[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Before the British Invasion
This first part of the clip is an amazing example of rubber legs and the folks doing the twist are positively straight out of The Twilight Zone. Fantastic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlD-nxiM2U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlD-nxiM2U ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Re "According to John Lennon, Cliff Richard's hit 'Move It',1958, was the first authentic rock and roll song. According to John, "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.": Yes, that's right - nothing worth listening to in the rock'n'roll genre anyway. "Move It" is a neat song but it's crying out for someone with more charisma than Cliff Richard to sell it. The "Brand New Cadillac" song I linked to is closer in feel to a genuine rock classic. I mentioned that Vince Taylor's decline into drug paranoia (speed and LSD) was the model for David Bowie's fictional rock star Ziggy Stardust. Bowie's album came out in 1972. Here's Vince Taylor singing "Brand New Cadillac" in 1979. He carries the song with a certaim amphetamine cool but you can see he's on the highway to hell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvNHXbTL7Oc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvNHXbTL7Oc
[FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Before the British Invasion
Here's a corker of a song by France Gall giving it the full yé-yé treatment -
"Laisse tomber les filles" (English: "Leave the girls alone")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVA670WKAQc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVA670WKAQc
(Recently April March covered the same song as "Chick Habit".)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Re "Plus, the music industry mechanism really wasn't in place to allow for
mass distribution of non-US acts at that time.": Good point.
Re "rock sounds *terrible* in French.":
Yes, Johnny Hallyday certainly *looked* the part - but I can't recall a single
song of his!
The French did have some modest (home) success with those yé-yé girls like
France Gall.
You must know the story of how Serge Gainsbourg cruelly set up France Gall
with his composition "Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") with its (to us) blatant
sexual innuendo. On the surface, the lyrics tell the innocent tale of a girl
named Annie who enjoys lollipops. This is the stage show Gainsbourg also
arranged. It shows what an innocent age it was that the 18-year-old Gall could
perform on this set and still not realise she'd been well and truly pranked. A
friend had to explain it to her later and Gall was mortified. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-iysdFu_TQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-iysdFu_TQ
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Before the British Invasion
Supposedly the first TV news broadcast was on November 21st, 1963. But I recall CBS News had a report in December (much shorter). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeolhjIWPYs On 11/05/2013 12:01 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Barry wrote: (snip) > Then the Beatles arrived, preceded by a wave of near- > hysterical media hype. I'm honestly not sure which con- > tributed more to the Beatles' success in the US -- their > talent, or the hype. I lean to the latter. See enough TV > stories (or, in those days, movie News trailers before > your movie) Um, just for the record, there was plenty of news on TV by 1963. > of star-struck Beatles fans and your young > impressionable mind has already been pre-programmed > to love them when you see them live. I don't think I'd ever heard of the Beatles before one of my roommates brought home the 45 of "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sometime in the auturmn of 1963, which I and both my roommates (college graduates all) instantly went nuts over. But of course that's because none of us had any taste in music...
[FairfieldLife] RE: Re: Before the British Invasion
Barry wrote: (snip) > Then the Beatles arrived, preceded by a wave of near- > hysterical media hype. I'm honestly not sure which con- > tributed more to the Beatles' success in the US -- their > talent, or the hype. I lean to the latter. See enough TV > stories (or, in those days, movie News trailers before > your movie) Um, just for the record, there was plenty of news on TV by 1963. > of star-struck Beatles fans and your young > impressionable mind has already been pre-programmed > to love them when you see them live. I don't think I'd ever heard of the Beatles before one of my roommates brought home the 45 of "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sometime in the auturmn of 1963, which I and both my roommates (college graduates all) instantly went nuts over. But of course that's because none of us had any taste in music...
