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Garsh ! Summer break, folks, summer break !!! Yep people, here's the legendary STGW summer break/mix ! (Officially, this is the 4974th break of this very blog) Rev. Frost's on holidays, again ! Beach ! Sharks ! Sun burns ! Surf ! Enjoy your summer (and this mix), I'll see y'all in September for more adventures !!! Yeeeeeeha ! Rev. Frost Presents…A Bloody Summer Mix, ’09 ! (56 :20) (via Rapidshare) Tracklist : 1. Kumio Miyauchi - Monster Fight ! 2. Shouting Thomas & The Torments - Struggle (Scratch That Itch) 3. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You 4. Terry and Blue Jeans Feat. Terumasa Hino – Kickstand 5. LaSalles – Chopsticks 6. Hoagy Lands - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand 7. The Tune Rockers - Green Mosquito 8. John Greer - Come Back Maybelline 9. Bloodshot Bill - Bloodshot Man 10. Gabriel & His Angels - Hey ! 11. The Countdowns - Do It 12. Joe Jones - California Sun 13. Dr. Isaiah Ross - New York Breakdown 14. Mickey Katz - Come On-a My House 15. Li...

Hallelujah ! Wynona Carr was born in Cleveland, OH, where she started out as a gospel singer, forming her own five-piece group The Carr Singers around 1945 and touring the Cleveland/Detroit area. Being tipped by The Pilgrim Travelers, who shared a bill with Carr in the late 1940's, Art Rupe signed her to his Specialty label, giving Carr her new stage name "Sister" Wynona Carr (modelled after pioneering gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe) and cutting some twenty sides with her from 1949 to 1954, including a couple of duets with Specialty's biggest gospel star at the time, Brother Joe May. Although she recorded rarely, Carr nevertheless remained a highly prolific songwriter, composing poetic, topical material often inspired by headlines of the day; she cut dozens of demos for Specialty, and ironically enough earned more money from sales of her sheet music than from her actual recordings. After successfully touring white nightclubs in 1954 with Sister Rosetta Tharpe and...

I'd rather see you dead, buried in some cypress grove… The throbbing guitar sound of Garfield Akers was a primary influence on subsequent generations of Mississippi bluesmen, with the likes of John Lee Hooker and Robert Wilkins citing him as an influence! Born around 1902 in Bates, Mississippi, Akers remains a shadowy figure; after honing his skills at local dances and house parties, he relocated to the Hernando area, where he worked by day as a sharecropper. After moving on to Memphis, in 1929 he made his first Vocalion label recordings at the Peabody, accompanied by guitarist Joe Callicott; between this first date and a 1930 session for Brunswick, four Akers performances still exist - his two-part signature "Cottonfield Blues," "Jumpin' and Shoutin' Blues," and "Dough Roller Blues," one of the first variations on Hambone Willie Newbern's seminal "Roll and Tumble." His most well-known song is his debut, the Cottonfield Blues, whi...

...that's me. Yep, before he became the successful record producer of The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Suzi Quatro and the Jeff Beck Group to name a few, Mickie Most (born Michael Peter Hayes (20 June 1938 – 30 May 2003)) travelled to South Africa with his wife Christina, and formed a pop group, Mickie Most and the Playboys. (not with his wife though). The band scored 11 consecutive Number 1 singles playing mostly cover versions of Ray Peterson, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran. Returning to London in 1962, Most appeared on package tours as well as recording "Mister Porter", a minor hit in 1963, and….BANG !, he recorded these two bloody fantastic tracks in 1965 with a young Jimmy Page hammering out the guitar work ! Yeah ! Mickie Most & The Gear : * That's Alright * * Money Honey *

Howdy Folks ! Due to popular demand (and a proper avatar), here’s Paul Evans ! Evans ((born 5 March 1938, in Queens, New York) performed in his high school years, got a scholarship to Columbia University and promptly set up his own radio show. His early career days were spent crooning in small clubs and aboard a cruise ship ! Evans began to score hit records in the early '60s, including "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat", the fantastic "Happy-Go-Lucky Me" and "Hushabye, Little Guitar". He came up with another hit in 1979 with the morbid "Hello, This Is Joannie". His activities as a songwriter easily pass up this perfectly respectable track record. Besides the ultra-hit written for Bobby Vinton ("Roses Are Red, My Love"), there was also a timely hit for the Kalin Twins entitled "When", a series of donations to the cause of Elvis Presley including "Something Blue" and "I Gotta Know" and many o...

All hail The Tornadoes ! A bloody brilliant surf band from Redlands, California, and a real family band, their lineup consisted of two brothers (Gerald and Norman Sanders), their cousin Jesse Sanders and a friend, Leonard Delaney. They started out as an instrumental group from San Bernardino, CA, called the Vaqueros. The Tornadoes were the first band to receive national airplay with a surf instrumental !The song was of course, "Bustin' Surfboards", released on Aertaun Records in 1962, and it has since become a classic and mainstay of the surf genre ! The album with the same name was released in 1963. And for the record, the band temporarily changed their names to The Hollywood Tornadoes, because the British band the Tornado(e)s, were charting with the song "Telstar". Enjoy ! The Tornadoes : * Vaquero * * Maleguena * * Bustin' Surfboards *

Unfortunately, Max Lipscomb is probably better remembered for the three months or so that he was a member of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps than for his own solo career as Scotty McKay ! Max began his life as a Blue Cap as a backing singer, but was soon moved to rhythm guitar and he ended up playing piano (the first time a piano was used on a Blue Caps session) at the December 1957 sessions. Lipscomb travelled to Philadelphia to look up Frank Slay and Bob Crewe, who agreed to record him, and - apparently at the suggestion of their business partner Dick Clark - changed his name to Scotty McKay. Under the direction of Slay and Crewe, McKay recorded "Rollin' Dynamite"/ "Evenin' Time" for Parkway. In that same year, Scotty was signed to Johnny Vincent's Ace label, on which he had six singles released between September 1960 and October 1962. The first and best of these was "Little Liza Jane", with accompaniment by Fats Domino's band. By 1965, The ...

Hello Hello Hell-o!!! Carl Belew is one of a long list of performers who moved on from making small rockabilly records to country music fame as both a singer and songwriter. His rockers include 'Cool Gator Shoes' and 'Folding Money' on Four Star for whom he made his debut in 1955 after being brought to the company's attention by Marvin Rainwater. By the following year, he gained his first widespread exposure thanks to appearances on a pair of California-based radio programs, Town Hall Party and The Cliffie Stone Show. In 1957, he performed on the Louisiana Hayride. Our man is best remembered as a songwriter whose work was covered by an eclectic group of artists ranging from Patsy Cline to Gene Vincent to Andy Williams. Carl Belew sadly died of cancer on Halloween in 1990 at the young age of 59. You know me, I love that kind of details ! Carl Belew : * Cool Gator Shoes * * Folding Money *

Shake Shake Shake ! Ok, I was supposed to play some records on a lusty party last weekend, but instead, I was stuck at home with the flu (no, not the pig one). Ah, what the heck, now the whole wide world can hear the mix I've cooked, and dance in your living room/car/bike/choose. Well, enjoy this mean motherfuyer ! Rev. Frost Presents…A Bloody Buttshaker Mix, Part 3 ! (61 :39) via rapidshare Tracklist: 01. Intro / The Phantom Surfers – Istanbul 02. Baby Al & The Capps - Grab Your Partner And Do Your Own Thing 03. Elvis Presley - Never Say Yes 04. Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers - Sock It To 'Em J.B. (Part I) 05. Baby Washington & The Hearts - Been A Long Time Baby 06. The Playmates - Beep Beep 07. Randy & The Radiants - My Way Of Thinking 08. Ervin Rucker and The Blues Nighthawks Orchestra - Done Done the Slop 09. Carlo Montez - Theme From Danger In Go Go Boots 10. Wilson Pickett - Baby Call On Me 11. Eddie & The Showmen - Mr. Rebel 12. The Chips - Rubber B...

It must be rain-ain-drops… Fuck yeah, Dee Clark had a wonderfully impassioned tenor voice ! Clark made his first recording in 1952 as a member of the Hambone Kids, who scored an R&B hit with the song "Hambone." In 1953, he joined an R&B group called the Goldentones, who later became the Kool Gents and were discovered by Chicago radio DJ Herb Kent upon winning a talent competition. Kent got the Kool Gents signed to Vee-Jay record label, subsidiary Falcon/Abner. Clark struggled to forge his own style, mimicking Clyde McPhatter on the follow-up "Seven Nights" and aping Little Richard on 1958's "Oh, Little Girl."(included here) Neither charted, but when Little Richard himself abruptly quit performing to enter Bible college, his booking agent hired Clark to fulfill his remaining live dates; he ultimately spent five months on the road with Richard's backing band the Upsetters, also enlisting the group for studio dates. Anyway, Clark embarked on a...

Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. Now, let's celebrate the resurrection of Bobby Lee Trammell, who, in spite of his undeniable huge talent, never had a major hit record. Amen. Working for the Ford Motor Company by day, Trammell played clubs by night and was signed to the Fabor label where he recorded his own song, the spirited "Shirley Lee". The record sold encouragingly and was released nationally. Ricky Nelson recorded the song as the opening track on his 1958's Lp, and wanted Trammell to write for him but, typically, Trammell couldn't be bothered. Yep, for the historical book, our Bobby once went to Memphis but when Sun’s Sam Phillips told him that he should rehearse, Trammell became bored and moved to Los Angeles ! Performing, Trammell became excessively wild and would even strip off. The country music songwriter and promoter Tillman Franks, described...

Hey fellow readers ! We're not gonna talk 'bout Bob in Twin Peaks, but we’re talking today ‘bout the career of James Shaw, who recorded for a wide range of labels as Jimmy Shaw, Hannibal, The Mighty Hannibal and King Hannibal. No matter what name he used, though, or what label he appeared on, there was one consistent thread running through all of his music. Hannibal was one sensational soul singer. Born James Shaw he started singing doo wop as an Atlanta teenager, and eventually released a string of moderately successful (and generally highly praised) singles for a variety of independent labels. But it was the prophetic Shurfine hit "Hymn No. 5," a sobering gospel-blues about a black soldier writing home from Vietnam, that Hannibal will perhaps be best known for. Released in 1966, the tune beat the white hippie acts to the punch by at least a year in its anti-war consciousness. But by now, however, Hannibal had developed a serious heroin habit and was spending more ti...

On board with Mr Roy Brown ! Born Roy James Brown in New Orleans, Brown started as a gospel singer and after a move to Los Angeles some time in the 1940s, and a brief period spent as a professional boxer in the welterweight category, he won a singing contest in 1945 at the Million Dollar Theater covering "There's No You" by Bing Crosby. Brown and his band "The Mighty Men" were spectacular performers, with the kind of crowd pleasing stage histrionics for which Little Richard would soon be famous ! Unfortunately, tastes changed and Brown could not keep up. The decline of his fortunes coincided with his successfully winning a lawsuit against King Records for unpaid royalties in 1952, one of the few African American musicians to do so in the 1950s. This has led some, such as author Nick Tosches (in his book Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, which contains a chapter on Brown – gotta have it folks) to believe that Brown may have been blacklisted. When his popula...

Frankie ! Monday! Posting Time ! Mr Frankie Lee Sims picked up a guitar when he was 12 years old. By then, he had left his native New Orleans for Marshall, TX. After World War II ended, he played local dances and clubs around Dallas and crossed paths with T-Bone Walker, and he'd cut his first 78s in 1948 in Dallas. The guitarist recorded fairly prolifically for Los Angeles-based Specialty into 1954, then switched to Johnny Vincent's Ace label (and its Vin subsidiary) in 1957 to cut the mighty rockers "Walking with Frankie" and "She Likes to Boogie Real Low," both of which pounded harder than a ballpeen hammer. Sims mostly missed out on the folk-blues revival of the early '60s that his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins cashed in on handily. When he died at age 53 in Dallas of pneumonia, Sims was reportedly in trouble with the law due to a shooting incident and had been dogged by drinking problems. Goddamn. Frankie Lee Sims : * She Likes To Boogie Real Low * * ...

Ray Martin (Born 'Raymond Wolfgang Kohn', and later anglicised his name) was a British orchestra leader and was noted for his light music compositions. Allmusic journalist, Bradley Torreano states "Ray Martin created a legacy for himself in British popular music through his work with his orchestra during the 1950s. In 1957, he emigrated to the U.S.. He composed, arranged, and conducted on recordings for Imperial, but he's best remembered for his albums for RCA. The two bloody fantastic tracks included here are taken from Martin's Dynamica (who is one of the highlights of RCA's Stereo Action series.) His regular appearances on radio and television kept him in the public spotlight, while his position at EMI Records made him an influential producer at the label. His use of pseudonyms has blurred the path of his career through the years, making his many contributions even harder to keep track of ! Ray Martin & His orchestra : * The Flight Of The Bumblebee * * ...

It's a plane? No ! It's a bird? No ! It's a bloody come-back mix, part 5 !!! Oh my, 5 years of blogging, and here's the fifth comeback mix...not bad uh. As usual, play it naked and loud, and of course, no personal thoughts on this mix...at all. Boy, this one's mean. Rev. Frost Presents...A Bloody ComeBack Mix, Part 5 ! (51:33) - via rapidshare Tracklist : 01. The Challengers - Mr. Moto 02. Jesse James - I'm All Right 03. Carl Lester & Showstoppers - When You See Me Hurt 04. Kenny Owen - I Got The Bug 05. Big Maybelle - 96 Tears 06. The Cavaliers - Le Vème Cavalier 07. The Gants - Road Runner 08. Don Covay - The Boomerang 09. Nick Curran & The Nightlifes - Shot Down 10. Sammy Cotton - Give Me One More Drink 11. The Coasters - Bad Blood 12. Joe Thomas – Rocatella 13. The Shondells - Something's Got A Hold Of Me 14. Grace Chang - I Want Your Love 15. Jimmy Holiday - Love Me One More Time 16. Brownie McGhee - Anna-Mae 17. Amos Milburn Jr – Gloria 18....

Howdy-Ho Y'all ! Something perfect for this winter, while dreaming of waves ! The Revels weren’t an actual group, but one of the several surf-hot rod acts of the 1960s that were actually comprised of California session players and songwriters. They released one album, a novelty-concept LP of sorts jammed with songs about the then-hot slot car craze. Masterminded by Gary Usher (who produced the record and wrote most of the songs with Roger Christian). Their recording range from downright cool and fun to modestly interesting. Their impact on the music scene far outweighed their own success, and the legend lives on ! They were formed out of a San Luis Obispo, California high school band in 1957, naming themselves Gil Serna & The Rockets, and being renamed The Revels in early 1959 by leader Norman Knowles. The name reflected the group’s penchant for partying and beer drinking ! The band become known for, in tandem with their own legendary drinking. Some tunes were an allusion to gu...

WOOHOOOOOOOOO Oh boy....I'm back. Again. Did you miss me folks, did you, did you? I feel like Dr. Emmett Brown, really. I think I'm the first time-traveler blogger. Time-slippin-a-billy y'know. Hum hum, who cares about another 4 months hiatus? You? Oh Sorry. Anyway, great to be back (for the 65325th time) !!!! Everyone's ok? Anyone for doo-wop? Frankly, my life has been pretty much Doo-Woply lately. The Orioles have been called “the first R&B vocal group !” (yeah, like New Kids On The Boll...hum,Block) Formed in 1947 as the Vibranaires in their hometown of Baltimore, they changed their name to the Orioles (the Maryland state bird) a year later. These five street-corner harmony pioneers imparted a skilled, soulful edge to the standard pop-crooning style of the day, and their appearance marked a shift in popular taste from big bands to small vocal groups. The Orioles established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound: wordless, melismatic harmonies surrounding the te...

Howdy Hooo Hoo Hooooo !!!! Hello folks, Rev. Frosty the fatman here ! A quick word to y'all to wish you a merry merry Christmas, seasons greetings, you know, the whole thing. Yup, Frosty is still alive, sorry for the lack of posts or answers to emails, but don't worry, Santa is surfing to town this year again ! Ok, all the Christmas Bloody Mixes are uploaded in the archives (December 2005/2006) via rapidshare, enjoy them a lot ! I'll try to be back on tracks on this very blog next year (Santa please, bring me a new guitar, a flat, all my stuff & lots of expensive red wine) I do hope you're all ok brohers & sis', good will to all mankind and peace on earth (just kidding). Kiss Hugh Hugh Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. See you soon my dear friends !!!! Ho Ho Ho ! Boris Karloff : * How The Grinch Stole Christmas ! * RIP Vampira ! Betty Page ! Bo Diddley ! Jody Reynolds ! Jimmy Ford ! Jo Stafford ! Odetta ! Forrest J Ackerman ! My Liver !