This article contains Vinyl spoilers.
For a spoiler-free review,click here.This is a continuing anthology and will be regularly updated.
HBO dropped the needle onVinylon Valentines Day.
you might always count on a diverse mix of hits and misses in a Martin Scorsese movie.
Scorsese has been using the Stones since Mean Streets and to great effect.
As soon as permission became available, Scorsese featured John Lennons music, and stories, inThe Departed.
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He is at least partially based on Marty Thau.
Thau got the New York Dolls a residency at The Mercer Arts Center.
This was a small trend at the time.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention played every Wednesday afternoon at the Garrick Theater on Bleecker St.
The Fugs played seven nights a week at the Players Theater on MacDougal Street.
The Velvet Underground played around the block twice a night, five days a week at Maxs Kansas City.
The New York Dolls had a regular Tuesday-night gig in the Oscar Wilde Room of the Mercer Arts Center.
The building the center was housed in, the Grand Central Hotel, was 123 years old.
It had degenerated into a welfare hotel by the late 60s.
The building collapsed just after five p.m. on Friday August 9, 1973.
The New York Dolls were not playing when the building came down.
They were out of town.
The collapse happened hours before the theaters were due to be filled.
Hotel residents Herbert Whitehead, Kay Parker, and Arthur and Peggy Sherwin were killed in the incident.
It prompted Mayor John Lindsay to have the building commission evaluate the safety of all pre-1901-structures in the city.
Session guitarist Page joined replacef bassist Paul Samwell-Smith in 1966 and switched to guitar.
He traded his bass to Chris Dreja and leads with Jeff Beck.
Plant brought in Band of Joy drummer John Bonham.
Just before the last show, $203,000 was stolen from the band.
The band sued the Drake Hotel.
Vinylalso mentions the Mile-High-Club, or in Ray Romanos characters cast, the four-foot-blub.
Led Zeppelin hired a former United Airlines Boeing 720B passenger jet called The Starship for thee tour.
Led Zeppelins manager Peter Grant was pretty much as you see him.
Zep formed Superhype to handle their publishing.
Grant put the brakes on unauthorized live bootleg recordings.
He was also the driving force in establishing Swan Song Records in 1974.
Grant died of a heart attack on November 21, 1995.
He was 60 years old.
THE SONGS
The theme fromVinylis Sturgill Simpsons Sugar Daddy.
The version we hear is by David Johansen.
It was revived the Fearsome Foursome in 1965, Shorty Long in 1968, and Jett Powers in 1970.
The New York Dolls released their version on theirToo Much Too Soonalbum from 1974.
It was also its lead single.
The band then segues into what would be their defining single Personality Crisis.
Finestras ears are the only ones to perk up at the sound of Abba.
The albums we see floating in the Hudson River are Edwin Hawkins Singers and Donny Osmond albums.
The Zeppelin songs in the Pilot episode arenotby Zep.
It was written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder and produced by Chas Chandler.
Ty Taylors The World Is Yours is playing at the bar where Richie is pouring drinks.
Sylvias sexy disco melter Pillow Talk plays during Andrew Dice Clays first scene.
Soda Machines Want Ads and Slippin Into Darkness play at Richies party.
The Nasty Bits song Rotten Apple was written by James and Mick Jagger, Luis Felber and James Dunson.
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Lee died at age 32 on July 20, 1973.
The actor and martial-arts expert suffered a brain edema possibly because of a reaction to a prescription painkiller.
His father was a Chinese opera star.
He taught martial arts to Steve McQueen.
Keith Moon was famous for dropping TVs out of hotels.
Moonie started out as a surf drummer, which influenced his busy rhythms and gave them drama.
The episode opens with the music from the Bruce Lee martial arts filmEnter the Dragoon.
1965s Night Life was by The Del-Tinos, a garage band from Michigan farm country.
Their first single came out in 1963, a cover of Roy Orbisons Go!
Nightlife had the song Pa Pa Ooh Mau Mau on the flip side and came out through Sonic Records.
This is another clue to a new direction.
The genie that Bowie unbottles is protopunk Iggy Pop.
The promotional film for the song featured Cyrinda Foxe who was one of Andy Warhols factory assemblies.
Jimmy, the main character, could be Tommys cousin.
This was the Whos second rock opera.
This is Lewis third record.
Billy Riley is on guitar, J.W.
Brown plays bass, and Jimmy van Eaton beats the drums.
Toots and the Maytals were a ska or rock steady band out of Jamaica.
The Maytals were very influential.
They started in the early 1960s and Toots Hibbert was the islands Otis Redding.
He wrote about his jail time in the song 54-46 Thats My Number.
It was on The Osmonds 1972 albumPhase III.
The song was produced by Alan Osmond and Michael Lloyd.
The band formed in Los Angeles and were originally named Messiah.
They were the house band at the Sunset Boulevard club The Temple of the Rainbow.
The lead singer was Andy Warhol Superstar Eric Emerson, until he was replaced by singer Jay Mala.
Emersons body was found next to his bicycle on the West Side Highway on May 28, 1975.
Later stories said he was dumped there after overdosing at a different location.
He was 30 years old.
His wake was thrown by Maxs Kansas City owner Mickey Ruskin.
It lasted a week.
The song gets its name from a book by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
It was recorded in May 1966 at the same sessions that produced Heroin and Im Waiting for the Man.
Run Run Run comes off the albumThe Velvet Underground & Nicofrom March 1967.
It was written on the back of an envelope by Lou Reed and produced by Andy Warhol.
Teenage Mary, Margarita Passion, Seasick Sarah and Beardless Harry score themselves some fine religion.
Check out Reeds guitar runs on top of that rock and roll backbeat in the solo.
Yesterday Once More was written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis for The Carpenters 1973 albumNow & Then.
Most people only know the single, but the album version takes up all side 2.
Richard Carpenter plays a few pianos and did the orchestration.
The Carpenters started in 1965 as a jazz trio with Wes Jacobs on stand-up bass.
Aimee Mann sung the version on the episode.
The album that Richie broke over his knee wasPassion Playby Jethro Tull.
It was written by Ian Anderson, but pretty much put together by the keyboardist John Evan.
The sides were broken by the allegorical fable The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.
Creedence Clearwater Revivals Bad Moon Rising was written by John Fogerty as the lead single from theGreen Riveralbum.
It came out in April 1969.
It was the bands second gold single.
Fogerty wrote it after the classic hellish courtroom dramaThe Devil and Daniel Webster.
Fogerty said it was about the upcoming apocalypse but that didnt mean he was too heavy.
Stevie Wonder recorded Higher Ground after he came out of a coma following a bad car accident.
It was on the former 12-year-old genius 16th studio albumInnervisions.
16th studio album.Innervisionscompetes with Marvin GayesWhats Going Onalbum as the music that brought Motown into revolutionary and contemporary art.
Jackson 5s ABC debuted on American Bandstand on February 21, 1970 before it dropped as a single.
It also comes first alphabetically.
Lead vocals were shared by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, and Jackie Jackson.
The bass is played by Wilton Felder, the drums are smacked by Gene Pello.
David T. Walker, Louis Shelton and Don Peake played guitar and Freddie Perren laid down the keyboards.
It was written and produced by Berry Gordy, Jr., Alphonzo Mizell, Freddie Perren and Deke Richards.
Love Train as written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.
Love Train is the last song on albumBack Stabbers.
It was recorded at Philadelphias Sigma Sound Studios with the house band MFSB on the instrumental tracks.
Oh, you know Ill take care of you.
Bobby Blands cover of Ill Take Care of You by Brook Benton came out in 1959.
Under My Thumb was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones 1966 albumAftermath.
Check out that fuzz bass by Bill Wyman.
Brian Jones plays the marimba riffs.
Dave Davies switched from Marshall amps to twin Peavey amps starting with this song.
Robby Krieger said he actually stole the riff from Creams Sunshine of Your Love.
It was written after Konte counted the keys on his Rhodes piano.
Far More Blue was off The Dave Brubeck Quartets 1961 albumTime Further Out.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet continued the mining of odd time signatures.
Far More Blue and Far More Drums are both in 5/4.
Dorsey was from New Orleans and was friends with Fats Domino since childhood.
Dorsey was back by the funk band the Meters and produced by Allen Toussaint.
He opened for The Clash, James Brown and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Night Comes Down by The Mickey Finn was written by Shel Talmy.
Written by Jonathan Tropper and Debora Cahn & Adam Rapp; directed by Mark Romanek.
The episode opens with a cover of The Raspberries I Wanna Be With You.
The Raspberries were a Cleveland band from the early 1970s that were kind of stuck in the early sixties.
Ran Kan Kan Arturo OFarrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Johnny Winters Rock & Roll comes off his fifth studio album, 1973sStill Alive And Well.
The lineup is all muscle but no shoals.
Randy Jo Hobbs is on bass, Richard Hughes is on drums.
Rick Derringer produced the album and shredded his fingers on guitar for three tracks.
Picadillo Arturo OFarrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
The Joker is off the Steve Miller Bands 1973 album The Joker.
It hit number one on Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974.
The Space Cowboy that they used to call him was actually a song off theBrave New Worldalbum.
Homer Simpson did a very memorable cover in the fade-out of aSimpsonsepisode.
Funky Stuff was off Kool & the Gangs fourth album,Wild and Peaceful, from 1973.
Kool was Robert Kool Bell and he sang and played the Fender Bass.
They all sang except Clay.
The band started out in 1964 as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Jungle Boogie by Kool & The Gang.
Rock always rolled on the backbeat, James flipped that and asses commenced a-shaking.
Simones The Milk Carton Kids.
England Dan & John Ford Coleys Simone came out in 1971.
See above for more on the Texas soft-rock duo.
Motley Crue covered it in 1985.
So did country singer Leann Rimes.
All Day and all of the night is also covered above.
Heavy Makes You Happy by The Staples Singers.
Howlin Wolf recorded Smoke Stack Lightning in 1956.
Wolf had been kicking the song around since the early 1930s.
The song appeared on Wolfs FromMoanin in the Moonlightalbum from 1959.
That riff never changes chord or key.
Oh Babe, What Would You Say by former Beatles engineer Norman Hurricane Smith from 1972.
Sister Ann by Ann Arbor, Michigan band MC5.
A potent political machine in the late sixties, these guys kicked out the jams.
I Love the Dead was offBillion Dollar Babies, Alice Coopers sixth album.
Robert Christgau called Billion Dollar Babies the bands most consistent album inCreemmagazine.
Songs were recorded in both Connecticut and London.
We do a full Alice Cooper piecehere.
Just Because was written and performed by Mr.
Personality Lloyd Price in 1957.
Lloyd price was a New Orleans artist who was responsible for such hits as Lawdy Miss Clawdy.
Prices backing band included Fats Domino on piano.
Price also had hits with the blues standard Stagger Lee and Im Gonna Get Married.
Rigoletto Act I, Sc 2, Gualtier Malde… Caro Nome Maria Callas.
The Rocker by Thin Lizzy.
Loggins put it on theGator Creekalbum.
Jim Messina liked it so much it was also on theSittin Inalbum by Loggins and Messina.
Meanwhile, Zak (Ray Romano) and Scott (P.J.
Byrne) ruminate on their futures in the aftermath of the lost deal with German Polygram.
Armed with photos from Richies temper tantrum, Devon visits a divorce attorney.
Skip (J.C. MacKenzie) looks to unload an overrun of bootleg albums, but finds no takers.
King, whod moved into some burning slow soul music, gave his blessing.
But he figured no one would hear it.
Candida was a hit, but foretold bad things.
Lookin For A Love by soul great Bobby Womack.
The kids singing on the chorus all went to Nashvilles Oak Hill Elementary School including Stevens two daughters.
Ray Stevens real name was Harold Ray Ragsdale and he was very influential in both country and pop music.
Gordy Records was Motown and this album was Motown on drugs.
Paul Williams was fighting alcoholism and sickle-cell disease and some of his parts were recorded by Richard Street.
Although the twelve-bar blues tune switches to four for the guitar solo.
Money opened Pink Floyds 1973 albumThe Dark Side of the Moon.
It was written by bassist/vocalist Roger Waters.
Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright formed Pink Floyd in London in 1965.
Their first albumThe Piper at the Gates of Dawncame out in 1967.
David Gilmour joined as a second guitarist in December 1967 and Barrett disappeared in April 1968.
Bobby Womacks Hairy Hippie.
Pusherman was off Curtis MayfieldsSuper Flysoundtrack album which came out in July 1972 on Curtom Records.
Blaxploitation filmSuper Flywas directed by Gordon Parks, Jr. and starred Ron ONeal as the reluctant pusherman Youngblood Priest.
The title track and the single Freddies Dead were both huge hits.
The album did better than the movie.
Mayfield had been sneaking social relevance into soul hits since 1965, when he wrote People Get Ready.
He died in 1999 at the age of 57.
Janis Joplins soul stirrer Cry Baby was written by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy.
It was originally recorded by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters in 1963.
She died in 1971.
Politicians In My Eyes came off Deaths 1974 album For The Whole Word To See.
Only You Know and I Know by Delaney & Bonnie, a truly all-star couple.
Wont Get Fooled Again by The Who.
Life Is Just What You Make It by Donny Osmond.
Sinnerman by Nina Simone.
Bluette by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
With songs like Psycho, The Witch and the satanic Hes Waitin' mining dark subjects with aggressive guitars.
By 1964, most of the band had changed and Gerry Roslie was singing lead.
Their first single was The Witch, which Etiquette Records released in November 1964.
It became a hit in the Northwest even though radio stations wouldnt play it.
The Sonics debut albumHere Are The Sonicscame out in early 1965.
Their second album,Boom, came out in February 1966.
They cleaned up their sound when they were signed by Jerden Records in late 1966 and releasedIntroducing the Sonics.
That was enough to break up the band.
Richie has an inspiration for the name of his new label.
Muni rocked New York City for nearly 50 years.
Muni himself had quite a distinctive voice.
Muni was born in Wichita, Kan., and grew up in New Orleans.
He got his start reading Dear John letters to Marines on Radio Guam during the Korean War.
He replaced rock and roll radio legend Alan Freed on WAKR in Akron, Ohio, in 1955.
Muni moved to New Yorks Top 40 station WMCA and then switched to the WABC-AM in 1960.
Muni joined WOR-FM, New Yorks first commercial free-form radio station, in 1966.
He then moved to his true home, progressive radio station WNEW-FM.
Muni ended his career at WAXQ Q104.3.
He died of a stroke in early 2004.
I couldnt place that opening song but will update when applicable.
The Rosco rhythm, which emphasized the off-beat, earned Gordon a place recording at Sam Phillips Sun Records.
The album included both studio cuts and live performances recorded at the Fillmore East in 1971.
The album included Melissa, Dickey Betts Blue Sky and Mountain Jam, which takes up a full side.
The organist was almost a Beatle.
The Beatles knew Preston when he was just a teenager playing for Little Richard.
Ive got a story, I aint got no moral.
Let the bad guy win every once in a while, could be the theme song forVinyl.
The Spencer Davis Groups take of Bobby Parkers 1961 song Watch Your Step was offThe Second Albumfrom 1966.
Bobby Parker was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, but raised in Los Angeles.
He started with Otis Williams and the Charms but was also Bo Diddleys lead guitarist.
Parker was a regular at the Apollo Theater toured with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Little Richard.
Hes dead now, so we can give him his due.
The lineup of the band was Chris Copping on organ, Alan Cartwright on bass, B.J.
Wilson on drums, Dave Ball on guitar and Gary Brooker singing and playing piano.
Rock Steady was written and performed by Aretha Franklin for her 1971 albumYoung, Gifted and Black.
Franklins voice really opens up when shes actually sitting at a piano.
She did the vocal takes on most of the tracks she put out while playing live.
She started on Columbia Records and broke out on Atlantic Records in 1967.
Big Star broke up in 1974.
Pillow Talk was written and performed by Sylvia in 1973.
Sylvia is a very influential figure in music.
She learned guitar from her partner, Kentucky guitarist Mickey Baker.
She became Sylvia Robinson after she married Joe Robinson.
The Robinsons founded Sugar Hill Records, named after a particularly artsy neighborhood in Harlem.
Sugar Hill broke Rappers Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang, the first rap hit.
The Doors The Crystal Ship was off their 1967 debut albumThe Doors.
It the B-side of Light My Fire.
The album was recorded in two days and was steeped in avant-garde experiments and feedback.
It was very influential on early punks.
Andrea Zito (Annie Parisse) rejoins American Century and immediately outlines her plans to revive the label.
Zak (Ray Romano) allows his raw emotions to surface at the end of his daughters Bat Mitzvah.
The episode was dedicated, and featured the character, David Bowie.
Hollys hit the charts later that year.
The B side was Hollys Take Your Time.
He even had signature glasses while most acts toughened their looks.
Holly died in February 1959, in a plane crash that also killed Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.
Tezeta was written and performed by Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatque who is considered to be the father of Ethio-jazz.
Outlaw Blues was written by Bob Dylan.
The album had the hit cover of I Hear You Knocking, written by Dave Bartholomew and Earl King.
Keep A-Knockin (but You Cant Come In) is a kind of standard.
Like Stagger Lee, songwriters have been putting their tag on it since the Roaring Twenties.
It was remixed and compiled for the 1988 albumMotherlode.
In America, it was the B-to I Want to Hold Your Hand.
It was produced by George Martin and engineered by Norman, who Lennon called Normal, Hurricane Smith.
Rocket 88 is the first rock and roll song.
It was written by Ike Turners Kings of Rhythm and credited to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats.
Brenston sings the lead.
Willie Sims played drums.
The tenor sax player Raymond Hill was 17.
It was an updated version of the 1947 song Cadillac Boogie by Jimmy Liggins.
It was released by blues label Chess Records.
Bill Haley and the Saddlemen did a version of it on June 14, 1951.
Little Richard copped the opening piano lick to propel Good Golly Miss Molly.
Rocket 88 gave Sam Philips the idea to give Elvis Presley a little extra studio time.
That opening piano also propelled the first Bowie song we heard on episode 6 ofVinyl.
Iggy Pop and The Stooges Raw Power was the title track for their third album.
Pop had begun hanging with Bowie by this point and was getting ready to go solo.
But after he couldnt put together the right backing band, he reunited The Stooges.
No Good by Kaleo.
Here Comes The Night was off LulusShoutalbum.
The British singer and actress also sang the theme for the James Bond filmThe Man with the Golden Gun.
Lulu sang the hit theme song for the Sidney Poitier filmTo Sir With Love.
Oh Me Oh My (Im a Fool for You Baby) was also recorded by Aretha Franklin.
Dionne Warwicks version of One Less Bell to Answer was off her 1972 Warner Bros. album Dionne.
The song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Keely Smith in 1967.
Rosemary Clooney recorded it in 1968.
The 5th Dimensions hit was a single off their first albumPortraitwhich came out on Bell Records in 1970.
Marilyn McCoo sang lead.
The Velvet Undergrounds John Cale, who produced the album, contributed some piano and viola.
Brandy (Youre a Fine Girl) was from the Jersey shore band Looking Glass.
It came off their self-titled 1972 debut album.
It was written by Elliot Lurie.
Looking Glass started at Rutgers University in 1969.
Made famous by The Association in 1966, who recorded it in a garage with studio sessions (Yeah.
Go figure, its a garage rock ballad.
), it was also covered by David Cassidy for hisCherishalbum from 1971.
Dizzy Gillespie and The Four Tops recorded it too.
It made for an annoying moment on the Chilton graduation episode ofGilmore Girls, Those are Strings, Pinocchio.
Go out with some dignity, Brad, really.
Bom bom my ass.
Here Comes The Night was released by Them in March 1965. was a single off David Bowies 1971 albumHunky Dorybut it has a history thats equally out of this world.
Bowie wrote Even a Fool Learns to Love, but never recorded it.
Some say it is the defining song of Sinatras career.
But had too long a career for any one song to define him.
The string part was done by guitarist Mick Ronson in an orchestra of power chords.
The detour includes a steamy encounter in which Zaks fantasies come true, at a price.
Written by David Matthews; directed by Allen Coulter.
Southbound was off the Allman Brothers fourth albumBrothers and Sisterswhich came out in August 1973.
Jan and Deans Surf City was written by the Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Jan Berry.
It was the first surf song to hit number one on the charts.
Surf City came out in in May 1963.
Berry instead finished off Wilsons nearly completed Surf City.
Torrence contributed a line or two but didnt ask for songwriting credit.
Funky Stuff was off Kool & the Gangs Wild and Peaceful album from 1973.
British singer Albert Hammond wrote It Never Rains in Southern California with Mike Hazlewood.
The Wrecking Crew played on so many hits after they started at Phil Spectors house band.
The song came off the album,It Never Rains in Southern California.
Doctor My Eyes is off Jackson Brownes eponymous debut album from 1972.
Americas Ventura Highway was off their 1972 album Homecoming.
It was written by the bands singer Dewey Bunnell.
Funk 49 was off James Gangs second album James Gang Rides Again from 1970.
Tom Jones Its Not Unusual was written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills and came out in 1965.
The guitarist is then-studio guitarist Jimmy Page who would go on to turn the New Yardbirds into Led Zeppelin.
Lovely Stranger is by Taiwanese singer Feng Fei-Fei, who was known as the Queen of Hats.
Fong released more than 80 albums in her career.
Trivia factoid: Chevy Chase drummed with Steely Day.
Backstabbers was the title track of the OJays 1972 album, which also included the hit Love Train.
Elvis Presleys Polk Salad Annie was written and first performed by Tony Joe White in 1968.
It was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
White also wrote Rainy Night in Georgia.
Wayne Newtons hit Daddy Dont You Walk So Fast was written by Peter Callander and Geoff Stephens.
The Isley Brothers released That Lady in 1973, nine years after they recorded the original Whos That Lady?
Dont miss that fuzz solo.
Check out those drums when the horns kick in on the ending.
B B Kings Bad Luck was the b-side to Sweet Little Angel from 1956.
King was called The King of the Blues.
Along with Albert King and Freddie King he was one of the Three Kings of the Blues Guitar.
King died on May 14, 2015 in Las Vegas at the age of 89.
Kings 3 OClock Blues was a cover of Lowell Fulson 1948 hit.
King recorded it in 1952 for his firs albumSingin the Blues.
The Weight was written by Robbie Robertson for The Bands 1968 album Music from Big Pink.
Aretha Franklin covered it for her 1969 album This Girls in Love with You album.
It was also recorded by Jackie DeShannon and Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations in 1969.
18 Yellow Roses was the title track of Bobby Darins 1963 country album.
Darin was born Walden Robert Cassotto, as any fan of The Sopranos might remember, in the Bronx.
Darin was extremely versatile and even more adventurous in the studio.
Darin mentored guitarist Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.
Oh, so thats what started the whole thing.
Andrea (Annie Parisse) fires a longtime American Century employee, angering Richie.
Clark (Jack Quaid) finds musical enlightenment from Jorge (Christian Navarro), his onetime mailroom nemesis.
Written by Riccardo DiLoreto & Michael Mitnick; directed by Jon S. Baird.
Harrisons songs were sidelined by the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, usually only getting one or two songs per album.
Here Comes the Sun is deceptively intricate, running through time changes and fully realized chord phrasings.
Harrison also plays the synthesizer on the song.
Harrison, who had also released a solo instrumental album calledElectric Sounds, uses it melodically.
Music prodigies Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher met at NYCs Juilliard School of Music and hit the nightclub circuit.
They made the charts with Theme From The Apartment and Theme From Exodus.
The two pianists experimented with the sounds they could get out of the instrument.
Teicher died in 2008, Ferrante in 2009.
Am I Human is sung by Ran Shaw, formerly of the band Fabulous Soul Shakers.
Columbia Records dropped his first album,This is Ryan Shaw, in 2006.
The Triplett Twins Get It came out on Fervor Records in 1970.
More cowbell you say?
Berry loved singing the Bob Wills song so much that Muddy Waters told him to commit it to tape.
The Twist was written and first recorded by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters in 1959.
It was the flipside to Teardrops on Your Letter.
Chubby Checker got the whole shaking when he covered it in 1960.
Heres the original performed by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters.
Ray Charles released Whatd I Say in 1959 and created soul music.
The song started as jam to kill time after a show in 1958.
In the Summertime was the first single by Britains Mungo Jerry in 1970.
The song worked in rehearsal too.
Travelin Band was written by John Fogerty for Creedence Clearwater Revivals 1970 albumCosmos Factory.
Almost every side from that album hit the charts when they came out as singles.
Travelin Band was the flip side to Wholl Stop the Rain.
You cant go anywhere in West Virginia without hearing it to this day.
It opens football and basketball games, political rallies and states of the state.
It may be sung after the pledge of allegiance in some schools and good for them.
Denver was more than the guy who traded quips with George Burns inOh God.
Hyperbolicsyllabicsequedalmistic is off Isaac Hayes second solo album Hot Buttered Soul which dropped on September 23, 1969.
Im talking about the guy who wrote Shaft.
But before that he was a stable songwriter at Stax Records.
Many people think this is Elvis when they hear it, but he never even covered it.
Fiona Apple has been doing a sultry slowed down version in concert.
Twitty released Its Only Make Believe on MGM Records in July 1958.
Believe Me came out in 1959.
It was produced by Leo Rodgers for Power Records with Lee Silvers.
[1] The group reluctantly added Teens to its name.
Bob Marley and The Wailers Kinky Reggae was off their Catch A Fire album from 1973.
This was the Jamaican reggae bands fifth album.
Bunny Wailer was also in this band, thank Jah.
Martino changed his name from Gasparino Cini.
Get Up, Stand Up was written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh for the 1973 albumBurnin.
Both Tosh and Marley were outspoken political songwriters and both took bullets for their influential activism.
Marley wrote Stir It Up for his wife Rita in 1967.
The album was originally envisioned as an a cappella record.
Wild Safari was off the Spanish band Barabbas 1971 album of the same name.
Arbex also wrote songs for Jose Feliciano, who is a favorite of Vinyls mob friend, Corrado Galasso.
Clark and Jorge bond over an Indigo tune.
What is Hip was written by Emilio Castillo, Stephen Doc Kupka and David Garibaldi.
Jewel-Eyed Judy was off Fleetwood Macs 1970 albumKiln House.
They recorded it with in 1965 and did it again in 1966.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered it in 1966 as their debut single.
Patti Smiths version was also her debut.
Smith opened with a poem and additional music was written by Richard Sohl.
It was produced by guitarist Lenny Kaye.
Tom Verlaine of Television also plays guitar.
The Amboy Dukes formed in 1964 and dropped their first album in late 1967.
Further Away by Don Debrauwere.
Whiskey Train was offHome, Procol Harums fourth album, which came out in June 1970.
Whiskey Train was written by guitarist Robin Trower with lyricist Keith Reid.
(We Aint Got) Nothin Yet came off the Blues MagoosPsychedelic Lollipopalbum which came out in November 1966.
It was written by Ron Gilbert, Ralph Scala and Mike Esposito.
Eddie Cochrans Cmon Everybody came out in 1958.
It was written by Cochran and Jerry Capehart.
Cochran is probably best known for Summertime Blues.
Cochran died at 21 in April 1960 after a performance at the Hippodrome theatre in Bristol, England.
Songwriter Sharon Sheeley, who was also in the car, broke his pelvis.
The taxi driver was named George Martin, the same name as the Beatles producer.
But McCartney did play Cochrans Twenty Flight Rock at that meeting.
And knew all the words.
George Harrison saw Eddie Cochran during that final tour but got to know Vincent better.
Point of No Return is covered by Elvis Costello.
The original came off theLookin For a Love Againalbum by Bobby Womack.
Bobby and Harry Womack started in the band The Valentinos in the early sixties.
The Hollies were part of the British Invasion of the early 1960s.
After a few hits, The Hollies missed with their cover of George Harrisons If I Needed Someone.
Blues execute the Game was written by Jackson C. Frank for his eponymous album.
This version was performed by Simon and Garfunkel, who produced the record in London.
Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango.
Cant Kick the Habit was off Champion Jack Duprees debut 1957 albumBlues From the Gutter.
It was first heard in the 1968 filmThe Thomas Crown Affair.
Dusty Springfield recorded this for herDusty in Memphisalbum.
Hey Joe was off Lee MosessTime and Placealbum from 1971.
A Woman Like You by The Nasty Bits
Stay With Me Baby is covered by Soundgardens Chris Cornell.
Clark and Jorges efforts pay off.
Richie is privy to the birth of a legendary music venue.
Alibi was written by Terence Winter and directed by Allen Coulter.
Psychotic Reaction was the title song off The Count Fives only studio album from 1965.
The band wore vampire capes in concert.
Psychotic Reaction is a garage band classic.
McPhatter died of a heart attack on June 13, 1972 at the age of 39.
Treasure of Love was a 1956 hit for Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters.
Glad was offJohn Barleycorn Must Die, the fourth album by Traffic, which came out in 1970.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams was written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren in 1933.
Pitiful was offSoul 69, the 16th studio album by Aretha Franklin.
Without You opened side two of the Doobie Brothers third albumThe Captain and Mefrom 1973.
The song has two drummers.
Aint Wastin no Time No More was off The Allman Brothers BandsEat a Peachalbum.
Hum Along and Dance was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motowns the Temptations to scat to.
- The Jackson 5 closed side one of 1973 albumG.I.T.
Get It Together.
Public Enemy sampled the track for Prophets Of Rage, which came out in 1989.
Mandrills mix of funk and Latin beats had a big impact on Hip Hop.
And they have a lot of exciting songs.
Carlos wrote Soul Sacrifice to welcome David Brown on bass for the band 1969 debut album,Santana.
The other version was never released or even leaked.
Penetration was off Iggy and the StoogesRaw Poweralbum, which came out on February 7, 1973.
Woman Like You by the Nasty Bits.
Louis Jordan was the King of the Jukebox from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
Jordan brought jump blues to the big-band swing era of the 1930s.
Kick Out the Jams was off MC5s debut album from February 1969.
