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Radio Birdman - “Aloha Steve and Danno” (1978)
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Season 7 of Five-0 just came out last Tuesday, so before we glue ourselves to the boob tube, let’s celebrate by snapping our fingers to that crazy Aussie beat. Love how this track came out while the show was still running (albeit during its crappy last few seasons).
Radio Birdman - “Aloha Steve and Danno”
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posted by Kim Simpson
Rusty Wier, R.I.P.
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Not just an iconic Austin musician, Rusty Wier - who succumbed to cancer on Friday after a two-year battle - was also a hell of a good guy. Here’s one of my very favorites of his - a song he did with Lavender Hill Express as the b-side to their 1968 “Outside My Window” 45 on Sonobeat.
Lavender Hill Express - “Silly Rhymes”
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Dickey Lee - “Red, Green, Yellow and Blue” (1968)
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Dickey Lee made out well during the early ’60s death rock craze. In the ‘62 hit single “Patches,” one girlfriend ends up dead in the ditch, while in the following year’s “Laurie,” another one’s passed on long before Dickey even meets her (it’s a musical version of the sweater-on-a-gravestone urban legend). By 1968 he was still dabbling in tragedy. “Red, Green, Yellow and Blue,” which just missed Billboard’s Hot 100, captures a presumably Brylcreemed and becardiganed Dickey leaping frantically around town over the news that his girlfriend’s gone off to San Francisco, aka Drugville. “You’re halfway up your rainbow, girl, by now,” he yelps, while Charles Chalmers’ orchestration gives it all the moody atmosphere those earlier records only yearned for.
Dickey Lee - “Red, Green, Yellow and Blue”
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posted by Kim Simpson