JIMMY CLANTON…”EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE”

Jimmy Clanton has a great CD on the market that is filled with wonderful new music and a re-make of his first million seller “JUST A DREAM”. I have listened to this album and was totally amazed at how wonderful Jimmy sounds after all these years…55 years, making great recordings.

The title track “EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE” is a track that after just one listening, you will be back giving it more spins on you sound system…”LOVIN’ LOUISIANA” is a classic tune, that Jimmy sings to perfection and the lyrics will tug at your heart strings. “JUST A DREAM” really is a classic…for the second time. Jimmy sings this song with so much soul that my radio listeners are raving about it…

This great CD is filled with outstanding music, recorded by one of the biggest stars of the “Golden Era Of Rock And Roll”, Jimmy Clanton. The tracks mentioned are here for you to enjoy…the CD is available through Jimmy Clanton’s web site jimmyclanton.com

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Till the next time…Joe (JoeT)

RAY & THE DARCHAES

IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT I POST “FOREVER FRIENDS” BY RAY & THE DARCHAES…THESE FRIENDS HAVE BEEN MAKING MUSIC GREAT MUSIC FOR OVER 50 YEARS…YOU WILL DISCOVER THE GREAT VOCALS OF RAY DAHROUGE ARE TIMELESS…I HAVE BEEN PLAYING TUNES FROM THIS CD ON MY RADIO SHOW ON http://www.oldiesplus.net AND THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN GREAT!!!

THE TUNES ON THIS CD ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON CD BABY AND AMAZON.COM…CLICK ON A TITLE TO HEAR THESE TRACKS.
ENJOY…THE CLASSIC SOUNDS OF RAY AND THE DARCHAES…

TILL THE NEXT TIME—JOE (JOE T)

01 Forever Friends

02 You To Come Home To<

03 Eaten Alive<

04 Let’s Bring Back Romance

05 Forever Friends (Acappella Ending)-acappella-

JIMMY CLANTON…”CURLY”

ONE OF MY FAVORITE TUNES RECORDED BY JIMMY CLANTON IS HIS 1969 RECORDING OF “CURLY” ON LAURIE RECORDS (3508). CURLY MADE ITS BILLBOARD HOT 100 DEBUT ON NOVEMBER 15, 1969. THE SINGLE WITH “I’LL NEVER FORGET YOUR LOVE” ON THE FLIP-SIDE CHARTED AT A HIGH OF #97 AND REMAINED ON THE HOT 100 FOR 3 WEEKS. THE FLIP-SIDE DID NOT CHART. CURLY WOULD BE JIMMY CLANTON’S LAST CHARTED HIT.

ALL THIS SAID…CURLY IS ONE OF JIMMY’S BEST RECORDINGS…AND IF THIS TUNE WAS AROUND IN THE LATE 50S OR EARLY 60S…JIMMY SURE WOULD HAVE HAD A HUGE HIT WITH THE TUNE.

JIMMY WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1940 IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. HE IS THE BROTHER OF IKE CLANTON. HIS BIGGEST CHART HITS WERE RECORDED ON THE ACE RECORDS LABEL. HE RECORDED WITH FAMOUS NEW ORLEANS SESSIONMEN…HUEY “PIANO” SMITH AND LEE ALLEN AND TOURED WITH DICK CLARK’S CARAVAN OF STARS. HIS MUSIC REMAINS POPULAR TODAY HIS CLASSIC HITS…JUST A DREAM…GO JIMMY GO…MY OWN TRUE LOVE…ANOTHER SLEEPLESS NIGHT…AND…VENUS IN BLUE JEANS…ARE JUST A FEW OF HIS GREAT HIT RECORDINGS…JIMMY IS STILL OUR THERE PERFORMING TO HIS FANS…AND THOUSANDS MORE ARE DISCOVERING HIS TIMELESS MUSIC…

I KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY ONE OF HIS BEST….”CURLY”…BY JIMMY CLANTON

Curly Jimmy Clanton

TILL THE NEXT TIME—JOE (JOE T)

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GOLDEN ERA OF ROCK AND ROLL JUKEBOX….THE GRADUATES…”THE BALLAD OF A GIRL AND BOY” & THEIR OTHER CLASSIC SIDES

The Graduates What Good is Graduation

Graduates – Lonely

THE GRADUATES (Buffalo,NY)- CARE-1959 Shan-Todd- B ( GRAET DOOWOP)

Ballad Of A Girl & Boy-1959

HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE CLASSIC RECORDINGS….THE GRADUATES, FROM BUFFALO, N.Y. ONE OF THE BEST FROM THE LATE 1950S

TILL THE NEXT TIME…JOE (JOE T)

TRIVIA TEASER….545

VITO PICONE WAS THE LEAD SINGER OF THIS GROUP FROM STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK THEY CHARTED A #1 HIT RECORD IN 1958 ON THE APT RECORDS LABEL. THE RECORD WOULD BE THE GROUPS ONLY BILLBOARD CHARTED HIT….CAN YOU NAME THE GROUP.

THE ANSWER IS PRINTED BELOW

TILL THE NEXT TIME—JOE (JOE T)

ANSWER: THE ELEGANTS

2012 in review….”THANK YOU” FROM JOE TROIANO’S BLOG…THE “GOLDEN ERA OF ROCK AND ROLL”

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 98,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

FONTELLA BASS…RIP 12/26/2012

SINGER FONTELLA BASS PASSED AWAY ON DECEMBER 26, 2012 AT THE AGE OF 72…WE PASS OUR GRATITUDE TO HER FAMILY….FOR HER WONDERFUL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD OF MUSIC…THROUGH HER MUSIC SHE WILL NEVER LEAVE US…OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO HER FAMILY….

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FONTELLA BASS….”RESCUE ME”

BORN ON JULY 3, 1940 IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. FONTELLA WAS AN R&B SINGER, PIANIST AND ORGANIST. HER MOTHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE CLARA WARD GOSPEL TROUPE. SHE WAS IN LITTLE MILTON’S BLUES SHOW UNTIL 1964.

IN 1965 SHE CHARTED HER FIRST TOP TEN HIT ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART…”DON’T MESS UP A GOOD THING”…ON THE CHECKER RECORDS LABEL. THE SINGLE CHARTED AT #5 AND CROSSED OVER TO THE BILLBOARD HOT 100, CHARTING AT #33.
ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1965 HER BIGGEST HIT MADE ITS R&B DEBUT….”RESCUE ME” ON CHECKER RECORDS (1120) MADE ITS WAY UP THE CHART, GOING ALL THE WAY TO #1 AND REMAINING ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART FOR 19 WEEKS, 4 OF THOSE WEEKS AT #1. ON OCTOBER 2, 1965 “RESCUE ME” MADE ITS BILLBOARD HOT 100 DEBUT…THE SINGLE WENT ALL THE WAY TO #4 AND STAYED ON THE HOT 100 FOR 13 WEEKS. THE FLIP-SIDE OF THE SINGLE RECORD…”SOUL OF THE MAN” DID NOT CHART ON EITHER BILLBOARD CHART.

WHILE HER HIT WAS A MILLION SELLER IN THE USA, SHE WAS EVEN A BIGGER HIT IN EUROPE. “RESCUE ME” BECAME A #1 HIT IN THE UK. HER LONG TIME FRIEND DWIGHT BOSMAN OF THE BOSMAN TWINS SAID…”SHE WAS WELL-LOVED ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, ITALY AND FRANCE, THEY WOULD CHANT FONTELLA-FONTELLA AT THE FESTIVELS SHE WOULD PERFORM AT.”
FONTELLA BASS PASSED AWAY ON DECEMBER 26, 2012 AT THE AGE OF 72. A FAMILY WOMAN, SHE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR THE BODY OF MUSIC SHE HAS LEFT…7 HIT RECORDS ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART AND 6 ON THE BILLBOARD POP CHARTS.

“RESCUE ME” REMAINS ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF THE 1960′S AND A MUCH PLAYED TUNE ON RADIO….WE ARE HAPPY TO BRING THIS CLASSIC RECORDING FOR YOU TO ENJOY…A MILLION SELLING HIT…BY FONTELLA BASS…FROM, “THE GOLDEN ERA OF ROCK AND ROLL”.

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TILL THE NEXT TIME—JOE (JOE T)

HANK BALLARD AND THE MIDNIGHTERS / CHUBBY CHECKER “THE TWIST”

 

HANK BALLARD AND THE MIDNIGHTERS RECORDED THEIR ORIGINAL VERSION OF “THE TWIST” AND CHARTED THE SINGLE RECORD IN 1959. THE SINGLE CHARTED TWICE FOR THE GROUP…ON APRIL 6, 1959 ON THE KING RECORDS LABEL (5171), PEAKING AT # 16 ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART AS THE “B” SIDE OF THEIR #4 R&B HIT “TEARDROPS ON YOUR LETTER”. THE SECOND TIME “THE TWIST” CHARTED WAS ON JULY 25, 1960, THE SAME RECORD NUMBER WITH “TEARDROPS ON YOUR LETTER” THIS TIME, AS THE “B” SIDE. “THE TWIST” CHARTED AT #6 ON THE R&B CHART AND #28 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100, POP CHART.

CHUBBY CHECKER RECORDED A COVER VERSION OF HANK BALLARD’S TUNE AND CHARTED IT TWICE. THE FIRST TIME WAS ON AUGUST 8, 1960 ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART. THE SINGLE RECORD ON PARKWAY RECORDS (811) BECAME A #2 R&B HIT. THE “B” SIDE “TOOT” DID NOT CHART. “THE TWIST” CHARTED ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 POP CHART ON AUGUST 1, 1960 AND BECAME A #1 HIT RECORD, CREATING A WORLDWIDE DANCE CRAZE ALONG THE WAY. PARKWAY RE-RELEASED THE SINGLE AGAIN IN 1961. IT CHARTED ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART ON DECEMBER 11, 1961 AND CLIMBED TO #4. “THE TWIST” RE-ENTERED THE HOT 100 ON NOVEMBER 13, 1961 AND BECAME THE ONLY POP RECORD TO RE-ENTER THE CHARTS AND RETURN TO #1.

THE “B” SIDE OF “THE TWIST” ON THE RE-ISSUE WAS…”TWISTIN’ U.S.A. THAT SINGLE BECAME A #68 HIT, CHARTING ON DECEMBER 11, 1961, ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART. “THE TWIST” BY CHUBBY CHECKER CHARTED FOR A TOTAL OF 70 WEEKS…39 HOT 100, 31 R&B. HANK BALLARDS ORIGINAL VERSION CHARTED FOR A TOTAL OF 39 WEEKS…23 R&B, 16 HOT 100.

HENRY “HANK” BALLARD DIED OF CANCER IN MARCH OF 2003, AT THE AGE OF 75.

CLICK THE TITLE AND LISTEN TO HANK BALLARD AND CHUBBY CHECKER…DO THE TWIST.

Hank Ballard & the Midnighters The Twist

Chubby Checker The Twist

 

TILL THE NEXT TIME—JOE (JOE T)