Showing posts with label Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Records. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Record Store Day Brings Back the Good Times in Vinyl Again










A look at Hollywoods Amoeba Records and why folks are lining around the block on Record Store Day.... Yes, vinyl has made an amazing comeback , with many old and new artists releasing their music on vinyl gain.


Record Store Day Brings Back the Good Times in Vinyl Again

Pretty exciting to have vinyl still with us today with the old and even new artists recording on it again. 
For us, going to the record store for the first time in a long time and seeing little changed....plus all the new artist vinyl PLUS record players! Being able to visit the old LPs and 45s, again - the warm sounds, the art and liner notes- was like visiting an old friend.


VINYL LPs or albums, as they are still known, include wonderful art, large pictures and extensive cover art and liner notes, unlike most CDs (compact discs) that later followed but have come on hard times.
Today, LPs again have their own place on , yes, RECORD STORE and music store shelves and displays, like the Walter Brennan album above.  




VINYL 45 rpm records ushered in the Rock and Roll era in the mid-50s as 78s were phased out. 45s were the listening media of choice and many included jacket art. There were even EPs (extended plays) or mini-albums.



It's a modern, homeade CD but a tribute to the ERA. Until everyone gets their record players back again, items like this will help made for a transition. THE OLD IS NEW AGAIN!






More classic LP art. More to follow....




Thursday, May 8, 2014

Sit back, relax and turn up the music as you travel back in time


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjj9VKKSV2g&list=PLEFAYKk4PcdYAFVm3IrC66x13vpDErYxo&feature=share
 click car


Sit back , relax and turn up the music  as you travel back in time- with a few trivia questions to answer...

 CLICK BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjj9VKKSV2g&list=PLEFAYKk4PcdYAFVm3IrC66x13vpDErYxo&feature=share
'Lost in the Fifties' - RONNIE MILSAP




What Model and Year? 




'___________________   Tastes Good, Like  A Cigarette Should'




 Cheap Gas - AND SERVICE, too! 




'Cold Ones in the Ice Box' - Sam Cooke






'Saturday  Night at the Movies'  by the Drifters




The 'M & M' boys -  Roger hit 61 in  '61 with an asterisk
(still the homerun king for the post -154 game era in our hearts)










Thursday, July 18, 2013

DION (DiMucci) Celebrates Birthday, New Book- Excellent Interview Covers An Extroardinary Life



But for a coin flip, this interview could have been with Richie Valens and not Dion DiMucci. You see, Dion LOST the coin flip in February 1959 for a seat in the ill-fated plane that cost the lives of Valens, Buddy Holly and Big Bopper. Actually, Dion WON the coin flip, he relates, along with Big Bopper, but didn't want to spend the $36 and deferred to   Valens.


Dion is one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, maybe not from the VERY beginning, but definitely the first wave of the Fifties. Over 50 years later Dion has been to hell and back - and he talks in detail about this all this including stories about 'old soul' Buddy Holly and his friends as if it were yesterday - and his many career phases, from the social comment song of 'Abraham , Martin and John' to religious songs.


Today, Dion has found answers to many of his and life's questions - 'We're all wanderers' he says - as he relates in his book 'The Wanderer Talks Truth'.  He talks about his relationship with fellow New Yorker, John Lennon and others. SEE   Dion Store  - scroll down to bottom for book





Dion, with many seminal songs in rock and roll , including 'I Wonder Why,' ' Runaround Sue' and 'The Wanderer' , has to be considered among the Top 10 true rock and rollers and certainly one of the top doowop acts.  He was one of the few early artists to write and record many of his own songs and he talks about the real life inspiratons for these.


Though he's in the rock Hall of Fame, Dion has sometimes been left out  of rock's historical perspective  as he's never quite fit one category and spanned them all, so this is a important interview - and book that will, hopefully,  bring him more cred- if that even matters to Dion. We look forward to viewing both. Enjoy!


PS One story we love about Dion, certainly covered in the book, is where he, a Christian, talks of walking by the Jewish Synagogue in New York and loving the minor, meloncholy melodies of the Cantor, which would inspire much of his sound and songs, such as 'Diane.'