Posted on 03/12/2018 4:10:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Not the Searchers. The 4 Seasons.
I will look that up tomorrow and see how it sounds.
Am going to bed now.
Thanks.
Biggest hits, “Walk Don’t Run” and “Hawaii Five-0”?
Oh, come on! Don’t believe any list that doesn’t include:
Telstar
The Lonely Bull
Calcutta
Apache
Never on Sunday
Tequila
Green Onions
Percolator
Out of Limits
Let There Be Drums
The Bat
The Fourth Dimension
The Twilight Zone
I think the Ventures sound in junior high school in 1963 and 1964 somehow convinced my brain I had to live in California. Hearing that sound made it obvious that freezing in upstate New York wasn’t what I wanted to do. Moving to California became reality only eight years after loving their sound in junior high.
The Venture made an album about HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR and even that album sold well.
I own a Glenfield 30-30 that used to belong to Howie Johnson. It’s not a drum but who cares
I never knew much about Jorgen Ingman but I’ve always considered his “Apache” to be one of, if not the, first real surf guitar hit. I don’t know if the term had even been invented yet. Lotta good music in ‘61.
And such variety! We still had instrumentals -- Bill Black's combo, Lawrence Welk, Bert Kaempfert, Al Hirt, Herb Alpert, Santo and Johnny, Acker Bilk, Stan Getz, Ferrante and Teicher, Duane Eddy, Tornadoes, Ventures, Boots Randolph, Floyd Cramer, Chet Atkins, the list goes on -- great listening and dancing!
But add to that the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the whole drag-racing genre, Roy Orbison (my personal favorite, incomparable), Johnny Tillotson, Johnny Preston, The Four Seasons w. Frankie Valli, Jimmy Dean, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Ray Stevens, the list goes on.
Then some of the black guys -- Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Brook Benton, the Platters, Coasters, Drifters, Sam the Sham -- gosh, we still had Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Fats Domino, Chubby Checker the list goes on.
The ladies: Shirelles, Martha and Vandellas, Dixie Cups, Della Reese, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald; Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee -- I mean these people were good, and they were always in our heads. And I won't even go into the folk music that began to sweep the country that list would just be endless.
I can prove it -- they're still there, in my head; I did that list just from memory here at my laptop, w/o reference to anything to help me bring them back.
I used to work a 4p.m. to 1a.m. job in 1965. On the thirty-minute drive home, the radio always played Bert Kaempfert’s “3 O’clock In the Morning”. Came close to dozing off many times. Roy Orbison had an amazing range, never cut a bad record as far as I’m concerned. Ben E. King (with or without the Drifters) was great and any of the girl groups who recorded for Phil Spector, what can you say? Oh, and Booker T & the MGs!
And just like you, this music lives on, rent-free, in my head.
And I didn’t even mention the singer who, if I could sing like anyone, it would be him: Marty Robbins. His songs were pure excitement.
We still had Dean Martin, too, and Gene Pitney, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Vee, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka.., Oh, don’t get me started again.
And not to mention, all those folk-singing groups I didn’t mention before.
And others keep coming to mind: Ricky Nelson, Chuck Berry, Johnny Rivers, Jim Reeves, Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, the one-hit Marcels (but oh what a hit, their version of “Blue Moon”), and one-hit Lenny Welch (he can still bring tears to my eyes with that song, “Since I fell for You”). And I’m still talking strictly 1961, IIRC.
First, the idea of a rock band on Welk’s show is a laugh! What the heck must Larry Hooper and Joe Feeney be thinking!
And that the band is not corded to their amps. Way ahead of their time obviously!
Thanks for sharing this link!!
One Toke Over The Line on Lawrence Welk 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE
“One of the newer songs!”
obviously appealing to the younger crowd with these appearances. (I was in college in the early 70’s and used to watch Lawrence with a “few” beers in me for laughs).
When there were only 4-8 channels to choose from, some compromise had to be made...
I dated a girl in 1971 whose parents owned a LA recording company. They had one artist under contract- Lawrence Welk. A bunch of us would get together to watch the show and she’d give us the gossip on the band. Hint:Lawrence had wandering hands when he danced eith ladies from the audience.
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