https://youtube.com/watch?v=rZfX-qlmHmc
Darlene Love with Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, which I’ve been looking into of late, along with the maybe 10-year-long period of the “girl groups.” A British DJ on Sirius radio last week said the girl groups were done in by the “British Invasion” in the mid-60s. Sounds about right. It was a great time for black and white female groups with intricate vocal harmonies. Be my baby…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUZTjRZvXWQ
This just popped up on YouTube after the above:
Woe is me. Grooveshark is gone. Its resurrection at grooveshark.io is pretty weak.
My son Will turned me on to Lee Dorsey last week, can’t believe I never heard of him. Born in New Orleans in 1924, was buddies with Fats Domino, many of his songs produced by Alan Toussaint, backed by The Meters.
https://grooveshark.com/s/Holy+Cow/4CPgsG?src=5
I can only get a fraction of what’s going on in my life right now on this blog. I’ve never had so many things going on. I run from one thing to another. As I’m walking to my shop to get a tool, I spy something in the garden that needs doing, and I do it, forgetting the original task. It’s great!
In no special order, in addition to the publishing stuff, I’ve been making knives, that is, putting handles on Russell made-in-USA carbon steel blades, the last one with brass rivets and wood from a manzanita burl; making neck pendants out of abalone shell; getting my 12′ aluminum Klamath boat with 15 HP Evinrude back into the water after 20 years of hardly using it; skinning road kill animals, and treating (cleaning, bleaching) various animal skulls: foxes, skunks, bobcats…; doing homestead maintenance, which is endless, but of late, gratifying; listening to a ton of good music—boy between Grooveshark and YouTube, it’s a listener’s paradise; been digging clams, catching the occasional eel; making sauerkraut, pickled onions, smoking salmon and eels when available; trying out marijuana tinctures, other ways to get cannabinoids without smoke (or even vapor); hiking and paddling (not often enough); hanging out with my friend Louie when I can, going up to stay with him in the Mendocino woods in a few weeks…that’s just a small part of it all…hey, here’s what just came on, “Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)” by Lee Dorsey: https://grooveshark.com/s/Everything+I+Do+Gonh+Be+Funky+From+Now+On/4CPbfd?src=5
All alone here, and helped by caffeine and mota, I’m cruising YouTube. What set me off was hearing Little Richard singing “The Girl Can’t Help It,” and the line “She’s got a lot of what you call the most…”*
The other night, Sirius DJ Michael Des Barres had said to check out the YouTube video of Little Richard performing the song in the movie (
), which I did, then spotted Richard and his crack band doing Lucille. He was so beautiful! Whatta voice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMoikK3ct8
*Another of Richard’s great lines: “It ain’t what you eat, it’s the way how you chew it.”
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