Coming soon: Todd-o-Phonic Todd, Matt Fiveash and Ted Barron LIVE on the Ichiban webstream!!
Friday, January 13, 2012
Ichiban Live, Take Two!!
Coming soon: Todd-o-Phonic Todd, Matt Fiveash and Ted Barron LIVE on the Ichiban webstream!!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Rainwater Goes Fuzztone!
Marvin Rainwater - Indian Momma (1:56)
Here's a breathtakingly cool Marvin Rainwater track with some extra snarl provided by a fuzztone guitar.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Monday Morning wake 'n' shake: GUITAR GABLE and KING KARL go Walking in the Park
Ever wonder what happened when Aunt Mary finally caught bald head Sally and Uncle John "ducking" in the alley?
Turns out, Sally gets a truly brutal tongue lashing, climaxing with the immortal quatrain: "I'm gonna tear you apart like a dishrag; ain't gonna give you a chance to cry - and when I get through, you know that you will have to get better to die!"
Sally flees. Uncle John gets dragged home and accepts his lot in life.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Don't Knock Elvis (MP3)
Felton Jarvis - Don't Knock Elvis
In celebration of what would've been Elvis Presley's 77th birthday, here's an odd artifact from a very early stage in the career of songwriter and producer Felton Jarvis (1934 - 1981).
Jarvis was Elvis Presley's producer between the years 1966 and 1977, when Presley died. While still struggling to make a name for himself, he recorded this Elvis Presley tribute 45, which was released on the tiny VIVA label in August, 1959. While in the Marines in 1955, Jarvis experienced a life-changing event when was lucky enough to catch a live Elvis Presley show in Norfolk, Virginia.
Upon getting out of the Marines, he returned to Atlanta and went to work as a sheet music printer at Bill Lowery's National Recording Company (NRC). At the time, the label was over-flowing with talented performers who, in less than a decade, would be national stars: Jerry Reed, Mac Davis, Joe South, Ray Stevens and Freddy Weller. Jarvis moved into songwriting and producing, making a name for himself in 1961 by producing Every Beat Of My Heart, the first R&B #1 hit (of eleven, in all) for a local band called the Pips, soon to be renamed Gladys Knight & The Pips. From NRC, Jarvis went to work for the ABC label, where he produced "Sheila" a huge national hit for Tommy Roe, another graduate of Lowery's NRC concern. After a few years at ABC, he moved over to RCA where he and Presley established a solid working relationship that worked out pretty well for both of them.
Welcome to the Marvin Rainwater Friendship Club
Marvin Rainwater Friendship Club Record (thanks to Billy Miller)
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Marvin Rainwater - The Haircut (MP3)
Marvin Rainwater - The Haircut (2:37)
Marvin's problem? His kid refuses to get a haircut, so Marvin rounds up one of his pals and they hatch a plan give the kid a haircut that even Sgt. Carter would love. Let's just say things don't exactly go according to plan.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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