Any Carolina Beach Music fans?!
Question: What are some of your favourite beach tunes? And do you remember 'Fessa John Hook or Steve "Mr. Beach" Leonard?
Answers: What are some of your favourite beach tunes? And do you remember 'Fessa John Hook or Steve "Mr. Beach" Leonard?
here's a few of mine...
walkin' up a one way street-willie tee
if i didn't have a dime-ron moody and the centaurs
some kind of wonderful-band of oz
shaggin'-band of oz
save it for a rainy day-breeze band
summertime's callin me-the catalinas
39-21-46-the showman
gone fishin'-the chairmen of the board
party time man-the futures
coolin' out-jerry butler
happy ever after-bee gees
a quiet place-garnet mims-brenda-oc smith
cool me out-lamont dozier
be young, be foolish, be happy-the tams
they call it mister dollar-bradford and bell
i still got sand in my shoes-steve jarrell
old habits die hard-neville brothers
it started with a kiss-hot chocolate
i still do-bill medley
rainy day bells-harlem globetrotters
i can't help myself-donnie elbert...
yeah...i remember john and steve...matter o' fact, i was leonard's producer for 2 years on his beach music show in richmond, va...
now, we goin' to OD and do some shaggin', or what?
How about "I love Beach Music"by the Embers
Beach Music? Oh, yeah - that's what southerners call 'soul' music because of their racial biases (we certainly don't want to give any credit to 'them people', now, do we?). Beach music is also performed by white boys who think they got soul, but really don't. Some of the worst music I have ever heard in my life has been performed by middle-aged white men in Hawaiian shirts trying to be funky and soulful.
And then there's that dance that the white folks do to it called 'shaggin'. Most of the time, people only 'shag' when they've had too much to drink. There is nothing more ridiculous in this world than seeing drunken white people trying to dance. They stumble and fall into everything and everyone in their way.
Picture this: A fifty-ish year old woman with dyed, brittle blond hair, wrinkles and creases on her face from too much sun, booze and cigarettes. She has several missing teeth and a voice like a trucker. Her head is bobbing back and forth because she has been drinking since 9 am and she is hooting to the music while she does her famous 'shaggin' stumble-dance. That is what beach music means to me.
The places where beach music was popular are now seedy, run-down dumps, with nothing but rotting beer bars and stumbling drunks - like Carolina Beach, NC. Beach music is a cheap imitation of various styles all mixed together in a concoction more disgusting than Brunswick Stew!
love it ! im about five miles from maurice williams home right now ! (work here).