re: It's magic if the music is groovy, it makes you feel happy like an oldtime movie

Move over Rich Little:

David Bowie: Impressionist (1985)

Ziggy does some not-bad imitations of Bruce Springsteen, Marc Bolan (T. Rex), Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Anthony Newley, Iggy Pop and Neil Young

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If you believe in magic...

Q: What singer-guitarist from Lubbock Texas recorded with The Crickets and later was killed in a plane crash?

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David Box was born to Virginia and Harold Box on August 11, 1943 in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Box's family moved to Lubbock, Texas in 1946. Box was greatly influenced by his father, a self-taught Western Swing fiddle musician and started singing at the age of three, making public appearances at this time. His father taught him to play guitar, and he received one as a present for his eighth birthday. His style was influenced by early performances by Buddy Holly in 1954. In 1958, Box formed his own band, The Ravens, with Box on vocals and guitar, and classmates Lynn Bailey on bass, and Ernie Hall on drums. The band cut their first demos at Mitchell Studio in Lubbock.

As a close neighbor of Jerry Allison's parents, Ernie Hall reported that The Crickets needed a replacement for guitarist and vocalist Sonny Curtis, who had been drafted into the Army. The Ravens sent in their demos and auditioned, eventually winning the role; Box and Hall went to Los Angeles to cut the Crickets' next single. Box and Hall's composition, "Don't Cha Know" was used as the A-side, while a Buddy Holly composition, "Peggy Sue Got Married" was used as the B-side. Box played guitar and sang, Joe B. Mauldin played bass, Ernie Hall played drums on "Don't Cha Know", while Jerry Allison played drums on "Peggy Sue Got Married" and guitar on "Peggy Sue Got Married". This was the final single by the Crickets on Coral Records. For the following three weeks, Box and Hall supported the Crickets on tour before returning home to complete their schooling.

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The Crickets- "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1960) - David Box on lead vocal

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Box died on October 23, 1964, in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk which crashed nose-first and overturned at Houston, Texas. The other three people aboard the plane also died.

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Between Heaven & Earth - a sister's reflections of David Box

Love's Forever Changes May Be the Greatest Album Ever Made in L.A.

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Jeff Weiss
November 8, 2017

If you believe the accounting ledgers, yellowing newspaper praise and surviving band members, Love’s Forever Changes was released exactly 50 years ago this month. But no carbon dating or nostalgic recollection can shake my belief in its agelessness. It’s the rare, unblemished masterpiece worth constant reconsideration, a deathless meditation on mortality, a psychedelic symphony immune to the paisley trappings of the Aquarian age. Despite Forever Changes’ frequent inclusion on all-time-greatest lists, it’s easy to be unfamiliar with arguably the greatest album ever made in Los Angeles, from the city’s emblematic band.

Overshadowed by marquee records from more marketable names, the Elektra release slipped through the cracks as the summer of love failed to successfully merge into the fall. Radio shunned it, both then and now.

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Forever Changes stalled at No. 154 on the Billboard album chart. Its lead single, the Bryan MacLean–penned “Alone Again Or,” couldn’t pierce the Hot 100; to date, its biggest exposure remains its inclusion in Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket. (In the U.K., the album fared better, debuting to critical raves and rising to No. 24.)

Even at the time, Love was the proverbial favorite rock band’s favorite rock band. Robert Plant called Forever Changes one of his all-time favorite albums. Neil Young was an admirer brought in to do the arrangements for “The Daily Planet.” Jimi Hendrix collaborated with frontman and chief songwriter Arthur Lee and undoubtedly swiped some stylistic flourishes. Eric Clapton tapped Lee as an opening act. The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” is just a ripoff of Love’s “She Comes in Colors.”

“You know Ray, if we could be as big as Love, man, my life would be complete,” Ray Manzarek remembers Jim Morrison telling him during the early years of The Doors. “Love was one of the hottest things I ever saw,” Manzarek adds. “The most influential band in L.A. at the time, and we all thought it was just a matter of time before Love conquered America.”

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Love - "Alone Again Or"

Love - "You Set The Scene"

I like looking at charts from the classic era, especially local charts. Each one has a story to tell.

This one is for WLS, perhaps Chicago's biggest top 40 station.

At #1, The Cryan Shames were a local pop-rock act who were huge in Chi Town but never made the national top 40. May be some favoritism goin' on - in those days local acts could still get local airplay.

No less than three tracks here were included on the original Nuggets compilation by Lenny Kaye in 1972 (which also had the Cryan Shames' "Sugar & Spice"). The big surprise is "Romeo & Juliet" at #12 by an obscure Wisconsin band. I'd had no idea it made any chart impact anywhere. "My World Fell Down" is a classic of popsike from producer Gary Usher & various Crew members (supposedly including Glenn Campbell). It made the 70s nationally.