The SUBSIM Music Thread

[Jimbuna]

[vienna]

Before The Go Go's, before The Bangles...





This clip is from a local LA TV show taped in Hollywood at the old KHJ-TV studios (now part of Paramount Pictures Studio) a few blocks from my current home; although the clip's title says 1961, the show actually only ran about a year from about 1965-1966; the same studio was used to film a local music dance show, 9th Street West, and I was given a ticket to one of the show's taping; the major part of the studio, the Hollywood-a-Go Go set, was hidden behind some flats and we, the less 'glamorous' types were confined to a relatively small area of the studio; I did, however, make a brief appearance in an on-camera closeup, sitting in the bleachers (I was way to cool to be seen dancing)...








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[Eisenwurst]

"Tonic for the Troops" was a great LP.

Disclaimer ( if needed ) Mary's 25, and repeated a "few" years.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[Eisenwurst]

2 songs from Elvis Costello's "Armed Forces" LP. A Military/Espionage themed record from '79?



"Party Girl"....as in Communist Party.

[Texas Red]

[vienna]

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[Eisenwurst]

The B52s had a good song about Planet X, ( not this song ) but like a lot of things nowadays you practically need a detective to find it.

[Jimbuna]

[Eichhörnchen]

[u crank]

Asleep At The Wheel - Route 66

[vienna]

Route 66 [full title: [Get Your Kicks On) Route 66] is an interesting song because it has been recorded by so very many artists in so many different genres and styles since it was first recorded by Nat King Cole in 1946:





(BTW, the guitarist in the above clip is the great Oscar Moore, arguably one of the finest jazz guitarists of the 1940s and 50s...)...


The song was written by Bobby Troup, a composer/musician/arranger/singer who made a name for himself in the jazz, Blues, and R&B scenes and was a much sought after songwriter; this is a clip of Troup singing his signature song with his own jazz group:





Bobby Troup was very well respected in the music business and had established a reputation as an advocate for integration in the music business, starting with his service in the US Marine Corps in WW2:

After graduating from college in 1941, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps but did not receive orders until January 1942. After completing officer training, he was assigned as one of two dozen white officers to direct recruit training at Montford Point, the recruit depot for the first black Marines. In 1943 he became recreation officer and helped build a recreation hall, basketball court, and outdoor boxing ring. A friend installed a miniature golf course. At Montford Point, he also organized the first African-American band of U.S. Marines. During this time he composed "Take Me Away from Jacksonville", which was to become an anthem of sorts for the Marines at Montford Point and other areas of Camp Lejeune.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Troup


I recall seeing him as an actor on the TV series Emergency! back in the 1970s; I saw his name in the credits and wondered if he was the same Bobby Troup who wrote Route 66; turned out he was the one and same; the TV series also featured the beautiful Julie London, who was the real life wife of Troup and who had been discovered by Troup who encouraged her to pursue a recording career:





Troup and London were married for 44 years until Troup's passing away...


Route 66 has been covered by artists as diverse as Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Asleep At The Wheel, Manhattan Transfer, The Cramps, and many, many others; the most recent well-known version I could think of was this one by Depeche mode:





Sharp-eared listeners may detect how very much the opening notes of the above clip mirrors the opening of the ZZ Top song Sharp Dressed Man whose opening licks mirror the opening notes of Bobby Troup's Route 66...

...goes around, comes around...







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[Jimbuna]

[vienna]

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