JSngry

Here ya' go.

with Bette Davis as "Alabama" and the drawl that comes with it.

Yo!

If their very earliest records are any indication, Mark Lindsaey had put in enough time to at least get a good centered tone, unlike Mike Love who played like ...Mike Love.

Filler on a mid-60s R&R LP? I'm shocked I tell you, SHOCKED!!!!!

Ok. Bette Davis was a badass.

One more:

Here's a white alto player:

It's got Leo Watson playing drums with Lena Horne

1951;

What kind of a car was a Rocket 69 anyway? 1947 Intentional distortion, not happy accident, again from 1947:. Not Rick & Raoul. Just something else that happened, because electric guitar.

1947(?) Thinking about the development of Black Popular Music only as a feeder into White Popular Music is actually myopic and, really, just wrong.

Chuck Berry and saxophone?

He certainly did some work. RIP

Dead people are safe.

A bit or more of hype in that poster...really no "scandal" involved. But is is a pretty "moody" film, could have been played for straight soap, but wasn't.

Jacob stole the blessing.

Sorry, we've got family in from out of town. Yeah, nice offering, like the added percussion. And totally agree with you about singers. Singing and dancing, no matter how abstracted, pretty much is what I want to hear in any music. It's what makes things human "Songs"...not so much for me these days, but really getting inside a song, any song, is not for the faint of heart. Finding truth never is . Keep putting it out there. Glad you're doing it;

The Raiders got marketed as teeny-bopper, but I swear that a fair amount of their stuff hits harder today than ever. Pure Garage Rock with a Columbia production budget. They belong in the R&R HOF, joke that it is, as much as anybody.

It got reissued somehow a few years ago on BGP or some label like that. Maybe a Japan thing. Dusty Groovee had it.