FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 March 2013

Our Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

[Publius]

Back when Alex Chilton died, “Drumbo” did a fine retrospective of Chilton’s work with the Box Tops, Big Star and his later solo work. Chilton had an amazing gift: he was a teenage boy who could sing like an old, grizzled, black blues singer. But he was a pigheaded fool and had a gift for angering everybody he worked with, including his fans.

I covered Chilton a bit when I did the Fathers of Hot Country, the songwriters who worked with producer Chips Moman. Chilton could have been the first Hot Country sensation, but his folly led Moman to approach Tom Parker, and it was Moman’s work in 1968 that brought Elvis Presley’ career back to life.

This song wasn’t written by any of the Fathers of Hot Country, those songwriters who gathered at Wally’s Nightclub in Nashville for the cheap beer, each one fantasizing about how he would spend his money when his song became a hit. This song came from producer Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, two men who worked with Moman for a time. Although the Box Tops were classified as “blue-eyed soul”, if you listen to the production, it sounds a lot like early Hot Country. There are times when I think of this song as the first Hot Country hit. It came in at #6 this week.

The Box Tops: “Cry Like a Baby”

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~Dc Boogie

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It Can Happen
~ Yes ~

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I am sure you’re right. He had a hard, cynical edge that Paul didn’t.

[Publius]

Paul was the Happy Beatle. John was the Cynical Beatle.

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~East To West

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There's Only One Way To Rock
~ Sammy Hagar ~

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John Hammond was the head honcho at Columbia Records, and he had signed Aretha Franklin, telling the world that she was going to be the next Billie Holiday, an artist whom he had signed decades earlier. But Hammond didn’t know what to do with Franklin, and her career languished at Columbia.

In 1966, she signed with Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, one of the postwar pioneers of R&B. He assigned her to producer Jerry Wexler, who introduced Franklin to the musicians of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The rest was history. This came in at #5 this week.

Ertegun fell backstage at a Rolling Stones concert in 2006 and died, the perfect death for a rock impresario.

Aretha Franklin: “Since You”ve Been Gone”

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~Hard As Hell Beatz

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Pink Houses
~ John Cougar Melencamp ~

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~Hearts Of Space

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That was one of the greatest videos ever made.

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That's Life
~ David Lee Roth ~

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~Lucky Star

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Dream Police
~ Cheap Trick ~

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Hip To Be Square
~ Huey Lewis & The News ~

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[Publius]

The Delfonics were a Philadelphia soul group produced by Thom Bell, who would later become a significant producer of Disco in the Seventies. On its way to a Gold Record, it came in at #4 this week.

The Delfonics: “La-La Means I Love You”

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Sara
~ Starship ~

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~Marimba

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PAUL HARDCASTLE~Maxine

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