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YouTube via adzy31. Be sure to see this post . "i love this song... mostly for the eerie solo in the middle. apparently performed on a heavily modified Clavioline the keyboard player dubbed the "musitron". good name... unsurprisingly i can't get the sound right for this...probably need to get some effects going on."
Image via Max Cook's website . Max Cook was the man who played the "musitron" lead in Del Shannon's Runaway from 1961. Runaway was one of the first pop songs to feature what could be considered one of the first synthesizers. Comments disabled here to keep them in the previous post.
YouTube via delshannonnetwork. Inspired by this excellent post: Synth pop, circa 1961 on Sequence 15 . "Del Shannon singing "Runaway" which was a #1 hit in 1961. This became Del's first big smash and catapulted him to superstar status in over 21 countries. Max Crook was his organ player, playing a "musitron" which was built from parts from a clavioline, Viking 85 reel to reel machine, Fisher K-10 Reverb...
Del Shannon singing "Runaway" which was a #1 hit in 1961. This became Del's first big smash and catapulted him to superstar status in over 21 countries. Max Crook was his organ player, playing a "musitron" which was built from parts from a clavioline, Viking 85 reel to reel machine, Fisher K-10 Reverb Spacexpander, a Gibson guitar amp, and several other parts and pieces. Maximilian's musitron was the...
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1961: Del Shannon's 'Runaway' rises to the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The Almanac Advises for April 24: "The primary catalyst for runaway children is the need to escape an unstable family life. The main... Read more
Back in the 80s, there was MTV but there was also Nick Rocks! Now, for those of you who don't know or remember, MTV was still a toddler having just come out in 1983. By 1987, it had gotten picky as to what it would put on and what it wouldn't. These days it seems that they'll put anything on as long as it has nothing to do with music videos (go figure?!) Anyway, there were some videos that just didn't...
With typical flair and bravado, Madonna unleashed the Stooges on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an institution that has otherwise turned its back on the pioneering Detroit band.
The calendar is relentless, spinning its fixed cycle of days and dates without prejudice or foresight as the numbers whirl by on their annual trek to yet another new year, and each of those numbers, each of those dates, has its own set of events and associations that travel with them, accumulating like stars in [...]
A 13-year-old runaway returned home with a horrific account of being forced into prostitution by the kind of person who should have instead come to her aid: a city detective. And I wonder-- I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder, Why, Why, why, why, why, why she ran away, Yes, and I wonder, A-where she will stay-ay, My little runaway, Run, run, run, run, runaway. Run, run, run, run, runaway. Run, run, run, run,...
Mixing a springy, tinkly, new-agey, atmospheric score by ”This American Life” regular Bobby Johnston with a healthy dose of Gogol Bordello’s Russian punk fantasticism and a few other miscellaneous song tracks, the film soundtrack for the quirky Wristcutters: A Love Story plays out like a gypsy jukebox in an out-of-the-way pub. Some of the tracks, such as Del Shannon's [...]
