At last! Lía Pamina has collected her songs into an audio playlist that I can embed. You’ll also find the collection on Lia’s music page on Facebook. Lía has her own sweet and lovely sound that works so perfectly with the soft 60’s songs she favors, and with the newer tunes she does, too.
Latest tracks by Lia Pamina
Produced by Robbie Leff
Let’s see what’s been doing lately in tiny Belgium, home to the owners of giant Budweiser, and where there hasn’t been a government in nearly a year. Hmm… it seems the political protests there are a bit different than they are in, say, Wisconsin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVagUPDeNgo
One thing’s the same, however, and that’s consumer frustration over getting the runaround when calling customer service. A group of Belgian pranksters on TV calling itself Basta dishes out some payback.
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.theworld.org/audio/030220114.mp3|titles=The World on PRI: Basta protests]The Flemish half of Belgium is, of course, the land of K3, the Europop girl group. The ladies have a new musical coming up, and it’ll be a first for Josje, who joined Karen Damen and Kristel Verbeke after Kathleen Aerts left the group.
WHY, KATHLEEN? WHY??
I don’t know why Studio 100 doesn’t call the new K3 musical “Alices in Wonderland,” but with three Alices on stage it makes sense to have 3-D effects on stage.
LONDON – Josie makes her musical debut soon for K3 in Alice in Wonderland. “It is the first time I’m going to do a full musical with K3, indeed,” said Karen about the musical, which will contain 3-D elements. In Alice in Wonderland 3-D scenery is used, which is a first. “It’s really the first time this has happened,” said Karen to Show News. “Probably there will be many to follow after us, but we can always say later: we were first.” The musical will play next summer at the World Forum Theater in The Hague.
Here’s one of K3’s more ambitious stage productions, with the girls combining a gospel church theme with 50’s “Happy Days” nostalgia. With so many little kids in the audience it doesn’t get as big a reaction as I think it deserved. Check out the wild backdrop.
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I don’t know much about the UK band called Hawkwind, but in 1972 they were staying true to the psychedelic sound of ’67-’68. Silver Machine almost sounds as if it could have been an outtake from the Moody Blues LP In Search of the Lost Chord. This is an interesting contrast to what Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were doing at the same time.
As usual, I have a bunch of posts I’ve been ticky-tacking away at for a while, but haven’t finished, then something grabs me so I write about that instead. Ya gotta love Louis Prima. Man, that cat could swing! Listen to this bit from his fantastic 1956 mash-up of “I’m Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” — later covered by none other than David Lee Roth.
[audio:http://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2011/Mar/LouisPrima.mp3|titles=Louis Prima: I Ain’t Got Nobody (excerpt)]But get this. Marion Harris recorded “I Ain’t Got Nobody” before WWI!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24dfSxU1S64
Here’s a song that’s familiar to people of a certain age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHJ_snG3RI
Marion Harris did that one first, too, the year it was written, 1923.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w0bzYKdXwk
Here’s a favorite by Harris. Listen to her phrasing in “After You’ve Gone,” and you’ll hear Marion’s influence on generations of singers to come.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA6ulKFXiTA
He had been working on the second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, and he had a Columbia photographer [Don Hunstein] take a picture of him and Suze, walking arm and arm along West Fourth Street. [It was actually Jones Street.] “The cover’s the most important part of the album,” he told friends as he passed around advance printings of the album jacket. It shook up everyone. “She was the envy of every folk singer’s chick in the Village,” Terri Thai says. “It was a big ego trip being on a record jacket.” Some friends believe Dylan was deliberately trying to affect Suze’s ego, “to give her some of the taste of what he was getting, and to make his hold on her a little tighter,” one of them says.
Dylan, An Intimate Biography, by Anthony Scaduto, 1973, p. 157
One of the more important women in the history of music wasn’t a musician. Suze Rotolo is gone. I was fascinated by her when I read Anthony Scaduto’s Dylan biography in high school. She wasn’t a great beauty, but she was the right girl at the right time for Bob Dylan, and her influence was significant. But it’s curious how many of Dylan’s greatest non-protest songs from that period, and into his time with Joan Baez, seem to have an almost negative attitude towards women.
This is a great outtake shot from the photo session for the cover of Freewheelin’. I found it on old fashion is lovely fashion.
This video has 5.2 million hits on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEY6_jcrzI8
