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What are you listening to? Part III
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Another blast from the late 80s / early 90s.
A song about Edie Sedgwick, part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene and played in some of his films.
A song about Edie Sedgwick, part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene and played in some of his films.
Lately I've been on a steady diet of Noel & Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis works. At this moment, Who Built the Moon
Just picked up Nighthawks at the Diner, one of my favorites albums, on Vinyl the other day!
And Film Noir Dreams:
And Film Noir Dreams:
I normally don't plug things unless I truly believe that those things are great and that everyone can benefit from it.. This is one of those times where I am going to plug things.
There's a Youtube channel that I subscribe to, called Professor of Rock. It's a channel hosted by Adam Reader, the "Professor of Rock". He takes you behind the scenes of not only the songs that shaped our lives, but meaning, production, and even interviews with the people who created/wrote/produced the song, the entire lot.
Well, in his latest video, he goes through a generational set. And what I mean by that is a generation of family... and not just one generation, but three, in which all of them are not only nostalgic for me (I don't "reminisce"; I remind myself of how songs make up the soundtrack of my life), but are big that my parents and their parents know of them. In this case, I refer back to a family started by stars of the 1930s, named Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard. They started out as a radio show, that got noticed when they played on a radio show, called The Baker's Broadcast, with Ozzie playing with his own big band orchestra. They would soon marry during the run of that show.
While not on tour, they played guest spots on The Red Skelton Show and The Fred Allen Show, until they got called up to star in their own TV sitcom, called Ozzie and Harriet. Well, during that time, they not only had a hit TV show (which Ozzie thought was only going to be for when they were not playing music), but they scored their first #1 hit: And Then Some.
Ozzie and Harriet also brought their entire family onto the show, in which brought some precocious little kid named Eric, who became known as Ricky Nelson. During the course of the show he and Elvis Presley ended up having a friendly little rivalry being teenage heartthrobs, and because Elvis had some song or two out there, Ricky had to have one as well. Well, Ricky ended up getting a few of those to hit #1 themselves:
Ricky started to go by Rick, and wanted to shed the teenage heartthrob image and be himself... but his fans wouldn't let him. So when he started to write his own songs and they wanted to still see little Ricky Nelson on stage, they booed him. He ended up writing a song called Garden Party, which had some huge life lesson in it:
As we all know, Ricky died in a plane crash in 1985. But not after he and Kristin Harmon Nelson ended up having two sons: Matthew and Gunnar (side note: Kristin Harmon is the brother of Mark Harmon; think NCIS). They fell into the same trap as Ricky did, with everyone wanting them to sound like Ricky, so they went about things their own way. Enter 1990, and they scored a #1 hit themselves:
They even copped it the hardest, with being typecast as the epitome of glam metal. But despite having their ability for musicianship and harmony, they had a great knack for songwriting, which is why they learned from their father with the lesson from Garden Party, and are still at it to this day.
I had the pleasure of seeing them in concert a few years ago. They were asked to do a USO tour, as the troops at the time were having a huge renaissance for Ozzie and Harriet. Initially they said no, but then agreed to do one show. They enjoyed it so much that they did an entire USO tour, and then even released an album with Ricky, called Like Father, Like Sons. Matt and Gunnar took Ricky's original master recordings, went into the studio, and recorded a double album of his best songs and deepest cuts along with Ricky. Like Natalie Cole, it's a unique feeling and space to be in to record a song with your parent who originally recorded the song 20 years before you were born, but another thing altogether to have that song hit the charts 20 years after they died. But they did.
To this day, no other family has come close to having 3 generations of family hit #1. The closest is Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, but no-one else can come close.
BL.
There's a Youtube channel that I subscribe to, called Professor of Rock. It's a channel hosted by Adam Reader, the "Professor of Rock". He takes you behind the scenes of not only the songs that shaped our lives, but meaning, production, and even interviews with the people who created/wrote/produced the song, the entire lot.
Well, in his latest video, he goes through a generational set. And what I mean by that is a generation of family... and not just one generation, but three, in which all of them are not only nostalgic for me (I don't "reminisce"; I remind myself of how songs make up the soundtrack of my life), but are big that my parents and their parents know of them. In this case, I refer back to a family started by stars of the 1930s, named Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard. They started out as a radio show, that got noticed when they played on a radio show, called The Baker's Broadcast, with Ozzie playing with his own big band orchestra. They would soon marry during the run of that show.
While not on tour, they played guest spots on The Red Skelton Show and The Fred Allen Show, until they got called up to star in their own TV sitcom, called Ozzie and Harriet. Well, during that time, they not only had a hit TV show (which Ozzie thought was only going to be for when they were not playing music), but they scored their first #1 hit: And Then Some.
Ozzie and Harriet also brought their entire family onto the show, in which brought some precocious little kid named Eric, who became known as Ricky Nelson. During the course of the show he and Elvis Presley ended up having a friendly little rivalry being teenage heartthrobs, and because Elvis had some song or two out there, Ricky had to have one as well. Well, Ricky ended up getting a few of those to hit #1 themselves:
Ricky started to go by Rick, and wanted to shed the teenage heartthrob image and be himself... but his fans wouldn't let him. So when he started to write his own songs and they wanted to still see little Ricky Nelson on stage, they booed him. He ended up writing a song called Garden Party, which had some huge life lesson in it:
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself
As we all know, Ricky died in a plane crash in 1985. But not after he and Kristin Harmon Nelson ended up having two sons: Matthew and Gunnar (side note: Kristin Harmon is the brother of Mark Harmon; think NCIS). They fell into the same trap as Ricky did, with everyone wanting them to sound like Ricky, so they went about things their own way. Enter 1990, and they scored a #1 hit themselves:
They even copped it the hardest, with being typecast as the epitome of glam metal. But despite having their ability for musicianship and harmony, they had a great knack for songwriting, which is why they learned from their father with the lesson from Garden Party, and are still at it to this day.
I had the pleasure of seeing them in concert a few years ago. They were asked to do a USO tour, as the troops at the time were having a huge renaissance for Ozzie and Harriet. Initially they said no, but then agreed to do one show. They enjoyed it so much that they did an entire USO tour, and then even released an album with Ricky, called Like Father, Like Sons. Matt and Gunnar took Ricky's original master recordings, went into the studio, and recorded a double album of his best songs and deepest cuts along with Ricky. Like Natalie Cole, it's a unique feeling and space to be in to record a song with your parent who originally recorded the song 20 years before you were born, but another thing altogether to have that song hit the charts 20 years after they died. But they did.
To this day, no other family has come close to having 3 generations of family hit #1. The closest is Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, but no-one else can come close.
BL.
