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Who Put the Bomp was a rock music fanzine edited and published by Greg Shaw from 1970 to 1979. [1] [2] Its name came from the 1961 hit doo-wop song by Barry Mann, "Who Put the Bomp". Later, the name was shortened to Bomp! Bomp!, and extended by Shaw to the record label Bomp! Records, which he headed until his death in 2004. [3] [4]
Pages in category "Bomp! Records artists" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 20/20 (band) B.
Records albums or lists of Bomp! Records albums, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Bomp!
The band received some national attention in 1982 when the single "A Million Miles Away" was released on their own Shaky City record label, distributed by Bomp! Records. The song reached No. 11 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart and was featured in the 1983 film Valley Girl. [1] The band appeared in the film performing the song and parts of two ...
Frankie Lymon (center) and the Teenagers. Franklin Joseph Lymon was born in Washington Heights, New York City [9] on September 30, 1942, to Jeanette and Howard Lymon. Howard was a truck driver and Jeanette was a maid.
Spacemen 3 managed to obtain a record deal shortly after producing their new demos. Pat Fish had given a copy of the demo tape to Dave Barker, the owner of the independent record label Glass Records, to whom Fish's band The Jazz Butcher were signed. Spacemen 3 signed a three-year, two-album recording contract with Glass Records in early 1986.
AIP Records also issued numerous CDs in the English Freakbeat series and Pebbles series, with the first 6 Pebbles volumes being basically the same as the LPs, with bonus tracks. The 6th Pebbles album was reissued more appropriately as the 6th CD in the English Freakbeat series , since this LP also featured British music.
During the 1970s, Shaw worked for Sire Records, and was instrumental in the signing of Flamin' Groovies, a band that he also managed for a couple of years. [4] In 1974, Bomp! became a record label, and Shaw released records by Devo, the Weirdos and Iggy Pop, and worked with several artists including Stiv Bators and the Dead Boys. [7]