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FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #16: Viva Lost Vegans
STEVE MARTIN “Grandmother’s Song” b/w “Let’s Get Small” (Warner Bros. Records WBS 8503, 1977)
Novelty songs and comedy records were of no short supply in my house as a kid growing up. In my Dad’s collection alone, amongst the guitar virtuosos and big western-swing bands, there were scads of 78 RPM platters by the likes of Spike Jones and Kay Kyser’s Kampus Kowboys. My older brother had the motherlode, of course:  pristine full-length stereophonic LPs of Lenny Bruce, […]
The Falsettometer: Jimmy Somerville
I’d been having a hard time thinking of more singers to use in this column, when it hit me like a bolt of lightning. Well, no, it wasn’t that dramatic, but it did pop up on my iPod when I least expected it…a cover of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, performed by Jimmy Somerville, former lead singer of Bronski Beat and The Communards. A fixture of 1980s pop who has never stopped recording, Somerville also […]
We’ve Got Music – Girls On The Dance Floor
A good friend of mine is friends with music producers Stereotypes and she sent me an .MP3 of the group’s latest production to share with everyone. It’s a song they produced for the Asian American rap group Far*East Movement, and word is that it’s getting a good amount of airplay in Los Angeles.
Take a listen to Girls On The Dance Floor below. If you have any thoughts about the song, don’t hesitate to leave […]