Hit Parader
Hit Parader was an American monthly music magazine which was launched in 1942. After covering popular music generally, it focused in the 1980s on heavy metal music. The title was sold in 1991 by the original publishers, and the magazine folded in 2008.
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King Curtis: Tempo: King Curtis
Profile and Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1965
One of today's greatest sax-men, the King can sing better than most featured vocalists, putters with electronics and constantly studies, experiments and improves. ...
Fred Neil: Where's It All Going?
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, January 1966
LISTEN TO the music of Fred Neil, particularly 'Travelin' Shoes', 'Country Boy' and 'Gone Again' from his Bleecker & MacDougal Street album and you'll dig ...
Interview by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, January 1966
AS EVERYONE already knows, folk songs have come off the back porch and out of the pads, and are now very big business. Everybody listens ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1966
A MISSISSIPPI cum Chicago Blues-man named Jimmy Reed is one of the original practitioners of what everybody is just discovering. He holds the thankless job ...
Report by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, April 1966
ISN'T THAT Roger Miller standing over on the sidelines at the Hullabaloo rehearsal? Are those tears in his eyes? What's he doing here, anyway; he isn't even ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1966
BY NOW, EVERYONE must be aware that records just don't sound like they did 10 years ago — 3 years ago in fact. ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1966
When you hear a harmonica wailing in the background on currently popular blues, country, folk or pop recordings, it's probably being played by an ultra-talented guy ...
Sid Bernstein: The Genius Finder
Interview by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, May 1966
THE MAN BEHIND THE STARS ...
The Supremes: The Chic-est Girls In Show Business
Report by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, May 1966
WELL, OF COURSE, their sound: Supreme, tops, five in a row if you're keeping score. But LOOK at them! I mean, those are three swell-looking ...
T-Bone Walker: Tempo: T-Bone Walker
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1966
WHEN AARON T-Bone Walker plays guitar he makes people cry and he gets response from the audience as though the performance was really a church ...
Dave Van Ronk: Big Daddy of the Blues Singers... Dave Van Ronk
Interview by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, July 1966
NOT SO LONG ago — ten years or so — that gutsy, sorrowful, driving Negro folk-blues sound was the sole property of the Negro blues ...
James Cotton, Muddy Waters: Tempo: Muddy Waters
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1966
NOW THAT THE blues bands are on the threshold of "shaking their money maker," it's a curious fact that the original bands who have been ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1966
IN OUR FEATURE on the Byrds (in the July issue) they credited several sources of unconventional music as influences. They were quite specific about Indian ...
Column by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, October 1966
A FEW WEEKS ago when I met the KINKS for a drink, PETE QUAIFE ruined my stockings! The pub was crowded and in the crush ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, October 1966
LOVE has an interesting album. Love, by the way, is the name of the group. ...
The Remains: They're After Perfection
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, October 1966
MEET THE Remains — a group who are as much engineers as musicians, since today it's as vital to know how to play an amplifier ...
Review by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1966
FOR SOME reason, recordings of live rock and roll shows are selling very well. You can hardly hear the music above the enthusiastic audience response ...
The Byrds: Jim McGuinn & David Crosby: My Favorite Records
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1966
By Jim McGuinn (Leader of the Byrds) ...
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, December 1966
The Beatles are pretty,the Stones are true,Bob Dylan is witty —But LOVE is you. ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1967
I LIKE TO write songs from true experiences. Things that have actually happened. You can't get away from the truth of everyday life. Sometimes I'll ...
The Lovin' Spoonful: The Little Teenie Spoonfuls!
Interview by Ann Moses, Hit Parader, January 1967
STEVE BOONE ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1967
BY NOW, MANY of you must have heard the Paul Butterfield Blues Band albums and marvelled over the guitar playing of Mike Bloomfield. Through Mike's ...
The Temptations Tattle On Each Other
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, January 1967
MEL FRANKLIN:The four other members of the group are just fantastic performers — I can't think of any four other guys I would rather perform ...
The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson Tells Why He Likes The Beach Boys
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1967
BY NOW the Beach Boys' story is familiar — how three brothers, a cousin and a friend became, with their first record over four years ...
Chad & Jeremy Part I: Chad Stuart Talks About Today and Tomorrow
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1967
Chad, as you all must know, is one half of the singing duo, Chad & Jeremy. Although he presently lives in Los Angeles, he's done ...
Lothar and the Hand People: Lothar & The Hand People: An Introduction
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1967
Lothar and the Hand People is here! ...
Count Five, Keith, The Left Banke, ? and the Mysterians: New Stars on the Horizon
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1967
KEITH KEITH WAS born in Philadelphia in the Spring of 1945. Within two years he had lost both mother and father to sickness and was brought ...
Report by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, February 1967
WHEN OTIS REDDING was over here, Ready, Steady, Go! built up an entire programme around him, using his own band (only 9 of them came over, ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1967
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, Donovan's first big "commercial" success, is a beautiful, poetic, soothing, soaring, lyrical, rhythmic, groovy experience. ...
The Lovin' Spoonful: The Little Teenie Spoonfuls! #2
Interview by Ann Moses, Hit Parader, February 1967
JOHN SEBASTIAN ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1967
HERE WE are back at the Cafe Au Go Go continuing the final half of our chat with Mike Bloomfield. Since last month, Mike and ...
Chad & Jeremy Part II: Chad Stuart Talks About Today And Tomorrow
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1967
Here we are back with that famous pioneer, Chad Stuart, on a coast-to-coast telephone conversation. If you want to make Chad happy (and Jeremy too), ...
The Rolling Stones Discover A New Generation Of Fans
Interview by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, March 1967
IN FLANAGAN'S bar off Kensington High Street, Keith Richard, Brian Jones and I were being watched — by two bartenders in Edwardian dress and grey ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1967
Will they start a store together? Maybe a diner or a hockey team, or mow lawns? Naw.... because the other day we were sitting on ...
Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds: Yardbird Jimmy Page says, 'Open Your Mind'
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1967
In the December issue of H.P., you read a little background on Jimmy Page, who is the new Yardbird. He started off on bass to ...
Interview by Alan Smith, Hit Parader, April 1967
BOBBY DARIN is the singer who set out to become a legend in his own lifetime. He attacked life like a hungry man wolfing down ...
Wilson Pickett: Official Sound Report: An Interview with Wilson Pickett
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1967
AS WE WALKED into Wilson Pickett's dressing room at the Apollo in New York, two shady characters were in the process of selling a freshly ...
Tim Buckley, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, Judy Collins, Jimmy Ruffin: New Stars On The Horizon
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, May 1967
Jimmy Castor, Tim Buckley, Jimmy Ruffin, Judy Collins ...
John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Otis Spann: Welcome, Bluesway Records
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1967
THERE AREN'T many new blues albums around, much less a label devoted to blues product. Why, you might ask, when the demand for blues is ...
The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson: Dennis Wilson: We Just Want To Be A Good Group
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1967
Beach Boy drummer Dennis Wilson is, according to Brian, "The most messed up person I know. He's too nervous. He has to keep moving all ...
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, June 1967
THE MOJO MEN ...
Buffalo Springfield: The Buffalo Springfield
Profile by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1967
THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD was formed in California in the spring of 1966. Too poor to afford rehearsal space, they were practicing at the edge of ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1967
SURREALISTIC PILLOW will make anyone with good musical taste a Jefferson Airplane admirer. A beautiful blend of vocal and instrumental harmonies flows through everything this ...
Joe Tex: The Wonderful Adventures of Joe Tex
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1967
WE'VE HEARD very few Joe Tex songs, even album songs, that we didn't tike. He tops that on stage with his great band. Plus, he's ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1967
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart are responsible for a lot of Monkee music and soon, a lot of their own music. In the following interview ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: Birth of the San Francisco Scene
Overview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
by Martin Balin, leader of the Jefferson Airplane ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
IF YOU own the first two Monkees' albums, you know that Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote 'Last Train To Clarksville', 'I'm Not Your Steppin' ...
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Inside The Mind of Paul Simon (part 1)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
A LOT OF readers have been asking for an interview with Simon and Garfunkel. After much difficulty in tracing them down (it was impossible to ...
Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention: My Favorite Records: Frank Zappa, Boss Mother
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
IF YOU WANT to learn how to play guitar, listen to Wes Montgomery. You also should go out and see if you can get a ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
WHO WILL be the big soul singer, the one to last and last? We have James Brown, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett and the subject of ...
Junior Wells: Tempo: Junior Wells
Profile by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
YOU CAN take Junior Wells out of Chicago but, thankfully, you can't take Chicago out of Junior Wells. The 31-year-old Wells, regarded for some years ...
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Inside The Mind of Paul Simon (part 2)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1967
Last month, Paul Simon commented on current singers, songs and his own songwriting. He gets into it again this time along with a dash of ...
Profile by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1967
WHAT'S BIG, purple and swims in the ocean with harpoons stuck in its back? What has ten legs, long hair, some guitars and drums and ...
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, September 1967
THE DEVIL'S ANVIL ...
The Doors Are Different, Part 1
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, September 1967
PHRASES LIKE "the hottest group in town" or "everybody's talking about..." or "an exciting new sound" are used so indiscriminately that any editor with a ...
Booker T & The MGs, Steve Cropper: The Stax Story: Steve Cropper (part 1)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1967
This Steve Cropper interview begins a series on Stax Records in Memphis. ...
Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon: My Favorite Records: Simon & Garfunkel's Paul Simon
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, October 1967
As told to Jim Delehant ...
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Smitty Raider Says... Goodbye & A Brief Hello From... Joe Jr.
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, October 1967
It always happens. Just as we finish interviewing a group, a bunch of guys quit and we're left with worthless stories. The Mama's and Papa's ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, October 1967
ABSOLUTELY FREE by the Mothers (Of Invention) must be heard to be believed and appreciated. The music is incredibly dynamic, the lyrics irresistibly memorable. ...
The Doors Are Different, Part 2
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, October 1967
We hope a lot of Hit Parader readers have been responsible for the good fortune the Doors are currently enjoying. The success of their first album and ...
Booker T & The MGs, Steve Cropper: The Stax Story: Steve Cropper (part 2)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, October 1967
IN THIS FINAL installment of the Steve Cropper interview, Steve gives some excellent advice to guitarists who want to become studio musicians. We hope you ...
Report by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, November 1967
...from Our Gal In London... Miranda Ward ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1967
B.B. King has been getting some attention lately; still not enough for a great master, but it's attention anyway. Charles Keil did a chapter on ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, November 1967
EVER SINCE THE Beatles demonstrated an amazing originality and maturity with their Rubber Soul and Revolver albums, they've been burdened with the responsibility of discovering new and increasingly far-out ...
Wilson Pickett: The Humor of… Wilson Pickett
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1967
WILSON PICKETT started his singing career in the spiritual field in the city of Detroit. He and his family moved there when Wilson was in ...
Booker T & The MGs, Booker T. Jones: The Stax Story (part 3): Booker T. Jones
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1967
BOOKER T. JONES was born in Memphis, Tennessee, November 12, 1944. He started playing the organ professionally at the age of fourteen. During his high ...
Jefferson Airplane: Fly Jefferson Airplane with Jack Casady
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, December 1967
We've noticed that most of the fan magazines haven't been running many full-length articles on the Jefferson Airplane. Probably it's because the group won't lower ...
Obituary by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1967
WHEN JOHN Coltrane died on Monday, July 17th, the world of progressive music lost one of its leading jazz figures, and Impulse Records lost its ...
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison: Roy Orbison's Own Rock History #1
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1967
As told to Jim Delehant ...
B.B. King: Tempo: B.B. King (part 2)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1967
ANYTHING YOU want to sell nowadays, all you've got to do is advertise. I think people are just beginning to advertise blues. Aretha Franklin, for ...
Booker T & The MGs: The Stax Story (part 4): Al Jackson
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1967
BORN NOVEMBER 27, 1935, in Memphis, Tennessee, Al studied drums in high school, and played with his father's band until he formed his own nine-piece ...
Jefferson Airplane: Fly Jefferson Airplane with Drummer Spencer Dryden
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, January 1968
THE BEST new group to really establish itself in 1967 has to be the Jefferson Airplane. The two albums and the half dozen singles they've ...
Roy Orbison's Own Rock History #2
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1968
THE MUSIC business is a little better now because there are more attractive deals for the artists. Some record companies offer 10% deals, where the ...
Mose Allison: Tempo: Mose Allison
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1968
"BLUES IS A very limited thing to play. I have to keep adding things to it to keep it interesting. I keep striving for higher ...
Booker T & The MGs: The Stax Story (part 5): Duck Dunn
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1968
DONALD V. DUNN was born on November 24, 1941, in Memphis, Tennessee and he learned to play the bass in high school. He now resides ...
Herb Alpert: More Than Meets The Eye Or Ear
Interview by Derek Taylor, Hit Parader, February 1968
EVERY WEDNESDAY morning, at about ten o'clock, I make my way down the narrow lanes winding out of the Hollywood Hills, past the ivy-covered cottages ...
Jefferson Airplane: Paul Kantner on After Bathing At Baxter's
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1968
OUR NEXT album will be called After Bathing At Baxter's. I wrote about five songs on it. I really can't say which one of our ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1968
STRANGE DAYS, The Doors' second album, is another cauldron of energy, excitement and improvisation. (That's Review Number 34, Ray.) ...
Report by Larry LeBlanc, Hit Parader, February 1968
CANADA'S POP music industry is still in the planning stages, in comparison with the U.S. recording market. It is small and disorganized. When 'Shakin' All ...
Roy Orbison's Own Rock History #3
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1968
PRACTICALLY everything that's happening in music now, came from Memphis. I'd say it would have to be just chance because that's where the studios were, ...
David Porter, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave: The Stax Story (Part 6): Porter & Hayes, Producers
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1968
ISAAC HAYES and Dave Porter have written about one hundred and fifty songs together for Stax artists and also produced most of them. So far their ...
Cream: An Interview with Eric Clapton
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1968
WE KNOW very little about Eric Clapton, the human being. We do know that he has a good heart, he loves being alive he's very ...
Cream, The Youngbloods: Felix Pappalardi: Solving Modern Recording Problems
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1968
FELIX PAPPALARDI is a producer, but mainly a musician in the same sense that Steve Cropper is a producer-musician (see Steve Cropper HP Sept.). Before ...
The Byrds In Words But The Real Story Is In Your Own Head
Profile by Derek Taylor, Hit Parader, March 1968
THE BYRDS are back in the record charts and on national TV where they began so long ago, so long ago, so long ago; so ...
Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper: The Stax Story (part 7): Eddie Floyd
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1968
EDDIE FLOYD, born June 25, 1935 in Montgomery, Alabama, grew up with the idea of entertaining as a profession. Eddie idolized Johnny Ace from the ...
Electric Flag, Mike Bloomfield: Electric Flag: Mike Bloomfield — Leader Of The Band
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1968
THE FAILURE of the Electric Flag's first single, 'Groovin' Is Easy', on Columbia is by no means the fault of the Electric Flag. Lack of ...
Obituary by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1968
AN AIRPLANE belonging to Otis Redding Enterprises fell into the freezing waters of a Wisconsin lake, Sunday, December 10, and the following day skin divers ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, April 1968
BEACON FROM MARS/THE KALEIDOSCOPE — Here is the most versatile band we have ever heard. You want ragtime? Listen to 'Baldheaded End OfA Broom' which ...
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Smokey Robinson: The Miracle Of Motown
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1968
BILL "SMOKEY" Robinson, the leader of the Miracles, couldn't decide between athletics and engineering. At Northern High School in Detroit (where all the Miracles were ...
The Coasters, Tom Dowd, The Drifters: Atlantic's Tom Dowd: The Real Music Man
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1968
TOM DOWD is a walking encyclopedia on the history of American pop music. In fact, Tom Dowd created twenty years of pop history since he ...
Lonnie Mack: Four Years After 'Memphis'
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1968
LONNIE MCINTOSH was born in Harrison, Indiana on July 18, 1941 but the family soon moved to Aurora where he went to school and spent ...
Otis Redding, Steve Cropper: "The Otis Redding I Knew", by Steve Cropper
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1968
MY ORIGINAL feeling for Otis wound up to be my final feeling for Otis. He was a pure man. Anything you say about him has ...
Bob Dylan, Mike Bloomfield: Impressions of Bob Dylan by Mike Bloomfield
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1968
As told to Jim Delehant ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1968
STEPPENWOLF is a magnificent first album by a magnificent quintet of the same name. It's the conventional guitar, drums, organ line-up, but the best we've ...
Albert King: Tempo: Albert King #1
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1968
As Told To Jim Delehant ...
Interview by Pete Johnson, Hit Parader, September 1968
THE ULTIMATE bird-named group was the Sparrow, a Canadian combo which roosted in New York and San Francisco for a year or so and was ...
Albert King: Tempo: Albert King # 2
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1968
As Told To Jim Delehant ...
Tim Buckley: The Growing Mystique of Tim Buckley
Comment by Ellen Sander, Hit Parader, September 1968
HE DOESN'T talk very much and journalists are almost unanimous in their frustration of trying to get a word out of him. His presence is ...
The Byrds: The Problems of Being Roger McGuinn, Byrd Survivor
Interview by Pete Johnson, Hit Parader, September 1968
So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star? Then listen now to what I say. Just get an electric guitar and learn how ...
Cream: Jack & Ginger Make The Cream Work
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, October 1968
Ginger: I was born August 19, 1939. I was schooled in Southeast London. I got involved with music as soon as I left school. I've been ...
Jefferson Airplane: One Act Play Starring Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Pete Johnson, Hit Parader, October 1968
THE INTERVIEW is supposed to be with Grace Slick and Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane, but when you walk into the smoky motel room ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, October 1968
THE IMPRESSIONS have proved that it is possible to become tops in the record field without resorting to the loud, unintelligible sounds that can hardly ...
Cream: Making The Cream Work, part 2
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1968
IN A BRITISH interview recently, Clapton denied the Cream breakup but added that the group can't last forever and each member had personal ambitions. Eric ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1968
WILLIE DIXON was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1915. He came to Chicago in 1935 out of curiosity and the hope of making a better ...
Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds: Jimmy Page's New Yardbirds
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1968
JIMMY PAGE, the last member to join the Yardbirds, is now the group leader and at this writing was auditioning two new musicians. The old ...
Donovan: The Wind Rises And The Tide Goes Out
Interview by Keith Altham, Hit Parader, January 1969
AT THE OFFICE, off Berkeley Square, of "international" Beatles press officer Tony Barrow, they were organizing "instant" interviews with Donovan. Like most writers I have ...
Chuck Berry, Johnnie Johnson: Tempo: Johnnie Johnson
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1969
JOHNNIE JOHNSON, FIRST PIANIST WITH CHUCK BERRY As Told To Jim Delehant ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin: Big Brother & The Holding Company: Where They're At
Profile and Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1969
BIG BROTHER and the Holding Company exploded on the national scene in the summer of 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival when Janis Joplin, feet ...
The Beatles: Apple: 1988 — A Year For Nostalgia
Memoir by Derek Taylor, Hit Parader, March 1969
IT WAS GOOD then, good when we were young then, when we were new and The Apple was fresh and the other apples, wrinkling and ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, March 1969
New Albums from Jeff Beck, Freddie King et al ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1969
TERRY KIRKMAN, HEAD OF THE ASSOCIATION ...
Aretha Franklin's Gospel Background
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1969
HP: How old were you when you started singing? Aretha: I started singing when I was twelve years old. ...
The Impressions, Curtis Mayfield: Curtis Mayfield: Life With The Impressions
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1969
As told to Jim Delehant ...
Slim Harpo: Tempo: Slim Harpo Talks To Jim Delehant
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1969
I WAS BORN in Lobbell, Louisiana. I had to quit school to go to work and help support the family. When I was 18, I ...
Country Joe & The Fish: Barry Melton — Lead Guitarist, Country Joe & The Fish
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1969
As told to Jim Delehant ...
Lightnin' Slim: Tempo: Lightnin' Slim Talks To Jim Delehant
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1969
I WAS BORN in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up like most any kid. After school I worked in a grocery store, sold newspapers. It ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, August 1969
BAYOU COUNTRY is the second album by Creedence Clearwater Revival and they are undoubtedly the most joyful, exciting rock and roll band since Little Richard. ...
The Amboy Dukes: Meet The Amboy Dukes
Profile and Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1969
TED NUGENT – lead guitar ...
Country Joe & The Fish: My Favorite Records by Barry Melton of Country Joe & The Fish
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1969
THERE'S A label called the Origin Jazz Library. One album in the collection is called The Great Jugbands. It's loaded with pure beautiful music. It's ...
Nina Simone: God Bless The Child
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1969
NINA SIMONE was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, the sixth of eight children. Her mother worked as a housekeeper and her father was ...
The Dells: 1953 Doo Wop to 1969 Class
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1969
By Chuck Barksdale of the Dells ...
Taj Mahal: The Mind Of A Modern Bluesman: Taj Mahal
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1969
I AM A crazy swamp guy. I love swamps. Brick buildings are cool too, they have their own grotesque beauty and this is a very ...
Vanilla Fudge: Tim Bogert — Vanilla Fudge Bass
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1969
HP: What kind of equipment do you play? ...
Interview by Alan Smith, Hit Parader, November 1969
UP THE creaking stairs, past the accommodation agency up the stairs again, then to a hardboard door in the gloom. Knock on the hardboard and ...
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, November 1969
CROSBY STILLS & NASH is an exquisite collection of words from this triumvirate. Steve Stills, the moody ex-Buffalo, seems to be the anchor here, as ...
The Band, Ronnie Hawkins: Ronnie Hawkins: Preaching Rock-A-Billy
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Hit Parader, December 1969
LIFE ON Yonge St. in Toronto, is a crackerjack maze of flickering neon lights, honking car horns and fast people. ...
Cold Grits, Eddie Hinton, Sam & Dave, Jerry Wexler: Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Report and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Hit Parader, 1970
THERE WERE only seven people on Southern Airlines' Boeing 727 flight number 63 from Atlanta to Muscle Shoals, via Huntsville-Decatur on a recent Wednesday afternoon. ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: John, Tom, Stu And Doug
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1970
HP: What kind of music did you hear as a kid? ...
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Hit Parader, January 1970
JIMI HENDRIX is about to shed some of his Experience. His next three albums will not feature either bass guitarist Noel Redding or drummer Mitch ...
Jesse Ed Davis, Taj Mahal: Taj Mahal's Band
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1970
JESSE EDWIN DAVIS/lead guitar ...
Allman Brothers Band: Getting Together With The Allman Brothers
Interview by June Harris, Hit Parader, September 1970
DUANE HIMSELF is the first to admit that his task with the Allman Brothers has been made easier by the success of the British blues-rock ...
Shuggie Otis: Shuggie's On His Own
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, September 1970
HIS FATHER is famous, the people he records with are famous, and now he's on his way as well. His name is Shuggie Otis. If ...
Aretha Franklin: Aretha Picks Songs By Lyrics
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1971
I INTERVIEWED Aretha Franklin during one of her recording sessions, at the Atlantic Criteria studio in North Miami, just off the Dixie highway and about ...
Black Sabbath: Simple and Basic
Interview by Richard Green, Hit Parader, July 1971
"ONE OF the biggest problems with the music scene today is the kids that try to read things into songs." ...
Interview by Richard Green, Hit Parader, July 1971
POP SNOBBERY. According to Ian Gillan, of Deep Purple, it's when groups get so selective in their attitude towards work that they cut their dates ...
Canned Heat, Harvey Mandel, John Mayall: Harvey Mandel
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1971
RECOGNITION AS an outstanding musician hasn't come overnight for Harvey Mandel, but he prefers it that way. He's been moving up slowly and steadily and ...
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1971
There's a new, young breed of black singers coming up — a breed that is aware of the roots but doesn't get into the funky-jive-fingerpop-boogaloo ...
Mountain... Involved In The Serious Music Of Today
Interview by Vicki Wickham, Hit Parader, October 1971
MOUNTAIN ARE Felix Pappalardi on bass, Leslie West on guitar, Steve Knight keyboard and Corky Laing on drums. They are tough, heavy, exciting, dynamic and ...
Paul McCartney, David Spinozza: Paul McCartney: Working with Paul — A Session Musician Speaks
Interview by Vicki Wickham, Hit Parader, November 1971
Paul pays attention to every detail when he records, it all comes out Paul McCartney, says one session musician. ...
The Band: 'There's Still Togetherness': The Band
Report and Interview by Nick Logan, Hit Parader, December 1971
The Band – now down to playing 10 to 15 gigs a year over four or five weekends...a couple of tours a year the rest ...
James Taylor, Peter and Gordon: The Producers: Peter Asher
Interview by Harold Bronson, Hit Parader, 1972
HIT PARADER: From Peter and Gordon, how did you get into producing? ...
Muddy Waters Now Records in London with the British Blues-Rockers
Interview by Tony Stewart, Hit Parader, July 1972
MUDDY WATERS went to Britain. Virtually unannounced. He stayed a week. ...
R. Dean Taylor: An Insider's View Of Motown
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Hit Parader, July 1972
MOTOWN IN the Sixties. The image, if we can narrow it down to one, was slickly packaged blackness. It was Holland-Dozier-Holland producing bump-and-grind jukebox hits. ...
Labelle, Laura Nyro: Laura Nyro: Working With Labelle
Report by Vicki Wickham, Hit Parader, October 1972
LAURA NYRO and Labelle, would, at first thought, be impossible... But... ...
Special Feature by Jonathan Singer, Hit Parader, December 1972
TWENTY MINUTES after midnight, January 1, 1972, a baggy blue-jeaned figure strode center stage to New York's Academy of Music. He was unannounced, but not ...
New Riders of the Purple Sage: "People Used To Think Of Us As A Toy Band"
Interview by Danny Goldberg, Hit Parader, September 1974
BUDDY CAGE, steel guitar player for the New Riders and Marmaduke the singer were having a disagreement. "Those are a pretty weird bunch of folks," ...
Maria Muldaur: The Muldaur Mystique
Interview by Barbara Charone, Hit Parader, December 1974
MARIA MULDAUR is a tease. That sexy helplessness she exudes by asking 'Won't You Feel My Leg' is only half the story. She'll turn the ...
Beck, Bogert and Appice: Beck Bogert and Appice: Live (Epic Japanese import)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975
JEFF BECK was recently seen, alive and well, at the Columbia Records convention in Los Angeles. It provided a good sign for Beck-watchers, the first ...
Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975
GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...
Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Hit Parader, January 1975
THERE IS more of the 'Sunshine Of My Life' ballad side of Stevie Wonder on this new LP than the rocking 'Living In The City'. ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Hit Parader, January 1975
IF YOU thought blue jeans and sneakers went out with the sixties, better check out the Eagles. Raised on a steady diet of wonder bread ...
The Who: Ken Russell: How Does He Feel About TOMMY
Interview by Ian Dove, Hit Parader, October 1975
BEAT THE drums. ...
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Hit Parader, November 1975
FIVE YEARS AGO one of the most mindless, repetitious, quintessential singles thumped up the world record charts in double-quick time. It was called 'Neanderthal Man'. ...
Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Hit Parader, November 1975
TWO YEARS AGO, at the time of For Your Pleasure, I attended an out of town Roxy gig. Along for the ride was Kazuhiko and ...
New York Dolls: The New York Dolls Don't Look Back
Interview by Alan Betrock, Hit Parader, April 1976
IF THE NEW York Dolls were ever guilty of one serious miscalculation in their notorious career, it would be their distinct absence of pretension! They ...
Eric Carmen: Rock's Rejuvenated Raspberry
Interview by Alan Betrock, Hit Parader, June 1976
WHEN ERIC CARMEN, Wally Bryson, Jim Bonfanti, and Dave Smalley formed the Raspberries back in 1971, their goal was to stand for something especially fresh ...
Profile by James Wolcott, Hit Parader, May 1977
ON THE albino-white walls of my apartment I've tacked up some CBGB mementoes: a photograph of Jonathan Richman ducking a flying bottle, a small Talking ...
The Sex Pistols: Punk Rock and the Sex Pistols
Overview by Stephen Demorest, Hit Parader, October 1977
Hey, said my name is called disturbance. I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king,I'll rail at all his servants.–(Rolling Stones, 1968) ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley: I and Unity
Interview by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, April 1980
THE APOLLO Theatre sits astride 125th St like a beacon, sparkling between the long rows of steel-shuttered shops like a diamond in a ring. But ...
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Hit Parader, June 1981
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, 'Rapture' will occur when Jesus Christ returns to retrieve a third of the Earth's population for the Kingdom of Heaven, leaving ...
Blondie, Debbie Harry: Debbie Harry Goes Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Hit Parader, December 1981
WHEN WE LAST left Blondie's Chris Stein and Deborah Harry back in December, Autoamerican had just been released. Owlishly-wise Chris was predicting it would get ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Report and Interview by Dave Zimmer, Hit Parader, October 1982
INSIDE DEVONSHIRE Studios in North Hollywood, California, Graham Nash puts one of the tape machines into reverse. "Grrp Wrr, Grrp Wrr," the machine moans. ...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: Hot Spell
Interview by David Gans, Hit Parader, April 1983
Lighting Up The Night Under The Spotlight ...
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