Elvis Has Left The Building

A week late and a dollar short (as usual), here's another Elvis tribute record that has some of the most dreadful lyrics ever penned. Recorded by the Real Pros on Cinema Records (1978)





Thanks to The Wonderful and the Obscure

The Ballads of James Dean

Faster....faster....something made him keep going faster.....yes, that was our golden haired and blue-eyed boy Jimmy....Jimmy Dean. Man, there was sure a buck to be made from the death of James Dean, and Bowtie Records has got some of the crappy tribute songs that came out here. And the one below, James Dean Deck of Cards......well, it earns my "Stupid Record of the Week" award. Possibly for the next few weeks, though I will keep searching for something to beat it.

Perfect Sound Forever: Alex Chilton tribute

Alex Chilton tribute by Jason Gross for Perfect Sound Forever: "Sitting at a bar with one of my editors a few years ago, we were discussing who our musical heroes were. His choice was Mike Watt (which is a good choice) and mine was Alex Chilton.

It wasn't just that the confused (post) adolescent fantasies he concocted on Big Star's Radio City spoke to me in a really personal way when I first heard it in high school, making me feel a little less afraid of that strange transitional period in my life.

It was also LX's whole attitude towards music and the biz. He'd been a Box Top with hits, a cult hero in Big Star and spent most of the rest of his life as a solo act, again in cult mode. He was immersed in the biz but never really concered with anything than playing and writing, even if it wasn't for a large audience. He just had to do it and if he put out weird, esoteric records that made sense only to a cult following, so be it. That was his statement and his life. I loved him for it.

I heard the news of his death a few days before I was hoping to see him perform with Big Star at SXSW. A lot of people there were crushed by the unexpected news. The fact that the rest of the band went on with the show with special guests filling in as a tribute was a lovely way to pay some respect to him.

PSF had ran a few articles about LX and Big Star that we wanted to highlight again, along with some further thoughts on about him from a blog posting I did soon after I heard the bad news.

Thank you Alex- no matter how many records you didn't manage to sell, you really were a big star."

• LX's solo years

• Interview with Big Star's Andy Hummel

• Interview with Big Star's Jody Stephens

• Thoughts on LX

Eyesore

Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents, the 1996 tribute album to The Residents. Available thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog!
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A tribute to Chenard Walcker

"Chenard Walcker, a friend of the online music world, is slowly recovering from a diabetic coma. His brother reports that he is not physically suffering. He fell into the coma in September 2006, and is now working on speech development and object differentiation.
Chenard is the prolific visual and musical collage artist who operates the Free Sample Zone with 58 releases available for download. Chenard also has two releases available on our label and he has contributed to various compilations.
So many of us have benefited from and enjoy Chenard's work. This is our chance to repay our sweet friend and to send him our love with a tribute release on WM Recordings."
Various Artists - A tribute to Chenard Walcker volume 1 at WM Recordings.

Elvis Was The Biggest Thing

365 Days #228:
Gone But Not Forgotten: Elvis Tribute Song-Poems