From “woke” PBS, a documentary about King Records, the Cincinnati label that launched the career of soul music’s James Brown.
Category: Music
Zombies Sunday Morning Wake-Up
Andrew at Parlogram has this take on the truly great album, Odessey & Oracle.
Here’s the album:
Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary is available on Amazon.
A Mockumental Movie
Before This is Spinal Tap there was All You Need is Cash, showcasing the musical brilliance of Neil Innes.
An Easy Day’s Morning
Prue gets her hair done by Betty Glasow, six minutes into this.
The Cuts of His JIB
I am confident that no radio station, anywhere in the world, plays music from as many decades, excluding Classical, as John Garabedian’s Boston-based WJIB. Click play and you will agree.
From Shellac to Cardboard
How many recordings on 78 rpm discs represent a loss of revenue to record labels? I’m guessing none, but they sued the Internet Archive anyway.
What about records glued onto the back of cereal boxes? I remember those. They have collectors, of course.