Cilla White was a coat room girl at the Cavern Club, and like other Liverpool natives she found her future in popular music. Switching her name from White to Black, Cilla joined Brian Epstein’s stable of performers, working with George Martin and Paul McCartney.
Although Cilla never achieved the fame in America that was enjoyed by Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark, she was very popular in England, where she was a household name to generations of fans. Cilla passed away earlier today.
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Over on the side you will see a link for Andrew Sandoval’s podcast, “Come to the Sunshine.” The podcasts first appear on the Internet radio station Luxuria Music. With the time difference between the coasts, I use TuneIn Pro on my Amazon HDX tablet to record the show when it airs, so I don’t miss the first hour before getting home from work.
In a Facebook post last night, Andrew explained what “Come to the Sunshine” is all about, and he previews today’s show.
For decades I have been obsessed with the less traveled paths of popular music, both as a curator and consumer. Truthfully, I don’t like it because it is unpopular, rather it just so happens a lot of what I love has potential but is still waiting to find a secondary audience after fifty years.
That is the basis for my radio program, “Come To The Sunshine,” which pulls together music from my personal collection to create an alternative to the oldies specialty programming that is nearing extinction. For the past nine years it has gobbled up hundreds of intense hours and carried a silver lining: if I do them right, someday I may go back and listen to this strange encyclopedia of sounds.
One of my favorite artists that was featured on an early show, The Mojo Men a.k.a. The Mojo p.k.a. Mojo, made so many great recordings in the mid-to-late 1960’s, many of which have escaped reissue or any sort of release. I plan to play a solid set of these on Monday, along with 20 various ’60s singles that I have collected on my recent travels.
The details are as follows: Monday July 20, 2015 – a brand-new-edition of “Come To The Sunshine” on www.luxuriamusic.com at 3pm (pacific)/6pm (eastern)/11pm (GMT). Featuring singles by: Basil/The Moody Blues/Carolyn Hester/Jerry Yester/Teddy and The Pandas/The Spencer Davis Group/John Walker/Eric Marshall And The Chymes/Abrahamm And Strauss/The Six Mile Chase/Thoughts And Words/Wichita Fall/Rainy Daze/The Nashville Teens/Tommy Roe/The Happenings/Stewpot And Save The Children Fund Choir/Duncan Browne/The Shannons/Last Friday’s Fire + a very full hour of San Francisco’s Mojo Men (pictured here with arranger, Van Dyke Parks).
I hope you join me this afternoon or some Monday soon!
Mark Evanier’s opinion of this video is, “I don’t get why anyone thought this was funny or clever or worth making,” but I think the comparison is obvious. “Mad Max: Fury Road” is, in a way, a punk remake of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”
It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road – Trailer from Zequiodzilla on Vimeo.
Pictures from New Horizon’s closest approach to Pluto are on their way.
Click here to see a post from five years ago about Dave Dexter, Jr., who was responsible for much of the worst, and some of the best, about the Beatle records in America, on Capitol. I’m finally getting around to finishing the series.
The link between the Beatles and Bozo the Clown is Alan Livingston, as explained at this link by Bruce Spizer, the Beatles-in-America expert. Spizer can be heard in this 2010 edition of Bob Malik’s radio program, “The Beatle Years.”
Spizer is the best source for understanding the convoluted story of how screwed up Capitol’s handling of the Beatles was, not only before “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” but long after, thanks to the confidence — considered by many to be misplaced — that Alan Livingston had in Dave Dexter, Jr. Some of the source material that Spizer presents shows, however, that once it was obvious the Beatles would be bigger than big, Livingston began to second guess Dexter’s judgment.
Next up you will hear Dexter himself talking about the Beatles, and I will explain how I made my peace with the Dexter-ization of the Beatles sounds and selections heard on Capitol Records.
