Rest in Peace Marianne Faithfull (died Jan 30th/ age 78), Barry Goldberg (died Jan 22nd/ age 82), Martin Phillipps (died July 28th/ age 60) and Garth Hudson (died Jan 21st/ age 87) Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin; check out the links at your leisure.
... Keyboard player, songwriter Barry Goldberg died January 22nd, at age 82. He founded the Goldberg-(Steve) Miller Blues Band in 1965, played with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (backing Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival), and also formed The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield in 1967. He wrote songs {often with Gerry Goffin}, including the big hit 'I've Got to Use My Imagination' by Gladys Knight & the Pips {R&B #1!, #4/ 11-73). His uncle was Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. / Click the Link above, left to view the original album
[Original 10" record:] • BED • (French Swing, late 1947)
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* - Full billing: 'Django Reinhardt & Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France Avec Stephane Grapelli' // Click the Link above, left to view the original 10" shellac record.
NOT a strictly a "solo" album, but released after Goldberg's first two solo albums. / ... Keyboard player, songwriter Barry Goldberg died January 22nd, at age 82. He founded the Goldberg-(Steve) Miller Blues Band in 1965, played with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (backing Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival), and also formed The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield in 1967. He wrote songs {often with Gerry Goffin}, including the big hit 'I've Got to Use My Imagination' by Gladys Knight & the Pips {R&B #1!, #4/ 11-73). His uncle was Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. / Click the Link above, left to view the original album
Billed as 'Django Reinhardt & Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France Avec Stephane Grappelly' / Click the Link above, left to view the original 10" shellac record.
* - because it sounded so much like the Beatles (In this case: Mix up "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Little Child"). // Also released as a single: Nov 1980 / Click the Link above, left to view the original album.
Billed as 'Django Reinhardt And Stephane Grappelly Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De Fra' // Click the Link above, left to view the original 10" shellac record.
Time:
4:57
Artist:
Marianne Faithfull [with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dennis Russell Davies]
Song:
Alabama Song [Full title: 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)' */ 1st performed by Lotte Lenya, 1930 **]
* - from "The Rise And The Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny" / ** - YES, most people know it from The Doors' version on their classic first album, but it was recorded several times before that (1960 - Will Holt, 1964 - The Chad Mitchell Trio, 1966 - Dave Van Ronk), and after the Doors (1969 - Esther Ofarim, 1980 - David Bowie, 2008 - Wild Billy Childish & the Blackhands)
Marianne Faithfull died Jan 30th, at age 78. Originally known for her association with Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, originally by recording the Jagger - Richards song 'As Tears Go By' as her first record and hit {UK #9, #6/ 10-64}, then as Jagger's 'significant other' from 1966 to 1970, Eventually she established her own identity, first in several films (The Girl on a Motorcycle ({968} and Hamlet (1969}), then after bottoming out in the early 1970's, and her musical her "comeback" with this album. / * - Broken English, her 7th studio album // Click the Link above, left to watch this performance.
* - A compilation which added most of her 1976 'Faithless' album to the 1971 recordings, which were produced by Mike Leander, who had worked with Faithfull in the 1960s. He hoped to release the recordings on Bell Records but, despite some initial positive feedback, Bell rejected the record after it was completed. / Click the Link above, left to view the original album
* - Oddly, I can't find any evidence that Donovan recorded this himself. / ** - EP titled "Go Away From My World" // Click the Link above, left to view the original English Extended-Play, with a hard-cover picture sleeve
Marianne Faithfull died Jan 30th, at age 78. Originally known for her association with Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, originally by recording the Jagger - Richards song 'As Tears Go By' as her first record and hit {UK #9, #6/ 10-64}, then as Jagger's 'significant other' from 1966 to 1970, Eventually she established her own identity, first in several films (The Girl on a Motorcycle ({968} and Hamlet (1969}), then after bottoming out in the early 1970's, and her musical "comeback" with this album. // * - it was a minor English hit, her first chart single _anywhere_ in 12 years, but not released as a single in the US. / The album was included on NME magazine's list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and in the book 1001 'Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.'
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... SORRY, but WMBR went off the air at 6:23 AM this morning - Lawrence Azrin/ LsA
