Yeah, some people got rich from the girl group phenomenon but it wasn't the performers, outside of Diana Ross.
Ellie Greenwich ended up singing jingles.
― Josefa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:57 (two months ago) link
One time I asked my guy about the whole Red Bird fiasco and he just stood there for a second standing next to his wife with his jaw dropped staring at me and said “you want to talk about THAT!?” so I changed the subject. At least I hope I did.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
Now recalling some notorious Morris Levy quote about “they should pay ME!”
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:04 (two months ago) link
Which reminds me to ask, does Michel Faber weigh in on record man George Goldner?
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link
Faber book has me hooked from the first footnote!
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:28 (two months ago) link
No Faber on Goldner. He seems more concerned with the listening end of music rather than production/business end.
― Josefa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
No worries, figured, was really just tagging up
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:34 (two months ago) link
You still reading it?
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
Finished it. It gets a little scattershot as it goes along, but occasionally a point is made that would be a good start to a discussion. At times it seems as if the way he expresses his musical opinions, and his opinions of people who hold differing opinions, contradict his opening statement that particular tastes are beside the point of the book.
― Josefa, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:14 (two months ago) link
But it did make me dig out my Nana Mouskouri best of CD. Hadn’t listened to that in a while.
― Josefa, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:15 (two months ago) link
I sort of confirmed in passing one of his main points last night at karaoke
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:16 (two months ago) link
new book about the Village Voice The Freaks Came Out To Write, author Tricia Romano has a section about Christgau getting into hiphop and hiring writers to cover it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:17 (two months ago) link
This book seems really good to dip into.
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 March 2024 00:35 (two months ago) link
The oral history quote after quote approach of the Village Voice book sounds like it is one that one would want to dip in and dip out of .
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:58 (one month ago) link
Ha, yeah, although I did read PLEASE KILL ME straight through from front to back, in non-hopscotch order.
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:13 (one month ago) link
I'm around page 300. You could skip around--the chapters are very short and often self-contained--but I think you'd want to read it in order; there's a story there.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
Debating between buying Simon Reynolds Futuromania (I didn't finish Energy Flash, it started to feel like a collection of wiki summaries of people/events/music without exploring them) or Matthew Collin's Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor Who to Acid House
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:25 (one week ago) link