Placed 2nd (1st among radio participants), 6th, 10th (twice), and 21st in the five competitions.Īwarded 14 gold & platinum records and an international sales award from various record companies. Cale remains too one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz. Cale is considered, by the likes Mark Knopfler, Neil Young and Eric Clapton, 'one of the most important artists in the history of rock'. Placed as a winner in five Active Industry Research Contemporary Hit Radio "Pick the Hits" competitions from 1983 through 1987. CALE BROADCAST RECORDING FROM 1994 Born in 1938, J.J. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Higher Education Advancement and was the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration. Senior Certified WebCT/Blackboard Trainer and Blackboard CE/Vista Product Specialist.ĭissertation on institutional rebranding (see ) was the 2009 international winner of the Alice L. Graduate of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Kentucky Christian University and Mountain State University. For the next ten years, Cale recorded nearly a new record. His album Naturally (1971) put 3 songs in the top hits column: Crazy Mama, a new version of After Midnight, and Call me the Breeze, which further down the road became a Lynyrd Skynyrd hit.
The lyric bit "After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out" was heard by JJ on some club gig. Written in 1966 and featured on his 1972 album Naturally, Cale’s After Midnight received a new lease on life when Clapton covered it for his 1970 self-entitled debut album, Eric Clapton. Born John Weldon Cale, he was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His original scores became cover hits for Eric Clapton After Midnight (1970) and Cocaine (1976). The laid back groove is what draws me in!Īnyway, After midnight is in a sense the most important JJ song, it's the one that kick started his career as solo performer and song writer. He will be best remembered for his introduction of the music blended genre which became known as the Tulsa Sound. The video photo is from JJ tour this year (taken by me).īeing a JJ fan, I always liked this slower version, compared to the original 1960s faster version, or the Eric Clapton version of that.
But most likely I won't be posting the full version. After midnight, were gonna chug-a-lug and shout Were gonna cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about After midnight. Next time we get together, there will be vocals and solos and things. We haven't played it before or since, nor have any of us played it in a band before. The Oklahoma singer-songwriter pioneered the fluid, laid-back country-blues shuffles that provided the aural blueprint for Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton, but not one of Cale's 12 albums. Cale maintains a surprisingly low profile. Here's our recent first basic take of the after midnight, my sorry ass on the bass: Perhaps the greatest exemplar of Cale’s wide influence was Eric Clapton, who made hits out of two previously obscure songs written by Cale After Midnight and Cocaine and patterned much of his ’70s music after the Tulsa Sound Cale helped create. For a man who wrote such rock standards as 'After Midnight,' 'Cocaine,' 'Call Me the Breeze' and 'Magnolia,' J.J.