Opher and Mike’s Radio Programmes – 50’s/early 60’s R&B
I’ve just had a great afternoon with my mate Mike (ex-roadie for Free, Bad Company and Robin Trower) going through the rich vein of 50s R&B for our next radio programme.
It was hellishly difficult selecting a dozen tracks. We would have had trouble getting it down to a hundred.
So we missed out all the Chicago Blues for a future show, then all the girl groups, then the Doo-wop and the Rock ‘n’ Roll cross-over, then the New Orleans, then the females and finally came up with a group of artists which created a range of brilliant styles that is indicative of the amazing brilliance of the time. You can get an idea of the quality when I tell you that Ray Charles and James Brown both got dropped!
We’ve selected our sixteen artists with a view to range and variety. We wanted some familiar and some less so. We love them all:
Arthur Alexander
Barrett Strong
Chuck Willis
Clovers
Coasters
Contours
Don and Dewey
Esquerita
Larry Williams
Lazy Lester
Slim Harpo
Tommy Tucker
Screaming Jay Hawkins
Sam Cooke
Rufus Thomas
Little Willie John
Hopefully there will be some familiar names and a few less well known.
We’re now sorting out what we’re going to say and put the show together.
What do you think so far?
Have a listen:
Anyway, this week it was fifties R&B. We had a great time writing, rehearsing and recording. If you like 1950s US black R&B this might be the show for you. We love it. It was the stuff that turned on the Beatles and Stones.
Oph & Mike’s 1950s R&B Radio Show
We have just recorded our third Radio Show. we are getting used to a recording studio now. Our programmes go out on hospital Radio. So we have a captive audience.
I am assured that it encourages the patients to leave hospital and go home!
I am sure that they only play it to the intensive care patients – the others can turn it off!
Anyway, this week it was fifties R&B. We had a great time writing, rehearsing and recording. If you like 1950s US black R&B this might be the show for you. We love it. It was the stuff that turned on the Beatles and Stones.
Oph & Mike’s 1950s R&B Radio Show
We have just recorded our third Radio Show. we are getting used to a recording studio now. Our programmes go out on hospital Radio. So we have a captive audience.
I am assured that it encourages the patients to leave hospital and go home!
I am sure that they only play it to the intensive care patients – the others can turn it off!
Anyway, this week it was fifties R&B. We had a great time writing, rehearsing and recording. If you like 1950s US black R&B this might be the show for you. We love it. It was the stuff that turned on the Beatles and Stones.
Have a listen:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Opher-Goodwin/e/B00MSHUX6Y/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1462730710&sr=1-2-ent