Pepper s, /i which to my mind is too much of a period piece (and doesn t have any strong work from George); or the more obvious a href="http://daslob.blogspot.com/2006/06/beatles-abbey-road-1969.
html" b i Abbey Road, /i /b /a which (as good as it is) is too Paul-heavy and is just too darn ubiquitous. br / br / There was a time when I said 1968 s i The Beatles, /i more commonly known as i The White Album. /i After all, it has so many song styles, so many turns for each of the Fab(ulously fractured, at this point) Four to express their own individuality, that it not only makes the title seem sadly ironic.
.. but ensures any future generation on your little island will be exposed to everything from air-tight and ironic pop ( Back in the USSR , Savoy Truffle ) to country ( Don t Pass Me By ) to experimental music ( Revolution No.
9 ) to hard-rockers ( Birthday , Helter Skelter ) to classic Beatles flower power ( Dear Prudence , Mother Nature s Son ) to a href="http://daslob.blogspot.com/2006/06/on-beatles-white-album-well-part-of-it.
html" b the truly unnameable /b /a ( Why Don t We Do It in the Road , Bungalow Bill ) to the group s best collaboration (with Clapton, on While My Guitar Gently Weeps) to Wing-esque artistry ( Martha My Dear ) to sweet orchestral reverie ( Good Night ), and so on. br / br / But, that seems like a cop out. This was, after all, no Beatles album -- but a series of solo tracks featuring some or none of the fellow group members.
a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66161950@N00/405698705/" title="Photo Sharing" img src="http://farm1.
static.flickr.com/140/405698705_62717d81d6_m.
jpg" alt="beatles_revolver" width="240" height="180" align="left" / /a br / br / So, I give my nod to 1966 s i Revolver, /i a triumph in every important way for any Beatle fan.The album is both sublime ( Got To Get You Into My Life , a tune so inherently funky that a href="http://daslob.blogspot.
com/2006/06/guilty-pleasures-earth-wind-and-fire.html" b Earth, Wind and Fire /b /a covered it) and fun (Ringo s timeless Yellow Submarine ). br / br / It s folky ( Here, There and Everywhere ), but never hokey: Eleanor Rigby is a tune of effortless artistry.
George s contributions are finally measurable, as his Taxman kicks off the album with a snotty, rocking blast of perfect pop. br / br / There is also the romantic release of McCartney in Good Day Sunshine -- and the cool-rocking Lennon side, And Your Bird Can Sing . I love the genuine wonder in George s Love You To .
This is his best Indian-influenced tune of all, and his first. br / br / There is the expected mid-60s psychedelia from Lennon, with more humor (in She Said ) and so much more genuine alienation ( Tomorrow Never Knows ), than in all but the best of the rest. (That being Strawberry Fields, of course.
) br / br / Lastly, this is the band s first genuine foray into something outside of their already comfortable pop-song structures, so it must be recognized for that. br / br / The biggest miracle of i Revolver, /i wrote Stephen Thomas Erlewine, may be that the Beatles covered so much new stylistic ground and executed it perfectly on one record, or it may be that all of it holds together perfectly. Either way, its daring sonic adventures and consistently stunning songcraft set the standard for what pop/rock could achieve.
br / br / For pure artistry, off-beat innovation and pure giddy fun, it s the ultimate pop experiment /p div id="authorbio" A href="http://daslob.blogspot.com/" Musical musings by da' S~L~O~B /a (Saintsfan Lovers of the Blues), a trio from Louisiana, Alabama and a trailer park somewhere in Texas.
But it ain't all about blues (even though we are, alas, Saints fans). We mix in jazz, pop and baby-boomer rock, too. /a /div br style="clear: both;"/ p You can call Sloan a lot of things, but stingy isn t one of em.
The Canadian foursome s new Yep Roc release, i Never Hear the End of It /i , is a whopping 76-plus minutes of slickly self-produced power-pop: thirty songs in all, even if a few of em are more like fifty-second snips than fully fleshed-out verse/verse/chorus/verse exercises. /p p When every man jack in your quartet is capable of carrying the singer/songwriter flag, I supposed that makes it a tad easier to stuff your disc to the bursting point. Still, the last Sloan disc I know, 2001 s i Pretty Together /i , had almost as many bland tracks as rousers, so it clearly isn t i that /i easy.
br / br / Six years later, though, you can t accuse i this disc /i of being short on pop ideas: if anything, the plethora of hooks works against the neophyte listener. Listen to a great song like I Understand, which sounds like something Pezband could ve concocted back in the skinny tie era, and before you know it you re three tracks further in, mentally meandering and wondering if you need to check your online bank account. Slap yerself once to pay close attention to the hand-clapper that s now rolling, Can You Figure It Out?
and, damned if it doesn t turn out to be a fine track, too. /p p More than once I found myself thinking of H u sker D u s 1987 masterwork i Warehouse /i ndash; another brimming collection that initially came across overwhelming but has since lodged every track in my pleasure lobes. (The D u comparison isn t arbitrary, since the boys themselves name-check that great gone band in their witty Ideal Girl song, Someone to Be True With.
) Sometimes too much of a good thing is just the right amount. br / br / So, if I don t have hold of the whole thing yet, just gimme another six months. Those songs that immediately leapt out at me ndash; Who Taught You to Live Like That?
(great glammy group chorus on this un), the sweet harmonic entreaty Listen to the Radio, the Who-like moaner Something s Wrong, the woozily dB s styled I Know You, or Fading into Obscurity ndash; remain such smoochable samples of hard-working pop-rock that I know this disc ll remain in regular rotation for quite a while. /p p At times, Sloan s bright sonics are superior to its lyrics ndash; which can occasionally get a trace clunky (the cake line in Obscurity has to be the lousiest use of a baked goods metaphor since MacArthur Park !) ndash; but more often the band s canny blend of mod moves with new wave flavorings, that owe as much to Mike the Mechanics as they do the Cars, provides beaucoup bouncy pleasure.
I m especially enthralled with Set In Motion, wherein bassist Chris Murphy (at least I think it s Murphy: the band is coy when it comes to parceling out individual credits) grouses about the filming of a biographical movie that he doesn t remember authorizing. br / br / If any single popster can be nailed as the overriding influence on this disc, it s the Paul McCartney who worked on such sonic collages as Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey and Band on the Run (and was arguably the prime mover behind i Abbey Road /i s suite of Side Two songs). i Never Hear /i regularly deploys a similar strategy with its shorter tracks, bundling two to three of em together so that the casual listener doesn t even notice when one cut ends and other begins ndash; and it usually works, even if you sometimes wish that the earlier song would return to resolve itself.
Only time I found myself getting really caught up short was when the Posies-styled Living with the Masses was succeeded by a track which sounded like it d slipped onto the disc off a Bad Religion session ( HFXNSHC ) ndash; but I m pretty sure this blip o sonic dissonance was intentional. br / br / i Never Hear the End of It? /i That s not a warning; it s a promise.
/p div id="authorbio" Bill Sherman is a mostly harmless pop culture nerd who, in addition to his a href=http://oakhaus.blogspot.com/ weblog /A , has put together tribute pages to some of his bigger a href=http://oakhaus.
home.insightbb.com/pop_music.
htm musical interests /a (Kinks, Ramones, Rhino Records, Zappa et al). He has far too many CDs, DVDs, comics manga paperbacks in his house. /div br style="clear: both;"/ p a href="http://www.
corinnebaileyrae.net" Corinne Bailey Rae /a rsquo;s self-titled debut recently hit the #4 spot on The Billboard 200. The platinum selling vocalist is on a roll since her amazing Grammy performance with John Legend and John Mayer.
If topping the charts and touring America wasn rsquo;t enough, Capitol Music Groups has released a two disc deluxe edition of her new album. The CD features new songs, remixes, and covers of Bjork rsquo;s ldquo;Venus Becomes A Boy rdquo;, Led Zepplin rsquo;s ldquo;Since I rsquo;ve Been Loving You rdquo;, and ldquo;Day Dreaming rdquo; by Aretha Franklin. The tour kicks off in Irvine, CA in April, make sure you check out the award tour listing below and catch the show when it rolls through your town.
/p p br / Boost Mobile RockCorps Concert takes place March 30th at LA s Kodak Theatre. The show features Korn, The Game, +44, Rise Against, and Young Jeezy. You can visit the BMRC website to see a video preview of the event and the people behind it at the a href="http://boostmobilerockcorps.
com/pride/videos.aspx" Boost Mobile Website /a . /p p b The Sony Music Box /b br / Check out Sony/BMG s super slick looking a href="http://musicbox.
sonybmg.com/" Music Box /a to see some of their latest video releases. Artists from John Legend, Ben Kweller, Kanye West, Outkast,Barry Manilow, Britney Spears and tons more.
This site is a sure way to melt away a few hours of the workday. br / /p p b Fabolus i From Nothin To Somethin /i (Def Jam Recordings, March 27, 2007) /b br / br / The new album is on the way! This time around Fab gets a little help on the microphone from Young Jeezy and Ne-Yo, and some help with production by Jazzy Pha, Steve Moralaes and Timberland.
The last time Fabolus was up to bat, he hit one out the park with the Top 10 hit Breathe running through hip-hop and R B charts before settling in on the Top 10. Check out the new single, Diamonds by clicking the links below! br / br / a href="http://www6.
islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.wax?
link=72LTJO42275q5011E233F381-83884%20" Diamonds featuring Young Jeezy /a br / /p p a href="http://www.myspace.com/theexies" The Exies /a will be playing a series of shows in the CA area.
You can try to catch one of their shows in LA, or check the video link for more about them. br / br / 2/26 Modesto, CA - Fat Cat s - CONF br / 2/27 Los Angeles, CA - Whiskey - CONF br / 3/4 San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick - CONF br / 3/6 San Marcos, CA - The Jumping Turtle - CONF br / br / Different Than You music video ( a href="http://newmedia.10thst.
com/exies/different_than_you.wmv" WMP) /a ( a href="http://newmedia.10thst.
com/exies/different_than_you.mov" QT /a ) br / br / /p p That s it for now party people. Stay tuned for music reviews from Sean Price, Fabolous, Tantra, and more!
/p p Here s an amazing fact -- in August of this year, it will have been i thirty years /i since Elvis died. Of course, it might not be as amazing to you as it is to me, but I m willing to bet that most of us wouldn t have guessed that it had been that long since he took that fatal trip to the - er - throne. /p p In all the years since then he s been the subject of everything from veneration as the King to ridicule for memories of his final years, coupled with spurious sightings of his aged self at various donut shops or the like.
Meanwhile, his many recordings continue to sell and earn money, as do the various satellite industries fueled by his name and memory. /p p I ve written a href="/archives/2006/10/28/094530.php" before /a about my feelings for Elvis in the early days, when I was a teenager and first struggling with my musical likes and dislikes and he was just starting out.
I didn t much care for him -- mostly because he seemed a little too edgy for my conservative and insulated upbringing, but also because it annoyed me to see girls swooning for him. But I did img src="http://geezerweb.com/images/ep.
jpg" border="0" alt="" width="185" height="211" align="left" / eventually begin to appreciate Elvis and his music, and although I know that he didn t need my approval, in a larger sense I probably represented his gradual shift to more mainstream appeal, which continued throughout much of his career. /p p But although Elvis and his story are well-known, there is an aspect that s less talked about and has always intrigued me. He s given a lot of credit for being one of the originators of rockabilly, a type of music most feel was the forerunner to modern rock and roll but that otherwise might be a little bit of a mystery.
/p p There s a good write-up in the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly" Wikapedia /a about rockabilly, and I d encourage anyone who wants to know more about it to tap into that resource, but the definition can be complicated or simple.
You can list all the varieties of music combined in rockabilly and go off on long tangents about the influences, or you can simply say that at its heart, it s a fusion of country music and blues. /p p All musical styles are born from combining other styles, and seldom is it a clear-cut event that can be identified as to time and place. That s mostly true about rockabilly too, because there were lots of instances through the years of crossovers occurring both ways, and you could even make the argument that country music and blues were essentially very similar.
However, there s not much doubt that once again, Sam Phillips and Sun Records in Memphis were instrumental in the beginnings of rock and roll by helping to create rockabilly. /p p In the early 1950s, Sun was well known for recording and producing both country and blues records, and that made the perfect environment for the young Elvis, who seemed to be the answer to Phillips often quoted desire to find a white singer who sounded black. Elvis fit the bill in a number of ways, not only with his sound but also with his background, growing up poor in Mississippi and Tennessee.
He was very familiar with all the music of the South, including R B, and even gospel. /p p Working for the first time in the Sun studios and teamed up with Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass, he recorded a tune written by Arthur Big Boy Crudup, b /b a black Delta bluesman. The rest - as they say - is history.
The song, a href="http://geezerweb.com/mfiles/elvis%20presley%20-%20thats%20all%20right.mp3" That s All Right, Momma /a , became Presley s first single and also defined rockabilly in an unforgettable way.
/p div id="authorbio" img src="http://geezerweb.com/images/me3.jpg" align="left" The Big Geez is a retiree who writes about music -- sometimes doing conventional reviews, but often just sharing his opinions about how something resonates with his memories and those of his generation.
He also continues to prove that geezers love ALL kinds of music, and can stay in touch with today's world while still reserving time for the trimming of ear hair. You can read more of his faux pearls of wisdom at the a href="http://geezermusicclub.wordpress.
com" Geezer Music Club. /a
i Evaporate /i will hit store s shelves on March 6. /p p In an attempt to be competitive with iTunes standard rate of .99 per track, 10 Spot promises ten tracks for ten dollars, with the advantage of having a CD instead of MP4 files.
The Water Music Records Group President Brad Pressman said in a recent press release, ldquo;10 Spot gives the consumer ten good reasons to buy physical product. Offering ten tracks for ten dollars while getting the benefit of the CD package, the look, the feel, liner notes, artwork, and artist information, it rsquo;s like a free gift with purchase. rdquo; /p p Shannon received her first guitar at the age of ten and completed her first song When It Rains by the age of twelve.
Her first band, Deep Julia, toured the States and Canada, and was so popular they landed gigs opening for acts such Radiohead, Peter Frampton, and Jewel. But the acclaim was short-lived and the band eventually dissolved. /p
This, I am pleased to report, is not the case with i My Green Kite /i , the new album by Peter Himmelman. /p p The songs on the album range from the zany ( Maybe Is A Bad Word ) to the heart-felt, to the philosophical with all putting a smile on my face. Himmelman also scores television and movie projects including i Judging Amy, /i i Bones, /i and i Men In Trees.
/i /p p b What were you trying to accomplish with this project? Did you accomplish it? /b /p p It s funny how little, specific goals come into play when I finally get the will to make one of these - or any recordings.
I have in mind a vague sense of how I want the shape to be. For example, on i My Green Kite, /i I knew I wanted something very detailed but very free feeling at the same time. I actually have a small case of a condition called synesthesia wherein one hears colors and sees sounds etc.
So, in that light, I always saw this as being a very lush summery green sounding record. /p p I do feel like I ve accomplished what I set out to do. In some ways I think I ve succeeded beyond my original expectations.
/p p b Has anyone compared your voice to Elvis Costello? If not may I be the first and I mean that in a good way. /b /p p I love Elvis and it s been said, mostly of the work I did with my band Sussman Lawrence back in the early eighties.
Back then, I would study those records ( i This Year s Model, Armed Forces /i ) for hours and in so doing, probably copped a fair amount of his phrasing. /p p b One of my favorite tracks is the one about Boris. /b blockquote (Boris the bull had questioned the meaning of life br / Why are some cows happy br / and others full of strife?
br / Must we go through each day br / Simply looking for another bite of hay?) br / /blockquote /p p b Can you explain how that song came about? Pretty heavy ndash; no pun intended - material for a cow, which is just what I like about it.
/b /p p Without trying to sound too much like an i artiste /i (said with a bad French accent), these things just come to me in complete form or in large chunks -- or oftentimes even in complete form and I just dictate what I hear going through my head. When this one came, I did say to myself, Is this appropriate for kids? and the answer was yes.
I don t thinks it s ever too soon to consider one s purpose in life...
to ponder the notion that there are people and places and causes beyond oneself. /p p b How did you get into scoring music for TV and movies? What do you like about it?
/b /p p I ve actually been doing it since 1982 when I did the soundtrack to a friend s student film. The worst possible thing for me as a musician -- or even as a human being -- is to wake up without anything to create, and by create, I include, cooking or conversing with friends (not only making music or other overtly artistic inventions). So, when these opportunities arise to score films or TV shows, I have historically always jumped at the chance to do them.
/p p In a broad sense, the energy I have for scoring isn t the same as what I bring to making records or performing live. It s a bit slower and more methodical, more analytical perhaps. I think of it as puzzle solving in a way.
.. very lucrative puzzle solving.
I enjoy it immensely and a large part of what scoring causes me to do, is interact with people to help them accomplish their goals. It s nice to be a part of a team, rather than to constantly be pressing my own vision into place. I think the balance helps.
/p p b What do you like better ndash; scoring music for TV and movies or writing albums like this? /b /p p Without a doubt, I like writing albums (and performing better) but maybe that s because I see it as a break from the scoring stuff. The albums are exhausting in a way and like I said, I think the balance between the two is important.
One thing to note is that I m always entirely consumed by whatever the challenge is at the time and that s what s so pleasing about what I do for a living. It doesn t escape me, that what I do (records, scoring..
. performing) is so fun, I would probably pay to do it. (Please don t tell my agent).
/p p b What rsquo;s the best and worst part about making music for children and movies versus those for adults? /b /p p Kids rsquo; records best part: the feeling of freedom. not worrying about the consequences of a particular track finding no home at radio, etc.
playing and writing from an innocent and childlike perspective, utilizing a sense of humor...
a sense of limitless possibilities. Playing music and creating an intimate bond with my friends and fellow musicians, being part of something that brings joys to people. /p p Adult records best part: having a place to express feelings and ideas that I don t feel comfortable expressing in conversation.
Speaking an intimate truth that I would not otherwise have the courage to divulge. Feeling the hardness and softness of rhythm and motion. Loud angry guitar riffs.
/p p Adult records worst part: not having the time or energy or motivation to take on the burden of finishing one. /p p b ldquo;My Father rsquo;s An Accountant rdquo; is one of the cutest, sweetest songs I rsquo;ve heard in months. /b blockquote (My father rsquo;s an accountant and I used to think that he was boring br / I rsquo;d tell my friends about his job and I could see them all start snoring br / Maybe one day they rsquo;ll see what I see, br / A man strong enough to be true br / Dad I just want to tell you br / I see the hero in you.
) /blockquote /p p b How did it come about and what does your dad think of it? /b /p p This is one song that came to me almost totally finished. It was written with my father in mind - though he was not an accountant.
He died in 1983, the day after I turned 24. He was only 54 when he died and I know for sure that he wanted to accomplish so much more. One day when I was visiting him in the hospital, he told me he didn t necessarily think of himself as a success.
/p p I think he was referring to himself as a business person. I told him at the time, that the pure unconditional love he gave my mother, my three other siblings, and me, was the greatest success anyone can achieve in a lifetime. I really meant it then and after having four kids of my own, I know for sure I was right.
I suppose this song, (which incidentally, made me cry as I wrote it), is a simple innocent expression of all these thoughts. /p p That s a hard question for me because each of these songs speaks to me in a special way. I suppose ldquo;My Father s an Accountant rdquo; seems like the most enduring piece to me.
/p p I have a new i adult /i (I hate the licentious connotations) CD called, i The Pigeons Couldn t Sleep /i , which I m trying to finish for an early summer release. I ve also been touring with a spoken word show which I m in the process of refining and finding a structure for, and in a few months I will be putting the finishing touches on a really exciting new kids CD as well. br / /p div id="authorbio" Scott Butki was a newspaper reporter for more than 10 years before making a career change into education.
He is an in-house media critic, a recovering Tetris addict and a proud uncle.
Too bad music isn t more like sports, where outcomes are defined by measurable times, distances, or goals for and against, and a winner is decided. Maybe as a trial balloon, music ought to be an Olympic sport by next summer. I can see it now: gold medals for the world s loudest band (measured in decibels), fastest guitar player (measured in notes per minute) or highest possible vocal note (measured by the number of crystal glasses broken at ten paces).
br / br / Perhaps that rsquo;s maybe a little clinical (or maybe cynical) - however, pop music already has a fine tradition of battle of the bands, so as far as the Olympics go, maybe the world could be ready for music as a type of boxing match. Just like the Olympics, we d eliminate pro boxing rsquo;s cigar smoke atmosphere and obnoxious ring announcers and just stick to the business at hand - musicians and their songs fighting for big money endorsements and public prestige, errr..
. just like the pros. Just substitute weight divisions with theme divisions, run a number of smaller cards before the main event, and just imagine - it might go something like this: br / br / br / b 1) rdquo;Thinkin rsquo; lsquo;Bout The Afterlife rdquo; Division: /b br / br / /p p br / So which will it be: a 70 s rock anthem with pompous, ethereal philosophical meandering or a 70 s rock anthem with mindless, bombastic drivel?
Yeah, I know you hipsters who disavow any knowledge of the 70s are snickering and saying, So which is which? Laugh if you want, but both Zep and AC/DC will still be selling albums long after flavor-of ndash;the-month (insert name here) returns to wherever they came from before the radio gods decided to play their hit into the ground. /p p I think Zeppelin deserves this one because I ve actually run this tape backwards, and you really can hear some vaguely threatening mumbo jumbo, unintentional as it may be.
AC/DC run backwards sounds like Alvin the Chipmunks starring in Gidget Goes Hawaiian. /p p Winner: Led Zeppelin by split decision (American Judge scores it Zeppelin 97-94, British Judge scores it Zeppelin 99-94, Aussie Judge scores it AC/DC 99-96). br / br / br / /p p br / The Doors The End vs.
BUICK MacKANE The End br / br / Though the titles are the same, there s a world of difference where these two songs are going. This is the end, my only friend, the end, sings Jim Morrison to open this oedipal rock n roll monolith from the 60s. The unexpected is my best friend, sings Alejandro Escovedo on Buick MacKane s 1997 Rykodisc release i The Pawn Shop Years /i .
Such is the way of the opening round of any boxing match: you ve gotta play with your opponent to see what he s got. /p p The killer awoke before dawn/He put his boots on, drawls Morrison over some eerie background noodling provided by the other three Doors as the song progresses. Escovedo responds with, My plate is empty/My bed is stone, while the rest of the boys in Buick MacKane crank out some of the noisiest guitar raunch this side of the MC5.
The end of nights we tried to die/This is the eeeeeeeend, concludes Jim nearly twelve minutes later. /p p Unfortunately for him, Buick MacKane made their point in just over three minutes and have gone on to their next match, where they ll likely lay a thrashing on the Stones Black Limosine with their own original blues-based number Black Shiny Beast. /p p Winner: Buick MacKane by TKO.
Sometimes even the underdog has his day, especially when the other dog is getting a little long in the tooth. br / br / br / b 3) Pyromaniac Division: /b /p p Prodigy Firestarter and Billy Joel s We Didn t Start the Fire vs. Johnny Cash Ring of Fire and Brian Eno Baby s On Fire I know, tag team matches are in wrestling, not boxing, but go with me on this one.
So Prodigy was once considered cutting edge music (whatever that means at any given time), and Billy Joel s sold as many records as Smitty s has sold pancakes, but Prodigy can t match the psychotic nervousness of Eno and Billy Joel just doesn t deliver the goods against even the ghost of The Man in Black. And look what happens when someone gets tagged in: Brian Eno vs. Billy Joel?
Prodigy vs. Johnny Cash? Too strange to even imagine.
Winners: Cash Eno by KO in the first round. br / /p p br / And finally, the feature match of the evening: br / br / br / /p p Elvis Presley Hound Dog vs. Olivia Newton-John You re the One That I Want br / br / The Vegas oddsmakers said 20-1 in favor of the King in this heavyweight battle of the Greasers, but in a flash of insight I realized this could be a rock history rewrite in the making.
Look at the facts: Elvis started out as a tough-guy in leather, but when most people think of Elvis they think of bloated Lounge Lizard Elvis from twenty years later (Thank you, thank you very much indeed). Whereas Olivia, who started out squeaky clean, is often remembered in her tough-girl-in-leather stance during the finale of the musical Grease. And what does she look like after all these years?
A reasonable facsimile of herself was recently a guest judge on American Idol, but try ta fuggedaboudit: her younger self still struts her stuff on DVD, impressing once again a new generation of moviegoers brought up on the media message that image is more important than substance. /p p And the music? Well, Lieber and Stoller, the writers of Hound Dog, say that Elvis actually lifted his arrangement of the song not from Big Mama Thornton s original but from a lounge act (isn t that some sort of poetic justice?
). And the unnamed studio backing vocalists from the Grease soundtrack sing way better than The Jordannaires, who ruined more good Elvis records than anyone gives them credit for. /p p Surprise Winner: Olivia Newton-John by KO.
br / br / Thank you all for coming out this evening. Goodnight! br / /p div id="authorbio" JC Mosquito spends most of his day keeping the wolves from the door.
When he's not occupied with this pasttime, he's interested in all things rock and roll, which may or may not have died back in the late '50's, the late '70's, or the early '90's depending on who you believe.
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