Monday Jul 19, 2021
A fecund amalgam featuring the lost Associations album, early INXS, and stuff about Hayti, Durham. Amalgams can't be fecund, can they?
The Association was a pretty popular late-'60s singing group. Think Three Dog Night. Like that. Pretty similar arc. You know "Cherish", "Along Comes Mary", "Windy", etc. After the hits dried up, members like Jerry Yester fought the inevitable slide into oldies tours with the odd single, tour, and always in a state of flux. In 1975, a cobbled-together version of the band recorded what would be known to fans as "The Association Bites Back". While RCA was the record company of...record...they do not have tapes that they can remaster for a waiting public. But replacement member Larry Brown did put some of the songs on YouTube. Cassette quality, but a nice historical curio of a once-thriving concern. Here are 4.
And oldies tours are exactly where they ended up. Think Three Dog Night.
Travelin' Boy
That’s What She Said
Time to Get High
Cherish (a disco remake with a strangely funkified coda.)
The Pullice - Can't Get Enough (1966) As seen on the lower right, this is how they spelled their name.
McDonald's Commercial (1969)
Grady Tate - Multiplication Rock “6” (1973) Nostalgia for POACA.
Born in Durham, NC, in a district called “Hayti”, the historic African-American community that is now part of the city of Durham, North Carolina. It was founded as an independent black community shortly after the American Civil War on the southern edge of Durham by freedmen coming to work in tobacco warehouses and related jobs in the city. By the early decades of the 20th century, African Americans owned and operated more than 200 businesses, which were located along Fayetteville, Pettigrew, and Pine Streets, the boundaries of Hayti.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood continued to develop through years of racial segregation imposed by white Democrats in the state legislature, following the Reconstruction era in the South. With black-owned businesses and services, a library, a hotel, a theatre, and a hospital, the community became self-sufficient. It declined in the late 20th century, due to suburbanization, which drew some residents to newer housing outside the area. A 1958 urban renewal and freeway project took down houses and businesses in 200 acres of the community and split it with a freeway. St. Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church (1891) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; its congregation was founded in 1868. The church has been used since 1975 as a community and cultural center. Hayti's residents have included African Americans who achieved national reputations for their successes.
From Wikipedia:
- Ernie Barnes, NFL star and nationally renowned artist
- Reverend Shirley Caesar, minister, gospel musician
- Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) blues guitarist and singer
- Biff Henderson, staff member of Late Show with David Letterman
- John P. Kee, gospel musician
- Lamont Lilly, Movement for Black Lives activist, journalist, and 2016 vice presidential candidate
- John Lucas II, NBA player and professional coach
- Pigmeat Markham, known in the 1950s–1960s as the National Funnyman; his family was the most prominent on its street, which came to be called (and later officially named) Markham Street in the Hayti District
- Tracy McGrady, NBA player, finished high school in the Hayti District
- Clyde McPhatter, 1950–1960s musician, member of the Drifters, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Rodney Rogers, NBA player
- André Leon Talley, fashion consultant
- Grady Tate, jazz drummer
- Tommy Wilson, NFL player for Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland Brown, and Minnesota Vikings
There is a similar district (well, there was) called “Soul City” near Hendersonville, NC. Friends of mine say they can't find much that's left.
21 Years of Rock n Roll (1977)
"The record that launched the Rock 'n' Roll era became a hit in Australia in July 1956. It proved to be one of the most fantastic hits of all time with collective sales estimated at over 22 million. 'Rock around the Clock' has been waxed in thirty-five different languages with over 140 versions globally.
2SM/3XY/4IP with the ANZ Bank commissioned the cream of Australian rock talent to record this limited-edition tribute to 21 years of Rock 'n' Roll. Hope you enjoy it."
The artists:
Glenn Shorrock of Little River Band
Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan & Frankie J. Holden
John Paul Young who had one big US hit with "Love Is In The Air".
Daryl Braithwaite
Renee Geyer
Aurora Toy Sales Film hosted by Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble (1969) Originally seen at the 1969 New York Toy Fair.
Bev Bevan - Heavy Head (1976)
Cat (Bob Chance) - Slap Dance (1979)
Colours - Bad Day At Black Rock, Baby (1968) Colours was signed to Dot Records in 1967 and released their first single later that year. In 1968, they issued their self-titled debut LP. In 1969, they issued a follow-up LP titled ‘Atmosphere’, but only Dalton and Montgomery are credited on the record. After the band broke up in late 1969, Radle went on to play in Delaney & Bonnie and, shortly afterward, Derek & the Dominoes and J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton. Chuck Blackwell also achieved some renown in the early 70s by playing with Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Taj Mahal, Freddie King, and other artists.
Doris Duke - Feet Start Walking (1971)
Harmon Bethea The Maskman - Prices and Crisis (1974) A World War II veteran, he recorded and performed gospel and rhythm and blues with the Progressive Four and the Corinthian Singers for Lillian Claiborne’s D.C. label in 1947 and ’48. In late 1949, Claiborne paired Bethea with another of her local acts, The Cap-Tans.
In the midst of the British Invasion and the surge of Motown Records, Bethea took on the persona of “The Maskman", first donning the mask in 1968. His backing group evolved from the Cap-Tans to The Agents. The Bethea continued recording and performing well into his 60s.
Helen Reddy - Baby, I'm A Star (1977) The only track on her Ear Candy album produced by Kim Fowley.
INXS - Doctor (1980)
INXS - Jumping (1980)
The Vegetables (INXS) - We Are The Vegetables (1980)
Jerry Lawler - Heart Of Stone (197?)
John Sebastian - Face Of Appalachia (1974) A beautiful song co-written by Lowell George.
Don Walker and Michael Hutchence - Speed Kills (1981) From the movie of the same name.
Michel Legrand - Wonder Where I'll Be Tomorrow (1974)
Skafish - We’ll See a Psychiatrist (1978)
The Osmond Brothers - Takin' on a Big Thing (1970)
The Family Dogg - Advice To Smokey Robinson (1972)
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