9 posts tagged “collins kids”
Show us what band you'd like to be the lead singer for.
I would say the Collins Kids, but with Lorrie on vocals they positively don't need me... Now Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys is another story, I adore Tommy Duncan - but they sure could use a female vocalist on occasion.
Take me back to Tulsa is my theme song - I am always saying I am too old to date and too young to marry!
Ahh!! Haa!!
If you could interview any musician, living or dead, who would you most want to pepper with questions?
The Collins Kids - Larry & Lorrie.
The first thing I'd ask Larry is: Did Bob Wills really throw up on you while riding in a car on a road-trip?
Next I'd ask: Is the song Kokomo about Indiana or Florida?
FYI: May 7th is Lorrie's birthday. I go on an awful lot about Larry, so I think I'll write her a post of her own...
I have more questions, but they'll have to hold for later.
I've started to write something three times now and keep editing myself. So, here, just listen and make your own commentary about how the first notes of Plain Jane sound like the song Just Because.
What was your first concert? Does seeing the Jackson 5 at 4 years old count? No? Well then, it'd be Blue Oyster Cult. Aldo Nova opened for them and he was so bad he got booed off the stage.
If you could be on stage with any band, who would you want to perform with? Hrrmm... that's a tough one, isn't it? I'd have to say I'd like to get in on the double-bill of the Collins Kids opening for Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. That'd be it, Rockabilly Royalty and the King of Western Swing. Yep, I'd like to sing with them.
That Green Day Rock Opera question? Ugh. Rock opera? Green Day? *rolls eyes*... Sorry, but after Tommy - all Rock Operas have been outlawed. There's just no reason to make another.
What do you think is the greatest pop song of all time? I answered this back in '08 when I was pining for the carefree days of my youth in the late 70s/early 80s. But I called it "Bold Claim #337: 5 Reasons Why Don't Say No is the greatest rock and roll song ever...
Phish? There are two kinds of people in this world - people who inherently KNOW Phish sucks and those who don't. I wanted to do bad things to my college roommate - like shave her eyebrows off or put Preparation H in her toothpaste tube... She would keep playing the same fricken' Phish song (Bouncing around the room) over and over again.
Ok, there you go, a month's worth of Music Qotws.
Play us a song you simply HAVE to sing along with whenever you hear it? (Go ahead and sing too, because you're good!)
Submitted by Jan.
Hmmm, which Collins Kids video should I force feed you today?
I promise that if you listen to this, you too will be swooning and crooning all day. Yes really, I promise.
Show us something you can't explain.
I can't explain how Rockabilly prodigies Larry and Lorrie Collins, The Collins Kids, were replaced with blonde alien body-snatching pod people.
My first big clue was how they were brunettes as children, but then reappeared years later as blondes that didn't look or sound much like the Collins kids.
I thought it was my imagination until I saw my next clues - two old newspaper clippings. In the later dated one, you see a very sinister looking character with a death grip on Lorrie's arm - you can just tell he's got a nefarious plot brewing. In the earlier clipping there's a typo that may not be a typo, but the truth that wasn't properly edited.
I conject that the misery police thought the Collins kids were just too good and made people just too happy, and they couldn't have a nation of well-adjusted happy people, now could they? Yes, they were so good that the Music Industry of Nations got together and was about to pass an edict that The Collins Kids would be kept alive forever and that no one else in the world was ever allowed to play any music ever again because the pinnacle had been reached. So, the misery police and a group of rogue underground musicians got someone to contaminate the Collins Kids with plague and then sent them off in a UFO and replaced them with alien body-snatching pod people, but you'd have thought they would have thought we'd realize they got the hair color of the replacements wrong.
I heard a rumor that Larry's demise was as sad as it was swift - the aliens apparently somewhat cannibalistic killed him straightaway (may he live to 102) and ground his flesh up into Deviled Ham under the impression that if they ate him they'd play as well as he.
At last report, Lorrie is still being held captive on one of Jupiter's moons, being forced to sing 24/7 while making said Deviled Ham sandwiches with the crusts cut off.
It's quite a tragic tale; There's a tear-jerking song in there somewhere...
EDIT 2/28/2009: More creepy evidence has surfaced to support my theory of alien abduction and pod people... In this video, at about 50 seconds in, there is a shifty looking character with the upright bass that slowly backs out of the scene after Joe Maphis comments that Lorrie isn't there tonight... Very suspicious if you ask me. Very suspicious indeed.
This post was sincerely written with NO intended disrespect. It was written with nothing but love, respect and adoration for Rockabilly's Royalty, the Collins Kids.
I must rescind my post in which I claimed Dick Dale is the greatest guitarist ever. He isn't, Larry Collins is. But I didn't know that when I posted it...
The Collins Kids are recommend if you like really old-school Rockabilly.
