Pride Week Special Pride artists, pride composers, and pride themed songs in honor of Pride Week at WMBR / Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin, check out the links at your leisure.
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Real Name: Lesley Sue Goldstein / The song's lyrics became an inspiration for younger women, and are sometimes cited as a factor in the so-called "second wave feminist movement". // Click the Link above, left to view the original single, with a picture sleeve.
"The Charmer" later became better known as Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. As a calypso singer, he also went by the stage name "Calypso Gene". / Click the Link above, left to view the original English single.
* - on the 'Notorous Byrd Brothers' LP; also recorded by King's band 'The City' on "Now That Everything's Been Said" (Ode, Oct 1968). Springfield recorded the song during the sessions for her "See All Her Faces" album, 1972 (never released in the US), although it was not included on that LP.
Song was named after the 'Telstar' communications satellite, launched into orbit July 10th, 1962 / In England, the group name spelled as 'The TornadoEs'
The English single was released two months earlier than in the US {July 30, 1965} // London artist, writer and musician Barry Fantoni, a longstanding friend of Davies, recalled playing the track to the Beatles and cited this as the inspiration for them to incorporate drone in "Norwegian Wood", which also included a sitar part. / Click on Link above, to view the "Kinkdom" LP.
PERSONNEL besides the Rolling Stones: Gene Pitney (most of the lead vocals), Phil Spector, Graham Nash and Allan Clarke from the Hollies. / * - click on the Link above, to read the story of this rather obscene recording {CLEANED up for broadcast!}
Rolling Stone ranked it No. 463 in 2020, on their "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Many musicians, including Todd Rundgren were directly influenced by the album - bandleader Paul Shaffer told CBC Television's George Stroumboulopoulos that he considers this album to be his one "desert island record".
Glam-tinged pop with a catchy chorus and peculiar lyrics in which the singer warns his wife about his promiscuous bisexual lifestyle. /
Click on Link above, to view the original single
Recording culled from over 60 hours of music recorded by John Parsons on sound-console cassette tapes at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, 1977 - 1982.
... Recorded at the Uris Theater (Gershwin) on Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. / The original single, their first and biggest hit {of 5 English Top-20 singles} was released in August of 1972.
Time:
6:34
Artist:
John's Children [Group included Marc Bolan {also the writer}]
One of the rarest English 45's of all time. Withdrawn after Marc Bolan walked out of the band; only around 50 copies are rumoured to have survived. Click on Link above, left to view the original single, and read about its rarity and availalabity (scroll down to the bottom, it's worth reading ...)
Song was named after the 'Telstar' communications satellite, launched into orbit July 10th, 1962 / In England, the group name spelled as 'The TornadoEs'
Masquerading as the Wilbury brothers, the participants would be known as: 'Nelson' (Harrison) / 'Otis' (Lynne) / 'Lucky' (Dylan) / 'Lefty' (Orbison) / 'Charlie T. Jr.' (Petty) Wilbury, with drummer Jim Keltner credited as "Buster Sidebury".
Click on Link above, left to view the original English single, and The Comments below; for instance: "... featured a spoken word section in the middle featuring staged dialogue read by two of the band members. ... It is implied that the two men speaking are homosexual and there is some camp lingo in there. It was the only time that Joe Meek dared to make homosexual references on his discs and today is seen as a pioneering moment since homosexuality was technically illegal in the UK ...."
Time:
6:58
Artist:
Jayne County [Billed as 'WAYNE County & The Electric Chairs']
Leader Ellen Kempner describes her music as "journal rock," a term she explains in an interview with Sound of Boston: "it’s kind of like journal-rock, just all of my biggest fears splurted onto some vinyl, no different from writing a diary, really.”
.. From the audio of a performance in 1965 on local TV show "Tempting Skip T" / Nashville, TN / * - The Rolling Stones, Johnny Rivers, Everly Brothers, The Sonics and many many more; Link above, to view all 118 versions
Recording culled from over 60 hours of music recorded by John Parsons on sound-console cassette tapes at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, 1977 - 1982.
Thalia Zedek - vocals and guitar / Lori Green - keyboards, guitar and vocals / Margery Meadow - bass / Karen Grickas - drums // Click on Link above, to view the original single, with a picture sleeve (unusual for a small local label}
