Tuesday, December 28, 2010
"Sally Go Round the Roses" by the Jaynetts
I'll take the scratchy & fading YouTube version of one of my favourite 60s songs over all the others. The figurines, toy bear & potato head are the perfect foreground. It has the transistor radio feel of the first time, as well as the early adolescent fascination with exotica. A kind of 'siren song' for the boy lulled by vocals, lyrics & rhythms into secret meanings which the Jaynetts (one of the era's lesser known 'girl groups') seemed also coyly to deny. But that's an adult interpretation: to the 60s kid with the transistor to his ear the secret is felt, almost irresistably.
Funny how the ear's first taste of the enchantress still comes back after all these years.
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the one that "got me"...
the first record that i ever bought.. about 1952 53 54(?)
Honey Love (the "B" side... In The Wee Wee Hours)
Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters
on a redish-orange Atlantic label
exotica? erotica? Honey Love is now hanging on one of my walls...
K.
HEY!
that record (and many more) I bought it at a little record store next to the Atlas Theater up on ((about) 14 th & H Street, N.E.
TOWER RECORDS it was Mr Jack's store!!! he just died
when we moved out to Queenstown /Htattsville I went to Northwood High WITH Dick Towers....Jack's son. Jack, a year older than my mother we-all went to the same synagogues ...one in N.E. then one in Hyattsville ... where I met my First Muse .. Anita Pacentrelli half Italian-Catholic & half D.C.-Jewish but I don't know which half was which.... yet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122804198.html
pee est
if y'all are yet following this:
the last Tower Records store closed about 10 years ago
the Momma-Poppa stores
were many years ago bought out by some Japanese CON-glomerate and became an huge chain ... "thing"
Ellington was also a local.... lots of Rhythm N Blues and jazz here in D.C.
another GREAT local died a cpl days ago...a piano + player his name slips my mind..
did you know
that
Billie Holiday's dad was head cook at The White House?
that The Platters were also local... they used to sing/harmonize ..DOO-WOP on a particular street corner
my cousin, Robbie Raqusin was their first manager
K.
Thanks, Ed!
It's one thing to be listening to that great music up here but another to live it, as you've done.
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