http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-rIMBP4Fo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwEYye4_6w
Basically this I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXrI4CYQnkQ
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/img_3174.jpg)
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/img_3174.jpg)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-m1sPgLFo
Birthday related...
Lois Armstrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgce0bg3LDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHkOzVggtI
Member of the McCoys, Edgar Winter band and performer as a solo artist, Rick Derringer;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4HRPJoLbg
The original:The best cover, when Jeff Beck was a member of the group . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0hHm-ckQw
Brazilian Airto Moreira, he's played with an array of known musicians, usually playing Jazz.He played on this Bitches Brew track . . .
. . . Played on Santana's "Borboletta", fine percussion and with Miles Davis as well; apparently on the "Brew" album.
The Foundations were British; I once bought a British invasion disk and they were on it. One would have figured, it was just American soul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundations
Last year, when Alice Cooper performed in Tallahassee, I talked to the macabre musician and he told me about meeting Crazy Karate Elvis. It happened during the King’s early tenure in Las Vegas. Elvis summoned Alice — along with Chubby Checker and Linda Lovelace, of all people — to his suite at the Hilton Hotel for a meeting with the Memphis Mafia.
“Elvis comes in and this is not Fat Elvis,” Alice said. “This is Rock ‘n’ Roll Best Elvis. Black Leather Elvis. And he comes in and meets everybody and he goes, ‘Hey, man, you’re the cat with the snake, ain’t cha?’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ And he goes, ‘I love the makeup, man, that thing you do is so cool and you cut your head off and all that stuff, I really dig it, man.”
Elvis quickly pulled Alice aside and took him into the suite’s spacious kitchen.
“He opens up a kitchen drawer and hands me a loaded Smith & Wesson .38,” Alice said. “He said, ‘I’m going to show you how to take this gun out of someone’s hand.’ And I go, ‘OK.’ So immediately, I open it to take the bullets out and he said, ‘No, no, leave ‘em in. It’s all right.’”
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/entertainment/columnists/hinson/2017/08/05/hinson-years-since-elvis-left-graceland/104316136/
Mike Elliott & some of the others were born in Jamaica...which at some point was called Jamaica, BWI (British West Indies). For the most part, I was raised by a couple from Jamaica...
@pookie18
That's interesting, in college, I was friends with two fellows from Jamaica, brothers, they were of mixed heritage though you might notice it in only one of them and there were mannerisms were very British. From what I know, they were pretty straight as well.
1925, Born on this day, Felice Bryant, songwriter with her husband Boudleaux. Wrote Everly Brothers hits, 'All I Have To Do Is Dream', 'Bye Bye Love', 'Wake Up Little Susie' and 'Raining In My Heart' a hit for Buddy Holly. Felice died on April 22nd 2003.
Birthday related (cont.)
Kerry Chater-Gary Puckett & The Union Gap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1CLjF8Q8xo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xw3pjpRpig
You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" is a 1981 single from the film Any Which Way You Can, performed by David Frizzell and Shelly West. It was written by Larry Collins and Sandy Pinkard (of Pinkard & Bowden). The song was Shelly West's debut on the country chart and David Frizzell's second hit on the country chart. "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma", was the most successful of seven country hits by the duo, staying number one on the country chart for one week and eleven weeks in the Top 40 country chart.[1]I never knew this, it doesn't seem obvious to me though I can hear it.
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, the writers of the song "Rocky Top", sued Collins and Pinkard for copyright infringement concerning this song, because the tune was similar to their song "Rocky Top."[2] They won the lawsuit and are now often credited as having co-written the song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_the_Reason_God_Made_Oklahoma
Cathy's Clown" was inspired by Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite.[5] It was a major influence on the Beatles, who — having "once toyed with calling themselves The Foreverly Brothers" — three years later re-created the song's vocal arrangement in their first U.S. single, "Please Please Me".[5][6]
"Cathy's Clown" is mentioned in the opening line of Elliott Smith's song "Waltz 2 (XO)", the title track of his 1998 album XO.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%27s_Clown
Covers flatter the original artists.In too many cases, you mean covers batter the original artists . . .
. . . if the Everlys had not been around, would the Beatles? At the least, would they have had that same sound.The Beatles probably would have been around even without the Everly Brothers' influence; they didn't have a single
The Beatles probably would have been around even without the Everly Brothers' influence; they didn't have a single
influence on what they did. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison often cited Elvis Presley as their
first influence*, but they were also influenced by the rhythm and blues harmony groups of the late 1950s, the earliest
Motown records, the blues, Carl Perkins (George Harrison in particular was influenced by him), Little Richard, Buddy
Holly & the Crickets (his occasional overdubbed harmonies had as much influence on the young Beatles as his song-
writing and his overall sound, not to mention his name---it was that name which prodded them to think of an insect
name for their own group), and the girl groups whose songs were provided by the Brill Building teams such as Gerry
Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, etc. (You may recall the Beatles covering a few girl-group
numbers on their earliest albums, not to mention them doing a pretty crunchy version of "Keep Your Hands Off My
Baby," Little Eva's not-as-successful followup to "The Loco-Motion.")
(* Alas, when the Beatles got to meet Elvis in southern California during their mammoth 1965 U.S. tour, the meeting
went anything but swimmingly, considering Elvis treated the idea like a child having to be forced to take his medicine
---with or without a little help from Col. Tom Parker, Elvis considered the Beatles interlopers . . . especially when,
after they did meet at the house Elvis rented while making a film, they stared awkwardly at each other until someone
suggested they jam together. After that, Elvis rather formally told them how much he liked their music---he was lying
through his teeth---and John Lennon frankly told him, "Why don't you go back to your old sound, it was the best
sound you ever had?" The Beatles got further onto Elvis's bad side when, after Elvis turned down their invitation to
come to their Hollywood Bowl concert the following evening, they turned to Elvis's "Memphis Mafia" contingent and
said, "You guys are welcome with or without him." The Memphis Mafia boys took the Beatles up on the offer and had
a grand time with the British quartet, and it was said Elvis hit the ceiling over it hard enough that the Memphis Mafiosi
had to turn down the Beatles' invitation to join up for the second of the two Bowl shows that summer.
John Lennon was later quoted as saying, dripping with sarcasm, "We only ever wanted to meet one person in America,
not that he wanted to meet us . . . the only one we wanted to meet was Elvis Presley. I can't tell you what a thrill
that was!" And, in his final interview before his murder, Lennon told Playboy, when asked what he felt when
Elvis died, knowing Elvis's early influence on the Beatles-to-be, "Elvis died the day he went in the Army.")
Two voices the Beatles envied
By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor
Updated 8:18 AM ET, Sun January 12, 2014
Paul McCartney said that he and John Lennon used to pretend they were the Everly Brothers: "When John and I first started to write songs, I was Phil and he was Don. Years later when I finally met Phil, I was completely starstruck and at the same time extremely impressed by his humility and gentleness of soul."
Continued: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/12/opinion/greene-everly-brothers/index.html
No influence, right.That's not what I said. I said the Beatles would likely have been around even without the
Beatles harmonies sound a lot like the Everly's, as they say "Please Please Me" may even be largely taking from "Cathy's Clown"."Please Please Me" was just as influenced by Roy Orbison---Paul McCartney talked about that in The Beatles'
& there's quite a bit of influence of He's So Fine, by The Chiffons, in George Harrison's My Sweet Lord ;-)The irony: Harrison ended up owning the publisher of "He's So Fine," several years after the litigation
The irony: Harrison ended up owning the publisher of "He's So Fine," several years after the litigation
involving "My Sweet Lord." Which isn't half as funny as John Fogerty getting sued for plagiarising his
own song (he was sued over "The Old Man Down the Road's" using a swamp-blues lick similar
to the one he used in "Run Through the Jungle," long after he lost his rights to his Creedence Clearwater
Revival songs, after he zapped his enemy Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz in "Zanz Kant Danz"---but
Fogerty prevailed in that suit).
I have to admit: I like "My Sweet Lord" far more than "He's So Fine" . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Ym0My5lQY
I have to admit that I prefer He's So Fine...since it gets me to bang on my steering wheel during the 2 short drum solos...You can have it, kiddo. I've been doo-lang/doo-langed to death! ;)
You can have it, kiddo. I've been doo-lang/doo-langed to death! ;)
Didja know this?Yes I did.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dulang (of course, it's 60s)
Yes I did.
Unfortunately, that isn't how I got doo-langed to death. ;)
Yes I did.Maybe, but with my luck I'll be reincarnated as the grandson of Lurch. ;)
Unfortunately, that isn't how I got doo-langed to death. ;)
Maybe, but with my luck I'll be reincarnated as the grandson of Lurch. ;)
I get it...you-rang, you-rang, you-rang...(http://www.mylespaul.com/media/mork.100640/full?d=1500007544)
(http://www.mylespaul.com/media/mork.100640/full?d=1500007544)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyrWN-fftE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pDo4RC__6w
The harmonies sound very much like the Everlys who were about the only ones who sang like that. And that is a lot of what the early Beatles were all about, they just took it to another level.They took every one of their influences and mixed them into something that came out their own. About the only British Invasion
One can talk about the Beatles influences, Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, but if you listen to a lot of their early songs, I don't hear any of those people, I do hear things that sound reminiscent of the Everlys.I happen to love the Everly Brothers, but the Everlys never rocked that hard, either as hard as "Can't Buy Me Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPYx0dZLkI
I happen to love the Everly Brothers, but the Everlys never rocked that hard, either as hard as "Can't Buy Me Love"
or its flip side . . .
(Scroll to 1:15 to hear a version live at the BBC that's almost as crunchy as the single . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0896vcCXnOg
Buddy Holly might have performed "Not fade away" as a hard rock but the studio version isn't that way, his "down the line" is quite rocking though most of his recorded hits might not be called hard rock, nonetheless, he's acknowledged as an influence on the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Hollies of course as well.I always rub my eyes over how subsequent generations defined "hard" rock. In Buddy Holly's day he was considered
Great covers, since most performers don't write their own music, when is it a cover? Only if someone else did the original? What about Shake Rattle and Roll or Hound Dog? Those were sung by others before being a hit.I think if you're talking about a song written by someone who didn't perform, then whoever performed/
What Beatles or Rolling Stones songs have that many covers? . . . I'm not sure if any Lennon McCartney song is covered so often; sure, you can point to them writing some song that Chad and Jeremy recorded and things like that, it's not the same thing.Oh, dear. Let's begin by reminding one and all that Chad & Jeremy never put a cover of a Beatles' song on the charts, nor did
Before the PC police come,
Birthday related, Willie Hall of the Blues Brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSF9QT4jmsQ
& the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0UvIZw-Y0
& I'm sure the Blues Brothers widened the appreciation of the song greatly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnaSRhMB_qo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAG8iD-XS44&index=15&list=PLWIlaLbHf7DhGdsSlAZeBFFdpVGHtEbEw
Many recorded "by the time I get to Phoenix" after Glenn Campbell, it became a bit of a standard. I always liked this version.That's my favourite version of that song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bbdJSW3pvM
On Glenn Campbell, Johnny Rivers recorded "By the time I get to Phoenix" in 1965, so his version actually pre-dates Glenn's. Glenn Campbell on some of those songs, that one, "Wichita Lineman" etc. had such great production. I think that is part of the success of those songs. You can look up Glenn's autobiography, he spent some formative years in Albuquerque.Glen Campbell had an indispensable partner for the hits that finally made him a star: Al DeLory, who arranged
Some fiddle from an unusual but talented source.@corbe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNjJXyyem0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNjJXyyem0)
I'm back
Fiddle indeed redefined, Great, I remember Hot Tuna @EasyAce@corbe
Other birthdays, Dan Fogelberg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAxWtcfDUk
His big hit that I know of.
Tony Santini of Sha Na Na:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1KWWQQXP5A
Some birthdays today, bassist for Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and this group, Tim Bogert has a birthday today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYgFK1CnCdE
Billboard's top 10 songs written by Jimmy Webbhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9MrHX14HN8
01. MacArthur Park – Donna Summer, 1978
02. Wichita Lineman – Glen Campbell, 1969
03. MacArthur Park – Richard Harris, 1968
04. Worst That Could Happen – Brooklyn Bridge, 1969
05. Galveston – Glen Campbell, 1969
06. Up, Up And Away – The Fifth Dimension, 1967
07. All I Know – Art Garfunkel, 1973
08. Honey Come Back – Glen Campbell, 1970
09. By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Glen Campbell, 1967
10. Where's The Playground Susie – Glen Campbell, 1969
https://www.jimmywebb.com/the-songs/
1896, Born on this day, Leon Theremin, Russian inventor. Most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He first performed the theremin with the New York Philharmonic in 1928. He died on 3rd November 1993.
1. “That’s All Right” (1954)
2. “Mystery Train” (1955)
3. “Hound Dog” (1956)
4. “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
5. “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
6. “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
7. “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (1954)
8. “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1954)
9. “Blue Moon” (1956)
10. “Stranger in My Own Hometown” (1969)
It doesn't seem as obscure as one might think. Looks like Jimmy Page and a number of others have played this instrument. You learn something new every day.Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys included it on a couple of their songs during the period of Pet Sounds and Smile . . .
My 2nd favorite Hollie song behind Long Cool Women:My second favourite Hollies song behind "Bus Stop" . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It75wQ0JypA&list=PLI_C63jCHSeTUN68-VOxO-bFiW4mdEsXz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It75wQ0JypA&list=PLI_C63jCHSeTUN68-VOxO-bFiW4mdEsXz)
Come in
Well, well, well, look who's here
I haven't seen you in many a year
If I knew you were comin' I'd've baked a cake
baked a cake, baked a cake
If I knew you were comin' I'd've baked a cake
Howd-ya do, howd-ya do, howd-ya do
Had you dropped me a letter, I'd a-hired a band
Grandest band in the land
Had you dropped me a letter, I'd a-hired a band
And spread the welcome mat for you
Oh, I don't know where you came from
'cause I don't know where you've been
But it really doesn't matter
Grab a chair and fill your platter
And dig, dig, dig right in
August 16, 1977 is the date Elvis passed away.
August 17: Miles Davis Released the Masterpiece “Kind of Blue” in 1959http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfFhfSuUZ4
Posted on August 17, 2017 by Egil Mosbron
http://borntolisten.com/2017/08/17/august-17-miles-davis-released-the-masterpiece-kind-of-blue-in-1959/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/17/johnny-cashs-family-condemn-white-supremacist-cash-t-shirt-charlottesville/
Johnny Cash's family condemn white supremacist who wore a Cash t-shirt at Charlottesville
Harriet Alexander, New York
17 August 2017 • 5:51pm
The family of Johnny Cash have condemned a Charlottesville white supremacist who was a t-shirt bearing the singer's face, saying he would have been horrified.
"We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred and bile," the family said, in a statement posted on Rosanne Cash's Facebook page.
(http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/73/149373-004-0D5DEB39.jpg)@TomSea
1962, Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the horticultural society Dance, Birkenhead, England, having had a two-hour rehearsal in preparation. This was the first appearance of The Beatles as the world would come to know them: John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLl1eDAWMeA
It has to be one of my favorite doo wop songs and is not that well known. I do believe this was posted before on one of the birthdays.
On the topic of that movie "Bronx Tale", they also had this song on the soundtrack. I usually go with the original record version but they are so excellent here, I'll go with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNZpJSvp2s
Original or live, another good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQYNg_EKUY
Is it a bit like "Angel Baby" which Kathy Young also sings ? Though of course, Rosie and the originals did the original. Sometimes I wonder. To me, not too similar. Ballads?
"Gentleman" Jim Reeves was born on this day in history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smlaq1ezQRM
Kenny Rogers was also in the New (Christy) Minstrels, even before the New Edition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9__0-8eXQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Christy_Minstrels
A folk ensemble, Barry McGuire, Gene Clark and Kim Carnes have also been in the group.
They toured our town once which was generally off-the-beaten-track. We'd get a few acts.
The Minstrels song "Green Green" is played with some regularity on some radio stations playing past hits.
It might not be difficult to see why the NCM were not big chart toppers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiboOcF4flc
*****rollingeyes*****
Great SRV Tune @catfish1957Here's the original @corbe :
Billy Jack: You know what I think I'm gonna do then? Just for the hell of it?
Mr. Posner: Tell me.
Billy Jack: I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face...
[points to Posner's right cheek]
See link for the remainder: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/quotes
Any songs of inspiration, any genre, welcome too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVSfF_q4Otg
Of all things, our high school had in their magazine section, Downbeat magazine. It gave me a clue as to whom one might try to listen to. It's still around, the last I knew. They had articles and readers polls on Weather Report and other bands.@TomSea
(http://www.tilleysvintagemagazines.com/gallery/b4bf7700fb11c2975e95ea9eb4cfda3e.JPG)
Birthday related...
Michael Jackson:
I bought his album, adore the "Sentimental Lady" song... he played with Fleetwood Mac, I believe his life ended tragically, nonetheless, Bob Welch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85LSmnSFe1A