Anticipating John Belushi’s Sunday Evening Live samurai by 15 years, the Hi-Fives’ “Fujikami the Warrior” (Hitt 003, released locally in Vancouver, B.C. in 1961) was a bizarre novelty melody filled up with the demented shrieks of an area radio personality-gone-nuttily Nipponese totally unlike other things the group ever performed just …

Big Manager Sausage started like a novelty act with comedic intentions, but progressed into a formidable music group, whose music ran the gamut from hard rock and roll and blues to funny, tear-jerking nation ballads. Big Manager Sausage, previously Serf Cowboy Answer, pursued independent methods to communicate its music. Sausage …

While there’s never been a successful link between your surname Martin and the tiny furry animal from the same name, the abundance of rockers credited as possibly Dave Martin or David Martin brings to brain a teeming human population of martins gnawing on skinks, twigs, or whatever martins gnaw on. …

The uncelebrated pop/rock group Bolero Lava formed in Vancouver, Canada, in the first ’80s when hot girl rock groups in america were gaining notice from both press and many energetic fans. There have been five people of Bolero Lava, all feminine. The band got some achievement with music like “Dance …

If it had been the ’60s, the Five Musical Blackbirds may have promoted their recordings like a “super jam,” or simply even released the four tunes that resulted on a particular slab of one-sided vinyl. But this is 1926 — or 1927, based on which discographer makes the very best …

Long an essential portion of Memphis’ vibrant 21st century music scene, multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Taylor has constantly followed his personal feeling of direction. The child of the Memphis musician and studio room engineer, Taylor spent his young years dangling with additional second-generation Memphis music artists, playing gigs by enough …

A legendary British humorist, poet, performer, and presenter, Pam Ayres was created in Stanford-in-the-Vale in the wintertime of 1947. A gifted college student in British and Artwork, Ayres instead proceeded to go the safer path career-wise, and thought we would be considered a clerical associate in the civil support. It …

Donga was a central amount in the samba custom. The individual who initial documented a composition using the denomination samba (“Pelo Telefone” in 1916 [not really 1917 as generally noted]), Donga was also an achieved musician using a observed international profession in Pixinguinha’s Operating-system Oito Batutas and many other groupings. …

In another of the odder episodes of past due-’60s English pop/rock, ex-Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone issued three singles beneath the pseudonym of Neil MacArthur. The 45s boasted grandiose orchestral creation (by Mike Hurst) even more bombastic than anything the Zombies experienced released. Yet these were similar for some from …

Three Mil were siblings Wanda “Doll” Butler and Larry Butler and acquaintance Tag Ruler, the same trio that recorded as Unity for United Performers Information. Doll and Larry originated Chances & Ends with their youthful brother Jim Offer. Regarding to Larry, the name adjustments were due to not buying them …