[Drumbo]

Sometimes you just run out of themes
It had to happen sooner or later.



Don't Fear The Reaper
~ Blue Öyster Cult ~

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[Publius]

Several months ago we worked through the Jimmy Webb songbook, and one of Webb’s songs was “P. F. Sloan”, a song about the travails of song writing. Mr. Sloan was not a fictional character, but a real song writer of the Sixties who briefly made it big and then sank into a vertiginous oblivion. For a moment, his star shined brightly. So let’s peruse The P. F. Sloan Songbook.

He started out as Philip Schlein, but his father anglicized the name. His dad bought him a guitar at age 13, and at the music store, who was present but Elvis Presley, who gave Sloan an impromptu guitar lesson.

In 1959, at the age of 14, Sloan went into the studio and wrote and recorded a do-wop tune for Aladdin Records. Aladdin had been one of the great labels of the Fifties, a worthy competitor to Ahmut Ertegun’s Atlantic Records. Aladdin’s stable had some of the great R&B acts of that decade. Sloan’s record went nowhere, and Aladdin went belly-up not long after.

Flip Sloan: “Little Girl in the Cabin”

[AZamericonnie]

Sometimes you just run out of themes It had to happen sooner or later.

LOL....good to see you Drumbo & hope things are going your way. *hugs*

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Drumbo, Hugs.

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