June 2018 Music Thread

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Verne Allison-Dells:

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Bobby Harrison-Procol Harum:

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Peter Asher:

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Howard Kaylan-Turtles:

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[TomSea]

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/june/23

Some birthdays for June 23 and 24 on this day in history:

Willa Mae Ford Smith, "My Home Over There":
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June Carter, "Far Side of Jordan" with Johnny Cash:
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Niki Sullivan, one of the original Crickets, helped write some of Buddy Holly's songs including "Not Fade Away":
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Sullivan

I'm not positive here but the wiki bio says Sullivan also wore glasses, so per the picture, I think it's Niki Sullivan, Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison.  I don't think Waylon was actually one of the original Crickets. I really didn't know much about Sullivan.

Stuart Sutcliffe of Scotland, of course, he recorded with the Beatles, "My Bonnie":
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Robert Hunter, association with the Grateful Dead, "Ripple":
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Rosetta Hightower, "Every Bit Of Soul":
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Paul Goddard, ARS, Atlanta Rhythm Section, "So Into You":
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Myles Goodwyn, April Wine, "Roller", for a change, one often hears "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" on the radio:
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Glenn Danzig, Danzig, Misfits, ....

Joey Allen, Warrant, 'Heaven':
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Paul Arthurs, Oasis, 'Wonderwall':
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'D'you know what I mean':
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[pookie18]

I'm not positive here but the wiki bio says Sullivan also wore glasses, so per the picture, I think it's Niki Sullivan, Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison.  I don't think Waylon was actually one of the original Crickets. I really didn't know much about Sullivan.

From Waylon's wiki bio:

In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)". Holly hired him to play bass. In Clear Lake, Iowa. The story is told that Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger Peterson.

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Adam Faith:

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Arthur Brown:

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Jeff Beck-Yardbirds:

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Niki Sullivan-Crickets:

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[EasyAce]

Stuart Sutcliffe of Scotland, of course, he recorded with the Beatles, "My Bonnie":
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Stu Sutcliffe actually left the Beatles prior to Bert Kaempfert hiring them to back Tony Sheridan on "My Bonnie" and a few other sides; he never recorded with the Beatles while he was a member. He left to continue his art studies in Hamburg with plans also to marry his German girl friend Astrid Kircherr. (He also gave Paul McCartney his big, ponderous bass, until McCartney could acquire the left-handed Hofner that became his trademark.) It was when the Beatles returned to Hamburg in April 1962---in part to record another session with Kaempfert in return for his letting them out of a contract early so Brian Epstein could pursue recording opportunities for them on their native ground---that Kircherr greeted them at the airport with the news of Sutcliffe's death of a brain hemorrhage the day before they arrived.

[EasyAce]

Birthdays this weekend include Milt Hinton, bassist, who happened to be the house bassist at the New York club where bop was born, Minton's. (Thelonious Monk was the house pianist for those nights. The usual jamming regulars also included Kenny Clarke, the drummer who changed jazz drumming forever when he switched the timekeeping from the bass drum to the cymbal during those jams; and, before his premature death, Charlie Christian, the guitarist with Benny Goodman's organisation who loved to jam.)

Milt Hinton Trio, "Satin Doll"

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(Trivia: The pianist for that Milt Hinton Trio date was Jane Jarvis, who later became famous in New York as the house organist for the New York Mets from the opening of Shea Stadium until her departure to return to jazz piano in 1979. She died at 94 in 2010.)


. . . Phil Harris, bandleader/singer/comedian who was famous playing one of the foils on The Jack Benny Program in radio before nailing his own hit radio comedy with his wife, The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show; he had several hit records (he and Faye each sang a number on their radio show) on his own, especially . . .

Phil Harris, "The Thing"

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(Phil Harris and Alice Faye were a second marriage for each, but they ended up being one of show business's longest-lasting marriages, 54 years, ending only when Phil Harris died of a heart attack at 91 in 1995; Alice Faye died three years later.)


. . . avant garde composer/musician Terry Riley, whose pioneering minimalism sometimes took him to unusual collaborations including with the Velvet Underground's co-founder John Cale . . .

Terry Riley, "In C"

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John Cale & Terry Riley, The Church of Anthrax

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. . . Mick Fleetwood, co-founder (with Peter Green and John McVie; Green named the group after the rhythm section) of Fleetwood Mac . . .

Fleetwood Mac, "Like It This Way"

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. . . bassist John Illsley, the only member besides Mark Knopfler to ride Dire Straits all the way to the end of the band's life . . .

Dire Straits, "Tunnel of Love"

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. . . Curt Smith, bassist/synthesiser player, who was half of Tears for Fears . . .

Tears for Fears, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

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[EasyAce]

One and all welcome!


https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php

Music birthdays today include southern soul legend Eddie Floyd . . .

Eddie Floyd, "Knock on Wood"

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Eddie Floyd, "Raise Your Hand"

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. . . Harold Melvin, the longtime leader of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, even if he was never their lead singer . . .

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, "If You Don't Know Me By Now"

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. . . Clint Warwick, the original bassist for the Moody Blues (he left to be replaced by John Lodge before Days of Future Passed ushered in the "classic" Moodies era) . . .

The Moody Blues, "Go Now"

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. . . Allen Lanier, keyboards/second guitar/co-songwriting, Blue Oyster Cult . . .

Blue Oyster Cult, "She's as Beautiful as a Foot"

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. . . Carly Simon . . .

Carly Simon, "We Have No Secrets"

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. . . Ian MacDonald, reeds/flute/mellotron with King Crimson before he helped to form Foreigner . . .

King Crimson, "The Court of the Crimson King"

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King Crimson, "I Talk to the Wind"

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. . . David Paich, keyboards with Toto . . .

Toto, "Hold the Line"

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. . . George Michael, with Wham! and solo . . .

Wham!, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"

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. . . and I'd bet he'd have liked to walk back this line from that song: Wake me up before you go-go/'Cause I'm not plannin' on goin' solo . . .

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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Eddie Floyd-Falcons:

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Harold Melvin-Blue Notes:

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[WingNot]

[EasyAce]

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php

All music welcome!

Birthdays today include blues legend Big Bill Broonzy . . .

Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi River Blues

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. . . Billy Davis, Jr., vocalist with the 5th Dimension and with his wife, Marilyn McCoo . . .

Thr 5th Dimension, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"

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. . . Larry Taylor, bassist with Canned Heat . . .

Canned Heat, "Woodstock Boogie"

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Canned Heat, "On the Road Again"

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. . . Georgie Fame, British jazz/R&B star . . .

Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames, "Yeh Yeh"

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His only U.S. hit:

Georgie Fame, "The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde"

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. . . Mick Jones, guitarist/songwriter with the Clash . . .

The Clash, "The Call Up"

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The Clash, "This is Radio Clash"

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. . . Patty Smyth, successful with Scandal and on her own . . .

Scandal featuring Patty Smyth, "Warrior"

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Scandal featuring Patty Smyth, "Goodbye to You"

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. . . Terri Nunn, lead singer for Berlin . . .

Berlin, "Take My Breath Away"

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[Sighlass]

Thanks EasyAce, loved the Patty Smyth songs. She could rock.

Decided to not go super rare on you tonight. Just an old Styx 80s song... extended of course and in 320kbs quality.

Styx - Mr. Roboto (extended) 8:27 length 19.34 mb size
(3 day limit download)

https://mab.to/aMti0BJ4x

[Free Vulcan]

Just stumbled across this guy tonite. He's good. Jimmy Hendrix meets BB King meets Robert Cray.

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[Free Vulcan]

Another one. This kid can play.

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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Larry Taylor-Canned Heat:

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Billy Davis Jr.-5th Dimension:

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[EasyAce]

Decided to not go super rare on you tonight. Just an old Styx 80s song... extended of course and in 320kbs quality.

Styx - Mr. Roboto (extended) 8:27 length 19.34 mb size
(3 day limit download)

https://mab.to/aMti0BJ4x

@Sighlass
You are forgiven. Say three Hail Muddys and perform two Stations of the Cream. ;)

[EasyAce]

All music welcome!

Birthdays today include songwriting legend Doc Pomus . . .

The Drifters, "Save the Last Dance for Me"

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. . . Canadian pianist/songwriter Frank Mills . . .

Frank Mills, "Music Box Dancer"

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. . . Bruce Johnston, who joined the Beach Boys when Brian Wilson first decided to come off the road to concentrate on writing, recording, and producing, and his original road replacement Glen Campbell decided not to stay with the group, and became a figure in his own right as a songwriter and musician . . .

The Beach Boys, "Disney Girls"

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. . . country singer/songwriter Lorrie Morgan . . .

Lorrie Morgan, "He Talks to Me"

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Fun fact: Bruce Johnston was once part of a project that also included Glen Campbell and Gary Usher, who'd co-written some early Beach Boys material with Brian Wilson. Usher called the project Sagittarius, and their best-known number (Campbell sings the lead vocal here, though not in his usual style!) was a charming pastiche that sat somewhere between Wilson's originally-aborted Smile and the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever"/Sgt. Pepper work . . .

Sagittarius, "My World Fell Down"

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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Bruce Johnston-Rip Chords/Bruce & Terry/Beach Boys:

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Songwriter Doc Pomus:

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[Sighlass]

1984 Easy Listening Pop



Eric Carmen - I wanna hear it from you lips (12" Jellybean mix version)
Mp3 320 kbs
Length: 6:00 minutes
Size: 13.8 mbs

Download Link below (3 days only)

https://mab.to/zGWQ5KL6X

Let me know if you have any problems downloading. Thanks

[EasyAce]

1984 Easy Listening Pop



Eric Carmen - I wanna hear it from you lips (12" Jellybean mix version)
Mp3 320 kbs
Length: 6:00 minutes
Size: 13.8 mbs

Download Link below (3 days only)

https://mab.to/zGWQ5KL6X

Let me know if you have any problems downloading. Thanks

@Sighlass
Once upon a time Eric Carmen led a little group called the Raspberries, playing a hybrid style veering between the harmonies of the Beatles and the Hollies and the crunch of the Who and virtually inventing what came to be known as "power pop," though they were just enough ahead of their time to have only a couple of hit singles and mixed critical reviews. Which is why Carmen, who'd already had a couple of hits, could still write about the longing for a hit and get away with it (as would you if you'd written music as powerful as this) . . .

The Raspberries, "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"

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Time since has been way kinder to the Raspberries. Here, Carmen and the guys beat the Beach Boys at their own game . . .

The Raspberries, "Cruisin' Music"

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. . . about a year or so after they crafted this; musically, it's all but a mash note to the Who . . .

The Raspberries, "Ecstasy"

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[Sighlass]

Awesome @EasyAce , like Paul Harvey, you give great insight, especially knowing my limitations on music knowledge only beginning for the most part in the late 70s (and more towards 84 to be honest).

That "Overnight Sensation" was quite a well made song.

I appreciate it. Sincerely.

[EasyAce]

Awesome @EasyAce , like Paul Harvey, you give great insight, especially knowing my limitations on music knowledge only beginning for the most part in the late 70s (and more towards 84 to be honest).

That "Overnight Sensation" was quite a well made song.

I appreciate it. Sincerely.

@Sighlass
You're welcome!

I once worked as a music critic, so I had to learn a lot even as things like the Raspberries were among the musics I grew up with. (I was born in 1955.) My true music loves are the blues, jazz, and classic soul, plus the vintage rock and roll I grew up with.

I have a splendid book, Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1,001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, published in 1989. He ranked "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" number 890. This was his review of that single:

Eric Carmen wanted fame as badly as any guy who ever blow-dried his hair into a perfect bouffant, squeezed himself into nut-numbing tight pants, strapped on a guitar, and stepped to the mike to fake some Beatles harmony. Carmen wanted to have it all, which as he conceived it meant a band that rocked as tough and wild as the Who and crooned as smooth and tight as the Beach Boys, the lustful adoration of teenage nubiles, the cogent respect of rock critics, massive radio airplay, and the royalty checks that go with it.

The second Raspberries single, "Go All the Way," won over a substantial number of nubiles and programmers, and his Liverpudlian-cum-Beach Boys power pop writing and singing earned the allegiance of a coterie of critics, but not the across-the-board credibility for which he lusted . . .

. . . It turned out that Eric Carmen wanted a hit record worse than he wanted teenage lust, so he decided to tie up all his desires in one epic song, a love ode to chart success laden with radio and record industry jargon: "And if the programmer don't pull it/It's bound to get back the bullet."

The record was arranged as a pastiche of Carmen's favourites---the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Who, and especially Phil Spector, for whom Jimmy Ienner subbed with surprising adequacy. The result was a tour de force, albeit a completely derivative and opportunistic one. It was also five and a half minutes long at a time when no Top 40 stations played anything over three minutes except under duress, and determinedly mid-sixties pop in its influences, at a time when FM rock stations disdained such stuff in favour of album rock pretensions with heavier throw weight.

Carmen wanted to call it "Hit Record," but Capitol Records thought that title too assertive so they saddled him with "Overnight Sensation" and compromised on the subtitle. It almost worked: The record crawled into the Top 20 and if the song had been about half as long, or if more listeners shared Carmen's obsession with the mechanics of fame or understood his promo-man nomenclature, it could have gone all the way.  As it is, in its own way, "Overnight Sensation" remains a very fine record, the thing that still makes me forgive Carmen (at least a little bit) when he surfaces on the radio in the late eighties with one of the schlock ballads that have finally given him fame and wealth at the expense of any pretense of credibility, of course.

[EasyAce]

Anything welcome!

Birthdays today in music include Richard Rodgers, the legendary composer for the stage with lyricists Lorenz Hart and, later, Oscar Hammerstein II . . .

John Coltrane, "My Favourite Things"

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The Rivieras, "Easy to Remember"

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. . . not to mention the legendary television mini-series Victory at Sea . . .

Richard Rodgers, Victory at Sea: Symphonic Scenario; New York Philharmonic, Richard Rodgers, conductor

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. . . blues legend David (Honeyboy) Edwards . . .

Honeyboy Edwards, "Gamblin' Man"

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. . . David Knights, bassist for Procol Harum from 1967-70 . . .

Procol Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale"

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Procol Harum, "Homburg"

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Procol Harum, "In Held 'Twas in I"

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[Sighlass]

Laura Branigan - Spanish Eddie (Extended Vocal Remix)

Mp3 320kbs
Length: 5:29
Source: Vinyl 12"
Size: 12:55 MB

Download below (3 days only)

https://mab.to/IIMVRkWIv

[EasyAce]

Anything and everything welcome!

Birthdays today include Leroy Anderson, whose best-known composition became the theme music for a legendary television movie show in this version . . .

Percy Faith & His Orchestra, "The Syncopated Clock"

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. . . Johnnie Richardson of R&B duo Johnnie & Joe . . .

Johnnie & Joe, "My Baby's Gone, On, On"

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. . . Leonard Lee of R&B duo Shirley & Lee . . .

Shirley & Lee, "Let the Good Times Roll"

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. . . Roger Ruskin Spear, saxophonist with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (later shortened to just the Bonzo Dog Band) . . .

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "The Intro and the Outro"

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. . . singer Little Eva . . .

Little Eva, "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby"

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. . . Bill Kirchen, lead guitarist with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen . . .

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, "Hot Rod Lincoln"

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. . . Ian Paice, the longtime drummer for Deep Purple . . .

Deep Purple, "Hush"

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. . . Colin Hay, lead singer for Men at Work . . .

Men at Work, "Down Under"

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