Re: [bomp] Re: Bobby Fuller

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- BlackMonk <BlackMonk@email.msn.com> wrote:

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> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:14 AM
> Subject: [bomp] Re: Bobby Fuller
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > In a recent post, I wondered aloud if Bobby
> Fuller, had he lived into the
> > late sixties,?couldn't have reworked his style for
> the hippies and became
> > a singer-songwriter ala Dion or Rick Nelson.
> >
> > Tom added that I could add the Everly Brothers and
> Elvis Presley to that
> > list.
> >
> > I wouldn't add Elvis, actually...where Dion and
> all the rest aimed?at the
> > "hip" rock crowd, Elvis took his act straight to
> Vegas and basically
> > became a cabaret entertainer

As did Mitch Ryder, albeit without success. (It's been
some time since I've heard his "What Now My Love"
album and I don't remember much of it except that I
got the impression it didn't deserve the wholesale
trashing it's gotten from purist types). 

Speaking of Ricky, has anyone here actually HEARD his
recordings of Bacharach/David songs from "On The Flip
Side"? I haven't to my knowledge. 

, which is a whole
> nother thing. Besides,
> > anyone who followed Elvis' post-Army career would
> have seen that coming.
> > He wasn't?about?to start singing Bob Dylan songs
> at the Fillmore East or
> > the Bitter End...

Elvis actually DID record a Dylan song ("Tomorrow Is A
Long Time") in '66, and did it excellently,
unfortunately it was stuck on the "Spinout" soundtrack
IIRC. 
> 
> I was thinking of the recordings around the comeback
> special, especially
> "Suspicious Minds," "Kentucky Rain" and "Burning
> Love" (I think that was a
> bit later, though). In a way, it was the same thing
> he always did, mixing
> country and R&B, except the country and R&B (or
> soul) was updated.
> 
Very true. The quality of his recordings had been
going up even before the comeback special, e.g. "Big
Boss Man" and "US Male" - those were recorded in '67
but released in '68. Elvis must have sensed the poor
quality of most of his mid sixties work and gotten a
clue even before the TV special....

Michael 

np: Todd Rundgren, A Dream Goes On Forever 

"In the long run, this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it is a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." - Theodore Roosevelt


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