All March, 2018 Music Thread

[TomSea]

Thursday, March 1st, 2018 Music Thread, All Music Is Welcomed!

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

3 big names were born today, chronologically:

Glenn Miller, String of Pearls:


Harry Belafonte, Banana Boat Song:


Roger Daltrey, the Who and solo, After the Fire:


More later.

[TomSea]

Willie Mitchell, "The Driving Beat"
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Jerry Fisher, Blood, Sweat and Tears, "Spinning Wheel":
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Justin Bieber, "Love Yourself":
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Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2
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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Harry Belafonte:

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Warren Davis-Monotones:

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Roger Daltry-Who:

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[EasyAce]

Birthdays include Mike d'Abo, who succeeded Paul Jones and Jack Bruce as lead singers of Manfred Mann . . .

Manfred Mann, "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)"

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. . . and reggae legend Burning Spear . . .

Burning Spear, "Mek We Dweet"

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[TomSea]

John Carrol, Starland Vocal band and "Afternoon Delight" was posted some weeks ago.  That is not the only thing they ever did obviously. They did cover Emmylou Harris' "Boulder to Birmingham" and it sounds like they had a summer TV show at one time.

Starland Vocal Band:


Emmylou Harris:


Sources do say the song is about Graham Parsons.

[TomSea]

Friday, March 2nd, 2018 Music Thread

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/march/2   http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

(accidental early posting, apologies)

Some notable artists born on this day in history:

Lou Reed, with the Velvet Underground, "White Light, White Heat" and solo, "Berlin":



"In Berlin by the Wall, you were five feet, ten inches tall", wow, that Lou!   

Lawrence Payton of the Four Tops, "Can't help myself":


Tony Meehan, drummer for the Shadows, also with Jet Harris, "Scarlett O'Hara":


Rory Gallagher, "Edged In Blue":


Eddie Money, "Gimme Some Water", great song:


Karen Carpenter of course, of the Carpenters, what a talent.
"Close to you"

"We've Only Just Begun"


That should be a full platter but there are still more.

Jay Osmond, the Osmond Brothers, "One Bad Apple":


John Cowsill of the Cowsills, "The Rain, the park and other things":


John Bon Jovi, another biggie, "Livin' on a prayer" and "You give love a bad name":



Chris Martin, Coldplay, "Adventure of a lifetime":


And many more, check above links. All Music welcomed!

[EasyAce]

Birthdays today also include jazz saxophone legend Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis

Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis, "In the Kitchen"

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. . . and, for the late Lou Reed . . .

The Velvet Underground, The Complete Matrix Tapes---Sets 1 and 2

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Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Animal

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Lou Reed, Street Hassle

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[EasyAce]

. . . and, Rory Gallagher's defining moments . . .

Rory Gallagher, Live in Europe

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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Lawrence Payton-Four Tops:

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John Cowsill:

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[TomSea]

For St. Pat's  March, great stuff and probably pretty obscure.

[EasyAce]

I pulled a fast one on my blues band at our Thursday afternoon rehearsal. We play this number as part of our repertoire,
with organ and guitar solos in the middle instead of just the guitar solo . . .

Santana, "Moonflower"

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. . . but after the solos, on the stop at that transition bridge, I threw them a curve and started playing the melody of . . .

Xavier Cugat, "Sway"

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. . . on my guitar, in the "Moonflower" key of D minor, of course. It hit me to try it a split second before coming out of that transition.
The guys in the band picked up on it immediately, to their credit (we'd never tried to play the song in any way before), since both songs
in the same key use pretty much the same chords, just arrayed differently. Then after running through one playing of "Sway's"
main and bridge, at the stop I hit the bridge for "Moonflower" and we finished off that way. We were so thrilled about how it
worked we decided to keep it in our book of originals and non-beaten-to-death covers.

(Fair disclosure: I know Cugat's "Sway" has no guitar in it, but I figured it out from listening to the horn parts!)

[TomSea]

Sounds like this is another British version of a well-known tune over here.

[EasyAce]

Sounds like this is another British version of a well-known tune over here.

They remind me a little bit of a certain Minnesota quartet who beat the California surf rockers at their own game often as not . . .

The Trashmen, "Bad News"

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[TomSea]

Renee Martell, French Canadian, well done versions of these songs.





Johnny Angel and Next Plane To London a Francais

[TomSea]

Weekend Music Thread, March 3-4. 2018, All Music Is Welcomed!

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php   http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

Some birthdays today, notables on Sunday as well, feel free to list them. Respectfully, more of them are tomorrow:

Doc Watson, "Down To The Valley To Pray":


Enzo Stuarti, "Che Gelida Manina":


From Switzerland, Lys Assia - Für immer (Moon River)


Willie Chambers, Chambers Brothers, "I can't turn you loose":

That picture, honestly, sometimes, it seems like there was more racial harmony in the 1970s than today. Technically, this picture must be from the '60s, so okay, we had our problems at that time.

Mike Pender, The Searchers, "Needles and Pins":


Dave Mount, Mud, "Tiger Feet":


Jennifer Warnes, "Song of Bernadette":


Dave Damato, REO Speedwagon, "Keep on loving you":

[TomSea]

Bobby Womack's birthday is March 4th, an influential songwriter.

"Everybody needs someone to love"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Womack
Cleveland, Ohio.

Also wrote or co-wrote "It's all over now", hit for the Rolling Stones.

[EasyAce]

Birthdays this weekend include . . .

3 March: Mike Pender, guitarist/vocalist with the Searchers . . .

The Searchers, "Love Potion Number 9"

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The Searchers, "What Have They Done to the Rain"

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. . . rapper Tone Loc . . .

Tone Loc, "Wild Thing"

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4 March: Vivaldi . . .

Vivaldi: Concerto for Three Violins (Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman; New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor)

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. . . Willie Johnson, guitarist for Howlin' Wolf's first band, who was said to be so loyal to Memphis that he refused to move to Chicago when Wolf did, which probably
cost him a shot at becoming more famous (and paved the way for Hubert Sumlin to achieve fame in his own right as Wolf's main guitarist) . . .

Howlin' Wolf, "Well That's All Right"

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Howlin' Wolf, "My Troubles and Me"

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Sammy Lewis with the Willie Johnson Combo, "So Long Baby Goodbye"

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. . . French composer/conductor Paul Mauriat, whose song "Chariot" was given lyrics and turned into Little Peggy March's hit "I Will Follow Him," before
he had an unexpected smash in 1968 with another of his own compositions . . .

Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra, "Love is Blue (L'Amour est Bleu)"

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. . . South African singer Miriam Makeba, who had an unexpected smash in 1967 . . .

Miriam Makeba, "Pata Pata"

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. . . Eric Allandale of the Foundations . . .

The Foundations, "Baby, Now That I've Found You"

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. . . Yes bassist Chris Squire . . .

Yes, "Close to the Edge"

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. . . Jason Newsted, bassist for Metallica . . .

Metallica, "Enter Sandman"

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. . . and, for Willie Chambers of the Chambers Brothers . . .

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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Junior Parker:

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Mike Pender-Searchers:

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Bobby Womack-Valentinos:

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[TomSea]

(Non-Birthday, Non-Anniversary related)
Frank Mills, Music Box Dancer

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[TomSea]

Per another thread here about a redstate.com contributor, Sarah Rumph (politics forum), in West Germany in the early '70s, there was a group called "Frumpy" with Inga Rumph. It's kind of interesting.

Frumpy - When the gypsy was born (sung in English)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumpy

Sounds okay.

[TomSea]

Monday, March 5th, 2018 Music Thread

All music is welcomed!

Per the two websites we usually look at for birthdays, on this day in music history was the tragic plane crash

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/march/5    http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

1963, Country singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. They were travelling to Nashville after appearing at a benefit concert for the widow of Kansas City disc jockey 'Cactus' Jack Call, who had died in a car crash. On 7 March, country singer Jack Anglin was killed in a car crash on his way to Cline's funeral. Cline was the first country singer to cross over as a pop artist.
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

Then, around a year later, Jim Reeves, piloting his own plane, crashed in Tennessee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Reeves 

Ironic and sad, speaking of South Africa, Gentleman Jim Reeves was successful musically with a number of recordings in Afrikaaners language. One can look those songs up at youtube. It also sounds like those who know that language think he had quite an accent like Nat King Cole singing in Spanish.

Born this day in history:

Tommy Tucker, songwriter, performer of 'Hi-Heeled Sneakers':
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Wiki bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tucker_(singer)  <--- Tucker is "Robert Higginbotham".

Eddy Grant, 'Electric Avenue':
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Grant

Singer, Elaine Paige, UK, her rendition of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina":
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Alan Clark, keyboards for Dire Straits, 'Walk of Life':
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Teena Marie, this lady sang some with Rick James as well as having a solo career, 'It must be magic':
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Identical twins Craig and Charlie Reid for the Scottish band, The Proclaimers, they sing "I would walk 500 miles" and this one "Letter from America":
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John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Give it away":
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Murray Head, singer of "One Night In Bangkok":
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Continuing though, and this is interesting, a youtube video says he was the original Judas in the 1971 production of Jesus Christ Superstar:
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Singer Eddie Hodges, "High Hopes":
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And perhaps more to add on later.

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Paul Evans:

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Eddy Grant-Equals:

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Eddie Hodges:

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[EasyAce]

Trivia: Eddie Hodges helped make nationally famous a certain Marine pilot on the threshold of the U.S. space program . . .

Eddie Hodges and John H. Glenn, Jr., on Name That Tune

[EasyAce]

Another birthday boy today: blues legend J.B. Lenoir . . .

J.B. Lenoir, "Alabama Blues"

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J.B. Lenoir, "Born Dead"

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J.B. Lenoir, "Eisenhower Blues"

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J.B. Lenoir, "Natural Man"

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J.B. Lenoir, "Five Years"

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J.B. Lenoir, "Don't Touch My Head!!!"

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