The Grim Reaper took it relatively easy this month. The headline deaths were those of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs and Robert B Sherman, who with his brother wrote Disney standards for films such as 101 Dalmations , The Jungle Book and Mary Poppins . The idea for Let's Go Fly A Kite, from Mary Poppins , apparently was inspired by the Sherman brothers' father, Al Sherman, who was a songwriter and hobby kitemaker. But perhaps the most interesting lifestory to reach its end in March was that of Australian musician and AIDS activist [...]
Astonishing to think that The Trammps - whose singer, Jimmy Ellis, has died - managed three R&B chart hits, and nothing at all in the mainstream top ten in the US. But you can't argue with this: Jimmy Ellis was 74; he died on Thursday in South Carolina. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch
Just as Adele's 21 is aiming to tie the 24-week run atop Billboard 's Top 200 chart that the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack enjoyed 35 years ago, one of the artists featured on the latter has passed away. Jimmy Ellis, frontman of Philadelphia soul and disco band The Trammps, died yesterday following complications from Alzheimer's disease. The singer died in a South Carolina nursing home at the age of 74. Ellis was a founding member of The Trammps, who were born out of previous acts The Volcanos and [...]
Jimmy Ellis, best known as the frontman for disco outfit the Trammps, died yesterday in Rock Hill, S.C., from complications ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ the-trammps-jimmy-ellis-dies-a t-age-74/63003/
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Hulton Archive, Getty Images ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - James T. "Jimmy" Ellis , who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit that's still replayed in modern sports arenas, has died. He was 74. David Turner of Bass-Cauthen Funeral Home in Rock Hill, S.C., said the frontman for The Trammps died Thursday at a nursing home in the city. A cause of [...]
El nombre de Gigamesh durante el último año ha dado vueltas por todos los blogs y fiestas alrededor del mundo. Su renombre no es gratuito, el oriundo de Minneapolis ha sido el autor de varios remixes y producciones propias que el año pasado dieron que hablar, como por ejemplo el remix de Pumped Up Kicks de Foster The People y Burnin', un rework con toques house de Disco Inferno de The Trammps, canción ícono de la década de los 70. Ahora le tocó el turno a Tongue Tied de Grouplove, una banda californiana formada hace un par de años en [...]
With a documentary, feature film appearance and new album with the Rumour all looming, 2012 is shaping up as a redemption year for the under appreciated Graham Parker. We thought we would get a jump on the action with a sample of covers spanning Graham's career.
We adore bands that push the boundaries and we regularly punt artists that are trying to create something new and interesting at the cutting edges of music. Really we do. However, today's recommendation have no such intention. Some designs are so perfect to start with that there's no point searching for unnecessary changes - that's just change for change's sake. New York's hot new disco collective, Escort , are making the musical equivalent of the wheel, so perfect and well-crafted are their disco hits that there's absolutely zero need for any re-invention of the genre. This is pimped-up, stacked-heels-disco [...]
Eau Tône II (ambient remix version) by Fingers In The Noise The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble feat. Emika- Pretend by !K7 Records June Miller - Half Top Feelings [Amoss Remix] [Forthcoming Horizons Music] by Amoss OTIS @A_SKILLZ Remix by A.Skillz The Trammps - Love Epidemic (scratchandsniff's spread the [...]
The Weeknd - What You Need (Hors Refix) by HORS Hors X Henrik Koefod X Kilimanjaro - Fell by HORS Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pagan Baby (The Starkiller's Pagan Ritual Rework) by The Starkiller Trammps - Ninety Nine & A Half (Sensus Soul Remix) by Sensus Soul Camo [...]
Possibly one of the best known Grammy Award Winning R&B/Disco acts to hit the music scene in the late 1970s was Philadelphia's The Trammps, with their hit song "Disco Inferno", which was featured on the number one selling soundtrack of all time 'Saturday Night Fever'. Most recently 50 Cent released a hit single "Hate It [...]
The second SAVED! compilation gets righteous on your asses with a churchful of glorious '70s soul – and it does so without going for the easy option of all those Stevie Wonder songs about God being a zillion lightyears away with whom you should have a talk (and did George Michael realise that he was singing a song of praise to God when he had a hit with Mary J Blige?). While neither Stevie, Aretha nor Marvin feature here, Al Green does, though with a song that precedes his lesser Reverend Green phase. And, of course, Curtis Mayfield [...]
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1976 was the year that The Trammps were born and boy did they take on the world with their long lasting vision. We revisit their unbelievable worldly anthem in the shape of 'Disco Inferno' to staple together a reminder that not only did disco not die, but since its evolution into the genre known as house music, disco has been resurrected in parts to be re-born, re-branded and re-sought after in the exact same urges as it did before AND after Saturday Night Fever the movie dropped. Trammps, we salute you! Thank you for the trumpets, the [...]
1976 was the year that The Trammps were born and boy did they take on the world with their long lasting vision. We revisit their unbelievable worldly anthem in the shape of 'Disco Inferno' to staple together a reminder that not only did disco not die, but since its evolution into the genre known as [...]
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One thing I could always spend my day doing and never feel like I've wasted any time is watching movies. Over the past two days I've seen Milk, Twilight (finally), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Bedtime Stories (random, I know). Here are a few songs from the movies to keep me & you busy. Debussy - Clair de Lune (Twilight) [alt link] Black Ghosts - Full Moon (Twilight) [alt link] [...]
El Perro de Marvin tiene un perfil en Facebook, es un Chihuahua de mirada alienada (¿o debería decir un alienado de mirada Chihuahua?) que se jacta de haber aprendido a peinarse en Pili Peinados y está convencido de que el actor, Javier Bardem , le imita sus looks (que van desde una especie de elegant nerdy al más soufflée de los afro). Es difícil saber si el can es un estudioso de la música disco o tiene algún grado de obsesión groove, su manager Vane de Matthaeis se niega a [...]
Trammps - Rubber Band Trammps hailed from Philadelphia and became pretty famous in the mid-seventies with tunes such as 'Hold Back The Night' and 'Disco Inferno'. In 1973, before these heady disco days, they released this soul classic. Dilla sampled this tune as one of his 'Donuts' tracks. Someone's recently done the edit thang with it too, but I think it really stands up just the way it was. I've just noticed that it was mixed by Tom Moulton who, prior to becoming the producer that some say invented the remix [...]
On this, the last day of my second (and entirely unproductive) week of vacation, I'd like to introduce you to.... ... Sabrina Sultress, the Satin Satan! One the Des Moines Sultresses, and sole heir to the Sam Sultress Precision Auto Body fortune. (Free estimates! Open seven days a week! On the Beltline!) While her unfortunate name might have led a weaker-willed soul to resign themself to a career in the porn industry, Sabrina bucked her peers expectations and earned a double major in Succubi Studies and Art History [...]
Trammps - Rubber Band Been getting really into The Trammps recently. My deejay compadre, Illa, has been playing the Editions Disco version of this track for ages and it came up again last week in connection with the dilla anniversary (it was sampled on Dilla says Go). Disco Jesus gave me a copy of the joe clausell mix of the tune 'when the lights go out' which I've been playing to death recently as well. There's something about the classic Philly production and those 5(?) part [...]
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