"Alfie", by Eivets Rednow.
Motown issued this album by the teenage Stevie Wonder but decided to spell his name backwards.
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"Alfie", by Eivets Rednow.
Motown issued this album by the teenage Stevie Wonder but decided to spell his name backwards.
actually this one is mildly clever:
While the Strangeloves managed to produce one garage band classic, their story is probably more interesting than their actual music. Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer were a trio of Brooklyn songwriter/producers who landed a number one girl group hit with the Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back." When the British Invasion crested in the mid-'60s, they decided to get in on the act by recording as a group, billing themselves as an Australian outfit to cash in on the mystique being attached to foreign groups.
"I Want Candy," with its crunching Bo Diddley beat, joyous chorus, and rambling lead guitar, was their great moment, reaching number 11 in 1965. Forced to put together a live act to support their disc, they made outrageous claims to hail from the nonexistent town of Armstrong, Australia, where they had made a fortune as sheepherders who had developed a cross-breed.
While the Strangeloves managed to produce one garage band classic, their story is probably more interesting than their actual music. Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer were a trio of Brooklyn songwriter/producers who landed a number one girl group hit with the Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back." When the British Invasion crested in the mid-'60s, they decided to get in on the act by recording as a group, billing themselves as an Australian outfit to cash in on the mystique being attached to foreign groups.
"I Want Candy," with its crunching Bo Diddley beat, joyous chorus, and rambling lead guitar, was their great moment, reaching number 11 in 1965. Forced to put together a live act to support their disc, they made outrageous claims to hail from the nonexistent town of Armstrong, Australia, where they had made a fortune as sheepherders who had developed a cross-breed.
similarly, these masked marvels used exaggerated british accents and let the record company pretend they were English to cash in on the British invasion.
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Mariachi is loud and annoying, but it always has those drunk trumpets, so is highly amusing.
This thread is quite amazing, yes. I wouldn't be surprised if a million one man black metal projects called themselves LOTHAR!!! without knowing the true history behind the name.
This thread is quite amazing, yes. I wouldn't be surprised if a million one man black metal projects called themselves LOTHAR!!! without knowing the true history behind the name.
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dude it's so hilarious to see a line of fat mustachioed men wearing Three Amigos outfits come shuffle-marching through a restaurant playing brassy music.
this is one of my all time favorites:
Jobriath
Born Jobriath Boone, circa 1949, California
Jobriath tried to cash in on the glitter-rock trend and turned out to be one of the most costly and least successful hypes in rock history. Elektra Records reportedly paid up to $500,000 (some say $300,000) to sign the unknown singer. Jobriath's manager, Jerry Brandt, claimed to have discovered him by overhearing a demo that Columbia Records was about to pass up. Brandt, who had previously run New York's Electric Circus and managed Carly Simon (he currently runs the Ritz in Manhattan), supposedly tracked down the 24-year-old Jobriath in L.A. The singer's only prior professional credit was starring as Woof in the L.A. and New York productions of Hair. Other facts about his past are vague.
After Jobriath and Brandt cinched the Elektra deal, they secured a 43 × 41-foot Times Square billboard of the star nearly nude (a reproduction of the LP jacket) and set up what they claimed was a $200,000 stage debut at the Paris Opera House. The show featured the singer doing mime in an eight-foot-high lucite cube, which later turned into a forty-foot phallic symbol/Empire State Building with which Jobriath played King Kong. All this got ample media attention, aided by the singer constantly referring to himself in interviews as "a true fairy" - at least giving him historical importance as one of the few openly gay rock "stars." But it didn't help sell any records; neither did Jobriath's Jaggeresque vocals. After a second album, he vanished.
update: Predictably, and sadly, Jobriath died as one of AIDs' first victims in the early 80s, found dead in his pyramid house atop the home of many a dissolute celeb, the Chelsea Hotel in NYC.
Jobriath
Born Jobriath Boone, circa 1949, California
Jobriath tried to cash in on the glitter-rock trend and turned out to be one of the most costly and least successful hypes in rock history. Elektra Records reportedly paid up to $500,000 (some say $300,000) to sign the unknown singer. Jobriath's manager, Jerry Brandt, claimed to have discovered him by overhearing a demo that Columbia Records was about to pass up. Brandt, who had previously run New York's Electric Circus and managed Carly Simon (he currently runs the Ritz in Manhattan), supposedly tracked down the 24-year-old Jobriath in L.A. The singer's only prior professional credit was starring as Woof in the L.A. and New York productions of Hair. Other facts about his past are vague.
After Jobriath and Brandt cinched the Elektra deal, they secured a 43 × 41-foot Times Square billboard of the star nearly nude (a reproduction of the LP jacket) and set up what they claimed was a $200,000 stage debut at the Paris Opera House. The show featured the singer doing mime in an eight-foot-high lucite cube, which later turned into a forty-foot phallic symbol/Empire State Building with which Jobriath played King Kong. All this got ample media attention, aided by the singer constantly referring to himself in interviews as "a true fairy" - at least giving him historical importance as one of the few openly gay rock "stars." But it didn't help sell any records; neither did Jobriath's Jaggeresque vocals. After a second album, he vanished.
update: Predictably, and sadly, Jobriath died as one of AIDs' first victims in the early 80s, found dead in his pyramid house atop the home of many a dissolute celeb, the Chelsea Hotel in NYC.
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