2009/03/30

ENDLESS SKY VOLUME III - VAN DYKE PARKS

Uncovering the cornfield has never been this much fun!!
Spike Jones, Walt Disney, Brian Wilson and Beyond

2009 Mar 23 - endlessskyvideo
http://endlessskyvideo.blogspot.com/

2009/03/28

ROCK LEGEND AND TECHNOLOGY PIONEER TODD RUNDGREN HERE APRIL 8 FOR UBBEN LECTURE

He's been called "rock's Renaissance man" by Entertainment Tonight and Mojo magazine recently described him as "a one-man Beatles."
Todd Rundgren -- the legendary musician, songwriter, producer, computer software developer and music video pioneer -- will come to the campus of DePauw University on Wednesday, April 8, as a guest of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series.

2009 Mar 26 - DePauw University
http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=23190

Come Go With Me - Original Mix - The Beach Boys

1978 cover

1956 Written by: C.E. Quick



http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=lLkBlXb87YQ&fmt=18

2009/03/25

CAPITOL TO REISSUE MORE CLASSIC VINYL

According to Rolling Stone, Capitol will continue their "From the Capitol Vaults" vinyl series with 11 more classic albums being re-released on vinyl on June 16th.
Among the highlights in this batch of vinyl reissues are Plastic Ono Band's Live Peace in Toronto 1969 and the Beach Boys' Surf's Up and Sunflower albums.

Randy & The Rainbows 1963 Denise

1963
Written by: Neil Levenson (and was inspired by his childhood friend, Denice Lefrak)



http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqMW4CHClk&fmt=18

2009/03/19

WHERE DID CAR SONGS GO?

Back in the mid 50’s through the late 60’s, when rock and roll was in its infancy, singers like Jan and Dean, The Beach Boys, and Ronny and the Daytonas sang about how cool it was to own a fast car.
Hell, the Beach Boys even sang about just the engine in their song called “409″.

2009 Mar 19 - David Clarke
http://blog.cardomain.com/2009/03/19/where-did-car-songs-go/

+ http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/AUTO05/708010375

2009/03/17

THE WHO SET TO ROCK NEW GENERATION ON AUSSIE TOUR

Quote:

Missing Moon

Moon, who died in 1978 (bassist John Entwistle died in 2002), always had aspirations to be a singer, and Daltrey says Moon was never happier then when he was singing Beach Boys songs.
"He was a mad Beach Boys fan. He would have left The Who at the drop of a hat to join the Beach Boys.
"Even at our height, when the Beach Boys were on their way down and The Who were at the top of the world, if the Beach Boys had asked him to drum for them, he would have gone. We used to do Barbara Ann for Keith to keep him happy."

(2009 Mar 14 / Sally Browne)

WHERE ARE THE BEATLES REISSUES?

Enterprising Fans Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

In an era of declining music sales and rapid technological advancement, it’s still hard to fathom the sorry lot of the Beatles canon.
Not only is the catalog of rock music’s most successful and influential act still not available for legal digital download, for the most part it hasn’t received even the basic remastering afforded pop music acts with a fraction of the Fab Four’s historical importance and consumer clout.
Thus the Beatles catalog continues to be represented by thin-sounding, now two-decade-old digital mastering accomplished at the dawn of the CD era.

(2009 Mar 16 / Jerry McCulley)
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Where-Are-Beatles-Reissues-316/

DISNEY STEALS A LINE FROM THE BEACH BOYS

I always kind of liked that the Beach Boys song "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was a fairly uncritical view of teenage love, letting the kids fantasize about how awesome things would be if they were old enough to run away together and play house for the rest of their lives.
But apparently Disney, uncharacteristically, wants to shatter all childhood notions of romance, and is developing the comedy Wouldn't It Be Nice to accomplish just that.

(2009 Mar 16 / Katey Rich)
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Disney-Steals-A-Line-From-The-Beach-Boys-12374.html

+ http://www.amazon.com/Disney-Beach-Holiday/dp/B00177YBOQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1237289696&sr=1-4
+ http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Beach-Party-Disney/dp/B0009IW934

USA BREAKS: CHEAP AND CHEERFUL IN CREDIT CRUNCH CALIFORNIA

Quote:

Tougher times of a British hue are, bizarrely, on view at the Mirage hotel.
Here the Cirque du Soleil's show Love, a tribute to The Beatles, opens with a re-creation of the Blitz. Think Michael Jackson's Thriller video meets George Formby - yes, it's truly terrifying.

There are rumours on the Strip that a similar tribute is being planned around the music of The Beach Boys.
Curiously, while The Beach Boys were arguably the nearest thing that America had to The Beatles, there is a noticeable indifference to their achievements.

2009/03/14

At My Most Beautiful (R.E.M.)

1999

Music: Peter Buck, Mike Mills
Lyrics: Michael Stipe


http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=gdd6_0SJBWU&fmt=18

R.E.M. TRIBUTE CONCERT AT CARNEGIE: A RECKONING

One downside to being a lifelong R.E.M. completist (besides Around the Sun) is the compulsion to buy R.E.M. tribute albums.

We own Athens's finest as reinterpreted by a cheesy classical guitarist, some bluegrass opportunists, a self-debasing Royal Philharmonic, and finally, in a collection called Surprise Your Pig, a bunch of early-nineties indie rockers who clearly hate R.E.M.

So we had our fears about last night's "Tribute to R.E.M." concert at Carnegie Hall, which entrusted some of rock's hardest-to-improve-upon tunes to everyone from the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson to Darius Rucker, a.k.a. Hootie.

The result was, for the most part, shockingly decent; the individual song-performer pairings are graded below, with no pretense of objectivity.

2009/03/13

FRANKIE VALLI: STILL VERY MUCH IN SEASON AT HARRAH'S LAUGHLIN

We're pretty sure that when a group of New Jersey teenagers decided to get together to form a rock and roll group in the late ‘50s, they weren't thinking a Tony-award-winning Broadway musical would come along in 2007 to tell their story.
They were probably thinking “chicks love singers” and little else. They most certainly weren't thinking 2007.

Nonetheless, a few years after that initial group evolved and when Frankie Castelluccio (later Vally and then Valli) and Bob Gaudio hooked up, the path was paved for a ride that would eventually lead to fame, fortune, good times, bad times, a 50 year career-and the musical “The Jersey Boys.”

(2009 March 12 / Laughlin Entertainer)
http://www.laughlinentertainer.com/articles/2009/03/12/news_features/cover_stories/news1.txt

DREAM ON

Giles Reaves, a multi-instrumentalist sound artist, audio engineer and country artist recently helped Camille Nelson, a resident of Logan who teaches German at USU, create her debut album entitled First Words, which was released on Jan. 20

(2009 Mar 11 / Cameron Salon)

2009/03/11

Tripsitter: Last September

2004
Written by: Jon and Jeff Celentano?




http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ob3Gfz9Bqo&fmt=18


+ http://www.notlame.com/Tripsitter/Page_1/CDTRIP3.html
+ http://www.myspace.com/tripsitter

KARL BARTOS INTERVIEWED: KRAFTWERK AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN

Quote:

Speaking about The Beach Boys he said:
"In their songs they managed to concentrate a maximum of fundamental ideas. In a hundred years from now when people want to know what California was like in the 60s, they only have to listen to a single by the Beach Boys."

(2009 Mar 11 / John Doran)
http://thequietus.com/articles/01282-karl-bartos-interviewed-kraftwerk-and-the-birth-of-the-modern

THE SWEETER THE BERRY

Hip-O Select’s ambitious reissue philosophy has resulted in series devoted to the entire Motown catalogue (a dozen boxed sets to date) and James Brown’s complete singles (six so far), but Chuck Berry has made out like a bandit, too.
In 2007, Hip-O released a four-CD set of Berry’s complete Chess recordings from the fifties. The sequel, “You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-66,” is available now, and it’s at once more uneven and more fascinating than its predecessor.

(2009 Mar 16 / Ben Greenman)
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/recordings/2009/03/16/090316gore_GOAT_recordings_greenman

+ http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry/blog/categories/3-Chuck-Berry-Recordings

2009/03/10

The Singers Unlimited - Killing Me Softly With His Song

1974 cover SU arranged by Gene Puerling

1971 Original written by: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel


http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=QomOCWvODDQ&fmt=18

+ http://www.singers.com/jazz/singersunlimited.html

Dave Stewart and Colin Blunstone - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

1981 cover

Original by Jimmy Ruffin (1966 )
Written by: William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, James Dean


http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=zv3mO4A6zOw&fmt=18

Joan Osborne - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted

2002 cover for the Funk Brothers documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown.
Original by Jimmy Ruffin (1966 )
Written by: William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, James Dean


http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY&fmt=18

'THE GRANDDADDY OF THE ELECTRIC BASS’

S.C. native James Jamerson gave Motown its soulful sound, but today nobody knows his name

Think about the first few seconds of The Temptations’ “My Girl,” that syrupy bass line leading to the opening flourish.

That was James Jamerson.

(2009 Mar 8 / OTIS R. TAYLOR JR.)
http://www.thestate.com/living/story/707516.html

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson

WEIRD VIBRATIONS: GAKKEN MINI THEREMIN

Remember the theremin? It's the ghostly-sounding electronic instrument made famous by the Beach Boys that you play by waving your hand above it to adjust the tone. It's back, and this time it's portable.

(2009 Mar / dvice.com)
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/weird_vibration.php

Beach Boys Do It Again

1968
Written by: Brian Wilson, Mike Love




http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=8s5WCDcmGq4&fmt=18

Joni Mitchell-California (BBC)

1970 live (1971 lp 'Blue')
Written by: Joni Mitchell




http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE&fmt=18

BRIAN WILSON INTERVIEW

Brian Wilson, on his new CD, favorite recording gear, and more

(March 2009:) Brian Wilson surprised both music critics and his fans when he released his long lost masterpiece, Smile, in 2004. Although Wilson started work on the ambitious album in 1966, he abandoned the project less than a year later after completing only a few tracks. Over the next 37 years, observers wondered if Smile would ever see the light of day in its proper form or if it would be forever lost to time.

(2009 March / guitarcenter.com)
http://gc.guitarcenter.com/interview/brianwilson

DOOWOP SITES

http://www.dudua.es/

CARLI MUNOZ LINKS, INFO

Carlos C. Muñoz , better known as Carli Munoz or Carli Muñoz (born 1948), is a self-taught American jazz pianist. He is also known for his songwriting with Dennis Wilson: All Alone, Under The Moonlight, It's Not Too Late, Constant Companion. (all 1979)

+ http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=%22Carli+Munoz%22
+
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=2710
+
http://www.carlisworld.com/restaurant/music.shtml
+
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carli_Mu%C3%B1oz
+
http://www.carlimunoz.com/

2009/03/03

BYE, TECH: DEALING WITH DATA ROT

As Storage Media And Software Applications Advance Or Die Out, Years Of Precious Memories Are Threatened

Sooner or later, it affects every audio recording, video recording and computer file. Contributor David Pogue looks at what happens when technological progress leaves your most precious memories and recordings behind.

(2009 Mar 1 / CBS)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/01/sunday/main4836569.shtml

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Everything With You"

2008
Written by: Kip Berman?




http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVrTruj_Aw&fmt=18

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Tenure Itch

2008
Written by: Kip Berman?




http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=o6mZZCdTT1A&fmt=18