Your Discography Help Required for January 2010
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Your Discography Help Requested | 3 Comments »How to connect Prince to Kings of Leon? Or how about LL Cool J to Wayne Newton? Or Jimmy Page to Goldfinger (the band, not the Shirley Bassey track)? Thanks for the assistance! All solved! Photo by darren131
The Routes They Made
Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in Site Updates, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »The New York Times site has a slide show called "The Music They Made". It is a series of black-and-white photos and music snippets covering famous/important musicians who passed away in 2009. I've entered most (but not all—see below) of ...
Dick Schory’s New Percussion Ensemble to Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album (SMLP #15: Special Long Post Title Edition)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »It's Christmas time and that can only mean one thing here at Music Routes HQ: Lots of cat-sitting for friends who are out of town! One of those friends, the Flannestads, left us a Christmas gift of booze and two LPs. ...
Million Dollar Quartet: Your Discography Help Needed
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »With a site like Music Routes, how can it not have the Million Dollar Quartet in the database? Well, let me explain... The Million Dollar Quartet is a famous jam session that featured Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash (or maybe not; see below), ...
Carole King to Big Audio Dynamite (SMLP #12: Special Flea-less Edition)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »I was excited to do a little Internet research to find out what the role of Flea was on the Big Audio Dynamite record No. 10, Upping St. Alas, it turns out that the Flea involved in the B.A.D. record ...
Herb Alpert to Gary Numan (SMLP #11)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »This week's listen from the $1 bin in the second-hand store: S.R.O. by Herb Alpert. The album helpfully ha a personnel list at the end of the liner notes on the back. (Are they still "liner notes" if they appear ...
Wings to Rain Tree Crow (SMLP #8: Hopelessly Warped Edition)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | 1 Comment »Today's $1 purchase from the nearby second-hand store is Venus And Mars by Wings. Sadly, I didn't get to listen to this on the turntable. I made a rookie error. I purchased a hopelessly warped LP. There is ...
Your Discography Help Requested: Martin Denny, et al.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »Some burning questions that got buried at the bottom of the last Listening Party post: #1: Martin Denny, "Burma Train" on the album Primitiva: Is this personnel listing in Music Routes correct? If not, what is the correct personnel listing? It ...
David Sylvian to Arthur Lyman (SMLP #6: Swine Flu Edition)
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | 2 Comments »Humuhumu is sick, so we stayed in this Saturday morning. (She doesn't have swine flu—the title is just a joke that is probably unfunny, in poor taste, and something that I will regret before I even finish this parenthetical comment.) ...
SMLP #3 (Special Rosh Hashanah Edition): South Sea Island Magic to Iggy Pop
Saturday, September 19th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »For this Saturday Morning Listening Party, Humuhumu purchased a 4-LP Reader's Digest 1968 collection of escapist easy listening called South Sea Island Magic. Anu brought over the Iggy Pop record Party and described it as a failed attempt to ...