The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Brook Benton took the folksy “The Boll Weevil Song” to number two on the pop charts in 1961, thanks to a silky and laconic vocal tracked over vaguely Caribbean rhythm guitars, stuttering drums, and a hypnotic piano line that echoed relentlessly through the song. Although the tune was credited to Benton and Clyde Otis as [...]
The latest from newcritics (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
It all started innocently enough over at my joint when I put up this charming clip. One of the two or three regular readers of my blog, who chooses, perhaps out of laziness, to go by the moniker Anonymous, left this comment: Great 60’s Male Vocalists in No Particular Order: John Lennon Elvis Presley Paul Jones Paul McCartney Roy Orbison [...]
with comb & razor (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
When I picked up this album in a Lagos market about eight years ago, I was motivated less by any curiosity about the music it contained than I was by my interest in vintage women's fashion and glamour photography. Fortuitously, when I got the LP back home I found that its pleasures extended beyond just the resplendently arrayed beauties pictured on its cover; it was, in fact, a rather solid record...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The trailblazer who revolutionised guitar technique
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Rock revisited The trailblazer who revolutionised guitar technique
Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
SEE LIONEL LIVE! CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIONEL VISION.
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
in post DJ Format Unsampled from Fong Songs .
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
This 1980 reissue is a hell of a disc. From the opening riffs this disc is crammed with Sahm's typical rompin' and stompin' Texas blues/rhythm & blues mix. This also includes liberal dashes of the Tex-Mex and rockabilly he grew up cutting his teeth on. Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell used to go to his school when Sahm was 11, as legend goes, and pose as his uncle and pull the musical prodigy out of school to...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Someone took their metaphors a little too literally. One of my favorite Scopitones:
Idolator (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
The comments on last week's post about recent anti-emo violence in Mexico were startling, with people arguing whether or not it was hilarious that people were being physically attacked for the way they dressed. So I hope that the feud between "scene kids" and "emos" in Australia stays on the net, where it belongs, so the roffles may never end. What are "scene kids," you ask? Judging by this...
Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
There's an amusing clip traversing the Internet, of Star Wars credits as rendered by Saul Bass . It's well done, even if Bass would have cleaned up the spelling, but it reminded the Siren of something she misses in current Hollywood movies, along with great character actors, intertitles that tell her things like "meanwhile, as the lava approached the little fishing village" and editing that lets her...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
The songwriter and record producer Clyde Otis was noted for his long association with Brook Benton. He wrote both ballads and beat songs, but was at his best in reflective work which drew on his own life, such as "Looking Back" (for Nat "King" Cole), "It's Just a Matter of Time" (Brook Benton) and "This Bitter Earth" (Dinah Washington).
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Songwriter/record producer CLYDE OTIS has died. He was 83. Otis, best known for his lengthy collaboration with singer Brook Benton, passed away at Englewood Hospital in ...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
Mr. Otis, a songwriter and record producer, was one of the first black executives at a major record company.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renowned songwriter and producer Clyde Otis was pronounced dead at Englewood Hospital on January 8. He was 83 years old.
