Donnie Iris (Dominic Ierace) also owned a mortgage company.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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The Rapper" is a song by The Jaggerz, written by band member Donnie Iris. Released as a single, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, behind Simon & Garfunkel's smash "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and it was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1970 for selling over a million copies.
The song is addressed to a girl, or girls in general; it describes the method of a man who seduces women with untruths ("rapping"). The singer says, "You know what he's after"; he concludes by saying there comes a point at which the man has his target where he wants her, and the girl has to "face reality". The record ends with a small burst of applause heard in the studio. This title was a somewhat risqué play on forced intimacy. Music started pushing innuendo’s to entice audiences and it worked.
Iris went on to join Wild Cherry and formed his own band with keyboard player Mark Avsec, who was also in Wild Cherry. With his band, Iris had hits with "Ah! Leah!," "Love Is Like A Rock" and "My Girl." Iris told us about The Jaggerz: "We got turned down probably by 8 or 10 different record companies before Neil Bogart at Buddha decided to give it a shot. I don't know if anybody really heard a hit in it or not, but he did. He thought that it had a good shot at doing something, and he was right. I mean, it took off like crazy?
The "rapper" of the title and "rappin'" in the lyrics have only some coincidental resemblance to the vocal style of rapping.
The Rapper - Wikipedia
The song is addressed to a girl, or girls in general; it describes the method of a man who seduces women with untruths ("rapping"). The singer says, "You know what he's after"; he concludes by saying there comes a point at which the man has his target where he wants her, and the girl has to "face reality". The record ends with a small burst of applause heard in the studio. This title was a somewhat risqué play on forced intimacy. Music started pushing innuendo’s to entice audiences and it worked.
Iris went on to join Wild Cherry and formed his own band with keyboard player Mark Avsec, who was also in Wild Cherry. With his band, Iris had hits with "Ah! Leah!," "Love Is Like A Rock" and "My Girl." Iris told us about The Jaggerz: "We got turned down probably by 8 or 10 different record companies before Neil Bogart at Buddha decided to give it a shot. I don't know if anybody really heard a hit in it or not, but he did. He thought that it had a good shot at doing something, and he was right. I mean, it took off like crazy?
The "rapper" of the title and "rappin'" in the lyrics have only some coincidental resemblance to the vocal style of rapping.
The Rapper - Wikipedia
IMMusicRulz
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Andy Summers played guitar with Neil Sedaka
Before Hip Hop appropriated the term, "rap" just meant to talk - if you asked someone if they wanted to rap, you were just asking if they wanted to chat. A "rap session" was... a discussion.
Legendary music producer Bill Syzmcyck
(Eagles, BB King, etc) had no background as a musician. He was originally a sonor operator for the U.S. Navy and took some audio production classes as part of his Navy training.
(Eagles, BB King, etc) had no background as a musician. He was originally a sonor operator for the U.S. Navy and took some audio production classes as part of his Navy training.
Japanese artist Jun Fukamachi released an electronic version of Sgt. Pepper's in 1977 on Japan's EMI Toshiba label.
I have a copy of this album and it is unique in several ways. It was recorded direct to disc…no tape machine was used. This means it’s a live recording and once started recording it had to be a complete take to cut each disc side. That means no tape hiss. Also it was a solo recording and Jun played all of the piano, synths, percussion, etc. solo and live in one long take. It is an instrumental masterpiece.
Billboard, September 9, 1978
The cover is a reproduction of the original Sgt. Pepper's photo, except everyone is facing backwards, and the writing is mirror-image.
Jun Fukamachi's 1977 electric version of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. "This superbly crafted direct-to-disk features the versatile Fukamachi as a veritable one-man band in a lively album that captures the essence of the original Beatles' tunes throughout. The innovative arrangements of the artist, tailored to get the maximum benefit from a surrounding instrument array, produce one of the better technical efforts of this series. Synthesizer effects provide special "flavor," particularly at the close of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" on side one, and in the evocative opening of "She's Leaving Home" on side two. . . . Fukamachi blends a concert grand, electric piano, Arp synthesizer, glockenspiel, bass drum, tambourine and other electronic instruments with results that indicate a group, not a solo artist.
Note: No Pro-Tools used on this record. Ha!
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IMMusicRulz
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Eric Bloom is actually married to the cousin of radio personality Howard Stern, and as such Howard Stern provided some vocals for Blue Oyster Cult's 1985 album Club Ninja.
It would have been a better story if Howard did the cowbell for "Don't Fear the Reaper". Too bad......
In a more specific sense, at least where I grew up, "rap" also meant a guy trying to smooth-talk a girl in order to get her number or a date. We would see one of our friends talking to a girl and say something like, "Look at him, tryna rap to dat girl...dat boy ain't got no rap!"
In a more specific sense, at least where I grew up, "rap" also meant a guy trying to smooth-talk a girl in order to get her number or a date. We would see one of our friends talking to a girl and say something like, "Look at him, tryna rap to dat girl...dat boy ain't got no rap!"
My guess is it wasn't just where you grew up, but also when that determined what "rap" means.
I also knew it to mean "line of patter", or "rant" in a more mellow sense ... a spiel (often political in some way). But then, I grew up in a very academic mult-college area, so I guess that kind of thing was also used to impress chicks
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Rick Wakeman nearly got busted sneaking out both a KGB and an admirals uniforms when he was leaving the USSR. He got out of it by promising to send a bunch of rock albums back to the interviewing customs officer when he returned home. He says he did.
Exactly. That's what the song was about. The guy was warning the girl to beware because the other dude was just trying to lay a smooth rap on her.In a more specific sense, at least where I grew up, "rap" also meant a guy trying to smooth-talk a girl in order to get her number or a date. We would see one of our friends talking to a girl and say something like, "Look at him, tryna rap to dat girl...dat boy ain't got no rap!"
SOMEWHAT similar to Kris Kristofferson's excellent "The Silver-Tongued Devil And I". Although Kris "admitted" in the song that some people even say that he and the "silver-tongued devil" are the same...
The Dixie Dregs song "Twiggs Approved" from their Dregs of the Earth album from 1980 was written for Twiggs Lyndon, the road manager for the Allman Brother Band as well as the Dixie Dregs. Lyndon was killed in a skydiving accident the year before.
Exactly. That's what the song was about. The guy was warning the girl to beware because the other dude was just trying to lay a smooth rap on her.
SOMEWHAT similar to Kris Kristofferson's excellent "The Silver-Tongued Devil And I". Although Kris "admitted" in the song that some people even say that he and the "silver-tongued devil" are the same...
Great album!
My Uncle gave that to me when it came out. Excellent song writing.
IMMusicRulz
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Greg Lake was a fundraiser for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Isn't Lydon also on record saying he did actually like ELP?
Ringo used tea towels on his Snare and Floor Tom to get that tight drum sound on Sgt. Pepper’s and the Abbey Road album.
The way some people have told the story through the years, Ringo used Paul and John on his snare and floor tom!
