, or what?

And here are a few more tracks by Atkins, Ferguson, and Noro Morales.

Spinning Wheel (D. Clayton-Thomas)--Maynard Ferguson, 1972.

Wheels (Petty)--Chet Atkins, 1967.

White Silver Sands (Matthews)--Chet Atkins, 1967.

Armen's Theme (Bagdasarian)--Chet Atkins, 1967.

Montuno--Noro Morales and His Orch. (From Allegro label LP)



Lee

My sinuses, and other horror stories

So... yet another newspaper piece lists Elvis Presley's That's All Right as the first rock and roll record. Oh, it doesn't use those exact words, but that's what it means. It makes the usual claim--i.e., that Elvis' first single "synthesized blues, gospel and rockabilly." Don't get me started.

The other choices are equally predictable. And, as ever, no mention of Bill Haley. It's as if Rock Around the Clock (itself a rip-off of 1949's Rock the Joint) never happened. Someday, all of this folklore will be replaced by r&r scholarship, but it ain't happening in our lifetimes. Trust me.

Fun at Huff Po--I think I said I was quitting (oops), but I guess I was kidding. And Huff Po deleted one of my comments yesterday (it was pending, then it was no more), and I was not happy, so I wrote to the blogger himself via his other blog. He asked to see the censored post, so I sent it to him. He had no idea why Huff-Po axed it. Anyway, we had a nice exchange. Turns out we're on the same page as far as the basic issue.

He said he'd write to Huff-Po about it. Far out! Maybe that's why I heard back from them today.

Debate is fun. And useful. I wish there wasn't so much opposition to it on the 'Net.

Music coming soon, but I'm not moving as quickly as usual, owing to Sinus Hell like I haven't suffered in a while. I hope an infection isn't coming out of this, but it's probably already here. There's something new in the air, allergen-wise, and I'm paying for it.

Be glad you don't have my sinuses.


Lee

Sunday morning gospel--Van Impes, Johnnie and Jack, Harmony Four, Homer Rodeheaver, more!

Country gospel, Homer Rodeheaver, Stuart Hamblen, songs by Charles H. Gabriel--who could ask for more?

I mean, besides Richard Dawkins.

Meanwhile, I'm going to replace a file I just uploaded with a better version of that file. A re-EQd version, to be precise.

And of course you're wondering, are the "Van Impes" Jack and Rexella Van Impe? Answer: It's them.

Wish I had Elvis' version of C.M. Battersby and Charles Gabriel's An Evening Prayer ready to go. However, it sits, unripped, in one of my 45 boxes. We'll have to make do with Homer Rodeheaver and George Beverly Shea.


You Better Get Down on Your Knees and Pray--Johnnie and Jack.

All Hail Emanuel (Gabriel)--William McEwan, 1913.

All Hail Emanuel (Gabriel)--The Van Impes.

Jesus Paid It All--Harmony Four.

A Handful of Sunshine (Hamblen)--Stuart Hamblen, 1955.

An Evening Prayer (Battersby-Gabriel)--Homer Rodeheaver, 1915.

An Evening Prayer (Battersby-Gabriel)--George Beverly Shea, 1957.

Then Jesus Came (Rodeheaver-Smith)--Homer Rodeheaver, c. 1950.

Room at the Cross (Stanphill)--George Zinn.

Until Then (Hamblen)--Palermo Brothers, 1958.

Sweeter as the Years Go By (Leila N. Morris)--Paul Mickelson, 1958.

That Will Be Glory (Chas. H. Gabriel)--Marshall Vaughn.

Oh My Soul, Bless Thou Jehovah--George Zinn.

Precious Memories--Plainsmen Quartet.

Love Lifted Me (Rowe-Smith)--Plainsmen Quartet.

Little Tom--Ferlin Huskey, 1955.


Lee