#ian whitcomb

[weirdnewengland]

Ian Whitcomb, 1966 // x

[mrepstein]

Derek Taylor, celebrated as the Beatles publicist and Brian Epstein’s right-hand man (he’d ghosted Epstein’s memoir, A Cellarful of Noise), had moved to L.A. and was a much in demand publicist. He represented the Beach Boys, the Byrds, and me. We got along famously. He liked to have me sit beside his pool at night and read aloud extracts from the Epstein book. He said I sounded just like Eppy, and how he and his wife Joan laughed with glee as they supped off wine and spirits.

Ian Whitcomb, Letters From Lotusland (2010)

[pshcydelia]

Rest in Peace, Ian Whitcomb

July 10, 1941 — April 19, 2020

[aquietexplosion]

Ian Whitcomb, Rocker Turned Pop Music Historian, Dies at 78

After his 1965 single “You Turn Me On” became a Top 10 hit, he renounced rock stardom for older musical idioms like ragtime.

[tymime]

RIP Ian Whitcomb

I don’t come across many people online who are into 1920s-’30s jazz like I am, but Ian Whitcomb is kind of a big deal to me. When I was about eleven or twelve years old, I went to a Christmas festival that took place at an old Californian Spanish-revival house, and Ian Whitcomb was singing old-timey Christmas and early jazz songs with a ukulele and a ragtime band, which made a big impression on me, as I was already kind of into that sort of thing because of the jazz standards you hear in Looney Tunes cartoons.

Turns out, he was something of a hero in the local California vintage jazz scene, and had been at it since the mid-1960s, even though he had started as a mediocre rock ‘n’ roll singer (he’s best known for the song “You Turn Me On”.) We went to see him every Christmas season almost every year for the next ten years or so, and saw him at a couple other venues too. He’s probably the reason I wanted to take up ukulele.

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[pshcydelia]

'Groovy Day' by Ian Whitcomb Released 1968

[julio-viernes]

Nacido en Woking, Surrey (sí, paisano de The Jam), Ian Whitcomb montó un grupo de skiffle, cómo no, en 1957 y una banda de rock and roll en 1959. Pero más importante es que también creó sobre 1961-62 The Ragtime Suwanee Six, para dar salida a su gusto por las antiguallas musicales (ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vodevil, music hall). Más tarde, en 1963, se trasladó a Dublín para estudiar historia y allí fundó una de las primeras bandas de R&B de la ciudad, Bluesville. Como se ve, a Ian le iban todos los palos, lo moderno y lo trad, lo serio y, sobre todo, lo cómico. Como cantante y líder de Bluesville publicó sólo tres singles en 1964 y 65, discos de corte R&B como "Fizz" o la famosa, su gran éxito, "You Turn Me On (Turn On Song)". En 1983, Big Beat Records publicó el EP "Bluesville Featuring Ian Whitcomb" con cuatro canciones registradas en los Eamonn Andrews Studios de Dublín en primavera de 1965. Una de ellas es "Dance Again", número bailón como su título indica, en el que el sonido R+B del septeto destaca por contener armónica y saxofón.