#chris montez

[chimerqa]

płytką myślą łeb przestrzelony :D

Sterroryzuję Was dzisiaj swoimi rozkminami. Poczujcie mój codzienny chaos.

Od początku roku czuję jakiś spokój, łatwiej i spokojniej przyjmuję stresowe akcenty. Pierwszy raz w życiu! Borze, o ile łatwiej tak funkcjonować, po prostu przyjąć do wiadomości i nic z tym nie robić!

Np. córka przez niechcący zniszczyła mi nową walizkę, bała się, że zrobię dziką awanturę, a ja zaskoczyłam ją w miarę spokojną postawą i przeszło mi w 5 minut :D

Czuję się też cudownie sama ze sobą, nie chcę nic zmieniać, niech ta fascynacja trwa. Akceptuję siebie w pełni. Póki nie muszę patrzeć w lustro!

Zauważyłam też, że z wiekiem z niepokojącą wręcz łatwością kończę różne relacje i znajomości. Nie mam na myśli Cepa A. czy Pana Rowera, choć tu poszło zaskakująco łatwo. Ale tak w ogóle. Np. Pietruch po 2 czy 3 latach się odezwał z zapro na kawę. I mam to zapro w dupie :) Generalnie w ogóle kontakty ludzkie mam w dupie głęboko : D

Doszłam też do wniosku, że mężczyźni w moim wieku (ci po rozwodach lub po prostu po rozstaniach) traktują kobiety instrumentalnie. Jasne, że kobiety w moim wieku (te po rozstaniach czy rozwodach) też mają coś z deklem często. Wszak każdy z nas ma jakieś swoje traumy i inne pierdolety.

Dotarło też do mnie, że nie jestem gotowa na kompromisy i dzielenie swojej przestrzeni. Prawdopodobnie nie umiem być w związku : D

Miało być krótko i zwięźle, a wysrałam długą rozprawkę o tym, że chyba dojrzewam :D

[oldshowbiz]

Straight Out of Hawthorne

[mudwerks]

(via Let's Dance - Chris Montez (1959)

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Matin 💙🎤 👋 💙

Chris Montez 🎶 The More I See You

[ubu507]

We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too, Any old dance that you wanna do But let's dance, well let's dance

[duranduratulsa]

On the turntable today...

Fame Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1980)

All Time Greatest Hits & More 1959 - 1965 by The Drifters (1988)

Wild Thing by Tone Loc (1988) (12" Single)

The More I See You by Chris Montez (1966)

Prove Your Love by Taylor Dayne (1987) (12" Single)

#fame #thedrifters #greatesthitsandmore #1959to1965 #thedriftersgreatesthitsandmore1959to1965 #toneloc #wildthing #chrismontez #TheMoreIseeYou #taylordayne #ProveYourLove #records #album #lp #12inch ##12inchvinyl #vinylrecords #vinyl #50s #60s #80s

[kdo-three]

Chris Montez - Let’s Dance (Stereo) (1962) Jim Lee from: “Let’s Dance” / “You’re the One” (Single) “Let’s Dance” (EP|UK)

Rock and Roll | Garage Rock | Chicano Rock

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Personnel: Chris Montez: Vocals Studio Musicians: The Wrecking Crew: Ray Johnson: Philicorda Organ Carol Kaye: Guitar Joel Hill: Guitar Ray Pohlman: Bass Jesse Sailes: Drums

Produced by Jim Lee

Recorded @ Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood, California USA on May 5, 1962

Released: June 1962

Monogram Records

[radiophd]

chris montez -- let’s dance

[beatlblog]

#love this#that comment about john making fun of songs is very telling in light of john's reaction to paul's solo stuff#and I always love stories featuring names from my old best of the sixties CDs#I wonder if john said 'let's dance' to chris montez before he poured the beer over him (via javelinbk)

#pleaseeee#love the thought of babygirl mccartney wanting to stop a fight and not being of any more use than if he’d fainted like a maiden (via big-barn-bed)

#trying to break up a fight and immediately ending up on the floor…i love you failgirl (via ozymandiasdirge)

#on girlfriend duties again (via paulmccartneyexplodingonstage)

#girl GET UP (via adriennefrombrooklyn)

Three tales of Paul being protective of John (or trying at least!)

“John Lennon poured a bottle of beer over Chris Montez’s head. Well Chris took a slim view of this and went mad and took a punch at John. Paul tried to intervene but in the scuffle that was going on landed on his back and knocked his head on the pavement, nearly knocking himself out.”

(Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jdNbzHB8g)

[Edit: the letter seems to be from Pete Best, as per near the end of https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whos-boss-fluidity-leadership-within-lennon-mccartney/id1472107627?i=1000443995093]

“John Lennon was the first one out on the floor,” [Tom] Jones recalled in an interview with Channel Bee. “And he looks up at me and he says [to the tune of It’s Not Unusual], ‘It’s not a unicorn it’s an elephant.’“He said, ‘How you doing you Welsh p**f?’” the Welsh-born singer continued.“I said, ‘Come up here you Scouse p***k, I’ll show you!’”

Thankfully, Jones’ manager Gordon Mills and Lennon’s Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney were on hand to diffuse the situation. Mills quickly chipped in to tell Jones that was merely Lennon’s sense of humour. 

According to the Liverpool Echo, Jones later revealed how McCartney had stepped in as well. “Paul McCartney said to me, ‘If John Lennon made fun of a song, it means he likes it, because he wouldn’t make a comment on it if it didn’t strike him,’” he said.

(Terrible source: https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1260665/Tom-Jones-John-Lennon-Paul-McCartney-The-Beatles-fight-interview)

“I constantly saw Lennon and McCartney together because Paul came along to see that I wasn’t rude to John - who I can’t say I got on with. Paul didn’t want me to upset John.” - Sir Joseph Lockwood

(Source: Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles Song Publishing Empire, Brian Southall, 2008)

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: June 1, 1962

Lyrics:

One, two

One, two, three

Hey, baby, won't you take a chance?

Say that you'll let me have this dance

Well, let's dance, well, let's dance

We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too

Any old dance that you wanna do

But let's dance, well, let's dance

Hey, baby, yeah, you thrill me so

Hold me tight, don't you let me go

But let's dance, well, let's dance

We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too

Any old dance that you wanna do

But let's dance, well, let's dance

Okay, wail now

Oh, yeah

Hey baby, if you're all alone

Maybe you'll let me walk you home

But let's dance, well, let's dance

We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too

Any old dance that you wanna do

But let's dance, well, let's dance

Hey, baby, things are swinging right

Yes, I know that this is the night

Well, let's dance, well, let's dance

We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too

Any old dance that you wanna do

But let's dance, well, let's dance

Songwriter:

But let's dance

But let's dance

But let's dance

Richard Frederick Stannard / Ash Howes / Martin Peter Harrington / Julian Gallagher / Jason Scott Brown / Richard Abidin Breen / Sean Kieran Conlon

SongFacts:

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Homepage:

Chris Montez

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 31st October

Okay, I'm seeing we've got not one but two unfamiliar names, this week - I feel like that's pretty rare, nowadays, and I do always quite enjoy it. Feels like a real roll of the dice!

Venus in Blue Jeans - Mark Wynter (4)

I will say, I like the title of this one. I can't really explain why, but the phrase "Venus in blue jeans" feels so evocative, to me. It fits, in a song that works by comparing Marks' beloved to various works of art, fairy tale characters and/or historical wonders, with a modern, fashionable update. She's Venus in blue jeans, Mona Lisa with a ponytail. We then get a bit less specific, but she's still the Cinderella I adore, and my special angel, too / A fairy tale come true. It's cute, if a bit much, especially when Mark decides to really hammer it home, with the clunker of a bit about how they say there's seven wonders in the world / But what they say is out of date / There's no more seven wonders in the world / I just met number eight. Which is fine, but you can tell exactly where the lines are going, as soon as Mark starts them. And really, putting your girl up there with, like, the Pyramids feels like a mistake. I mean, when you're calling your crush a teenage goddess from above, you're just setting her up to disappoint.

That all said, most of it does feel solidly written, the "wonders of the world" line aside. This is well crafted pop, and I'm not hugely surprised to learn that it was a Brill Building original, penned by one Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield, who's probably in competition with Goffin and King for most prolific songwriter we've met so far. He was inspired, apparently, by songs like Nat King Cole's Mona Lisa and Frankie Avalon's Venus. The song was then given originally to Jimmy Clanton, but not before Neil Sedaka consulted a bit on it. Carole King helped arrange the brass and strings for it, Gerry Goffin added the trumpet you hear in the middle, and the Cookies provided the backing vocals. You may not recognise the latter group, but they have had a brief starring role - they were the band who put Little Eva, of Locomotion fame, in touch with King and Goffin, and got her a babysitting job with the couple. So yeah, this song is possibly the most Brill Building song, possible. It's got lots of orchestration, including chimes, strings, some pretty backing vocals. It's deliberately teenaged, in its concerns. And it's just some soft, pleasant, two-minutes-and-done pop music.

I should note at this point that I'm not listening to the original, but rather a cover by Mark Wynter. Who's Mark Wynter? Honestly, he doesn't seem to be a hugely prolific or well known artist. He was a Brit, born Terry Lewis. Afraid - possibly prudently - that this might get him mixed up with Jerry Lee Lewis, he changed it to the much more glam Mark Wynter and went on to become a bit of a teen idol, known mostly for this, plus another cover, this time of a Bobby Vee hit, which we are going to get to. Aside from that, though, there doesn't seem to be much notable about him. He tried out for Eurovision in 1961, but lost out to the Allisons. That's the kind of calibre of star we're talking about, here. He also had a fabulously huge quiff, by the look of the pictures I can find of him. But other than that, I've very little to say about Mark. He does a passable if slightly bland job, here, performing the song perfectly adequately, albeit without any great passion. It's fine. He's fine. On to the next, please.

Let's Dance - Chris Montez (2)

Okay, this is more like it! This is an old-school rock and roll stomper, and it grabs you immediately, with a spoken one, two, a-one, two, three and a pounding, insistent drumbeat vaguely reminiscent of the war drums and chanting from Running Bear, all the way back in 1959. And then we get Chris singing, with these little choppy bits of organ noise, fragments of the melody we're about to be treated to, like it's teasing you. As intros go, it's ideal - it makes you sit up and listen, and it doesn't hang around before the main tune gets going, with bass, organ, faster drumming. It's pretty great.

The main tune here's also catchy, which helps. It kind of makes me think of the riff from Elton John's Crocodile Rock. Which I'm sure isn't a mistake, seeing as how that a song that's all about rock and roll, and nostalgia for the era, in general. Which makes this a fitting reference, not only as a bona fide rock and roll song, but also as a song that's literally about the experience of going out and dancing. It's framed as Chris asking his love out for a dance. And he's honestly pretty smooth about it, asking them hey baby, won't you take a chance? / Say that you'll let me have this dance. We even get some different dance fads name-dropped. We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too, he sings, Any old dance that you wanna do. Which I think is kind of cute - Chris doesn't care what dance he ends up doing, as long as he's doing it with the person he loves. There's something very innocent and sweet about it, in the giddy way he tells them that you thrill me so, and hopes that baby, if you're all alone / Maybe you'll let me walk you home. Which is adorable, genuinely very winning.

And in all this, there's a coolness and a confidence to the song, too. Chris might be all tentative, asking his love politely if they'd let him dance, if it would be alright if he walked them home. But there's something in the slightly deadpan tone of voice throughout, the cool, offhand way he almost slurs the let's dance, that gives you the sense that he's not getting too hung up or nervous about it all. We're not about teenage fumbling and insecurity, here. Chris is here to have a good time dancing, and maybe he'll flirt a bit, and either way, a fun time will be had by all.

And all this fun is rammed home by a track that's just exciting to listen to. I think the best bit has to be a tie between the absolutely blistering organ solo in the middle, or possibly the start of the verses, where the instruments drop away, leaving just Chris singing over the thumping drums from the intro. All of which gives a good sense of excitement, and does make you want to dance. It's very stompy, not subtle at all, and I love it.

(I've also noticed that there are covers of this song by both Slade and by Status Quo, and man, I can imagine both of those groups absolutely smashing it out of the park - I might have to go give them a listen, too!)

The Swiss Maid - Del Shannon (2)

And then, to round off, Del Shannon, who I've quite enjoyed, historically. I hit play on a Del Shannon song, and I know what I expect. I'm hoping for clavioline, falsetto, and, crucially, that trademark Del Shannon songwriting, glee and spite and heartbreak and petty drama, all mixed together into a heady, rock and roll brew. They're high expectations, but Del's been nothing but consistent so far, I'm sure it'll be fine.

And then this happens. The Swiss Maid, compared to everything else I've heard from Del is... well, it's anomalous, for sure. I won't say it's completely out of left-field. But it's definitely weird. For one, it's a cover, and not even a rock and roll cover. The Swiss Maid was originally written by Roger Miller, a country artist I best know for the song King of the Road, and for doing the music from Disney's Robin Hood. So that's unexpected. And then we've lost the clavioline and most of the rock and roll trappings. Plus, we've barely got any falsetto, either. And what there is? It's in the form of yodelling. Ugh. I thought we'd got past the yodelling phase. But no, between this and Frank Ifield, we seem to be entering into a bold, new, Alpine era. Joy of joys.

I don't think it helps that the song's kind of boring, too, musically, but also lyrically. I mean, it's about a Swiss maid pining away in her valley. And that's literally it. One time, a long time ago / On a mountain in Switzerland / There lived a fair young maiden / Lovely but lonely. She tells her dad this, and he replies that some day we'll go / Down to the village in the valley / There you'll meet a nice young man, / He'll ask for your hand / And then you'll be happy. Except... this doesn't happen? We learn that every day she got unhappier and lonelier, and pined away, and no love came. This, out of anything that's going on here, is the most Del Shannon-ish part of the song, the drama and slightly unsettling note of her just pining away her life miserably, with him noting, morbidly, that some say the maiden's dream / Never came true / She never got to go to the valley, / If she did or not, / I really don't know. Which would be suitably savage and dramatic, if the song didn't then take a turn back towards the sentimental, with a note that I'd rather think she found her love / Wouldn't you rather think she did find love? Which... okay, nice, I guess. Boring, but nice, in an abstract way. There's no lesson to be learnt, no real life situation you can really, concretely relate her situation to, nothing. At least if she'd ended the song lonely, it could be a song about how love doesn't always work out, or about how dreams don't always come to something. That would make for a depressing song, sure, but I think Del could pull it off. This? It's so nothingy. The more I listen, the less I like it. Again, ugh.

I seriously hope the yodelling isn't about to become a trend. I suspect it is, but, like Del's Swiss maid, I live in hope. Not least because among the meh songwriting and the Swiss lameness, you've also got songs like my favourite for this week, a genuinely cool track that involved no yodelling whatsoever. Thank the heavens.

Favourite song of the bunch: Let's Dance

[cleoenfaserum]

STOP see STOP ver

LET'S DANCE // BAILEMOS

tumblr source fuente k-eke Dec 31, 2024 Bouncy Moo Deng!

link https://youtu.be/iNLXxDMxe18

link https://youtu.be/VbD_kBJc_gI

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1332

first posted in facebook august 3, 2024

affandi -- "self portrait" (1975)

"call me a painter or better yet, just human" … affandi

"call me, don't be afraid, you can call me maybe it's late but just call me tell me and i'll be around" … tony hatch

"call me (call me) on the line call me, call me any, anytime call me (call me) i'll arrive you can call me any day or night call me" … deborah harry

"call me a poster, or better yet, a knucklehead" … al janik

[clivechip]

Tuesday Tunes 201: Some More Dances

Click to enlarge if necessary After last week’s celebration of the 200th post in this series I thought I’d return again to another theme which I have featured before, but for which I have some more songs to play you. Back in 2022 I played three selections of songs with dance in their title, and as that is a natural fit for music I thought I’d take it round the floor again. So, here is my fourth…

[retroactivosigue]

Monkey Fever - Chris Montez