Hello everyone. Let’s give a warm welcome to Debbie and Cyndi. Two unique women who dance to their own drummers…..whose talents encompass a variety of musical fields in two decidedly different decades. These ladies can pop and rock, disco down or jazz it up, sing the blues, or pour their soul into a ballad. Their many talents run the full gamut and they have led the way for a new kind of woman in music, adding their own twist and turns to rock and roll.
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The Women of Rock Redux Part 3 – Debbie and Cyndi……and music. Chapter 1 – Debbie!
Posted in Opinion with tags A Girl With A Camera “The Picture Taker”, Angel and the Snake, avant-garde, ballad, BBC Radio, Bernard Edwards, Billboard Hot 100, Blondie, blues, Bob Segarini, Broadway, Camelot, CBGB, Chic, chutzpah, Cyndi Lauper, DBAWIS, Debbie Harry, Disco, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Eddie Bullen, funk, gay pride, go-go dancer, Grammy’s, H.R. Giger, Jazz, Julie Andrews, Kinky Boots, LGBT, luvthemusic, Max’s Kansas City, New Wave, New York Times, Nile Rodgers, Pat Blythe, Pop, Pride Toronto, Punk, reggae, Richard Burton, Rock, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rodney Bingenheimer, Rolling Stone Magazine, ska, smooth jazz, Smooth Jazz Cruise, Stillettoes, Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC, The Jazz Passengers, The Muppet Show, The Wind in the Willows, Thunder Dome Sounds, U.S. on May 12, 2021 by segariniPat Blythe – The Women of Rock Redux Part 2 – SOOOOOOZZZZZEEEEE…..and music
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags 1957 Fender Precision Bass, A Girl With A Camera “The Picture Taker”, Andy Stewart-Sweet, BBC, Bob Segarini, Chris Norman, Chrissie Hynde, COVID-19, DBAWIS, Don Powell-Slade, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Happy Days, Joan Jett, Karen Carpenter, Leather Tuscadero, luvthemusic, Pandemic Interviews, Pat Blythe, podcast, QSP, Quatro Powell and Stewart, Richard Tuckey, Rodney Bingenheimer, Suzi Quatro, The Pleasure Seekers, Through My Words, Unzipped, Women of The Traps on May 5, 2021 by segariniI seem to mixing up some of this series as I come across various versions from six years ago. I had Suzi with Joan and Chrissie but I’ve covered the latter two already. Beside, Suzi deserves her own column. So….although today’s piece is all about the Suzi Q, Joan and Chrissie are still part of her story.
I hadn’t thought of Suzi in ages…..eons really and surprisingly, out of the three women Suzi is the only one I’ve actually seen live. So, after trolling the internet (still my permanent residence these days six years later) I began to connect the dots and realized that not only she was a contemporary of both Joan and Chrissie, all three were the leaders of their own bands, a rarity for the times.
Continue readingGary Pig Gold’s Great Unsung Heroes of Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alan Freed, DBAWIS, DJs, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, Jay Nelson, Murray The K, music, radio, Records, Rock and Roll Radio, Rodney Bingenheimer, segarini, The Ramones, Transistor Radios on March 19, 2018 by segariniDo you remember Murray the K, Alan Freed and high energy?
Do you remember rock ‘n’ roll radio?
Do you remember rock ‘n’ roll radio?
– The Ramones
Roxanne Tellier: MonkeeMania!
Posted in Opinion with tags Bert Schneider, Bob Rafelson, Bobby Hart, Carol Kaye, Charles Manson, Circus Boy, Danny Hutton, David Gates, Davy Jones, DBAWIS, Don Kirschner, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ed Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Harry Nilsson, James Burton, Jim Gordon, John Sebastian, Leon Russell, Marx Brothers, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, music, Oliver!, Paul Williams, Peter Tork, Records, Rodney Bingenheimer, Roxanne Tellier, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Television, The Beatles, The Monkees, Three Stooges, Tommy Boyce, Van Dyke Parks on February 2, 2014 by segariniRamping up to the 50th anniversary of The Beatles February 9, 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, it’s easy to forget that one of the other acts on that same show, on that same evening, featured a slight, young “Artful Dodger” – one David Jones, aged 19, belting out a song from the hit Broadway play Oliver! During that performance Jones sang “I’d Do Anything” with the entire cast.