Well, poop.

You can hear part of it here:

https://youtu.be/YfIoQyXSVpI

It plays at the top of the video and again around 0:57....

Very cool, Adam. All the best with this and subsequent releases on KF. :=)

Bill "Daddy-O" Hesterman Sr.

After looking up who that is, if he were to be on any album cover, they should have put him on the Summer Days and Summer Nights reissue cover, the album with Salt Lake City on it!  Or perhaps the MFP label just picked a random photo and didn't realize that guy wasn't a member of the band.

Here's some info on the subject:

https://bonnevillemariner.wordpress.com/category/great-salt-lake/

And here, from my other board:

He was a DJ called Bill "Daddy-O" Hesterman who was a friend of Murry's and heavily promoted the BBs in Utah, where he was general manager of KNAK Radio in the 1950s and '60s.

Quoting from [a long removed] article, "He even toured Europe with them and wound up on one of their album covers (a European release), posing in front of his own Land Cruiser at Saltair Pavilion."

He died in 1996.

 

That is incredible. The harmonium sounds really effective here.

Man, you are talented! I do hope Brian gets to hear brilliant covers like this.

Unavailable in Sweden too.

And in the Netherlands, helaas.

This must have been posted already. If so, here it is again:

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/25/paul-dano-love-and-mercy

There's enough stuff I can't stand but the one song that makes me gag at the very thought of it is Chuck Berry's lone US #1 "My Ding-A-Ling". That song is so wrong on every imaginable level!

You've cat to be kitten me. It's one of his best songs in entire catalog.

RR, how would you list these Chuck Berry songs in order of quality? I'm curious:

Carol
Johnny B. Goode
Maybelline
Memphis Tennessee
My Ding-A-Ling
Rock And Roll Music
Roll Over Beethoven
School Day
Sweet Little Sixteen

Morrissey, take note....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwIrFTo495E

Donald Fagan may be a smug twat but he sure does make brilliant music.

Hahaha, you sound like AGD. Agreed, very nice album.

This:

When I first heard "Kokomo" on one of a pair of 1989 cassette tape comps (now a single CD: http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Hits-Album-89/master/238177) it just made me feel old. ("So they're still around!")

Maybe it didn't help that the tape was wowing somewhat. It's all fallen into place since then (and i do mean all!) and I`m quite comfortable with it now.

Indeed, I'm always glad to hear "Kokomo" in the "grocery aisle"----particularly when Carl kicks in. ;=)

This album never ceases to astonish
(click on image for details)...

I've always loved this joyous racket. Why on earth anyone should dislike it is beyond me.

So do tell.

It's off key. 


The original is also off key. 

I've never understood the accusation levelled at doo wop songs that they're off key! All the best doo wop is off key----it adds a special "edge" to the proceedings. "Little Star" by The Elegants starts and ends woefully off key but boy does it work----shivers-down-the-spinesville. 

Can anybody make out the words to the "lost verse" in All This Is That? It can be heard mixed in the background during the second verse, I believe.

No idea if this helps but this is what AGD makes of the lyrics (and the singers):

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,11465.msg227350.html#msg227350

Perhaps he'll do the same for "Barbara Ann" some day.

[Happy birthday, Dave! (22/8)]

>GO, DAVID LEE MARKS!
(SKRAM, Eel-diva - dog!)<

Top-notch, RS! :=)

[Memoires]

The only great composer (okay, different genre) to my knowledge who couldn't play piano was Hector Berlioz----and goodness me it shows.

But more interesting to me: is that true about Berlioz? I had no idea. My tuition was at least in part wasted, goddamnit. (Even more so when I admit I was about to express astonishment about "Tottentanz" ... before remembering it was Lizst, not Berlioz.)

This is from Berlioz's Memoires (in translation----not by me, I should add):

"I had mastered three majestic, incomparable instruments, the flageolet, the flute and the guitar. Who could fail to recognise in this judicious choice the impulse of nature which was driving me towards the most immense orchestral effects and music on the scale of Michelangelo! The flute, the guitar and the flageolet!… I have never had any other skills as an instrumentalist, though these seem to me respectable enough as it is. But I am not being fair to myself: I could also play the drum.

"My father was against letting me start studying the piano, otherwise I would probably have become a formidable pianist, like countless others. He had absolutely no intention of making an artist of me, and was probably worried that the piano might establish too strong a hold on me and lead me deeper into music than he wished.

 "I have often regretted not being able to play the piano; this skill could be of great use to me in many circumstances. But when I think of the frightening number of trivia that are produced with such ease day-in day-out – disgraceful compositions that would be beyond the reach of their authors if they had to rely on pen and paper and were deprived of their musical kaleidoscope – I have to thank my lucky stars for having been obliged to learn to compose in silence and with complete freedom. This has preserved me from the tyranny of fingering patterns, which are so damaging for creative composition, and from the seduction of commonplaces to which composers are exposed most of the time."

This is a good example of early Berlioz, written, astonishingly, a mere three years after Beethoven's death: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s

But i digress... 

There's enough stuff I can't stand but the one song that makes me gag at the very thought of it is Chuck Berry's lone US #1 "My Ding-A-Ling". That song is so wrong on every imaginable level!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWfMkJUklk

I think it helps to have heard it on the radio when it came out as a single. At that time no one was aware of an album version, or certainly hadn't heard it if they were. No live versions to throw into the mix. It was what it was. It's been denigrated since then by that obnoxious "bomb Iran" business and its use in ads but I love it still.  

I feel bad for anyone who, if in daily listening, thinks "well unfortunately this song's a piece of garbage, as the songwriter can't even play piano!"

Too true! Indeed, playing piano can be a distinct disadvantage as it inevitably locks you into writing pianistically.

The only great composer (okay, different genre) to my knowledge who couldn't play piano was Hector Berlioz----and goodness me it shows.

Because we all have an ex girlfriend named Barbara Ann somewhere in our lives (for females it was a college experiment) and we don't want to hear her name repeated over and over again, driving us crazy, until we can't take it anymore!!!! 

Perhaps hate is too a strong a word but I have seen it mentioned here as "Barbara f*ckin' Ann" by at least one erudite poster, lol.

"Barbara Ann" to me is the 45 that came out in late '65 with "Girl Don't Tell Me" on the flip. Period. At the time there was nothing like it----who else was singing doo wop in 1965?

Thanks for the heartwarming and (so far mostly) encouraging answers, guys. :=)   

I've always loved this joyous racket. Why on earth anyone should dislike it is beyond me.

So do tell.

In terms of songs, the only ones listenable to my ears are:

01: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
02: Like A Rolling Stone (Barely)

 I'm with you except I would add Lay Lady Lay.

Tastes are tastes, but to call an artist's entire discography unlistenable is pretty ignorant. And we're talking about Bob fucking Dylan here.

I can only assume they're talking about the sound of Dylan's voice. Now that i can understand----either you love it or you hate it----but I can't believe they mean his compositions! That would be crazy...

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/01/music-for-little-hipsters-now-available-at-starbucks/

"Seasons" is an amazing song, but I just can't really get into anything else I've heard.

I've only heard it once all the way through, so I'm still out on it.

The first track of theirs that I heard was the album's closer, at Glastonbury (on TV).

To be continued...

Been looking everywhere (in vain) for an audio/video of "To Be Alone With You", which kicks off with Dylan's immortal words to his producer, "Is it rolling, Bob?"...

R.I.P., sir.

Here ya go John. Like 10 secs in, they are already playing:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eos_70yqX8E

Thanks, ORR. I can't see it myself ("this video is unavallable----sorry about that") but at least others can check it out now. :=)