Messer Chups - New Album & Tour [2011]

Tourdates for Spain, France, Germany, Italy ...

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two songs from their album «Bermuda 66»

(Daphne Blue Lagoon & Lipstick Twang)

and not to be missed: the artwork for this album was created by Sol Rac

Scott Engel & John Stewart - Instrumentals (1964, 1967)

In the Biography of Scott Walker this LP is named as one of the greatest rip offs in Pop History. Fact is that the producer of this LP Mark Taylor want to present a best selling album. In the rise of the Walker Brothers fame in the US Taylor wanted to sell this LP as a Walker Brothers LP. This LP was recorded from Scott and his schoolmate John Stewart in 1964 as The Dalton Brothers. So the pictures has to be on this cover Scott Engel & John Stewart - not John Maus alias John Walker. Stewart wasn't a real member of the WBs he only composed songs for them and does some arrangements.Taylor decided to put John Walker on that cover, even if he had nothing to with this record. The sound of this record is pretty close to the Walkers. It is a good album. Not yet released as a cd. [by Affendaddy]

I Only Came To Dance With You [vocal! ] - Chick's Choice - Ham Rocks - Swinging' At The Batcave - Wallflower - Without Your Love [vocal!] - Discotheque Greens - Lottin Dottin Da-da [vocal!] - Nashville Your Guess [bonus track] - Devil Surfer [bonus track]

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(Scott Engel (aka Scott Walker) played bass f.e. with "The Routers" - and did a couple of true Rock'n'Roll singles at the beginning of his career - you can find them on many "Early Rockers" and "Teen" compilations and I was really shocked by the stuff the Walker Brothers did ... if you don't like their vocal stuff ... you can use a different sleeve and keep only the instrumentals, like I did)

picture of a German single release 1966 

Raunchy - or "The Birth" of Instrumental Rock'n'Roll

Bill Justis upon hearing that a certain Rock n' Roll musician made a lot of money, put down his trumpet for a saxophone, bought $80 of Rock n' Roll records, and set his sights on stardom. His May "57 hit "Raunchy" gets it's title from a magazine article on current teenage slang. Justis and Manker concocted the song in Justis' home while making fun of Rock n' Roll, convinced that they too could do it well if only they tried.  Bill Justis was older than most teenage Rock fans, and had little interested in Rock as a musical style. However he soon realized that Rock's basic and simple sound was actually harder to achieve then first thought. "Raunchy" became the first Rock n' Roll instrumental song.
"Raunchy " was a little Southern tune that Justis' just couldn't get out of his head. Originally named "Backwoods" it was a tune that he recalled from his childhood in Birmingham, Alabama.
There was nothing sophisticated about "Raunchy" - teenage slang for dirty or messy - which came out in November, 1957. It consisted of Sid Manker playing a short guitar riff over and over, alternating with Justis on tenor sax leading the Sun house band. The only thing remarkable about the recording was the riff and the unorthodox way Manker played it. Rather than play in the middle string range, as most rock and country guitarist would, Manker used the bass strings, further exaggerated by the studio echo.
"Raunchy" shot up the Billboard charts, just missing becoming #1 and staying in the Top 40 for fourteen weeks. The record became a classic, one of rock's first true instrumentals, but Justis would have only one other charting record, "College Man" (#42)
Unlike other Sun artists, Justis was well educated, from a well to do family, and had formal musical training. In 1957 Justis became music director for Sun, arranging hits for Cash, Lewis, and Rich. Justis eventually left Sun after a fight with Phillips, and for a brief time produced for his own label Play Me Records.  He moved to Nashville in 1961 and became a successful arranger and producer for everyone from Ronnie Dove to the Dixiebells. Before his death from cancer in 1982, Justis wrote the musical scores to Burt Reynolds film "Smokey and the Bandit", and later produced major hits for Bobby Vinton.
Neither Justis or Manker, who remained a session man at Sun, capitalized on the uniquely original guitar sound they had created. That would fall to an enterprising deejay, Lee Hazlewood in Phoenix Arizona, and his 19 year old protege, Duane Eddy.

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http://www.history-of-rock.com/instrumentals.htm

LP 1950 - Cloud 9: Far Out Tunes By Bill Justis and His Orchestra - [1959] Raunchy/Cloud 9/Rollin'/The Stinger/College Man/Flea Circus//Flip Flop And Bop/Cattywampus/The Snuggle/Scroungie/Wild Rice/Moosejaw

(recorded between 1957/59)

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