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Thursday, February 1st 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today) https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/1 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/1)
Harry Styles, One Direction has a birthday today, he really does look the way Jagger use to look in the days of the early Rolling Stones when he is up there, otherwise, a few other birthdays today:
Dennis Brown, reggae singer, had a crossover hit with "Money In My Pocket".
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ultwo-qSbfQ#)
Don Everly, (Everly Bros. - Crying in the rain) sort of going outside their best known hits though this one is up there:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qox-X5zr0lM#)
Mike Campbell, with Tom Petty and the heartbreakers, again, a deep album cut, "King's Highway":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=L6sXM6SIaKE#)
I thought this was from the "Straight out of darkness" red album. Maybe this is from the compilation.
From Buffalo New York, Rick James, really seemed like a wild man. Wasn't it Rick James and the Mary Jane girls or something? (Island Lady), obviously, "Superfreak" must be his signature song.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aewtVSxBVEU#)
Doctor Hook with Sam Cooke's "Only Sixteen" and "Sylvia's Mother", maybe my favorite from them, they were more than "On the cover of the Rolling Stone":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQNes_mq8I#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPrixYOTNHw#)
Bob Shane, Kingston Trio (Scarlet Ribbons):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOS2QzxhNf4#)
Normie Rowe, Australia, had a hit down there with "Que Sera, Sera":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4yl4Qwy-o#)
And lastly, Mike Brant, Israeli, singer had a successful career after moving to France. He seemed to have emotional problems and jumped to his death. It may not have been his first attempt, see bio. Sad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Brant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Brant)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0YreyIc2cY#)
A lot of youtube hits for only being up there for a few months.
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Good ole fashioned music :)
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Birthday related...
Bob Shane-Kingston Trio:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FueL6yMnoYo#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wY_SpT50X0#)
Don Everly:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFD1tFhsYyk#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4IVcBB-r4#)
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Late 1960s: Wakes in Stephen Stills’ apartment to find a bleeding Jim Morrison seated before him.
1969: Misses out on a chance to be in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — is given cocaine instead.
Aug. 8, 1969: Because of a hangover, skips a party at Sharon Tate’s house — and avoids being killed by Charles Manson’s followers.
https://nypost.com/2014/07/05/rick-james-reveled-in-super-freaky-autobiography-i-was-caligula/
Rick James' interesting life, he knew Neil Young in Canada and other interesting details.
Graham Nash is mentioned in the article, Graham is a b-day boy for tomorrow.
Might have been nice, if Rick James had maybe gone in another direction.
Even his songs, I hesitated posting, seems those are even R-rated.
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Friday, February 2nd, 2018 Music Thread - All Music Is Welcomed...
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/2 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/2)
On a carousel, it's Graham Nash's birthday,
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-EKGsrq39E#)
And with "Immigration Man":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uKlRPaQmbM#)
And beaucoup other good songs.
In spite, of Graham and that whole cabal probably being rather progressive in their political expression. As one of their songs goes "A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes"... I remember that.
Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers, "Let your love flow":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Bl_VQ2inM#)
Tom Triplehorn, Gary Lewis and the Playboys (This diamond ring):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKTOizdhan8#)
Derek Shulman, Gentle Giant, progressive rock, "Advent of Panurge":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FLZXEN4H1E#)
Eva Cassidy, "At last":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=lI8SLLYUkCU#)
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Birthday related...
Stan Getz:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrJ5mcCshw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNQQb71w8UE#)
Alan Caddy-Tornadoes:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9B_a0ct-DM#)
Graham Nash:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wTdNKzbP8#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYq9RjdYYU#)
Ronnie Goodson:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMww9PvE6M#)
Peter Lucia-Tommy James & Shondells:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeGmP0E5bHE#)
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Happy birthday in music heaven, Stan Getz . . .
Stan Getz, "I'm Late, I'm Late"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyrdlUcZIw#)
Stan Getz and Laurindo Almeida, "Menina Moca (Young Lady)"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCBRd0974Ek#)
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, "One Note Samba"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-vlX8uRLMQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vFzFQrF_FA#)
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RIP Dennis Edwards:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/temptations-lead-singer-dennis-edwards-dead-at-74-w516296 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/temptations-lead-singer-dennis-edwards-dead-at-74-w516296)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrpzPR6TLY#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UhOwfUAMA#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8wiGInALs#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJ3ZYWRh24#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HX1aag9JM#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPXfwgKd208#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtQu2qATIlo#)
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Meant to include these above. Sorry bout that. Done for the night.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if4bFcY4ydc&index=73&list=FLLb6P6AQcE3lZv6RPWLY2Ww#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7TLnRThxL0&index=60&list=FLLb6P6AQcE3lZv6RPWLY2Ww#)
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SB Weekend edition, Feb. 3-4, 2018 Music Thread....
It's the weekend, I don't think we have to wait "till the midnight hour".
This just means Saturday and Sunday are one thread... and all music is welcomed, checking out a few birthdays, for Saturday which by the way, Feb. 3rd is also the date where Buddy Holly, JP Richardson and Richie Valens were taken from us in that airplane tragedy.
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/3 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/3)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
First off, Feb. 3rd is the birthday of Dennis Edwards of the Temptations who, indeed, has just passed on (thanks @pookie18 for relaying this info). Lead singer, Rest In Peace:
http://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/former-lead-singer-legendary-temptations-dennis-edwards-dead/0CdI5aitjnQjXslIFMSn3I/ (http://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/former-lead-singer-legendary-temptations-dennis-edwards-dead/0CdI5aitjnQjXslIFMSn3I/)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDakhsaPTE0#)
Frankie Vaughan, "Green Door" fame:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCRvtAdVk6w#)
Johnny Guitar Watson, "Space Guitar"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQS7SOdt0T0#)
Eric Haydock, bassist, the Hollies (He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tph_hslmhaM#)
Neil Diamond's version:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTwf1nDAGYI#)
Johnny Cymbal, "Mr. Bassman":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZr8iReEqMQ#)
Dave Davies, Kinks, his guitar on "You Really Got Me" makes the song almost as much his as that of his brother who wrote it, I wince when I hear Van Halen's version on the radio, it seems to short-change the Kinks. Dave did write a number of their songs including "Death of a clown" on Something Else:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ZBDtsVDbQ#)
Melanie (Safka), everyone knows "Brand New Key" but I actually think "Lay down, lay down (candles in the rain)" is pretty decent.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gixuWS0bb3Q#)
Other birthdays, Feb. 4 in later posts.
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Birthdays this weekend include Felix Mendelssohn . . .
Isaac Stern, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBh72Pn_bTs#)
. . . bluesman Jesse Thomas . . .
Jesse Thomas, "Blue Goose Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Qlv5p6Vo#)
. . . British blues legend Stan Webb (Chicken Shack) . . .
Chicken Shack, "The Way It Is"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgCA-agQwM#)
. . . Arthur Kane, bassist for the New York Dolls . . .
The New York Dolls, "Subway Train"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-K4FPGdXbE#)
. . . Paul Burlison, guitar legend with the Rock 'n' Roll Trio . . .
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, "The Train Kept A-Rollin'"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQEGoSSya8s#)
. . . John Steel, the original drummer for the Animals . . .
The Animals, "It's My Life"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IOOEKMfekM#)
. . . Florence LaRue Gordon, singer with the 5th Dimension . . .
The 5th Dimension, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwIed1bp8y0#)
. . . Alice Cooper . . .
Alice Cooper, "Devil's Food"/"The Black Widow"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4tc0aHlI8#)
. . . sisters Marge and Mary Ann Ganser of the Shangri-Las . . .
The Shangri-Las, "I Can Never Go Home Anymore"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdr-MslXkw#)
. . . James Dunn, one of the Stylistics . . .
The Stylistics, "You Are Everything"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckWTYFK-66Y#)
. . . Jerry Shirley, drummer for Humble Pie . . .
Humble Pie, "I'm Ready"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZrpo_oxUo#)
. . . Kimberly Wyatt, singer with the Pussycat Dolls . . .
The Pussycat Dolls, "Sway"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlcaEDkPl0#)
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Weekend birthday related...
Johnny Cymbal aka Derek:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FTpaYP0vQ#)
John Steel-Animals:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaxSUhG5GSY#)
John Gambale-Classics:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoasIFy09n8#)
Florence LaRue-Fifth Dimension:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkhbQLTatY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i63nEdktFlU#)
Marge & Mary Ann Ganser-Shangri-Las:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1MC15novMc#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95BaIkhhgOc#)
A cleaner version...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u_RuUlLZvs#)
Johnny "Guitar" Watson:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupnsT6UQ_k#)
Dave Davies-Kinks:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzSWZln8wxI#)
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Maybe the single most haunting record the Shangri-Las ever made, though other than the girls' unison whispers of each part of the title
it's a kind of harrowing street poem recited by Mary Weiss . . .
The Shangri-Las, "Past, Present, and Future"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQSGMr5h-4#)
They were two sets of sisters: the Ganser sisters were identical twins; Mary (the usual lead singer) and Betty Weiss were two years apart, with Betty
Weiss leaving the group when she married and gave birth in late 1964. "Past, Present and Future" was eventually covered by former ABBA singer
Agnetha Faltskog. The Shangri-Las let their street-smart image serve as a shield against unwanted advances from male musicians they toured with;
they broke up in 1968 after having seen precious little royalties from their hits, reunited in the mid-1970s and recorded an unreleased album, then
broke up again after refusing to surrender to demands they go disco. They reunited one more time as a trio (Mary Ann Ganser died of a heroin
overdose in 1970 at age 22) for a 1989 show hosted by radio legend Cousin Brucie and disbanded. Marge Ganser married happily but died of breast
cancer in 1996; the Weiss sisters are still alive, with Mary Weiss (the lone blonde among three brunettes, if you're scoring at home) coming out of
music retirement to record an album, Dangerous Game, in 2007.
To this day Mary Weiss denies "Past, Present & Future" was about a rape victim, the supposition that kept the record from getting airplay when it
was issued in 1966. Before the collapse of their label Red Bird, the girls also recorded one of the earliest songs tied to the Vietnam War . . .
The Shangri-Las, "Long Live Our Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-FDgMpAHc#)
Those who like the group should probably hunt down Myrmidons of Melodrama, an import that's probably the most defintive anthology
of their work.
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/114/MI0002114154.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Left to right on the cover image: Marge Ganser, Betty Weiss, Mary Ann Ganser, Mary Weiss.
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(http://www.johncoxart.com/kwood-RamaLLama.jpg)
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I always thought that "Billion dollar baby" by Alice Cooper was great, he certainly turned on a lot of teen ears back in the days, others had their own personal favorites.
Great opening:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_qtQ52eFB0#)
Also, excellent:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgD_tecTGg#)
He has an extensive discography including Christian themes which folks rated high as well.
"When Alice Met Elvis" (repeat)
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/08/11/when-alice-met-elvis/88559730/ (http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/08/11/when-alice-met-elvis/88559730/)
"You're the guy with the snake who gets his head cut off, cool".
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Ultimate Classic Rock, ranking the Alice Cooper albums:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/alice-cooper-albums-ranked/ (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/alice-cooper-albums-ranked/)
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More b-days, Clint Black, Long Branch, NJ, here he sings with Roy Rogers:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSQvnyxUNs#)
Had a few charting hits.
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I never knew Cinnamon was by Johnny Cymbal, the stuff you learn with this thread.
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I never knew Cinnamon was by Johnny Cymbal, the stuff you learn with this thread.
& Cymbal's bass man on his "Mr. Bass Man" was Ronnie Bright:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Bright
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Monday February 5, 2018 Music Thread
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Birthdays today,
Cory Wells (Emil Lewandowski) of 3 dog night, "Easy to be hard":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIffz-72B8Y#)
Al Kooper, Blood, Sweet and Tears, "You made me so very happy":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKuqaZ0DQtk#)
Also, it is the birthday of trumpet player for BST, Chuck Winfield.
Alex Harvey, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, "Delilah":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmGYDH0zXNQ#)
Barret Strong "Money":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34DrrPI#)
And then, members of the following two well-known rock acts:
Nigel Olson, drummer, Elton John (Levon)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY1bN37ag2c#)
David Denny, guitarist, Steve Miller band (Jet Airliner)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlFXhigvTvM#)
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Birthday related...
Claude King:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gytzqOooE3Y#)
& the answer...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNHJP_TiNTQ#)
Larry Tamblyn-Standells
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkDmRTPXuCo#)
J.R. Cobb-Classics IV:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzs6GhmYzT0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5gtVoA2upU#)
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I think that's David Clayton-Thomas, not Al Kooper, on "You Make Me So Very Happy".
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https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
All music is welcomed, checking some birthdays, it's Bob Marley's birthday:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcY-7WmQ6I#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaEjIFDACc#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eksV02us5DQ#)
And Fabian's:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdaZ7N-W9vw#)
Kate McGarrigle, "Naufraugee au Tendre (Shipwrecked), she was married to Loudon Wainwright at one time:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ju90BsMl-8#)
Richie Hayward of Little Feat, founding member:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAst-RO5XIs#)
Natalie Cole, "Unforgettable":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBz4AUIcbcg#)
Axl Rose, "Sweet Child O' Mine":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7OgIMMRc4#)
Rick Astley, "Never Gonna Give you up":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs#)
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Birthday related...
Bass singer-Thurl Ravenscroft:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrnPsisqIc#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_0uVGtSGp4#)
Fabian:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOHoNBBwegQ#)
Georgeanna Tillman-Marvelettes:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ur6jVfmARU#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfl7tNE6HxA#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjcQQchBJts#)
Peter Lucia-Tommy James & The Shondells:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHYU682kJ4#)
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An amazing, posthumous experiment with Bob Marley's music . . .
Bob Marley, Dreams of Freedom: Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hi1NII0RwI#)
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Birthday related:
That song, "The Crying Game" by Dave Berry, it was a good movie, a few versions around. I like Berry's version the best. Must have been more of a hit over there.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c9W2-uGvQQ#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkctpNfY9WY#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQb78o29xE#)
Those Marvelletes were really good Pookie18.
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g21umxM8MA#)
Well known American song,
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgaZZl_GVg#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY0s2FhrU50#)
This is all probably a repeat.
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http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
All music is welcomed, checking a few birthdays:
King Curtis, "Soul Twist":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRC3-j748oQ#)
Sax in "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfDYssJMqs#)
King is somewhat heralded actually, in the development of rock and roll.
Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Curtis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Curtis)
Earl King, he wrote a song "Come Let The Good Times Roll" but it is not the Shirley and Lee song which is fabulous. King played with some New Orleans heavyweight, Shirley and Lee were from there as well.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guCxIT1Vhwk#)
Oscar Brand, "Wake Island" and others:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvkdKinM4-0#)
Allen Lancaster, bass, Status Quo, "Matchstick Men" though I have heard other good numbers by this group, quite popular in the UK:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQyB5buEV5s#)
Steve Bronski, Bronski Beat, "Smalltown Boy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOkOK8afLHI#)
Garth Brooks, "Thunder Rolls"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdsJI8Wc2D4#)
Maybe some more later, that country website lists California time, so I hope I can always check it later.
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Being a Southern Boy I'm gonna share a few Americana Videos of 'riding' in the South for you Yankees, with all due Respect...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOAblsBaVE#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAXNlOwleU#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ-p9KrjvcU#)
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Birthdays today include ragtime/jazz/Broadway legend Eubie Blake . . .
Eubie Blake, "Memories of You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0mjGMqfRkM#)
. . . Jimmy Greenspoon, organist for Three Dog Night's band . . .
Three Dog Night, "Easy to Be Hard"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIffz-72B8Y#)
. . . Mark St. John, who replaced Vinnie Vincent in Kiss and recorded one album with them before he was struck with arthritis and left the band (he died of a brain hemorrhage in 2007) . . .
Kiss, "Heaven's on Fire"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lat7m_LIAl8#)
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Born this day in 1804... Mr. John Deere.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gSJtYae8bQ#)
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Being a Southern Boy I'm gonna share a few Americana Videos of 'riding' in the South for you Yankees, with all due Respect...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOAblsBaVE#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAXNlOwleU#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ-p9KrjvcU#)
Or some of this @corbe
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GtqD7WH5AM#)
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Sir Douglas Quintet, "She's About a Mover"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHF2LHtHt78#)
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@corbe
Last week, you posted your invective towards Arkansas and Oklahoma. Now, I guess this is okay, but you have new enemies, please, don't be a coward and just blanket put down people. By the way, I see through your rude bs, if you are talking about certain people here, say it or be seen as trying to pull this bullying for some reason.
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@corbe
Last week, you posted your invective towards Arkansas and Oklahoma. Now, I guess this is okay, but you have new enemies, please, don't be a coward and just blanket put down people. By the way, I see through your rude bs, if you are talking about certain people here, say it or be seen as trying to pull this bullying for some reason.
@TomSea I have no problem with ANYone from ANY State! All that I say here is in jest/fun. We are all Adults here and if you see me as spouting Rude BS it is a characterization that you have of me that you feel must be reinforced. Life is way to short for Hate Tom and I will reaffirm that I have none to give to anyone.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDU17xqNXo#)
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Here's a song for you bullies by Aaron Tippin, I don't think we'd have to ask this Floridian about Southern Hospitality, some blow hards might forget it.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-Qk07KxA#)
Now Daddy didn't like trouble, but if it came along
Everyone that knew him knew which side that he'd be on
He never was a hero, or this county's shinin' light
But you could always find him standing up
For what he thought was right
He'd say you've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man not a puppet on a string
Never compromise what's right and uphold your family name
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
Now we might have been better off or owned a bigger house
If Daddy had done more givin' in or a little more backing down
But we always had plenty just living his advice
Whatever you do today you'll have to sleep with tonight
He'd say you've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man not a puppet on a string
Never compromise what's right and uphold your family name
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
Now I know that things are different than they were in Daddy's days
But I still believe what makes a man really hasn't changed
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man not a puppet on a string
Never compromise what's right and uphold your family name
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
Songwriters: AARON TIPPIN, WILLIAM BROCK, WILLIAM CALHOUN JR. BROCK
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: LyricFind
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Lighten up, you all . . .
Buchanan & Goodman, "Banana Boat Story"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO76kMfoVbs#)
Buchanan & Goodman, "Buchanan & Goodman On Trial"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yODRwo5T3g#)
Dickie Goodman, "The Touchables"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T31TgoT__E8#)
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My bad @EasyAce and @sneakypete this should have been handled in PM not in Thread and the mistake won't be repeated.
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My bad @EasyAce and @sneakypete this should have been handled in PM not in Thread and the mistake won't be repeated.
@corbe
You're still aces (pardon the expression) in my book.
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@corbe
You're still aces (pardon the expression) in my book.
@EasyAce @corbe
No problems with me,either.
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Music Thread - Thursday, February 8, 2018 All Music Is Welcomed
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php) , the other website just went down, I did look at it earlier.
Some birthdays,
Ray Sharpe, who penned "Linda Lu", apparently covered by a number of notables:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdtHl_MtLD4#)
Mexican drummer, Fito de la Parra of Canned Heat:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H0-Ype7xiw#)
Dan Seals, of Seals and Croft, solo:
Hummingbird:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysxCBOIa9U#)
Cross-over country with "Bop":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2nGBvrbK8o#)
John Williams, composer of movie themes such as "Jaws", "Harry Potter" and so forth:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-sX2Y0W8l0#)
Tom Rush, "The circle game":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dURdp9tXa6k#)
Larry Verne, singer of the famous novelty song "Mr. Custer":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRarvh-BxQ#)
Sammy Llanas, the Bodeans, "My hometown":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGpYB6tW2pY#)
Michael Goodroe of the Motels, "Only the lonely":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_kSb7C3IQY#)
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Birthday related...
Larry Verne:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCVHceY3JQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1BPmO9fU3E#)
Creed Bratton-Grass Roots:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md-eYQpqkJM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egs_buXwDzg#)
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@TomSea
I think you confused Dan Seals with his brother Jim---who was half of Seals & Crofts. Dan Seals was half the duo England Dan and John Ford Coley:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d404PeooWl8#)
Meanwhile, happy birthday Fito de la Parra, who joined Canned Heat after their first album on Liberty Records and has been the only continuous member of the band since he
joined . . .
Canned Heat, "On the Road Again"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Y3XMmD3qo#)
Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker, "Whiskey and Wimmen"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrADAAvrkE#)
Canned Heat, "Going Up the Country"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQMA_noRYQ#)
Canned Heat, "Woodstock Boogie" (live at Woodstock 1969)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0MMDTPlc6w&t=1328s#)
Canned Heat, "On the Road Again" (live at Woodstock 1969)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6smtAY8dXSI#)
Canned Heat, "Change is Gonna Come" (live at Woodstock 1969)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3doBiU6nN0k#)
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New one from a Local Boy in my small Texas Town.
Drew Kennedy: Sing This Town to Sleep
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAQnC5iZV7s#)
My Theme today TROUBLE:
Randy Rodgers: Trouble Knows My Name
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ktompaXzQ#)
Lee Ann Womack: All the Trouble
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-oPoDN_WTU#)
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Gretchen Peters: Woman on the Wheel
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQ-LY7Zfok#)
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Always loved the Bodeans @TomSea have a lot of their stuff and what can I say @EasyAce I grew up on Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker, Good Times!
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Here's a couple from Josh Ritter's latest titled 'GATHERING'
Feels Like Lightening
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRo48b6I16w&index=4&list=PLPquaA9D-Zu9xiP8K3o6TVKvuAA2AsgK7#)
Showboat
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CUgANeNoOY&index=2&list=PLPquaA9D-Zu9xiP8K3o6TVKvuAA2AsgK7#)
For any DeadHeads out there he does this with Bob Weir
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpzpaZ3pJ00&list=PLPquaA9D-Zu9xiP8K3o6TVKvuAA2AsgK7&index=5#)
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Miss these Guys.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qkoZQRbl3s&list=PLSDdBPYsGf-bEkdiB9bPpd3HbWg_AcXSJ&index=2#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSWh4Tx6sU#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_OSQqutYxY&list=PLOl5zjVyiAj59gdWfpKQhrSNjQdRJw8cq&index=7#)
Here's Waylon's daughters band doing a Tom Petty Classic: Wildflowers.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz91iizX6_A#)
In spite of the passing memories of the prior Videos, May they all RIP
Here's some soulful optimism by another Local that's Alive.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWoaCsCDxUc#)
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This girl sang these back in the 1960s, kind of wild.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgdyVcDwyo#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWqu497cr8#)
There's bound to be some who have heard these before.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GabfmvQ8s0A#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u5hre78vcE#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYGJvuserZQ#)
Kind of fun, German:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKY29mEh5z4#)
Usually not but sometimes, the song was originally in that foreign (to us) language.
--
Santa Catalina island...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIav6m2VbA#)
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Always loved the Bodeans @TomSea have a lot of their stuff and what can I say @EasyAce I grew up on Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker, Good Times!
@corbe
I was lucky enough to catch Canned Heat at the Fillmore East before co-founder/slide guitarist/harpist extraordinnaire Alan Wilson died.
His harmonica playing was nonpareil but he often had a kind of savage beauty playing slide guitar . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXD_s1s7KIk#)
(Note: the album title is wrong; this and everything on that great live set was recorded at a Los Angeles club called the Kaleidoscope in 1968, roughly a year
before their original lead guitarist Henry Vestine left the first time . . . )
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfPh4QD55I#)
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Music Thread - Friday, February 9th, 2018 All Music Is Welcomed.
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
Some birthdays today, Carole King, she certainly wrote a lot of good songs, often co-wrote with Gerry Goffin...even "I wasn't born to follow"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_with_lyrics_by_Gerry_Goffin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_with_lyrics_by_Gerry_Goffin) and "Up on the roof" too.
Smackwater Jack
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-zMUPvoZb0#)
You've got a friend
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAR_Ff5A8Rk#)
Other birthdays,
Ernest Tubb, "I'm walking the floor over you" is surely his signature song:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWmbFXJDHrM#)
Carmen Miranda, only lived until 46 and here, with the Banana Boat song with Harry Belafonte:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqi3WYlnKQ0#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda)
Barbara Lewis, "Hello Stranger"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Y1O9eVKRs#)
Joe Ely, "If I could teach my chihuahua to sing":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWvOcDz2ns#)
And maybe others later.
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
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Birthday related...
Carole King:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1PqfT9zTjo#)
Barbara Lewis:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_qrBYtIGb4#)
Barry Mann:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aumW5e28xic#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mann)
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Birthday related...
Carole King:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1PqfT9zTjo#)
Found this version some years ago; this was made a year after Carole King cut her accidental hit. Carole King's was meant to be a demo for
Bobby Vee, whose manager didn't want him to put it out as a single . . .
Helen Shapiro, "It Might as Well Rain Until September"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUQ-hKvul0#)
You weren't seeing things when you saw the pic of her dancing with John Lennon---Shapiro and the Beatles appeared together on Ready, Steady,
Go the same year; she clowned a bit with the Beatles (Paul McCartney was inexplicably missing from the routine) while lip-synching what was
then her current single. She was seventeen at the time (she was the first teenager to make a splash in British rock and roll a couple of years earlier) . . .
Helen Shapiro, "Look Who It Is"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_0vDOot3kY#)
Shapiro's run as a hitmaker was about to dry up, partially because her managers and record label made a big mistake---they rejected a song the
Beatles wrote specifically for her, without bothering even to tell her about the song. (The Beatles opened a short British tour for Shapiro earlier
that year and they got along so well that, when the Beatles played "From Me to You" for the first time on the tour, Shapiro suggested they make
that their next single and they took her up on the idea.) Blessed with a beyond-her-years voice, Shapiro learned only years later that the Beatles
had written that song for her; it was at a time the Beatles began getting notices for their songwriting as well as everything else swelling up
around them:
The Beatles, "Misery"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfRQPECfwYw#)
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Birthdays today also include Major Harris, a soul singer who was a member of the Delfonics after their two biggest hits but had a monster
hit on his own with . . .
Major Harris, "Love Won't Let Me Wait"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obJhYAtbeqk#)
. . . Dennis Thomas, saxophonist with Kool & the Gang . . .
Kool & the Gang, "Kool & the Gang"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9glHcEmNwM#)
Kool & the Gang, "Jungle Boogie"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHGOO73Gxg4#)
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That's amazing that Barry Mann (with Cynthia Weil) wrote "We got to get out of this place":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18#)
Per the Drifters' version, Carole King co-wrote "Up on the roof", a very big song that seems a bit timeless really.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM1k-S86nE#)
I knew this about King but not Barry Mann, some song-writing career as well.
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That's amazing that Barry Mann (with Cynthia Weil) wrote "We got to get out of this place":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18#)
Mann & Weil actually intended to give the song to the Righteous Brothers. Before they could record it, Allen Klein---then the Animals' manager
who was making a name for himself in England by doing what he'd already done for Sam Cooke, prying heretofore unaccounted-for royalties out
of the record companies to the artists he handled---caught hold of the Mann-Weil demo (Mann playing piano and Weil singing, I think it was)
and brought it to the Animals' producer, Mickie Most. Klein liked to hit the Brill Building for material for his clients (this was before he finally
became the manager first of the Rolling Stones and, more notoriously, the post-Brian Epstein Beatles); such hunts eventually brought
the Animals their last hit by the so-called "classic lineup," if you don't count that Dave Rowberry had replaced Alan Price on keyboards a few singles
earlier; it was a Goffin-King number:
The Animals, "Don't Bring Me Down"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo6HEJ0nT64#)
Per the Drifters' version, Carole King co-wrote "Up on the roof", a very big song that seems a bit timeless really.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM1k-S86nE#)
That's my personal favourite record by the Drifters. :)
There were several songwriting couples in the Brill Building in the 1960s: Goffin and King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Only Mann and Weil remain together as husband and wife and as collaborators to this day. Cynthia Weil began her career working for Broadway composer Frank Loesser before she moved to the offices of Hill & Range Songs and began spending time at Don Kirshner's Aldon Music office---hoping his new staff writer Barry Mann would notice her. According to Joel Selvin, in Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty History of Rhythm and Blues, Weil fell hard for Mann the first time she ever saw him.
Before they split up, Goffin and King wrote what was arguably the Monkees' best single, at a time after the Monkees fought for and won the right to play instruments on their own recordings, and right as they finished cutting the first album they made with that new-won freedom, Headquarters; this single eventually turned up on their fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. . . .
The Monkees, "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIXY1v8DV0#)
Goffin and King broke up in 1969. Goffin had once had an affair and fathered a child from that affair, but he and King reconciled. What really tore the marriage up was what happened after Goffin experimented with LSD after the couple moved to California; according to King, it brought about the onset of the mental illness that plagued Goffin the rest of his life. (He died in 2014.) Goffin eventually became the writing collaborator of former Butterfield Blues Band/Electric Flag/Mike Bloomfield cohort Barry Goldberg. Carole King's biggest hit on her own had lyrics by Toni Wine, who was trying to express her feelings about breaking up with James Taylor, but it likely did even better describing how King felt about her breakup with Goffin:
Carole King, "It's Too Late"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvPdTYMkygY#)
Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich broke up, too, which devastated her, even though she had her suspicions as early as 1964, when she wrote a lyric about it for a song that was given to Lesley Gore . . .
Lesley Gore, "Maybe I Know"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBBVkF7IV3o#)
. . . but they hung in in their marriage until the day Jeff Barry moved out after he began seeing a comely receptionist at Mira Sound studio. They kept the separation and ultimate divorce quiet so long as they were still professional collaborators, though by all accounts she was devastated when the marriage collapsed. They continued as songwriting and production partners for almost two years after they broke up, in large part because Greenwich needed Barry to help her shepherd a songwriting singer she'd just discovered: a Brooklyn kid named Neil Diamond. Barry and Greenwich created Diamond's first publishing company (Tallyrand) and co-produced Diamond's first singles on the Bang label, including . . .
Neil Diamond, "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvPdTYMkygY#)
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Goffin and King broke up in 1969. Goffin had once had an affair and fathered a child from that affair, but he and King reconciled.
Does that refer to Ethel "Earl-Jean" McCrea of The Cookies?
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Does that refer to Ethel "Earl-Jean" McCrea of The Cookies?
@pookie18
Yes it does. At the time of her affair with Gerry Goffin, she had just recorded a Goffin-King song that soon became an even bigger hit for a then-new British quintet . . .
Herman's Hermits, "I'm Into Something Good"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyT7f7ohvc#)
The Hermits were also produced by Mickie Most, who (as noted earlier) liked to mine the Brill Building for possible singles by his British performers . . .
McCrea was known as Jeanie Reavis (her name from her first marriage) at the time she recorded the song. She eventually left music and became a child care specialist.
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@pookie18
Yes it does. At the time of her affair with Gerry Goffin, she had just recorded a Goffin-King song that soon became an even bigger hit for a then-new British quintet . . .
Herman's Hermits, "I'm Into Something Good"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyT7f7ohvc#)
The Hermits were also produced by Mickie Most, who (as noted earlier) liked to mine the Brill Building for possible singles by his British performers . . .
McCrea was known as Jeanie Reavis (her name from her first marriage) at the time she recorded the song. She eventually left music and became a child care specialist.
I think that her name was mentioned in the Broadway play "Beautiful".
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Barry Mann and his wife, Cynthia Weil wrote Paul Revere and the Raiders "Hungry" and "Kicks", for the record, those two songs sound quite a bit a like to me.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhaeUxVW5E#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utk2W7QHsZQ#)
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Barry Mann and his wife, Cynthia Weil wrote Paul Revere and the Raiders "Hungry" and "Kicks", for the record, those two songs sound quite a bit a like to me.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhaeUxVW5E#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utk2W7QHsZQ#)
Mann & Weil originally offered "Kicks" to the Animals but Eric Burdon turned it down. After that, Raiders producer Terry Melcher asked the couple for something
comparable to "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" for the Raiders, and they gave him "Kicks." The Animals ended up having a monster hit with a song brandishing
a guitar lick not unrelated to "Kicks," though Mann & Weil didn't write it---"It's My Life."
"Kicks" was supposed to have been Mann & Weil's warning to friend Gerry Goffin, who'd experimented fatefully enough with LSD around the same time.
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Thanks for the response @EasyAce , very interesting and informative.
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Feb. 10-11th, 2018 Weekend Thread...
All music is welcomed...
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/10 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/10)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
The 10th looks a bit lowkey though, is certainly not lacking...some birthdays,
Jerry Goldsmith, creator of movie scores including the "Theme from Star Trek" (Planet of the apes, man from Uncle as well):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9YYe-jgHI#)
Leontyne Price, Opera Soprano, "Porgie and Bess" and others; here with "Ritorna Vencidor" from Verde's "Aida":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZoEHCZE87w#)
An interesting individual, I mean from Mississippi to Opera singer! During that era.
Don Wilson, guitarist for the Ventures with the Batman theme.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19w2n6uGGM4#)
Roberta Flack, here with "Killing Me Softly", Portuguese subtitles:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx1XtKbEtfE#)
Jimmy Merchant of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, here with "ABCs of Love", a bit of a deep track:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2KWd0YyqUY#)
Ral Donner, a rock and roll singer you don't hear about that often, here with You don't know what you've got/Please Don't Go":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu4Jzchnbnw#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ral_Donner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ral_Donner) Someone to read up on.
And... from Scotland, an apparent, comedic singer, Hamish Imlach, "If it weren't for the Unions":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX8N-L0dpJI#)
Nigel Olsson, musician for Elton John mentioned, I think we mentioned him a few days ago. Elton is often great.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxx1fp9uNU#)
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Don't listen to punk as much as I used to, but was in the mood and stumbled across this. One of the greats and one of the last great punk bands.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0kVvGPtMU#)
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Birthday related...
Don Wilson-Ventures:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku5aiUnWvps#)
Gene Vincent:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz5vU0EaYE#)
Ral Donner:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZeTei4Jbcc#)
Jimmy Merchant-Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ix0hSo72JQ#)
Raoul Cita-Haprtones:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82x57JgD2Jw#)
Bobby (Boris) Pickett:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeehfW4ao8g#)
Sergio Mendes:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKTSE_IB3MA#)
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Gene Vincent, born February 11, 1935 was in the Navy where he suffered an accident where one of his legs was severely broken. Those early albums by his were some of rock and roll's best backed with guitarist Cliff Gallup.
Ervin Travis put on a very good tribute show of Gene Vincent. Often when Vincent sang, he'd have that lean because of his bad leg.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8QbPvZxaTI#)
Then, Vincent was also in that crash in London that killed Eddie Cochran and below, performing, wearing that one glove as well. Not sure why, maybe a trademark.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDfInULDW7o#)
Gallup left the band pretty early and went on to a "normal" type of life, not in music. Gallup is looked at as a guitar genius by many though.
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@TomSea
Cliff Gallup was one of Jeff Beck's guitar heroes growing up; he made this tribute album to Gallup and Gene Vincent in 1993 . . .
Jeff Beck and the Big Town Playboys, "Baby Blue"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4dgPadG3I0#)
Meanwhile, back on the weekend birthday train . . . 11 February is also Gerry Goffin's birthday . . . here's some more of his work writing with Carole King . . .
Aretha Franklin, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay6oJZQ0Y4w#)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King, "Up on the Roof" (their original demo)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiZrdLaEgNs#)
The Byrds, "Goin' Back"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHb7RFpoxU#)
Blood, Sweat & Tears, "Hi-De-Ho"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gY82cgg4k#)
Little Eva, "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" (They gave this to her, but the Beatles did a great version finally collected on Live at the BBC
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_DDYAZZEQ#)
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I got to thinking about autobiographical songs a little while ago, when I bumped into what I thought (and still do) was the best
such record ever made . . .
The Mamas & the Papas, "Creeque Alley"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEtSYpzgaTk#)
(Its backstory is almost as hilarious as the song itself: John Phillips was trying to explain the group's half-convoluted origin to producer Lou Adler and,
failing miserably, he and his then-wife Michelle thought of writing it out in a kind of tone poem leaning more than a little on country blues. The title
never once appears in the lyric---it was the name of the Virgin Islands street which featured the club they played a year or so before returning to the
U.S. and finding fame . . .)
The second best is a kind-of allegory about Cream's meteoric career and breakup, by bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce . . .
Jack Bruce, "Theme for an Imaginary Western"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqsMQNAsDE#)
. . . whose producer for that first solo album of his was Felix Pappalardi (who'd also been Cream's producer)---who'd also just produced an album on
ex-Vagrants guitarist/singer Leslie West (Mountain), decided it was fun to work with West and formed a band named for the album. Pappalardi
brought West an advance recording of "Theme for an Imaginary Western," and it became a centerpiece for their group Mountain, recording
it for the first official Mountain album in 1969, after they performed it at Woodstock . . .
Mountain, "Theme for an Imaginary Western"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_x0xH9fLM#)
Let's see . . . there was the Beatles' "Glass Onion" (kind of) . . . the Rolling Stones' "We Love You" (about the drug bust of Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards, on which they had a little vocal help from the Beatles!) . . . Traffic's "Feelin' Alright" (Dave Mason wrote it about the turmoil inside the
group, though it ultimately became one of Joe Cocker's calling cards) . . . Grand Funk Railroad's "We're an American Band" . . . this jewel from
Jackson Browne . . .
Jackson Browne, "The Load Out"/"Stay"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdWNBqyxcA#)
. . . this from what's still probably Van Morrison's most spellbinding album . . .
Van Morrison, "Cyprus Avenue"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8jPDdHd9y8#)
. . . and this sweet, sad tone letter from Bruce Springsteen to his father . . . (I still remember Springsteen alluding to his boyhood conflicts with his father
when during a concert, playing "Growing Up," he'd open a mid-song monologue with, "When I was growing up, there were two things in my house that
were not popular. One was me, and the other was my guitar.")
Bruce Springsteen, "Independence Day"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GggK3Sn258#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5ysmjLlaw#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddaGI5KrSjk#)
This Gene Vincent song always had that odd title, B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDwD8GDvrBE#)
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I enjoy hearing this guy's instrumentals, Calcutta and the theme from High Chaparral:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQWk_T38FBI#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_y6VYjx7s#)
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I enjoy hearing this guy's instrumentals, Calcutta and the theme from High Chaparral:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQWk_T38FBI#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_y6VYjx7s#)
& his 2 biggest hits:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxI6oPV5AI#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbTkE6vboBo#)
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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto: Jascha Heifitz
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fCuMFGVwhc#)
@TomSea
Thanks for the Jerry Goldsmith. Always sublime.
[BTW: is this vid starting at the beginning or almost 8 minutes in? Seems no matter what I do it keeps starting wherever I hit pause and pasted the URL. Duce-ed annoying.]
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Theme from The Wild Bunch.
Everything about this film, from the opening with the kids burning the ants and the scorpion right on through, . . . .
A masterpiece of story telling.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctaCXCvd4ao#)
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Monday, February 12th, 2018 Music Thread
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/12 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/12)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
A few birthdays and there are a few lined up, so this might be a "slow-starter" for the first few birthdays,
You've got to include the songwriter of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"? Don't you?
This was written arranged by [Le]Roy Harris of Oklahoma, born in 1898... so he must not be the original songwriter of this civil war song. It's a matter of history.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uarq2_hQ8#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harris#Piano_works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harris#Piano_works)
In other birthdays, Barry Wood, various, a patriotic number, "Let's back the Attack"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abHs-FfbbxY#)
The famous "Tex" Beneke, probably best known for singing "Chatanoogo Choo-Choo" with the Glen Miller band, also sang "Kalamazoo":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDSHuVAr52Y#)
Lorne Greene, singer of "Ringo":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxfBYPKSLvo#)
Gene McDaniel's, famed singer of "100 pounds of clay":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQXhXAKHg9g#)
Ray Manzarek of the Doors, "Soul Kitchen":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4X5Dj6AaGM#)
Stanley Knight, BOA or Black Oak Arkansas, "Movin'"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNSeOXK2kQ#)
Rick Frank of Elephant's Memory, a band that worked with John Lennon on his live album:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwdW2pYLJk#)
Moe Bandy, here with Joe Stampley singing "Roll On Big Mama":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DojIktijqiY#)
Steve Hackett, guitarist, Genesis (Return of the Giant Hogweed):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTuJQL8GBqY#)
Grant McLennan, the Go-Betweens, Australian band:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7BfP8SfX8#)
Brian Robertson, Thin Lizzy and Motorhead:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_JF8oSxXtM#)
Chynna Phillips, "Hold On"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbXvaE39wM#)
So, a lot of birthdays, others later.
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Birthday related...
Gene McDaniels:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOigZoJHLA#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyitdO740c#)
Ray Manzarek-Doors:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVez4RS7IJw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NyC6mrutj0#)
Joe Schermie-Three Dog Night:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd4OC8BBxCE#)
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Happy birthday, too, to Michael McDonald, who helped turn the Doobie Brothers' career around when he joined in 1976 . . .
The Doobie Brothers, "It Keeps You Runnin'"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BsTF22SPyM#)
The Doobie Brothers, "Takin' it to the Streets"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foEba5RQlOE#)
The Doobie Brothers, "What a Fool Believes"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWGEG9aJ6L0#)
The Doobie Brothers, "Real Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LGm1e8uFU#)
. . . and, as a matter of personal taste, my favourite performance by the late Ray Manzarek . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZTgynPGT8#)
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 Music Thread
Welcoming all music.
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/13 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/13)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Checking birthdays,
Tennessee Ernie Ford, 16 tons and some gospel are what he is known for, I don't mean to miss any other big hits but, there is a forum on the web named for this song, "The Rock City Boogie" forum, talks about a lot of this nostalgic music.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKeoxlkQIQ#)
And one half of another great song-writing team, Bourdleux Bryant who along with his wife, Felice, wrote a number of "country"(if that is how they can be categorized) hits, classic stuff.
"Love Hurts"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iJMfwwheY#)
One of Tennessee's state songs, "Rocky Top"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51KSDl5xOTI#)
And many others.
Eugene Ames of the Ames Brothers, "You, You, You" would be one of their signature songs:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGLzMnkbe4#)
Dottie McGuire of the McGuire Sisters, "Sincerely" or maybe "Sugartime" instead:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvEHn6fKWE#)
Peter Tork of the Monkees, "Pleasant Valley Sunday"(written by Carole King, Gerry Goffin and Jerry Wexler, Gerald Wexler), I like that song they do, "Valerie" as a personal favorite:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzs5dlLrm0&list=PLA4A41704CE4C6971#)
Peter Gabriel, "Solsbury Hill", member of Genesis, etc.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQIic97g6U#)
Rod Dees, of the Teddy Boy inspired band of Leicester City, England called "Showaddywaddy", "Hey, Rock and Roll" is of course, one of their big songs...playing on the big r 'n' r craze of the '70s, all the big bands it seems had one song that hearkened back to the golden days of rock and roll, light hearted, have to have been influenced by Sha Na Na, they seem kind of like a British version, great band:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9NKs3h1CS8#)
And more later!
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I am hearing Darryl Singletary, country singer has passed away. No cause of death given, little information available currently. Rest in peace.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKgVzdf7UZw#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIp6fWhqbk8#)
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& Vic Damone passed away on Sunday...
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/12/legendary-singer-vic-damone-dies-at-age-89.html (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/12/legendary-singer-vic-damone-dies-at-age-89.html)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83XWIVEH4UA#)
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Birthdays today also include soul singer King Floyd . . .
King Floyd, "Groove Me"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lf_1y7rYE#)
. . . Tony Butler, bassist for Big Country . . .
Big Country, "Wonderland"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2mn8cTyWzQ#)
. . . Peter Hook, bassist for Joy Division and its successor New Order . . .
New Order, "True Faith"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0zd989ZPPw#)
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Heldon - In Wake Of King Fripp (1975)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJbRruhCNC4#)
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ljysiRSbRfo/TcG5UmypT0I/AAAAAAAAAfU/0sFxe9cz4G0/s1600/British+Animated+Flag+Waving+%25281%2529.gif)
Get that Royal-British opening and then, into the songs. This is not from that long ago.
Showaddywaddy
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6wmXwKB5w#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCDCHjvAo8#)
Similar, Rocky Sharpe:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrvpMkgvFY#)
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Valentine's Day - Music Thread, Wed., February 14, 2018
All are welcome to post favorite Valentine's songs or any song....
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today) https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/14 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/14)
Some birthdays today, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, contemporary music for once.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyjlhhrdiuY#)
Murray the K, Beatles promo:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yEfeStu9OQ#)
Roger Fisher, Heart with "Straight On":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeEA9yuZ2G8#)
Magic Sam, "I wanna boogie":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_wAwh2AkA#)
Florence Henderson of the Brady Bunch:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4xExlx56dU#)
Vic Briggs, guitar, Animals, "House of the Rising Sun":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgTSfJEf_jM#)
This is an early video of this number, very popular.
Doug Simril, Steve Miller Band, "Fly like an eagle":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f7eZ8cHpM#)
Perhaps some more later.
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Symphony #6 by Christopher Gunning
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsY8OwlLNUE#)
Symphony #7 by Christopher Gunning
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okvpGfItMPQ&t=63s#)
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Favorite Valentines songs:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KPDcV2-sFM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QivUvScv2wM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB1EuaunT5o#)
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Birthdays include saxophonist Maceo Parker, who made his bones with James Brown . . .
James Brown, "Cold Sweat"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bztE5IbQOo#)
Maceo Parker, "Chicken"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vn0w-zHwFw#)
. . . Tim Buckley . . .
Tim Buckley, "Buzzin' Fly"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7SUqKJb7tk#)
Tim Buckley, "Love from Room 109 at the Islander (on Pacific Coast Highway)"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozAaCiAeUFY#)
. . . and, a taste of birthday boy Magic Sam live . . .
Magic Sam, "I Found Me a New Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPwWRUNYeOc#)
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Favorite Valentines songs:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KPDcV2-sFM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QivUvScv2wM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB1EuaunT5o#)
I never knew the Valentines were who did Lily Maebelle, great song.
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfQ7ieF7w4Y#)
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Blue Valentines, thanks @The Ghost ...
I heard "Don't fear the reaper" by BOC... it has that line about Valentines.
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Recognize this one?
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGT0CiXjyfI#)
Okay, today, Valentine's day was a bad news day.... tiring, so I think we will kick off tomorrow's music a bit early.
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/15 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/15) http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Birthdays today, include Harold Arlen who penned "Somewhere over the rainbow" and other songs in the American songbook, of course, here is Judy Garland singing it:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV0egqnphV0#)
Today, John Adams was born, he wrote an opera called "Nixon in China" and this really is an Opera in the sense of the classic operas, not like Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar and some of those others, though, I do love those.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tv3hrZmcEk#)
Zager and Evans, Denny Zager's birthday, I think when it was Evans, we all inadvertently left it out. Of course, Z and E are known mainly for that one song, 2525. Quite a unique song.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesyhQkYrQM#)
Mick Avory of the Kinks was born on this day, drummer in the classic lineup:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU#)
Melissa Manchester, greatest hits:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3TJcTYz7I#)
Axelle Red, Belgian singer with "Ma Prierre", My Prayer:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZMJPzl0N0#)
Members of Santana, UB40 and Culture Club also have birthdays today. These bands have been covered in the past, more later.
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Birthdays today include Brian Holland, one-third of the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting and production team . . .
The Four Tops, "Standing in the Shadows of Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzm7JvonZTI#)
The Supremes, "The Happening"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIJM56Fvu78#)
Diana Ross & the Supremes, "Reflections"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9hQMOe2Q8Q#)
Holland-Dozier featuring Brian Holland, "Slipping Away"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4RLC-Sj1hU#)
. . . David Brown, bassist for Santana (the "classic lineup") . . .
Santana, "Soul Sacrifice"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0hu9jv5rKY#)
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And, since today is the anniversary of his death at 37, a little love to Mike Bloomfield, the greatest Jewish blues guitarist of all . . .
The Butterfield Blues Band, "I Got a Mind to Give Up Living"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAHXVfqpm0I#)
The Electric Flag, "Wine"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJ_EA5Vb8E#)
Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, "His Holy Modal Majesty"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdoHWJ1PCWw#)
Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, "Really"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31EMHS65Nf0#)
Michael Bloomfield & Friends with Taj Mahal, "One More Mile"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thhRPGzAaw#)
Michael Bloomfield & Friends, "Carmelita Skiffle"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvaBjYg4kWI#)
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Friday, February 16th, 2018 Music Thread
All Muzak is welcomed!
Those in the great state of Florida are certainly in my thoughts and prayers, there is nothing one can say. We have been through this before but the solutions to these problems are allusive.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmWexj90OU4#)
Birthdays today per following links: https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php) and http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Famed dancer, Vera Ellen:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV-XoARqB8A#)
Portuguese guitarrist, Carlos Paredez, Canto al almanecer:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOytxlE6jPM#)
Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, WWII heartthrobs.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxL2uNr7bk#)
If one goes to youtube.com, one sees all of these groups, some in Europe too, who emulate the Andrews Sisters style, the Honeybee Trio singing "In the mood", I picked this at random, there's a whole lot of these types, I guess, it's not too difficult to just get 3 women together to sing.:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dFSv4s4M8#)
Sonny Bono, Sonny and Cher:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlgzbUnCG_o#)
You know, he wrote or co-wrote "Needles and Pins" as well, a widely covered classic, a hit for the Searchers:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0oP8e02dpk#)
Harold and Herbie Kalin, singers of "When", I know some people really like this song, some modern covers exist:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DLGI6dBL3w#)
James Ingram singing with Patty Austin, "How do you keep the music playing".
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RshWauqUAAo#)
Lynn Paul with the New Seekers and the song "I'd like to teach the world to sing" that Coca Cola used in commercials:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKznrEjJK4#)
John "Brad" Bradbury of the Ska group, the Specials with "Gangsters" which the link above mentions:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgCZN1rU5co#)
Ice T of rap and Law and Order Special Victims Unit fame here with "Mind Over Matter":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjEHKyuTzv4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjEHKyuTzv4)
Tony Kylie, Blow Monkeys, "It doesn't have to be this way"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZOgK_wl9Q#)
Andy Taylor, Duran Duran, "Save A Prayer":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM#)
And many others.
February 15th belated birthday to country singer, Hank Locklin, coming off the West Coast website: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php) which doesn't post until midnight Pacific time, so is sometimes missed. "Send me the pillow that you dream on", another oft recorded song.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdOJfe4yfVo#)
A little bit of surfing music, I don't know if I'd call these guys obscure but you might have to know something about that genre to have heard of them, it opens a bit like the Spanish song "Malagueña " some say. Just for fun!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhpRFDoI0Lk#)
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Songwriter Otis Blackwell:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljjfa1Hf0lE#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6dAPYmpOxQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_FAqr6rP4w#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbYEVDpXepw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqw1-WmHoLk#)
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Birthdays today also include jazz/rhythm and blues organist Bill Doggett . . .
Bill Doggett, "Honky Tonk"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbteaBTIrTs#)
. . . soul singer James Ingram . . .
James Ingram, "Just Once"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcd3kN656zg#)
Also, on today's date in 1964, the Beatles made their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, live
from Miami Beach's Deauville Hotel. Their set list: ‘She Loves You’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘I Saw Her
Standing There’, ‘From Me to You’, and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand.'
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I picked this at random, there's a whole lot of these types, I guess, it's not too difficult to just get 3 women together to sing.:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dFSv4s4M8#)
Try getting five of them together the way this quintet of siblings were. They were discovered when they ran into Gordon Jenkins, the composer/arranger, in
a New York building and sang a cappella for him, impressing him so much he hustled the sisters to someone else who had an office in the same building---
radio star Fred Allen, who liked them so much he made them regulars on his Sunday night comedy show from its return in 1945 (Allen was forced to take
a year off due to hypertension) until its end in 1949. (Allen's health again had a hand; he never again hosted a radio show but became a semi-regular
on NBC's variety extravaganza The Big Show from 1950-52 before his legendary television gig on the panel of What's My Line). The girls enjoyed
a recording career for over a decade after their gig with Fred Allen ended; they were often compared to the Four King Sisters, but they could sing the King
Family and the Andrews Sisters right under the table, even if they weren't as jazzy as the Andrews Sisters . . .
The Five DeMarco Sisters, "Say You Care"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bPFf-46V8#)
Gloria DeMarco eventually told an historian of old-time radio that, with their years with Fred Allen and everything else on radio on their night, "Sunday night
was the best night of the week for radio." For their first two years on the show, its opening was a fanfare followed by the girls singing, "Mr. Allen, Mr. Alllll-llennnnn!"
after which Allen would remark along the line of, "It isn't the mayor of Anaheim, Asuza, and Cucamonga, kiddies!" Once, Allen flipped that script---the fanfare
preceded Allen warbling, "DeMarco Sisters, DeMarco Sisters!" and---when the fanfare stopped cold---the girls chirped, "It isn't Four Chicks and a Chuck, Mr.
Allen!" On the final Allen show in 1949, the DeMarcos sang a song they wrote, "Time Doesn't Mean a Thing," maybe the only known time they sang an
original number.
The sisters experienced only one personnel change, when Terri DeMarco married actor Murray Hamilton and left the group in 1955; she was replaced by non-
relative Joyce DeYoung, who also once filled in with the Andrews Sisters. Terri DeMarco and Murray Hamilton were one of the few enduring Hollywood marriages,
ending only when Hamilton died in 1986; they had one son, David.
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Trivia: Patty Andrews was the sisters' on-stage leader; it was she who had the honour of telling an audience of troops they were
entertaining in Italy that World War II ended at last. After the girls' parents died within a year of each other in 1948 and 1949,
tensions began to mount among them, partially because their run as stars was beginning to fade, and largely because Patty
Andrews married their pianist, Walter Wechsler, who began demanding more money for her when she began something of a solo
recording career---which infuriated her sisters enough that the trio broke up for two years. They reunited in 1951 to make some
records but broke up formally in 1953. (Patty's previous marriage, to producer Marty Melcher, ended when he dumped her for
Doris Day.)
Maxene and Laverne Andrews tried touring together as a duo but that ended with Maxene's suicide attempt in 1954. The three
sisters reunited in 1956 and signed a deal with Capitol Records, who already had Patty aboard as a solo artist, but the reunion
didn't prove half as successful as their World War II heyday. In 1962, they signed to Dot Records, recording new versions of their
classic material in stereo as well as more contemporary material; Laverne's death of lung cancer in 1967 put paid to the Andrews
Sisters even though the aforementioned Joyce DeYoung stood in for Laverne while she battled the cancer. Maxene and Patty
performed intermittently for another year or two after Laverne's death, but they split after Maxene became Dean of Women at
Tahoe Paradise College while Patty tried to continue a solo career.
Bette Midler's out-of-left-field hit with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in 1973-74 gave the Andrews Sisters a new life; Maxene and
Patty featured in the stage musical Over Here! and toured with it until Patty's husband and the show's composers fell into litigation;
the sisters never appeared together in public again. Maxene had a somewhat successful solo career; Patty's solo career faded
largely because her handlers insisted she focus most of the time on reviving Andrews Sisters material instead of leaning on
material showing the bluesy side she developed in later years. Maxene Andrews died in 1995 of heart failure; Patty Andrews
died at 94 in 2013. Laverne had often been the peacemaker between her sisters; Maxene said before her death that she regretted
not really patching things up with Patty; and, Patty before her death spoke of Maxene as the usual instigator of troubles between
them but was distraught upon her death.
My personal favourite Andrews Sisters record is a little number they did with a unique guitarist---a guy named Les Paul:
The Andrews Sisters with Les Paul, "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46J8lqWViMI#)
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Weekend February 17-18 2018 Music Thread, All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
On this day in history, Gene Pitney was born, 'The man who shot Liberty Valence' and 'Only Love can break your heart", 2 great songs among his hits.:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8bBlPtBK4#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL_s46W2dtk#)
Tommy Edwards, who sang "It's all in the game",
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtizr2G_7Bk#)
I knew someone who liked Van Morrison's version, he had no idea, this was a true oldie!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEkeRtzbUqg#)
Bobby Lewis, "Tossin' and Turnin'"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRe9WS2Ag_c#)
So, per rock and roll, I believe these are the most recognizable artists for today. More later.
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A few more birthdays for today, February 17th:
Mickey McGill, The Dells, "Love Is Blue":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqz1jd-Mc-k#)
Johnny Bush, here singing with Johnny Rodriguez, "The Rio Grande runs red"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQdErFvweI#)
And from down under, Andrew Barton "Banjo" Patterson singing "Waltzing Matilda":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au60VRkXDWA#)
So, more later.
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Birthdays today include Karl Jenkins, keyboards and reeds, who joined Soft Machine for their sixth album before moving on
to his own career . . .
Soft Machine, "The Soft Weed Factor"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU8n2HgT9B4#)
. . . Billie Joe Armstrong, the leader of Green Day . . .
Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dream"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soa3gO7tL-c#)
. . . and currently popular eclecticist Ed Sheeran . . .
Ed Sheeran, "The A Team"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWcs5H-qgQ#)
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On Sunday, February 18, a few more birthdays, obviously,
John Travolta, 6th best single ever in the UK still, from Grease, "You're the one I love" with Olivia Newton John:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=aataTbxlWeM#)
Randy Bachmann of Bachmann Turner Overdrive, "You ain't seen nothing yet":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo#)
Bobby Hart of Hart and Boyce, he wrote "Last Train to Clarksville" and this one, "I wonder what she's doing tonight".
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJaYbQ9nYfM#)
Skip Battin of the Byrds, a latter day version of the Byrds, with "America's Great Pastime":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CVCO1TV-E#)
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More 18 February birthdays include soul singer Irma Thomas, whose version of this classic prodded the Rolling Stones to take a whack at it . . .
Irma Thomas, "Time is On My Side"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ArDnZrmi0#)
. . . Herbie Santiago, who sang with Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers . . .
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBSsdAhnxE#)
. . . Keith Knudsen, who became the Doobie Brothers' second drummer beginning with What Were Once Vices are Now Habits . . .
The Doobie Brothers, "Black Water"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsP3rFJJk1Y#)
. . . soul singer Bobby Taylor, who recorded for Motown with his group the Vancouvers---and whose group featured Tommy (of Cheech and) Chong
on guitar---and was the real discoverer of the Jackson 5 . . .
Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, "Does Your Mama Know About Me" (co-written, in fact, by Tommy Chong)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsFuZ4Lap4Q#)
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Weekend birthdays...
Gene Pitney:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tg6j7DEFQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaBeDI13W8#)
Tommy Edwards:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oe_iHgQ_B0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1krKV95DJA#)
Bobby Lewis:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GDk2enbCDY#)
Skip Battin:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJBYs9AFgiM#)
Herman Santiago-Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ix0hSo72JQ#)
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Everybody Knows but.....
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg#)
Thanks for the Information.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WhZB99U8-w#)
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We started this birthday thing about last May/June, around then, so we have missed those born in the months before that. I see Emmylou Harris' birthday is April 2nd. So, a lot of us enjoy her music.
If I listed my favorite songs by her in an unofficial list; I'd probably mention these and not necessarily in this order and this is a casually drawn up list.
Queen of the Silver Dollar:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4WyO6TK424#)
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues written by Rodney Crowell:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYktmJ8P2mA#)
I'll be your San Antone Rose:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxEfEJ2lbNc#)
Blue Kentucky Girl though, in fairness, this is one of Loretta Lynn's signature songs:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gFBO8Szcs&list=PLaQmb_I241c8QJ5g3XJCTNy2luBvDbTow&index=9#)
I can list more, we listened to her a lot in highschool, college, so you know, some songs you hear a hundred times tend to not have the same effect on you.
The above, tends to leave out the Graham Parsons songs, which after all, are Graham's. Nor, rehashing Merle Haggard as Parsons and the Burrito Brothers did, does not strike me that much either.
"Beneath Still Waters" and a lot of those others, equally, are still very good. A lot of standards, singing Dolly.
@sneakypete
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More videos, really does mean a longer downloading time.
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More videos, really does mean a longer downloading time.
Ah, But it's well worth the wait @TomSea such a treasure here.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUWkr4FUlo#)
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Zp7zKvC74#)
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You are correct @corbe
IF I could only win your love, great one by Emmylou, I guess the Louvin bros. did it originally.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IS96gg84LY#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAoWCOCHfg#)
They sort of discovered Emmylou singing folk in Baltimore...
Big Mammou by CC and the LPA; good stuff, they sing some in Cajun too.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xAdHOfxj5w#)
To me, it seems like Commander Cody attempted some commercial success but it didn't work.
Tina Louise by CC
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEqwt4U9NgE#)
A lot of good songs on those two albums they attempted.
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President's Day, Monday, Feb. 19th, 2018 Music Thread...Welcoming Music of all creeds and colors!
Johnny Horton's "Young Abe Lincoln":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA2Jo70wNA#)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Birthdays,
It's Smokey Robinson's birthday and Bobby Rogers of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, "Tracks of my tears":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNS6D4hSQdA&list=RDrNS6D4hSQdA#)
Lee Marvin's also:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAGvar2L8z4#)
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More Birthdays, Tommy Iommi of Black Sabbath:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ix0agK04EM#)
Lou Christie, "Lightning Striking Again":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyRqdzF8swY#)
Mark Andes, Spirit, with "I got a line on you".
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aKNhvMd_5U#)
And others.
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Ran across this song recently. It is the theme song for the Amazon.com TV show, “Patriotâ€. Apparently the artist gave up in 1970 because of lack of sales of her music. Then, unbeknown to her at first, demand for her record quietly increased until at one point they were selling for up to $2000 on eBay. She restarted her career around 2000, some 30 years later.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AGD78mWcss#)
Sorry, I can never get the embedded video to work on this site. Maybe a mod can fix it. (EDIT: Thanks TomSea)
Here is a link to the show if you want to check it out. In case it's not obvious, the show is mostly a comedy (some spy thriller mixed in there too, though).
https://www.amazon.com/Patriot/dp/B017APUY62/ (https://www.amazon.com/Patriot/dp/B017APUY62/)
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Presidents Day:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meoye_g5bRc#)
Birthday related:
Smokey Robinson & Bobby Rogers (Miracles):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBJQOb9u1Y#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMG0k6urjeU#)
Lou Christie:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktbIEDo5yIc#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-UNBQHICzI#)
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Birthdays today also include Pierre van der Linden, the original drummer for Focus . . .
Focus, "Hocus Pocus"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q#)
. . . Andy Powell, co-guitarist, Wishbone Ash . . .
Wishbone Ash, "The King Will Come"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZn8qeN5ayo#)
Wishbone Ash, "Phoenix"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AppYgVdETNo#)
. . . Dave Wakeling, guitarist for the English Beat . . .
The English Beat, "Can't Get Used to Losing You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMoSy0UmtZ4#)
The English Beat, "Best Friend"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbYui-Y3r0#)
. . . and British R&B singer Seal . . .
Seal, "Crazy"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ#)
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Renown Jazz violinist, Didier Lockwood has passed away:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-R9u-1R1FI#)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/french-jazz-violinist-didier-lockwood-dies-suddenly-at-62/2018/02/19/ecb46482-1596-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/french-jazz-violinist-didier-lockwood-dies-suddenly-at-62/2018/02/19/ecb46482-1596-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_story.html)
Johnny Horton also wrote "Battle of New Orleans" with Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0#)
Horton too, is another who was largely a song writing genius; he was killed by a drunk driver in an accident. What a loss, Johnny Horton wrote many good songs. Sha Na Na did a good version of "Battle of New Orleans" one can find at youtube. Seems that we have lost a lot of talent in car accidents, DWI use to be much more of a problem in this country and now, it's been brought down quite a bit thanks to organizations like MADD.
Horton really took on some interesting subjects, "North to Alaska" and many more.
Lest, we forget, Jimmy Dean performed the song "PT 109":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vADboJwbHCs#)
I'm sure many songs speaking of presidents (and not anti-war songs per LBJ etc.) can be found and not anti-type of songs either, did Prince really do a song, "Ronnie speak to Russia"? I never knew that. We also have the Jefferson Airplane, interesting.
http://rare.us/rare-politics/issues/foreign-policy/thank-god-ronald-reagan-listened-to-prince-about-the-soviet-union/ (http://rare.us/rare-politics/issues/foreign-policy/thank-god-ronald-reagan-listened-to-prince-about-the-soviet-union/)
Thank God Ronald Reagan listened to Prince about the Soviet Union
Jack Hunter
The world was shocked when Prince was reported dead on Thursday at age 57.
Though he was rarely overtly political, Prince was known to have conservative leanings due primarily to his Christian faith. However he did have one important political song at the beginning of the height of his musical career.
On his 1981 album Controversy, Prince had a message for the new president: “Ronnie, Talk to Russia.â€
Ronnie talk to Russia before its too late
Before its too late
Before its too late
Ronnie talk to Russia before its too late
Before they blow up the world
Well, I doubt if Reagan actually listened to Prince but.. it doesn't look like there is ill-will in the song.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yagHiHk3o9k#)
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Blues find from the World War II era . . .
Big Bill Broonzy, "In the Army Now"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mimxz1f3FQs#)
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Some good ones in this thread.
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Casey Weldon, "W.P.A. Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qMPXH_xoc#)
Lucille Bogan, "Groceries on My Shelf"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePc7Jh8CG34&t=100s#)
Blind Boy Fuller, "Three Ball Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeQeK-q6wIY#)
Bukka White, "District Attorney Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3EcmqGPors#)
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVJpOmaDyU#)
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxrCcheLpxo#)
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Canned Heat, "Parthenogenesis"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaIiB4UV20#)
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A remake better than the original:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4#)
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 Music Thread... All Music Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/20 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/20)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Some birthdays, most of these are of the pop variety, I know they always list a lot of classic musicians and composers and I'm sure they well deserve recognition so one may want to look at the links.
The great singer, Buffy Sainte Marie, Canadian, First Nation, meaning what we call Native Americans.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnZVIluWuq4#)
Barbara Ellis, the Fleetwoods, sometimes, I imagine just how mellow sounding this group was, great sound.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b-a23beORk#)
And per the wikipedia biography, she went on to manage a trailer park!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fleetwoods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fleetwoods)
Nancy Wilson, not the one in Heart, with a song "like someone in love":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZzMlDAVsI#)
J. Geils of the J. Geils Band, "Think It Over", I don't care for most of their top 40 hits.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuwSQhiVxXY#)
Randy California, of Spirit, the band with Taurus, the song that has the opening some accuse Led Zeppelin of plagiarizing per Stairway to heaven.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHLO_2_THg#)
And as Randy California, you know, he drowned in the sea trying to save his 12 year old.
"One Man's Heaven"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Ik_F0CF-4#)
Walter Becker, Steely Dan, The Katy Lied album, really, where does one start with them? A lot of good music:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qg3UHoksuw#)
Poison Ivy, (Kristy Wallace) of the Crampps, here with "Goo Goo Muck"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQQjfmKjXNU#)
John Brant, Cheap Trick, "Surrender"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sAm5UCJ9vA#)
Ian Brown, Stone Roses, "Beautiful Thing"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCk34IVVgcc#)
And Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, "Come As You Are":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o&list=PLX_x9w1pLQ_xnabsz_xmOEFqTIVN74m0X#)
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Birthday related...
Nancy Wilson:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtkdFvnvks#)
Barbara Ellis-Fleetwoods:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snO0065S6YI#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffOf1Ryj8yY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Qi_vSGBxQ#)
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Birthdays today include Lew Soloff, the trumpeter who succeeded Randy Brecker for the second and most successful album by
Blood, Sweat & Tears . . .
Blood, Sweat & Tears, "You've Made Me So Very Happy"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAfzERwnw0#)
For the late J. Geils . . . after the band broke up, he turned up exploring all manner of blues including jazzy blues, sometimes
with his former J. Geils Band cohort Magic Dick (harmonica) . . .
Magic Dick and Jay Geils, "The Jumpin' Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkwn2OTy83Q#)
Magic Dick and Jay Geils, "Little Car Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lj-JQhi4w#)
Magic Dick and Jay Geils, "Bluestime"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByzOBLfSo0#)
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Main Title Theme (Billy) - Bob Dylan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTCYNOVmnI#ws)
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Excellent covers by Den Fiori, like the real thing.
Positively 4th Street (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iat1KOQG7Q#ws)
This guy tours, this is recently recorded music from what I can tell.
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Phil Haley and the Comets:
PHIL HALEY AND HIS COMMENTS..RIP IT UP.& ROUTE 66 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPP9yNoedI#ws)
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed....
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/21 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/21)
Some birthdays,
Nina Simone, "I love you porgy";
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_YzOoXkKU#)
Michael Cotten, the Tubes, keyboard with "white punks on dope":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFltXDMQsQQ#)
Jean Jacques Brunel, the Stranglers, "Dreamtime":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiFG08mimus#)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Down at the twist and shout":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuapCENFM2U#)
Tommy Hendricks, a few names I don't recognize today, but I thought I'd still post, "Tommy and Jo Hendricks performing "Mega Verses; John 1-1:7"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3ijpTKQIQ&list=PLSBzmhK87OJH6YK8lhATh_7gbLKKM1OC7#)
Once again, the English Beat, isn't this about 3 times in 2 weeks? Anyway, Ranking Roger, vocalist with "Save it for later":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0wVjU2-k#)
Corey Harris, "From Mississippi to Mali":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VLkzKLBuPM#)
Michael Ward, the Wallflowers, "Bringing down the Horse":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM&list=PL45BAEA6EF9266828#)
James Dean Bradfield, "The Manic Preachers", heard of them, I'll skip this one:
Charlotte Church of Wales, "Carrickfergus":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2A7DB7e_I#)
Joan Baez cover:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7ITkoxojI#)
Must be a traditional song.
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Birthdays today include Jerry Harrison, keyboards/guitars with the original Modern Lovers . . .
The Modern Lovers, "Old World"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rfhuhSRoY#)
. . . and Talking Heads . . .
Talking Heads, "The Girls Want to Be With the Girls"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF866xp-tag#)
. . . and music producer/enterpreneur David Geffen, who got his real start when he---as opposed to the rest of the Monterey Pop Festival
crowd in 1967---took a real liking to one performer appearing there and became her manager, getting her out of a dubious first
record deal, and freeing her to sign with Columbia after an unusual audition in which label president Clive Davis visited her New York
apartment and she killed all the lights in the place . . . except for the television set next to her piano (she set it to a blank station for
the effect), playing Davis the songs that became this album:
Laura Nyro, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFt2IkLlMs#)
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Abba star sings "I don't know how to love him" from JC Superstar, this was before Abba became a known group.
In Swedish of course.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nX8xFfPn4#)
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Oops, accidentally merged Wednesday :facepalm: into the whole month, okay, so, only 8 hours of today left.
Here's the Huck-a-buck done by a band from Latvia, not sure if anyone here knows the huckabuck.:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc4NXYjPpY8#)
Fleetwoods singing "Poor Little Fool":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ur-zZsMOaU#)
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Disabled videos, well, we won't have a new thread until thursday, so I will work with it later.
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 Music Thread... All Music Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/22 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/22)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
A few birthdays:
It's Oliver's birthday, singer of "Good morning starshine", I've got to say, since I like the song, it's interesting to listen to a lot of the versions out there, John Denver sang it, it is widely covered.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw3oxJvSRj0#)
Ernie K. Doe, the singer of "Mother in law" written by Allen Touissant, so more New Orleans-based music.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EN5eJf5h_k#)
Bobbie Hendricks of the Drifters, here singing "Save the last dance for me":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVF7CvAAnJ4#)
Mick Green, guitarist for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and later, Billy J. Kramer:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2EwRvi36Us#)
Scott Phillips of Creed with "Arms wide open":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99j0zLuNhi8#)
James Blunt, singer of "You're Beautiful", a former army captain (in the UK it sounds like):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9piyWrfULSk#)
That album cover to me, always struck me as a take off of Norman Greenbaum's album. Greenbaum sang "spirit in the sky".
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Oliver's biggest hit . . .
Oliver, "Jean"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r1hP2BRAqM#)
. . . and his third hit, though not quite as big as the first two; it was a cover of a number by Spanky & Our Gang . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzraA8EISw#)
Oliver's career might have endured longer if producer Bob Crewe hadn't tried spreading him farther beyond his folk inclinations and saddling him with
too many heavily-orchestrated songs that didn't suit him; and, if he'd found a way to improve his own songwriting, which wasn't much and barely had
a proper chance to develop. After leaving Crewe and billing himself under his proper name (Bill Swofford; Oliver was his given middle name), he left
the music business by the end of the 1970s and made a life in real estate and then pharmaceuticals, married twice (the second time more happily)
with two children, until his unfortunate early death of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 54 in 2000.
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Birthday related...
Ernie Kador Jr.:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1HU-M_n04#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCQrA_D9nM#)
Bobby Hendricks:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nArAFGbgJM#)
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For the Veterans.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We4vcg2p0L8#)
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Friday, February 23, 2018 Music Thread, Welcoming all music.
Some birthdays today, http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today) https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/23 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/23)
Handel, Messiah:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3T6YwwU9s#)
Johnny Winter, "Johnny B. Goode", despite the many songs he has done, this must be one of his signature songs.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDD2wYePlVs#)
Mike Maxfield, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, "Bad To Me"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJ620x_Ra4#)
Rusty Young, Poco with "Crazy Love":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_FjIVFu6k#)
Brad Whitford, Aerosmith, "I don't want to miss a thing":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSGRv02THg#)
Terry "Tex" Comer of the Band Ace, "How Long":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vhxgVcV_s#)
Robert Collins, The Charlatans with "Alabama Bound":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQSJBSl9SM0#)
Steve Holy, "Radio Up", more modern country:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C771YtgMEEo#)
Lars Olaf-Johannsen of the Cardigans, "Love Fool"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6aOFI7hms&list=PLAefUUXajJQzNTe569YvgqKZeXxO6_AJj#)
Birthdays of members of Dolly Dots, Queensryche, Jefferson Starship and others, the links are there to read, I never want to short anyone of recognition.
And speaking of which, here is an interesting entry, Robert Lopez, work, "Book of Mormon", "Frozen" and so on:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQNRzWMQ1s&t=0s&index=3&list=PL6Ju-xPD1_Ia5oMG3tcW3SKDcTRLlLGG0#)
Holly Brook, aka Skylar Grey! "Invisible":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVrT_wNw_Y#)
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RM0taAoCgM#)
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Friday, February 23, 2018 Music Thread, Welcoming all music.
Some birthdays today, http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today) https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/23 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/23)
Handel, Messiah:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3T6YwwU9s#)
Johnny Winter, "Johnny B. Goode", despite the many songs he has done, this must be one of his signature songs.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDD2wYePlVs#)
Mike Maxfield, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, "Bad To Me"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJ620x_Ra4#)
Rusty Young, Poco with "Crazy Love":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_FjIVFu6k#)
Brad Whitford, Aerosmith, "I don't want to miss a thing":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSGRv02THg#)
Terry "Tex" Comer of the Band Ace, "How Long":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vhxgVcV_s#)
Robert Collins, The Charlatans with "Alabama Bound":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQSJBSl9SM0#)
Steve Holy, "Radio Up", more modern country:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C771YtgMEEo#)
Lars Olaf-Johannsen of the Cardigans, "Love Fool"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6aOFI7hms&list=PLAefUUXajJQzNTe569YvgqKZeXxO6_AJj#)
Birthdays of members of Dolly Dots, Queensryche, Jefferson Starship and others, the links are there to read, I never want to short anyone of recognition.
And speaking of which, here is an interesting entry, Robert Lopez, work, "Book of Mormon", "Frozen" and so on:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQNRzWMQ1s&t=0s&index=3&list=PL6Ju-xPD1_Ia5oMG3tcW3SKDcTRLlLGG0#)
Holly Brook, aka Skylar Grey! "Invisible":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVrT_wNw_Y#)
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Barbara Alston of the Crystals has passed away at 74 years old: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/barbara-alston-crystals-singer-on-%E2%80%9960s-hits-like-%E2%80%98da-doo-ron-ron%E2%80%99-dies-at-74/ar-BBJuIJy?OCID=ansmsnnews11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/barbara-alston-crystals-singer-on-%E2%80%9960s-hits-like-%E2%80%98da-doo-ron-ron%E2%80%99-dies-at-74/ar-BBJuIJy?OCID=ansmsnnews11)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DokE_bSp2t8#)
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Weekend Music Thread, February 24-25, 2018, Welcoming All Music
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/24 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/24)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Looking at some of Saturday's birthdays, anyone is welcome to add in for Saturday or Sunday:
Rupert Holmes... The Pina Colada song or actually, "Escape (The Pina Colada song)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsj2wdFDmLk#)
I was tired of my lady
We'd been together to long
Like a warn out recording of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read
If you like pina colada's
Read more: Rupert Holmes - Escape (the Pina Colada Song). Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Paul Jones of the Manfred Mann band with "The Mighty Quinn", so like their 3rd or 4th biggest hit.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13hH0pJx5s#)
Nicky Hopkins, renown pianist with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane too I believe, stints with Jeff Beck as well; his initial solo album turned out an interesting version of "(can't get no) Satisfaction"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoIz_C7eyGM#)
Michelle Shocked, "Quality of Mercy":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru7cNCmR6Mk#)
George Thorogood, what else but "Bad to the Bone" and if I may say, a lot of other good songs:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhJ69mD7xI#)
Colin Farley, Cutting Crew, "I just died in your arms tonight"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iKVySPpPfQ#)
So, a pretty good opening line up.
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbnWr1-Qsc#)
Greg Allman, Zac Brown, Vince Gill
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Birthday related...
Joanie Sommers (hit the kazoo):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zm1cMRR-7k#)
Faron Young:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D9hEYU253k#)
Paul Young-Manfred Mann:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLO2siA7J0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96ApLpx3Ps#)
the originals...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZZ_Z0q24Z8#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isrMCTUEMw#)
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A few birthdays for the 25th, Stuart "Woody" Woods, Bay City Rollers. "Shang A Lang":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqhvQcHn2c#)
Tommy Newsom, Tonight Show fame:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ma7VI97LmY#)
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Paul Jones of the Manfred Mann band with "The Mighty Quinn", so like their 3rd or 4th biggest hit.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13hH0pJx5s#)
Paul Jones actually left Manfred Mann well before the revamped band cut "The Mighty Quinn"---but not before he sang on the record
some think still to be the British Invasion's prettiest love song (though the Beatles would top it for that quality with "For No One," and
then there'd come the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset") . . .
Manfred Mann, "Pretty Flamingo"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4WGU_yzeRY#)
Manfred Mann the band name was picked by their first record producer, who thought they needed a name shorter and punchier and
chose the name of their keyboardsman---over the objections of Mann himself. They were anomalous among British Invasion bands
for playing edgy, harder rock on their singles but harder core blues and even jazz on their albums, and for not touring the U.S. as often
as their fellow British Invaders did despite their hits.
Cracks began to appear when guitarist/saxophonist/flautist Mike Vickers decided to leave to concentrate on songwriting and production.
Then Paul Jones decided to take a crack at a solo career that would include acting as well as singing, though he didn't actually leave
until early 1966. Those allowed Tom McGuinness to return to playing guitar as the band enlisted Jack Bruce to play bass and sing---for
a short while, anyway. Bruce joined the group because their touring commitments in Europe would help him pay the rent---he'd been
fired from the less commercial Graham Bond Organisation after a few too many rows with drummer Ginger Baker---and it's Bruce's
bass you hear on "Pretty Flamingo," though he didn't sing the number; Jones cut it just before he departed. But Bruce had a slightly
bigger fish to fry---after sitting in with John Mayall's Blues Breakers, he struck a friendship with their then-guitarist, Eric Clapton,
and decided to try working with Clapton separately; shortly after, Baker, too, sat in with the Blues Breakers and, equally impressed
with Clapton, invited him to join a new group he planned. When Clapton talked Baker into settling bygones with Bruce because Bruce's
ability on bass was nonpareil, the three had a new trio---Cream.
Mann, McGuinness, and drummer Mike Hugg then replaced Bruce and Jones with Klaus Voorman---the longtime Beatles associate who'd
learned to play bass in the interim---and singer Mike d'Abo and, with a new recording contract, and took the group in a slightly more
pop direction with folk and psychedelic experimentation thrown in, and it was that lineup that produced "The Mighty Quinn" and
several other hits and misses before it transformed, with a few personnel changes, into the Chapter Two and then Manfred Mann's
Earth Band lineups.
Nicky Hopkins, renown pianist with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane too I believe, stints with Jeff Beck as well; his initial solo album turned out an interesting version of "(can't get no) Satisfaction"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoIz_C7eyGM#)
In 1971, during early sessions for Exile on Main Street (the last genuinely great Rolling Stones album), after Keith Richards bolted
over the presence of Ry Cooder to augment the band in the studio (just as he'd done previously when Dave Mason was invited to con-
tribute to Let it Bleed), Mick Jagger and Stones rhythm section Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts lingered with Hopkins and Cooder
to do a little jamming. Surprisingly, the results were released on an album, Jamming with Edward; the two highlights of that
album were these (the album wasn't billed to the Stones; depending on whom you ask, it's usually addressed by its title as the name
of the lineup, or by the five players billed equally on the jacket):
Jamming with Edward, "Blow with Ry"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHa17mcQBmk#)
Jamming with Edward, "Edward's Thrump Up"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUIPpeLg68#)
Hopkins had been a full-time member of the Jeff Beck Group after their first album, Truth; the group imploded while
touring on their second album, Beck-Ola, and shortly before they would have played Woodstock. He joined
Quicksilver Messenger Service in time to cut their third album, Shady Grove, where the highlight was his very un-
Quicksilver-like . . .
Quicksilver Messenger Service, "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbA7D60XkI#)
That change in Quicksilver's direction (they'd previously been a kind of metaphysical twin-guitar jam outfit led by guitarists
John Cipollina and Gary Duncan) was almost nothing compared to the one kicked into place when founding member Dino
Valenti---who'd been jailed before they really got off the ground thanks to a marijuana bust---returned and, to the surprise
of many, took over entirely as the lead singer and chief songwriter. Though it produced a few bright moments to come,
Valenti's reedy voice (he's politely described as making fingernails on a blackboard resemble a string quartet) alienated as
often as it welcomed fans; the consensus to come was that the band might have been better off taping his mouth shut
while leaning on his obvious abilities as a songwriter. They scored an unlikely FM radio hit with "Fresh Air" from Just for
Love, but their best moment of the Valenti era might have been his protest number that provided the title for the
followup, and Hopkins is a key element of it:
Quicksilver Messenger Service, "What About Me"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvjXhUSUpU#)
Nicky Hopkins battled Crohn's disease most of his life and died in 1994 of complications from intestinal surgery related to it.
He was only 50. Of the rest of his Quicksilver cohorts (he left the band after What About Me), John Cipollina, their
influential guitarist, died of emphysema in 1989 at 45; and, Dino Valenti---whose real name was Chet Powers (he billed
himself as Dino Valenti as a performer and, usually, Jesse Oris Farrow as a songwriter)---recorded one solo album but
otherwise laid low in the Bay Area following Quicksilver's final demise, until his death in 1994 at 57; he suffered a brain
aneurysm in the 1980s and may also have had adverse effects from anti-convulsive medications. As much as his identity
is tied to Quicksilver, Valenti's best-known song is still probably . . .
The Youngbloods, "Get Together"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUzPOiLqv88#)
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A 24 February birthday---film composer Michel Legrand . . .
Noel Harrison, "The Windmills of Your Mind" (from The Thomas Crown Affair)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50_K8P194M#)
Michel Legrand, "Theme from Summer of '42"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHezowVjDX4#)
. . . and, a more poignant and heartbreaking version played in this scene:
"Theme from Summer of '42"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXFp884q2y0#)
Legrand's work also includes . . .
Barbra Streisand, "Papa Can You Hear Me" (from Yentl)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCPAo5e_F8#)
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And, two 25 February birthdays . . . George Harrison . . .
George Harrison, All Things Must Pass
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVF-tAcocs#)
. . . and one-time member of the Four Preps, Ed Cobb, who later became a successful songwriter . . .
The Standells, "Dirty Water"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVgNwD14pA#)
The Classics IV, "Spooky"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4SoXILDOI4#)
Gloria Jones had first crack at this Cobb number; her version went nowhere, but a British synth duo
made a monster hit of it in 1982 . . .
Soft Cell, "Tainted Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrHoGi4E6w#)
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Re: Rupert Holmes
I'm more of a fan of his other top-10 hit, "Him."
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TKFRPEMt2M#)
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This next piece is performed by Lani Hall, the wife of Herb Alpert, who also contributes to the backing vocals.
This piece was based on a song written by Willis Alan Ramsey, but she found the lyrical content, well, strange. So she rewrote some of the lyrics and turned it into a jazz-pop ballad.
The original, however, was the one that somehow ended up having an extended life...perhaps because it was about rodents. Upon hearing a cover, the Captain and Tennille added it to their live sets as a gag, and eventually "Muskrat Love" became a top-5 hit.
But here's that song, without the muskrats. Hall calls the tune "Sun Down."
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8J5oDr48jo#)
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Some musical humour/humourous music . . .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tnOWAillk#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EclSKZxhbCk#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOtHyADdExk#)
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Some Sunday Fare, taking a trip on the good ol' gospel ship!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER_88OHCPZo#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vDtEVvvNk#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVW1pHs0LY#)
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Today he would have been 75. Happy birthday, George Harrison . . .
The Beatles, "Within You, Without You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2dMSfmUJec#)
The Beatles, "Blue Jay Way"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coz0TmK2ZIg#)
. . . an intriguing cover of a Harrison song (the best of the new songs on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack) by former Gong guitarist Steve Hillage:
Steve Hillage, "It's All Too Much"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM9oNigAIrI#)
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At 65 I'm feeling like the kid here. It feels to me like Rock was SO much more fun in the 80s.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIpRdbi9pYw#)
Leftist cultural rot. It even dumbed down pop music.
People don't actually play their instruments anymore.
They Wear them for the video.
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Blue Monday, February 26th, 2018 Music Thread... Fats and Johnny Cash's birthdays
There you go, two legends...
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/26 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/26)
(https://imgfast.net/users/1514/56/66/82/smiles/413463.gif)
Blue Monday
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDO78-0a4ho#)
I guess things happen that way and Hello Stranger, the latter having a rhythm similar to the famous "Wildwood flower" song, a big hit by the Carter family and per bing, written by Hank Thompson.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAUT-asSSc#)
Bob "Bear" Hite of Canned Heat, "Going up the country":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhpiUFSYWI#)
Mitch Ryder of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, "Devil with a blue dress on":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEl5m6xXg7A#)
Michael Bolton, "How am I suppose to live without you":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFood_bTOX4#)
And others.
Non-birthday related, the Glamophones with "Rock around the clock"!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhpLJHiR6zc#)
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Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash - 1969 live on Johnny's TV show
"Girl From The North Country"
from album Nashville Skyline 1969
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g77wH68dFC8#)
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Bob (The Bear) Hite of Canned Heat (vocals, occasional harmonica---usually when ace harmonica man Alan Wilson was playing his lyrical slide guitar) in their best environment . . .
Canned Heat, Live at Topanga Corral
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zcS2A29BDw#)
Canned Heat, "Woodstock Boogie"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM5OC4gxU_I#)
Canned Heat, Recorded Live in Europe 1970
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-R9S1Ik4KA#)
. . . and, the best of Johnny Cash:
Johnny Cash, All Aboard the Blue Train
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxiikM_HVk#)
Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqrzVhWPm3s#)
Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZ-2HDJzFw#)
Johnny Cash, The Holy Land
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7jA2-CybIg#)
Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at San Quentin
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wES3FVw1P-M#)
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Birthday related...
Sandie Shaw:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUsXlIZwHBc#)
Mitch Ryder:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKdKReioXao#)
a few from Fats:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54IBbr7hy0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tqeGk8QnGw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gcZgOOR4_A#)
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Derek & The Dominos on The Johnny Cash Show, including a jam with Cash and Carl Perkins
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW1BFtWPbX4#)
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Not sure if it was on the lists but on this day, Jackie Gleason was born as well:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksMjDifxCnI#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfNEmTo2u2U#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vIr0DhtGsg#)
Do the Huckabuck:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjB1x6eCWY#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNPzU5ib54#)
In the early 1980s, a group called "Coast to Coast" did a fine version of the song, another case where a group made it mainly in the UK and maybe Europe, Japan, etc. but not here that I know of.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv4Tc0N1KKk#)
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Victor Hugo born as well, "Do you hear the people sing" from the musical adapted from the novel, "Les Miserables", one of the great books and one of the great musicals of all time in my humble opinion.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlQNsl4Qvk#)
I have the original in French.
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RIP (drummer) Pat Torpey Dec 13, 1953 - Feb 7, 2018 - complications from Parkinsons
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGJOvwYMbY#)
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Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash - 1969 live on Johnny's TV show
"Girl From The North Country"
from album Nashville Skyline 1969
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g77wH68dFC8#)
@truth_seeker
Just for the record, I see there have been people called the "Girl from the North Country", one passed away only about a month ago. That's a good version, better than the album:
Dylan's presumed 'Girl from the North Country' has died
The woman rumored to be the subject of Bob Dylan's song "Girl from the North Country" died last week in California, according to friends and Dylanophiles.
Echo Star Casey, nee Helstrom, was in her late 70s and had lived in California for years, though she stayed in touch with her Hibbing roots. It was as a teenager in the Iron Range city when Casey — described as "striking" with white-blonde hair and dark eye makeup, the Brigitte Bardot of Hibbing — dated the eccentric folk singer, then a classmate at Hibbing High School.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4391880-dylans-presumed-girl-north-country-has-died (http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4391880-dylans-presumed-girl-north-country-has-died)
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@TomSea That is very cool about the beautiful girl.
I am a long time Dylan fan, having seen him at Long Beach CA in either 1964 or more likely 1965 (by which he did shows with 1/2 acoustic and 1/2 electric--which I do remember).
His lifetime musical journey has a lot of country influences, I am learning more and more.
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Chuck Wagon Gang, "Gloryland Way", lovely music, was based out of Fort Worth or Lubbock (wikipedia), depending what source one used:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rhhXNtEeFg#)
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All Music Is Welcomed.
Tues., Feb. 27, 2018 Music Thread
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/27 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/27)
Some birthdays,
Dexter Gordan, Sax player, "Night in Tunisia":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woVHjtWaVoY#)
Guy Mitchell, "Singing the Blues":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJA8b3esxfE#)
Marian Anderson, "My Lord What A Morning":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTdwpT_UMHg#)
Eddie Gray of Tommy James and the Shondells, "Sweet Cherry Wine":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt1gvRKJCms#)
Neil Schon, Journey, also, member of Santana, Journey's "Open Arms":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ByIYof4mqo#)
Gary Christian of the Christians, "Harvest For The World":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRbzaP4H3U#)
Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel, "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4QoCskBN4#)
Robert Balderrama, ? and the Mysterians, you know, they were a heavily Latino group from Detroit, "Can't Get Enough of you baby", I think Dave "Baby Cortez (Happy Organ) came from there too:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqzyi-5An50#)
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Birthday related...
Guy Mitchell:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEf5pfiNh8#)
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Eddie Gray-Tommy James & the Shondells:
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Birthdays today include jazz/blues vocal legend Mildred Bailey . . .
Mildred Bailey, "Rockin' Chair"
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. . . Southern rocker Johnny Van Zant, who had a fine career of his own before hooking up with whatever's passed for
Lynyrd Skynyrd since the early 1990s . . .
The Johnny Van Zant Band, "No More Dirty Deals"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DjTa9Q4mkA#)
. . . and, for my man Dexter Gordon, a couple of choice cuts from beginning with his mid-1970s comeback:
Dexter Gordon Quartet, "Moment's Notice"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n951KMzAiNs#)
Dexter Gordon, "The Blues Walk (Loose Walk)"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeyOXCj3efs#)
Dexter Gordon, "Gotham City"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCBOu8688U#)
Dexter Gordon, "Body and Soul"
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@dfwgator You might enjoy this one. It's not like it seems from looks... (and skip to about 1:03)
She's 8 years old. The piece is YAMATO, by Musashi.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA83Ej2f5BU&feature=youtu.be&t=1m2s#)
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Wednesday, February 28th 2018 Music Thread, All Music Is Welcomed.
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/28 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/february/28)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
We will also look at birthdays, including the 29th of February.
Another from Tommy James and the Shondells already today, Ronnie Rosman, refer to Feb. 27th songs.
Joe South, singer, songwriter of "The games people play" and "Hush" made popular by Deep Purple:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrHDY12Wlw0#)
Don Helms, steel guitar, various country artists, including being a member of 'Hank Williams and his drifting cowboys", "Your cheatin' heart", on over 100 HW songs:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4LCoh0VGQ#)
Marty Sanders of Jay and the Americans, "This magic moment":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpePWo56zm4#)
Brian Jones, Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday":
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I'm going to put a "?" here, Donnie Iris of Wild Cherry with "Play that funky music" (good song though and notice, the band played like they were wearing fros and their voices too seemed to reflect that), note the captioning mentions nothing of Donnie Iris, it seems I have heard of him:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFiv9M577a4#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Iris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Iris) Worked with the Jaggerz in their hit, "the wrapper".
Cindy Wilson, B-52s, "Roam",
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On the 29th, Jimmy Dorsey, Randy Jackson of the rock band Zebra. More birthdays later.
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Non-Birthday Related:
Way Down In My Soul By Carl Story and the Rambling Mountaineers!
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Birthdays today also include jazz/Latin drummer Willie Bobo
Willie Bobo, "Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries"
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(Santana loved the song enough to keep it in their repertoire in their earliest years . . . )
. . . songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Joe South . . .
Joe South, "Games People Play"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6owaQqwgUk#)
. . . a Joe South number provided the first hit for this British band, whose version is way better known than his:
Deep Purple, "Hush"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTDwBtll3oM#)
. . . Ronnie Rosman, drummer with Tommy James & the Shondells . . .
Tommy James & the Shondells, "Cellophane Symphony" (who says these guys were just garage rockers turned pop-rockers?)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-chVoK6x0XA#)
. . . Cindy Wilson, singer with the B-52s . . .
The B-52s, "Rock Lobster"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz65vonktMA#)
. . . and, for birthday boy Brian Jones, the best musician in the Rolling Stones until the drugs and depression pushed him out
of the band . . .
The Rolling Stones, "Little Red Rooster" (Brian Jones, slide guitar)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jg1IRlY76E#)
The Rolling Stones, "Play with Fire" (Brian Jones, keyboards)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UWmSJV3s8#)
The Rolling Stones, "The Last Time" (Jones came up with the guitar lick that kicks off and plays throughout)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te1gHXky1l4#)
The Rolling Stones, "Under My Thumb" (Brian Jones, marimba)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UWmSJV3s8#)
The Rolling Stones, "Paint It, Black" (Brian Jones, sitar)
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The Rolling Stones, "2,000 Light Years from Home" (Brian Jones, organ, Mellotron, electronics)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_aUkr4a9I#)
The Rolling Stones, "No Expectations" (Brian Jones, slide guitar)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2grHpBpILvI#)
This book is a staggering telling of Jones's troubled life and talent . . .
(https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1396830790l/20821122.jpg)
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Birthday related...
Joe South:
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Marty Sanders-Jay & The Americans:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhuynwCWsg#)
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Brian Jones-Rolling Stones:
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Barbara Acklin:
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Jimmy Dorsey:
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Just something I saw this morning...
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Jimmy Dorsey:
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Jimmy Dorsey was the polar opposite of his younger brother, Tommy---a friendly but introverted fellow who was far
less likely to get into ego squabbles with his musicians. (And far less corrupt: there were no rumours of onerous
contracts giving him fifty percent of his musicians' lifetime earnings if they left his band for any reason, the way
brother Tommy liked to impose.) The older Dorsey was also more musically adventurous than his kid brother . . .
but you almost wouldn't know it to look at his surviving discography, because it concentrates so heavily on his
clever vocal hits (usually, involving Bob Eberly singing a song ballad style to open, then the ensemble having
a swing before Helen O'Connell or Kitty Kallen would sing the song again but with a swinging, uptempo style) that
his instrumentals aren't as well anthologised.
Jimmy Dorsey was also friendlier to bebop when it arrived than were other swing band leaders, and it wasn't
unheard of for his band to stretch and blow with the vocalists on the sidelines more often than other popular
swing bands; temperamentally, they considered themselves jazzmen first. He never imposed his own personality on
his musicians and it probably surprised the music business when, after he was finally forced to disband his orchestra,
he re-joined brother Tommy in 1953, considering they'd broken up when Tommy walked out of their band over a
musical dispute (supposedly, Tommy Dorsey didn't like the more freewheeling arrangement Jimmy favoured; Jimmy
Dorsey continued the band under his own name from then on while Tommy Dorsey put his own organisation together.)
That reunion lasted long enough for the brothers to host a television show that provided Elvis Presley his first television
exposure; Jimmy Dorsey died of throat cancer a year after brother Tommy died in his sleep under heavy sedation after
a heavy meal.
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, "Contrasts"
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Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, "Listen to the Mockingbird"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHerOyOBEI#)
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, "Shoot the Meatballs to Me, Dominick! Boy!"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQgGIUyAkQ#)
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Belatedly, Ralph Stanley one of the pioneers of Blue Grass Music, Feb. 26:
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Non-birthday:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKm2_67xtVs#)
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More instrumentals, I'm not too familiar with this.
Jet Harris, Tony Meehan - Scarlett O'Hara
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ePG1LWGIM#)
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Even more instrumentals . . .
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY4ZOOaxaKA#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbv_COIDUi0#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx1uWlpfrtE#)
This guy recorded a few of these songs with I guess, some Yiddish schtick, if that is correct to say....
More comedy:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h4bjrf0dI8#)
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Some Yiddish surf schtick . . .
Dick Dale, "Hava Nagila" (a.k.a. "Meshuggena Beach Party" heh heh heh)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_nVjO--Ps#)
. . . and some real Jewish wry bread . . .
Allan Sherman, "Harvey and Sheila"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdjds9iwcA#)
Allan Sherman, "Al N'Yetta"
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