Things I should have known about my favorite artists

[mandrix]

So, composing for film then.
"I don't always speak right. But I always know what I'm talking about". lol.

 

[barfle]

What I find surprising is that Carole King didn't release her own stuff back in those early days. Back then she was a hit writer for others. So many great hits came out of the Brill Building!

Carole King didn't think she was much of a singer, although she did have a medium size hit with "It Might As Well Rain Until September" in 1963. She really didn't make her own splash until she released her "Tapestry" album in '71.

 

[mandrix]

I feel the earth move, under my feet...
I remember when she and JT both had a lot of airplay on the radio back when.

 

[mandrix]

"On August 25, 1962, a diminutive, 17-year-old singer named Eva Narcissus Boyd scored her first and only #1 pop hit with “The Loco-Motion.”"
So I would have been about 12 I guess, but remember it on the radio.

 

[ar surround]

"On August 25, 1962, a diminutive, 17-year-old singer named Eva Narcissus Boyd scored her first and only #1 pop hit with “The Loco-Motion.”"
So I would have been about 12 I guess, but remember it on the radio.

And then the Todd Rundgrenized Grand Funk did a cover of that Carole King composition The Loco-Motion that also hit #1.

 

[JulesRules]

I remember being surprised when I read that Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears played guitar on "Emotion in Motion" by Ric Ocasek. Once you know, you can kinda hear him.

Same with Peter Gabriel singing backing vocals on "Take Me Home" by his ex-bandmate Phil Collins.

 

[Quad Linda]

What I find surprising is that Carole King didn't release her own stuff back in those early days. Back then she was a hit writer for others. So many great hits came out of the Brill Building!

Just as Neil Sedaka's Oh, Carol is about Carole King, Carole's own record, "Oh, Neil" is about him. To quote a phrase I heard Bill Champlin use, it "shipped double linoleum."

Little Eva was Carole King's children's babysitter.

King's songs w/Goffin were recorded/or covered by Beatles, Drifters, Byrds, Monkees, Aretha, Chiffons, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, among others.

Check out Carole King's album Pearls-Songs of Goffin & King for her 1980 recordings of many of these hits:

https://www.discogs.com/master/201715-Carole-King-Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King

Ed Cassidy, Spirit's drummer was Randy California's stepfather. Before Spirit, Ed had formed Rising Sons w/Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder. Met both Randy & Ed not long before Randy's untimely death.

 

[stereoptic]

I'm assuming everyone knows this, but just in case:
The uncredited male vocal on “You’re So Vain” is by Mick Jagger.

Once you hear him in the chorus you can't not hear him after that!

 

[mandrix]

Just as Neil Sedaka's Oh, Carol is about Carole King, Carole's own record, "Oh, Neil" is about him. To quote a phrase I heard Bill Champlin use, it "shipped double linoleum."

Little Eva was Carole King's children's babysitter.

King's songs w/Goffin were recorded/or covered by Beatles, Drifters, Byrds, Monkees, Aretha, Chiffons, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, among others.

Check out Carole King's album Pearls-Songs of Goffin & King for her 1980 recordings of many of these hits:

https://www.discogs.com/master/201715-Carole-King-Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King

Ed Cassidy, Spirit's drummer was Randy California's stepfather. Before Spirit, Ed had formed Rising Sons w/Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder. Met both Randy & Ed not long before Randy's untimely death.

Thank you Linda. I had mistakenly stated that Ed Cassidy was Randy's Father in law. My bad. Old memories.
"Mr. Skin".

 

[4-earredwonder]

Wham sensation George Michael's name at birth was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou and in grade school when he met his future bandmate Andrew Ridgely, he gave him the nickname YOG

https://www.womanandhome.com/life/n...-yog-and-what-was-the-singers-real-full-name/

New WHAM doc on Netflix explains it all and details the making of Wham's iconic Christmas song LAST CHRISTMAS video in Switzerland!

The Wizard called YOG!

 

[mandrix]

In 1975 Randy California and Ed Cassidy as "Spirit" performed at the Tampa Jams. (1975 Florida Jam-not to be confused with the "Tampa Jams" which was an almost weekly event) An album was released called 'Spirt of '76" which I believe I still have.
I think it was the first time they ever performed a Bob Dylan song in public? Like A Rolling Stone and another I can't recall now....
Don't know for a fact, but I believe it was years after his time with Hendrix before he performed a Hendrix song in public.

In the days when a lot of Florida roads were a trainwreck, we used to attend concerts in Tampa and St. Pete, then traverse Florida via Highway 60 across the state to Vero Beach to watch the sun come up... just because...why not?
I always was the designated driver. lol. The fools! Bwa ha ha. No seriously, I was a good driver...Hey! quit bogarting that joint!..and quit shotgunning the cat for goodness sake! She's already nutso!

I know, boring shit from old people.