Sublime

the higher up the pole the monkey climbs, the more his ass shows.”

Many knowledgeable listeners are baffled by the success of the very first jazz recordings. These tracks, recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ironically an all-white ensemble) in 1917, were huge sellers and played a decisive role in creating a commercial market nationwide for jazz music.

Leiber and Stoller contracted to write and produce material for the Coasters, and created one of the most entertaining series of hits associated with rock ’n’ roll. The two men were among the few writers to put to advantage rock ’n’ roll’s restriction on verse forms – the fact that images needed to be specific, complete, preferably succinct. Accept

Listen to Count Basie’s recording of “Li’l Darlin’” if you want to hear how this is done at a very high level of virtuosity.

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He was nurtured by the black American belief that children should be taught to sing; that learning to sing—running sound through one’s body—was an essential component in developing to one’s full capacity as a human being.