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In the USA anyway, Elvis was popular in the 1960s. That's when most of his movies and soundtracks came out. At one point he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. That "comeback" TV special in the late 1960 was a big deal. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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The Supremes was one of the biggest acts too. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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MickyDolenz said: The Supremes was one of the biggest acts too. Oh yeah, they were. Motown was huge! | |
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In the USA anyway, Elvis was popular in the 1960s. That's when most of his movies and soundtracks came out. At one point he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. That "comeback" TV special in the late 1960 was a big deal. Yeah, that was in 1968. I've seen that and found it very enjoyable. But he was playing old fashioned blues and rock & roll in the time of flower power, protest marches, psychedelica... That's what I meant with capturing the "zeitgeist". Elvis did that in the 1950s, but not in the 1960s. [Edited 8/11/16 13:31pm] | |
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I said nothing about anyone's influence, not Prince's, Mike's, or Def Leppard's. I'm only talking about sales, chart hits, and what was on the radio & MTV. I used to read Billboard every week because they carried it in the neighborhood library. I even said Pink Floyd sold a lot of albums without getting much Top 40 airplay and that Madonna wasn't really successful in movies. If I said Milli Vanilli sold more than Lovesexy & Sign O'The Times, that's what happened. It has nothing to do with who has more influence. Several of Def Leppards & Van Halen albums had huge sales, not just 1 like Prince & Bruce Springsteen. The entire purpose of publications like Billboard & Cashbox is to determine what is selling the most that week. If I say Coca Cola sells more than Tab, what's to debate? That because someone likes Tab and thinks its better than Coke or says Tab had more influence on later soda, does not make it a bigger seller than Coke. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Fair enough Did not mean any offence to you. I should read first and then take note. Peace. | |
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People today think the 1960s was all rock music or British Invasion, but the older audience were still buying records. During the mid 1960s, there was a big bossa nova craze in the US, started by The Girl From Ipanema. Just like in the 1950s calypso & exotica was popular. I think the movie Black Orpheus won an Oscar, and it had bossa nova music in it. Singers like Frank Sinatra & Johnny Mathis was selling pretty good in the late 1960s. The Reprise label was started by Frank. Easy listening acts like Percy Faith was getting radio hits. TV was full of variety shows like Ed Sullivan and Lawrence Welk. Welk's show ran all the way up to the early 1980s. None of that is really publicized today because the music magazines like Rolling Stone & Creem mainly focused on rock music. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Here's the Top 16 of the Hot 100 in Billboard for July 6, 1968. I don't think This Guy's In Love With You & Angel Of The Morning are very psychedelic. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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But Elvis isn't in ther either! Still, thanks for posting. There's 8 out of those 16 songs that I don't know. (#s 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16.) Not bad for someone who was born three years later, hm? [Edited 8/11/16 15:41pm] | |
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Have you ever heard the Shaggy (the dancehall singer) song Angel? The chorus came from Angel Of The Morning. It wasn't sampled, but was resung. Grazing In The Grass is an instrumental. There is a later remake with lyrics by Friends Of Distinction. The Cowsills are a family group, with a mother and her children. The early 1970s TV show Partridge Family was based on The Cowsills. The Cowsills has a documentary made 3 or 4 years ago. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I didn't like the way Prince handled his feud with Warners I really think that,if he had handled things differently,he may have gotten ownership of his master recordings much sooner than he did. The name change nonsense,writing "slave" on his face....it all seemed silly and childish to me. | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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That's a hot pic Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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I wasn't fond of the stripper glitter moments. In the hair etc.
99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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I would add Latoya to the great artists of the 80s. Her hits smashed the charts again and again. That's when she became the Pope of Pop. | |
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ML2016 said: I would add Latoya to the great artists of the 80s. Her hits smashed the charts again and again. That's when she became the Pope of Pop. Nah. I dont remember even one song of hers but i remember her brothers' n sister's tunes vividly "Almost all art is trying to become an anaesthetic and at the same time a healing session drawing up the magical electrics.” | |
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That's because the Illuminati don't want you to know about Latoya. Her message of love and peace and goodness was too dangerous to be revealed to this impure world. But Latoya stood still. And created hit after hit. | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Are you jelly of Toy Toy? | |
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You just exposed the real plot of the Illuminati! To keep Latoya out of the public awareness. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I definitely agree with all that you said. Erin Smith | |
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There's a reason people used to think Latoya and Michael were the same person. 'Cause people thought Michael's apparent talent could only have been Latoya's. But Toy, humble to almost shamefacedness, always refused to parade her talent. And, of course, The Illuminati also had an hand in all of this as they tried everything to keep her under the radar due to the message of her incredible songs such as "Free the World" or "Heart Don't Lie", the latter having a lot of subliminal messages. | |
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