Funny convulsions of rock and roll. Artemy Troitsky recalls the basics

Hedliners of one hundred and eighty -sixth output of the podcast and the radio program "Music at Free" - performers who lit up in life and on stage for a very long time, but completely sincerely. Still: to play primitive rock and roll, it was necessary to burn with fire! Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky willingly forgive the pioneers of the genre some creative naivety, since it was more than compensated by the musical temperament and a thirst for new sounds.

In Soviet newspapers and magazines of the 50-60s, the sections "counter-propaganda", scourging vices of the West, were required. There were even headings under the names of the type of “their customs” or “grimaces of the“ free “world”, where the most poisonous irony (now this style was resurrected by the efforts of Kiselev-Solovyov-Koosayan) described the perversions of the “non-lifestyle”, from “monkey” dancing and pop art to “MacDonalds” and chewing and chewing house Gum. It was from “their morals” a simple but inquisitive Soviet youth found out that now in the big world, cool and fashionable, whether it be jeans or hairstyles a la beatles ... The favorite object of the dentifting satire was rock and roll-a unbridled, primitive, depraved, degenerative, aggressive, awakening in young people of the paradise instincts. Rock was a light and grateful target simply because almost all the vices attributed to him actually took place! Moreover, they were his virtues.

The brilliant American group The Cramps ("Closures", 1976–2009) ideally embodied the manic spirit of rock-perimitivism: sex, courage and delusional fantasies. The core of the team was a married couple Lux Interior and Poison Ivy ( luxury interior and ivy is poisonous ), vocals and guitar, respectively. In addition to recording albums (there are eight) and concert activity, luxury and ivy for many years led on the best (really better!) American musical radio station of the WMFU , dedicated to the trash-music of the 1950s and 1960s-rock and roll, Surfu, bluse , tiki-exotica and other wild. Strange and very funny. In 2009, after the death of Lux, the London Cherry Red label began to produce album-compilations of the series "from the archives of Lux and ivy." There are already about two dozen of them, all are very cool. There are thematic among them-say, strap-ons for Halloween or music for scientific and fantastic plots, but most represent a rare vintage rock and roll. I will be happy to introduce you to the chosen heroes and heroines of the last three issues: Destination Crampsville , Lux & Ivy's Good for Nothin 'Tunes and Records, Records, Records .

Scott Wood & His Band with his chick rock

Let's start with the “chick rock” performed by Scott Wood and his band: the record was made in Pikerington, Ohio, in 1959. Presumably, "Scott Wood" - the pseudonym of the author of the song, composer of Clay Igaer . It was the only single Scott Wood & His Band. Unlike the "dance of small ducklings" universal, and even national, did not become a hit.

Jin Jilett with a song "She never gives him to leave"

Jin Gilett recorded the only single with the songs "She will never let him go" and "train to Satanville" in 1961 in the city of Los Angeles. The songs were magnificent, released by a separate publication on Vinil last year - and no one knows who this Gene Gilett is! There is an assumption that this is a rock and roll pseudonym Robi Leicester , a professional studio vocalist who voiced the cartoons of Walt Disney .

Sasha Barlend with his "Gorilla gait"

Sasha Barlend - a jazz singer and composer, was born in 1927, and in 1959-1964 he headed the Virtual Vocal Project The Nutty Squirrels ("Funny Squirrels"), created according to the principle of the famous Chipmunks - cartoon chipmunks singing funny voices. He recorded the song of The Gorilla Walk in 1961, in parallel with the “squirrels” - obviously in the hope of warming his hands on the states of the fever of exotic dances that covered the states at that time. It didn't work out. In the future, Sasha recorded music for advertising and allowed many large jazz musicians to earn extra money in the studio.

Betty Lavett with Witchcraft in the Air

Betty Lavett is the only famous artist among all the characters from the crypt of Lux and Ivy. She was born in 1946 in Michigan; Grown in Detroit. I began to sign up at the age of 16. "Witchcraft in the air" is its third single, published in 1963. Betty is alive to this day, has a lot of awards and laureate titles in the field of blues and soul music, performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009, sang a duet with Paul McCartney ...

Portuguese Joe sings about the riot of teenagers

But the Portuguese Joe (surname - Alvesh ) did not have a musical career in the end. In 1957, he released two single with his Tennesse Rockabilys group, although he lived in California, and it didn’t go further. However, one of the four recorded songs, Teen Age Riot , became quite famous and was a capt of several punk groups many years later. And Miss Ping Pong is just a funny song with a rare Asian flavor. Having finished Rock and Roll, the Portuguese became a famous designer-decorator in the film industry.

The Nite Caps with a song about a hoarse saxophone

About The Nite Caps group (not to be confused with the famous The NightCaps from Dallas, Texas) is unknown at all, except that they released their only single in 1958 on the legendary Chess label - which suggests: the group lived in Chicago, where the label was based. It is a pity, because the Haunted Sax is a luxurious instrumental number, perhaps too jazz for rock and too fateful jazz ...

Steve King & The Echelons - About a girl named Satan

The gallery of amazing curioses from the luxury of the interior and ivy of the poisonous song "Her name is Satan" (1962) will complete the gallery. Again, the only single of the Steve King & The Echelons group. Here they are definitely from Chicago! Steve King (not to confuse with the author of the Bratseller novels) is a creative biography worthy of all envy: in the 1960s he was first popular in the city of Rock-n Roll holder (except for the "echelons", he also had a Kings Row group), and since 1966 he was settled by a DJ to the local radio. Soon his musical program became known throughout America and ended only relatively recently, in 2011, at the 6207th issue! That would be so!

The playlist of the 186th release of "music at large":

1. Perry Blake (Ireland). Miracle, LP Songs OF PRAISE

2. Bleached (USA). I Get What I Neeed, Lp Don'T You Think You've Had Enure?

3. The Sorceers (UK). The Horror, LP The Sorceers

4. The Sorceers (UK). End Credits, LP in Search of the Lost City OF THE MONKEY GOD

5. Muran Humanos (Argentina/Germany). Detras de Una Flor, LP Hospital Lullabies

6. Scott Wood & His Band (USA). Chicken Rock, LP Destination Crampsville

7. Jin Gillette (USA). She'll Never Let Him GO, LP Destination Crampsville

8. Sascha Burland (USA). The Gorilla Walk, LP Destination Crampsville

9. Betty lavette (USA). Witchcraft in the Air, LP Lux & Ivy's Good for Nothing 'Tunes

10. Portugueze Joe & The Tennessee Rockabillys (USA). Miss Ping Pong, LP Lux & Ivy's Good for Nothing 'Tunes

11. The Night Caps (USA). Haunted Sax, LP Records, Records, Records

12. Steve King & The Echelons (USA). Satan is Her Name, LP Records, Records, Records

13. Feline & Strange (Germany). City by the sea, lp out

14. The Sex Organs (Holland/Switzerland). Camel Toe Twist, LP Intergalactic Sex Tourists

15. Lina_raül Refree (Portugal/Spain). Cuidei que tinha Morerido, lp lina_raül refRe

16. Lajko Felix & Volosi (Hungary/Poland). From the Ditch, LP Lajko Felix & Volosi

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