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Joe Dan Petty - Grinderswitch

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26th July 2024.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. Lena’s single, Ma! He’s Making Eyes At Me was at number 8 in the South African charts.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. The East Kent Times advertised Lena’s Sunday concert at the Winter Gardens, Margate in the 4th August.

Harry Secombe was doing the summer season.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. In the New York Times, John Rockwell notes that every subway station is plastered with adverts for Lena.

The Pop Life By John Rockwell,

New York Times 26th July 1974.

“The Jackson 5 (or six, with the addition of 11‐year‐old Randy), who are performing at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, are hardly the only young group before the public these days. The record racks and the airwaves are full of piping prepubescence.The reasons are several. Not all such singers and groups appeal exclusively to the 8‐to‐16‐year‐old set of course, but most of the young‐teen‐agers and subteenagers have become an increasingly affluent market, and the music business has never ‘been shy about following its nose towards affluence.

Another reason is that lots of pop has gotten pretty fancy. Rock was born as something vital yet simple. But pop stars and their audiences have both grown older, even with infusions from the youthful end of the scale. Where is a panting 12‐year‐old to turn for moon‐June pap if all lie or she can get is profundities from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Bobby Sherman, Rick Springfield, David Cassidy, the DeFrances, the Osmond Brothers and the Jacksion 5, are the young Elvis Presley and young Beatles of today.

At the moment every subway station is plastered with Pictures of a rather aggressIve‐looking little girl named Lena Zavaroni. Miss Zavaroni is 10, yet she belts out torch songs with a fervor that might make Mae West blush and an assortment of glottal show‐biz squeaks and ornamental flourishes worthy of the aging Judy Garland,

Clearly, some adults can find tot stars cuddly cute, and maybe even look upon their juxtaposition with “mature” material with mildly kinky glee. Miss Zavaroni’s version of “Help Me Make It Through the Night” makes the 15‐year‐old Tanya Tucker’s account of “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)” sound positively innocent.

Miss Zavaroni has a brassy vocal talent, to be sure. But her managers should have their money bags washed out with Of course, in principal there’s nothing much wrong with performing microboppers (to use an Esquire magazine term that never caught on), and a young person trying to sound old is probably no worse than an old person trying to sound young. Some acts, like the Jackson 5, can even make music of a genuinely infectious, appealing kind, and ad of them serve to inject continually new energy into an entertainment form that sometimes threatens to float away in its own cosmic profundity.It’s just that one can’t he quite sure where it will all end.

Rodney Allen Rippy, the 5‐year‐old hamburger‐eating super‐smiler, is, after all heading toward center stage.Some adults think of the world of pop music as a den of dope‐crazed incompetents, amiably ambling about in permanent mental fog. One naturally rejects such slander with righteous indignation, except that recently two rock bands have come along that can’t seem to decide how to spell themselves.The first was 10 cc., an innovative British group that has won both commercial success and critical acclaim for its clever variants of rock formulas. The group’s name has variously appeared — in ads, record covers and publicity material—as 10 c.c., 10 C.C., 10 cc, 10 CC, 10cc and lOCC. A woman at London Records, when quizzed about the discrepancies recently, said, “Gee, that’s a good question, We fight about it here at the office all the time.”The latest instance of nomenclatural confusion is Grinderswitch, a Southern blues‐rocking band that has opened a number of the Allman Brothers summer shows., Grinderswitch has also appeared as Grinder Switch; Grinders Switch and Grindersswitch. Perhaps both bands are making a significant protest against the order freaks of this world. As a certified orderfreak, however, I can only urge them to get it together before my next deadline.

It looks now as if the Bob Dylan‐Band European tour, that had been widely rumored for this fall will take place next spring”.

𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. Lena was photographed at home with her friend Senise and her dog Whiskey. (from the long defunct site lena-zavaroni.co.uk).

𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟔. Publicity photograph.

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖. Lena was at the opening of the new Tesco store at Pitsea, promoting her new LP; Songs are such good things, and signing autographs.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗. The Stage listed The Lena Zavaroni Show in Bridlington on it’s Summer Shows 1979 page.

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗. An undated newspaper article about how bored Lena was in Bridlington during her 1979 season and how Carla came down to keep her company, the article estimated that Lena earned about £400,000 p.a, - about £2.03 million in today’s money. The photograph was one of a set taken by John Curtis somewhere in the countryside near Bridlington.

𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗. A fan club photograph from a set taken on 30th January.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐. Record Business reported that Lena had agreed to appear in a February 1983 song festival to aid deprived children.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟔. Lena & Jimmy Crickets show was advertised in The Torbay Express.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟑. The South Wales Echo listed the coming Sunday's Summer Praise on it's television pages.

[tenthousandonesongs]

Song #33 - Grinderswitch - Let The South Wind Blow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPVQEL71mfo

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01 - The Winters Brothers Band - Rich Kids 02 – Louisiana's Leroux - New Orleans Ladies 03 – Dobie Gray - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 04 – Crystal Gayle - Same Old Story, Same Old Song 05 - The Charlie Daniels Band - Funky Junky 06 – The Charlie Daniels Band With Bobby Jones And New Life     6a - Amazing Grace     6b – Will The Circle Be Unbroken 07 – Wet Willie - Keep On Smilin' 08 – Henry Paul Band - So Long 09 – Papa John Creach - Down Home Blues 10 – Ted Nugent - Carol 11 – Rufus Thomas - Do The Funky Chicken 12 - Grinderswitch - Lady Luck

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Listenin to this. #vinylrecord #grinderswitch #capricorn #capricornrecords #macon #macongeorgia #georgia #southernrock https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkmeJNjryH/?igshid=1eid9a28bqq0f

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Grinderswitch

Blackfoot

The Outlaws

(southern rock)

🎶We didn't start the fire!🎶

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robert jon & the wreck

robert jon & the wreck

(Photo: John Hampton)(Header photo: Brian Greenberg) Back in the mid-Seventies, I was all over Southern Rock; Lynyrd Skynyrd (obviously!); The Outlaws; Marshall Tucker Band; Grinderswitch, and others all found a place in my record collection. Then, along came Punk. I always was a fickle kid, and though my love of these bands did not exactly fade, their albums would make much less frequent…

[yebisuneko]

#今日のおめざ #Grinderswitch #PullingTogether #nowplaying #vynil

[the-gayest-dovah]

I know in my heart of hearts that the wizarding children of Hogwarts would definitely purposefully mispronounce the names of Voldemort and Grindlewald because it would piss off their supporters to no end.

"Yeah I think I've heard of that guy. Oh right, Vordensnatch. "

"Bloody Grinderswitch is in the news again"

[1264doghouse]

Grinderswitch 1975

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Check out Grinder Switch – Have Band Will Travel - Robox Records – RBX 8101 https://ebay.us/UxIRLU via @eBay #grinderswitch #havebandwilltravel #vinylrecords #oldster2you

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Well, the train to Grinderswitch is runnin' right on time And them Tucker Boys are cookin' down in Caroline

Charlie Daniels 

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STILLWATER - I RESERVE THE RIGHT 1978/2007

STILLWATER – I RESERVE THE RIGHT 1978/2007

Based in Macon, Georgia, Stillwater had developed a fine reputation before being snapped up by the premiere Southern Rock label Capricorn records, home to a myriad of home-grown talent such as The Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie, The Marshall Tucker Band and Grinderswitch, amongst many others (more…)

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311 tres once, Nació como banda el 89 con el vocalista y guitarrista Nick Hexum, el guitarrista Jim Watson (quien sería reemplazado por Tim Mahoney), el bajista P-Nut y el baterista Chad Sexton. En 1992, Doug "SA" Martínez se unió como vocalista y más tarde haría los arreglos musicales en los siguientes álbumes de la banda. Hasta la fecha, 311 ha lanzado diez álbumes de estudio, un álbum en vivo, cuatro recopilatorios, cuatro LP y cuatro DVD.

Después de varios lanzamientos independientes, 311 firmó con la disquera Capricorn Records en 1992 y lanza los álbumes Music (1993) y Grassroots (1994) con un éxito moderado. Obtuvo un mayor éxito con su álbum 311 Album que ganó un triple disco de platino y alcanzó el puesto # 12 en el Billboard 200 con los sencillos "Down" y "All Mixed Up", el primero de estos encabezó la lista Billboard de las canciones más sonadas en Estado Unidos en 1996. los siguientes tres álbumes de la banda, Transistor (1997), Soundsystem (1999) y From Chaos(2001), no alcanzaron el éxito masivo de 311 Album, aunque seguían siendo exitosos.5 En 2004 lanzaron Greatest Hits '93-'03 ganando disco de oro, penúltimo álbum es Universal Pulse (2011). El álbum de estudio más reciente de la banda es Stereolithic (2014). A partir de 2011, 311 ha vendido más de 8,5 millones de discos en los EU.

Capricorn Records fué la disquera para muchas bandas de rock sureño y de soul en los años setenta incluyendo The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, Delbert McClinton, The Outlaws, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, Jonathan Edwards, Captain Beyond, White Witch, Grinderswitch, Cowboy, Kitty Wells, Dobie Gray, Travis Wammack y Stillwater. Inicialmente la discográfica era distribuida por WEA/Warner Music Group Elektra Records, luego por Warner Bros. Records) y luego por PolyGram Records. Capricorn se declaró en bancarrota en octubre de 1979. La discográfica fue abierta nuevamente gracias a un acuerdo con Warner Bros a comienzos de los años noventa.

Esta canción personalmente me relaja mucho y me pone de buen humor con ganas de salir, amar la vida, aceptar que hay cosas que no está en mis manos cambiarlas este sentimiento de bienestar de estar en el lugar donde quiero y necesito estar para estar en armonía y coherencia con mi propósito de vida, en el video hay una playa y la playa mas allá de simbolizar placer, vacaciones y descanso, simboliza para mi energía, agradecimiento paz interior, el saber fluir con la vida y estar despiertos de manera consiente con lo que está dentro de nuestro más profundo ser y en lo que nos queremos convertir esa mujer maravillosa que se ama a sí misma y ama cada minuto y cada ser que la rodea, esa mujer que ya tiene las respuestas pero no a manera egocéntrica si mas aterrizada y humilde, así simplemente honrando la vida.

Bonito día.