You nitwit you! Larry Fine, best known as the frizzy haired lightning rod of the Three Stooge, was the eldest of four kids born on October 5, 1902, to Russian Jewish middle class parents in South Philadelphia. Fine’s dad Joseph Feinberg owned a watch repair and jewelry shop.
An oral history finds the rural South Georgia institution bidding farewell after nearly 60 years of top caliber haircuts and genial customer service
The Becky Harper Davis Interview
I began cutting hair when I was in the seventh or eighth grade. Bonnie Owen recently reminded me that she was one of my earliest experiments. There were a lot of people in my extended family that were barbers and beauticians. Mama [Cozetta Harper]’s brother George Moore was a barber…
Nashville music biz power broker Tony Brown detours through his three-year tenure with Elvis Presley, midnight gospel sing-alongs, hyperventilating when encouraged to play piano on “Bringing It Back,” “Way Down,” Moody Blue, fellow TCB Band keyboardists Glen D. …
Mark James wrote Elvis Presley’s last number one — “Suspicious Minds” — but the tall Texan also buttressed the discography of fellow Houstonian B.J. Thomas. “Eyes of a New York Woman,” the million-plus selling, career-ensuring “Hooked on a Feeling,” “It’s Only Love,” and “Everybody Loves a Rain Song” conspicuously kept…
In 1987 Beatles drummer Ringo Starr decamped to “Suspicious Minds” producer Chips Moman’s 3 Alarm Studio as well as Sam Phillips’s legendary Sun Studio in Memphis in pursuit of a comeback. His previous album, 1983’s Old Wave, had been barely distributed in spite of Eagle Joe Walsh’s raw guitar and…
“It ain’t easy being easy, but Tony’s sense of humor makes it easy.” Lionel Richie’s 2012 comeback was Tuskegee, accommodating 13 of the erstwhile Commodore’s greatest hits reimagined as country music duets. …
The Tony Brown Interview, Part Six
What projects are occupying your calendar these days?
Now that I’m not working at a record label [i.e. RCA, MCA Nashville, or Universal South], it’s become such a young man’s world. I’m starting all over again, which is fine with me. In the beginning I had no idea that you…
Original “Blue Suede Shoes” singer-songwriter-guitarist Carl Perkins heavily influenced the Beatles and counted Elvis Presley as a comrade. Immortalized in both the Million Dollar Quartet and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, relatively little is known about the middle son of impoverished West Tennessee sharecroppers whose empathy laid the groundwork…
For 59 years, “Hooked on a Feeling” soul stirrer B.J. Thomas was a warmly received road companion. Effortlessly leapfrogging from one musical genre to another, Thomas intended to decamp to the hip Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with Memphis Boys songwriter Dan Penn [the Box Tops’ “Cry Like a Baby”] and Billy…
Jeremy Roberts
Retro pop culture interviews & lovin’ someone fierce sustain this University of Georgia Master of Agricultural Leadership alum. Email: jeremylr@windstream.net
