Showing posts with label wayne cochran. Show all posts
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Monday, December 4, 2017

THIS JUST IN: WAYNE COCHRAN MORTAL

The hair. That's the first thing you notice about Wayne Cochran. The questionable self-designed duds, the second thing you notice. Fancy footwork might be the third. Somewhere down the list would be the music. Cochran had a decent voice, but I gotta say, as much as I appreciate his musical efforts, it all goes back to his freak flag, the hair and the outfits. The Hound summed it up well "...Wayne Cochran, for sheer flamboyance made the New York Dolls, Gary Glitter, David Bowie, Slade, and all the other glam rockers of the day look like the Allman Brothers' road crew." Ouch! Sting like a bee!



Cochran died a couple weeks ago. Cloud Head is dead. Long live Cloud Head.

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Monday, May 7, 2012

THAT'S A SWINGER?

Following a few links today, I ran into a video of Swingin' Time with Robin Seymour, a Detroit TV show from 1966.  What makes this worthy, apart from the variety of acts on the show, is that it appears to be the complete show, a 48 minute time capsule of what swingin' teens were tuning into in Detroit.  Robin Seymour was a DJ turned TV host, and Swingin' Time was on several times a week.  The line-ups feature regional acts, as well as national acts passing through town.  Obviously, being Detroit in the sixties, there were Motown acts to choose from: Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas and the Supremes.  Others included Frank Zappa and the Mothers (a couple years before they were at the best place around), James Brown, Dionne Warwick, Wayne Cochran, Bob Seger and the Last Herd and, if comments on a Stooges forum are to be believed, the MC5 and the Stooges.  Quite a salad bowl.
 

One band that Seymour was particularly fond of was the Rationals.  They appeared on his show more than any other band, and he apparently helped them get airplay, and assisted in getting their sole long player released in 1970. They open the show below, followed by Buddy Lamp, Tom & Jerrio, the Magnificent Men, Charlie & Inez Foxx, and, yes ladies, Wayne Cochran.  There's also a few songs by the Rationals below.  "Respect" is notable because the Rationals' cover predated both Aretha Franklin's cover and the Vagrants'.


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Listen: 
The Rationals - Respect mp3 at The Calico Wall 
The Rationals - Feelin' Lost mp3 at Beware of the Blog 
The Rationals - Leavin' Here mp3 at Beware of the Blog 
The Rationals - Gave My Love mp3 at The Rising Storm
Video (all from Swingin' Time): 
Bob Seeger and the Last Herd - Eastside Story at YouTube
Question Mark and the Mysterians - 96 Tears at YouTube 
The Spike Drivers - Strange Mysterious Sounds at YouTube "I'm lo-oo-osing my mind"  Hilarious.
Visit: 
The Rationals official site
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

BACK, BY NO DEMAND!


Just what you wanted, right? More half baked soul from Wayne Cochran. I give him credit. He tried. And there wasn't anyone quite like him..but, gawd...

Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders - Sleepless Nights, Going Back to Miami, and Harlem Shuffle mp3s and a video at Aquarium Drunkard (NOTE: Right click on song titles to save)
Earlier post with more Wayne Cochran here
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

SALAD BOWL OF SOUL


Here you go. A mish-mash of soul music, some old, some new, some weird. What had started as a quick post about Eli "Paperboy" Reed's newest single "Explosion," became a couple hour long troll for random soul shit. First, about Reed: Up until now, everything I've heard of Reed's has been straight up soul, even his reworked version of Motorhead's "Ace of Spades." He's got an extraordinary voice, and his band is reliably retro, and the new one, "Explosion" follows that pattern. Though a bit of a faster paced Reed, he's still sticking to the formula (which must have been working because he's now signed with a major). But then I just ran smack dab into a oddity. Reed on a track by, of all people, Basement Jaxx. Make of it what you will. (A reminder: there's a little comment link below that is begging.)

Another current/retro soul act, Kings Go Forth are, well, more than a little influenced by Curtis Mayfield, though there's a little early Gamble & Huff thing going on too (think Archie Bell & the Drells "I just Can't Stop Dancing"). They're based in the soul hotbed of...wait...Milwaukee? Having never gigged beyond Indiana before being signed, leave it to Luaka Bop to get them. Semi-related: There was a thing in the New Yorker recently, about Go Forther Andy Noble in an NYC record store.

An interesting side story is about the Kings Go Forth album cover. There's been much ado about eccentric, primitive, outsider and oddball art. Little has been celebrated about the artistic music-loving hyper-prolific teenager. I encourage you to read the story of Mingering Mike. Because, this is pre-computer music geek godhead.

There's a couple Otis Redding cuts here, because they're from a new album, recorded live at the Whiskey a Go-Go, and because they're Otis.

And then, there is Wayne Cochran. "The White Knight of Soul," poster child for weird white soul dudes. The dollar bin James Brown. That's him, at the top of of the post, with the big hair. Crazy looking; check out his moves on the YouTube clip.

And, because it's her due, Sharon Jones. She's finally getting the attention she deserves, this time on the network news. Good for her.

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