In this clip, as she performs, #StaxRecords animates Ms. Crutcher's story as a songwriter for the label and her un-appreciated contributions to Memphis Soul in the 60s and beyond.
Today would have been Robert Moog's birthday, and he is of course the inventor of the incredibly awesome-sounding Moog synthesizer that you'll hear everywhere in rock music.
My introduction to the Moog was in the early 90s, I picked up Gary Numan's brilliant album Telekon in a tiny record store in Maryland when I was a teen. I was hooked. I still listen to it.
My second big Moog exposure was on the album Return of the Rentals by the Rentals, the side project of former Weezer bass player Matt Sharp. ANOTHER great album.
One more album you might know Moog synths from is of course Abbey Road, one of the first to have Moog on it, specifically a bunch on "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and even "Here Comes the Sun".
John Wayne takes a break during the filming of ‘The Undefeated’. (1969). Wayne’s biographer Michael Munn chronicled Wayne’s drinking habits. According to Sam O’Steen’s memoir, Cut to the Chase, studio directors knew to shoot Wayne’s scenes before noon, because by afternoon he “was a mean drunk.”
🎧 Morning, y'all. First Friday music — "Son of a Preacher Man" performed by #ArethaFranklin (1969).
John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins wrote the song in 1968 with Aretha in mind, but #AtlanticRecords boss #JerrtWexler gave it to #DustySpringfield who was recording in #Memphis at the time. That's the version most remember.
Aretha recorded it the next year. I love the song and both interpretations.
🎧 #Mood | "Loveland" by #CharlesWright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
1969 | Dad was in Vietnam. Mom, me (12) and 3 sibs were parked in tinytown SC for a year. I listened to the only 2 local AM stations on my new transistor radio. One was Top 40, the other played #Soul and #RnB except on Sundays when it was live Sunday school and preaching, then #Gospel songs. I met "Loveland" there, and bought the 45 at Roses—75¢.
@k_kwasniewska
There's raw depths of emotion & experience in how she sings that just reach right in to me & pull bits loose sometimes. Seems true for others too.