Parte 1 - Don Wilson of The Ventures Interview on the Bob Rivers Show
Parte 2 - The Ventures - Norwegian Wood [LIVE]
Parte 3 - The Ventures - Hawaii 5-0 [LIVE]
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
RELEVANT VIDEOS -The Ventures (updated 2020)
The Ventures - "Walk Don't Run" (1959) 45rpm - Original Recording
*( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) "Walk Don't Run" was recorded in 1959 but no record company would sign them so, in the end, they started up Horizon Records and produced it themselves. It wasn't until it gained airplay as a radio news signature tune that it finally made its way to No.2 on the US Billboard charts. (Released December 5, 1960).
The Ventures 1st Record - "The Real McCoy" ~ (1959) (B. Bogle - D. Wilson)
*"This is the're very first release by the Ventures. Very rare. This was issued on Blue Horizon 100-1. Voice calles are by Don Wilson. This is a different version than "The McCoy" released as the back side of Walk Don't Run on Dolton. Flip is a rockabilly vocal by Don Wilson. See next video!"
Bob Bogle - guitar, Don Wilson - vocal/guitar and George Babbitt - drums.
Blue Horizon Records 100-1 (1959) Single 45 RPM
The Ventures 1st Record - "Cookies And Coke" (1959) (B.Bogle-D.Wilson)
*"This is the B side to The Real McCoy. (See previous video). This is the're very first release. Very rare. This was issued on Blue Horizon 100-2. Rockabilly Vocal by Don Wilson."
Bob Bogle - guitar, Don Wilson - vocal/guitar and George Babbitt - drums.
Blue Horizon Records 100-2 (1959) Single 45 RPM.
1962. 05-18, The Ventures (Don Wilson & Bob Bogle). Tachikawa Air Base, Tokyo, Japan
*Bass and Drums are played by Japanese Hawaiian musicians.
Reason there is only two of them Don Wilson & Bob Bogle.
Japanese promoter only can afford Two of them to Japan. Not 4 member of The Ventures Nokie Edwards and Mel Taylor.
How often can hear Bob Bogle on lead guitar with Don Singing Runaway. that is very special indeed..
5 titles play - 1. WDR - 2. Runaway - 3. Yellow Bird - 4. Hats Off To Larry - 5. Real McCoy.
The Ventures - Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2008 (Part 1)
The Ventures - Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2008 (Part 2)
BEETHOVEN 5-O - 50TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO - Directed by: Staci Layne Wilson (Daughter of Don Wilson)
THE VENTURES AND THE WAILERS -"50 YEARS OF ROCK AND ROLL"
INTERVIEW WITH MEMBERS OF THE BAND 45th Anniversary (JANUARY/2004)
NOKIE EDWARDS ON OREGON ART BEAT (2008)
BOB BOGLE MEDLEY - THE VENTURES (1993)
THE VENTURES - POPS IN JAPAN (WITH SINGERS)
The Ventures EMP Grand Opening (June 26, 2000) (full)
THE VENTURES - DON WILSON LAST TOUR IN JAPAN AND INTRODUCING NEW MEMBER IAN SPALDING (2015) (JapaneseTV)(full)
The Ventures Live at Don The Beachcomber 2017 (full)
The Ventures - 1966 - (full movie)
The Ventures - 45th Anniversary Live (2004) (full movie)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
"WALK DON'T RUN" Song (1960)
Walk Don't Run, is a famous song written by jazz musician Johnny Smith in 1955, as a counter-melody to the changing chord of "Softly, As In The Morning Sunrise".
In 1957, Chet Atkins recorded his version on "Hi-Fi In Focus".
Bob Bogle together with Don Wilson in 1959, through this album by his idol Chet Atkins made the 8-bit version of Ventures using the vibrato bar and recorded the single "Walk Don't Run" in 1960 through Don Wilson's mother's record label BLUE HORIZON.
The Ventures had an old friendship with a disc jockey they knew when he worked at a smaller station and at the time was on Radio KJR (Seattle's largest Rock & Roll station), asked to advertise on the station. And they soon aroused the listeners' curiosity, wanting to know who this group was. Dolton producer Bob Reisdorff also wanted to know and communicated to Liberty Records that it could be a "national hit" and recorded a single that reached 2nd place on the U.S. Billboard Single Chart and the Group's acclaim. Not in the sense of music itself, but in the creation of a unique style of playing music.
The Ventures had an old friendship with a disc jockey they knew when he worked at a smaller station and at the time was on Radio KJR (Seattle's largest Rock & Roll station), asked to advertise on the station. And they soon aroused the listeners' curiosity, wanting to know who this group was. Dolton producer Bob Reisdorff also wanted to know and communicated to Liberty Records that it could be a "national hit" and recorded a single that reached 2nd place on the U.S. Billboard Single Chart and the Group's acclaim. Not in the sense of music itself, but in the creation of a unique style of playing music.
At the time in Seattle, there was only one record company with matching equipment. Joe Boles' Underground Studio (click for details), and was recorded on an Ampex 2 Track Recorder: On one channel the rhythm guitar and drums, and on the other the bass guitar and lead guitar. And it was mixed for the mono version of the singles, and later the stereo version was made without mixing. In this stereo version, you can clearly see each instrument being played.
In November 1960 the first album "The Ventures Walk Don't Run" was released. The cover photo was made in a hurry with the record company employees. And in the center the model Barbara Grimes. Because the Ventures had a busy concert schedule.
More than 500,000 copies were sold and received the "Gold Record" from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
In November 1960 the first album "The Ventures Walk Don't Run" was released. The cover photo was made in a hurry with the record company employees. And in the center the model Barbara Grimes. Because the Ventures had a busy concert schedule.More than 500,000 copies were sold and received the "Gold Record" from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
In 1964, The Ventures, rearranged the surfing sound style to its second version of this same song with the title "Walk Don't Run '64". Which ranked 8th on the Billboard.The lead guitar was taken over by Nokie Edwards and Don Wilson (rhythm guitar) using reverb and making the famous picking with mute that became the band's trademark, "Ticky-Ticky Sound".
In this album Walk Don't Run Vol.2 has the participation of keyboardist (organ) Leon Russel.
The model on the cover of the LP is the famous Nancy Bacon and the Ventures themselves.
In August 1965, an instructional LP was released entitled "PLAY GUITAR with the VENTURES" Vol.1 including this song, with diagrams and instructions on how to play the lead guitar, rhythm and bass with accompaniment of the disc. (Click here to access the sample of the contents of this disc).
The model on the cover of the LP is the famous Nancy Bacon and the Ventures themselves.
In August 1965, an instructional LP was released entitled "PLAY GUITAR with the VENTURES" Vol.1 including this song, with diagrams and instructions on how to play the lead guitar, rhythm and bass with accompaniment of the disc. (Click here to access the sample of the contents of this disc).
On March 10, 2008, The Ventures entered the "Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame" precisely with this first version of the song.
Check out the version of Chet Atkins, and the two Ventures from the 60s.
"Walk Don't Run" - Chet Atkins
"Walk Don't Run" - The Ventures (1960) - Bob Bogle (lead guitar)
"Walk Don't Run '64" - The Ventures - Nokie Edwards (lead guitar)
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
"BATMAN THEME" (1966)
The musical theme for the opening of the Batman series, starring Adam West and Burt Ward of Twentieth Century Fox, which aired on television in the years 1966 to 1968, was created by Neal Hefti. At the time, more than 20 versions of this song were recorded, including the author himself. The Marketts 'version reached number 17 on the U.S. Billboard charts. And the producer was Warner Brothers' Dick Glasser, who in the years 1964 to 1965 was a Ventures producer.
This Ventures version of the March 1966 "Batman Theme" album contains the sound of bat wings flapping and the producer was Joe Saraceno and ran for 21 weeks on Billboard.
* Joe Saraceno has been a famous music producer for The Marketts, The Routers, T-Bones, Beach Boys and others.
He was a Ventures producer from the recording of the LP "The Ventures a Go-Go" (September / 1965).
Check out the original television version by Neal Hefti, The Marketts and the Ventures version.
Original TV Theme Song (Opening & Closing)
Neal Hefti (performer: The Hullabaloo Dancers)
The Marketts
The Ventures
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- Ricardo Ventures
- I am a lover of all good music. My father was a pianist and at home we had piano and mandolin. In the 60s to 70s, when I was a child, my father took me weekly to watch and listen to the Classic Music concerts of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo (Brazil). At that time, we could only enter the theater with sober and classic clothes and leather shoes. - "A song can simply be played on the notes. But the music played with different intensities in each part, transmits liveliness and feeling in the music. The same music is differentiated and appreciated by others."