The "Texas Jewboy", Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (singer/ performer/ songwriter/ novelist/ humorist/ politician), died, on June 27th, 2024, at age 79. He formed his first band "King Arthur & the Carrots" {Surf-parody}, in 1965, while a student. By 1973, he'd formed his second band, "Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys", which many took to be a play on "Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys" In early 1976, he joined Bob Dylan on the second leg of "The Rolling Thunder Revue tour". He was the musical guest on the Season 2 of 'Saturday Night Live' {October 23, 1976}, playing 'Dear Abbie'. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial election. finishing 4th out of 6 candidates, with 12.6% of the vote. // THEY SURE ain't making Jews like Kinky anymore!
* - It was her first album of original material since 1994, 'A Secret Life'. // 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
Click on the Link above, to view the original single and its pressing variations. Originally the song was called "DON'T Be Long" and recorded as "The Beefeaters" {Oct 1964, Elektra). This was reissued in June 1965 on the short-lived Elektra subsidiary called "Bounty", after the mega-success of 'Mr Tambourine Man'. / Click on the Link above, to see the original single.
5-CD box set: from "The Homecoming Concert" * section} [RCA - Aug 9, 2024
Memphis [5-CD box set: from "The Homecoming Concert" * section} [RCA - Aug 9, 2024]
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[Original single:] • NEW • (RCA Victor, Nov 22nd, 1961)
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* - Recorded at the Mid Southern Memphis Coliseum/ Memphis, TN: March 20, 1974 / This was from Elvis' eighth film, and the fourth film soundtrack. / Surprisingly, this didn't reach #1 on the (US) charts, although it was #1! in England. / Click on Link above, to view the single with a color picture sleeve
The album was # 425 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time". // * - Click the Link above, left to read all 191 versions of this Boudleaux Bryant classic. Parsons' cover was the seventh, OVER a year before Nazareth's hit version was released in the US (March 1975), and it took Nazareth's version another 8 months to make the Billboard Top-100 (Nov 1975).
He is a member of Alison Krauss and Union Station since 1998. As a sideman, he has played on more than 1,600 albums, including with Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, T-Bone Burnett, Keb' Mo', Ricky Skaggs, J. D. Crowe & the New South, Elvis Costello, James Taylor and Johnny Mathis.
