Mississippi Goddam was Nina Simone’s response to the assassination of Medgar Evers by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963 and the 16th St Baptist Church bombing in Alabama in the same year where four black children – Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair were killed. The song […]
Wild Is The Wind was the title song from the 1957 film of the same name starring Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnini and Anthony Franciosa. It was written by composer Dimitri Tomkin and lyricist Ned Washington. Washington wrote the words for Jazz Vocal classics such as Stella By Starlight, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, The Nearness […]
As we were playing some very early Bowie clips in the last post, I thought it was about time that we tried to illustrate the Anthony Newley influence that all early Bowie articles refer to. Here’s Newley in some different eras performing in the US and the UK. He was a singer a songwriter, an […]
By the time Bob Dylan had released his third album, The Times They Are A Changin’ in January 1964, he had already become the voice of a generation – he was just 22 years old. Folk singers, singing protest songs, political songs and songs about the plight of the ordinary people gave the serious young […]