OK Youse Guys,
Didja know that Thicko and Thicktone member Bill "Slowhand, I don't play no
stinkin' chords" Dalton co-wrote the song "Short SHorts" and was a member
of the Royal Guardsmen? He's still getting ASCAP checks from the original
version and from the Nair commercials. That was back in '57. He toured with
all the who's who back then..
In 1981, my first trip into the studio to record an original tune, netted
me radio airplay for almost a year in Chicagoland. The song was called "All
Day Long". A listen to it these days proves it didn't hold up so well over
time... sounds like "America" on crack..
Go rent the Tom Hanks movie "That Thing You Do", and it pretty much
encapsulates what life was like (on the high end of the food chain for
Dalton, and the low end for me ) as one hit wonders.
WST
At 01:36 PM 7/31/2001 -0400, chuck wrote:
Don't believe I'd have ever classified "Chantilly Lace" as music. More
like talking blues/novelty. Certainly not music at all. Now I do believe
that "Rave On" could be classified as music. Never was too sure about
La Bamba though.
In any case, I think the term "The day the music died" has more to do
with hyperbole than with accuracy. But the point is, I guess, that
that was near to the end of the old style Rock and Roll Music, and
that what came later was something different, something else.
We be Profound?
chuckC
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