Unitar Rock

Minimalist and greasy. Who the hell needs six strings when one will kick this kind of ass?

Greasy Kid Stuff

Don't be swayed by advertising, guys--we gals LOVE the slicked back hair.Here is a tribute to guys who still use the Greasy Kid Stuff!

Harold Mabern (with Lee Morgan and Hubert Laws) - Greasy Kid Stuff (1970) from Jazzsi

  

Image from A Sampler of Things, and the story of this product.

Frankie Goes Wild

Head on over to The Hound Blog and check out Sinatra's only attempt at one of the things he hated most:

Issued in '52 it wasn't so much a rock'n'roll fad disc as an attempt to weld Sinatra onto the sax driven rhythm and blues sound of guys like Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris and Big Joe Turner who were starting to find a market with white teenagers. Lyrically it's quite a tongue twister (in fact I think the lyrics are genius--- "run your flim flam fingers through my greasy hair"! Indeed!). By the final verse you can actually hear Sinatra getting madder and madder as he struggles with the overboard alliteration. Shit, Don & Dewey or Esquerita could have recorded this one.


Yep, I saw Frankie twice. I had tickets to the Frank, Dean, Sammy reunion too, but Sammy died.

Oily Maniac

Happy Friday to all my Oily brethren and sistren (and JayKayEss), courtesy of The Rummage Drawer!