'Smile Time'
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.
I have a couple of Perry Como albums from the early '70s that are a couple of singles and a lot of covers.
That's a different market. An A&R guy would be employed specifically to find songs for a vocalist. Doing the Great American Songbook is different than remaking a current Top 40 hit.
Agreed, the Rolling Stones and Perry Como appealed to very different groups in the early '70s -- but the Como albums are It's Impossible and And I Love You So, both of which had significant pop hits.
The Beatles and the Beach Boys may have started the idea that the album was important as a coherent artistic statement (or at least something more than two-singles-and-filler), but the idea didn't immediately sweep all areas of popular music.
I think it sort of ties into yesterday's conversation about how wide open the mainstream was in the late '60s and early '70s. The Rolling Stones and Perry Como, Sticky Fingers/"Brown Sugar" and It's Impossible/"It's Impossible" together in the mainstream.
Malcolm McLaren Is Dead
Wow. Unexpected.
You know aside from the Pistols, I really did love that whackass opera/dance music album he did.
Either someone get me a paper bag or someone make Frank Iero less adorable.
It's a cute-head interview during the photo shoot for the NYLON cover. Gerard is talking about their look, as Gerard does.
Warning: Bob is here, but he looks sad.
As sad as it is, I don't think he's a successful poster child for health care reform. A better candidate is one who is following all of society's "rules" about the way we're supposed to work (full time job, not quoted saying "why work when I don't have to?", etc) and still can't get affordable health care. There are millions of candidates who fit *that* bill.
I'm not saying that he should be a poster child, I'm just saying that it sucks.
Oh no, I totally get that. My comments were more along the line of "I would totally link to this on Facebook and anywhere else I can get an audience of well-meaning but ignorant people I know, but I know they'd dismiss it." That's all.
It makes me sick that we don't have universal healthcare and I'd like to get rid of insurance companies, period.
Does anyone happen to have a copy of "The Moderns" soundtrack? For years it was my Sunday morning music, and evidently I gave away or sold or lost the cd. I'd love to hear it again, and it's out of print.