"He's onto the most important development since bebop, that is, the absolute cultural primacy of rock 'n' roll..." David E. James, prof. USC--
"But -Of- Course!" there is a whole chapter bout Kim. {pg. 75, Business as Usual}
" Kim (Fowley) has had his own songs in over forty movies and television shows. His career as a music producer, songwriter, and publisher has yeilded over 102 Gold and Platinum Record credits, starting in 1960, when he co-produced "Alley- Oop" by the Hollywood Argyles."
(Still a 6 year old-- a Disneyboy. (3 year transplant) Riverside, California.. Bug- eyed for that Crazy Prehistoric Jive.)
" Musicians and groups like KISS, the Byrds, Cat Stevens, the Runaways, Nirvana, Leon Russell, Gene Vincent, Chris Darrow, Ben Vaughn, Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, Rocket, BMX Bandits, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer and others..."
(Harvey left out BTO.."Down To The Line"...Unforgivable!) "
...Continue to earn him money and expose material he's collaborated on and owns..."
He'd even produced an early incarnation of SLADE! (my kinda credentials...)
1976...as student at UCLA Film School, leaning toward Rock and Roll,
I dug The New Look On the Scene: Kim Fowley's the Runaways!
The New Teenage Breed.
Snotty, and X-rated. I fell in Lust for these Valley Girls of the Damned...
"Cherry Bomb" so raw and so sweet.
And as a Young and Struggling songwriter... I also drooled over "Do You Love Me?"
Last song on the Classic KISS album Destroyer.
Who in the world Wrote These nimble Lyrics?
You really like my limousine...
You like the way the wheels roll...
You like my seven inch leather heels,
and Goin to all the shows, but..
Do you love me, really love me?... Kurt Cobain dug it too!
WHO ELSE? The King of the Night Time World.
(If Rodney is The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, back then... Kim was Ruler...)
So I dropped off a Rubber tape of my Home Stuff at Kim's publishing office, Living Legend Music, on Hollywood Blvd. (With Bear-like lawyer, Walter Hurst, who'd managed Sam Cook)
No photo or Lyrics on the side. Nothing else... My (213) phone # scribbled on the Box.
A year before....
{ I HAD sang Occapella as a NOBODY- Center Stage at a KIM FOWLEY-Venus and the Razorblades TALENT NIGHT- a twisted Song of Mine I called "Happy Suicide"- I bated the Joint:
"Come on, Come on and Do It, I know you Can if you try, Come and come and Do IT. Have a Happy Suicide!"
Un AMUSED. He Barked me down. AND Threw Me back to the Crowd! A crumpled doll...
What A Frankenstein !
Oh, well... Blot out...
