  Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2007 |
Hey I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, love Detroit and above all, love the unbelievable music that the area has produced. I have a radio program on WCOM-LP, 103.5,Chapel Hill/Carrboro (all-volunteer, nonprofit.) I plan on doing a bunch of shows featuring the whole spectrum of music from the Metropolitan Detroit Community, including Windsor, Ann Arbor, and Flint (Bad Axe too for obvious reasons). What songs do you think are the best performances from "Detroit musicians" (defining "Detroit musicians" in anyway you see fit) and what are the best songs about the city of detroit? I will be doing my first show sometime in January. I am on from 11-12:00 a.m. on Monday nights, and of course you are invited to listen, http://communityradio.coop/ Thanx Jon | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1228 Registered: 09-2007 |
Motown Soul/Funk, Rock and Techno are musts. Every "musician" somehow is a "Detroit Musician" because they have some type of connection related to Detroit. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 3 Registered: 12-2007 |
You are right, every musician is a Detroit Musician. However, I only have a one-hour show on Monday nights and need to narrow my play list. How about some names and performances? | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1231 Registered: 09-2007 |
That's a tought one. There are so many good performers and names that aren't heard. Jackie Wilson may be one. | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 326 Registered: 06-2007 |
Just last night I heard "Some day, Some Way" from marshall Crenshaw. Still love that song. Very catchy tune even today. He's either from Berkley or Ferndale. Thats some nice country-ish rock. Theres a lot of blues from the area too.Howlin Diablos is a big name. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 524 Registered: 08-2007 |
Off the top of my head I think you should do a time-line show, starting with Johnny Lee Hooker 1948 recording of "Crawlin King Snake" and his famous "Boggie Chillin" from his rent party days and end up with some White Stripes. Throw in between "Dancing in the Streets" "Respect" "Stop" anything from Bob Seger, the MC5, the Romantics, Iggy Pop and Ted Nugent and you should be fine. for a pretty comprehensive overview of Detroit music please refer to the link below from wikipedia ... I read it and learned the Bill Haley was from Detroit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M usic_of_Detroit | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 230 Registered: 02-2004 |
We need the economic credit. Detroit really is music and, music is Detroit. We should be seeing investment from all of the musical personalities and affiliations. | ||
Somerset_girl Member Username: Somerset_girl Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2007 |
Cool Idea for your radio show! Check out this link to the Metro Times 100 Greatest Detroit Songs ever! http://www.metrotimes.com/edit orial/story.asp?id=12036 | ||
Bobzilla Member Username: Bobzilla Post Number: 94 Registered: 11-2003 |
Hi Jon, Happy New Year from your pal "Bobzilla." I agree with Somerset_girl about checking out the Metro Times' recent list of 100 songs. Lots of great songs on that list. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 4 Registered: 12-2007 |
Hi Everybody, Bobzilla, I think I know who you really are... I want to thank-you guys for the leads and I wil definitely check out that list. I have been trying to find an mp3 of the song "So American" by the Mutants, if anyone knows where I can find it (I used to have the 45 which had the song "Piece of Sh--" on the b-side), I would be most appreciative. I'm looking for the studio version of that song. I googled the Mutants, they have a website and it seems like it hasn't been updated in a while. I emailed them once and did not receive a response...What are new bands that have that special Detroit Magic?...Marshall Crenshaw will be definitely be played and I have already played him several times on my show... I am torn about Ted Nugent. I mean he clearly qualifies as a Detroit Musician but Ted seems to have overexposed himself a bit, I will play some Amboy Dukes...Also wasn't there a band called the Polish Muslims who were great...There was also an r n' b guy named James something who used to put on a wild show, but I can't recall his name... Thanks Jon | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 607 Registered: 02-2007 |
Anton James? | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 5 Registered: 12-2007 |
I vaguely remember Anton James, what kind of sound did he have? | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 207 Registered: 04-2005 |
How about some Rare Earth? Motowns only white act. They were pretty good. | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 608 Registered: 02-2007 |
Anton James, as I heard him, played covers of rockers from the 70s. I think that his claim to fame was a graffiti campaign that put his name on overpasses around town. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 6 Registered: 12-2007 |
I would love to play some Rare Earth, whatever happened to those guys? | ||
Melody Member Username: Melody Post Number: 42 Registered: 11-2007 |
Be sure to play some current bands that are rocking Detroit (many have songs about Detroit as well, I'm sure). The Muggs, the Paybacks, Hard Lessons, Great Lakes Myth Society, Electric Six, Detroit Cobras, Johnny Headband, The Beggars, The Sirens, Freer, Von Bondies, Silent Years... to name a few. Of course you can already hear all those bands on "Detroit Local 101" on Riff2 (WRIF's HD station - www.riff2.com) | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 7 Registered: 12-2007 |
Melody, Does that site have mp3s of these bands? Thanks, Jon | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2007 |
Melody, Does that side have mp3 for these bands? Can you recommend specific songs that you think are great? Thanks, JOn | ||
Melody Member Username: Melody Post Number: 43 Registered: 11-2007 |
No, it's a high definition station, so we don't broadcast MP3s, only CD quality. If you add Riff2 on MySpace (www.myspace.com/riff2) you will receive our playlists on the bulletin board, and that pretty much tells you what songs by what band we think are ace  | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 516 Registered: 08-2006 |
Jon, some of the earliest (pre-Motown) music from Detroit is great. McKinney's Cotton Pickers (perhaps more appropriately known as the band led by Don Redman, who was coerced into using the "cotton pickers" label by white record execs) were an excellent Jazz-Blues band that started in 1926 and stayed in the D until late 1939. They were famous for introducing a "big band" sound to Jazz and Blues. Their collected works can be found on CD. Some of my favorites of theirs: "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble", "Blues Sure Have Got Me", and "You Ain't Nowhere". John Lee Hooker is the king of Detroit blues, and his extensive catalog speaks volumes about the city. But some other bluesman from the times, some from outside of the city, sang about Detroit too. Blues legend Blind Blake has a song called "Detroit Bound Blues", where he sings about going to Detroit to get a job from Henry Ford. Tampa Red's song "Detroit Blues" is a great piano song dedicated to Detroit. Tampa Red's particular jingling-and-jangling style of piano playing was common in the Hastings Street / Black Bottom clubs of the 1920s-1940s. Yusef Lateef is a great jazz saxophonist who was raised in Detroit and attended Wayne State University. He is well known for the album "Eastern Sounds", which was one of the first popular jazz records to incorporate Asian musical motifs. I got plenty more recommendations, but I gotta run. I'll be back with more. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1363 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Sirens are great... the girl who plays guitar is h-o-t! | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 209 Registered: 04-2005 |
Rare Earth is still around. http://www.rareearth.com/ Live Ecology was there best stuff. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 9 Registered: 12-2007 |
Thank-you these ideas are great!! Please post any others...let me know if you would like to be credited for your suggestions. Also, if anyone knows anyone who knows anyone who may know how to get an mp3 of "So American" by the Mutants, please let me know. XXX0000 Jon | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 10 Registered: 12-2007 |
Still looking for musicians that did not get a whole lot of publicity but were still great | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 210 Registered: 04-2005 |
Back in my day there were bands like,Stonebridge,Bittersweet Ally, Almighty Strut, Adreniline and Salem Witchcraft that had some music that was played locally on the radio. That stuff has to be stored somewhere. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 11 Registered: 12-2007 |
I think I saw Salem Witchcraft at a place called the Token Lounge | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 947 Registered: 01-2007 |
http://www.thepolishmuslims.co m/ are my pick. Good campy Rock n' Roll! | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 327 Registered: 06-2007 |
If youre going to include Windsor, the only group I can think of is the Tea Party. My pick would be "Heaven Falling Down." Oh yeah, put some Sponge on your playlist. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 12 Registered: 12-2007 |
Thanks Hpgrmin, Still looking for the Mutants "So American" if anybody knows where to find it? Thanks | ||
Sfds Member Username: Sfds Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2007 |
Consider checking out the newly released hard cover "Creem: America's only Rock and Roll Magazine". It would be a good research source and backgrounder for your show. Creem's Cass Corridor roots, bring back fond memories for those of "a certain Motor City age". Good Luck | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 13 Registered: 12-2007 |
Hey SFDS, I was a regular Creem Reader. I remember reading a Lester Bang's review for "Metallic KO" by Iggy Pop and I was so moved that I sent for the album in the mail (enclosing cash in the envelope) which I think was the only way to get it. I remember it took forever to get the album and it lived up to the hype. I regularly play Iggy Pop on my show. Thanks, Jon | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 14 Registered: 12-2007 |
Sorry about the sequential posts, but, I wanted to let anyone know that if you have music that is highly creative and heartfelt, I would ask you kindly to direct me to an mp3 or send a cd to my attention at the station (WCOM, Carrboro, NC) | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1376 Registered: 11-2003 |
I have So American, but perhaps you should ask here: http://www.themutants.com/ | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 15 Registered: 12-2007 |
I haven't had much luck with my email with those guys. I also want the studio version not the live version (one must be picky about these things when you are a professional such as myself). Could I somehow get a copy of your "So American" to play on my show and I will gladly plug the Mutants? Do you know of other Eastside-like Warren area bands from the 60-70's? | ||
Dinnc Member Username: Dinnc Post Number: 24 Registered: 08-2007 |
Hey Famous, I live in the Triangle and looking forward to listening to the shows. I am not familiar with the station ( I live South of Raleigh in Fuquay-Varina, maybe I don't get it. Is it apart of NC public Radio? Am I able to get a Pod cast? Please post a schedule of the shows when you finalize. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 16 Registered: 12-2007 |
Hey Dinnc, The station is an all volunteer station in Carrboro. We run on a shoe-string budget based on donations and some grant monies. It is a low power-fm station, that is community supported, and is not affiliated with NC public radio at all. Here is an URL to information about low power fm http://www.communityradio.coop /CommRadioBBS/forums/thread-vi ew.asp?tid=291&posts=2. Because of copyright laws we can't do podcasts of certain music shows, like mine. But I hope you can listen from 11-12:00 a.m. on Mondays (I'm taking tonight off). Here is the URL for the station, we do have a 24/7 stream. The station has great shows and is beginning to really break. Here is the station's URL http://communityradio.coop/ Are you from Detroit? | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 948 Registered: 01-2007 |
Famous_jonny_mambo, try this link for starters: http://www.motorcityjams.com/m utants_releases.html Good luck - Bullet | ||
Jmpatrick Member Username: Jmpatrick Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2007 |
Try: www.motorcityrock.com | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 17 Registered: 12-2007 |
Wow, that Motor City Rock website is great! Unfortunately, the Mutants website does not have the studio version of "So American", if anyone knows where to find a copy of that song please let me know... I noticed that the Adrian Belew Power Trio are playing at the Magic Bag in Ferndale in March (may be a good time to come in to visit the family).If you have a chance go see them, they are mind blowing good. Hope everyone has a better life in 2008 | ||
Melody Member Username: Melody Post Number: 44 Registered: 11-2007 |
Try www.motorcityrocks.com -- it's kind of like motorcityrock, but with current bands (although they stopped updating about a year ago, the blog is still updated weekly). Motorcityrock is a great site, well organized, but 99.9% of those bands are done for, and if you want a listening audience under 30, be sure to check out motorcityrocks.com | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 166 Registered: 08-2007 |
salem witchcraft, bsa, the almighty strut, they we playing when i went from my seseme street records to rock music, and that anton james spent alot of $ on spray paint. his name was everywhere. | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 18 Registered: 12-2007 |
Thanks for the tip Melody I do want to cover the whole spectrum of Detroit music. It will take be an ongoing project.... Didn't Anton James go on to take a position in the graffiti removal business? | ||
Famous_jonny_mambo Member Username: Famous_jonny_mambo Post Number: 19 Registered: 12-2007 |
Just in case you missed this on the first go round Thanks Jon | ||
Vikkadee Member Username: Vikkadee Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2008 |
Hey, Anton James fan here & Detroit Hometown girl. Anton is definitely Detroit Rock & Roll! Does some great covers and original music is lyrical, upbeat & very danceable. Early albums, "Off the Cuff" & "Don't Ask Why". Most like: All Music Guide says: The Bolshoi, Talking Heads, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Boom Crash Opera, Buzzcocks, The Candyskins, Roxy Music, The Psychedelic Furs, Stone Roses, Oasis. I hear some Tom Petty & Stones. Hear he has some projects going on the west coast. Heard Anton's Christmas CD on west coast radio. Love to hear & see more of him! Don't know about any graffiti stuff. Did play some gigs with Marc Falconberry, Detroit Blues guy, in past, and sat in with various bands on both coasts. Anton played gigs with the late Johnny Angelos - Torpedoes, and his son Mitchel. More recent years, Anton appeared at local clubs with new originals and old favorites at I-Rock, Smalls, Corktown Tavern, etc., Festivals, & on Mich.TVNetwork. Does he have a WEB site? Did find these links. http://profile.myspace.com/ind ex.cfmfuseaction=user.viewprof ile&friendID=48951717 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =U_A167PVU_U | ||
Frankg Member Username: Frankg Post Number: 178 Registered: 08-2007 |
Alice Cooper is from Detroit originally. The Romantics are a Detroit band. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 3419 Registered: 11-2005 |
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg .dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxfpxqlhldse | ||
Vikkadee Member Username: Vikkadee Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2008 |
http://www.myspace.com/antonmu sic | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 219 Registered: 12-2007 |
Sufjan Stevens did an entire Album about our great state. Its really quite beautiful | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 5093 Registered: 02-2007 |
man vs the empire brain building was (not was) | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 547 Registered: 10-2006 |
If including Ann Arbor, you may want to look into Frank Allison and The Odd Sox. 1986 - 1994 according to a short film that debuted at the Winter Blast on Sunday night. They seemed to have quite a following during their heyday. www.frankallisonmusic.com | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1595 Registered: 02-2005 |
jonny, link up on the left side of your screen to the Soulful Detroit Site. It's run by Ralph Terrana, who played keyboards in the Rivieras during the early-mid 1960s. The Rivieras later morphed into Rare Earth. Here's a few more links for you: http://home.att.net/~s.m.geer/ http://www.motorcitymusicarchi ves.com/ http://www.therationals.com/ (from Ann Arbor I think) http://www.segerfile.com/seger menu.html Look for a fairly rare LP entitled Michigan Nuggets, or you may be able to find one that's been copied to CD. It has a lot of mid-1960s rock on it - early Seger, Rationals, Woolies, early MC5, Tim Tam & the Turn-Ons, Underdogs, Amboy Dukes, Unrelated Segments, Shy Guys, Terry Knight and the Pack, etc. There's also a CD entitled The Best of Hideout Records. Some of the music overlaps Nuggets, but it also has The Mushrooms (with a very young Glenn Frey), Suzi Quattro, The Yorkshires - all bands that played at The Hideout. | ||
Erikto Member Username: Erikto Post Number: 659 Registered: 11-2003 |
I still regret having passed on Michigan Nuggets, almost 20 years ago. It is a renowned bootleg made by a legendary bootlegger who was responsible for quite a few amazing titles. He describes the bootleg (and Punch Andrews' outrage) in the highly entertaining book titled Bootleg- A Secret History of the Other Recording History. Last year I did 2 or 3 Detroit themed radio shows over the course of what I called the 2007 Soul City Spring Tour (I also 'profiled' the soul music of Cleveland, Philadelphia, Rochester, Chicago, New York and Washington D.C.) Anyhow, there are a bunch of c.d.'s out featuring 1960's radio ads from different cities- this has nothing to do with the popular "Cruisin'" series- maybe F.J. Mambo would find they are fun to throw on the radio? One ad I remember from Detroit is for the Monkees at Cobo Hall- with supporting act The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I have another c.d. of radio ads from Ft. Worth in the early seventies, with ads for what to do when you get busted for weed, sponsored by some head shop. Youtube has some cklw stuff, including one compilation of on-air chatter and song introductions, no video for that clip, though. There is also a record I've mentioned here that nobody seems to know about, of Detroit radio covering 1968. I am curious as to what other cities/ years might have records documenting such occasions? PS- Now that I think about it, is/ are there any Detroit radio editions of "Cruisin'"? | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1599 Registered: 02-2005 |
Erikto, check out this site: http://www.vuolovideo.com/ Art sells a 6 CD set on the History of Detroit Radio, as well as other cities' airchecks. California Aircheck has a CD or two of CKLW airchecks. They have a web site (http://www.californiaaircheck. com ) and also sell on ebay. These sites have on-line airchecks, some of which are downloadable: http://www.keener13.com http://www.thebig8.net http://www.reelradio.com/index .html Lastly, former detroit DJ Lee Alan has a web site where he sells CDs of his old programs. I don't have any of those, but Nancy Davis told me that they were the original programs: http://www.detroitradiolegends .com/ I bought a copied CD of Michigan Nuggets on ebay 3-4 years ago. (Message edited by jiminnm on February 14, 2008) | ||
Erikto Member Username: Erikto Post Number: 660 Registered: 11-2003 |
Hey, thanks, Jiminnm! | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 6 Registered: 02-2008 |
Detroit songs I like: Detroit Michigan by Ronnie Love, Back to Detroit by Nikki Corvette, and my current theme song, Broke In Detroit Again by The Dirtbombs. | ||
Erikto Member Username: Erikto Post Number: 661 Registered: 11-2003 |
On the garage-rawk tip, does anyone here know the decent (but padded with some obvious filler, in my humble opin ion) 9 cd / lp series called 'Fuzz Flaykes and Shakes'? There are some Michigan bands on there. Too bad they mostly skipped Canadian garage classics like "Nothin'" by the Ugly Ducklings or 1-2-5 by the Haunted, but they did get Mike Jones Group's "Funny Feelin'". |
