Bobby Vinton "There I've Said It Again" December 29, 1963 to January 25. The Beatles took the No. 1 spot on January 26, 1964 with "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Bobby Vinton wouldn't have another No. 1 hit in 1964 until December.
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SIXTEEN TONS ROCK 'N' ROLL
(Merle Travis - Jimmy Murphy)
JIMMY MURPHY (COLUMBIA 4-21534, 1956)
Sixteen ton rock 'n' roll
Sixteen ton rock 'n' roll
Go cat, dig that coal
Sixteen ton rock 'n' roll
I work way down in the mine
Where the sun don't ever shine
Get my payslip at the door
Says, I owe my money to the company store
Well, I've got a woman to will my mind
So I gotta keep diggin' that number nine
But some of these days when I'm gone
She can say, there lies ole muscle and bone
I've got a pick and a shovel in my hand
I load number nine like a man
If I live to be feeble and old
I'll still be diggin' that number nine coal
Jimmy Murphy (born October 11, 1925, Birmingham, Alabama - d. June 1, 1981) was an American country and rockabilly guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Murphy's father, a bricklayer, was a blues enthusiast, and so the young Murphy grew up listening to musicians such as Lead Belly and Blind Boy Fuller. Murphy had already made it to radio by the middle of the 1940s, appearing on local station WBRC's Happy Hal Burns Show. In 1949 he relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee and auditioned for Dinner Bell, a show on WROL hosted by Archie Campbell. Campbell had Murphy meet Chet Atkins, whom Murphy eventually gave a demo; RCA Victor subsequently signed him to a publishing deal and recorded him in January 1951 with just himself on guitar and vocals and Anita Carter playing bass.
Murphy's contract only lasted one year; all of his singles failed to sell. He continued, however, to perform on WROL, and moved to WNOX in the middle of the 1950s. In 1955, Don Law signed Murphy to Columbia Records and had him record a number of rockabilly sides, but none of these charted, and this contract ended in 1956. Murphy followed his father into the bricklaying business and continued playing music on the side, but returned in 1962 to record for Ark Records, Midnite, Loyal, Rimrock, and Starday over the next few years.
He went into retirement until the Library of Congress re-released his first single, "Electricity", on a compilation. Richard Spottswood found Murphy and asked him to begin recording again; the result was the full-length Electricity, released on Sugar Hill Records in 1978. Further recording and a tour had been planned, but Murphy died in 1981 before they could be completed. He has remained a cult figure among rockabilly enthusiasts, and in 1989 Bear Family Records collected his RCA and Columbia recordings and issued them on CD as Sixteen Tons of Rock & Roll.
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January 2012 Issue
Otto Zone by Johann Wible
Otto Capobianco has had music in his life as long as he can remember. He began playing guitar at the age of 16 but he also played Upright Bass in High School. Music was always a major part of his life and his family's as all but one of Otto’s six brothers and sisters are also accomplished musicians.
Otto has been in many original rock, blues, funk and fusion bands over the years and has always been dedicated to his music even when he his music earnings did not pay the bills. Then by chance about 30 years ago Otto purchased a tape recorder and a mixer to record his band and decided to read and learn everything he could about acoustics, recording gear and recording techniques. With his new education, Otto started recording local bands in his basement and became very good at it, which kept him from becoming a poor homeless starving artist.
Otto really loves the creative side of recording business he enjoys experimenting with new mixing, mastering, and special effects techniques. At this same time, Otto started composing and recording his instrumental tracks, including the ones on this page.
Over the years, Otto has worked with many local and national recording artists including:
Vince Montana Jr., The Roots, Scott Storch, Chuck Treece, Grover Washington Jr., Sonny Rhoads, Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, Jamaaladeen Tacuma - just to name a few.
Otto met "Stewkey" Antoni the lead vocalist and keyboardist for Nazz when Stewkey came to Otto's studio "Nebula Zone" to do some work re-mastering old rare Nazz tapes. Otto and Stewkey became very good friends during this time. Stewkey was quite impressed with Otto’s guitar playing. He has been quoted as proclaiming, "people need to hear your music." Stewkey and Otto started working together writing, playing and recording. After a radio appearance in the late 90’s they decided the next logical step for them was to resurrect Nazz the band and do live shows, Stewkey & Otto have been the backbone of NAZZ ever since.
Otto Zone Click Here to visit their site and sample their music.
Classic Performance
Bjork & PJ Harvey
Here is a rare performance by Bjork and PJ Harvey during the 1994 Brit awards doing The Stones
"Satisfaction".
Rare Label
XYZ Records was a record label founded by Frank Slay and Bob Crewe, mainly as an outlet for their own songs. The label opened in 1957 and was sporadically active till about 1960. Their only success was with The Rays "Silhouettes" that was taken over for national distribution by Cameo Records in Philadelphia. The initial XYZ recordings were numbered 100 through to 106.
In late 1958 United Artists financed the reactivation of XYZ and The Rays once again were in the studios re-recording one of their earlier couplings "Elevator Operator/Souvenir of Summertime" which was released as number 2001. Further recordings in this period were numbered 600 through to 611, all without much success.
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The Honeycombs NEW website
Popular 60's British Invasion band The Honeycombs, has a new website.
In 1964 The Honeycombs hit the top of the U.S. charts with "Have I The Right."
Olli Tooley, lead singer for The Honeycombs asked us to pass on the new web address: www.thehoneycombs.biz.
The Honeycombs are now called Martin Murray's The Honeycombs. Martin is one of the founding members of the original Honeycombs.
Martin Murray's The Honeycombs new lineup 2011
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Rufus Thomas
Known as the Funkiest Man Alive.
Cascade Blues Association
Rufus Thomas, Jr. (March 27, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the father of soul singer Carla Thomas and keyboard player Marvell Thomas. A third child, Vaneese, a former French teacher, has a recording studio in upstate New York and sings for television commercials.
He made his professional singing debut at the Elks Club on Beale Street in Memphis, filling in for another singer at the last minute. He made his first 78 rpm record in 1943 for the Star Talent label in Texas, "I'll Be a Good Boy", backed with "I'm So Worried."
The prime of Rufus' recording career came in the 1960s and early 1970s, when he was on the roster of Memphis label, Stax, having one of the first hit sides at the historic soul and blues label, "Walking the Dog", (#5 R&B, #10 Pop) in 1963. Rufus is thus the first, and still the only, father to debut in the Hot 100's top 10 after his daughter debuted there. Rufus' daughter Carla also reached #10, with "Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)" on 27 March 1961.
The early 1970s brought him three major hits, including "(Do The) Push and Pull" in 1970, his only number one R&B hit (#25 Pop). Earlier that year, "Do the Funky Chicken" had reached #5 R&B and #28 Pop. A third dance-oriented release in 1971, "The Breakdown" climbed to #2 R&B and #31 Pop. He had several more less successful hits until Stax closed its doors in the mid-70s.
Late in his career, for years, Rufus performed at the Porretta Soul Festival in Porretta Terme, Italy. The outdoor amphitheater in which he performed has been re-named "Rufus Thomas Park." In 1996, Rufus and William Bell headlined at the Olympics in Atlanta. Highlights of his career included calming an unruly crowd at the Wattstax Festival in 1972 and performing with James Brown's band.
Thomas was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. He was interviewed by the public radio program American Routes (aired in February 2002). His last appearance was in the D.A. Pennebaker-directed documentary Only the Strong Survive (2003) in which he co-stars with his daughter Carla.
He died of heart failure in 2001, at the age of 84, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. A street is named in his honor, just off Beale Street in Memphis.[3] He is buried next to his wife at the New Park Cemetery in Memphis.
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Received an email from Laura Thurston announcing her 2012 tour schecule. I've been following her career and it looks like she has a very bright future. If you get a chance go and see her perform. CLICK HERE! to visit her website and get her schedule. "Build A Song" by Larua Thurston
Happy New Year is a popular song by Swedish pop group ABBA from their 1980 album Super Trouper. The song's working title was all the more festive and humorous; "Daddy Don't Get Drunk on Christmas Day". Although recorded in 1980, the English-language song wasn't released as a single until 1999 and charted in Sweden (#27), The Netherlands (#15), and Germany (#78), to promote the CD re-release of many of ABBA's singles.
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Bjork Wow and Flutter
New - Canadian journalist Mark Pytlik's outstandingly well researched biography of an extraordinary artist, BJORK: WOW AND FLUTTER, explores the background of the singer who put her native Iceland on the cultural map, from her formative years hanging out with the island's neo-hippie faction to her later involvement in the avant-garde group Kukli, from which the Sugarcubes, the band that first introduced her singular voice and world view to an international audience, sprang.
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