Message from Tommy Conwell - July 30, 2024

Message from Tommy Conwell on the tommy conwell & the young rumblers - fans remember when... Facebook page.

Folsom Prison Blues - Tommy Conwell

Tommy Conwell playing Folsom Prison Blues during solo set at Bottle & Cork, Dewey Beach, DE. [Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers concert on July 21, 2024.]

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Tommy Conwell

Tommy Conwell - Solo Acoustic Show at the Kelly Center in Havertown, PA USA [February 23, 2024].

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is a 1933 hit song with lyrics by Al Dubin and music by Harry Warren. Deane Janis with Hal Kemp's Orchestra recorded the original version on October 31, 1933, in Chicago, which was issued by Brunswick Records.[1] In 1934, a rendition sung by Constance Bennett appeared in the film Moulin Rouge, but was unreleased on record.

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is also known as a signature song of Tony Bennett, who was signed by Mitch Miller to Columbia Records on the strength of Bennett's 1949 demo of the song. In his debut Columbia session on 17 April 1950 at CBS 30th Street Studio, Bennett, backed by the Marty Manning orchestra, recorded "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" to serve as Bennett's major label debut single release on 27 April 1950.

Live TCYR Countdown Continues

It’s TCYR Concert Countdown Week and here’s another daily dose of rock n’ roll! 🎸🎸🎸 

From Nov. 2017, Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers covered Tom Petty in this cool tribute medley --The Waiting, Here Comes My Girl, and American Girl. 

TCYR Concert Countdown 2024

Two Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers concerts in one weekend was not on DJ Caterina’s bingo card for 2024--yet here we are! 🤩🎸🎶 

Get a daily dose of TCYR this week from Audio Rumble with videos you might have missed. #youngrumblerssummer 

#nowplaying “Don’t Say Rock n Roll” is ROCK N ROLL! [1989] And ❤️ the band vocals at the end! Maybe this song could use some horns? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Tickets ⬇️ 

• Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia - https://www.ticketmaster.com/tommy.../event/020060AB98233E87
• Bottle & Cork
  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bottleandcork/1009691

The "Rumblers Vocal"

Originally posted on November 15, 2018.

 

One highly unappreciated aspect of Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers’ recordings and live performance is what DJ Caterina has dubbed the collective “Rumblers vocal.” 

It’s Tommy, Paul, Rob, Chris and even Jimmer (if he’s mic’d) singing In unison—sounding like that Philly street gang with an attitude that you always wanted to join. It’s distinctive, it’s got swagger, and, as an event, it’s kind of rare. 

But when it happens—hold on to something—‘cause it’s cool.
 

Some great examples in this list:

• Performing "Big Big Love" live at Market St. Station in Wilkes-Barre, PA, Sept. 8, 1988.
  
   
• At the end of a 1989 cover of “Philadelphia Freedom”—with other Philadelphia-based artists, singing "Freedom!"
• “Maybe She’s Just Not There” - recorded live at the historic Bayou in Washington, D.C., May 13, 1987.

• A cover of The Chambers Brothers original "Time Has Come Today" in 1987. 

• The Young Rumblers live in Milan, Italy, performing "Young Thing" in 1989.
• Performing I'm Not Your Man in 2017.