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Turntable 08/10/2015

8/10/2015

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One Hit Wonders 1960 (2) 

"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan was released in 1959 through Four Star Records, credited to Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders. 

Ryan based the description of the eponymous car on his own hot rod, built from a 1948 12-cylinder Lincoln chassis shortened two feet, with a 1930 Ford Model A body fitted to it. Ryan raced his hot rod against a Cadillac sedan driven by a friend in Lewiston, Idaho, driving up the Spiral Highway (former U.S. Route 95 in Idaho) to the top of Lewiston Hill; he incorporated elements from this race in his lyrics to "Hot Rod Lincoln", but changed the setting to Grapevine Hill (a long, nearly straight grade up Grapevine Canyon  to Tejon Pass, near the town of Gorman, California) to fit it within the narrative of "Hot Rod Race".
The Fendermen were an American pop/rockabilly  duo, comprising Jim Sundquist and Phil Humphrey, active in the early 1960s.

Sundquist and Humphrey, both born on November 26, 1937, met as students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1950s. The duo had one hit single, "Mule Skinner blues", released in 1960 on the Cuca Records label which was picked up for national distribution by Soma records. The song hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The duo called themselves "the Fendermen" because they played Fender guitars (a Telecaster and a Stratocaster), and they connected them both to the same amplifier. These guitars were the only instruments used in the recording of "Mule Skinner Blues".

Harold Dorman (December 23, 1926 – October 8, 1988) was an American rock and roll singer and songwriter.

He wrote a song called "Mountain of Love", which he released as a single in 1960 on the Rita record label. The song became a hit in the U.S., reaching No. 7 on the R&B singles chart and No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Though it was Dorman's only hit record
Darrell McCall (born April 30, 1940) is a country music performer, known for his honky tonk  and traditional country musical style at the height of his career in the 1960s, and his return to popularity during the Outlaw country era in the late 1970s.

In 1959, McCall was contacted by Nashville producer Buddy Killen, and asked to join a pop band he was forming called The Little Dippers. The band released the top ten pop hit "Forever" in 1960.
Till Next Week

Harv
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JL
8/10/2015 07:55:12 am

Another winner plucked out of the 1960s hat, Harv. Thanks. Hard to believe it's been 55 years since we've heard those tunes, and even harder to accept how much has changed since then.

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