BLAST FROM THE PAST

Sneaking a couple more in as I go ...
Loved Martha & the Vandellas!



Speaking of dancing ........ haha ...check out the acrobatics!

This one really gets my blood moving!!!

And now some white girl do-wop, from 1958 . . .

This is the Chordettes' big hit, from 1954. (One of the group members, Janet Ertel, married the producer, Archie Bleyer, and her daughter by her first marriage married Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, who recorded on the same label.)

Beautiful instrumental song....




another one

This song was a huge hit

Two of my favorites,

Richie Valens, La Bamba




and Richie Valens, Come On Let's Go




Sorry if these were added before.

I used to sing this all the time. (Not well, but loud)

I still love that song. Even though I think of it (fondly) as one of my late older brother's junior prom songs, that was one of the earliest songs and groups to which I started my appreciation of popular music.

Speedo

I love this song - so upbeat and happy...

Ahhh! Dusty Springfield..loved her voice and her breezy style.
The brass is great in this song too:

I wore out two 45s of this song. Interestingly, the majority of this
group's backup are the studio musicians that became known
as The Atlanta Rhythm Section are in this group.

Two different songs with the same name -


Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers


Drifters (Johnny Moore, lead singer)

One of the great groups of the early 1960s in England was the Yardbirds. Their biggest hit ironically lead to the departure ofone of their young guitarists, who was uncomfortable about the shift from R&B to pop music . . . Eric Clapton.

Leaving to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Clapton recommended Jimmy Page. Page, however, was uncertain about joining the group, and didn't want to give up a well-paying studio career. So Jeff Beck was tapped for the job. The following year, Beck was voted the best guitarist in England by the music magazine Beat Instrumental. This was their biggest hit in that line-up. This is a live recording from 1968 with Jimmy Page, who had joined the group with Beck in 1966, playing bass. Beck was gone by then, though, literally having been fired.



Many people covered that song.

The group now began to fragment, with half of the remaining quartet heading in a folk and classical directon, while Page wanted to go into "heavier" rock music. The Yardbirds were effectively dead, but Page and one other member picked up John Bonham as a drummer. The other Yardbird then left, and Page picked up John Paul Jones, and a then unknown singer, Robert Plant (said to have recommended his childhood friend Bonham as drummer). The other member of the Yardbirds who had left, Chris Dreja, claimed the rights to the name Yardbirds, so the group had to come up with a new name. It is said that Keith Moon of the Who had said that a Beck/Page/Jones line up with himself as drummer would go over like a lead zeppelin. So now they had a new name--Led Zeppelin.

The group hated having their tracks broken up for singles, and this actually worked out well for them in the U.S., where FM rock stations were now playing album sides. This is a live version of what came closest to the "hit song" of their first album.

Heartbreakingly poignant and beautiful; an anthem for the civil rights movement. Good one JPB

Surprised that no one posted this one before.

Especially with the references to Buddy Holly, J. P. Richardson and Richie Valens. Thanks, Boss . . .