Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield were best known for their smooth blue-eyed soulful sounds as The Righteous Brothers performing heartfelt ballads. But they could rock out too as evidenced by this Bill Medley original that was not only a hit for them (#47/1963) but also The Kingsmen (#49/1964) and Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#17/1966). […]
3D Radio Road Trip
I’m your Uncle Marty with The 3D RadioActivity interlude number 435. For the third time, we’re going to take you on our style of a Road Trip, as we have a fair number of them to meander down. Download here: https://archive.org/download/The3dRadioactivity/3dradio_20180617-3DRadioRoadTrip.mp3 We’ve taken a variety of rides down roads and we will get in more leashwork on our […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Mean Man” by Detroit Cobras
You can draw a sonic line between The Bangles and Detroit Cobras when it comes to influences. Both groups draw upon the classic girl group sound of the 1960s, but add their own garage rock spin to the proceedings. Detroit Cobras are a garage rock band from, you guessed it, Detroit whose first few albums […]
Today in Rock History – May 10
1966, A year after returning to her home state of Texas from San Francisco, Janis Joplin heads west again. She was summoned by Chet Helms, a friend who is now managing Big Brother & the Holding Company. He dispatches Travis Rivers, an old acquaintance of Janis’ from her Port Arthur, Texas days to convince the […]
Song Of The Day – “Rip Off” by T. Rex
Here are Marc Bolan and company at their finest from the killer 1971 album “Electric Warrior.” Before Bowie there was Marc Bolan and while Bowie certainly surpassed him in popularity, Bolan’s influence was profound on making David Bowie the glam king he became in the early ’70s. It wasn’t a rip off…but this song is […]
Song Of The Day – “Things Will Never Be The Same” by Four Just Men
Obscure British Invasion music produced by George Martin! Last week I wrote about Freddie & The Dreamers single, “I’m Telling You Now,” and the American album of the same name. The record was not a Freddie & The Dreamers album per se, although they were the featured group on the cover. It was a compilation […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Don’t Let’s Start” by They Might Be Giants
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Don’t Let’s Start” by They Might Be Giants You can’t bottle creativity, but in the case of They Might Be Giants, you certainly can buy it! They were two wild and crazy nerd-boys when they burst onto the scene in the mid-1980s, we just didn’t realize how […]
Today in Rock History – March 10
1965, Davie Jones (David Bowie) and the Manish Boys appeared at the Bromel Club, Bromley Hill, England. 1965, The Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week” goes to number one. It’s the first single by a British act to top the American charts but not make the charts in Britain, where it was unreleased. 1966, The Who […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Empty Lives” by Graham Parker
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Empty Lives” by Graham Parker He was never a punk rocker and was already around too long to be part of the “New Wave,” but marketing is marketing and that’s how much of the world came to discover Graham Parker. By the time of Squeezing Out Sparks, […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “State Trooper” by Bruce Springsteen
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “State Trooper” by Bruce Springsteen The guttural howls that he lets out at the end of this psychobilly classic mixed with its pleading paranoid lyrics conjures the mood of pure dread…and with Bruce Springsteen’s sixth album, it was all about mood. Hot on the heels of The […]
