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Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

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    Willie Nelson discography
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    Studio albums95
    Live albums13
    Compilation albums51
    Video albums41
    Soundtrack albums



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    Betcha you you didn't see this coming!! LOL

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    There's four of em, count em! ":O}
    I don't think I'll ever get over Little Richard jumping back into the alley, makes me smile every time!!

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    Tragedy comes to all high and low.
    Eric wrote this on the occasion of a very young son's death.

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    Many moons and few thousand posts ago TR brought Willie to our attention.
    But I didn't make the connection. Here's the missing link. This one is for you TR!! ":O}

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    another guide in the intricacies of our favorite groups and songs.

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    Yeah, that song is from the album 'Miracle', which Mark produced for Willy. It is a lovely, tuneful album. The movie you see in the background is The Princess Bride, which took Willy's song for its theme.

    Every time I think of Willy I remember how we used to see him regularly at CBGB's, which was around the corner and a few blocks down from where I lived on East 7th St. They were sort of the house band there for quite a while, and I knew a guy a few years older then I was who was one of his roadies, so he would help get us into the club when we wanted...He played with Blondie, the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, The Runaways. In those days he was different-sounding, playing with his band Mink DeVille, but I liked the later Willy even better ;)

    RIP Willy, you are missed.

    CBGB's was a DUMP. The stage was miniscule. The bathrooms were smelly and horrendous. The place was absolutely full of graffiti. In fact, there were no spaces left to draw more graffiti, you just painted over someone else's. In spite of all this, the place packed people in like sardines. It rocked. I found a few pictures on the Internet. You can tell I grew up in a great neighborhood, lolz.

    cbgb-exterior-1983.jpg empty-cbgb.jpg cbgb.jpg

    Here's an interview, Willy reminiscing about CBGB's:
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    Fats could do no wrong, we are so lucky to have him in our "history books!"
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    The Dead did some all time songs it's nice that through the art and science of recording we can hear them again.
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    What great postings, thank you ThunderRD! WTH? You grew up in the Village? With parents? That's a loong way from E 82nd Street. And I only lived there for a year. But I did go to Washington Edit Square Park a few times with friends who were obviously hipper than me.

    I had no idea that CBGB's was such a DUMP! A guy in one of my music classes in Seattle a million years later was in a local band who played at CBGB's. Poor guy was a junkie, been there did that loong before the early 90's. Thank goodness.

    I didn't realize that Willy DeVille was that much of a big deal. Hey, he had a cat that loved him so he was all right in my book.

    It's good to learn just how ignorant I am of so much history. Thank you!!
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    Thank you for finding this one, Dan. The first chord of "A Hard Day's Night" is definitely a most memorable bit of popular music. Very interesting story!
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    Interesting, Mark Knopfler gets first billing. But the post isn't really about him. Willy, one of the Greats!
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    LA College of Music Joe Walsh Interview

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    I grew up on East 7th St, between Cooper Square and 2nd Avenue. One block uptown was St Mark's Place. It isn't actually considered Greenwich Village but close enough. Most people call it the 'East Village' and at the time it was simply a Slavic ghetto, full of tenement buildings like the one I lived in. If I looked out my bedroom window, I looked straight at St George's Ukrainian Church, which was our home parish. Out the door of my building, turn right, past McSorley's Ale House [which was where all the men snuck out of church to visit on Sundays], and walked about 40 meters to the Bowery, then turn left at Cooper Union/Square a few blocks to CBGBs, which is near Bleecker Street/Bowery intersection.

    If you left my building and turned left to 2nd Ave instead, and then turned right, there was the Fillmore East. I think I've mentioned that I lived in this neighborhood before. It was a great place to grow up.

    BTW, half of the musicians that played CBGBs were junkies, including Willy, so your friend was in good company ;)
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    I was actually hoping my post might reinvigorate Willies fan base. Thanks TR
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    Dude we are all pretty much ignorant of history... and never more so with than with our own personal histories.

    Did you know that we CHANGE memory EVEY time we access it.??????
    In the face of that it's become pretty hard to believe my own life story.
    Now I just think of my past as an interesting fiction, I sleep better that way.
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