On Any Sunday

Pace Magazine

The Guitar Sheik

Get a load of this fantastic 1955 photo borrowed from the pages of Jet magazine.  Bobby Walker, in full sheik regalia, strolls the streets of Philadelphia serenading the lucky citizens with his guitar.  Photo by Gaston DeVigne.

She's The Girl On The Billboard...

Joyce Paul  -  I'm The Girl On The Billboard

Here's the answer song to the record posted by Debbie yesterday.

By Request

Del Reeves sings Girl On The Billboard

Louis Jordan For President!

It's only 2013 and I'm already tired of hearing about the next Presidential election.  Now if Louis Jordan were in the race, things might be different.  Via the fantastic JET archives.

Take a trip to Monkey Jungle!

"Recycled" Records

Self-explanatory...to listen to the mix, CLICK HERE.

Track list:

Ralph Smedley & the Breathers - Suffocate
Ernie Freeman - Jamboree
Duke Mitchell - The Lion
The Spinners - Boomerang
The Sandabs - Crab Louie
Larry Verne - Tubby Tilly

Surfing Hollow Days (1960)

Who Is That Knocking?

1 "Boodle It" Wiggins: Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In

2 Rex Allen: Knock Knock Rattle

3 Faye Adams: The Hammer (Keeps A Knockin')

4 The El Dorados: At My Front Door

5 Fletcher Henderson & His Orch.: Knock, Knock, Who's There

6 Boys And Girls Together: Knock Knock

7 Jimmy Work: Don't Knock (Just Come On In)

8 Bob Dylan: Knockin' On Heaven's Door

9 Earl Scott: Stop You're Knocking

10 Juanita Nixon: Stop Knockin'

11 Paula Watson: Stop That Knockin' At My Heart

12 Victor: Stop A Knockin' (courtesy Tom Taber)

13 Eddie Hodges: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door

14 The Sonics: Keep A' Knock'in

15 Eileen Todd: Knock, Knock, Knockin'

16 Aimi Stewart: Knock On Wood

17 Ike & Tina Turner: A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)

18 Randy Rudolph: I Kept A-Knocking

19 Legendary Stardust Cowboy: Who's Knocking On My Door

20 The Genies: Who's That Knocking

21 The Genies: No More Knockin'

22 Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: Keep A-Knockin'

23 Smiley Lewis: I Hear You Knocking

24 Billy Adams: You Heard Me Knocking

25 The Pastels: Don't Knock

26 Pete Best Four: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door

27 The Stereos: The Big Knock

28 Half Japanese: Knock On Wood

29 The Rolling Stones: Can't You Hear Me Knocking

30 Billy Fury: Don't Knock Upon My Door

31 Carol Fran: Knock Knock

32 Carol Fran: I Quit My Knocking

33 Conway Twitty: Knock Three Times

34 Bernd Spier: Klopf Dreimal

35 Grazina: I Ain't Gonna Knock On Your Door

36 Harpers Bizarre: Knock On Wood

37 Little Richard: Keep A Knockin'

38 Pat Shannon: Knock Knock (Who's There)

39 Nilsson & Cher: A Love Like Yours

40 The Go-Betweens: Knock Knock

41 The Green Beans: Knock On My Door (Tap On My Window)

42 The Isley Brothers: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door

43 The Orlons: Knock! Knock! (Who's There)

44 The Primates: Knock On My Door

45 Brent Dowe: Knock Three Times

46 Death: Keep On Knockin

47 The Humane Society: Knock, Knock

KNOCK KNOCK

Surf Crazy 1959

Slippery When Wet 1958

Bruce Brown shot 8mm films of surfers when he was stationed in Hawaii back in the 1950's.  After moving back to California, Dale Velzy gave him $5000 to shoot a 16mm film promoting the Velzy surf team.  Brown narrates and Bud Shank provides the soundtrack.  The goofy narration in these films is what makes it for me.

The Sandals

 

The Endless Summer  (mp3s)

Side 1:
Scrambler
6-Pak
Driftin'
Theme From The Endless Summer
Good Greeves
Decoy

Side 2:
Out Front
Wild As The Sea
Trailing
Jet Black
Lonely Road
TR-6

August Is Bruce Brown Month

Louis Armstrong

Happy birthday to Louis Armstrong, born 112 years ago today (08/04/1901) in the world's most musical city, New Orleans.  In 1961, he worked with another musical genius, Duke Ellington, on the soundtrack for the film Paris Blues, which featured Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Diahann Carroll and Joanne Woodward.  In addition to his soundtrack contributions, Armstrong appeared in the movie, playing a character, a trumpet player naturally, called Wild Man Moore.  Here's the song by that name from the soundtrack.

Duke Ellington featuring Louis Armstrong  -  Wild Man Moore


Photo: the Jet magazine archives.