My step father, Bradley Kemp and his business partner Bob Bunzel, started Tela-Records Services in 1959. The studio was in front of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, CA. They would pay the recording artists of that time to come in and be filmed while singing their latest song. The film was put into a portable Tela Record viewing machine, and for .10 or.25 cents you could watch your favorite artist sing their songs. These are some of the song clips that have been stored for 60 years. Enjoy!
Hawkins should be much better known. He went up to Canada from The South in the 1950s so nobody in The U.S. heard of him, but he inspired all of the Canadian members of the band. Hawkin's drummer here, Levon Helm, was from the South, so he already knew how to make rock'roll, but Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, and Robbie Robertson were Canucks, so Hawkins gave them all a crash course in popular music. Then, Bob Dylan heard about Hawkin's Band, and the rest is history.
This is when Rock and Roll was at its best. White Rock and Roll singers didn't appeal to Black people at the time but Ronnie Hawkin helped change that. My Gal is Red Hot......... Not Elvis Presley!
She’s lip-synching here, not live, but she did a great job on the recording. I have a copy of this record, it was my mother’s, and it has been my favorite most of my life.
My mother danced to this with my dad. She has IBS and she tells me she actually let go of her bowels and she had excrement running down her leg as they danced but my dad just held her shoulders and told her they had to finish the dance and so they did. He helped her out at the end of the dance to get fresh air and clean up at a local garage. She says she realised then he would be the guy she married 🥹💛
So y'all are dancing in sh*t and others are trying to avoid stepping in it ..... that's so unsanitary. Not to mention rude for the people having to clean the floor. I don't care if this is the love of her life that's disgusting. And don't come back with any smaltzy line about true love. Shit is shit.
ABSOLUTELY NOT IN DOUBT. JACKIE WILSON IS THE GREATEST SINGER, GREATEST MOVER AND MOST CHARISMATIC ARTIST OF ALL TIME. THERE ISN'T A GREAT DEAL OF FOOTAGE, SO THESE CLIPS ARE PRICELESS. THANKS FOR POSTING ❤
Back then these songs were dubbed with the 45 playing in the background and the artists didn't know how to act. How about that guitar player playing sax :)
A nice instrumental version of this was done in 1992 by Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan) and the New York Rock & Soul Revue. That would be a great one to sample.
