Saturday, January 06, 2007

 

Fabulous Popcorn on Laser radio tonight !

Fabulous Popcorn presented by the fabulous Two Theo & Brigitte on Laser Radio !

Of course the program's title must be linked to that Swedish goup The Fabulous Four aka the 4J's.
I suppose to the (vast) majority of you a unknown band. It was formed in 1965 and disbanded 1968.
When you look at the playlist Fabulous Popcorn you can find them at #05 & #31.

You want some info ? OK !
The Fabulous Four, one of the many competent Swedish (hey mrs Machteld !!) bands imitating Anglo rock in the mid-'60s, had four Top Ten hits in their country in 1966 and 1967, failing to make a ripple elsewhere. In the manner of many Swedish acts, they had an almost willful lack of identity. They tried sub-Merseybeat, folk-rock, and fuzzy garage, sometimes echoing groups like the Kinks and the Monkees. They wrote much of their material, but had their hits with awful covers of foreign pop tunes such as "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and "Rhythm of the Rain" — recorded, one suspects, against their will. Their stuff is not worth tracking down unless you've got a serious jones for '60s Continental rock, though judged by the standards of that category, they produced some acceptable recordings.

I like their doo-wop recordings the best. Examples are Forever, Raggedy Ann, The Thought of You Darling & Will You Be My Love.
The album above is a nice one to listen to. Try to buy it.
Theo gives air-play to the very nice #06-Fabulous Four aka the 4J's - I'm coming home (1961).

Mister 'mellow Popcorn' always gives a lot of info during his show.
In the friendly chatroom (yes, everyone can live participate to the show and Theo likes that sooooo much !) there's always a lot of fun guessing the instrumental tune he playes in the background.

From time to time he is even more generous and gives us the whole instrumental.
I see such an example at #07-Light Orchestra, Enoch - And I love her.
I give you in advance the whole LP 64-Light, Enoch ah Orchestra - Discotheque from which this is taken.
On it too is Watermelon Man which is to me also a Popcorn song. Hope everybody agrees after listening.
Look as usual in the comments for my Rapidshare link that leads to 31 minutes nice instrumental vinyl (so including the crackles !) !

Everyone, who is familiar with this kind of music, will agree Theo has again choosen some fine artists and songs (again : look at the playlist !!!). Johnny Zee, Dee (Delecta) Clark, Titus Turner, the Untouchables and even Big Maybelle.
At #09-Corsairs - Dancing shadows (1962) original vinyl !!!!! is a great song and as Theo must know this one (as is their Smokey places) belongs to my top fav's in the genre !

So keep the time counter on the left in sight (saturday at 20 hours local_CET time) and JOIN (just click this to attend live !) us !
You get the internet stream directly in your Winamp or Mediaplayer.

Chatroom info, so you can join us :
Server: IRCnet
Channel: #laserradio.nl
The language is Dutch but everyone can answer in English.
Give it a try if you like the above tunes !!

You can also go to the Laser Radio site and click on the chat button at the top. That leads ya to the chat info page. But please be there in time, we have just a small room ... :-)

Lot of dj's (in those good old days) did put a sticker over the record to try to prevent them from stealing. So from time to time Theo discovers one about which no info can be found anymore because the label is damaged too much.
If you know these songs please post your suggestion/answer in the comments.
#12-Unknown Artist - Come back Cindy
#14-Unknown Artist - Settle down
See also the last broadcast 2006_12_04 where at least one 'Unknown artist' was solved/identified by the chat members within seconds !

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# posted by JeansMusicBlog @ 02:00
Comments:
Light Orchestra, Enoch - Discotheque 1964

01-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Dream Lover
02-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Down by the Riverside
03-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Tinarella Di Luna
04-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Hello Dolly
05-Light Orchestra, Enoch - If I Had a Hammer
06-Light Orchestra, Enoch - CMon and Swim
07-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Night Train
08-Light Orchestra, Enoch - I want to hold your hand
09-Light Orchestra, Enoch - And I love her
10-Light Orchestra, Enoch - YaYa
11-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Lemon Merengue
12-Light Orchestra, Enoch - Watermelon Man
13-Light Orchestra, Enoch - I want to be happy

Copy and paste into one link
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# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Thursday 4 January 2007 at 05:08:00 CET
 
wow...never heard enoch light show before. always wondered what the music sounded like. Guess I will find out in 3 minutes...thnak you for posting this.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Thursday 6 March 2008 at 19:26:00 CET
 
Hi State US,
I posted this LP because Theo gave that night airplay to 09-Light Orchestra, Enoch - And I love her.
So it's Theo's Popcorn live show and an Enoch Light LP, although called Discotheque, not live !
Nevertheless I hope you like that particular (Beatles) song as well as the whole LP.
# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Thursday 6 March 2008 at 20:56:00 CET
 
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