You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


DavidS - Aug 21, 2008 9:40:48 am PDT #9115 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well, Irma Thomas had a local hit with "Wish Someone Would Care" in 1964. She also did the original version of "Time Is On My Side" that the Stones covered.

The big civil rights anthem of the soul era was Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."

That delta region was particularly fertile for the variety of its music. If you draw a circle that covers both Memphis and Little Rock you're going to have musicians as varied as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters, Conway Twitty, Charlie Rich and Justin Timberlake all born within that circle.

On the blues side Sonny Boy Williamson played regularly on the King Biscuit Flour Hour.


DavidS - Aug 21, 2008 9:41:31 am PDT #9116 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Second graders raise money to save Coltrane's house: [link]

Awww, little jazzbos.


Barb - Aug 21, 2008 9:45:19 am PDT #9117 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

The big civil rights anthem of the soul era was Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."

The Impressions' "People Get Ready" too--


Dana - Aug 21, 2008 9:53:03 am PDT #9118 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I just heard The Decembrists used in an AT&T ad. Huh.


Hayden - Aug 21, 2008 9:54:28 am PDT #9119 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I remember that Soulsville book being pretty dry, Barb.


DavidS - Aug 21, 2008 9:54:39 am PDT #9120 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I just heard The Decembrists used in an AT&T ad. Huh.

Got the skills to pay the bills.


Fred Pete - Aug 21, 2008 10:06:50 am PDT #9121 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.

For research on the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the earlier part of the '60s, Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi has the perspective of a female black activist college student.

Irma Thomas's version of "Time Is on My Side" was actually the B-side of the lovely "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is." Which would be a great trigger for memories of a love affair.


smonster - Aug 21, 2008 10:09:25 am PDT #9122 of 10003
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Too bad, Barb, if you were in the Carolinas you could use Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts.


Barb - Aug 21, 2008 10:15:31 am PDT #9123 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

Too bad, Barb, if you were in the Carolinas you could use Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts.

Ah jeez, the "My Ding-a-Ling" group! I think my father-in-law still has a 45 of that somewhere. A few cocktails too many and he starts singing it.


Barb - Aug 21, 2008 10:30:20 am PDT #9124 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

And if I may interject a moment in which to totally laugh at myself and my utter "Research! Squee! More, more, more!" keeping in mind this is for small stuff; little tidbits to be woven in against the larger backdrop of the story.