Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

Oi'll give it foive! Remember Janice on Thank Your Lucky Stars? They don't wroite music like that any more!

 

You only found out about Tom Waits 5 years ago? Surprised. Not my cup of tea though.

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I was 12 when the .Beatles first came on the scene I wasn't a Beatles fanatic. Their first few albums introduced me to people I hadn't heard of as .i dug out the peopevwhose stuff they were covering. Same with the Stones, though I liked them purely because of my old man's reaction when he first saw them.
Nowadays I hear .Beatles stuff and marvel at how much high quality stuff they produced in 8 years as well as touring, making films etc. Compare the output of other groups over periods twomand three times longer.
It amuses me to read some people denigrating the .Beatles. You can't go a datpynwithout hearingba Beatles song or a cover. Can't see that being the case with any other group,50 years after they split up.
Good on your nephew. Not many finer voices than David Ruffin in his prime with the Temptations.

My favourite, Since I Lost My Baby is blocked on YouTube, at least the original,version, so this will have to do.
He was an arsehole but he had a great voice.

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The Beatles introduced me to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Shirelles and The Temptations, and would've likely done the same with Chuck Berry had it not already been for Back to the Future.

They technically introduced me to Buddy Holly too, but I didn't know at the time and only realised after eventually listening to some Crickets stuff later on.

 

A lot of the early stuff on there was pretty dire. The Beatles second TV appearance was on that programme in 1962.

Amazing that .Brian Matthew is still on the radio on a Saturday morning, his voice becoming more melliferous with the passing years.

 

They introduced me to some of them back in 1963. Not Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry as .I had already come across them aged less than13 through friend's older brothers records. Stones introduced me to a lot of new ones. You can easily come across all the ones you mention now, however back in those days most people had not heard of most of them. Exciting days back then. Suddenly a load of black blues artists who were not known in America came to prominence over here and appeared in front of larger crowds, for more money, team they had ever done before.
Stones introduced me to Elmore James and this bloke. Listen to that riff, it has been copied hundreds of times.
Listen to his Big Boss Man intro and then the Stones Little By Little to see a bit of copying as well. The Stones version of Honest I Do shows their admiration of him in one of Jagger's best early blues covers.

 

George Martin said when he first started recording the Beatles Lennon and McCartney said their ambition was for their records to sound as if they had been made in the Tamla studios.

 

Makes sense to be fair, it was the studio at the time where the best and biggest music was coming from, at least until (in my opinion) Abbey Road came about.

 

That's a lot like another Temptations classic. And was David Ruffin related to Jimmy? I'm no historian unfortunately.

 

It was the sound they wanted. In 1962 Tamla was far from big, especially over here. The Beatles were aware of Tamla due to Liverpool being a port with regular connections to America and merchant seamen bringing records back. However Tamla as such easn't known here. Their records were distributed under another label and .Tamla Motown was a name not used in the USA. The first number one with on the Tamla Motown label was quite later, Stop! In The Name Of Love.

Motown was always grateful to .Dusty Springfield. They had a revue touring in 1965 but although they went down well they were only playing to half empty places in front of mods mainly. Dusty got together with the producer to do a Motown Ready Steady Special. This was the first time a lot of people had heard or seen these acts. They even flew the Temptations, who were not on the tour in for the show. After that the crowds shot up.
Looks like they have blocked or removed the full show on YouTube but clips are available.

It ended with this number. Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, .Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas all on stage together. Unlikely to ever see that sort of thing nowadays.

 

Jimmy Ruffin was David's elder brother.

 

Cheers. Obviously I could GOOGLE anything I don't know, but it just doesn't seem right.

 

This is the first Tamla song I ever liked. Didn't realise it was a Tamla record because, as I said earlier in the thread, their records were distributed through other labels for quite a while.
Compared to a lot of the insipid dross in the charts at the time it sounded extremely sophisticated stuff.

 

The Isley Brothers were from Cincinnati, a city with a strong history in the development of rock 'n roll and other music genres.

 

Can't think of the part Cincinnati played in the development of rock 'n' roll to be honest. What was it?

 

Castro, King Records have had numerous labels. Fraternity Records and Jewel Records were two others. It's not really my scene (and we didn't live here until 1986), but there's plenty of info on Google.

 

Possibly.Wagner isn't exactly feel good music.

 

Yes, but that doesn't mean it played a part in the development of rock 'n' roll the way that Memphis did for example.

 

Fine. OK. Whatever.
Our sixth granddaughter has just been born in Virginia Beach, and she's absolutely gorgeous. So, for the time being, nothing else matters, nothing really matters ... to me.