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The Omniscient Mussel (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... The Santa Clause in 1994. White Christmas Drifters-style features bass Bill Pikney and lead singer Clyde McPhatter. It is thoroughly good-humoured and very catchy (Miss Mussel has been humming it for days) and avoids completely the saccharine nostalgia of the original. There are no string swells, no backing choir or orchestra and the tone is not wistful in the slightest. What it does...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... that hits you is the high, reedy, sound of Nolan Strong's voice. You can hear the influence of Clyde McPhatter, star of the Dominoes and the Drifters, and also that of the Orioles' Sonny Til, by Strong's voice was higher, lighter, with a vulnerable quality that made him sound both emotionally fragile and somewhat mystical. On his best sides, Nolan Strong's voice cannot fail to send...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... the early 60s. From the 70s to the 90s, she recorded prolifically, however. This is her version of Clyde McPhatter’s original. “The Image Part 1″/Hank Levine (10/9/61). In 1957, radio programmer Chuck Blore introduced a format he called “color radio” at KFWB in Los Angeles, and later took it to stations in San Francisco and Minneapolis. It featured a distinctive set of jingles, which...
