Ross Radio Quickie Show 4

After watching the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom I absolutely had to record a show featuring some of my favorite songs. Lou Reed Walk On The Wild Side, David Bowie Young Americans, Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter, Joe Cocker With A Little Help From My Friends, and T. Rex 20 Century Boy. Click here to download this and previous Ross Radio Quickie Shows. 

Theater Whore: 20 Feet From Stardom

While watching this documentary 20 Feet From Stardom I realized quite a few things. Music today isn't close to as good as it used to be. The act that I knew every song being sung made me thank my drunken father for exposing me to various types of music. And the fact that we need to start using more background singers. My latest Ross Radio Quickie Show is dedicated to some of the great songs I heard while watching this with Cam.

This follows the careers of various background singers through the years from the start when every singer had White females to when suddenly here are these Black women just belting out this fantastic, church sounding music. Dancing and driving crowds insane, to trying to find their own stardom as solo artists. I have to point out that if you had hard feelings towards Phil Specter before, after watching this you will think he was a huge scumbag. He took a singer and her songs and just made albums with other women and groups pretending to be them. They had never sung a word of the song and there they are getting famous for lip singing.