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My name is James Flemming Rasmussen.
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In a way - my story is special - when I in 1954 heard
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| In 1954 I also heard " Rock around the clock " then it all came down - and in 1955 - I started Denmark's first Rock and Roll band. " James and his James-men " After a few wonderful years - touring Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark. I was asked to join Denmark's - at the time hottest Boy Band - FOUR JACKS They already had big success.I joined this group in 1958 - And sang with them fort 5 wonderfull years. In that period we were the biggest act on the music scene in Denmark - Everything we touched was a success - But In 1964 we broke up. |
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James and his JAMESMEN - JORDAL AMFI
NORWAY 1956 |
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| October 1965 I left Copenhagen - and went to Los Angeles - all the records I had, was produced there - so I had to see what that was all about. I did not know anybody there - and after I had paid my air-line trip I had 1000 dollars in my pocket. It was easy for me to rent a apartment - on the better end of Hollywood Boulevard I spend the first the first 3 months reading the LA Times - looking at tv. - trying toget familiar with the language and the mentality. After that - I one day went down to Selma Ave - I sat in on a coffee shop called "Rewell`s" - And I got-in to talking with Buzz Clifford - He was a song writer artist and the year before had a million-seller called Baby-Sitting-Boogie - We became friends - and through him I meet most of the people in the music business. |
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| In 1967 Buzz Clifford wrote the song " Echo Park " - He then gave me an exclusive deal to record the song - I then found the singer Keith Barbour - he loved the song - and 3 months later I had Jim Keltner - Matt Moore and Buzz Clifford in the studio - and we did the song. |
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The Four Jacks - Bent Werther, Poul Rudi, John Mogensen
and James Rasmussen. |
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| I then sold the production to Epic Records - And I was invited to the Big Apple - to meet Clive Davis - who at the time was president of Columbia Records - My production - was released in 1968 and became a big hit on the east and west coast - All the big stations was banging away on my record - In the mid west the radios boycotted my production - because it set a question-mark with the war in Vietnam. But it came on Billboards top 100 list as number 28 - as far as I remember. Because of my producer success - the phone rang - and for the next 7 years I was working with - Danny Moore - T. Bone Burnett - Val Garay - Jim Keltner - Redbone - Bobby Hebb - JR. Shanklin -David Somerville - David Jackson - Mister Big - Kieth Barbour and many more - Sorry if I forgot some of the wonderful people - It`s been a long time. |
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I also wrote my own songs and - somewhere along the line I went in the studio and produced
an album with my own songs - It was called " Rasmussen " and was released on Reprise Records in 1970 - ore was it 1971 - I can`t remember. In 1980 I went back to Denmark - and for the past 15 years I have toured Denmark - with my little band playing all the songs we had so big success with in the Four Jacks - and where-ever we come - we make people happy - And by now I celebrate 50 anniversary in the music business May 23 2005 EMI records in Denmark have released a box-set with Four Jacks - ( 112 productions - songs ) 4 cd`s in the box. And now june 10 2005 The Four Jacks is number ONE on the official Danish top forty chart - Unbelievable. James Rasmussen. |
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Cover photo from The LP release "RASMUSSEN"
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