Dreamin': Johnny Burnette
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Johnny Burnette
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Johnny Burnette Rock'n'Roll Trio !
Spread the Good Word! (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Yes folks ! The legenday Johnny Burnette rock’n’roll trio ! Boy, I can’t believe I forgot to post his avatar after 4 years of blogging (thanks for reminding me in the last comments)! The band was one of my first musical shock ! Well you know, nobody’s perfect. So yeah, make room for John Joseph "Johnny" Burnette ! After leaving high school, Johnny tried his hand at becoming a professional boxer, but...
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Rockabilly Boogie
The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
In the mid-50's, something different was happening in popular music for Baby-Boomer kids reaching record-buying age. Sam Phillips had found a white boy who could sing black for Sun Records, a young fellow who worked for Crown Electric named Elvis Presley. But there were a couple of other guys who worked for Crown Electric -- Paul Burlison and Dorsey Burnette, and one of them had a brother,
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25 March Fortune Teller says
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
Your birthday today: Through your open-hearted, generous nature, you will make many real friends and a happy marriage. You are careful and thrifty, you will follow the plans you make for your future with care and precision, to success. There is nobody in the book to share today with you, so keep your heart open and generously offer to celebrate this birth date with these other notables: Caroline Bonaparte...
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Never mind the revival, just give us the rock'n'roll
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
The new rock'n'roll is drowning in twee. Motorhead's cover versions pay better homage to our rock heritage
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Tornadoes in US leaves 48 people dead and hundreds injured
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Storms of up to 150mph tore across five US states leaving 48 people dead and hundreds injured.
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Tornadoes rip through South
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
The family's brand new white pickup truck was upside-down, about 150 yards from where it was parked before the storm. Another pickup truck the family owned sat crumpled about 50 feet from the slab."You know, it's just material things," Dixon said, her voice breaking. "We can replace them. We were just lucky to survive."As the extent of the damage quickly became clear, candidates including Hillary Rodham...
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Southern storm death toll reaches 44
CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
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Johnny Burnette’s Paen To Pedophilia Forever Tarnished
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Video link swiped from Boston Sports Media. I wish I could tell you how rotten this cover is with full authority, but I couldn't make it past the one minute mark without wanting to kill myself. That said, it's like a work of genius compared to this.
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Top 20s - 1960/61
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007
To complete the series, here are the top scoring singles in my personal top tens for the years 1960 and 1961. Not all classics I admit, but there are some great 45s nonetheless: 1960 1. Wonderful world - Sam Cooke 2. I just go for you - Jimmy Jones 3. Only the lonely - Roy Orbison 4. You gotta move two mountains - Marv Johnson 5. Alley oop - Hollywood Argylls 6. Learning the game - Buddy Holly 7. Perfidia...
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Top 20s - 1962/63
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Continuing the theme of the top 20 scoring records in my personal charts, as written down at the time, here are the top 20 from 1962 and 1963. 1962 1. Nothing can change this love - Sam Cooke 2. Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon 3. Hey baby - Bruce Channel 4. Lipstick traces - Benny Spellman 5. Hey little girl - Del Shannon 6. He's a rebel - The Crystals 7. Soldier boy - The Shirelles 8. Stop the music...
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Country Fuzz Spectacular (MP3s)
Bedazzled! (Free subscription) | 01/12/2007
Check out Country Fuzz Spectacular (MP3s) by Listener Greg @ WFMU's "Beware of the Blog" There's just song after song after of country fuzztone guitar. "The racket made by a fuzztone guitar has been described as the sound of two...
- Country Fuzz Spectacular (MP3s) - WFMU's Beware of the Blog
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Top 45s from the early 60s
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 28/11/2007
The Woodies favourite 45s list got me thinking about my favourite singles of all time. Hindsight being what it is, there are many records that I love now but either didn't notice or didn't like sufficiently at the time. But fortunately I have my personal top ten from 1960 to 1965 as a guide to what I liked as a teenager. Some of my favourites then look a little weak today, but most of my top 20 over...
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Keeping the Magic Alive
Sarsaparilla (Free subscription) | 29/08/2007
Last year I wrote in praise of Magic 693 (now Magic 1278), the Melbourne oldies station with a playlist so vast and eclectic it barely qualifies as a playlist at all. This little known treasure is a cheery beacon of eclecticism in a dreary sea of conformity. Or, to arbitrarily switch metaphors, it is a [...]
