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Specifically, Mick's ace cover of "Love Me Tender"
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Is it remotely possible that Sha Na Na might have been good?
>What was Kid Creole reviving with his Coconuts? I don't remember<
All kindsa stuff. But those Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Cory Daye albums revived swing WAY better than the swing revival did.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Right, again, they were *influenced* by certain *aspects* of '50s music, just like most of the other glam stuff named here. But (unlike Sha Na Na or the Stray Cats, say), no way would they ever be mistaken for a '50s band. (Suzi Quatro actually had rockabillified moments that I'd say sounded more '50s than the Sweet ever did, when you get down to it. And to my knowledge, they never did anything as blatantly '50s as, say, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen. Though their high-register squealing -- just like Sparks and even the Bee Gees I guess -- maybe harked back to a certain Lou Christie/Frankie Valli tradition.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
when eg mclaren was running his shop as a shrine to teds (eg b4 it became SEX) no one much thought to note the idea crossed into glam, but part of the reason may be that in the UK at that time it wz hard to actually FIND and HEAR stuff from the 50s
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I vividly remember an episode of Talk of the Nation with Ray Suarez devoted to the swing/lounge revival, and the guy who wrote "Buckle Down Winsocki" back in the early 40s called in with instructions on how to make a good martini. He then said it was great how kids were getting into this music again, because for a while there, it seemed like popular music was all about shock tactics. He speculated on the process of forming a rock band: "How can we get ourselves attention, oh, I know, let's look in the dictionary and name ourselves after some sort of tropical disease..." Suarez tried to cut him off, but he wasn't having any of it.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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― yossarian, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link