tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post4759626874593651934..comments2024-03-27T17:03:57.341-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: On the BackbeatOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-18397102741461580262012-09-19T01:27:46.396-04:002012-09-19T01:27:46.396-04:00Classical music was playing throughout our family ...Classical music was playing throughout our family house all of the time. My mother had been a child piano prodigy and she loved it, always had WQXR on or those old vinyl records.<br /><br />However, up in my room I heard my favorites: r&B and rock-and-roll. And I sneaked in some jazz.<br /><br />I'm reeling thinking about Mama Said There'd Be Days like This, and Please, Mr. Postman -- aah, high school days.<br /><br />And Martha and the Vandellas: To this day I ask a dj friend to play their fabulous, legendary Dancing in the Streets at every party.<br /><br />Also, I must hear "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," by that great duo, Marvin Gaye and Tammy Tyrell every chance I get.<br /><br />And Sam and Dave? YouTube has good videos.<br /><br />Not to disparage any current music, but I often feel like there was no music like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-10922214384867567522012-09-17T20:53:28.765-04:002012-09-17T20:53:28.765-04:00When we're in Cleveland, "Home of the Roc...When we're in Cleveland, "Home of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame," I intend to latch on to you as my interpreter for all things not Pat Boone. Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-80645032772902069842012-09-17T13:52:12.393-04:002012-09-17T13:52:12.393-04:00Rock and roll makes it, totally. JAMES, I don'...Rock and roll makes it, totally. JAMES, I don't listen to S&G much any more, either, but Paul Simon is somewhere on almost every playlist. He's gotten better and better. LIL, all paths lead to life of one kind or another, and fortunately the path to a good, rich life is a broad one that admits many variations in approach. I fell in love with classical music even before rock and roll, and I've never seen the two as mutually exclusive. ANNAMARIA, and epiphany. Little Richard was the true, the only, king of rock and roll -- but Chuck Berry was the poet laureate. KATHY, the Shirelles!!! How I loved the Shirelles. And the Ronettes, for that matter, and the Shangri-Las, and Martha and the Vandellas and the Exciters and (a little less for me) The Supremes. And, of course, the Stones.<br /><br />This has me thinking that maybe I could go on Facebook and try to put together a "life mix" -- begin with, say, 1950, and ask people of all ages to nominate their favorite songs from each year since. (If they don't know the year, all they have to do is google song title and year of release, and they'll have it.) Maybe we could put together a life mix for people of all ages.<br /><br />Hmmm.Timothy Hallinanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551263887774445511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-23959491455087784732012-09-17T06:55:49.605-04:002012-09-17T06:55:49.605-04:00My favorite possession was the beige plastic radio...My favorite possession was the beige plastic radio my parents gave me when I was 11. Then began the staying up late, reading under the covers with a flashlight, listening to the top 10, 50 or 100 hits on the radio.<br /><br />I loved Little Richard (still do, and a friend gave me a cd of his top hits), Chuck Berry and Fats Domino. I still remember Blueberry Hill and the songs you mention above by Chuck Berry. Who could ever forget Little Richard's real rock-and-roll, singing Tutti Frutti and everything else. I agree with him when he said he was the original and he was robbed of fame, recognition, money, stardom. <br />I wasn't interested in the imitators, just the real deal. <br />That radio got me through high school, although the homework commitment wasn't as strong as the magnetic draw of that music.<br />Then the Shirelles sang and we soared.<br />Then came the Supremes who sang out "Baby Love," to us college kids, while the Rolling Stones got "No Satisfaction."<br />Great days.<br />Now I could listen to R&B 24/7, to every quartet and quintet with a great lead singer and bass singer. <br />But my love of it did begin with Little Richard and the R&B singers of the 1950s and 1960s; nothing like them to me. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-85781342422568687352012-09-16T17:53:54.184-04:002012-09-16T17:53:54.184-04:00Tim, I was once stuck, sitting in a car, on the Br...Tim, I was once stuck, sitting in a car, on the Bridge of San Roque Gonzalez de Santa Cruz, between Encarnacion, Paraguay and Posadas, Argentina. I was waiting for permission to cross to Argentina in a rental car. (Don't Ask!) I switched on the radio to see what might be playing in that remote and exotic place. What I heard was: A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!!!! Forget Elvis. Little Richard is the REAL King of Rock 'n Roll. Everyone that you mention is a favorite of mine, too. Hail, Hail!!!Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-39375065925096880002012-09-16T14:23:18.426-04:002012-09-16T14:23:18.426-04:00I am fascinated by your thinking. While you were f...I am fascinated by your thinking. While you were falling into Rock and Roll, I was trying so hard to belong to a group that looked down on this so called new music. While you were living a life, filled with, well, life, I was a young wife on a hill trying to fit that life into the new worlds that were beckoning. Hopelessly straight in my life style, yearning for some of that wildness. But it was a life, to somewhat quote John Irving, and music was my healer, fed my imagination, and still speaks to me more of other worlds and lives. It has been a gift to me.lil Glucksternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288522126331817172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-87751182983930964392012-09-16T11:57:02.209-04:002012-09-16T11:57:02.209-04:00Rock on Tim! I sometimes write with my iPod going....Rock on Tim! I sometimes write with my iPod going. Had to delete Simon & Garfunkel, way too laid back for crime fiction. But the Kinks, Neil Young...oh yeah.James Bennhttp://www.jamesrbenn.comnoreply@blogger.com