Leiber and Stoller had left Atlantic Records to start their own record label, Red Bird. They had recorded a bunch of stuff but were running out of cash and needed to release something. They ran into George Goldner (at the Palm? Meeting with Hy Weiss?) who was once again down on his luck. Typically he would start a successful R&B or Latin label, then run up a gambling debt and have to sell it to Morris Levy. Jerry and Mike told him they would hire him on the spot, brought him back to their office, showed him the slush pile of recordings, left him the keys, went home to sleep, came back in the morning, to find him sitting there, still dapper, holding up the tape or acetate of The Dixie Cups version of "Chapel of Love," saying something like "On my very word" or however he would have said it. One of them, Jerry, no doubt, said "That PoS!?" but they put it out anyway and it was a hit and kept them alive for a while. They made Goldner a partner, and he eventually ended up selling out his interest as per usual, no to Morris Levy but to someone like him, so Jerry and Mike sold their interest as well, for a dollar I think.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 May 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
Also came to postCSNY - Almost Cut My HairPavement - Cut Your HairBurning Spear - Social Living
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 May 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
The Cowsills- Hair
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 May 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
Not The Palm, Al & Dick’s Steakhouse.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
Which is even the name of the relevant chapter in Leiber and Stoller’s memoir, Hound Dog.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
This started off as a kind of "end times" compilation but ended up somewhere else, with love and hope:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB
David Sylvian, My Bus, Piano Magic, Fever Ray ... that kind of thing.
― djh, Monday, 11 May 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKGzcHfUl0
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 July 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs56ygZplQA
On the search for a vaccin
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 July 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
DO U SEE?
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
i'm sure this has already been posted but still please take me along when you slide on down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvg5mbM6FGs
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 19 July 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link