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September 7, 2023
March 1, 2021
Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant lyrics
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| * | 1 | Thank you | 4:17 |
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| 2 | Black silk stocking | 2:36 | ||||||
| 3 | Lola | 2:52 | ||||||
| 4 | C-rock | 5:29 | ||||||
| 5 | What for | 3:43 | ||||||
| 6 | Wanderlust | 2:14 | ||||||
| 7 | Lycee | 7:38 | ||||||
| 8 | Mandoia | 4:24 | ||||||
| 9 | Thank you | 4:19 | ||||||
| Total playing time | 37:53 | |||||||
Black silk stocking lyrics
| Sensitive her
feeling, when she's Waking in the morning, Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Put your hand inside it, and she'll tell you where to find it, Black silk stocking Black silk stocking And when she is not talking, be sure she wants some rockin' Black silk stocking Black silk stocking If you're not into rockin' you're best to keep on walking Black silk stocking Black silk stocking You think she's going to leave you, but she only wants to see you in her, black silk stocking Black silk stocking |
Lutting
instigation, her spell is captivating, Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Provoking whip, lash lash, please stop smoking Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Ho baby, baby no-ones loving, your degeneration Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Oh baby, no-ones loving, your degeneration Black silk stocking Black silk stocking |
Lola lyrics
| She lives alone Lola, But every night she goes down, to the Chinese where she works very hard there, sipping her cocktails. expenses paid Lola She is performing For a cause, Her glances faking, A deep fascination, She wants information She goes upstairs Lola Clinging on to Another man, She lays him down, down Almond eyes on fire, |
Seducing his mind Behind the smoke and Screenz-a, Lola is a Private eye, She well disguises Her lingering actions, No-one suspecting At the Chinese Lola Killed all those Who did her wrong, Her soul is blazing Whith blood thirsty craving, No-one, objecting |
C-rock lyrics
Let's rocking
Go back rocking
[etc.]
What for lyrics
| What for She likes the way you bore, What for Her foot's inside the door, What for She'll push you to the floor, what for She loves the way you bore What for She likes the way you go What for Her answer's never no, what for She likes to take you so what for She loves you when you're low What for She likes to make you sigh, what for shee seems to get you high what for she's got to get some more what for she loves the way you bore, what for she never did before |
What for She likes the way you know What for She likes it very slow, what for Your mind's about to blow, what for And you're just going to owl got it got it got it what for she likes the way you bore, what for She loves the way you bore Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, what for We're getting to the core What for, we like the way we bore |
Wanderlust lyrics
| Got the wanderlust you go te the airport and see a plane take off, go to England or take a trip by sea and get off, where you want to get off, write to the boy next door, who always wants to do, what you're just about to do tell him that you like New York city I'm sure he'll like it too - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation Tell your navigator to wait downstairs with his white gloves on, tell him to zip up your bag with his white gloves on take your diamond, so if you've got the money left, you can always sell it here I come, get ready get set fire go, go, go, go, go - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation My transfer agent sens me where I Where I want to go That's a fact He thinks I'm great 'cos I treat him like dirt, like durt, he does me favours But I could do with even better ones, they call him sticky 'cos I treat him like dirt, like dirt, like dirt - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation |
Your transit airman is heating up the engine clear your head, go out and get it instead of watching T.V., and stagnating in your bed, by the window thinking of the next record that you're going to buy, you like Maurice with his safety pin so it's gonna be a Punk one - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation Got the wanderlust it's time to go and do, what you've decided to do Go to Milan Or if not just you take a bike to see a sight I feel free you feel free and how about the boy next door, tell him that you like New York I'm sure he'll like it too - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation |
Lycee lyrics
| I was looking
through Through the, the window pane Tears of rain ran down, And blurred a sight so bad, Revolution now, Somehow, I feel afraid I, I heard her cry out loud, echoes insane, shee feel to the ground, her hand reached out in vain Young, Lycee was young, but now, oh there she lay, who will call her name, Victim of blood red flame, she, a living sun will not come back again |
I, I saw her face Through the, the window pane, I, still hear her cry I feel, I want to die, I, I saw her face Through the, the window pane, I, still hear her cry I feel I want to die |
Mandoia
lyrics
| I'v gotta in
Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia in Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... I'v gotta in Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia I'v gotta
in Mandoia |
I see the hakin of
the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... |
Thank you lyrics
We would like to thank:
Mr. King: for the wonderful chinese food
Moira: for lending us coffee
Yiannis: for inviting us to pay for meals
The japs: for inventing the American finger tip orchestra
The traffic warden: for the 52 parking tickets
The Queen: for her Silver Jubilee...
Romeo Ongarello: for international telecommunications
The publishers: for allowing us to earn 50% OF OUR RIGHTS
| We would like to
thank: Lonnie Donegan Eddie Cochran Fats Domino Jerry Lee Lewis Little Richard Bill Haley Chuck Berry Wanda Jackson Charlie Watts The Boys Mick Jagger The Saints Bill wyman Iggy Pop Neu (Ney) |
Fats and his Cats Dave Anthony Mods Les Paul Sha-Na-Na Roxy Music Buddy Holly Gene Vincent Jimi Hendrix Jonny Kid Brian Jones Jim Morrison Elvis Presley Marc Bolan Louis Armstrong Bing Crosby |
and to everyone alse we have forgotten in words but not in thoughts
thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts
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January 24, 2021
November 5, 2020
20,000 vinyl LPs 250: Ike Turner ~ Bad Dreams
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vinyl LP front cover
album design by Mike Salisbury
cover Illustration by W. T. Vinson
photo of album cover by Styrous®
Today is the birthday of Ike Turner who was born in 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi to Creole parents. When Turner applied for his first passport in the 1960s, he discovered
that his name was registered as Ike Wister Turner. By then both of his
parents were deceased, so he could not verify the origin of his name.
In 1957, Turner met Ann Bullock (Tina Turner) at Club Manhattan in East St. Louis, Illinois. Turner and Bullock eventually began having an affair and she became pregnant in January 1960. Following the formation of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue and the birth
of their son Ronnie in October 1960, they were married in Tijuana
in 1962.
photographer unknown
In his 1999 autobiography, Turner claimed that he was still
legally married to Alice Bell when he married Tina; Turner states that
he located Bell in Chicago and divorced her. Turner claimed on more than one occasion that he had never been officially married to Tina. They divorced in March, 1978. Tina retained songwriter royalties from songs she had written, but Ike got the publishing royalties for his compositions and hers. She also kept her two Jaguar cars, furs and jewelry along with her stage name. Tina gave Ike her share of their Bolic Sound recording studio, publishing companies, and real estate, and he kept his four cars.
He has been hailed as a "great innovator" of rock and roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard and Johnny Otis. Rolling Stone magazine editor David Fricke
ranked Turner No. 61 on his list of 100 Greatest Guitarists and noted,
"Turner was one of the first guitarists to successfully transplant the
intensity of the blues into more-commercial music." Turner won five Grammy Awards, including two competitive awards and three Grammy Hall of Fame Awards. Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Tina Turner in 1991. He is also inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame, the Clarksdale Walk of Fame, the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Ike Turner, Grammy Award - 1972
photographer unknown
Bad Dreams is a studio album by musician Ike Turner released on United Artists Records in 1973. The album cover was illustrated by W. T. Vinson and designed by Mike Salisbury who also created the cover for the Ike & Tina Turner album Live! The World of Ike & Tina.
As with every album I like, I have a favorite song; on this one it is Don't Hold Your Breath which starts out fairly quietly with him humming; it's a moderate speed tempo that builds to a driving beat.
Rats is a strange song; the music is fast and staccato but Turner speaks the lyrics as opposed to sing them. I believe he is talking about people, actually.
On December 10, 2007, Turner told Falina Rasool that he believed he was dying and would not live until Christmas.
As he predicted, he died two days later, on December 12, at the age of 76, at his home in San Marcos, California, near San Diego.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Side 1:
A1 - These Dreams - 2:53
A2 - That's How Much I Love You - 2:52
A3 - One Nite Stand - 3:27
A4 - Don't Hold Your Breath - 3:45
A5 - (You Can Have) The City - 3:42
A2 - That's How Much I Love You - 2:52
A3 - One Nite Stand - 3:27
A4 - Don't Hold Your Breath - 3:45
A5 - (You Can Have) The City - 3:42
Side 2:
B1 - Flockin' With You - 2:50
B2 - Take A Walk With Me - 3:26
B3 - Later For Baby - 2:37
B4 - Rats - 4:00
B5 - I Love The Way You Love - 2:42
Notes:
Produced By Ike Turner, Warren Dawson & Soko Richardson.
Arranged By Ike Turner.
Engineers: Ike Turner, Barry Keene & John Mills.
Recorded At Bolic Sound, Inglewood, California. March 1973.
Cover Illustration By Mike Salisbury.
Album Design By Mike Salisbury.
Arranged By Ike Turner.
Engineers: Ike Turner, Barry Keene & John Mills.
Recorded At Bolic Sound, Inglewood, California. March 1973.
Cover Illustration By Mike Salisbury.
Album Design By Mike Salisbury.
Ike Turner – Bad Dreams
Label: United Artists Records – UA-LA087-F
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1973Little Richard
Genre: Funk / Soul, Blues
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Ike Turner ~
Ike Turner ~ Don't Hold Your Breath
“I believe I was ahead of my time.”
~ Ike Turner
May 9, 2020
Goodbye, Little Richard!
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Immortal Loves
Little Richard
Jayne Mansfield
Net links:
Billboard ~ Little Richard Grappling With His Sexuality & Religion
CBS News ~ Little Richard, rock 'n' roll pioneer, has died at 87
The Guardian ~
Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom
When John Waters met Little Richard
NPR ~ Little Richard, The 'King And Queen' Of Rock And Roll
NY Times ~ Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll
RollingStone ~ Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock, Dead at 87
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The Girl Can't Help It
The Girl Can't Help It (film clip)
Long Tall Sally - Tutti Frutti (1958 film)
Lucille (1958 film)
Tutti Frutti
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Richard Wayne Penniman (aka Little Richard) died today, Saturday, May 9, 2020. He is one of my "immortal" loves (link below) to pass on.
I will always remember hearing Tutti Frutti for the first time in 1955 when I was a teenager. What a fun and joyous song; never realized the original version of it was X-rated (John Waters link below)!
But it will always be Lucille, which came two years later in 1957, that will be my favorite song by him. However, it took me decades to find out it is, "I asked my friends about her but all their lips were tight" and not, ". . . all they did was fight", which never made sense to me! After Lucille my next favorite song by him is The Girl Can't Help It from the film of the same name. The film also introduced me to that blond bombshell, Jayne Mansfield.
But it will always be Lucille, which came two years later in 1957, that will be my favorite song by him. However, it took me decades to find out it is, "I asked my friends about her but all their lips were tight" and not, ". . . all they did was fight", which never made sense to me! After Lucille my next favorite song by him is The Girl Can't Help It from the film of the same name. The film also introduced me to that blond bombshell, Jayne Mansfield.
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard's boast. More than any other performer – save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.—Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Little Richard was born on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia, his father was a church deacon and a brick mason, who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub called the Tip In Inn. His mother was a member of Macon's New Hope Baptist Church.
Gifted with a loud singing voice, Penniman recalled that he was "always
changing the key upwards" and that they once stopped him from singing in
church for "screaming and hollering" so loud, earning him the nickname
"War Hawk".
As a child, he would "beat on the steps of the house, and on tin cans
and pots and pans, or whatever" while singing, which annoyed neighbors.
While in high school, he got a part-time job at Macon City Auditorium for local secular and gospel concert promoter Clint Brantley. He sold Coca-Cola to crowds during concerts of star performers of the day such as Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder, and his favorite singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
In
October 1947, Tharpe overheard 14-year-old Penniman singing her songs
before a performance at the Auditorium. She invited him to open her
show. After the show, she paid him, inspiring him to become a
professional performer.
He joined Dr. Hudson's Medicine Show in 1949; during this time he performed in drag
under the name "Princess LaVonne." In 1950, he joined his first musical
band, Buster Brown's Orchestra, where Brown gave him the name "Little
Richard".
Disillusioned by the record business, he returned to Macon in 1954
and, struggling with poverty, settled for work as a dishwasher for Greyhound Lines.
At the suggestion of Lloyd Price, Penniman (Little Richard) sent a demo to Price's label, Specialty Records, in February 1955. In September of that year, Specialty owner Art Rupe loaned Penniman money to buy out of his Peacock contract and set him to work with producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell. Upon hearing Penniman's demo, Blackwell felt Penniman was Specialty's answer to Ray Charles, however, Penniman told him he preferred the sound of Fats Domino. Blackwell sent him to New Orleans where he recorded at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studios, recording there with several of Domino's session musicians, including drummer Earl Palmer and saxophonist Lee Allen.
Blackwell and Penniman went to relax at the Dew Drop Inn nightclub.
According to Blackwell, Penniman then launched into a risqué dirty blues he titled Tutti Frutti. Blackwell said he felt the song had hit potential and hired songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie to replace some of Penniman's sexual lyrics with less controversial words. Recorded in three takes in September 1955, Tutti Frutti was released as a single that November and, as they say, the rest is history.
Tutti Frutti became an instant hit, reaching No. 2 on Billboard magazine's Rhythm and Blues Best-Sellers
chart and crossing over to the pop charts in both the United States and
overseas in the United Kingdom. It reached No. 21 on the Billboard Top 100 in America and No. 29 on the British singles chart, eventually selling a million copies.
Little Richard appeared in some of the earliest rock-and-roll movies: Don’t Knock the Rock (1956) which starred Bill Haley & His Comets (link below) . . .
. . . and The Girl Can’t Help It, which introduced me to the blond, bombshell, Jayne Mansfield (link below), (1956) and Mr. Rock and Roll (1957).
Little Richard appeared in some of the earliest rock-and-roll movies: Don’t Knock the Rock (1956) which starred Bill Haley & His Comets (link below) . . .
Don’t Knock the Rock movie poster
. . . and The Girl Can’t Help It, which introduced me to the blond, bombshell, Jayne Mansfield (link below), (1956) and Mr. Rock and Roll (1957).
Jayne Mansfield - 1966
The Girl Can’t Help It movie still
Little
Richard was among the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's first class of
inductees in 1986. He received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy and
performed at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration in 1992. The
Library of Congress added “Tutti Frutti” to the National Recording
Registry in 2010.
He was in Tullahoma, TN when it was announced that his death was related to bone cancer. He was 87 years old.
He was in Tullahoma, TN when it was announced that his death was related to bone cancer. He was 87 years old.
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Immortal Loves
Little Richard
Jayne Mansfield
Net links:
Billboard ~ Little Richard Grappling With His Sexuality & Religion
CBS News ~ Little Richard, rock 'n' roll pioneer, has died at 87
The Guardian ~
Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom
When John Waters met Little Richard
NPR ~ Little Richard, The 'King And Queen' Of Rock And Roll
NY Times ~ Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll
RollingStone ~ Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock, Dead at 87
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The Girl Can't Help It
The Girl Can't Help It (film clip)
Long Tall Sally - Tutti Frutti (1958 film)
Lucille (1958 film)
Tutti Frutti
"God gives us the ability,
but rock 'n' roll was created by men."
~ Little Richard
but rock 'n' roll was created by men."
~ Little Richard
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Immortal Loves
There have been many famous people I have loved through my life and have always thought of as "Immortal"!
Cases in point are Pope Pius XII, my very first dose of mortality when I was a teenager, Lucille Ball, Debbie Reynolds, Elvis Presley, Anne Baxter, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe (I was totally in love with her, who wasn't?), Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Van Cliburn, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Divine, Fats Domino, Carrie Fisher, George Harrison, John Lennon, Sandra Sakata (link below), Celeste Holm, Whitney Houston, Patti Page, Michael Jackson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (his was the most shocking), B. B. King, Jon Lord, Jayne Mansfield, Leonard Nimoy, Prince, Lou Reed, George Romero (I expect him back any day now), Inger Stevens, photographer Jim Stewart (link below), Joan Sutherland and on and on. It was a complete shock to me when each and everyone of them DID die.
I KNEW they were not immortal but they were so much bigger than life in
my mind that I could not comprehend their death until it actually
happened. The death of Little Richard today (link below) brought me to post this entry to the Viewfinder.
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Guess what?
They ARE immortal because
They ARE immortal because
they live on in my mind & heart!
Styrous® ~ Saturday, May 9. 2020
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