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Song : This Magic Moment Artist : Jay And The Americans Lyrics Writer : Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman Lyrics For "This Magic Moment" This Magic Moment So Different And So New Was Like Any Other Until I Kissed You And Then It Happened It Took Me By Surprise I Knew Thaat You Felt It Too By The Look In Your Eyes Sweeter Thaan Wine (sweeter Thaan Wine) Softer Thaan A Summer Night (softer Thaan A Summer Night)...
Courtesy of the latest issue of MOJO Magazine, I note that ace songwriter Artie Wayne has some interesting things to say on the use of certain popular songs in contemporary TV commercials. "Take “Viva Viagra”…please. If my late friends, Doc Pomus and Morty Shuman , who wrote “Viva Las Vegas”, were alive today, I’m sure they would be amused by the lyric, but I doubt if they would have ever given permission...
Tonight’s installment of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” finds our man Elvis opening the proceedings with a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale.” One presumes that his guest for the evening, Lou Reed, was at least tolerant of the rendition, since it’s not as though ol’ laughing Lou has ever been afraid to speak [...]
As we suspected, the quality of Elvis Costello's new talk/performance show, Spectacle, improves with the caliber of his guests. Sounding more like a psychiatrist than TV host, he coaxes Lou Reed into spilling his (genuinely fascinating) life story: Reed reminisces...
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
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Now that the elections are behind us, this blog can get back to its normal business of mid-Atlanticism, esoteric music, yidishkayt and personal obsession. This post is the second of those. First, Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It" is one of the two great Marxist country songs, along with "9 to 5", written by Dolly Parton. Listen to the former at Setting the Woods on Fire , one of my current...
2006 The Cars announce they are reforming -- but without gangling/charismatic frontman Ric Ocasek. Singing duties will instead be handled by Todd "Can We Be Friends" Rundgren.2005 U2, The Pretenders, Buddy Guy, the O'Jays, and Percy Sledge are all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a dinner in New York. 2004 DJ Casper's "Cha Cha Slide (All Around The World)" knocks Britney Spear's "Toxic"...
Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York. This superbly produced 1981 gem boasts original material by legendary rock 'n' roll songwriter Doc Pomus in collaboration with keyboardist Dr. John, in addition to pungent horn charts arranged by jazz altoist Hank Crawford. Pomus spent the second half of his career writing a kind of perfectly spare "wisdom" song, and B.B. King's impassioned gospel-blues...
"Raisin' a Ruckus" (Alligator Records)Roomful of Blues is deep in the groove on "Raisin' a Ruckus," which introduces new members Dave Howard (vocals/harmonica), Ephraim Lowell (drums) and bassist Dima Gorodetsky.The 14 songs here include covers of Link Davis' "Big Mamou," the Doc Pomus number "Boogie Woogie Country Girl" and "New Orleans," but the band's rendition of Jessie Mae Robinson's "Black Night"...
Tosy wrote: For some reason, I get the feeling that everyone knows about Coverville. But maybe I'm wrong. Yup, Tosy, you were wrong, 'cause I wasn't familiar with this eclectic website that offers a podcast two or three times a week consisting of cover songs, nothing but cover songs. Now I've subscribed to it via iTunes. I was considering listening to some of the earlier episodes, but there are 407...
This past week, Alex Romero, a choreographer who worked with Elvis Presley on four of his movies, passed away in Los Angeles. He was 94, so chalk it up to "age-related causes" if you will, but I think I know...
Founded in 1967 by Patrick Kenny, Kenny's Castaways was a haven for new and up and coming local bands to showcase their songs. From the New York Dolls residency to the debut of a singer named Bruce Springsteen (with the...
1. Marianne Faithfull, I Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More. Faithfull's re-emergence in the late-70s was one of the most startlingly wonderful in rock and roll. Eight years later, she made the move into the chanteuse she's run...
