The Great Northwest ... And some blues. Harold, Dave and Tully Put Me On This Course / Additional discographical (usually original label, year of release), biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 14, 1969 // PERSONNEL: Original Jimi Hendrix Experience line-up // Click on Link above/left, for more info on this CD
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 14, 1969 // PERSONNEL: Original Jimi Hendrix Experience line-up // Click on Link above/left, for more info on this CD
Regarded by Rolling Stone as one of the 1"00 Greatest Guitar Songs" ever. / FUN FACT: On the album's front cover photo, the group "members" pictured were actually four employees from Liberty's {Liberty distributed Dolton Records} stockroom, because the actual Ventures were on the road at the time the album cover was put together./ * - although the Ventures' version was based on Chet Atkins' 1956 version //Click on the Link above, Left to view the original Blue Horizon single.
The first release on Etiquette Records, The Wailers' label. This became a HUGE hit locally, reaching #1 Seattle's on station KJR / ** - "Company" = Rockin' Robin Roberts, The Marchans, Kent Morrill
Click on Link above, to view the original single - features future Moby Grape members Don Stevenson, Jerry Miller / * - Full title: 'Love Is The Song We Sing (San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970)''
Regarded by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs" ever. / FUN FACT: On the album's front cover photo, the group "members" pictured were actually four employees from Liberty's {Liberty distributed Dolton Records} stockroom, because the actual Ventures were on the road at the time the album cover was put together./ * - although the Ventures' version was based on Chet Atkins' 1956 version //Click on the Link above, Left to view the original Blue Horizon single.
Regarded by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs" ever. / FUN FACT: On the album's front cover photo, the group "members" pictured were actually four employees from Liberty's {Liberty distributed Dolton Records} stockroom, because the actual Ventures were on the road at the time the album cover was put together./ * - although the Ventures' version was based on Chet Atkins' 1956 version //Click on the Link above, Left to view the original Blue Horizon single.
Dewey Martin (later of Buffalo Springfield) on vocals, and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow on guitar / Covered by The Shadows of Knight, late 1966 / Click on the Link above, to see the original compilation album
Picked up by Dot Records for national release, Aug 1966 / * - WARNING - sound quality is BAD {as with many Moxie pressings - thank Dave Gibson and his home-made record pressings for that; yes, you read that right, he pressed up his own records, see Link at right}; it IS the first appearance on an LP, though / Click on the Link above, to see the original local single
Regarded by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs" ever. / FUN FACT: On the album's front cover photo, the group "members" pictured were actually four employees from Liberty's {Liberty distributed Dolton Records} stockroom, because the actual Ventures were on the road at the time the album cover was put together./ * - although the Ventures' version was based on Chet Atkins' 1956 version //Click on the Link above, Left to view the original Blue Horizon single.
[Original single:] • REQ • (6 -) Jerden, June 1965)
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* - on their 'Dirty Water' album / Click on the Link above, Left to view the original Jerden single, which was released nationally on the Dunhill label.
Billed as 'Jimmy Hanna WITH The Dynamics' / They were from Seattle, WA, and morphed into "The Springfield Rifle". Click on the Link above, Left to view the original single.
* - their first hit single was 'Like Long Hair', Top-40 in early 1961, on the Gardena label. / Click on the Link above, Left to view the original single.
Click on the Link above, Left to view the original album. Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, TX but moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington.
The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded: "If Nirvana was The Beatles of the Seattle Invasion, then Love Battery is somewhere between Gerry & The Pacemakers and Petula Clark."
Picked up for national release in Oct 1963 by Wand Records, after influential DJ Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsberg had played it as "the worst record of the week" on WMEX, Boston.
[Original 10' record:] • REQ • (Trumpet, Nov 1951)
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* - This song was also recorded during his first session in Chicago in 1959, and also his last session in NYC in late 1962/ early 1963 for Bobby Robinson's Fire Records group of labels. / Click the Link above, left, to view the original 10" shellac record
Jesse McReynolds died June 23rd, at age 92. He played mandolin many years with his brother Jim McReynolds {guitar/ high tenor}, first as "The McReynolds Brothers" {1947 - 1952}, then as "Jim & Jesse" (1952 - 2002} with their backing band, "The Virginia Boys". who included Vassar Clements and actor Randall Franks. // This song was inspired by the then-recent death of Otis Redding; Robby Krieger also did some vocals
