Women of Music Volume 6

 

 

 

Women of Music Volume 6
on cover : Belita

 

Faded Levi Jacket

Major Hicks and The Mountain Cats
 

 

Faded Levi Jacket

(I.W. Hicks, Renda Music, BMI) 

SUN VALLEY
2207 S. 15th St., Phoenix, Arizona

1961

Major Hicks had four releases on Sun Valley in 1961. Tribute To A Great Man is a tribute to the late J. F. Kennedy

 

13 Faded Levi Jacket / Honky Tonk Of Sorrow
14 My Lips Will Smile / Brick Layin’ Man
15 By Your House Last Night / Little Spark Of Love
16 Tribute To A Great Man / Help This Child    

Ishmael W Hicks (1916–1989) was born in Hawaii. He is listed at the same address (2207 S. 15 th. Phoenix) in 1958 in the Directory of Arizona Contractors.  He died in 1989. His grave is in theMiller-Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington,  That's all about I can find on this artist from whom I would like to hear more....

Once the home of Major Hicks and His Sun Valley label, the place is now a vacant lot

Knock At The Door (Of Your Heart)

 

Knock At The Door (Of Your Heart)

Rocky Hollman

Althea Records 001
Produced by Bridges Records
date unknown but probably from 1961 or 1962, when the Bridges label was active

Undocumented artist. who neverthless released at least 14 singles on various labels, mostly Texas labels, between 1959 and 1980 after a start in California. Born William Henry Holeman in Oklahoma in 1935. After a stint in Korea with the US Air Force, he probably started a career in music upon his return in the USA, in country & western music precisely, if we judge by the photography below found at Find A Grave :

At some point in the late fifties, Rocky was vocalist with Mort Wise and the Wisemen, a rock ‘n‘ roll sextet formed around 1956-1957. They were gigs around Hollywood and Las Vegas before the recording of Wild Boy a song penned by Eden Ahbez and issued on Charles Mish's tiny label named Sierra located at Sierra Bonita, Hollywood. Rocky left the Wisemen in 1960 to pursue his career, recording two more singles in California, for Flip ad for Althea, before moving to Texas.

They were records in the sixties and the seventies for various Texas labels such as Kool, Capri, B&G, Rampart Street, POW MIA, Injun and Juke Box. Also, two singles were issued on Memphis labels (Pixie and Casino) in the seventies. Billy Holeman died in 1996.

discography

59 - Sierra 1502 - Wild Boy / Broken Love (Rocky Holman - Mort Wise And The Wisemen)
61 - Flip 355 - Love Me All The Way / My Precious Love (Rocky Hollman And The Romancers)
xx - Althea 001 - Knock At The Door (Of Your Heart) / "Tammy" Tell Your Daddy (Rocky Hollman)

(from there, all records are as by Billy Holeman)

62 - Kool 1020 Lana Jean / Knockin' At The  Door
64 – Capri 503 – Billy Holeman – The Other Side Of Me / Where Broken Hearts Live
66 – Capri 519 – Billy Holeman – Flip Flop & Fly/Running
68 - B&G 001 - I Can't Stand The Hurt (No More) / One Lonely Heart
70 - Pixie 002 - The First Thing I Tried / Louisiana (Lover) Man
71 - Rampart Street 0336 - Louisiana Lover Man / One Last Time
73 - POW MIA - Prisoner Of War (Welcome Back Home) / They Want To Know
75 - Casino 112 - Here I Am / Sweet On My Mind
75 - Injun 586 -  Sentimental Journey / I'm A Kicker And A Guitar Picker
75 - B&G 101 - Sentimental Journey / I'm A Kicker And A Guitar Picker
80 - Juke Box 135 - Peace Of Mind / Special

You can hear 12 of these songs at YT in a playlist I created in my channel HERE or download them in the audio format at the link below :

Rocky Holman

 

Rocky in 1959

The Lazy Song

 

Let us celebrate with dignity and respect The International Workers' Day with Bruno Mars

 
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

 

"The Lazy Song"

Today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything, uh

I'm gonna kick my feet up, then stare at the fan
Turn the TV on, throw my hand in my pants
Nobody's gon' tell me I can't, nah
I'll be lounging on the couch, just chillin' in my Snuggie
Click to MTV, so they can teach me how to dougie
'Cause in my castle, I'm the freaking man

Oh-oh, yes, I said it (Ooh-ooh)
I said it, I said it, 'cause I can (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

Today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh

Tomorrow, I'll wake up, do some P90X
Meet a really nice girl, have some really nice sex
And she's gonna scream out, "This is great!" (Oh my God, this is great)
Yeah, I might mess around and get my college degree
I bet my old man will be so proud of me
But sorry, pops, you'll just have to wait

Oh-oh, yes I said it (Ooh-ooh)
I said it, I said it, 'cause I can (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

Today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything

No, I ain't gonna comb my hair (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
'Cause I ain't going anywhere (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
I'll just strut in my birthday suit (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
And let everything hang loose (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh
Nothing at all
 

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Stay in bed to celebrate May 1st by reading The Right To Be Lazy at  https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ , a translation of Le Droit à la Paresse  written by Karl Marx's son-in-law Jules Lafargue and published in 1883.

 

These Boots Are Made for Walkin

 Crispin Glover

These Boots Are Made for Walkin

 

Best remembered as George McFly for his role in Back To The Future, Crispin Hellion Glover is a little less remembered for his The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be album released in 1989.

 

According to The Crispin Glover Handbook :

 In 1989, during a hiatus from films, Glover released an album called The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be through Restless Records, produced by Barnes & Barnes (of "Fish Heads" fame). The album features original songs like "Clowny Clown Clown", odd versions of Lee Hazlewood's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" and Charles Manson's "I'll Never Say Never to Always" (sung in falsetto), and readings from his art books Rat Catching and Oak Mot (see Books section below). Sample pages from these books are featured in the album's liner notes. The back cover of the album is a collage of figures relating to each track on the album, with an inscription: "All words and lyrics point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things all have in common." He included a telephone number on the back of the Crispin Glover in September 2008. album, encouraging listeners to phone when they had figured out the element that all pieces had in common. He has said the telephone number was a pre-internet way of letting people know about the books. As for the "Nine things in common" Glover has said "It is really just the theme of the album." Glover later commented that he was surprised how many people realized what it was. He recorded a version of the Michael Jackson song "Ben" to coincide with the release of the 2003 film Willard; the song had been written for the sequel to the original 1971 version of this film. In the music video for the song, he sings to a rat named Ben. A number of songs using Glover's name as the title have been recorded by various artists, including shoegaze/gothic rock band Scarling., Chicago outsider musician Wesley Willis and a New Jersey-based band called Children In Adult Jails. In the early 2000s, a Kansas City band named itself Onward Crispin Glover.

Full album available HERE