The Millennium
Playlist
Sonny & Cher – It’s Gonna Rain (Atlantic)
Lesley Gore – The Bubble Broke (Mercury)
Tommy Roe – Misty Eyes (ABC)
Janis Ian – Sweet Misery (Verve)
Millennium – Prelude/To Claudia On Thursday (Columbia)
Cast of Thousands – My Jenny Wears a Mini (Tower)
Sundowners – Sunny Day People (Decca)
Merry Go Round – Time Will Show The Wiser (A&M)
Association – [...]
June 28, 2009
Categories: 45s, Beatles-esque Sounds, Canadian Music, Culture, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Digital Trip, Music, Power Pop, Rock, Sunshine Pop, Texas music, cover versions, folk rock, garage punk, pop, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 14 Comments
Terry Reid (and the wrong side of the LP)
Listen -Terry Reid – Stay With Me Baby – MP3
Go to Funky16Corners to hear the version by Lorraine Ellison
Greetings all.
The end of another week approaches and although there’s s summery touch of humidity hanging in the air the sun is still as elusive as ever. I suppose [...]
June 25, 2009
Categories: Culture, Iron Leg, Music, Rock, cover versions . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 2 Comments
The Springfield Rifle(s)
Roger Perkins
The Royal Guardsmen
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Listen -Sprinfield Rifle – The Bears – MP3
Greetings all.
Here’s an odd one.
Fans of Pacific Northwest rock of the 60s will be familiar with the Springfield Rifle.
Rising from the ashes of Jimmy Hannah and the Dynamics (who recorded some great 45s, including a tasty cover of Eddie Holland’s ‘Leaving [...]
June 21, 2009
Categories: 45s, Culture, Iron Leg, Music, Rock, cover versions, folk rock, garage punk, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 1 Comment
Arthur Lee, alone again…
Listen -Arthur Lee & Love – 7 and 7 Is – MP3
Greetings all.
Is everyone ready for the weekend?
I’m sitting here in NJ lulled into somnolence by a week of unending cloud cover, unseasonably low temperatures and finally, today, a veritable deluge. If the mailman is bringing me some records today, he’d better [...]
June 18, 2009
Categories: 45s, Atomic Guitar Destruction, Culture, Iron Leg, Music, Rock, Sunset Strip, garage punk . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 3 Comments
The Soft Machine (Hugh Hopper at left)
Listen -The Soft Machine – A Certan Kind- MP3
Greetings all.
I hope everyone had a most excellent weekend.
The tune I bring you today has been sitting in the reserve file for a while. Unfortunately, the news last week that Hugh Hopper of the Soft Machine had passed away compelled me [...]
June 14, 2009
Categories: Culture, Iron Leg, Music, Obituary, Prog, Rock, psychedelia . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Neighborhood
Listen -The Neighborhood – You Could Be Born Again – MP3
Listen -Free Design – You Could Be Born Again – MP3
Greetings all.
As promised I’d like to close out the week with something Free Design-related.
Some years back, while out digging (at a record show, I think) I happened upon a 45 by a group I’d [...]
June 11, 2009
Categories: 45s, Culture, Iron Leg, Music, Now Sound, Sunshine Pop, cover versions, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 3 Comments
Free Design
Listen -Free Design – Kites are Fun – MP3
Greetings all.
I want to start things off by saying a hearty “Thank you!” to everyone that donated during the Funky16Corners/Iron Leg 2009 Pledge Drive. Once again the nut – as they say- has been covered, and things (at least as far as interwebs storage/bandwidth is concerned) [...]
June 7, 2009
Categories: 45s, Culture, Easy Listening, Iron Leg, Jazz, Music, Now Sound, Sunshine Pop, pop . . Author: funky16corners . Comments: 3 Comments