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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:32 pm
by jingle_jangle
Hey, Bob, I can actually remember the DJ on WCFL announcing the Impalas record when it first came out, and making that claim, and it stuck with me all these years...
The doubled baritone/bass riff on FFF is Tedesco on Fender Bass VI and Carole Kaye on Jazz Bass. I thought.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:03 pm
by karl_teten
R.C., my dad liked that song.
There was a LOT of White Lightning coming out of the piney woods of E. Texas way back when.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:50 pm
by rictified
You're probably right about Fun Fun Fun, I also figured it was a Fender VI, just didn't know who played it, can hear the sound. I can get that sound out of my Rics with a pick and hand muting the strings. I googled "first stereo 45" and came up with a lot of stuff, most of the first ones were demos and there is a lot of controversy surrounding which one was first. I didn't see The impalas but it's probable they did a stereo version as it was in 1959 when they made the first ones.
The first one I ever saw was "Wishful sinful" BW/ "Who Scared You" by the Doors.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:09 pm
by wmthor
Karl, there was also a lot coming out them backwoods of Mississippi, where my grandfather was raised. The best moon that I've ever had came out of Arkansas in 2 lt. Pepsi bottles.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:08 pm
by jingle_jangle
When I lived in the backwoods of VA in '87, there were at least three stills operating within smellin' distance...
Not to mention hit-by-a-car venison barbecues out of season...
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:29 am
by admin
"In the still of the night."
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:48 am
by rictified
I think that's: within a-smellin' distance Paul.
I like that old doo wop stuff, that's a great song, my favorite is "Get A Job". Great lyrics besides that fact that is was a good song.
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:24 am
by jingle_jangle
We could combine the two into:
Get a still in the night...
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:24 pm
by wmthor
Does anyone remember the original road rage song:
Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler)
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:41 pm
by dale_fortune
By The PlayMates.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:11 am
by revolver323
I not only remember the song, my dad had a Nash Rambler. BTW, how DO you get that car out of second gear?
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:00 am
by rictified
That was a great song.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:31 am
by revolver323
Terrible car, though. I remember that the carburetor jets plugged up once and a kid beat me uphill -- and he was walking.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:46 am
by rictified
My sister had a Rambler American, wasn't exactly a rocket either.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:06 am
by wayang
I had a '68 Rambler American station wagon...the former family car; I bought it from my old man for $50 my senior year in high school. You could fit a lot of gear in the back and fix everything under the hood yourself, usually with a ball-peen hammer, which I carried under the seat. I found, on weekend excursions to LA, that if I hit the freeway in Phoenix at dusk and really got on it, I could have it up to 90 mph by somewhere west of Gila Bend...
My old man promptly bought a Gremlin. Now there was a rocket...