Category: Early Rock
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Music Trivia Question for the Day
I am trying to create an official award logo for this series. I am having a blast finding these, then finding the videos to go with the answers. Having said that, I don’t want to wear out the fun so will be changing up a bit on the presentation. How?? I have no flipping…
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Music Trivia Question for the Day
My last question from what seems like weeks ago (and was): Q: Who wrote and recorded the first version of “Respect“? We all know the very famous version by Aretha Franklin (shown here is a live version from 1968 in Stockholm, Sweden) – The answer though is, Otis Redding. He wrote and recorded this…
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Song Of The Day – Remembering Sweet Joe Russell
Sweet Joe Russell died on May 5. Best known as a singer for The Persuasions, Joe recorded 22 albums with the group. Strange as it sounds, frank Zappa discovered them and was responsible for their first recording. The group was a capella and recorded songs by such diverse people as Elvis Presley and The…