Ok, got to track 6 in that stream, and it's the Frankie Laine version from 1951.

The Mummies' version is #5.

And #7 is Thee Milkshakes!

gigiriva has twelve versions of "Jezebel" on his 8tracks page...http://8tracks.com/gigiriva/garage-standards-jezebel You have to play the stream to find out who the bands are, though... The first one is by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps in 1956...may be the oldest in the stream. From Wikipedia: "'Jezebel' is a 1951 popular song written by Wayne Shanklin. It was recorded by Frankie Laine with the Norman Luboff Choir and Mitch Miller and his orchestra on April 4, 1951 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39367."

When I heard that comp I thought so, but after that, I found that it was played by Gene Vincent, too, so it's more old tune. I haven't checked out who played the original version though. kopper said:

Wasn't "Jezebel" originally done by the Teddy Boys on the Garage Punk Unknowns (Crypt) comps?

I don't know kopper but I'm gonna look it up! kopper said:

Wasn't "Jezebel" originally done by the Teddy Boys on the Garage Punk Unknowns (Crypt) comps?

Wasn't "Jezebel" originally done by the Teddy Boys on the Garage Punk Unknowns (Crypt) comps?

Hey thanks a lot for the help I'm gonna see if I can figure out the rest.

Not sure at all,but I wish this can help you at least. Lyrics I got a new got a new little girl and they call her Miss Christine well.... well she's got little wings like a baby and she's sweet like a candy doll well .... Chorus: I said Christine x2 Christina oh can't you hear me calling me your name ? I won't call you loud/around I'm just calling you nice and plain yeah she'd/she'll make a blind man dream I believe she'd/she'll make a lame man walk she'd/she'll make a deaf man hear I think she'd/she'll make a dumb man talk all right I said oh yeah x2 I'd rather have what she's got than to have all silver and gold her richest you know it can't be told Chorus all right let's go The Mean Mean Men said:

Awesome-O bro!!!!!!!
Thanks a bunch. Anyone else on the Oblivians song???? Cheers Dead Boy.

Awesome-O bro!!!!!!!

Thanks a bunch.

Anyone else on the Oblivians song????

Cheers Dead Boy.

Here're the lyrics of both Mummies songs. "Jezebel" is a cover version. Jezebel If ever the devil was born, Without a pair of horns It was you, Jezebel, it was you. If ever an angel fell, Jezebel, It was you. Jezebel, it was you. If ever a pair of eyes, Promised paradise. Deceiving me, grieving me, Leavin' me blue. Jezebel, it was you. If ever the devil's plan, Was made to torment man, It was you, Jezebel, it was you. 'Twould be better I had I never known, A lover such as you. Forsaking dreams and all, For the siren call of your arms. Like a demon, love possessed me, You obsessed me constantly. What evil star is mine, That my fate's design, Should be Jezebel? If ever a pair of eyes, Promised paradise. Deceiving me, grieving me, Leavin' me blue. Jezebel, it was you. If ever the devil's plan, Was made to torment man, It was you, Night an' day, every way. Oh, Jezebel, Jezebel, Jezebel. Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo I was walking with a friend of mine Doing nothing just a passin' time Got a notion that'll do you good Eat a pizza down in hollywood In the alley behind the laundromat Stab the motherfucker in the back! Marlon Brando & Jimmy Dean Stupid clowns didn't mean a thing I don't really care if he was gay, was he cuter than Doris Day With his shoes and his tailored slacks Stab the motherfucker in the back!

Ok so typically if I want to do someones song I either have no trouble finding the lyrics, I make up the lyrics as I go, or I go back to a tool of my youth-play,pause,play,pause, until I write them down. But there are a couple songs that I want to do and have not much of an idea so maybe ya'll here can help.

The Oblivians-Christina
The Mummies-Jezebel and Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo

Tomorrow I try and play,pause,play,pause...

So see if you can help thanks ahead of time either way.

A Mean Mean Person

Here's my eMusic downloads from the past month ...

* Animal God Of The Streets by Kim Fowley. I met Kim Fowley -- producer, songwriter, Rock 'n' Roll Svengali, Sultan of Sunset Strip -- at one of the first South by Southwest festivals I attended back in the mid 90s. He was in the Austin Convention Center wearing a fairly psychedelic coat of many colors and was in the company of a sexy young singer he claimed to be "The Next Janis Joplin." (I listened to her cassette tape when I got back home. She was not the next Janis Joplin.) I don't even remember how our conversation started, but he was pitching this singer to me so intently you'd have thought I was some major producer. A film crew approached us and Fowley focused his pitch on the camera. Fowley ranted, the Next Janis Joplin slinked around looking sexy. I decided, what the hell, I held up the tape with a stern expression, nodding my head, as if I were the muscle in the entourage. I don't know where that camera crew was from, but I'd give to have that footage!

* 1950s Gospel Classics by Various Artists. Here's another happy find. This 25-song collection is a treasure chest of some great, if very obscure, gospel belters and guitar pickers.
There's Professor Johnson, who's got a Henry Green, Rev, Robert Ballinger, Deacon Leroy Shinault and the Rev. Anderson Johnson, who does a tune called "Death in the Morning," which either is a precursor to or a crazy bastard son of "O Death."

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's fans will immediately recognize a couple of her tunes here. Green does a version of "Strange Things" (though he does it as a dirge, not upbeat like Tharpe) and "God Don't Like It," which is done twice here by Anderson Johnson. If anything, his version, featuring his slide guitar, is even more jaunty than Sister Rosetta's. On one take, Johnson ends it with a disclaimer: "Now I wasn't talking about anyone, I was just singing my song." So despite the hell-fire lyrics, he's letting us know he's not really judging anyone. He sings it with a smile on his face and love in his heart.

* Bankers and Gangsters by Black 47. Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, a new Black 47 album. Sometimes Larry Kirwin gets a little heavy-handed when he gets going on the politics. The title track here for instance isn't all that inspired. And nothing here matches my favorite 47 song, "Forty Deuce" -- the story of real gangsters.

But there are a few standouts here. "Izzy's Irish Rose" is a fun look at a Hebrew/Celtic romance (and has a tasty little Irishfied blast of "Hava Nagila.") "Celtic Rocker" is a light-hearted look at the subculture that has grown around bands like The Dropkick Murphys, Flogging , The Young Dubliners, and, yes, Black 47.

And then there's "Long Lost Tapes of Hendrix." Check my Terrell's Tune-up column this Friday for more on that.

* Descending Shadows by Pierced Arrows Even though Dead Moon is gone, two-thirds of the band — Fred Cole and his bass player and wife of 40-plus years, Toody Cole — are back with another fine group, Pierced Arrows. The Arrows released an album called Straight to the Heart a couple of years ago on Tombstone.

And now comes their sophomore effort — and it's no slump,

The good news for Dead Moon fans is that the new trio sounds like a continuation of Moon's basic guitar/bass/drums sound. I suppose hard-core followers could argue over which drummer is better, Loomis or new guy Kelly Halliburton (no relation to Dick Cheney), but I don't see a major difference. The important thing is there was no cheesy attempt to update or "modernize" the sound. And Fred is still writing some memorable songs.

See my full review in Terrell's Tune-up a couple of weeks ago.


* The Second Stop Is Jupiter by Sun Ra. Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount, better known in this solar system as Sun Ra (1914-1993), not only played cosmic jazz but also dabbled in doo-wop and R & B in the 1950s and a little funky soul in the '60s and '70s. And danged if Ra didn't make that sound cosmic too!

Norton Records recently released three CDs of his material. Interplanetary Melodies and The Second Stop Is Jupiter feature recordings from the mid-1950s, while Rocket Ship Rock spans the late '50s through early '70s. I picked up the two of the three a couple of months ago, but just got my hands on Jupiter lately. I reviewed the whole shebang a few weeks ago in my Tuneup column. Read it HERE.

Plus

* "New Mexico" by Johnny Cash. A few weeks back Leslie Lithicum of The Albuquerque Journal had a fun column about songs about New Mexico. I was ashamed to realized that I had never heard this one. Luckily, eMusic had it on a Sun Records collection. It's a classic chunka chunka Cash tune about a young cowboy who is recruited for a job here, has a miserable time and gets ripped off.

No, this is one the Tourism Department never will use in ads: "Go back to your friends and loved ones, tell others not to go/To the God-forsaken country they call New Mexico."

* The tracks from The Sheik Said Shake by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers that I didn't get last month. It's just good British psychobilly blues from the Dark Dimension.

My favorite in this batch is "Buried Next to You," a slow-grooving meditation on eternal love. I don't know whether this is an original or otherwise, but I can easily imagine Charlie Feathers singing this one. And there's "One-Legged Rock," which takes up where Terry Allen's "Peggy Leg" left off.

Now I've got to get my hands on the new one by Hipbone -- The Kneeanderthal Sound of…

I got a few worth listening to...

Circle Jerks - "15 minutes" - used to blast this in my room at 15 and just went ape shit over it, still do.

The Minutemen/fIREHOSE - Mike Watt in just about anything. Take your own pick to your own tastes, but checkout songs like "King of the Hill"

The Pixies - "Hey" - Ya I know you heard it a thousand times, so have I, and I can a thousand more. Spooky bass with intense lyrics and chunky strumming.

The Clash - Rock the Casbah - Guilty Pleasure. Just a fun bass line to listen to and play.

Black Flag - No More - Fuckin amazing intro!

(list to be ammended at any given moment Ha-Ha)

These kinds of lists can be cool and obscure, but imo, to list the greats, you gotta list "The Greats"!

Louisville, KY - Zanzabar, the nicest place to see a show in my opinion, small and intimate and newly renovated, a great rock club! http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=228752600576&ref=ts

Hi, I’m from Belgium, Il lived in a small town called La Louvière, which is about 50 kilometers south of Brussels. In La Louvière there is a place called “Taverne du Théâtre » who organise a lot of rock and roll performances . I think you could play there. If you pass around here, here is the weblink of that place. www.myspace.com/latavernedutheatre See you soon maybe Denis from the new capitalists

Hey guys we are looking at putting a tour together and need to find out some places that would be good for us. So if you could reply with where you live and maybe just type a few places that might fit we could do the research we need to do from there. And I' don't care what country you are in cause we will get there soon. Thanks ahead of time.

ps i think that this might end up being a good little database of venues for garage/psych/surf/trash/rand/soul/rock bands.

cool eh?

cheers
patrick

Untamed Youth "Supercharged Steamroller" Norton Records

Cool ass combo

...Well they're all my buddies so I can tell them the truth to thier face --"You guys suck in the most remarkable way!"...(ixnayray almost had it right) Mina said:

because you weren't in it? :o

HA HA HA! They suck in the best possible way! Gringo Starr said:

Die Zorros - the best worst band of all time!

Die Zorros - the best worst band of all time!

Does anyone know where I can get this book? Amazon says its still unreleased, but it was supposed to be released 3/1/10???? Borders.com says its on back order.....
What the F?!!!!!

I see Buddy Holly as the true grandfather of Folk rock and alt country. Back in the 50s, POP was Frankie Avalon and Paul Anka which Buddy Holly pretty much bought into when he started recording Anka written material like "It Doesn't Matter Anymore". Nice song bout nothing POWER-ful about it. I mentioned "The Magic Touch" only because it sounded like an ATTEMPT at Power Pop and "Let Her Dance" has a modern edge to it but most of his stuff is Rock and Roll, pure and simple. troggy said:

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Bobby Fuller? Really?

I have that excellent double disc set by Munster of his complete Mustang recordings but I really don't see his stuff (Let Her Dance, The Magic Touch) as POWER pop.

troggy said:

Bobby Fuller.

You don't think "The Magic Touch" is power pop? He's right out of the Buddy Holly school and Buddy Holly is pretty much the grandfather of power pop.

Yes,I like all those little valve-heads as Tiny terror,Night train,Marshall haze,Epiphone,it seems the last moment trend,but I think it might be better than having just one amp.For live playing,a 30 w is more than enough.Once I had a Marshal 100w 4x12" and I never run it more than 3 volume level! Wasted. So I'd like to get one good cabinet,a 2x12" but having different kinds of mini-heads to stock. High Lord Mardy Pune said:

I'm using a Fender Blues De-Ville circa 1996 for live playing, I run a two by 12 J-Bin under it. When I'm at home I've got a Epiphone Valve Jnr. Great lil amp for the bucks.