MERI WILSON
Meri Wilson (born Meri Wilson Edgmon; June 15, 1949 – December 28, 2002) was a model and singer-songwriter, best known for singing double entendre novelty songs. (More from Wikipedia)
I was at a variety store somewhere ages ago and saw a rack of marked-down albums. They were priced at only 4 for a dollar, so I couldn’t lose there. One was an album by Meri Wilson called First Take; the songs on the record were marked as to which were recorded on the “first take”, and that was true of about half of them. Like the other three, I had no clue who she was.
But Meri Wilson had recorded a catchy, bawdy novelty song called “Telephone Man” in 1977 that I had heard numerous times – "My heart began a-thumpin' and my mind began to fly / And I knew I wasn't dealin' with no ordinary guy / So while he was a-talking I was thinkin' up my plan / Then my fingers did the walkin' on the telephone man" – which made it to #6 on the UK charts and #18 on the US charts. And “Telephone Man” was there about halfway through the first side of First Take. I could not have been more surprised.
(December 2015)
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Since I am down to a quarterly schedule rather than a monthly schedule, my annual list is a lot shorter, so I will try listing all of the people that I have discussed in some depth rather than just the Under Appreciated Rock Band and the Story of the Month. They are all punk rock bands of one kind or another this year (2015-2016), and the most recent post includes my overview of the early rap/hip hop scene that an old friend, George Konstantinow challenged me to write – probably so long ago that he might have forgotten.
December 2015 – 1990’s pop/punk band AMANDA JONES; Story of the Month on the early American singles by the Beatles; also, Rochelle Harper, Lisa Loeb, 3 Doors Down, Level with the Ground, Chris Stamey with Yo La Tengo, Meri Wilson, Bobby Brown, the Cruzados / the Plugz, Terence Trent d’Arby, An Emotional Fish, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Hunters & Collectors, Looters, Shakespear’s Sister, Robert Tepper, Y Kant Tori Read / Tori Amos, Ugly Kid Joe, Paul Young, the Rolling Stones, Mandy Brix, the Joneses.
(Year 7 Review)
