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Cover Of The Day:
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Alie Wrubel/Ray Gilbert), released 11/12/1946, and sung by James Baskett in Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" (Just try and find THAT streaming, on disc. or videotape anywhere. The Mouse House would very much prefer that the world never know that ever even existed. Just like they aren't crazy about the public knowing the fact that ol' Walt was an informant for the FBI in the 1940's and '50's, and ratted out "subversives" in Hollywood.)
Anyway, Sun Ra had a real fondness for the songs used in Disney movies, and had fun dropping them into his live sets... -
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Today, in Musical History:
November 13th, 1946: Good ol' Ray Wylie Hubbard, b. Soper, OK
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Cover Of The Day:
"Ugly Brown", released November, 1963, by Lee Hazlewood, on his debut album "Trouble Is A Lonesome Town"
Adia Victoria's spooky version comes from her 2017 EP, "Baby Blues" -
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Today, in Musical History:
November 14th, 1900" Aaron Copland, the "Dean of American Music", b, Brooklyn, NY
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The Rolling Stones, from the "Black And Blue" sessions, unreleased until the 2025 box set edition.
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Cover Of The Day:
Brian Eno's "Sombre Reptiles", released 11/14/1975, on his third solo album, "Another Green World"
Covered by the Vapors of Morphine, the band formed by the remaining members of Morphine after the death of Mark Sandman, from their album "A New Low" -
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Today, in Musical History:
November 15th, 1990: After the "scandal" erupts, revealing that the two twerps pretending to sing for Milli Vanilli were, in fact, lip-synching posers, their own producer and Svengali confirmed that Milli Vanilli didn't actually sing on their record.
No one is shocked or surprised by this; Some are surprised to discover that they could be even more disgusted with the music business. -
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Cover Of The Day:
"Rock And Roll", released 11/15/1970 by the Velvet Underground, on "Loaded", the last VU album to feature Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison or Maureen Tucker.
Cover by the pride of Haledon, New Jersey, the Feelies, from their 2023 live VU tribute album "Some Kinda Love" -
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Today, in Musical History, November 16th, 1968:
Jimi Hendrix has his only No. 1 album in the US, "Electric Ladyland"; Interestingly, Hendrix joins a rather exclusive club with this achievement: A No, 1 album without a best-selling single to accompany it. (Although he released 3 singles off of "E.L.", only one of them cracked the Top 20: "All Along The Watchtower", his best-selling single ever.)Usually, this was a feat accomplished by genuinely niche (or faddish / novelty) artists who never made anything remotely resembling a single; classical acts, such as Van Cliburn or Il Vivo, comedians Bob Newhart and Vaughn Meader, and, decades after Hendrix, alternative and nu-metal bands, such as LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Slipknot and Pantera, who all release an new album that storms into the top spot for a week or or two, as their fans gobble it up in big numbers, outselling everything else - and then completely disappear from any chart action until their next album drops; and now, K-Pop groups are starting to horn in on that action. (Some NEVER return - Hendrix and Blind Faith being examples of that; I myself was always proud of Lou Reed for demanding that his label release a "single" off of "Metal Machine Music".)
All told, less than two dozen artists, out of literally tens of thousands, have ever pulled this one off; It serves as a reminder that sales figures are never, ever an indicator of artistic value or quality, but only of the power of narrow (some might say "cultish") tastes. -
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