Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Retro: Kimmer

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BREAK UP SONGS FROM RK READERS....

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 06:47 PM PST

GUEST STORY FROM KAREN ANN HUNTER!

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 03:25 PM PST


Steve (The Deacon) and Karen Ann Hunter

Just received a lovely autographed copy of Empty Spaces and I just love it so much! It is available now on my Amazon Store and other retailers too...

Here is a lovely story from Karen Ann Hunter:

I joined my first band when I was 17, left Art College and my parent's security to start a life on the road and never looked back.

In 1976 I got signed to Giorgio Moroder whilst working for the US Army doing gigs in West Germany.



Other than recording backing vocals on a track called 'I Wanna Funk With You Tonight' from the album 'Knights In White Satin' and a pop song called 'Doctor Funk' (Smiley - Featuring Karen Taylor) this union was short lived as I was signed just after Donna Summer had released 'Love To Love You Baby' with him and we all know how that story went.

When I returned to London I got another producer, recorded a bunch of my own songs under the name Yuka and had a couple of singles out on Chas Chandlers label 'Cheapskate'. The first single 'Who Will Believe The Young Man' made it to BBC Radio One's record of the week.



During this time I was working as a session singer and also as a TV extra, I sang on a lot of jingles and appeared in a lot of beer commercials. In 1984 I got a gig touring with Gary Numan on the Berserker tour which included a live album and video then toured again the next year with the The Fury. I also married in 84, had my first child Holly in 88 then my son Mathew came along, this put an end to gigs for a while.


Karen Ann Hunter

I recorded another self composed album called Kickin' Up Dust in 2004 which was half jazz and half blues, it couldn't decide which it was and neither could I so after 34 years I decided to throw in the towel on music altogether.


My favorite song on Empty Spaces "If I Were You"

However, a guest guitar player on that album was Pete Haycock of Climax Blues Band, Pete lived in Germany and he emailed me a track by an old friend called Steve Hunter who lived in Hollywood, USA.

The track was called Nylon Café; it had layers of wonderful acoustic guitars and I told Pete it had made me go all peculiar, Pete told Steve and eventually Steve and I made contact on email, the rest is history.

Nylon Cafe is now on a CD of Steve's called Short Stories.

Steve encouraged me to write and sing again, he loved my soft voice, a voice I had never tried recording and so 'Empty Spaces' was born. I wrote the songs and Steve made them into beautiful tracks. Karen Ann

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PHOTO GALLERY WEDNESDAY: WITH DENIZ TEK

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 01:33 PM PST

RETRO: KIMMER'S FAVORITE BREAK UP SONGS

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 12:05 PM PST


Aretha Makes Her Point

I have recently had some of my fabulous readers ask me for my personal top ten break up songs from the most fabulous decade of them all... Today I am in a break up kinda mood so here is my top ten best break up songs of the 1960's

Honorary Mention: Chain of Fools Aretha Franklin (because she doesn't leave the guy..)



01 Promises Promises Dionne Warwick



02 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Gerry and the Pacemakers



03 Our pal "Q" with the Mysterians and 96 Tears



04 Don't Bring Me Down The Animals



05 All of the Day and All of The Night The Kinks (Guaranteed to make you stop crying and dance!"



06 Hit the Road Jack Ray Charles



07 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? Al Green



08 Bye Bye Love The Everly Brothers



09 Where Did Our Love Go The Supremes



10 Bye Bye Baby Mary Wells

I FEEL SO GOOD TODAY! BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN...

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:24 AM PST



Feels like I have been on a long vacation to a strange land. Now we just surfaced and are back in the USA! Grateful to be here and kicking it in my room with Chuck Berry and Linda... I feel so good today! I'm so glad I am living in the USA!



Then this song comes on the DVD!!! Who can resist?? Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"


Robert Cray



Oh what a man! Robert Cray gets Kimmer's hunky guitarist award today...

Arrested on charges of unemployment
He was sittin in the witness stand
The judge's wife called up the district attorney
To say "free that brown eyed man"
If you want your job you'd better free that brown eyed man.

Flyn' across the desert in the TWA
I saw a woman walking across the sand
She been walkin 30 miles en route to Bombay
To meet a Brown eyed handsome man
Her destination was a Brown eyed handsome man.

Way back in history 3000 years
Back ever since the world began
There's been a whole lotta good women shed a tear
For a brown eyed handsome man
A lot of trouble for a brown eyed handsome man.

Beautiful daughter couldn't make up her mind
'tween a doctor and a lawyer man
The mother told the daughter "go out and find
Yourself a brown eyed handsome man"
That's what your daddy was: a brown eyed handsome man.

Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world at the palm of her hand
But she lost both the arms in a wrestiling macht
To get a brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.

Two, three, the count with nobody on
He hit a high fly into the stand
Round the third he was headed for home
He was a brown eyed handsome man
that won the game
he was a brown eyed handsome man
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