Tom Rapp, the Glossary
Thomas Dale Rapp (March 8, 1947 – February 11, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter who led Pearls Before Swine, an influential psychedelic folk rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1]
Table of Contents
55 relations: A Journal of the Plague Year (album), After the Gold Rush (song), Balaklava (album), Beautiful Lies You Could Live In, Bernard Stollman, Bernie Taupin, Bessie Smith, Blue Thumb Records, Bob Dylan, Bottineau, North Dakota, Brandeis University, Buddy Guy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chuck Berry, City of Gold (Pearls Before Swine album), Civil and political rights, Country music, Demo (music), Dirty Linen (magazine), Drag City (record label), Eau Gallie High School, Eau Gallie, Florida, Elton John, ESP-Disk, Familiar Songs, Folk rock, Gordon Lightfoot, Joan Baez, Judicial estoppel, Kris Needs, Melbourne, Florida, Minnesota, Nashville, Tennessee, Neil Young, One Nation Underground (Pearls Before Swine album), Patti Smith, Pearls Before Swine (band), Phil McMullen, Pink Floyd, Providence, Rhode Island, Psychedelic music, Ptolemaic Terrascope, Reprise Records, Richard Alderson (record producer), Rochester, Minnesota, Rocket Man (song), Stardancer, Sunforest (album), Terrastock, The Fugs, ... Expand index (5 more) »
- Blue Thumb Records artists
- Musicians from North Dakota
A Journal of the Plague Year (album)
A Journal of the Plague Year is an album released on CD in 1999 by American singer-songwriter Tom Rapp, leader of the 1960s/70s psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine.
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After the Gold Rush (song)
"After the Gold Rush" is a song written and performed by Neil Young and is the title song from his 1970 album of the same name.
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Balaklava (album)
Balaklava was the second album recorded and released by psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine in 1968.
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Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
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Bernard Stollman
Bernard Stollman (July 19, 1929 – April 19, 2015) was an American lawyer and the founder of the ESP-Disk record label.
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Bernie Taupin
Bernard John Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist and visual artist.
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.
Blue Thumb Records
Blue Thumb Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by Bob Krasnow and former A&M Records executives Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
Bottineau, North Dakota
Bottineau is a city in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States.
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Brandeis University
Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Buddy Guy
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. Tom Rapp and Buddy Guy are blue Thumb Records artists.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.
City of Gold (Pearls Before Swine album)
City of Gold was the fifth album made by American psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine, and their third on Reprise Records.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
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Demo (music)
A demo (shortened from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release.
Dirty Linen (magazine)
Dirty Linen was a bi-monthly magazine of folk and world music based in Baltimore, Maryland, US.
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Drag City (record label)
Drag City is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, established in the city in 1990 by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.
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Eau Gallie High School
Eau Gallie High School is located at 1400 Commodore Blvd in the Eau Gallie area of Melbourne, Florida.
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Eau Gallie, Florida
Eau Gallie is a section of the city of Melbourne, Florida, located on the city's northern side.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.
ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York–based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
Familiar Songs
Familiar Songs is an album released on Reprise Records in 1972 by American singer-songwriter Tom Rapp, the leader of folk-rock group Pearls Before Swine.
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.
Judicial estoppel
In the common law, judicial estoppel (also known as estoppel by inconsistent positions) is an estoppel that precludes a party from taking a position in a case that is contrary to a position it has taken in earlier legal proceedings.
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Kris Needs
Kris Needs (born 3 July 1954) is a British journalist and author, known for writings on music from the 1970s onwards.
Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter.
One Nation Underground (Pearls Before Swine album)
One Nation Underground is the debut album by American psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer whose 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement.
Pearls Before Swine (band)
Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, which is now part of Melbourne, Florida. Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine (band) are blue Thumb Records artists.
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Phil McMullen
Phil McMullen is a British writer and music journalist.
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
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Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
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Ptolemaic Terrascope
Ptolemaic Terrascope is a magazine covering old and new music, usually of a psychedelic nature.
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Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.
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Richard Alderson (record producer)
Richard Larm Alderson (born February 10, 1937) is an American audio engineer and record producer, who has worked on recordings by Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Harry Belafonte, Sun Ra, The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine, Roberta Flack, Grover Washington Jr. and others.
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Rochester, Minnesota
Rochester is a city in and the county seat of Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States.
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Rocket Man (song)
"Rocket Man" (officially titled "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)") is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin and performed by John.
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Stardancer
Stardancer was the second solo album credited to American singer-songwriter Tom Rapp, the leader of folk-rock group Pearls Before Swine, and his first for Blue Thumb Records.
Sunforest (album)
Sunforest was the ninth album recorded by American singer-songwriter Tom Rapp (either with or without his group Pearls Before Swine), his second for Blue Thumb Records, and his final record before his lengthy retirement from the music industry after the mid-1970s.
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Terrastock
Terrastock is a music festival organised periodically by Phil McMullen, formerly editor of the Ptolemaic Terrascope and since 2005 the publisher of the Terrascope Online website.
The Fugs
The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late 1964, by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums.
The Use of Ashes
The Use of Ashes was the fourth album made by American psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine, and the second on Reprise Records after their move from ESP-Disk.
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These Things Too
These Things Too is the third album by American psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine, and their first for Reprise Records.
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University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Carey Law, or Penn Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Woodstock
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock.
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and composer who was one of the most significant figures in American folk music.
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See also
Blue Thumb Records artists
- Albert Collins
- Arthur Adams (singer)
- Aynsley Dunbar
- Ben Sidran
- Buddy Guy
- Butts Band
- Captain Beefheart
- Dan Hicks (singer)
- Dave Mason
- Earl Hooker
- Gábor Szabó
- Greg Kurstin
- Hoodoo Rhythm Devils
- Hugh Masekela
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Incognito (band)
- Jessie Hill
- Jimmy Smith (musician)
- João Donato
- Joe Sample
- John Mayall
- Larry Carlton
- Love (band)
- Mark-Almond
- Mike Finnigan
- Modereko
- Paul Humphrey
- Pearls Before Swine (band)
- Phil Upchurch
- Robbie Basho
- Sam Lay
- Sun Ra
- Sylvester (singer)
- T. Rex (band)
- Terry Callier
- The Credibility Gap
- The Crusaders (jazz fusion group)
- The Last Poets
- The Pointer Sisters
- Tom Rapp
- Trilok Gurtu
- W. C. Fields
Musicians from North Dakota
- Annette Kaufman
- Dakota Dave Hull
- Doc West
- Elle Cordova
- Frank Scott (musician)
- James Ployhar
- Johnny Klein
- Lawrence Welk
- Matthew Peterson
- Roger Neumann
- Shane Ochsner
- Steve Ressel
- Tom Rapp
- Vizin
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapp
Also known as Rapp, Tom, Thomas Dale Rapp, Thomas Rapp.
, The Use of Ashes, These Things Too, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Woodstock, Woody Guthrie.