flying saucers fly no more:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/02/sun-records-giant-billy-lee-riley-dead-75/
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Sunday, 2 August 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)
Although Riley stepped back from music for a time in the 1970s, working in home decorating
ha! did not know that.
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Sunday, 2 August 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)
"I see this room in red hot".
Started a lot of mix tapes with Mr. Riley. Here's someone you've never heard of who you will never forget.
― bendy, Sunday, 2 August 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)
RIP. He was a great one. Someone had forwarded me an e-mail a few weeks ago that was asking for money to help pay his medical bills.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 August 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)
A cover of "Red Hot" (by Sam the Sham?) on a 45 from my mother's childhood was one of the first rock records I loved. The lyric "she ain't got no money, but man she's got a lot" is fabulous. A lot of what? A few years later I got it. RIP.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:03 (sixteen years ago)
^^^
One of my first-ever record purchases was a sealed bag of 5 cutout 45s, and one of 'em was that Sam The Sham 45. (This would have been 1966 0r 67; the record hadn't been off the charts all that long. Only charted in the lower rungs of the Hot 100, iirc.) Then I left it on the easy chair and my little brother sat on it and broke it. I went back to the store and sifted through hundreds of bags to find a replacement.
My band covers both "Red Hot" and "Flying Saucers."
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 13:51 (sixteen years ago)
bunch of stories I'd never heard before
http://slyoyster.com/music/2009/night-glare-billy-lee-riley/
― bendy, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)