Whereas todays big stars record their songs over a 30 day period full of re-mixing and adding untold layers of extra guitar, the songs of the 50s were often recorded in half an hour during off-the-cuff recording sessions. The stories behind some of these sessions makes for fascinating reading but nothing can quite compare with this little beauty. Phoenix Arizona DJ, Lonesome Long John Roller spent 211 days and 23 hours in his 1958 Ford Fairlane 40 feet above the ground setting the worlds flagpole sitting record! He had on board his cat for company and continued to broadcast live on the air. One day the legendary guitarist Al Casey and his wife Corky were lifted into the Fairlane together with instruments and a tape recorder and they proceeded to cut Long Johns Flagpole Rock. Its a jaunty rural rockabilly with Casey hitting the heights on his solo. Customers who wanted to buy a copy had to put their money in a bucket which Roller hoisted up to the car and then lowered back down with a copy of the record inside. https://youtube/watch?v=GWyf04WDJZ4
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:47:38 +0000
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