“Pop Musik,” M, 1979.
It’s Retro Thursday.
Writing about Ernest Ranglin, the jazz guitarist credited with coming up with the riff that is ska, led me to “Rivers of Babylon,” the 1972 Melodians’ version, which Ranglin played on/arranged, which led me to YouTube to find Boney M, who covered it in 1978 in a discofied version. This prompted me to hunt down the black-German (really!) disco act’s 1979 hit “Rasputin,” which I think I saw them perform on Soul Train, which led me to another mind-blowing track from this era.
Some days it’s hard to be productive. LalalalalalalaLA.
In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Cyberspace ID of Carol Brennan.
(There's no deep meaning in the title above, it's just such a great line it needed to be used somewhere. See source here:)
August 20, 2009
