Charles Arthur "Charlie" Feathers (June 12, 1932–August 29, 1998) was an American country music and rockabilly musician.
Biography
Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s.
Feathers was known for being a master of shifting emotional and sonic dynamics in his songs. His theatrical, hiccup-styled, energetic, rockabilly vocal style inspired a later generation of rock vocalists, including Lux Interior of The Cramps.
He studied and recorded several songs with Junior Kimbrough, whom he called "the beginning and end of all music". His childhood influences were reflected in his later music of the 1970s and 1980s, which had an easy-paced, sometimes sinister, country-blues tempo, as opposed to the frenetic fast-paced style favored by some of his rockabilly colleagues of the 1950s.
He started out as a session musician at Sun Studios, playing any side instrument he could in the hopes of someday making his own music there. He eventually played on a small label started by Sam Phillips called Flip records which got him enough attention to record a couple singles for Sun Records and Holiday Inn Records. By all accounts the singer was not held in much regard by Phillips, but Feathers often made the audacious claim that he had arranged "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" for Elvis Presley. He also claimed that his "We're Getting Closer (To Being Apart)" had been intended to be Elvis' sixth single for Sun. He did, however, get his name on one of Elvis' Sun records, "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" when the writer Stan Kesler asked him to record a demo of the song.
"The Wild Side of Life" carries one of the most distinctive melodies of early country music, used in "Thrills That I Can't Forget" recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz in 1925, "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" by the Carter Family in 1929, and "Great Speckled Bird" by Roy Acuff in 1936. That, along with the song's story of a woman shedding her role as domestic provider to follow the night life, combined to become one of the most famous country songs of the early 1950s.
According to country music historian Bill Malone, "Wild Side" co-writer William Warren was inspired to create the song after his experiences with a young woman he met when he was younger — a honky tonk angel, as it were — who "found the glitter of the gay night life too hard to resist." Fellow historian Paul Kingsbury wrote that the song appealed to people who "thought the world was going to hell and that faithless women deserved a good deal of the blame."
Side (Greek:Σίδη) is an ancient Greek city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in the country. It lies near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 78km from Antalya in the province of Antalya.
It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1km long and 400 m across.
History
Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia. This most likely occurred in the 7th century BC. Its tutelary deity was Athena, whose head adorned its coinage.
Dating from the tenth century B.C., its coinage bore the head of Athena (Minerva), the patroness of the city, with a legend. Its people, a piratical horde, quickly forgot their own language to adopt that of the aborigines.
Possessing a good harbour for small-craft boats, Side's natural geography made it one of the most important places in Pamphylia and one of the most important trade centres in the region. According to Arrian, when settlers from Cyme came to Side, they could not understand the dialect. After a short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek and started using the language of Side. Excavations have revealed several inscriptions written in this language. The inscriptions, dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, remain undeciphered, but testify that the local language was still in use several centuries after colonisation. Another object found in the excavations at Side, a basalt column base from the 7th century BC and attributable to the Neo-Hittites, provides further evidence of the site's early history. The name Side may be Anatolian in origin, meaning pomegranate.
Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various cue sports such as carom billiards, pool, snooker and other games. Such techniques are used on each shot in an attempt to achieve an immediate aim such as scoring or playing a safety, while at the same time exercising control over the positioning of the cue ball and often the object balls for the next shot or inning.
In carom games, an advanced player's aim on most shots is to leave the cue ball and the object balls in position such that the next shot is of a less difficult variety to make the requisite carom, and so that the next shot is in position to be manipulated in turn for yet another shot; ad infinitum.
Similarly, in many pocket billiards games, an advanced player's aim is to manipulate the cue ball so that it is in position to pocket (pot) a chosen next object ball and so that that next shot can also be manipulated for the next shot, and so on. Whereas in the carom games, manipulation of the object ball's position is crucial as well on every shot, in some pool games this is not as large a factor because on a successful shot the object ball is pocketed. However, many shots in one-pocket, for example, have this same added object ball control factor for most shots.
The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78 and 45 rpm phonograph records, whether singles or extended plays (EPs). The A-side usually featured the recording that the artist, record producer, or the record company intended to receive the initial promotional effort and then receive radio airplay, hopefully, to become a "hit" record. The B-side (or "flip-side") is a secondary recording that has a history of its own: some artists, notably Elvis Presley, Little Richard, the Beatles, Chuck Berry, and Oasis, released B-sides that were considered as strong as the A-side and became hits in their own right. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits, usually unintentionally, with both the B-sides of their A-side releases. Others took the opposite track: producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side.
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Charlie Feathers - Wild Side Of Life (Cowboy Carl CCLP-108)
From 1981 Cowboy Carl LP. Original production and recording: George Paulus - Glassfinger Studio, Chicago - August 18, 1973.
Charlie Feathers - Vocals, acoustic guitar, upright bass
Bubba Feathers - Electric guitar, electric bass
Wanda Feathers - Background vocals
Steven Cook - Electric guitar on Roll Over Beethoven and Folsom Prison Blues
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Charlie Feathers - Live in Memphis, Tennessee 1976 (Barrelhouse BH-06)
Charlie Feathers -"Live in Memphis, Tennessee - (Barrelhouse records - BH-06 - US - LP - 1976)
Charlie - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, backin' vocals on *
Lawrence Feathers (brother) - lead vocals on *
Bubba Feathers - (son) - electric guitar
Wanda Feathers (daughter) - tambourine, backin' vocals
Memphis Mike - drums
01. Honky tonk man 00:01
02. Shake rattle and roll 02:32
03. Rock 'n' roll Ruby * 05:02
04. It's all over now * 07:21
05. Tongue-tied Jill * 11:08
06. Roll over Beethoven * 13:16
07. Blueberry hill 15:58
08. (I got a woman) Mea...
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Rock-a-Billy, Definitive Collection 1954-1973
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Rock-a-Billy, Definitive Collection 1954-1973
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From 1981 Cowboy Carl LP. Original production and recording: George Paulus - Glassfinger Studio, Chicago - August 18, 1973.
Charlie Feathers - Vocals, acoustic ...
From 1981 Cowboy Carl LP. Original production and recording: George Paulus - Glassfinger Studio, Chicago - August 18, 1973.
Charlie Feathers - Vocals, acoustic guitar, upright bass
Bubba Feathers - Electric guitar, electric bass
Wanda Feathers - Background vocals
Steven Cook - Electric guitar on Roll Over Beethoven and Folsom Prison Blues
From 1981 Cowboy Carl LP. Original production and recording: George Paulus - Glassfinger Studio, Chicago - August 18, 1973.
Charlie Feathers - Vocals, acoustic guitar, upright bass
Bubba Feathers - Electric guitar, electric bass
Wanda Feathers - Background vocals
Steven Cook - Electric guitar on Roll Over Beethoven and Folsom Prison Blues
Charlie Feathers -"Live in Memphis, Tennessee - (Barrelhouse records - BH-06 - US - LP - 1976)
Charlie - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, backin' vocals on *
Law...
Charlie Feathers -"Live in Memphis, Tennessee - (Barrelhouse records - BH-06 - US - LP - 1976)
Charlie - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, backin' vocals on *
Lawrence Feathers (brother) - lead vocals on *
Bubba Feathers - (son) - electric guitar
Wanda Feathers (daughter) - tambourine, backin' vocals
Memphis Mike - drums
01. Honky tonk man 00:01
02. Shake rattle and roll 02:32
03. Rock 'n' roll Ruby * 05:02
04. It's all over now * 07:21
05. Tongue-tied Jill * 11:08
06. Roll over Beethoven * 13:16
07. Blueberry hill 15:58
08. (I got a woman) Mean woman blues 19:11
09. Wild side of life 21:51
10. Hello Josephine 24:09
11. Send me the pillow you dream on 26:57
12. Blue moon of Kentucky 29:46
recorded, mixed, produced, designed by, George Paulus
mastered at, Oak mastering
recorded at, Silver Dollar bar
recorded by, Barrelhouse mobile unit
recorded before a live & drunk audience December 28th 1973 Memphis, Tennessee at Silver Dollar Bar on the Barrelhouse Mobile Unit.
Charlie Feathers -"Live in Memphis, Tennessee - (Barrelhouse records - BH-06 - US - LP - 1976)
Charlie - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, backin' vocals on *
Lawrence Feathers (brother) - lead vocals on *
Bubba Feathers - (son) - electric guitar
Wanda Feathers (daughter) - tambourine, backin' vocals
Memphis Mike - drums
01. Honky tonk man 00:01
02. Shake rattle and roll 02:32
03. Rock 'n' roll Ruby * 05:02
04. It's all over now * 07:21
05. Tongue-tied Jill * 11:08
06. Roll over Beethoven * 13:16
07. Blueberry hill 15:58
08. (I got a woman) Mean woman blues 19:11
09. Wild side of life 21:51
10. Hello Josephine 24:09
11. Send me the pillow you dream on 26:57
12. Blue moon of Kentucky 29:46
recorded, mixed, produced, designed by, George Paulus
mastered at, Oak mastering
recorded at, Silver Dollar bar
recorded by, Barrelhouse mobile unit
recorded before a live & drunk audience December 28th 1973 Memphis, Tennessee at Silver Dollar Bar on the Barrelhouse Mobile Unit.
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Wild Side Of Life · Charlie Feathers
Wild Side Of Life: Rare and Unissued Recordings Vol. 1
℗ 2008 Norton Records Inc.
Released on: 2008-07-01
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Wild Side of Life · Charlie Feathers
Rock-a-Billy, Definitive Collection 1954-1973
℗ 2012 Bear Family Records GmbH
Released on: 2013-06-28
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The Wild Side Of Life · Charlie Feathers & His Musical Warriors
Rockabilly Classics
℗ 2010 Master Classics Records
Released on: 2010-12-01
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From 1981 Cowboy Carl LP. Original production and recording: George Paulus - Glassfinger Studio, Chicago - August 18, 1973.
Charlie Feathers - Vocals, acoustic guitar, upright bass
Bubba Feathers - Electric guitar, electric bass
Wanda Feathers - Background vocals
Steven Cook - Electric guitar on Roll Over Beethoven and Folsom Prison Blues
Charlie Feathers -"Live in Memphis, Tennessee - (Barrelhouse records - BH-06 - US - LP - 1976)
Charlie - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, backin' vocals on *
Lawrence Feathers (brother) - lead vocals on *
Bubba Feathers - (son) - electric guitar
Wanda Feathers (daughter) - tambourine, backin' vocals
Memphis Mike - drums
01. Honky tonk man 00:01
02. Shake rattle and roll 02:32
03. Rock 'n' roll Ruby * 05:02
04. It's all over now * 07:21
05. Tongue-tied Jill * 11:08
06. Roll over Beethoven * 13:16
07. Blueberry hill 15:58
08. (I got a woman) Mean woman blues 19:11
09. Wild side of life 21:51
10. Hello Josephine 24:09
11. Send me the pillow you dream on 26:57
12. Blue moon of Kentucky 29:46
recorded, mixed, produced, designed by, George Paulus
mastered at, Oak mastering
recorded at, Silver Dollar bar
recorded by, Barrelhouse mobile unit
recorded before a live & drunk audience December 28th 1973 Memphis, Tennessee at Silver Dollar Bar on the Barrelhouse Mobile Unit.
Charles Arthur "Charlie" Feathers (June 12, 1932–August 29, 1998) was an American country music and rockabilly musician.
Biography
Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s.
Feathers was known for being a master of shifting emotional and sonic dynamics in his songs. His theatrical, hiccup-styled, energetic, rockabilly vocal style inspired a later generation of rock vocalists, including Lux Interior of The Cramps.
He studied and recorded several songs with Junior Kimbrough, whom he called "the beginning and end of all music". His childhood influences were reflected in his later music of the 1970s and 1980s, which had an easy-paced, sometimes sinister, country-blues tempo, as opposed to the frenetic fast-paced style favored by some of his rockabilly colleagues of the 1950s.
He started out as a session musician at Sun Studios, playing any side instrument he could in the hopes of someday making his own music there. He eventually played on a small label started by Sam Phillips called Flip records which got him enough attention to record a couple singles for Sun Records and Holiday Inn Records. By all accounts the singer was not held in much regard by Phillips, but Feathers often made the audacious claim that he had arranged "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" for Elvis Presley. He also claimed that his "We're Getting Closer (To Being Apart)" had been intended to be Elvis' sixth single for Sun. He did, however, get his name on one of Elvis' Sun records, "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" when the writer Stan Kesler asked him to record a demo of the song.
Let me tell you bout my real gone chick She's got a different style And when she tries to talk to me I always smile She's a tongue tied Jill, my rockin' thrill But I like to hear her say Well, me dot what me want Well, me dot what me want Oh, me dot what me want Well me dot what me want Me dot what me want when me dot you Let's go! Well, I took her to a place I knew Where the lights were low And when they played a boogie beat That cat could really go We danced that night 'till daylight Then I heard her say Well, me dot what me want Well, me dot what me want Oh, me dot what me want Well, me dot what me want Me dot what me want when me dot you Let's go! Well, I asked her if she'd marry me So I could hold her hand Then she could be my lovin' Jill I'd be her rockin' man Now she won my heart, we'll never part When my girl says to me Well, me ba-da-ba-da-ba what me want Well, me ba-da-ba-da-ba what me want Oh, me ba-da-ba what me want Me ba-da-ba-da-ba what me want