Archive for Music
Harvest Rock Syndicate 1991
Harvest Rock Syndicate, Volume 6 Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1991. Complete table of contents here. Two of my favorite bands on the cover, The Call and The Choir. The Choir is working on a new album after just releasing a great one called Burning like the Midnight Sun in 2010.
Harvest Rock Syndicate was a magazine for Christian Alternative music, but it was a bit broader than that also. Sacred Warrior listed across the top was heavy metal. If you think it was hard to get info on great Alternative music during the ’80s and early ’90s, just try to get info on Christian Alternative! There was another magazine that was even harder to get in my area called 7ball and there may have been others, but it wasn’t easy. It was fun and frustrating.
Continuing along to top, I’m not familiar with Recess, but the Newsboys are still going I think. It seems to me they were Australian. Chagall Guevera had a song on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack, the movie starring Christian Slater. Funny thing about the movie when I watched it with my Dad, I didn’t care for it, but my Dad loved it!
Mountain Songs – 1937 Songbook
Mountain Songs from Belmont Music Company. Chicago, 1937. Kinda cool rustic artwork in this book. It’s really just line drawings without much detail, but it matches the content pretty well.
Music News today – One Happy Birthday, One Goodbye
Happy Birthday to Little Richard who turns 79 today!
And yesterday, R.I.P. to Hubert Sumlin, guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf and for a very short time, Muddy Waters. I kinda doubt many of you know who he is, but he was great and played up to the end.
Various Retro Photos Found Around the Web
Back from the dead! At least, that’s how I feel after turning in a stack of paperwork. Got some great stuff planned for this next month, so be sure to follow along!
Here’s some photos I’ve found around that I thought I’d share. Don’t remember where I found most of them, if it was your blog leave a comment and I’ll add you to the post.
I love pop bottles (that’s soda pop bottles for you Easterners) and soda pop advertising, and I love Zorro! How great to find the two together.
Planet of the Apes in a 70s stripped robe. How cool is that?
I love these sew-on/iron-on patch advertisements that used to be in all the comic books.
Dick Clark’s Easygoing Guide to Grooming comes from Awful Library Books.
What young boy of the 70s didn’t love Evel Knievel?
What a perfect picture of Keith Richards. I think I got this at Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches.
Don’t remember where I got this Marvel Poster, but it’s pretty cool.
Guys with guns. Robert Culp from Greatest American Hero and Bogart.
I think these Elvis Presley pictures came from Retrospace Zeta.
And finally, this is about as political as I get on this blog. Vote for Batman!
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Autographed Pat Rolle!
Pat Rolle, Magic Style of Pat Rolle, Tropical Recording Inc., CLP-3985. early 1960s? I was hoping for Soul music like Sam Cooke, but it’s a lot more like Nat King Cole doing lounge music. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. This one is autographed on the back by Pat Rolle.
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Chiquito – Ruben Calzado and his Latin Orchestra
Ruben Calzado and his Latin Orchestra, Chiquito, Palette MPZ-1006, 1960. He’s Cuban, don’t know if he’s the same guy I see at youtube as Rudy Calzado. He was born Ruben Dario Calzado Gonzalez. This is a kind of Latin Lounge Music.
