Elvis Vinyl Record

What You Need to Run an Old-fashioned Soda Counter

Anyone who has watched the movie “Grease” or “Back to the Future” knows what a 50s style soda fountain shop looks like. These colorful diners always had great pop music playing and, with the draw of fun soda and ice cream choices as well as giant bubblegum machines, the local soda shop and its swivel bar stools became the number one after school hangout. If you are someone who has great memories of dancing to the jukebox music on a Saturday night or you just love all the milkshake and soda flavors from the 50s and the 60s, then you should try to recreate that fun atmosphere in the current century. You should run your own old-fashion soda counter!

The first challenge will to be to recreate the look of the diner. This task might seem difficult at first, but if you do some research on the internet, you will find the furniture you need in no time. The two most signature pieces of furniture in a diner are colorful, vinyl covered booths and counter stools. These stools usually have red seats and are supported by a single chrome pole fastened to the floor. Between these red swivel bar stools and colorful booths, you are well on your way to recreating the atmosphere of the 50s. Add a jukebox and a few old fashioned Coca-Cola advertisements and you are set!

Now you need to work on the menu. If you plan to exclusively be a soda shop and ice cream counter, then you need to have everything from the traditional root beer float to crazy creations like the Elvis Shake (peanut butter, marshmallows, and banana).  Have at least eight permanent flavors of ice cream and then rotate the other flavors so that your customers always have something new to try. Experiment with different types of shakes as well. Encourage people to try a Dr. Pepper float or a “green frog,” a float made from vanilla ice cream and green river- a lime-flavored soda!

Owning your own old-fashioned soda counter is a large amount of work but it can be extremely fun. As long as you have the red bar stools, Elvis records, and delicious ice cream shakes and malts, your soda fountain will be a success! Everyone loves a fun shop like this one so good luck starting your own!

Im looking for psychobilly/horror punk-rock bands leaning more towards an old Sun Records style.?

Bands that sound more on the actual 50′s and 60′s sound like Johnny Cash, Elvis, and Conway Twitty. Nothing like Tiger Army that sounds like…a really really really slow AFI vinyl playing.

The Dead Weather Tickets – The Dead Weather Reveals North American Tour Dates

The Dead Weather—the band formed by Jack White of the White Stripes featuring Queens of the Stone Age’s Dean Fertita, the Kills’ Alison Mosshart and White’s Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence—released their latest album Sea of Cowards on May 11 and Pollstar.com reports that the act will embark on a tour this July. The Dead Weather will launch their tour from Washington, D.C. with a gig at 9:30 Club in July and will continue on to cities like Boston, Toronto, Denver, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more before performing their last show in Brooklyn on Aug. 3. <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/”>StubHub.com</a> has <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/the-dead-weather-tickets/”>the Dead Weather tickets</a> so fans will want to get them soon!

The same day that The Dead Weather announced their upcoming trek (May 3), the band performed their sophomore album Sea of Cowards in its entirety at Third Man Records (the label founded by Jack White). The performance was streamed via MySpace in the days after the show, and Consequence of Sound reports that White hinted that it will be released as a vinyl in the future. Sea of Cowards follows two albums White released with the Raconteurs, and the busy musician also recently produced a single by the London-bred folk duo Smoke Fairies as well as an album by Wanda Jackson, the 72-year-old former girlfriend of Elvis Presley.

White also entered the studio with his wife Karen Elson to work on her album The Ghost Who Walks, and the British model-turned-singer admitted to BBC 6 Music that the experience was a “daunting” one. “Jack is who Jack is, and I was very nervous to even play him my songs at first. Jack would overhear me over the course of a year and wouldn’t tell me. Eventually he said, ‘Play me the songs, we’re going into the studio tomorrow,’” Elson recalled. White’s Third Man Records will release The Ghost Who Walks not longer after Sea of Cowards on May 25.

Sea of Cowards is the Dead Weather’s follow-up to the last July’s Horehound, although Jack White released a box set of his 2007 Canadian tour with his other band, the White Stripes, called Under the Great White Northern Lights to tide fans over before the release of Sea of Cowards. Horehound was the result of an impromptu jam session which resulted in four songs and eventually an entire album’s worth of material, and the band continues on its blues-rock trajectory with Sea of Cowards.

Comparing Sea of Cowards to its predecessor, Spin Magazine writes that it is “more thunderously experimental—all sludgy bass and think arena riffs, uptempo and cocky, as White and Mosshart slap at each other with a sinister intensity.” The album features the guitar-heavy opener “Blue Blood Blues” and “Gasoline,” the band’s latest single. Following their April 18 performance at the Coachella Music Festival on July 18, the Dead Weather streamed “Gasoline” on their official site.  In addition to performing new tracks like “Blue Blood Blues” and “Gasoline” on tour in North America, the Dead Weather will showcase new tunes across the pond when they perform at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival this summer.

The Dead Weather might not be the only Jack White project performing at Glastonbury, however, as NME.com reports that the lauded guitarists has hinted that he may resurrect the three-years-dormant White Stripes for the show. Speaking about reuniting with Meg White (who was rumored to be his sister but was actually his wife—he took her last name when they wed—for the record), Jack said, “I would like to. I don’t think her anxiety exists any more but I don’t know. She was there when we were rehearsing for the Dead Weather. She’s still involved and everything. But we’ve never sat down and gone: ‘OK, so don’t forget to block out three months …’ Although we never did that, even in the thick of the craziness of The White Stripes.” The former bandmates are so close that Meg wed guitarist Jackson Smith (son of Patti Smith and late Fred “Sonic” Smith of the MC5) in Jack’s garden in 2009!

Frank Sinatra Singing And Acting Career

Frank Sinatra, also affectionately also known as Old Blue Eyes was probably the most outstanding popular music singer of the 20th century. Sinatra’s only real rivals during those days were perhaps a handful of other singing superstars such as Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, and the fab four or The Beatles.

In a professional singing and acting career spanning more than six decades, Sinatra demonstrated a remarkable ability to maintain his popular appeal to his fans across almost two generations. This is a ringing endorsement of the status of this singing and acting superstar.

Frank Sinatra’s singing career started during the big band swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. His first number one hit on the charts was in 1940 and was still making million-selling recording rights up to 1994.

This superb entertainer was able to take the work of great composers of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern , Cole Porter and Richard Rodger and turn their compositions into masterful singing pieces and enshrined them into eternal classics.

Sinatra was the son of a humble fireman and dropped out of high school to pursue a career in singing much to his father’s disappointment. In September 1935, the young Sinatra appeared as part of the singing group, the Hoboken Four on Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour show. The quartet won the radio show contest and toured the country with Bowes.

Sinatra then took up a job as a singing waiter and MC at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood, New Jersey. He was singing there in early 1939, when he was talent spotted by trumpeter Harry James, who had organized his own big band after leaving Benny Goodman, which was another famous big band leader of that era. Harry James hired Sinatra as a singer in his band and Frank made his first recording on July 13, 1939.

At the end of 1939, Sinatra accepted an offer from the more popular big band leader Tommy Dorsey. Over the next two and a half years, he was featured on 16 Top Ten hits recorded by Dorsey and his band, amongst them the legendary chart-buster “I’ll Never Smile Again,” and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

During this while, young Sinatra also performed on various radio shows with Tommy Dorsey and his band. He also appeared with the band in movies such as Las Vegas Nights in 1941 and Ship Ahoy in 1942.

Frank Sinatra started out his solo singing career in early 1942 showcasing his singing talent by recording a four-song session arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl. One of the songs was Cole Porter’s “Night and Day,” and that song went on to become his first hit chart entry under his very own name.

His big break came from his engagement as a singing support act to Benny Goodman at the Paramount Theatre in New York, which began on New Year’s Eve. This engagement catapulted his singing career and made him the first real teen singing idol, with throngs of girls screaming and swooning in the aisles.

From then on, Sinatra’s singing career never looked back. His singing talent scored him another successful chart topper with “There Are Such Things,” occupying number one position in January 1943. Then in August that same year, the singing superstar did another chart buster with “In the Blue of the Evening”. From then on, Sinatra successfully scored hits after hits with songs such as “It’s Always You,”, “I’ll Be Seeing You,” and “All or Nothing at All”.

Frank Sinatra did many radio shows around that time and in April 1943, he made his first credited appearance in a movie, singing “Night and Day” in Reveille With Beverly which launch his acting career.

This was followed by Higher and Higher in which he played a minor role acting as himself and followed up with another movie, Step Lively which was released in mid 1944 in which he played a larger role. In November 1944, he returned to cutting records, beginning with a cover version of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” which was again another chart topper. Sinatra then hired Styne and Cahn to write the songs for his first MGM musical, Anchors Aweigh, and over the course of his successful singing career, he recorded more songs by Cahn than by any other songwriter.

Anchors Aweigh, in which Sinatra was paired with Gene Kelly, was released in July 1945 and went on to become the most successful film in 1945. He then went on to appear in many more movies such as MGM musicals On the Town and lower budget ones such as The Kissing Bandit.

At the same time, he continued to hit eight Top Ten hits in 1947 to 1949 which included “Mam’selle,” which hit number one in May 1947, and “Some Enchanted Evening,” from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific.

By 1950s, his singing career was on the decline, but he was still very active. At the fall of 1950 marks his first venture into television. His film work had nearly subsided athough in March 1952 he was featured in the drama Meet Danny Wilson which tested his acting skills on stage which gave him the opportunity to sing some of his greatest songs such as Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s “That Old Black Magic,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You” by George and Ira Gershwin, and “How Deep Is the Ocean” by Irving Berlin.

Then in 1955, the singing superstar hit number one again with the single “Learnin’ the Blues” and the 12 inch album, “In the Wee Small Hours “which was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Sinatra acted in a television special in November 1965, A Man and His Music, and released a corresponding double vinyl album, which reached the Top Ten chart and also went gold. A Man and His Music won the 1966 Grammy for Album of the Year. Following this release, Old Blue Eyes catapulted back to number one on the singles charts for the first time in 11 years with “Strangers in the Night” in July 1966. This song also won him 2 Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Vocal Performance.

Towards the end of 1966, the singer released two more Top Ten albums, Sinatra At The Sands and That’s Life. In April 1967, he was again number one on the singles charts with “Somethin’ Stupid,” a duet which he sung with his daughter Nancy Sinatra. Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits was a compilation of his 1960s singles successes released in August 1968, was a million-seller.

Then in March 1969, perhaps the most recognized Sinatra song, “My Way,” with lyrics specially written for him by Paul Anka was released. This amazing single reached the Top 40, and an album of the same name hit the Top Ten and went gold.

Frank Sinatra then announced his retirement in early 1971 at the age of 55. However, he burst into the limelight again in 1973 with a gold album and a TV special called Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back. In the twilight of his career, Sinatra cut down on producing albums, acting in movies and television in favor of live concert tours.

For six years, he did not release any albums until March 1980 with a three-LP set, Trilogy: Past, Present, Future. The most memorable track from the trilogy set was perhaps “Theme From New York, New York,” the title song from the 1977 movie.

He returned to Capitol Records in 1993 and recorded Duets, on which he re-recorded his old songs, joined by other popular singers such as Tony Bennett, Elvis Costello, KD Lang and Bono of U2. It became his biggest-selling album selling over three million copies world wide. This was followed up in 1994 by Duets II, which won the 1995 Grammy Award for Traditional Pop Performance.

Frank Sinatra finally retired from acting and performing entertainment when he turns 80 in 1995. He died of a heart attack 2 years later when he was 82. Today, his songs are still heard in concert halls and clubs all over the world.

Would someone be able to tell me how much these records are worth?

I have some vinyl records and would like to know if they are actually worth anything:

Bay city rollers – Once upon a star
Elvis – separate ways
Elvis – you’ll never walk alone
Gallagher & Lyle – Breakaway
Golden Hit Parade (1970-71)

Just to name a few!!

Michael Jackson’s Legacy And Legendary Publishing Catalog

Music Publishing is an extremely lucrative market, if you have a good catalog of songs. In the case of Michael Jackson, he has one of the most envied catalogs in the music industry. To start he has his own catalog of songs, which is vast, popular and automatic revenue stream. He also holds one of the most popular and lucrative catalogs in music history, The Beatles catalog.

Purchased in 1985 for roughly 50 million dollars, it is valued today at over a billion dollars. Everyone knows The Beatles all to well. We also know the songs are played relentlessly on the radio; CD’s, DVD’s and vinyl’s still sell today at an extremely large volume per year.

Lennon and McCartney are the greatest and most successful songwriters of all time. No one can touch or even come close to their success. The closest 2 people to the Beatles success would be

Elvis
Michael Jackson

With Michael Jackson’s passing, his own CD’s have sold over 2.5 million in a span of 3 weeks. Artist royalties are very good, and yes the publishing as well.

The old saying goes and still stands, some people are worth more dead than alive.

Last word was, Sony ATV would still control the Beatles catalog, and profit of Michael’s side would go to the estate of Michael Jackson.

Sony ATV will be publishing more Michael Jackson CD’s in the future, as Michael has an archive of left over songs from all his albums, songs that have never been released. Rumor has it; it could as much as 3 CD’s worth of new material.

AEG Entertainment has stated, that the last full practice performance was recorded, and would be released in the future on DVD. This is guaranteed to be a best seller, and extremely profitable for all parties involved.

So in a nut shell, Music publishing is a lucrative business, if you have the right songs and popular artists.

Selling old records- need advice!?

I have a bunch of old LPs (mostly Elvis, Willie Nelson, etc…) and some 45s (storybook stuff, Rosanne Cash, etc…)
They’re not in mint condition or anything, but we really don’t have the space for these crates of vinyl anymore.

Does anybody know a good site where I can find out how much I could sell them for?
Or even better- a place in the Philadelphia Area that will buy them off me?

What are some of the most valuable vinyl records…?

like elvis, beatles, beach boys or any other ones???

do you think I’m uncool?

I’m 19. I like everything that’s old fashioned.

I like old movies, old TV Shows, old comic books, oldies music, old cars/’60s mustangs, etc I even wear the old school Converse All Stars. I collect vinyl records and CDs. I own both a cd player and a turntable.

I like sci-fi movies from the ’50s. The like the old Universal Horror movies from the ’30s and ’40s. I like James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis.

My like ’50s and ’60s Rock/Pop and ’60s Motown. I like listening to Jimi Hendrix, and, Janis Joplin, Led Zepplin , etc I’m a big Beatles fan. I own every album on Vinyl and CD.
Is there something wrong with me ? Everything I like is from the ’60s. I wasn’t born until the nineties.
I also like old cartoons and comic books.

What is your favorite record?

as in vinyl, I got the soundtrack to King Creole (Elvis) at a garage sale. It is probably my favorite tied with my double album of The Blood Brothers I got at their concert last year.