Carolina beach music

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I sing/write/play... Anyone out there play Carolina beach music? (Embers, Tams, Chairman of the Board, etc.) Maybe I have a bad ear from being in front of amps all these years, but I cannot hear the chord progressions. Any players?

tom deaton, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being orginally from the coastal regions of NC, I can honestly say I hate this music. My parents adored it, and listened to it constently when I lived with them. It causes me great discomfort, and to watch the event that is the Beach Music festivel and realizing that it's 10 thousand frat boys that could care less about any kind of music and would rather drink the night away digusts me. Anyway, nice to meet you tom deaton.

Jeff, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...
Is there anywhere I can get Carolina Beach Music Midi's to down;oad and attach to my stationery files? Or Has anyone made a computer program of Carolina Beach Music? Don't mind paying, just don't know where to find the best music ever made. Thanks

Cheryl Hendrix, Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

How would you describe this stuff? Is it like bluegrass meets Jimmy Buffet?

Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

Geez, I could have been a little nicer and more welcoming to tom deaton 13 years ago. This was his only post on ILX.

Anyway, inspired by the classic rock poll, I've decided I want to revisit the other music that was prevalent in my younger years. I obviously had some issues with it as a 21 year old, as seen above. So I'd like to see how almost the 35 year old me feels about it. Will report back.

Jeff, Sunday, 3 August 2014 17:20 (eleven years ago)

How would you describe this stuff? Is it like bluegrass meets Jimmy Buffet?

If only.

carl agatha, Sunday, 3 August 2014 22:59 (eleven years ago)

do you guys ever go shagging, if you know what i mean

mookieproof, Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:10 (eleven years ago)

Seems like the core Carolina beach music canon is a subset of classic 50s R&B

public shagging competitions likely to confuse UK ILMers

Brad C., Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:15 (eleven years ago)

This is some bizarre U.S. inversion of the northern soul phenomenon

Οὖτις, Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

otm

i knew a shagging champion when i lived in NC!

cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 4 August 2014 00:12 (eleven years ago)

Clifford Curry on the Nashville Network, mid-'80s

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

timellison, Monday, 4 August 2014 04:26 (eleven years ago)

Shagging to Sixty Minute Man by Billy Ward and the Dominos ... Those were simpler times.

that's not my post, Monday, 4 August 2014 04:49 (eleven years ago)

a long time ago I was in NC on vacation and went to some crazy vintage record shop, they had tons of this stuff, almost all on 45. they also had singles by, like, The Parliaments and such, expensive things even back then.

sleeve, Monday, 4 August 2014 06:20 (eleven years ago)

Maryland southern soul band the Hardway Connection, whom I have mentioned on the Chitlin Circuit thread, are popular down South with the beach music crowd. They get played on the surf radio in Myrtle Beach South Carolina, I have read and been told.

http://www.beachmusic45.com/id979.html

Here's the website for the Cammy Awards (Carolina beach music awards)

http://www.cammy.org/

curmudgeon, Monday, 4 August 2014 13:20 (eleven years ago)

This was the default music for fraternity/sorority social functions at the University of Georgia in the late 70s and early 80s, which did not endear it to me at the time ... the cultural appropriation feels creepier to me than northern soul, because the audience is preppy white southerners, but the music is undeniable

Brad C., Monday, 4 August 2014 13:39 (eleven years ago)

when I was in high school I did a thing on the arts section of the local paper and 50% of the job was interviewing people about beach music

katherine, Monday, 4 August 2014 16:08 (eleven years ago)

the cultural appropriation feels creepier to me than northern soul, because the audience is preppy white southerners, but the music is undeniable

otm

lol on hoosly (crüt), Monday, 4 August 2014 17:27 (eleven years ago)


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