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Just Looking for a Home: The “Boll Weevil” Story

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 [...]

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West Indian Musicians I Once Thought Were Nigerian: Mark Holder

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...

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Backwaters rockstar

Rock revisited The trailblazer who revolutionised guitar technique

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WATCH LIONEL VISION LIVE

SEE LIONEL LIVE! CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIONEL VISION.

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Brook Benton - Hit Record

in post DJ Format Unsampled from Fong Songs .

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doug sahm - hell of a spell

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...

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Mother Nature, Father Time - Brook Benton

Someone took their metaphors a little too literally. One of my favorite Scopitones:

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A Foreign Emo Feud You Can Comfortably Laugh About [This May Be A Scene And An Arms Race]

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...

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Credit Where Credits Are Due

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...

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Clyde Otis: Hit songwriter and producer

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).

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Songwriter Clyde Otis Dies

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 ...

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Clyde Otis, 83, Executive and Songwriter, Dies

Mr. Otis, a songwriter and record producer, was one of the first black executives at a major record company.

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Songwriter/Producer, Clyde Otis, Dies at Age 83...

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.