Pretty good stuff. Mr. Mod will enjoy hearing Manzanera and Mackay wax ambivalent about the later, smoothy albums. I enjoyed seeing interviews with post-Eno members like Eddie Jobson and bassist Gary Tibbs.I also marvel at how uncomfortable a frontman Ferry sometimes looks, for someone so handsome. It’s funny, though, the doc ends with footage of the original members working on a new album…. which was never finished and turned into another Ferry solo album, I guess.
Hey Mr. Mod! Thanx for that heads-up on Beulah. Ima listening to that album right now. I’d forgotten how good it was. Super Great way to start the day. :-0
Cover –The same song issued by another artist at about the same time as the first record. This was done to “cover up” or take away sales from the first record. Timeliness was important in issuing “cover” records. Many times in the 50s the “cover” record was by a white artist “covering” a song by a black artist
or black group. If the white artist or group was successful, the black artists record either died, or did not sell very well outside R & B circles. Examples: are: “Sh-boom” The Chords covered by the Crew-Cuts. The Crew-Cuts far outsold The Chords. “Wheel Of Fortune by the Cardinals was covered by Kay Starr.
Starr far outsold the Cardinals.
Remake–A song done later-on by another artist. This was not timely enough to be called a “cover” record. Examples: “Hound Dog” Big Mama Thornton remade a few years later by Elvis. “The Train Kept a-Rollin’, orignally by Tiny Bradshaw. Remade a few years later by the Rock’n Roll Trio. Remade again in the mid 60s by The Yardbirds. “Louie Louie” Richard Berry in the mid 50s. Remade by the Kingsmen in the early 60s and then by 9 million other artists.
Food for thought: Long Springsteen profile in the New Yorker, by EIC David Remnick. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/30/120730fa_fact_remnick
For Mr. Mod and other Roxy fans: I watched this doc on YouTube on Friday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIzNJ-3wvKY
Pretty good stuff. Mr. Mod will enjoy hearing Manzanera and Mackay wax ambivalent about the later, smoothy albums. I enjoyed seeing interviews with post-Eno members like Eddie Jobson and bassist Gary Tibbs.I also marvel at how uncomfortable a frontman Ferry sometimes looks, for someone so handsome. It’s funny, though, the doc ends with footage of the original members working on a new album…. which was never finished and turned into another Ferry solo album, I guess.
Hey Mr. Mod! Thanx for that heads-up on Beulah. Ima listening to that album right now. I’d forgotten how good it was. Super Great way to start the day. :-0
I HAVE BEEN WRONG ALL THESE YEARS DEPT:
Cover –The same song issued by another artist at about the same time as the first record. This was done to “cover up” or take away sales from the first record. Timeliness was important in issuing “cover” records. Many times in the 50s the “cover” record was by a white artist “covering” a song by a black artist
or black group. If the white artist or group was successful, the black artists record either died, or did not sell very well outside R & B circles. Examples: are: “Sh-boom” The Chords covered by the Crew-Cuts. The Crew-Cuts far outsold The Chords. “Wheel Of Fortune by the Cardinals was covered by Kay Starr.
Starr far outsold the Cardinals.
Remake–A song done later-on by another artist. This was not timely enough to be called a “cover” record. Examples: “Hound Dog” Big Mama Thornton remade a few years later by Elvis. “The Train Kept a-Rollin’, orignally by Tiny Bradshaw. Remade a few years later by the Rock’n Roll Trio. Remade again in the mid 60s by The Yardbirds. “Louie Louie” Richard Berry in the mid 50s. Remade by the Kingsmen in the early 60s and then by 9 million other artists.