TOKYOMANGO (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
If you want to know the first thing about Japanese humor, then you have to get to know Ken Shimura. He started off as part of a five-man show called the Drifters; later, two branched off to become Kato-chan and...
Right Truth (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I listened to Barack Hussein Obama's speech this morning on Iraq. The phrase that caught my attention was "this is the moment...". He's used that phrase before, it's getting a little old, but it reminded me of a great old...
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
LOS ANGELES and ARLINGTON, Va., July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop, and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll - and on all of American culture....
fat fu (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
posted by meowser Chances are pretty good that unless you are a serious student of songwriting or a 1950s/1960s rock/R&B super-completist, you’ve never heard of Doc Pomus. But chances are equally good that you’ve heard at least some of the songs he wrote or cowrote, which entered the national (and international) bloodstream like whooooaaah, and after all [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/muruch (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Saturday night I paid just $5 to sit among the embarrassingly small audience at the only local Amphitheater for a spectacular outdoor concert by The Drifters. I really didn't expect much from the... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Katharine McPhee’s take on The Drifters’ old classic “Save The Last Dance For Me” at the Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular .
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Happy Independence Day, American readers! Playlist: The Drifters "Only In America" (mp3) 2MB Ani Di Franco "Independence Day" (mp3) 9 MB [ listen at Last.Fm ] Richard Shindell "4th July Asbury Park" (Bruce Springsteen) (mp3) 9 MB Paul Simon "American Tune" (mp3) 3 MB Neko Case "Thrice All American" (mp3) 4 MB [ buy at iTunes ] The Mountain Goats "We were Patriots" (mp3) 3 MB [ buy ] Danny Michel "Young...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
THE DRIFTERS have reached an out-of-court settlement with a band who were posing under the same name. The vocals group, which has featured more than 60 members since it was founded in 1953, has prevented any other performers from appearing under the same title again. The doo-wop band was taken over by music executive George Treadwell, whose [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Once, the axis of soul music shifted beyond repair when, one balmy summer night, it turned out that you could watch The Drifters playin' and singin' and doin' those cutesy little dance routines in fifty-six different places at exactly the...
Digital Eargasm (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Funkinetick - Boogie Wonderland (Original Mix) I really like this one, very dirty in a lo-fi kind of way ! Funkinetick - Sweets For My Sweet (Original Mix) I think it was originally a song by The Drifters. Not bad at all. Kato - Are You Gonna Go My Way Good reworq, very true to the original. Madonna - Give It 2 Me (Fedde Le Grand Remix) Hey, it's Madonna and FLG, I couldn't resist.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Long-running vocal group The Drifters reach an out-of-court settlement with a band who performed using their name.
kellogg bloggin' (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The sixty-seventh sibling assignment comes from InlandEmpireGirl. Here's the prompt: What songs take you back to a summer growing up? Share the song and the memories that are attached to it. InlandEmpireGirl remembers jukeboxes and Todd Rundgren here and Silver Valley Girl recalls Captain and Tenille here . When I was ten years old, I'm not sure I knew yet how extraordinary it was if our family did...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Ira Tucker fronted the gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds for 70 years. His soulful singing and flamboyant performances influenced James Brown and Jackie Wilson, while the Drifters and the Temptations took the template of the Dixie Hummingbirds into the charts in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.
Power Line (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the great pop songwriter Doc Pomus (Jerome Felder). Doc was one of the true characters of the Brill Building era of pop songwriting. Together with his partner Mort Shuman, he wrote hit songs for a long list of artists including Elvis, Ray Charles, Dion and the Belmonts, and the Drifters. The Doc Pomus site includes a good biography and list of song...
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 [...]
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
Jazz CD Mark O'Leary/ Uri Caine/ Ben Perowsky, Closure (Leo) John Fordham Friday January 13, 2006 The Guardian Buy Closure now As a project with its inspiration avowedly in the music of the eclectic but jazz-rooted piano star Paul Bley, this is perhaps not the usual fare from category-busting European label Leo Records. But almost nothing with New York pianist/composer Uri Caine on it follows a straight
