Bop till You Drop is Ry Cooder's eighth album, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). This was the first major-label digitally recorded album of Pop music. It was recorded on a 32-track machine built by 3M.[5][6]
The album consisted almost entirely of covers of earlier R&B and rock'n'roll classics, including Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" and the 1965 Fontella Bass-Bobby McClure hit "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing", on which Cooder duetted with soul star Chaka Khan, who also performed on the only original track on the album, "Down in Hollywood".
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Live at the Old Grey Whistle Test 20 Mei 1982
Little Sister
Geschreven door Doc Pomus en Mort Shuman
Schitterende interpetatie van deze Elvis Presley hit.
Elvis maakte deze opname op 26 Juni 1961 in de RCA's Nashville studios. De single stond 13 weken in Billboard's Hot 100 ,hoogste notering No5 . Het was de A-side Marie's The Name-His Latest Flame .Er werden meer dan 1,000,000 kopies van verkocht In Engeland stond het nummer 4 weken op No1.
Go Home Girl
Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993), geboren in Sheffield, Alabama, was een van de meest belovende sterren uit de Amerikaanse country / soul scene. The Beatles (Anna) en de Stones (You better move on) maakten zijn songs bekend maar hij zelf brak nooit echt door.
The very Thing
De Band
Ry Cooder-Gitaar/Vocals,Jim Dickinson(R.I.P.)-Piano,Smitty Smith-Organ,Jim Keltner-Drums,Baboo-Percussion,Bobby King-Vocals,PicoPayne-Vocals,Willy Green-Vocals
Thanks for the great music!!! That's "Bop", not "Bob". On Totally Fuzzy, I thought you had a Ry Cooder tribute to Bob Dylan! :)
BeantwoordenVerwijderen- Alex
Thanks for the correction,Alex
BeantwoordenVerwijderenMaybe it,s a idea,a Ry Cooder to Bob Dylan tribute
By the way,is there any connection between Bob and Ry you know?
Arthur
Prachtige video-opnames uit 1982 van Ry Cooder, Arthur! Bedankt! Zelf heb ik een aantal audio-opnames van Ry Cooder van een concert in Amsterdam (mogelijk oktober 1980) en een radio-opname van 7 maart 1981 van het Hilversum 3 programma NCRV's "Elpee-pop-special". Daarin gaat het over de 4 elpees "Chicken Skin Music", "Show Time", Bop Till You Drop" en "Borderline". Ry Cooder kreeg zijn eerste gouden elpee (Into The Purple Valley, 1972) in Nederland! Het blad Rolling Stone noemde hem ooit de beste hedendaagse bottleneckspeler. Hij beheerst allerlei stijlen, variërend van folk rock tot blues, jazz en gospel (bron radiobode maart 1981).
BeantwoordenVerwijderenElsa
Hi, Arthur. I had Dylan's LPs up through BLONDE ON BLONDE, but never really listened to anything afterwards. And I had maybe 3 of Cooder's early LPs, but I haven't followed his career since then. (Preferred Duane Allman's slide guitar over Ry's.) I imagine their paths did cross. Via Google, I came across this funny snippet from an article:
BeantwoordenVerwijderen"[Ry's] reputation as a guitarist is such that, as he hilariously recounts, Bob Dylan showed up at his door one night, unannounced and shabbily dressed, looking for help learning a Sleepy John Estes blues song (and giving the neighbors a good scare in the process)."
And Boy and Ry and Van Dyke Parks performed a Woody Guthrie song for a TV documentary. Other than that, I couldn't find any evidence of them working together at other times.
Anyway, I always enjoy seeing your site updates on Totally Fuzzy - keep up the good work!
- Alex