The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Of interest to New Orleans music lovers - here's a story from the Times Picayune. Allen Toussaint, Ernie K-Doe, Benny Spellman inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame by Keith Spera, Music writer, The Times-Picayune Sunday August 02, 2009, 11:18 PM The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inducted Allen Toussaint, Benny Spellman and the late Ernie K-Doe during a sweaty Sunday night ceremony at K-Doe's...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
If anyone can be called a living legend of New Orleans music then Allen Toussaint must surely be that person. He produced, composed and played brilliant piano on numerous New Orleans R and B classics in the late 50s and 60s by the likes of Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, Benny Spellman, Irma Thomas and Chris Kenner, moved on to be the godfather of N'Awlins funk in the late 60s and early 70s, and made his...
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 04/20/2009
I cut my teeth on gumbo rock Benny Spellman and Doctor John Sweet Irma Thomas and Frog m
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Funky16Corners Radio v.56 - Solar Heat Playlist Little Richard – Land of 1000 Dances (Okeh) OV Wright – I Love the Way You Love (Backbeat) Ovations – Dance Party (Goldwax) Five Dutones – Shake a Tailfeather (One-Derful!) Benny Spellman – I Feel Good (Atlantic) Performers – I Can’t Stop You (Mirwood) Aretha Franklin – See Saw (Atlantic) Willie Mitchell...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Allen Toussaint talks of his sporadic, unbought solo work and the royalties from the hits he's created for others with equal affection. The 70-year-old New Orleans legend has written, produced and arranged for The Band, Glen Campbell, the Pointer Sisters and most points in between, while staying rooted in his home city's R&B.
Diddy Wah (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Muxtape is a new fun site for sharing music. It's very simple to use and seems to exist in the same magical legal precinct that most mp3 blogs and music podcasts reside. Since becoming aware of it, I've enjoyed rifling through a variety of trendsetters' muxtapes and it was certainly only a matter of time before I made my own. Most of the tunes I've chosen come from CDs I acquired over five years ago...
the "B" side (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
I Like It Like That, Part 2 AN INSTANT OF TOUSSAINT As you know, I'm a huge Allen Toussaint fan. Like Professor Longhair before him, his creative genius has taken New Orleans music to the next level again and again over the course of the last fifty years. He was the subject of my very first post , and I've gone so far as to call him the patron saint of The B Side , as I don't believe there's anybody...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Continuing the theme of the top 20 scoring records in my personal charts, as written down at the time, here are the top 20 from 1962 and 1963. 1962 1. Nothing can change this love - Sam Cooke 2. Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon 3. Hey baby - Bruce Channel 4. Lipstick traces - Benny Spellman 5. Hey little girl - Del Shannon 6. He's a rebel - The Crystals 7. Soldier boy - The Shirelles 8. Stop the music...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
The Woodies favourite 45s list got me thinking about my favourite singles of all time. Hindsight being what it is, there are many records that I love now but either didn't notice or didn't like sufficiently at the time. But fortunately I have my personal top ten from 1960 to 1965 as a guide to what I liked as a teenager. Some of my favourites then look a little weak today, but most of my top 20 over...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 11/17/2007
Tales from the Woods regulars, or Woodies as we are known, met for one of our occasional meet-ups last night - a few pints in a pub (in Soho) followed by a Chinese nearby. After the usual toasts to music greats who have died since the last time we met, someone suggested that we should all pick our favourite track of all time. This eventually became our three favourite tracks as we went round the table...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 08/08/2007
Lenny McDaniel got the New Orleans street beat in his blood at an early age, playing drums in a marching unit while still in elementary school. He gained his first vocal experience in an equally time-honored way-singing in church. By his early teens, he was playing guitar and bass, backing popular local R&B singers like Aaron Neville, Benny Spellman and Ernie K-Doe at high school dances. In the...
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