This song seems an obvious choice for today. What do you think these cockney lads are up to?
The " Small Faces" never toured the the states. This record is from 1968. I didn't discover them until college about 10 years later. Of course they went on to become the "Faces", the greatest band of all time! More on the "Faces" later. This song seems an obvious choice for today. What do you think these cockney lads are up to?
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Back when dogs could talk, Eisenhower was president, Poodle skirts were in and Doo wop groups wandered the earth, there was a group from Allen Park, Michigan who released several records. One of these records was not only a hit, but a transformative event in Rock & Roll. Several years back I went to a weekly contest attended by a team of former and current broadcasters. I ended up sitting, each week, next to Scott Vertical. It turns out we had worked for the same company and in the same building for many years but had never met. We ended up, not surprisingly, talking about music. In subsequent weeks, I would email Mr. Vertical obscure, but what I felt were excellent, records/songs. Invariably he would say "ya I've got that on my iPod". One week, Mr. Vertical emailed me back and said what a great tune I had just sent him and that he was adding to his play list. That song was by a group called " Tim Tam and the Turn On's". "Wait a Minute" starts as a Doo wop tune, but quickly turns in to a hard charging rocker. As if by magic, it turns from '50's dreck in to the future of Rock & Roll. Jim Pepper was a native American Jazz composer and musician. In 1969 he formed a band called "Everything is Everything" and released a record called "Witchi TaiTo". An adaptation of a song his grandfather had taught him, the record started to get airplay on FM underground radio then crossed over to AM top 40. The record started to get a lot of airplay in the Midwest at stations like CKLW. CK was a 50,000 watt station, that could be heard in in many states, making "Witchi Tai To" a minor national hit. The original song is a Native American Peyote chant and thousands of years old. The Jazz version can be heard on my twitter site. When I started this blog Scott Vertical asked me to write about "Nuggets" type music, that record was sub titled "Artyfacts from the Psychedelic Era". "Witchi Tai To" embodies that sprit. Mid nineties in a rental car traveling in New Mexico having just left a meeting with Selena Manychildren the News Director of KTNN. KTNN is a 50,000 watt station owned by The Navajo Nation and covers six states in the Southwest and my job as Affiliate Marketing Manager with ABC was to get KTNN to run ABC News. As I drove along the Rio Grande river KTNN started playing "Witchi Tai To". Pulling over I turned up the radio. Trippy. Late summer 1966. Hot, we had never heard of air conditioning. 1 AM and dad says "let's go for a ride". We head for the '64 brown (Almond Fawn) Chevy Biscayne parked at the curb. Head down Chalmers and turn right at Jefferson on the way to Belle Isle. Dad driving and me (all of 11) riding shotgun. Dad pulls a pack of Chesterfields out of his shirt pocket and snaps his Zippo open, lights a smoke and snaps the lighter closed all in one move.
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Jeff AllenVertical asked me to join his blog as a guest expert on "Nuggets" era music... Psychedelic, Garage and Fuzz. Are there others more qualified? You bet, but they weren't asked. He's also letting me write about anything I want… We'll see.
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