Rock N Roll Bedtime Stories Story Guys Productions

A listener letter sends the guys on the first of what could be many explorations into the backstories of some of the session musicians who made up the collective who would come to be known as “The Wrecking Crew.” Hear the story of the drummer who happened to be next door just in time to step into a powerful and historic musical moment.
 
 
SHOW NOTES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Palmer
“I Hate My Generation” music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsNsOhyG8I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_Matassa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Records
Backbeat, the book: https://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/product/tony-scherman-backbeat-earl-palmers-story-book/
Modern Drummer feature: https://www.moderndrummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/md352cs.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Manne
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rock-hall-of-fame-drummer-earl-palmer-dead-at-84-254915/
https://www.adioslounge.com/sideman-spotlight-earl-palmer/
https://scottkfish.com/2016/01/23/earl-palmer-i-wasnt-quite-sure-what-i-wanted-to-do-with-my-life/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unlikely-story-of-a-change-is-gonna-come
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=100689&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=954#bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/1958/06/13/archives/musicians-strike-spreads-on-coast-independents-hit-by-afm-film.html
Avelo’s “The Strike that Changed Disney Music”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBsGwNJ54-M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boudreaux
https://www.npr.org/2014/02/01/268995033/sam-cooke-and-the-song-that-almost-scared-him
https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2021/02/on-the-recording-registry-a-change-is-gonna-come-1964/
https://pan-african-music.com/en/a-change-is-gonna-come-a-hymn-for-civil-rights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFO_Records
https://www.facebook.com/WreckingCrewFilm/posts/on-this-date-june-3-1967-the-instrumental-tracks-for-never-my-love-by-the-associ/10157450423118023/

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is taking over most musical talk this weekend, so the guys dug back to Episode 147 to celebrate a certain track from Ms Swift’s back catalog and see what we can all learn from her about music history.

To celebrate the life of Dickey Betts (RIP, April 18, 2024), the guys revisit an episode from last November relating the drugs, chaos, and southern rock relatability that would define the Allman Brothers Band.

A photo of a whole lot of famous rockers in one place gets the guys researching a record label that redefined the way music was listened to and sold in 1970’s America.
SHOW NOTES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-tel
The photo: https://qr.ae/psvMqm
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-dire-straits-thin-lizzy-eric-clapton-led-zeppelin-bad-company-and-109755815.html
https://www.discogs.com/release/12787001-Various-The-Summit
https://www.loudersound.com/news/led-zeppelin-once-released-a-song-on-k-tel-the-result-was-one-of-the-great-all-star-photos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Year_of_the_Child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_the_Child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerts_for_the_People_of_Kampuchea
https://americansongwriter.com/remember-when-the-concerts-for-the-people-of-kampuchea/
https://hercsktelalbums.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-summit-uk-january-1980.html
https://mymusicthroughtheyears.wordpress.com/2022/01/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-k-tel-records/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/k-tel-as-seen-on-tv-compilation-album-history
1997 Billboard ads celebrating KTEL: https://books.google.com/books?id=qQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47-IA3&lpg=PA47-IA3&dq=K-Tel&source=bl&ots=C4AWmvPyX7&sig=ACfU3U2g9VCfSsuB5DT3Z-h2QJLfq56mZw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd_-eXsav5AhUTg4kEHXgrDpg4WhDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=K-Tel&f=false
https://www.tampabay.com/incoming/k-tels-shouting-infomercial-legend-dies-at-87/2275511/
Fun stuff about the history of Teflon: 
https://misen.com/blogs/news/polytetrafluoroethylene
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202104/history.cfm
https://playback.fm/charts/top-100-songs/1938
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Gr%C3%A9goire
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/philip-kives-founder-of-k-tel-and-pioneering-pitchman-went-from-coveralls-to-riches
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/311116495/
https://www.goldminemag.com/features/collecting-k-tel-records
https://www.zeroto180.org/true-or-false-led-zep-on-k-tel/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/10/05/spinning-gold-from-golden-oldies/00e79094-1568-4135-b7f3-94209d7f8d1b/
The WaPo article from 1980: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/10/05/spinning-gold-from-golden-oldies/00e79094-1568-4135-b7f3-94209d7f8d1b/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music!

After spending recent time talking about New Kids on the Block behaving badly in their hometown’s hotel, the guys dig up and revisit Episode 17 of the show to recall one of the most epic hotel trashings in rock n roll history: Keith Moon and the Holiday Inn birthday party.
 
SHOW NOTES:
Keith Moon with Led Zep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyM6-QibDFM
Vintage Holiday Inn Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZSCjyUWPgE
The Who “Can’t Explain”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3h–K5928M
RockCheetah.com rundown: https://rockcheetah.com/blog/legend/worlds-most-infamous-hotel-stay-keith-moon-birthday/

The guys get into boy bands, big songs, and bad behavior (mixed with a little hotel history and a nod to classic literature) when a fan writes the show to ask about what really happened back in 1991 in their hometown of Louisville, KY when Jonathan, Jordan, Joey, Donnie and Danny came through for a night few would ever forget…