So, what have you been listening to lately?

[westen44]

I do. Be My Baby is pure early 60s schlock. I guess you could say he excelled at that. For good pop from that era, Gerry Goffin and Carole King had him beat by miles. I detested his music long before his legal troubles.

That's such a great quote! But he actually said it about television.

See Understanding "Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free", in the section Source of the Quote.

Well, I think Abraham Lincoln has already warned us to not believe everything we read on the Internet.  LOL.  But there are several quotes out there that never seem to get settled.  Like Mark Twain supposedly saying "a lie can get halfway round the world before the truth gets a chance to put its boots on."  It's a great quote, bur I doubt if Twain said it. 

Another one is the common myth that Hendrix said, for example, that one guitarist or another was the world's greatest.  The fact is he never said that to my knowledge.  But plenty of people seem to think he did.  There are many variations to this which I think is just an urban myth or myths. 

One of my favorites is the quote "if you're going to tell people the truth, make sure that you make them laugh.  Otherwise, they'll try to kill you.  Probably Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw said that, but no one knows for sure.  The fact of the matter is if you're really serious about getting to the heart of something it's better to go beyond the Internet if possible.  I'm not a big believer in Internet reliability. 

[Dave W]

His credits are massive. Over 450 production credits according to discogs. Schlock or not, he was successful.  In case you didn't catch it, that was a loosely based quote from the movie dirty dancing which also featured the Ronettes most famous tune.

What's your point? Britney Spears has sold more than 150 million records. She's more successful than Phil Spector. Does that make her a high quality artist?

I like what I like regardless of popularity. And I don't like Phil Spector's productions. While I'm at it, I don't like most Motown either.

Anyway, here's what I'm listening to today, thanks to a FB friend who posted it.

[uwe]

"While I'm at it, I don't like most Motown either."



Sigh, I was all the while fearing that utterance of his. I  just so knew it was coming.   We've been married for a while, you know.



Man ... that ... just ...



On a more positive side, Dave has a keen eye for musical youth!



Well, not all musical youth ...



Yet, big-hearted as he is, talent is international for him, especially of the nose wrinkly kind! Not real country though ... well, Soviet country ...

[westen44]

I don't like a lot of Motown, either.  Sick of it!  I had to listen to that endlessly as a teenager when I was around people who only wanted to listen to that.  I've been free of Motown a long time now, thank God. 

[uwe]

I just luv my Motown and all it spawned!











I first heard Celebration in 1981

- in Deeetroit (ok, it might have been Deeearborn)

- at a Polish-American wedding

- in a Polish-American WWII Veterans Club.

Talk about a cultural and generational melting pot as people who had been around WW II plus their children and grandchildren polonaised to it without flinching! And yes, the handful of black couples that were there, were the best dancers that night.

[westen44]

Well, believe me, a whole lot of people like Motown, but I'm not one of them. 

[4stringer77]

Indeed, popularity is not always an indication of quality. I don’t think Britney is a fair comparison to Phil. I would say her producer had to have a degree of competence to make recordings that could sell as well as they did. I’d be surprised if as many people listen to Miss Spears in 50 years compared to how many people still listen to the Righteous Bros.

[uwe]

The only commonality I see that they both are not quite responsible for their actions. Phil's dad is dead though, so he can't take care of him anymore.

[Pilgrim]

I spent a lot of time listening to the Supremes' Greatest Hits double album. Fantastic group, wonderful production.

[uwe]

Man, I miss Weiland. I thought as a frontman chameleon he was head and shoulders above Axl (who sounds and acts samey to me) and I liked how he used his voice in a way that did not always conform with the hard rock rule book. Ok, the SS officer cap - cool as it looked - wasn't the most tasteful choice!



He switched from SS to Red Army later on, no doubt an improvement:




Dug his solo stuff too.

[uwe]

Old gal Tarja gets a listen too. Is she old enough to even remember Rollerball from her older siblings? Or did some cineastic director talk her into it?

[Dave W]

Well, I think Abraham Lincoln has already warned us to not believe everything we read on the Internet.  LOL. 

I suppose next you'll tell me that this is photoshopped. 

[westen44]

  LOL!!

[westen44]

Just one example among many of what I'd rather be listening to than Motown.

[Rob]

LMAO I thought that it said Milton Berle. . . need coffee.