1993
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Vor 2 Tagen · Richard re-recorded eighteen of his hits for K-Tel Records in stereo, with a single featuring the new versions of "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Rip It Up" reaching the UK singles chart. Richard later admitted that at the time he was addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Vor 18 Stunden · Now a recently discovered recording of that night is up for bidding by RR Auction in Boston with an estimate value of $40,000+. Hendrix was briefly part of Little Richard's backing band, The Upsetters, and the recording was engineered by Boston radio personality Little Walter DeVenne on a Scotch 190 reel-to-reel tape at 7.5 IPS.
I saw him twice and his live performances were electric. His UK TV show showed him in his prime (see "It's Little Richard!" on YouTube) and well worth a watch. His shownanship often reduced the songs to all the hits, but his voice was blessed with a wide range and he could have used it on much broader material. When he did, he could produce ...
Vor einem Tag · Billie Holiday died in Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death. She had been strikingly beautiful, but her talent was wasted ...
Vor 18 Stunden · Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s originating from African-American music. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
Vor einem Tag · “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968 album, featuring the Tom T. Hall-penned title track, which won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; she was the first female artist to ever top the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts with the same song – it didn’t happen again until Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” in early 1981; remastered)
Vor 4 Tagen · They would have two more Top Ten hits, the Number Four, "Don't Hang Up", in 1962 and the Number Three, "South Street", in 1963. Thereafter, the group started to splinter with Davis and Caldwell the first to bail out in 1964 and when Hightower decided to remain in England following a tour there in 1968, the group officially disbanded. The founding members are now deceased except for Caldwell ...
