Jazz Articles about The Commander (a/k/a George Frayne)

Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen: We Got a Live one Here!

by C. Michael Bailey
May 2, 2015

Pimply, hormonal, lower-middle class teenaged boys growing up in the 1960s and '70s were easy marks for fun, subversive, and slightly dangerous music. However, the music being consumed was mostly a generation or two beyond its origin. For Example, “Spoonful" on Cream's 1966 debut recording Fresh Cream (Atco) was an ear-opening introduction to extended performance that would come de rigueur by the 1970s. On Fresh Cream the composition is credited to Willie Dixon who commandeered the song in 1960 for ...