Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Bomp! Topics about Bomp! Records albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
Studio albums [16] Disconnected – 1980, Bomp! The Last Race - 1996; Live albums [17] Live at the Limelight – 1988, Perfect Beat (Germany, as Stiv Bators and His Evil Boys) Compilation albums [16] The Lord and the New Creatures – 1983, Lolita (France) I Wanna Be a Dead Boy... – 1992, Munster Records / Bomp! L.A. L.A. – 1993, 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 ...
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]
In the Bomp is a Greg Shaw tribute album released in November 2007 by Bomp Records in the USA and Vivid Sound Corporation in Japan. The album features 23 classic songs covered by different bands having in common the raw approach to rock and roll music Shaw most liked.