Real Name: Admirl Amos Easton / Full CD title: 'Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 6' * // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original shellac record
Real Name: Frank Isaac Robinson / A child prodigy, at the age of 2 he could play piano, at age 5 he appeared in public and at age 9 he made his first record. He performed for President Harry S. Truman at the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner in 1946, becoming the first African-American to be invited. "Numbers Boogie" was a Top-5 R&B hit in 1949. // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original single, an early 7" record with a picture sleeve
FULL title of the album 'Texas In The Thirties 1926 - 1938 The Complete Recordings In Chronological Order Of Carl Davis' Dallas Jamboree Jug Band, Black Ace, Kitty Gray And Her Wampus Cats' (really!) // Real Name: Babe Kyro (Karo) Lemon Turner, also known as "B.K. Turner" /// Click on Link above/ left, to view the original shellac record.
Produced by Barry White {yes - that one ...} // Perceptive comment that I found on Youtube: " This song is a blatant rip-off of the Supremes 'Everything Is Good About You' {down to the Diana Ross imitation - Larry} I'm surprised Motown didn't sue Barry White for stealing the song. "
* - recording was made on March 20–21, 1959, at Sanders Theater, Harvard University ? Lehrer was a professor at MIT, later the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Pepé Le Pew" is the lovelorn French skunk character in the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartooniverse, first introduced in 1945 and originally voiced by Mel Blanc.
Thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label (Moon). She was born in Pontotoc, MS in 1923.
Regarding the album's topical nature, Wainwright notes: "It's something that no-one does anymore; write songs about current events. When I was young there were a lot of topical songwriters around; maybe folk music had more impact on culture back then. I see these songs as a kind of musical journalism. My father was a journalist, for Life magazine, and I've definitely inherited something of that approach."
At the end of 2011, "Uncut" magazine named this album the year's 20th best albumwhile Robert Christgau ranked it #37 on his list for The Barnes & Noble Review.
The album's title of "Learning to Crawl" was given in honor of Chrissie Hynde's then-infant daughter, Natalie Rae Hynde // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original single, with a picture sleeve
