Even without Peter Tork, check out how well The Monkees serve as pitchmen for Nerf balls! Genius. Mr. Gorbachev, put those Monkees in the Hall!
If you were to cast a working band or solo artist to pitch a children’s product who would it be and what would they pitch?
He’s gonna do it ’til he don’t like it.
As ladymisskirroyale suspected, our latest Mystery Date, a song entitled “4jg,” was by early Human League, or maybe The Human League under their original name, The Future. I downloaded this track from a collection of early demos, The Golden Hour of The Future, and didn’t pay attention to which band name this track was recorded under.
There’s no doubting the band name for this track, from the same collection:
The Human League, “Dance Like a Star”
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees have been announced.
And the nominees are: Beastie Boys, Chic, LL Cool J, the J. Geils Band, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex, Chuck Willis, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Dr. John, and Tom Waits.
Perhaps I’m still holding a grudge against Bon Jovi for his lunkheaded comments about The Replacements (“Last Great band of the decade? I don’t even know who they are.”) in the late ’80s, but really, the fact that he and Tom Waits might be sharing the same honor on the same night for their contributions is ridiculous. (Jon, if you’re reading this, Tom Waits is the guy who wrote that song “Downtown Train,” which Rod Stewart ended up butchering.)
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I’ve noticed that since I started following RTH, I’ve been listening to music differently. So it came as a surprise that over dinner, Mr. Royale and I were initially unable to identify an instrumental version of a familiar song that we heard while we were waiting for our Pad Thai to arrive. There was that Wes Montgomery-style jazz guitar. There was a soft, burbling saxophone. Mr. Royale initially placed it as a cover of Charlie Parker’s “Little Brown Shoes.” But we noticed that we continued to listen alertly in that way that you do in that aural tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. The lyrics of the song soon arose, unwelcomed, to curdle the taste of our just finished Som Tum, as we realized with horror that the song was “Light My Fire.” A cover. Not Doors-worthy. More like a cover of the Jose Feliciano version.
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I’m not saying “We need Rock Town Hall.” I’m saying “We enjoy Rock Town Hall.”
What are you high on these days?
