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Monday, April 2nd 2018 Music Thread, Marvin Gaye, Leon Russel, Emmylou Harris, etc.
All Music Is Welcomed!
Birthdays today, http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today) https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/2 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/2)
Leon Russel's birthday is April 2nd, I see a few articles on the news on him:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/features/before-leon-russell-events-things-to-know-about-tulsa-s/article_2c7202f2-62da-54f6-9dbe-37dcfe900d99.html (http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/features/before-leon-russell-events-things-to-know-about-tulsa-s/article_2c7202f2-62da-54f6-9dbe-37dcfe900d99.html)
http://www.news9.com/story/37822920/new-tributes-to-leon-russell-in-tulsa (http://www.news9.com/story/37822920/new-tributes-to-leon-russell-in-tulsa)
And this, 8 days ago, "Elton John donates to the Leon Russel Monument Fund"
http://www.whio.com/entertainment/elton-john-donates-leon-russell-monument-fund/ug7BkrpolSPmSIGQI0IdyI/ (http://www.whio.com/entertainment/elton-john-donates-leon-russell-monument-fund/ug7BkrpolSPmSIGQI0IdyI/)
'Pisces Apple Lady'
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgaxpkY80qQ#)
"Tight Rope":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Z9qN8R9Bg#)
Leon and Mary Russel, "Rainbow In Your Eyes":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFUHoaPUtE#)
Next, Happy Birthday to Miss EmmyLou, Valedictorian of her class (or Salutorian, I forget), born in Alabama, but she might be a bit of a Military Brat, don't quote me on that...largely discovered in Bal-T-More, singing folks songs. I think, one can find a really early album of hers that is actually folk vs. the country sound, country rock, however one wants to call it, Emmylou's music.
"Tulsa Queen":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g#)
"Beneath Still Waters", from one of the youtube videos, they say this was a number one song:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfm2_BTnzjA#)
Of course, about 4 or 5 Emmylou songs were posted about 6 weeks ago, so these are some different ones...
Marvin Gaye, "What's going on"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M#)
"Mercy, Mercy Me"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxMRgponxD0#)
Serge Gainsbourg, Frenchman, sang with British-woman Jane Birkin of Birkin bag fame, just famous. ' Je t'aime... moi non plus', to me, the organ at least, sounds a lot like Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade Of Pale":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9cDYEC5mLI#)
That Pam Geller blog, once had some stuff on her, on the weekend, she writes about movies, they have like a movie of the week, other topics sometimes. I guess, Jane Birkin was a "fashion icon".
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Emmylou Harris is a national treasure.
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Merle Haggard, sure, the finest, Johnny Horton who died young is also up there and some Dwight Yoakam too. Johnny Horton was a creative genius who was killed by a drunk driver when he was about 33 years old. Dwight has something about him that seems very authentic in the traditional sense.
Johnny Horton, 'North To Alaska' for one:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zei2KoHtT1Q#)
Fine cover by Dwight Yoakam:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EbqEIeIZM#)
Connie Smith singing "Seattle", more excellent stuff, Bobby Sherman sang it too.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rntYkOENlQ#)
Buck Owens, mentioned in the other thread though, really, made his mark on the West Coast, even up into Seattle.
Back in those days, it was Bakersfield and Nashville, or something like that.
As for Roy Orbison, I'm not sure if Wink, Texas is listed as his official birthplace, I got that from somewhere but it's a bit away from that panhandle area, if I remember correctly, kind of around the corner of New Mexico into West Texas.
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Birthday related...
Lou Monte:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj0EwLB8EQA#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXblKAXW6Sg#)
Marvin Gaye:
(backed by Martha & The Vandellas)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9qGMPMSS8#)
(backed by The Supremes)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9a3hZScUA#)
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Birthdays today include Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers . . .
The Mills Brothers, "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9U75YC-jA#)
. . . jazz guitarist Larry Coryell . . .
Larry Coryell, "Oleo"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM2Zl5S4Cjk#)
. . . David Robinson, drummer for the original Modern Lovers . . .
The Modern Lovers, "Old World"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsEyDe8YhhI#)
. . . and the Cars . . .
The Cars, "Panorama"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQd1obOZN4#)
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Larry Corryel, the Trio album is interesting with John McLauglin and Paco de Lucia:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDVcg1Q-dHI#)
It looks like they teamed up a few times through the decades.
Also, I'm not sure if any of Marvin Gaye's songs with Tammi Terrell were posted.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_D-greh8Q#)
She tragically passed away, young herself. Only 24, she succumbed to illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammi_Terrell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammi_Terrell)
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Also, I'm not sure if any of Marvin Gaye's songs with Tammi Terrell were posted.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_D-greh8Q#)
She tragically passed away, young herself. Only 24, she succumbed to illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammi_Terrell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammi_Terrell)
Tammi Mongomery was briefly married to boxer Ernie Terrell...Ernie fought against & was defeated by Muhammed Ali in 1967...Ernie's sister Jean replaced Diana Ross in The Supremes in 1969.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwFID2SdlA#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vE1L9WveY#)
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Tammi Montgomery was briefly married to boxer Ernie Terrell...Ernie fought against & was defeated by Muhammed Ali in 1967...Ernie's sister Jean replaced Diana Ross in The Supremes in 1969.
. . . and the Jean Terrell-led Supremes made a few records that were easily the equal of many they made with Diana Ross, even if Ross
had the bigger name and was a hard act to follow in terms of image . . .
The Supremes, "Up the Ladder to the Roof"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1S-ypz5a4#)
The Supremes, "Stoned Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGabuGle1A#)
Tammi Terrell was a tragedy. Some Motown insiders thought her issues began with an abusive relationship she had with Temptations lead singer
David Ruffin and, perhaps coincidentally, developed migraine headaches. (Ruffin once hit her over the head with a motorcycle helmet during an
argument.) She collapsed in Marvin Gaye's arms during a show in Virginia and was diagnosed with a brain tumour; she struggled to continue
recording as her health declined and underwent eight surgeries before she finally died in 1970. "It was as if God had taken pity on this tortured
angel and finally let her rest," Motown historian Nelson George wrote of her death. Marvin Gaye was said to have been so devastated that he
retired from the road for three years; some who knew him well believe he never recovered from Terrell's death.
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Late entry: This fellow's birthday... http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
In 1908, 110 years ago...Buddy Ebsen, that's what he broke into the business as, a dancer?? I think so.
With Shrley Temple:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At45Av5RcyQ#)
It's probably among my favorite Andy Griffith shows, where Buddy Ebsen was a hobo.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CU2zfyriY4#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Ebsen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Ebsen)
Republican, born in Belleville, Illinois.
In Davey Crockett:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tce1LtFzNAo#)
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 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/april/3 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/3)
Checking a few birthdays, as we mainly look at mainstream performers, largely popular performers I'd say and a few names jump out, Doris Day, Wayne Newton, big names and plenty of others too.
Stan Freeman (not Stan Friedman), 'Fly Me To The Moon':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl1pI7A7tmw&list=PLodaZluetCnutex7JFfLQ92peKl6Eo6qC#)
Doris Day, 'Que Sera, Sera', to me, is her biggest song but she recorded for decades sometime before that....
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc&list=RDEMBcNH_i1cgIQu8puqDupLuw#)
Per Perry Como's 'Jukebox Baby', someone made this video with a young Doris in it per some movie. I think it's interesting to watch. It's all about dancing.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgVZ5tM98YI#)
Don Gibson, "Oh Lonesome Me":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSwyHz6J4Q8#)
Jeff Barry, songwriter was born on this day, wrote such songs as "Da Do Ron Ron" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" sung here by Ray Peterson:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTjQgkHzbTk#)
Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, "Sidewalk Surfin'":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LJ0OBJb8QE#)
Wayne Newton, 'Danke Schoen', he was on some tv shows too, guest appearances...The Lucy Show I think. Born in Virginia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Newton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Newton)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_giioppT4&list=PL76SKerCqRbQPeOM_VSCH5puDoyZT3PiS#)
Tony Orlando, I believe he was in the business, before the big act, with Dawn...."Tie A Yellow Ribbon":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtDQxJlcUxE&list=RDEMhqvj4OS2VxTAF4E55sLJwg#)
"He Don't Love You, Like I Love You":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01S5a95w92I#)
"Bless You", looks solo.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeySLXlLwQo#)
Miguel Bose, Panamanian Spanish singer, 'Amante Bandido' which is a bit of a fun song, you can tell, it's sort of like the music played in the early '80s.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA9p_fpUxnY#)
Quebec singer, Marie Denise Pelletier , so some French-languaged singing from Canada...
Richard Manuel, another Canadian, looks like he played with the Band and Ronnie Hawkins before that, "Up On Cripple Creek" by the Band.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisXJSsULGM#)
Mel Schacher, Grand Funk Railroad, 'I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY#)
Craig Taubman, Jewish singer, "Hashkiveinu":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUTiKtCS23c&list=RDEMYbgYy7KhCbCnLFmH0T_T4w# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUTiKtCS23c&list=RDEMYbgYy7KhCbCnLFmH0T_T4w#)
Quite a lineup, and apparently, more could be added...Fortunes again, 3 times in 2 weeks I think....
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Birthday related...
Doris Day:
(later covered by The Shirelles)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glGezE27fPE#)
Don Gibson:
(later covered by Ray Charles)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0nzJx5Zc#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phCX0E8avxs#)
Jan Berry:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMVraxaBBI#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQV_611IM28#)
Songwriter Jeff Barry:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxaMkvaMxes#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJHpkOJsCo#)
Tony Orlando:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2mfGG4vS4#)
Billy Joe Royal:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3rJUDhcjs#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RLw5FZmJXw#)
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Counting down to the Hag's birthday, April 6th, one of his top hits and a deep cut, "California Blues" by Jimmie Rodgers...so a standard...sort of Great Depression themed.
"Hungry Eyes":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuraB0OHkvs#)
"California Blues":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1cSaHPzxhA#)
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 Music Thread... All music is (https://imgfast.net/users/1514/56/66/82/smiles/912798.gif)
We will look at a few birthdays, Muddy Waters was born on this day in history...
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/4 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/4)
'Mannish Boy':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfqNEvykv0&list=RDEMKmxG53V07V52hUQFD4_QSA#)
'Walking Through The Park':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuZgoFj79Mg#)
Sharon Seeley, songwriter, wrote "Poor Little Fool" sung by Rick Nelson:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__l4DbiY3Zk#)
Margo Sylvia of Margo and Tune Weavers,
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-mT6Bo8bg#)
Larry Lingle of the Four Seasons, 'Sherry':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVAsnD969qs#)
Steve Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers, "She's A Broken Lady":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VSp6XyJcWM#)
Berry Oakley, Allman Brothers...'One Way Out":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3zW0W8h1g#)
Non-birthday related, a bit of música norteña from Mexico.
Broncos de Reynosa, 2 instrumentals,
La Capsula (dancing sequence starts about 15 seconds in):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NEYIs6XJzc#)
El Cerro de la Silla (named for Saddle Hill, Saddle Mountain outside Monterrey, the picture shows why it is easy to see why they call it that):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcWu-pw9No#)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Cerro_de_la_Silla.jpg)
The Broncos of Reynosa, with their accordion player, Vargas...excellent player, exemplify música norteña in a very noble way, they played some decades ago. Now, some of the genre has even been tied into singing sorts of ballads, corridos to Narco-traffickers, almost making them legends. These modern musicians and singers, have at times, suffered the wrath of rival cartels. But those Broncos were a good band.
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Birthday related...
Kris Jensen:
(written by John D. Loudermilk)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88f9eoMASzE#)
Major Lance:
(both written by Curtis Mayfield)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceur-mpQUZc#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-fGIeoSel4#)
Songwriter Sharon Sheeley:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi36ukbbTbw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZn1GI4yvKs#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpsYTfRMOCk#)
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The one-of-a-kind Muddy Waters when he was only a rumour folklorist/collector for the Library of Congress Alan Lomax tracked down
and recorded for the first time . . .
Muddy Waters, The Complete Plantation Recordings: The Historic 1941-42 Library of Congress Field Recordings
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGWLNcjnOg#)
. . . and during his mid-to-late 1970s comeback which lasted to the end of his life . . .
Muddy Waters, Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMz6HhAdBYY#)
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Birthdays today also include South African jazz legend, trumpeter Hugh Masekela . . .
Hugh Masekela, "Grazing in the Grass"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZF60EPdM#)
. . . Dave Hill, lead guitarist for Slade . . .
Slade, "Get Down and Get With It"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15QFn1fNOxI#)
. . . Pick Withers, the original drummer for Dire Straits . . .
Dire Straits, "Tunnel of Love"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG5XQqaSwbM#)
. . . Irish metal/blues/rock guitarist Gary Moore . . .
Gary Moore, "Still Got the Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmsUkutNnI0#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSW-LJJHH3U#) (Hannity use to play this sometimes on his show, talking about something.....
Thursday, April 5th, 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)
Born on this day in history:
Tony Williams, the Platters, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2di83WAOhU#)
Bobby Bland, "Let The Little Girl Dance":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-shT034LqQ#)
Joe Meek, expansive career, produced 'Telstar' for the Tornadoes, among a number of projects.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras#)
Met a tragic end.
Ronnie White of the Miracles, "Tears Of A Clown":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heHLbchPKk#)
David Swarbrick, Fairport Convention, "A Sailor's Life"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrGtFxtWXU#)
Alan Clarke of the Hollies, "Just One Look":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJc-J7edks#)
Nicholas Caldwell of the Whispers, "And The Beat Goes On":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaxEa5ONJw#)
Dave Holland of Trapeze and later, Judas Priest...
Agnetha Faltskog of Abba, "SOS":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvChjHcABPA#)
Obviously, Abba could have hits galore listed here, as one of the entries here says, she wrote a song earlier as a solo act, that got her started.
Paula Cole, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPR108kwNo4#)
Those above were off of the rock and roll website.
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Coming in from the West coast, yes, he is Johnny Cash's brother, Tommy Cash, "Six White Horses":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJPuAKov2eU#)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cash)
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Birthday related...
Tony Williams-Platters:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1a3HZ83qM#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77BPss8LVU#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTc3CH1U_q0#)
Alan Clarke-Hollies:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5eRytfPcA#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gy8RoW-_HM#)
Ronnie White-Miracles:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIGt2Teu-uE#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBJQOb9u1Y#)
Crispian St. Peters:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwwR8tfQMoM#)
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Sam the Sham of "Wooly Bully" fame, tackles musica norteño, very effective, he doesn't have the primitive type of singing that one sometimes hears from Mexico, there seems to be much more soul in his voice and, I'm not sure if his Spanish might be a bit of what's called "Spanglish" actually, more of an American dialect than Castillian. With Flaco Jimenez.
Palomita, que vuelas de la noche...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAAd3GrOOM#)
And Wooly Wooly by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, really, I get a new appreciation, nothing sounded like this. Sort of, to me, at least, a party song like "Tequila" by the champs or "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" or some other songs, or maybe it is kind of like "Garage Rock", though, I definitely would not call it that.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EGM_sQopJQ#)
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Birthdays today also include jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine . . .
Stanley Turrentine, "Sugar"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmTGxdNTxIo#)
. . . Everett Morton, drummer for the (English) Beat . . .
The (English) Beat, "Best Friend"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbYui-Y3r0#)
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Joe Meek, expansive career, produced 'Telstar' for the Tornadoes, among a number of projects.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras#)
Met a tragic end.
@TomSea
That's putting it politely.
Meek faced trouble almost right out of the chute after he wrote and recorded "Telstar"---the French composer Jean Ledrut sued him for plagiarism over
the song, which Ledrut claimed was lifted from part of his score for a 1960 film, Austerlitz. Meek never saw a penny of royalties for the record in his
lifetime; his hits dried up from that point, too, though not for lack of trying, but by 1967---financially ruined and also living in fear of blackmail because
of his homosexuality (it was illegal in Britain at the time)---Meek was clinically depressed, finally shooting his landlady to death before turning the rifle
on himself fatally.
The rifle actually belonged to Tornados bassist Heinz Burt; Meek had confiscated the weapon from Burt after an argument over Burt's using it on tour
---Burt had left the Tornados and Meek was trying to pump him as a solo performer---to shoot birds.
The Tornados' story was almost as sad. Meek assembled the group as a studio band; the unlikely success of "Telstar" should have made them all rich
and the Tornados a hit on the road . . . but they weren't allowed to tour as the Tornados thanks to a mistaken contract they were signed to to be the
backing group for early British rock star Billy Fury. It kept the Tornados from cashing in on their monster hit on tour and from doing much other
recording as well; they'd been hitless for long enough when they began scattering after 1964. Clem Cattini, the drummer, is probably the best known of
the lot; formerly the drummer for Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (yes, that's him on "Shakin' All Over"), Cattini he became one of producer Shel Talmy's
studio rats and made a long career as a studio musician. At one time, Jimmy Page---another Talmy studio rat who also became a hot session musician
otherwise as well---had Cattini on his short list for the drum slot in what became Led Zeppelin.
The sad enough postscript---the litigation against "Telstar" was settled in Meek's favour after his death. Too late for either he or the Tornados to cash
what was rightfully theirs.
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Friday, April 6th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/6 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/6) ; http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
All music is welcomed, a few birthdays, not many today,
Of course, Merle Haggard's,
Deep cuts, I thought, "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Sidewalks of Chicago":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILGASmcLzm0#)
It's not Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the picture, but you'd think it was at first glance, at least, I don't think so...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XhTpCCzkY#)
This does show, some of his best are not always the ones we might hear on the radio.
And to one of his hits, "Okie From Muskogee":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_PuTXOHz_A#)
"A place where even squares can have a ball", I've heard before, it was written in a bit of light and non-serious tone but as sometimes happens with those songs, they take off. And I could add on a few more.
Andre Previn with Sergei Rachmaninoff's 'Symphony No. 2, (Adagio):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6nBOAvx3A#)
"Like Love":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hZNuEcf6mo#)
He's another one who youtube has some full albums of going back, it's interesting, if one has the time, to listen to some of these LPs in full, especially, the more "instrumental" types of albums, largely BB, Before the Beatles.
Tony Cooner of Hot Chocolate, Ralph Cooper of Air Supply were born on this day...
Warren Haynes, guitarist for the Allman Brothers, I see quite a few other projects that he was involved in as well, here with Brad Whitford of Aerosmith and Joe Bonamassa:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdllcrGfmE#)
"Simple Man":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2K7io14MU#)
I also see a few videos from "Government Mule", a post-Allman brothers band that has gotten quite a bit of attention, FM play, concerts.
Stan Cullimore of the Housemartins, British band, "Happy Hour":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMq2OqPbNU#)
They are one of those bands, I'd hear a song on the radio and think, "well, I didn't know they did that"...
Frank Black of the Pixies, 'Velouri":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUm5T8uQIY#)
And others, worth noting, perhaps a few more later on...
Non-birthday related, Les Baxter, "Shooting Star", some space age music for a Friday:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xukSsmRLXMI#)
(https://imgfast.net/users/1514/56/66/82/smiles/cool8.gif)
Henry Mancini, theme from Hatari:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyD1l4pNDE#)
(https://eng225week4ahlstrom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/hatari1.jpg)
Garry Miles (Buzz Cason), this one only made it to #16, interesting individual who still performs.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grf5LIFJ0xI#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Miles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Miles)
I have some of those XTC albums, maybe one of those guys was mentioned in these birthdays, I don't think so. A good group. I saw them mentioned in the music thread.
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Birthdays today also include Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophonist renowned for revolutionising the instrument with his light sound,
his writing and arranging skills (among others, he arranged and wrote for Miles Davis's groundbreaking Birth of the Cool nonet),
and his piano-less groups of the 1950s . . .
Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, "Blues in Time"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM-a1UNopww#)
. . . Christopher Franke, co-composer/keyboards/sequencers in Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream, "Phaedra"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3X-VqqMdUw#)
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
A few more interesting birthdays today per country music and these really are....
Vernon Dalhart released the first country single that sold 1,000,000 copies, nothing other than the standard, "The wreck of the old 97":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKN1_yN3sgs#)
And so they say that is 1926? It makes you think a little.
Denver Darling and his Texas Cowhands singing "The Devil and Mr. Hitler", obviously, I'm not real up on what these artists sung...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQHPFXYFDbE#)
A little bit more recent, Skeeter Bonn, born Sugarville Illinois, I like some of what I've heard here.
"Chained"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4KV1mTedo#)
Here is a short clip from some show in Wheeling West Virginia:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFAkF5YEEs#)
Engaging personality.
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Per 16 days ago, Trump signed off on the Bakersfield Post Office being named after Merle Haggard:
President Trump is honoring country music legend Merle Haggard
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2018/03/21/president-trump-honoring-country-music-legend-merle-haggard/33138509/ (https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2018/03/21/president-trump-honoring-country-music-legend-merle-haggard/33138509/)
Ceremony to Rename a Downtown Post Office After Merle Haggard
Jada Montemarano, Natalie Tarangioli
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A part of Bakersfield history will be commemorated on Friday as the downtown Bakersfield Post Office is officially renamed after Merle Haggard.
The new name will be the Merle Haggard Post Office Building.
Haggard was an Oildale native and music icon who helped establish the Bakersfield Sound.
Read more at: https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/ceremony-to-rename-a-downtown-post-after-merle-haggard?autoplay=true (https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/ceremony-to-rename-a-downtown-post-after-merle-haggard?autoplay=true)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIR3bu6yrE#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD8bUX7wZi8#)
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Stumbled across this thought it looked amusing....
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BihcBN7_wU#)
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Stumbled across this thought it looked amusing....
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BihcBN7_wU#)
@guitar4jesus
Now, there's a mashup for you: the clown princes of hair mental and the smugger-than-thou avatars of we're-too-smart-for-your-own-good
music.
And I thought this one was a riot . . .
James Brown/Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Sex Machine"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG6T5cydKcM#)
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@EasyAce
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FatalWigglyAgouti-size_restricted.gif)
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Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY#)
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Lucia Micarelli - Kashmir
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWoMMTg1cI#)
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@EasyAce
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FatalWigglyAgouti-size_restricted.gif)
@guitar4jesus
The real thing(s) . . .
James Brown, "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1wtIfs8lg#)
James Brown, "Cold Sweat"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bztE5IbQOo#)
The Temptations, "Smiling Faces Sometimes"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_s9QFJUTZ4#)
Rare Earth, "(I Know) I'm Losing You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28X8--2dFU#)
War, "The World is a Ghetto"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptIcert_Ra8#)
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Jethro Tull Ian Anderson Locomotive Breath Classical
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHoeXnIgZVg#)
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War?
Good God. What is it good for?
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw#)
They did give us the Cisco Kid.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dUFin2ORpg&index=11&list=RDOrCrDaKqS9s#)
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Original Black Betty
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiCEVl_9-MM#)
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leadbelly - house of the rising sun
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs#)
The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc#)
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Original Black Betty
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiCEVl_9-MM#)
Great find!
Robert Pete Williams, "Prisoner Talking Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9uMbGjxqBI#)
Robert Pete Williams, "Free Again"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrKNgKuAZYs#)
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And leave it to the Brits to take the blues to a whole new level.
Deep Purple - Lazy
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIgXtE4K5U#)
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And leave it to the Brits to take the blues to a whole new level.
Deep Purple - Lazy
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIgXtE4K5U#)
The Brits were doing it long before Deep Purple even thought about doing any kind of blues . . .
The Yardbirds, "Got to Hurry" (their then-manager wrote it for Eric Clapton in an ultimately failed bid to keep him from walking out of the group)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw49v_B8rcQ#)
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, "I'm Your Witchdoctor"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lseUZfS514Y#)
Savoy Brown Blues Band, "The Dormouse Rides the Rails"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOxHkyoDRI#)
Cream, "Spoonful"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iB8_ELC2Io#)
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, "I Loved Another Woman"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHHszBIUqo#)
Jeff Beck Group, "Blues Deluxe"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbuU9nzsrJw#)
Ten Years After, "I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKXzxRm9AI#)
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I'm gonna bring it back home with;
Cousin Joe Twoshacks - Leave It To Beaver
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvyfhkgeDJo#)
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Iggy Pop - The Passenger
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhN__oEHaw#)
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Lest we forget... PARDONED!
(http://ticket.heraldtribune.com/files/2014/01/Merle-Haggard-Reagan-1982-AP.jpg)
On March 14, 1972, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan pardoned Merle Haggard. The singer, who had numerous run-ins with the law, served 3 years in San Quentin for a burglary for which he received a full pardon.
http://onecountry.com/40-years-ago-merle-haggard-was-pardoned-by-ronald-regan-1663502851.html (http://onecountry.com/40-years-ago-merle-haggard-was-pardoned-by-ronald-regan-1663502851.html)
Merle Haggard Once Said Reagan ‘Gave Me a Second Chance at Life’
Mariana Barillas / April 06, 2016 /
Merle Haggard, the country music icon who died Wednesday, credited President Ronald Reagan for playing a central role in helping him realize his dreams.
“He was a wonderful man in my life. He gave me a second chance at life in the form of the pardon he gave me,†Haggard said in a CMT interview after Reagan’s death in 2004.
Continued: https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/04/06/merle-haggard-once-said-reagan-gave-me-a-second-chance-at-life/ (https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/04/06/merle-haggard-once-said-reagan-gave-me-a-second-chance-at-life/)
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Did Reagan pardon Johnny Paycheck?
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjRxdMEGds#)
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Did Reagan pardon Johnny Paycheck?
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjRxdMEGds#)
Reagan didn't, but then-Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste did.
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Johnny Paycheck Old violin covers
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwhew_p2JqQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWxUXu4QDQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fneX5a09H0o#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR4LaRPDkoo#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW4HfzL3vVQ#)
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Weekend Music Thread, April 7-8th, 2018
All Music Is Welcomed! "A Place Where Even Squares Can Have A Ball":
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/7 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/7)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Anyone is welcomed to check out Sunday's, the 8th's birthdays...
For now, April, 7th:
Billie Holiday was born on this day in history, 'I'm a fool to want you':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA4BXkF8Dfo#)
It's seeming, like we may have been doing this for around a year now, some of these look familiar...
Percy Faith, "A Summer Place":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7SPm7N6D8#)
Ravi Shankar (on Dick Cavett):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWCiLexilY#)
Mongo Santamaria, "Watermelon Man", Cuban-type music.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLpii6eoaRc#)
Charlie Thomas of the Drifters, "Save The Last Dance For Me":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVF7CvAAnJ4#)
Nick Perito, orchestra leader, 'Big Show' and the "Don Knotts Show", 'Anna':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jST3EyjyY6A#)
"The Green Leaves of Summer"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYq1_e1fi8#)
Apparently used in "Inglorious B----ds"
Spencer Dryden, drummer at times for the Jefferson Airplane and NRPS (New Riders of the Purple Sage), "Lonesome LA Cowboy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrkBB6kj_0#)
Alan Buck of the Four Pennies, "Juliet":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2jh43Od0kE#)
Mick Abrams, Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig, the latter's "Summer Day":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooUWhyF2eNM#)
Patricia Bennet of the Chiffons, quite a few hits, "Sweet Talking Guy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFiXKafAiSk#)
Really, really, a long list today,
Bobby Bare, "Detroit City":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhPJEIlY50#)
Performed a few songs close to novelty numbers like the song about the witch "Marie Laveau" who was a real historic person, also performed "Streets of Baltimore" and "Miller's Cave" which Graham Parsons ended up performing, anyway, "Marie Leveau":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZzehuWdM4#)
Actress and Singer Roberta Shore, appeared on "The Virginian", here singing "Love At First Sight":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lK9UN4YN4#)
Carol Douglas of the Chantels, "Maybe", very nice.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePTH1PWzAs#)
Dallas Taylor, I think he was on the CSN and CSNY albums, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, those guys, "Carry On", I heard he had a good biography as well.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh67x9iDCjg#)
John Oates of Hall and Oates, "Man Eater":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek&list=RDEMvoEbZuVwfGGC3u_9aKt9eA#)
Janis Ian, "At Seventeen":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuavKHes_Y#)
More to come...
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8 April birthdays include jazz singer Carmen McRae . . .
Carmen McRae, "Round Midnight"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_R9AGDvXe4#)
. . . Belgian songwriter/singer Jacques Brel . . .
Jacques Brel, "Les Bourgeois"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCHi5apc1lQ#)
. . . Steve Howe, guitarist for Yes and Asia . . .
Yes, "Mood for a Day"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrJsgdjOqGY#)
Asia, "Soul Survivor"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqmUZDAZX0#)
. . . Mel Schacher, bassist for Grand Funk Railroad . . .
Grand Funk Railroad, "I'm Your Captain"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fryGyqTJPU#)
. . . Izzy Stradlin (born Jeff Isbell), the second guitarist and best songwriter in Guns 'n' Roses, who bolted before the insanity
could consume him (especially while he was kicking a drug habit) and became a smart roots rocker in a sporadic solo career
to follow . . .
Izzy Stradlin, "River"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd0Q4tRv1Pk#)
. . . Julian Lennon, the musical son of John Lennon . . .
Julian Lennon, "Too Late for Goodbyes"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa0SHwKiA-U#)
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
A few more birthdays, coming in from the West coast website, updated late....
Cal Smith, a real California Okie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Smith)
He had a hit, that hokie, "Country Bumpkin", if I may say so myself...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5edmmtgX2M#)
But, hey, a lot of this is pop, just pop country, whatever sells...
Kathy Dee, "Indeed I Am"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Ai4uH_W3I#)
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=13138 (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=13138)
Some history on her at both links above, passed away at the tender age of 35, suffered from Diabetes. Sang for the Wheeling West Virginia Jamboree.
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Birthday related...
Percy Faith:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaX_PeXFZXI#)
Charlie Thomas-Drifters:
sang lead on these 2...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2poPj1iU0rQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRQXbeHm-uQ#)
Patricia Bennett-Chiffons:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDNudbOfqw#)
This was playing on a top-40 Dallas station & was interrupted with the news that JFK had been assassinated...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtHpNZpDw4A#)
Bobby Bare:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfAmLz5Evxo#)
as "Bill Parsons"...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFahri1qcPk#)
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Forgot one from Janis Ian:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJ2wLon6KM#)
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Percy Faith's 1951 version of this little ditty became the iconic theme for CBS's long-running movie entries The Late Show and The Late, Late Show
. . . and, in New York, local CBS's afternoon movie The Early Show . . . I'm sure the fact that Faith recorded for Columbia Records was almost
entirely coincidental . . . ;)
Percy Faith, "The Syncopated Clock"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aUW4wtjF2I#)
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Neil Young also did "4 strong winds" years after Bobby did it, Bobby's covers aren't always the best but I think he found some of these songs before others...
"Early Morning Rain" (again)...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyX-VFaxWNo#)
I always liked his song "Vincennes"...I like the female backup vocals in a lot of those old songs, he's touring with Bill Anderson, Bobby Bare performs in Nashville tonight...
Deep cut...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hiSpgHFzvc#)
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Neil Young also did "4 strong winds" years after Bobby did it, Bobby's covers aren't always the best but I think he found some of these songs before others...
"Early Morning Rain" (again)...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyX-VFaxWNo#)
By its author . . .
Gordon Lightfoot, "Early Morning Rain"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU17rDyq_RQ#)
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Bill Parsons/Bobby Bare, that I knew per posted above, Graham Parsons chose that name, his real name was Ingram Cecil Connor III, it makes me wonder, if he knew that back then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_Parsons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_Parsons)
And of course, as mentioned, Graham Parsons performed at least, 2 songs, Bobby Bare did.
"Streets of Baltimore":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4NoboSq6w#)
Some people think that Bill Parsons was not an actual person, but a pseudonym for Bobby Bare. The fascinating saga of "The All American Boy" will be broadly familiar to most of our readers. Unfortunately, when it comes to detail, the info is highly contradictory. In my BTBWY piece about Bobby Bare, on April 7, 2002, I leaned heavily on Wayne Jancik's version of the story, as reported in his "Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders". This time, not wanting to repeat myself, I present a somewhat different version, taken from the liner notes (by Rob Finnis) of the CD "All-American Rock 'n' Roll : The Fraternity Story, Vol. 2" (Ace 822, 2001):
"In late 1958, future country star Bobby Bare fell in with Bill Parsons, an old friend from Coalton, Ohio, who was trying to get on record. 24 year-old Parsons had just come back from army service in Germany and was working in small Ohio night-spots for $10 a night. Parsons and a 40 year old half-Irish, half-Cherokee drifter named Orville Lunsford had penned "All-American Boy", a talking blues parodying Elvis' rise to fame and his subsequent call to duty. Parsons actually had greater faith in another song "Rubber Dolly", a trite rocker adapted from a folk song, and set up a session at the King Records studio in Cincinnati on 4th November, 1958
Read more at: http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/bill_parsons.htm (http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/bill_parsons.htm)
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I checked a few other birthdays for today, Bob Dylan wrote a song "Catfish", it's Catfish Hunter's birthday. Dylan's lawyers or someone, keeps a lot of his studio recordings off of youtube. There must be legal issues.
"Lazy stadium night
Catfish on the mound.
"Strike three," the empire said,
Better have to go back and sit down.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Used to work on Mr. Finley's farm
But the old man wouldn't pay
So he packed his glove and took his arm
An' one day he just ran away.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Come up where the Yankees are,
Dress up in a pinstripe suit,
Smoke a custom-made cigar,
Wear an alligator boot.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Carolina born and bred,
Love to hunt the little quail.
Got a hundred-acre spread,
Got some huntin' dogs for sale.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Reggie Jackson at the plate
Seein' nothin' but the curve,
Swing too early or too late
Got to eat what Catfish serve.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Even Billy Martin grins
When the Fish is in the game.
Every season twenty wins
Gonna make the Hall of Fame.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.."
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyhj22 (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyhj22)
Born today also, Ponce de Leon, Mary Pickford, Betty Ford, Maria Felix, John Havlicek, Gary Carter too.
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I checked a few other birthdays for today, Bob Dylan wrote a song "Catfish", it's Catfish Hunter's birthday. Dylan's lawyers or someone, keeps a lot of his studio recordings off of youtube. There must be legal issues.
"Lazy stadium night
Catfish on the mound.
"Strike three," the empire said,
Better have to go back and sit down.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Used to work on Mr. Finley's farm
But the old man wouldn't pay
So he packed his glove and took his arm
An' one day he just ran away.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Come up where the Yankees are,
Dress up in a pinstripe suit,
Smoke a custom-made cigar,
Wear an alligator boot.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Carolina born and bred,
Love to hunt the little quail.
Got a hundred-acre spread,
Got some huntin' dogs for sale.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Reggie Jackson at the plate
Seein' nothin' but the curve,
Swing too early or too late
Got to eat what Catfish serve.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Even Billy Martin grins
When the Fish is in the game.
Every season twenty wins
Gonna make the Hall of Fame.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.."
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyhj22 (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyhj22)
Born today also, Ponce de Leon, Mary Pickford, Betty Ford, Maria Felix, John Havlicek, Gary Carter too.
@TomSea
There are several artists or their reps who limit the volume of their music allowable on YouTube; the Beatles and their representatives
do likewise. But speaking of baseball music . . .
John Fogerty, "Centerfield"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbwIXdu30E#)
Terry Cashman, "Willie, Mickey, and the Duke (Talkin' Baseball)"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKA9Zi5-_Y#)
Frank Sinatra, "There Used to Be a Ballpark"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o1J_cbXLmQ#)
Madonna, "This Used to Be My Playground"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5inqY5UsULs#)
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More birthdays today via the website in Modesto:
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Jimmy Osborne
"The Death Of Little Kathy", this happened in Southern California, see 2nd video:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-aMLCce_60#)
Country singer Jimmie Osborne wrote and recorded the 1949 song "The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus" (King 788).[13] It sold over one million copies and Osborne donated half the proceeds to the Fiscus family. Other artists recorded versions of the song, including Kitty Wells and Howard Vokes.[12][14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus)
The article makes a big deal about this being one of the first events ever with live coverage.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XryXTD2kfWI#)
That singing is that Appalachian/Bluegrass style, I'm not a big fan of that but this is a very interesting story nonetheless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus)
Kathy passed away upon falling into the well on April 8th (tomorrow), 1949.
(https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/fa_436_familyphotofiscus1940.jpg)
Kathy, is obviously, the smaller one.
Note, the 2nd article says her father was out talking previously about the danger of uncapped wells.
It's foggy in my memory now, wasn't there some little girl that fell down a well in Texas in the past 30 years? Maybe in the Midland area, I vaguely remember that, I think she was safely rescued. Thank goodness, we don't have many stories like this.
What a coincidence, Jim Osborne was born on this day, April 7th, and then, one song he is known for on Little Kathy, she died on April 8th.
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Update:
Jessica McClure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure) was the little girl saved in Texas.
Back to Jimmie Osborn, poor guy died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=11084 (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=11084)
The article also makes it seem he was a fairly well known "star"; and also calls him a folk singer.
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Monday, April 9th 2018 Music Thread Welcoming ALL music
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/9 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/9)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Some birthdays for "just another manic Monday",
Efrem Zimbalist of course, starred in the FBI, well, another Efrem Zimbalist was a famous violinist, composer from Russia..."Carmen Fantasie (C 1936)" Record below says "Made In Japan"(basically) :pondering:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXfIQ6yV3T4#)
Yes, this is the father of Efrem Zimbalist, known for his role in the TV show, "FBI".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist)
Okay, I don't want to get too entrenched on artists from a very long time ago, but it is Paul Robeson's birthday as well..."Shenandoah":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gtJkeXAMt0#)
Art Van Damme, Jazz Accordionist, "The Things We Did Last Summer":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZTMKvt0H4#)
Tom Lehrer, I certainly recognize the name, "National Brotherhood Week":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsYvKPnSVo#)
Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes" and other than that, though a big name, I don't know many of his hits.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gggXjEobY#)
Les Gray of Mud, "Tiger Feet", best selling UK single in '74. Glam Rock.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEV7lFstH0Q#)
Phillip Wright of the British Band, Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxhNry-bxSk#)
Mark Kelly, Marillion, here with "Kayleigh":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYPAy5H7iZo#)
Terry Knight, producer, Grand Funk Railroad and I believe Bloodrock too...and probably other known acts, I read his wiki bio once. Also, of Terry Knight and the Pack, "I (Who Have Nothing)":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J3I1LYPuWo#)
Chico Ryan, Sha Na Na...
Gerard Way, Chemical Romance, "Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You)"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghAE21nLib0#)
Successful band...
And more later...
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Kay Adams, singer of 1965's "Little Pink Mack", a lady trucker song...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTqYVRPuAI#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Adams_(singer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Adams_(singer))
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Birthday related...
Carl Perkins:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WbT2APbfL4#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yeDfvGSZEI#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G070J29uAvs#)
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I hope the stay-clear-of=religion rule doesn't apply to this, if so, just delete.
Alice Cooper: ‘There’s nothing in Christianity that says I can’t be a rock star’
March 29, 2018 by Deacon Greg Kandra
563
The rock icon is a self-professed Christian and recovering alcoholic who credits Christ for saving his life. Easter, he will appear in a live concert of “Jesus Christ Superstar†on NBC—and he’s promoting the event with interviews about his faith:
Cooper says he realized he was going to have to either quit drinking or die. After exiting a hospital where doctors diagnosed him as a “classic alcoholic,†he never had the desire to drink again.
The “School’s Out†singer credits his recovery to God.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSIv2uV8jc#)
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2018/03/alice-cooper-theres-nothing-in-christianity-that-says-i-cant-be-a-rock-star/#kseJ7HHtZev6hgIy.99 (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2018/03/alice-cooper-theres-nothing-in-christianity-that-says-i-cant-be-a-rock-star/#kseJ7HHtZev6hgIy.99)
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Terry Knight, producer, Grand Funk Railroad and I believe Bloodrock too...and probably other known acts, I read his wiki bio once. Also, of Terry Knight and the Pack, "I (Who Have Nothing)":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J3I1LYPuWo#)
Terry Knight was a popular Detroit disc jockey before he left to try his hand at singing with the Pack. The Pack splintered
when Knight decided it wasn't going to go further than a small Midwestern following; the remnant of the Pack became
Grand Funk Railroad and Knight agreed to manage them---with an onerous deal that made them his employees, virtually,
while he double-dipped as their manager/producer. When Grand Funk caught on and sacked him, he hit back with lawsuits
that ended up costing them the publishing for their songs up to and including the E Pluribus Funk album---and, yet,
if they waited another three months, the contract would have expired, and Knight would have had no recourse if they
chose to leave him.
The shame of it all was that Terry took what was real about us and made it all part of a hype.---Don Brewer, Grand
Funk drummer.
Bloodrock was a Texas hard rock sextet whom Knight also managed; their sole hit was the morbid "D.O.A.," from their
second album. When Knight found himself having to devote the lion's share of his time to handling the hugely popular
Grand Funk, Bloodrock went their own way, making a few more albums before calling it a career. Bloodrock's issue:
they were excellent musicians but not such great songwriters, and they weren't half as charismatic as Grand Funk was.
After Knight, Grand Funk had a second life as hitmakers before they imploded in 1976. Knight himself created a new
record label and found an act, Mom's Apple Pie, for whom he designed an obscene album cover that became a legend
in the business. When that project collapsed, Knight left the music business entirely. He spent some time near auto
racing before blowing most of his fortune up his nose; he eventually cleaned up and settled in Arizona to be near his
daughter, working in newspaper advertising, until his death in 2004---he interceded in a fight between his daughter
and her boyfriend, trying to protect her, and was stabbed to death.
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 Music Thread.
Checking some birthdays...Born on this day,
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/10 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/10)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/ (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/)
The great Martin Denny... Tiki, Lounge type of music, "Exotica"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWESMyBfqys#)
Sheb Wooley, you know he was the head of the school in the great movie, "Hoosiers", principal...Rawhide or one of those old Westerns too? Anyway, "Purple People Eater".
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1th_v9cwRU#)
Alvin 'Junior' Samples..with Archie Campbell...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWaah13mo3E#)
Nate Nelson of the Flamingos, "I Only Have Eyes For You":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o#)
Bobby Smith of the Spinners, a slew of hits, I do like "Games People Play":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jbwZnfZW54#)
Bunny Wailer, "Cool Runnings"..
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJFS0uhYGJo#)
Standup song.
Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic, "Maggot Brain":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvHyzV5iz8#)
Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats, some people really like them a lot, they did really help revitalize the genre quite a bit... here with Jerry Lee Lewis, "A Whole Lot Of Shaking Going On":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFyJVY6rVk#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Setzer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Setzer)
Stray Cats were pivotal, Robert Gordon, Link Wray, Matchbox (Rockabilly Rebel) I believe is the name of the band, all did their share as well.
More later...
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Another birthday: Danny Woods, singer with the Showmen . . .
The Showmen, "It Will Stand"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6DHGMtOWE#)
. . . who later joined Showmen singer/leader Norman (General) Johnson in forming the group that put Holland-Dozier-Holland's post-Motown Invictus Records
label on the 1970s soul map with . . .
The Chairmen of the Board, "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbsOuTvwlxE#)
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Birthday related...
Martin Denny:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcphJelpc_Y#)
Sheb Wooley/"Ben Colder":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqAlKjrbCqc#)
Nate Nelson-Flamingos:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BDKIQtxG74#)
Bobbie Smith-Spinners:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrzR5yCLJEQ#)
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
A few more b-days,
Fidlin' Arthur Smith:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M7lHKOP-ZA#)
Rusty Wellington,
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDH7y6_tzK4#)
Weldon Myrick, pedal steel guitar:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwC-D1l-30M#)
Steel guitar for Connie Smith, (unissued):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdwgs2uq4Ps#)
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Honestly, not much on tap for birthdays on Wednesday, so if anyone has any ideas, feel free to post them!! And music videos.
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This is the 50th anniversary year of some of the finest rock, soul, and blues ever recorded . . .
The Beatles, The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album)---"Dear Prudence"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmznZFi8Ho#)
Big Brother & the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), from Cheap Thrills---"Ball and Chain"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpi0PIw0ww#)
Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, from Super Session---"Albert's Shuffle"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrwL-j6u_eU#)
James Brown, the title track from Say it Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMv-ORzl3Fc#)
Cream, from Wheels of Fire---"Spoonful" (Live)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUu3ae19b6g#)
The Doors, from Waiting for the Sun---"Not to Touch the Earth"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAqx8y6mOFY#)
Miles Davis, the title track from Filles de Kilmanjaro
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hBJ4664bNQ#)
Iron Butterfly, title track, In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNBgEirKxq8#)
Albert King, from Live Wire/Blues Power---"Blues Power"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0gG703S16c#)
The Rascals, from Once Upon a Dream---"It's Wonderful"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzpT8UkzoA#)
Sly & the Family Stone, the title track from Life
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71VV30MYog#)
The Temptations, from The Temptations Wish It Would Rain---"I Wish It Would Rain"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q4TMZwazEM#)
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/11 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/11)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
A few birthdays today,
Richard Berry, "Jellyroll", nice rocker:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrHVgr7UG-Q#)
It reminds me of the Luverne and Shirley show.
Pierre Kartner, 'the Smurf song':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g00uDO0fQuU#)
Joss Stone, "Liechtenstein":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcpWLS__xc#)
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Happy birthday, Richard Berry . . . the father of . . .
Richard Berry & the Pharaohs, "Louie, Louie"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxedxkx88t0#)
Various Artists, The Best of Louie, Louie
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g21H3wU3Ihs#)
Meanwhile, happy birthday, too, to Stuart Adamson, guitarist/vocalist, Big Country . . .
Big Country, "Wonderland"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL378Cwz4zE#)
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I hope I didn't underestimate some artists today but truly, there were not many b-days, thread closed.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/12 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/12)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Checking a few birthdays today:
Soviet Musician, Heinrich Neuhaus plays Szymanowski Prelude Op. 1 No. 8 , sure sounds like a German name but maybe he was from the greater USSR.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikL0bw2WJPM#)
Johnny Dodds, early Jazz clarinetist (New Orleans), "Wild Man Blues":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfnNRCq7qpo#)
Lily Pons, "The Blue Danube Waltz":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhbjNa8W6qs#)
Theodore Roosevelt Hound Dog Taylor, "Wild About You Baby" with Little Walter:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbw5AX4CMlE&list=PLW8GTicMHjaZ2k-yQuqnt_B-JJusrTW0G#)
Hound Dog with "Shake Your Moneymaker":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHJW1PO-UEY#)
Okay, most of these artists so far, go back pretty far.
Billy Vaughn, orchestra director, "La Paloma":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGMNYh9Na4#)
Tiny Tim, "Living In The Sunlight":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c71RCAyLS1M#)
Herbie Hancock, "Rockit":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY#)
John Kay of Steppenwolf, "Born To Be Wild":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_PshEihy4&list=PLDFAC3767A38444E0#)
Willie Parnell of Archie Bell and the Drells, "Tighten Up:"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wro3bqi4Eb8#)
David Cassidy, is cover of "Cherish", you know, the songs of the Partridge family seem alright but they are really known for "I think I love you" and not those other songs.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez-c6aAOt50#)
"How Can I Be Sure":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DgEqMINzY#)
Alexander Briley of the Village People, "YMCA":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMPSyOB2qNo#)
Vince Gill, "Go Rest High On That Mountain":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXrmAKBBTU&list=RDEMde8M_yl8aydkcdJ90N13Sw#)
Sandra "Lois" Reeves, I believe she was with Martha and the Vandellas,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Reeves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Reeves) (Maybe as a replacement)
"One Way Out":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H6Gdi5417w#)
Art Alexakis of the band Everclear, "Summerland":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNyzAeIXK4#)
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, "Galileo":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI1keSSwdcI&list=PLrEtSdEyobxFi7XEagC-iCs_xvViGFrXh#)
Sean Welch of the "Beautiful South", I think this is actually, a British band and have proven to be a rather successful rock band, "You Keep It All In":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rBcIa7dLMQ&list=PLqijVkRD7vff4aDK5hjWEDu6HXOM4d90K#)
Sarah Cracknell of the band St. Etienne, another band, I've heard a little of..."Only Love Can Break Your Heart":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAajrxvDs4#)
A lot of the more recent music is good, I just don't know where to start on it and the names of bands I hear usually. Sometimes, I will listen to the indy or alt music station. A lot of it, I don't like as well.
Guy Berryman of Coldplay, "In My Place":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnIZ7RMuLpU#)
Alessandro Venturella of Slipknot, there songs look a little bit like "for mature audiences only", I will take a pass.
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Birthday related...
Billy Vaughn:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXhbK8CHluI#)
Tiny Tim:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0WbY-LOqLM#)
Willie Parnell-Archie Bell & The Drells:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xirZoyNoHl8#)
Lois Reeves-Martha Reeves & The Vandellas:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec11AAUZBbs#)
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Loved Rose Maddox's songs, she passed away on April 15th, 1998; so an anniversary of sorts in a few days.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2jQE0dvcw#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4JQDe_c_k#)
With Arlo:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOUYc27p_2c#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhAGeN3Fi78#)
From Ireland, great country....
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Friday, April 13th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/13 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/13) https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/13 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/13)
A few birthdays,
Horace Kay of the Tams, "You Lied To Your Daddy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR70SvPiioE#)
Frederic Rzewski, "The People Together Will Never Be Defeated":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_mQiL19XmI#)
Tim Field of the Springfields, a group that had Dusty Springfield in it as well, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6HB9HYQz4#)
Tim Field like Cat Stevens became a Muslim, though, there were not nearly as many back then, Muslims have been in England, nonetheless, for quite some time. Dusty Springfield must be a real legend over in the UK, there are like a dozen books on her, check amazon.
Reshad or Tim Field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshad_Feild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshad_Feild)
Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers, Eve Graham of the New Seekers,
Bill Conti, songwriter, "For Your Eyes Only":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN1WBgS9u_E#)
Jack Casady, Jefferson Airplane, with Jerry Garcia jamming to "Dark Star":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mct3L9iVJGk#)
"Wooden Ships":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc#)
Ron Loney, Flamin' Groovies, "Slow Death":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU91FmqJZ6w#)
Lowell George, Little Feat, "Time Loves A Hero":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfJGmY9-TBQ#)
Al Green, "Let's Stay Together":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXx6RDzR6eM#)
Riff West, Molly Hatchet,
Max Weinberg, E Street Band..."Hungry Heart":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tchgySggtzY#)
Springsteen said about a year ago, though, his political views don't line up with Trump, he wasn't going to give public criticism.
Peabo Bryson with Regina Belle singing "A Whole New World":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmvT7B3u7II#)
Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Give It Away":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exCEcmLw-Hc#)
Mark Ford of the Black Crowes, "Hard To Handle":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLbE3IUY2U#)
More later...
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Birthday related...
Horace Kay-Tams:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wg7aQmkhk#)
Composer Bill Conti:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnBrM27ZU3k#)
Jack Casady-Jefferson Airplane:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVcCgZ84TwU#)
Al Green:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLLfH8QfM4k#)
Peabo Bryson:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIsmSwOANs0#)
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Birthdays include Bud Freeman, once the only alternative to Coleman Hawkins's full-blooded tenor saxophone sound in
the pre-bop era and a frequent running mate of Eddie Condon . . .
Eddie Condon, "The Eel"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptYRZ76aqQE#)
. . . Louis Johnson, the bassist half of the Brothers Johnson . . .
The Brothers Johnson, "Strawberry Letter 23"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHS1H9uyMlc#)
. . . and, for Lester Chambers, vocalist and harp blower with his family group . . .
The Chambers Brothers, "So Fine"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWxygFonko8#)
The Chambers Brothers, "Time Has Come Today"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-UFowAAGY4#)
The Chambers Brothers, "Love, Peace and Happiness"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvCH-6kOAGs#)
. . . not to mention Jack Casady, whose side- and post-Airplane project with Airplane guitarist and lifelong buddy Jorman Kaukonen was
pretty fly in its own right . . .
Hot Tuna, "Hesitation Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3iDeyQsvg#)
Hot Tuna, "Death Don't Have No Mercy"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO-xvAec6sM#)
Hot Tuna, "John's Other"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3I6zYqiPY#)
Hot Tuna, "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning," from the next-to-last night of the old Fillmore West
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skvvBj2-wkg#)
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPmSLzsbdM#)
Dark As A Dungeon
Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew danger is double pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls the sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
Well it's many a man that I've seen in my day
(uh huh no laughin' during this song please it's bein' recorded)
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon
Songwriters: MERLE TRAVIS
© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: LyricFind
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Some late birthdays from the Modesto website,
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Buddy Meredith, 'New Girl In Town':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-kSHm1y8jQ#)
Doug Bragg, 'One More Mistake':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IDT85QQDPw#)
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Weekend Music Thread, April 14th-15th, 2018.
All Music Is Welcomed!
Some birthdays for April 14th, anyone is welcome to check the vault for the 15th...maybe tell us ahead of time, maybe not...
April 14th is none other than the birthday of "Coal Miner's Daughter", Loretta Lynn...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8lchkhrxcE#)
We can add on to all of this later, we will,
Bill Harris of the Clovers, "Good Lovin'"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjmWPtZfQ4#)
Next, the Famous Tony Burrows, he had multiple hits with different bands...
Burrows holds the record for having four records in the British Top Ten at once, all under different names. Edison Lighthouse ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)', White Plains, ‘My Baby Loves Lovin', The Pipkins ‘Gimme Dat Ding,’ and the Brotherhood of Man's ‘United We Stand,’
'Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)' - Edison Lighthouse:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6H1a7YUac#)
'My Baby Loves Love' - White Plains (Elton John does a good cover):
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHxEaqkop4#)
Also, "Beach Baby" by First Class, I mean, it sounds so So Cal or even just American, Burrows is British, always liked it.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MSnOU02-M#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Burrows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Burrows) (btw, that info above on Burrows, I have read is not exactly true, still, it is often repeated)
Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple:
"Highway Star":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9ie2J2690#)
"Smoke On The Water":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M#)
Larry Ferguson of Hot Chocolate, covering them once does me and we already have.
June Millington of... Fanny of all bands, one of the early all girl bands, playing instruments at least... "Borrowed Time":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71bc_wJM51A#)
"You're The One", she's the bass player, I have listened to them some.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q80UWYkKNzk#)
Patrick Fairley, Marmalade, 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4AN-xY7ds#)
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Not birthday related, but hands up to everyone who knows that one of the biggest hits of the early R&B/rock and roll era
was written by a man destined to become the vice president of the United States.
Charles G. Dawes---eventually to be Calvin Coolidge's running mate, when Coolidge ran for his own full term after finishing
that of Warren G. Harding---had an early passion for music, teaching himself the piano and becoming something of a composer.
In 1911, he wrote a piece for piano and violin called "Melody in A Major." It was a smallish hit for a few artists over the coming
years, but in 1951 Carl Sigman wrote lyrics for it. Several popsters including Dinah Shore, Carmen Cavallaro, and Sammy Kaye
recorded it that year, the year Dawes died. Even Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole took a shot at it, having modest success
with their versions.
It was also recorded in 1951 by a young black singer in a conventional pop style. He had a few minor hits but was otherwise going
nowhere with his label, MGM, prepared to let him go after his last scheduled recording session of 1958. With MGM preparing to
use him on their first stereo-recorded single, a staff arranger named Leroy Holmes suggested the singer revisit the song . . . with a
rhythm and blues ballad arrangement and accompaniment, including piano triplets and guitar and more pronounced snare drum off-
beat.
That did the trick. The new take was a smash. It hit number one on the pop and R&B charts and stayed there for six weeks in 1958;
it may have been the first stereo single to hit number one. (I've been unable to confirm that.) It gave the singer a new lease on life,
for at least two or three more years, before---reputedly---he entered a battle with the bottle that would end with his death of a brain
neurysm in 1969.
The singer who took that second shot and hit the bull's eye was Tommy Edwards. And future Vice President Dawes's "Melody in A
ajor," with Sigman's lyrics, became . . .
Tommy Edwards, "It's All in the Game"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0qjtP5EUDs#)
Thanks to Edwards, Dawes has three singular distinctions in music history:
* He's the only U.S. Vice President ever to have written a number one hit.
* He's the only songwriter other than Sonny Bono to have written a number one hit and served in either the Senate or the
House of Representatives.
* He's the only songwriter other than Bob Dylan to have won a Nobel Prize. (Dawes won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his
plan---subsequently abandoned in favour of a different one---to help Germany restore and stablise its post-World War I
economy; Dylan, of course, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.)
You could add a fourth distinction to Dawes thanks to Edwards---the only U.S. Vice President ever to have written a smash hit
that eventually showed up frequently in movie soundtracks such as American Graffiti, Diner, She's Having a Baby, and
others.
As for Carl Sigman, he isn't exactly lacking for a place in music history. Among others, he was also the lyricist for such songs as
"Ebb Tide," "Pennsylvania 6-5000," "Answer Me," "What Now, My Love," the latter-day Frank Sinatra hit "The World We Knew (Over
and Over)," "Where Do I Begin (Love Story)," and "Crazy He Calls Me" . . .
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Bonnie Sloan, "Honky Tonk World":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6320hNkKJw#)
Donna Harris, "Please Mr. DJ":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1MNu-MoZ7I#)
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I was reminded earlier tonight what an incredible song writer Bob Dylan is. This is a cover,but one of the songs off of his "Blood on the Tracks" album. Frankly,it's better than the original,but that takes nothing away from his songwriting ability .
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJ2hcHNO6g
#)
And here is the man hissef.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM&list=PLJNbijG2M7OyiJCzLvlmV00chYhEkkIPy#)
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Birthday related...
Bill Harris-Clovers:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZUC-GfwUY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opeDibGGx5Y#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uOeagMD2qg#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_yUp30m4Kg#)
Ritchie Blackmore-Deep Purple:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ljUkuQ1tU#)
Songwriter Eden Ahbez:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLb0Ov-jHU#)
Roy Clark:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEJcD3ZTecU#)
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More birthdays, April 15th,
"Empress" of the Blues, Bessie Smith:
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIEXAOjWAWA#)
Marty Wilde, Brit who did quite a few American rock and roll tunes for the UK market,
"Sea of Love" ("It's late", a good cover of the Ricky Nelson song has been posted previously):
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08J9S_mVfw#)
Dave Edmunds, "I Hear You Knocking", I faintly remember his music.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTA2D7NPTY#)
Clarence Satchell, saxophone and guitar for the Ohio Players, "Fire":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLQ_TJxJjE#)
And others, more from the country music website too: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
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Dave Edmunds, "I Hear You Knocking", I faintly remember his music.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTA2D7NPTY#)
Dave Edmunds had only that hit single in the U.S. but he wielded a lot more influence on both sides of the pond as a producer
and, with Nick Lowe, as half of Rockpile, who played on both Edmunds's Repeat When Necessary and Lowe's Labour of
Lust albums (Rockpile themselves took their name from an earlier Edmunds solo album), before making their only album
billed as Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure. It was during the making of that album that tensions arose between Edmunds
and Lowe, who'd been close friends before that: Edmunds favoured keeping things to a strict rock and roll formula that
inspired one critic to say that for him rock and roll didn't exist past 1962; Lowe favoured being a little more bold and
modernistic with the rock and roll. The band imploded after their only tour following Seconds of Pleasure.
Dave Edmunds, "Sweet Little Lisa"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sEnia7Bk8#)
Nick Lowe, "Cruel to be Kind"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oos8zjHCT4A#)
Rockpile, "Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lCrCInbjgE#)
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This only begins to unfold Bessie Smith's legacy . . .
Bessie Smith, The Bessie Smith Album
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q71cjXLgbQ#)
. . . and, in 1958, rhythm and blues singer La Vern Baker did what might be the only truly great album worth
of another artist singing Bessie Smith's material . . .
La Vern Baker, "Empty Bed Blues," from La Vern Baker Sings Bessie Smith
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F3plYBBD-Y#)
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Monday, April 16th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music, your favorites, are welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/16 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/16)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Henry Mancini was born on this day,
"Moon River":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ8j-X1hq1I#)
"Theme From The Pink Panther":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBupII3LH_Q#)
You can almost pick anything that he did...
"Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlTw17yNs0I#)
Roy Hamilton,
"You'll Never Walk Alone":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQze9nTh-qo#)
Herbie Mann, Flute/Sax, "Comin' Home Baby", another artist with an extensive work of music:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJEjFh2FOzA#)
Vince Hill, "Look Around And You'll Find Me There":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_xQR1A4Ikc#)
Bobby Vinton, "Blue Velvet":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfq_foa5Mo#)
"Roses Are Red":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rjPC7-JMUM#)
Dusty Springfield! ..."Son Of A Preacher Man":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8#)
"The Look Of Love":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1d65OHYXo#)
"You Don't Have To Say You Love Me"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IXr5dZ9iAk#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield)
One can read her wiki bio, she recovered from breast cancer, was going to go full swing back into her career with recording and possibly touring, and it came back. It really breaks the heart.
Stefan Grossman, (& Kaine and Arhus), "Teddy Roosevelt":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gAwSCn1DsE#)
Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeY#)
Gerry Rafferty, "Baker Street":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Yi762sQTo#)
In music that should basically be called "other" or maybe "international"
Björgvin Halldórsson of Icelandic singer,
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwa1lCyeA-U#)
Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer,
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_lv4_GLCqk#)
Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9XpkbF5r4#)
And Selena (Quintanilla), "I Could Fall In Love":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCDvINm0Vo#)
A lot of people born on this day in history, that does not seem to cover even the full highlights.
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Forgotten little gems from the hair band days:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsW9ocBW9MA#)
Ten Seconds to Love
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oWCUp60XF8#)
Touch of Madness
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Fixed, @cyberliberty , thanks and my apologies to all.
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Birthday related...
Henry Mancini:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-8Wxv6m2k#)
Roy Hamilton:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1mkSm00kXM#)
Bobby Vinton:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwgYCMq11g#)
Dusty Springfield:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83lkEzjXW0#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_7CNvAeoY#)
Rudy Pompilli-Bill Haley & His Comets:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInqWWQITuw#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq46ecByFA8#)
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Birthdays include blues guitarist Cool Papa Sadler . . .
Cool Papa Sadler, "Shady Spot By the River"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92c64u0Vr8I#)
. . . Lonesome Dave Peverett, lead singer/rhythm guitarist/chief songwriter/co-founder (with two other former Savoy Brown men) of Foghat . . .
Foghat, "Fool for the City"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwCnxbvKVA#)
Foghat, "Slow Ride"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1kNRm1hl4g#)
. . . acoustic bluesman Stefan Grossman . . .
Stefan Grossman, "Hesitation Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDsHPNodZU#)
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 Music Thread.... Welcoming ALL music. :laugh:
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/17 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/17)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Pete Graves of the Moonglows, "Ten Commandments of Love":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Eu43RoaGQ#)
Looking at a few birthdays, for rock and rollers, rockers... Don Kirschner was born on this in history, the Don Kirschner Rock Concert...
Black Sabbath:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMwJJw1CsZ0&list=RDEMH0zKavOEgyJGVe6wZ2cVpA#)
Rush:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dt4oylwxjQ#)
He had the big names, go check out other videos if interested.
Billy Fury, another Brit who was playing American-styled R 'n' R back in the day, this is from '61, "Halfway To Paradise":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djFwvUQMREM#)
Billy Fury from what I understand was actually a big star versus the one we had the other day, Marty Wylde whose style seemed similar.
1943, Born on this day, Roy Estrada, bassist with Frank Zappa and a founder member of Little Feat, playing on their first two albums.
Mothers of Invention - "Oh In The Sky":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjU2GCKx4g#)
Jan Hammer, "Miami Vice Theme", he also played with a number of top-rank jazz musicians:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQA7NN9vptU#)
Michael Sembello, "Maniac" from the movie Flashdance, charted #1 per the links.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8olv5J6TkUg#)
James Keene from the Buzzcocks, "Ever Fall In Love" on top of the pops tv show.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terg_LPT3X0#)
Liz Phair, born on this day,
Victoria Beckham, Posh of the Spice Girls, "Stop":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JD6ejmlpa8#)
Eliza Doolittle, "Skinny Genes":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qE3WMlIrc#)
From the way back machine, Otto Lederer, looks like a lot of old movies, even silent movies come up, it says he played the Jazz Singer for those interested.
Surely, more later...
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Birthday related...
Alexander "Pete" Graves-Moonglows:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrkpiedzzA#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey2-DTXkLRY#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmocqwglmlQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZv3atM2arc#)
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Birthdays today also include Chris Barber, British jazz trombonist/bandleader whose openness to the blues helped
pave the way for a full-on British blues explosion in the 1960s (among other things, he helped sponsor British tours
by Muddy Waters and Big Bill Broonzy that jolted British kids almost as much as rock and roll did and allowed the
sitting-ins that resulted in the formation of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated) . . .
Chris Barber, "Wild Man Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdLH-p_cKo#)
. . . Pete Shelley, co-founder of British new wavers the Buzzcocks . . .
The Buzzcocks, "Why Can't I Touch It"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1G0jl0Vc64#)
. . . Steven Singleton, co-founding saxophonist of ABC . . .
ABC, "Many Happy Returns"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvtRiVtLl8I#)
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/18 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/18)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/ (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/)
Some birthdays today, April 18th, born on this day in history:
Paul A. Rothschild, producer of some of the Doors famous songs such as "Light My Fire" and "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee" and many others. Sometimes, production really makes a song, or at least, a song a lot better.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFeUko-lQHg#)
Glen D. Hardin, played some in the post-Buddy Holly Crickets from what I can tell, piano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Hardin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Hardin) Hardin had his first songwriting success with "Count Me In" performed by Gary Lewis and the Playboys per wikipedia.
Here in the Hot band with Emmylou Harris singing "Jambalaya":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6WD1yzQscE#)
Gary Lewis and the Playboys' "Count On Me":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84cfDMdqtEY#)
I always liked that, an illustrative career and still with us.
Mike Vickers, various instruments with Manfred Mann, "Doo Wah Diddy":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vOAw2sAFU#)
Skip Spence, Quicksliver and Moby Grape again and solo, here with "After Gene Autry / Motorcycle Irene", demo for Columbia:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfnWzPI87ik#)
Andy Kyriacou of the band, Modern Romance, "Best Years Of Our Lives" from the '80s:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKjDJc-KFk#)
"Shirlie Holliman, English singer, who sang with Wham! on their 1982 UK No.3 single 'Young Guns, (Go For It')'"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqcQT_CyfH4#)
"Mark Tremonti, lead guitarist from American rock band Creed, who had the 2001 US No.1 & UK No.13 single 'With Arms Wide Open'"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwp2_uXw2OI#)
Jim Scholten of the country (rock) music band, Sawyer Brown, 'Betty's Bein' Bad":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8b8bgl2j0I#)
Sylvia and Vicky Villegas of the band, Triplets, "Light A Candle", be forewarned, this looks like a pro-illegal immigrant song, so...:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88az2Gej4cw#)
"Through adversity, sacrifice, and perseverance - we are Americans. This is our song "Light A Candle," in response to current events. It is our hope that we can spread the message of unity, peace, and love for those who wish for a better life. - The Triplets Band"
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In January, we missed Goldie Hill's birthday, a good country singer, 'I've Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know'.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjrMljBoL00#)
She married Carl Smith, who was fairly well known, hence, Goldie Hill Smith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Smith_(country_musician) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Smith_(country_musician))
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Maybe, some more will be added later.
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Birthday related...
Mike Vickers-Manfred Mann:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96ApLpx3Ps#)
the original...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isrMCTUEMw#)
the original Do Wah Diddy Diddy...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZZ_Z0q24Z8#)
Skip Spence-Moby Grape:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhmjP8hb-k#)
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Skip Spence was never a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service . . . but he was the second drummer for . . .
Jefferson Airplane, "It's No Secret"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJVvHj0USyA#)
Jefferson Airplane, "Chauffeur Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhTP_JW-jmw#)
. . . even though he was a guitarist who'd had almost no experience behind the traps before Airplane co-founder Marty Balin
enlisted him to replace their original drummer, Jerry Peloquin. Spence drummed on the first Airplane album before leaving
the Airplane (Spencer Dryden replaced him) to help create Moby Grape. The Airplane members attempted to warn the fledgling
Grape against enlisting Matthew Katz as their manager, warnings that went unheeded---fatally. Thanks to a deal Katz presented
by way of Spence, he became Moby Grape's manager . . . and sole legal owner of the band's name. Katz made a fatal mistake
by not allowing Moby Grape to be booked for the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 and by not going boo when Columbia Records,
who signed the Grape after a bidding war, decided to crank up a hype machine by issuing every track on their classic
debut album on five singles as well as the album. Then, in succession:
* Their second album, Wow, was undermined by inconsistent songwriting and the inclusion of a bonus jam album, Grape
Jam (blues/rock legends Mike Bloomfield---playing piano instead of his classic ringing-bell blues guitar---and Al Kooper joined
in), that proved only that whatever Moby Grape's strengths, freewheeling improvisation wasn't one of them.
Moby Grape, "Seeing" (a version recorded for Wow but remade for Moby Grape '69; it may have been
Skip Spence's last song for and with them)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6EH9VStsBo#)
* Spence cracked up under the influence of copious amounts of LSD during the making of Wow, infamously attacking the
hotel room door of drummer Don Stevenson with an ax, ending up in an institution and suffering mental illness the rest of his life,
though he managed to record one legendary off-kilter album, Oar.
Alexander Spence (as he was billed on the album), "War in Peace"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZOjZztGzs#)
* Grape bassist Bob Mosley quit the group after their third album (Moby Grape '69) and joined the Marines but was discharged
for medical reasons that turned out schizophrenia; it took years for his Grape bandmates to find him again.
* The Grape managed to persevere otherwise on and off in the years that followed, though Katz's litigiousness forced them to
perform under numerous pseudonyms including the unforgettable Maby Grope, until they finally won back the right to the band's
name in 2005.
* A major remastering/repackaging program of their Columbia albums was thwarted when Katz---no longer owning their name---
threw them into court instead over his claim that he owned the artwork to the albums.
Which is a bizarre fate for a band whose debut album is still considered a masterpiece, and whose membership includes the son
of screen legend Loretta Young. (Peter Lewis, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter.)
Meanwhile, birthdays today also include blues legend Clarence (Gatemouth) Brown . . .
Clarence (Gatemouth) Brown, "Okie Dokie Stomp"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMsqdJUTUgU#)
. . . Lee Pattinson, bassist with Echo & the Bunnymen . . .
Echo & the Bunnymen, "Show of Strength"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9EADASRL8#)
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Skip Spence:
"He released one solo album, 1969's Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music industry. He had started his career as a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and was the drummer on Jefferson Airplane's debut album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. He has been described on the Allmusic website as "one of psychedelia's brightest lights";[1]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Spence
This is either untruthful or more like he played some for QMS before they were known in any way, before they recorded.
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A few more,
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Curtis Potter who had his own career and also recorded some with Willie Nelson, "In My Own Peculiar Way":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lJcCsc9B8#)
Pete Pyle, "Living In Sorrow", this looks like Bluegrass styled music.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7sEe6gCIs0#)
Some of these artists are obscure, sang in the movies,
Billy Liebert, Sons of the Pioneers, here with Ken Curtis, I'm sure the band had many different members, so I don't know if he is in this lineup, "What Makes A Man Wander"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvl8_RZ8CS0#)
Leon(Abner) Weaver of the Weaver Brothers, "Prison Sorrows":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syj0Zkhyg1s#)
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Skip Spence:
This is either untruthful or more like he played some for QMS before they were known in any way, before they recorded.
It's untruthful. Spence thought about joining Quicksilver and was, in fact, en route an audition for that band (I'm guessing it was to replace
would-have-been/eventual leader Dino Valente, who was poked into the calaboose on a marijuana charge and unable to join up with them
until after his release near 1970) when he bumped into Marty Balin, who decided on the spot that Spence looked like a drummer and
told him flatly, "You're my new drummer." Perhaps knowing the Airplane had just signed a recording contract with RCA Victor, Spence
abandoned any thoughts of auditioning for or joining Quicksilver right on the spot.
Spence had tinkered with drums but never played them in a band until he was practically shanghaied into the early Jefferson Airplane. Spence
accepted the "invitation" and spent a week brushing up on his drum skills, such as they were, before the Airplane began recording Jefferson
Airplane Takes Off. Spence even wrote or co-wrote a few of the songs on that album, particularly . . .
Jefferson Airplane, "Blues from an Airplane" (which opened the album)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5FxJ1Ac9m4#)
Jefferson Airplaine, "Don't Slip Away"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfWUqT-9RDY#)
. . . and, one song the Airplane saved for their second album, though Spence left the group well before they began recording
it:
Jefferson Airplane, "My Best Friend"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIbbrq5SQk#)
Except for Oar, which he cut in Nashville after leaving Moby Grape and on which he played all the instruments, Spence
spent decades in and out of mental hospitals and as a ward of the state in California, until the Grape reunited in 1990 for
a new album on which---thanks to that ex-manager's litigations over their band name---they billed themselves as the
Legendary Grape, with Spence contributing the song "All My Life I Love You." He played a few gigs with the Grape during
1993 and 1996. He died of lung cancer at 52 in 1999.
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We had the birthdays of Tim Feild, Dusty Springfield in about the last week and Dusty's brother's Tom's birthday in about the last month or so...
In this video, Tim Feild is on the left, Dusty of course, in the middle and brother Tom on the right. In the opening 30 seconds, you can see how Dusty seems to be uncomfortably crowded on Tim's side as they start the song up, maybe they were just vying to be on camera but nonetheless, a good performance.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhF-Mqn-HEQ#)
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Paul A. Rothschild also produced the seminal Butterfield Blues Band album . . .
The Butterfield Blues Band, East-West
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMqBvBLJio#)
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It's untruthful. Spence thought about joining Quicksilver and was, in fact, en route an audition for that band (I'm guessing it was to replace
would-have-been/eventual leader Dino Valente, who was poked into the calaboose on a marijuana charge and unable to join up with them
until after his release near 1970) when he bumped into Marty Balin, who decided on the spot that Spence looked like a drummer and
told him flatly, "You're my new drummer." Perhaps knowing the Airplane had just signed a recording contract with RCA Victor, Spence
abandoned any thoughts of auditioning for or joining Quicksilver right on the spot.
It's not that important, just saying, this is out on the net and even Sundazed records says so. See 2nd entry below.
Spence first came into the scene as a guitarist for Quicksilver Messenger Service, but was quickly recruited by Marty Balin to join Jefferson Airplane as their drummer even though he had never played the drums.
http://themusicsover.com/tag/quicksilver-messenger-service/ (http://themusicsover.com/tag/quicksilver-messenger-service/)
After playing in Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane, Alexander "Skip" Spence created one of rock's truly visionary landmarks, 1969's acid soaked Oar. His only solo album, the disc was more than a little too far out for the record-buying public when it was first released. But in the intervening decades, it's become a holy grail for sonic surrealists everywhere and an unquestioned touchstone of the recent acid-freak-folk movement.
https://sundazed.com/c/246-Spence-Alexander-Skip.aspx (https://sundazed.com/c/246-Spence-Alexander-Skip.aspx)
He had started his career as a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and was the drummer on Jefferson Airplane’s debut album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.
http://psychedelicized.com/playlist/a/alexander-skip-spence/ (http://psychedelicized.com/playlist/a/alexander-skip-spence/)
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Even the all music guide includes him as one of the members:
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-messenger-service-mn0000317417 (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-messenger-service-mn0000317417)
Group Members
David Freiberg
Gary Duncan
Martin Fierro
Mike Lewis
Dino Valenti
John Cipollina
Greg Elmore
Nicky Hopkins
Chuck Steaks
Dino Valente
Frank Morin
Jose Reyes
Mark Naftalin
Mark Ryan
Pat O'Hara
Ron Taormina
Sammy Piazza
Skip Olson
Skip Spence
Jim Murray
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Even the all music guide includes him as one of the members:
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-messenger-service-mn0000317417 (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-messenger-service-mn0000317417)
Apparently, when Quicksilver Messenger Service first formed, they rehearsed at the Matrix, the San Francisco club Marty Balin created circa
1965. Spence may or may not have been intended for them; he may or may not have auditioned or even rehearsed once or twice with them,
but Balin plucked him away for the Airplane early and often, as the saying goes. Spence never had much longer an association with the
Quicksilver boys and, of course, never recorded with them. Apparently, too, Balin helped Quicksilver fill out their early lineup to make up for
poaching Skip Spence, whether or not Spence was yet a full Quicksilver member---Balin recommended that John Cipollina and David Freiberg
enlist drummer Greg Elmore and guitarist Gary Duncan. Two other players added on, George Quick and Jim Murray (Murray and Freiberg are
usually credited with coming up with the band's name), but they departed the band just before they finally began recording their first album;
Murray left right after Quicksilver played the Monterey Pop Festival which Moby Grape's foolish manager blocked them (including Spence)
from playing. Quicksilver signed with Capitol Records at the same time as the original Steve Miller Band in late 1967.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/19 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/19)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
A few birthdays today,
Don Barbour of the 4 Freshmen, 'Shangri-La":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFRW_yqsFHU#)
Alexis Korner, here with Steve Marriot, "Diamonds In The Rough":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0F5SVBty5I#)
"The King Of Novelty", Dickie Goodman, these look like your comedic, satirical songs...
Buchanan and Goodman from 1956, "Flying Saucer":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byK01DWXfgQ#)
"Mr. Rocky":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKe6tNlQibI#)
A lot of videos from this artist...
Dudley Moore, here with Christopher Cross for the theme of 'Arthur', he played piano, I just know mainly, he was in that movie.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKaqysXXNI#)
Dudley Moore Trio, 'Look Of Love':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnaNhWd1kuc#)
Ruby Johnson, 'I'll Run Your Love Away':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKUK1t0kIDs#)
Genya Raven of Goldie and the Gingerbreads, 'Can't You Hear My Heartbeat':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMwcrw7teR8#)
And Ten Wheel Drive, 'Tightrope'
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn5QpfQLREM#)
Roberto Carlos of Brazil, 'You Will Remember Me':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67sT8P9QWYk#)
Alan Price, the Animals, keyboards, must be that organ on 'House of the Rising Sun':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-4VGfx5lU#)
Mike Kelly, the Duprees, 'You Belong To Me':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEBErVs0fY#)
Born on this day, South African producer and engineer, Eddie Kramer, working with the Beatles on 'Magical Mystery Tour', Bowie on 'Young Americans, Hendrix, Kinks, Led Zeppelin (engineered 5 albums), Rolling Stones and Santana. See links for more.
That will be all for the time being, never meaning to short anyone!
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Birthday related...
Don Barbour-Four Freshmen:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AC2KkEcSvc#)
Dickie Goodman:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUeBdJb1Ok#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fugGRwJMdY#)
Alan Price-Animals:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP0UAA3DCYI#)
Mark Volman-Turtles:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2mTOQORgg#)
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Birthdays today include Alexis Korner, considered the father of British blues thanks to his Blues Incorporated (formed when
he and harmonica player/singer Cyril Davies spun it off their time in the Chris Barber jazz outfit) becoming a kind of
training ground for musicians who eventually kicked the British blues boom into gear---including John Mayall, Jack Bruce,
Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Andy Pyle, Graham Bond, Long John Baldry, and
Dick Heckstall-Smith (you might note the nucleuses of both the Rolling Stones and the Graham Bond Organisation
passing through Korner's group) . . .
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, BBC Jazz Club broadcast; the lineup: Korner (guitar, vocals); Cyril Davies
(harmonica, vocals); Dick Heckstall-Smith (saxophones); Dave Stevens (piano); Jack Bruce (bass); Charlie Watts (drums)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeg4IdnLL4#)
. . . Bernie Worrell, keyboardsman who worked with Parliament/Funkadelic . . .
Funkadelic, "Cosmic Slop"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SS7JDVRo0#)
. . . and Talking Heads . . .
Talking Heads, "Crosseyed and Painless"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyDb4szpWmc#)
. . . Andy Shernoff (who sometimes billed himself as Adny Shernoff), bassist/keyboards/vocals and primary songwriter for
New York punk legends the Dictators . . .
The Dictators, "Weekend"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzlPA3-DK_k#)
The Dictators, "(I Live for) Cars and Girls"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H5rqaEzYcY#)
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Speaking of Cyril Davies, who knows how far he might have gone had he not died prematurely of leukemia in 1964 . . .
Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All-Stars, "Country Line Special"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscwcKgz6J8#)
Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All-Stars, "Chicago Calling"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbCdvRxCyU0#)
Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All-Stars, "Preachin' the Blues"/"Sweet Mary"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnaAi1wpW2M#)
After Davies' death, Long John Baldry (who sang with them now and then) took the All-Stars and formed his Hoochie Coochie
Men, which eventually evolved into another British R&B legend, Steampacket . . .
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Friday, April 20th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
A few birthdays today,
Emile Christian, New Orleans jazz musician, 'Paper Doll':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCYDSJK_4Qg&list=PLKKMAMBxKW4ie8lnlSwRNxVU5Yz__49vX#)
Lionel Hampton, also a New Orleans jazz musician, 'Flying Home':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rTICMVXQQ#)
Tito Puente, Salsa legend, here doing Santana's "Oye Como Va":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFpCALtVUcE#)
'Quimbara' with Celia Cruz (the Queen of Salsa), she is a famous singer for that genre of music
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm2C5hx4sI0#)
On Celia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz)
Tito is pretty good to explore this kind of music with, talk show host, Michael Savage is a big fan of this genre, it seems he heard this growing up in NY.
Johnny Tillotson, known for songs such as 'Gidget', 'Poetry In Motion' and 'Talk Back Trembling Lips'
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqrUQV69ak#)
Jimmy Winston, the original keyboardist for the Small Faces before Ian McLagen came into the band. Jimmy Winston and the Reflections doing 'Sorry, She's Mine':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7lTVqOG3F0#)
Craig Frost, keyboards for Grand Funk Railroad... the one website says, okay, I'm game, why was the GFR album called "Mark, Don and Mel"? I guess, the keyboardist wasn't a bona fide member? I'm not going to explore it now and no one needs too, I can do this some Sunday afternoon. The website mentions "Some Kind of Wonderful" (I do see 4 Grand Funk members on the cover of "Women of the World Beware", so perhaps he was added on, so there):
(https://img.discogs.com/L8mkZsloj8_ND2tPGPdwt2W6IoA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7175487-1435415185-1172.jpeg.jpg)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B5jXYRy3Q#)
Also, a member of the Silver Bullet band with Bob Seger, 'Travelin' Man/Beautiful Loser':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attPbjuxli0#)
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band with 'You're Still The Same':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_kYEDZVno&list=PL-2qewzZ_6i6XJLyYqc1zWsEvGfCDGQ7Z#)
Luther Vandross, 'Power of Love':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLsbL2LJKw#)
Mikey Welsh of Weezer, 'Say It Ain't So':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo&list=PLC2qC-e5Yikc0Qm9LJ12EEX1YHTUValOM#)
Stephen Marley, Bob's son, performing with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, "Tomorrow People", I've always thought this was really a good song from the first time I heard it:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM8M-HHSbp0#)
Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, 'Pull Me Under':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGRgAULYgWE#)
Dream Theater is your "prog-rock" I believe.
More artists later.
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Birthday related...
Johnny Tillotson:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-NH_p9cJWQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpGdHsBnUBM#)
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Some country, rockabilly, bluegrass, hill music birthdays today...
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Mimi Roman, a forgotten star still with us...
(http://www.hillbilly-music.com/images/bio/2/12760.jpg)
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=12760 (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=12760)
'Love Lies':
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqtXpLGT6c#)
Floy Case, no videos but this is about her: http://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=716#.WtoHDLiYFVI (http://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=716#.WtoHDLiYFVI)
Reno Browne, a star in those old Western serials:
(http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_ii/1200/1119589.jpg)
Hylo Brown, bluegrass musician, "Many Moons Ago":
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emKjPCG1H4#)
Jeanette Hicks, "So Far (Yet So Far Away)"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvVJQq4l8U#)
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Small Faces with Kiki Dee in the 1960s:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4wkgHCBXWo#)
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Craig Frost, keyboards for Grand Funk Railroad... the one website says, okay, I'm game, why was the GFR album called "Mark, Don and Mel"? I guess, the keyboardist wasn't a bona fide member?
I happen to know why---because the Mark, Don & Mel 1969-1971 anthology summarised Grand Funk Railroad as the power trio
they were in those years, before they enlisted Craig Frost as a fourth member.
Frost was a member of Terry Knight & the Pack with Mark Farner and Don Brewer in the mid-to-late 1960s, before Knight left
the group to become a Capitol Records executive and impresario. The Pack tried to continue but after a mishap in the northeast
involving arranged gigs that proved not to exist, the band was stranded in a nasty blizzard and had to scratch and claw their way
home to Michigan, whereupon Frost and a couple of other members were told, apparently, to either give up the band or give up
their women. Mark Farner (by then the lead singer) and Don Brewer hooked up with bassist Mel Schacher and thus was born Grand
Funk, with Terry Knight managing and producing them.
After Grand Funk began to tire of the power trio format and manager Knight's overhype and dictatorial handling of them and
his double-dipping on their rather formidable income (they were America's no-questions-asked most popular concert draw and
sold albums in the millions in 1969-71), they fired Knight---at tremendous cost, as things turned out; they lost their song publishing
through 1971 in the settlement and their timing was horrible---they had, it was said, only three months left before their deal with
Knight would expire. They recorded Phoenix with Frost credited as a guest musician, I suppose to get his feet wet before
making him a full-fledged member of the group. Now a quartet, Grand Funk enjoyed a formidable second life as hitmakers, making
six more albums before they broke up in 1976.
When they reunited in 1980 for two albums, they were back to a trio; they reunited again as a trio in the mid-1990s and kept going,
even after a rift that drove Mark Farner out of the group when they refused to allow him to be a band member and sustain a solo
career on the side. (They'd aced him out of his share of Grand Funk as a business entity; Farner to this day can only bill himself as
"Formerly of Grand Funk," legally---he can't be "Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad" anymore.) Grand Funk still tours today as a
quintet with Brewer, Schacher, singer Max Carl, former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick, and former keyboardsman for Robert Palmer and
Bob Seger, Tim Cashion.
Craig Frost has worked with Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band since the 1980s (Don Brewer was a member for a time) and has sat
in with the current version of Grand Funk a few times since 2005.
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Very good information, thanks @EasyAce
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4-20? Dopers thread.
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4-20? Dopers thread.
Just for you . . .
David Peel & the Lower East Side, "I Like Marijuana"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jhFJopT_8#)
For the record: It's legal in my state, and I like it now and then---strictly in candies, since I can't handle the smoke.
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Weekend Music Thread, April 21st-22nd, 2018
All Music Is Welcomed...
We will check out a few of Saturday's birthdays, anyone is welcome to look at Sunday's and post as well.
References, the Rock and Roll website: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
General website for musical birthdays, a lot of classical musicians: https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php) who really, deserve more attention.
Country website: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Before anything else, on some artists that might slip by, here is an Israeli hard rock band from the 1960s I've listened to some, the Churchills with "When You're Gone":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jmcxVPq_M#)
A lot of interesting rock and all music really, out there. Israel had another group a bit similar in vein as well.
Now, some birthdays, Ira Louvin of the Louvin Brothers, they had some commercial success in the country music market, they also indeed, made some fire and brimstone gospel music. They are also related to the famous songwriter, John D. Loudermilk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers)
"Cash On The Barrel head":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKf_t0TAag#)
Iggy Pop, "Search and Destroy" with the Stooges:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNzQ3CXspU#)
John Weider, guitarist for the Animals from '66-'68, "Sky Pilot" (Also in the band, Family)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0JMCaKwOUY#)
Nicole Barclay of Fanny, we just posted a few of their songs days ago.
Mike Barson of Madness, keyboards, British Ska band, "It Must Be Love":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmezIIrFQmY#)
Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, "A Horse In The Country":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RJWI1MEkiE#)
Robert Smith, the Cure, "Friday I'm In Love":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0#)
John Maher, Buzzcocks, we just posted some of their songs.
Paul Davis, "I Go Crazy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THW-5OUTSt8#)
Patti Lupone, as Evita in that musical..."Don't Cry For Me, Argentina":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHUIkw5fO08#)
In "Anything Goes":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVsD0rltRr8#)
More later, apologies that these are mainly all pop musicians and yesterday, I don't think I got the birthday links up. I see some heavy metal bands are represented at the links.
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Non-Birthday related:
Scott Sandy, "Shake It Up", more raucous rockabilly out of the Carolinas, excellent stuff:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVPJfpSf51k#)
Scott Sandy was his stage name, his real name was Tommy Faile, he wrote an all time great trucker song... "Phantom 309 sung by Red Sovine who had a big hit with it:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCeVP9WuA6I#)
The Sparkletones as well, hailed from the Carolinas, one of their major hits was "Black Slacks", Simon and Garfunkel covered this
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODHJtwdWAnI#)
The original "Black Slacks" by Joe Bennet and the Sparkletones, yes, one of their guitar players looks no more than mid-teens:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UJjWzstudo#)
Ghost Highway's version was posted in the past, link only:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh081g7z_k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh081g7z_k)
So, real fun music, unconventional rock and roll coming out of there... also, Oranjie Hubbard's "You're A Tiger" fits into this mode...
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Weekend birthdays...
Don Cornell:
written by Dale Evans aka Mrs. Roy Rogers...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_T0e4cquE#)
Bobby McClure:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyFxCsR9Y-w#)
Glen Campbell:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qalp3pJA20Q#)
Mel Carter:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRbLuI8img8#)
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Some country birthdays,
Carl Belew of Oklahoma, "Lonely Street",
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-RCBsbEmqg#)
IMO, very good and he has plenty of others.
Hillous Buel "Bew" Butrum , member of Hank Williams' drifting Cowboys.
Wade Mainer, Bluegrass oriented type music. "Wreck of the Ol' 97"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgxnRjpNhLE#)
(bing gives songs with often, few hits, I don't know how good some of these are)
Blind Jack Mathis - "Charming Jesse Lee":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV-5tA5KDGM#)
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Per link above, J.D. Jarvis was born on this day in history too.....
JD Jarvis, '"That Lonely River':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXfVI_6qtc#)
But check out some of his his life story, excerpt per forum rules:
Stateside in 1946, J.D. Jarvis embarks on bluegrass career
HAMILTON — It was during J.D. Jarvis’ final hospital stay in Belgium that he met Gen. George Patton face-to-face.
“We called him ‘the big boy.’ He was as tough as they come, but he was a great general. He came right up on the front lines, about the only general that did that,†Jarvis said.
....
When Jarvis was 14, his father was killed during an altercation while running a taxi service, running coal miners in and out of town to a bar.
Read more at: https://www.journal-news.com/news/local/stateside-1946-jarvis-embarks-bluegrass-career/HaqkZmwKY4DJlrmkqHq4YM/ (https://www.journal-news.com/news/local/stateside-1946-jarvis-embarks-bluegrass-career/HaqkZmwKY4DJlrmkqHq4YM/)
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22 April birthdays include a titan of jazz, bassist/composer/occasional pianist Charles Mingus . . .
Charles Mingus, "Jelly Roll"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOutRKnFDj8#)
Charles Mingus, "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1WQR8Ti1vk#)
Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFA0FYQo0Gg#)
. . . jazz bassist Paul Chambers, who played with several notable ensembles such as the first great Miles Davis Quintet (1950s) and Davis's Kind of Blue sextet . .
Miles Davis, "Freddie Freeloader"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcuSBouhVA#)
. . . and Wynton Kelly . . .
Wynton Kelly, "Wrinkles"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4P6c8EH6g0#)
. . . rock guitarist/vocalist Peter Frampton . . .
Peter Frampton, "Something's Happening"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPxOitqmNuw#)
Peter Frampton, "Do You Feel Like We Do"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Yq5m9eLIQ#)
. . . Paul Carrack, British singer/keyboardsman who had and sang hits with Ace . . .
Ace, "How Long"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjSfr6wKJN0#)
. . . and Squeeze . . .
Squeeze, "Tempted"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnF7QEFz4JA#)
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Hyden, KY Coal Mine Explosion, 1970:
http://www.gendisasters.com/kentucky/6245/hyden-ky-coal-mine-explosion-dec-1970 (http://www.gendisasters.com/kentucky/6245/hyden-ky-coal-mine-explosion-dec-1970)
J.D. Jarvis, 'Hyden Miners Accident'
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRhW1PBfns#)
Tom T. Hall, 'Trip To Hyden'
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Gmlp7PeDw#)
Jarvis' song is very potent, yet, Hall's has the high viewership.
Arlo Guthrie, '1913 Massacre', about a Christmas party with miners back then:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcawqEpIRVo#)
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
A few birthdays for April 22nd in country music...
Cleve Francis, 'Walkin'':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjeXutEC4z0#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Francis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Francis)
Lee Bonds, 'Home Coming':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pECwNXDAQlU#)
Bobby Grove, 'The Unseen Hand':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0fHaSexqgg#)
Ray Griff, 'Canada':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfXuCanDTlE#)
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Monday, April 23rd, 2018 Music Thread , Welcoming All Music....
A few birthdays today,
Musical, General listing: https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/23 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/23)
Mainly Rock and Rock and Roll: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Vintage Country: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
It's Roy Orbison's birthday; 'Only The Lonely':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjq4wYuwgxs#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison)
Ray Peterson, with his hit, "Tell Laura I Love Her":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAYkZ1nfk1Y#)
From Denton, I did not know that. I think Sha Na Na gave that song a lot of new exposure when they performed it. They did that with quite a few songs imho.
Jacqueline Boyer, French singer, 'Mitsou':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-AB-TVT3M#)
Hugh Davies : Shozyg sequence No. 1:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oh3nyIUf5U&list=RDEMmB7vImUkQEuX4TE4drxZNw#)
Glen Connick, bass, Jethro Tull; the link does mention the "Thick as a Brick" album.
Ray Burns of the Damned, "Eloise", Punk Music:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b31L4P7G5j8#)
Steve Clarke, Guitarist, Deff Leppard, 'Pour Some Sugar On Me':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4xwmZ6zi4#)
'High 'N' Dry':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v010TI4f378#)
I like Deff Leppard's drummer.
John Cena, famous wrestler was born on this day and made the list; though for music, I'm not sure why. "Rapper' it says.
Barry Fratelli of the Scottish band, the Fratellis! Modern band, one might look them up oneself.
More to come later.
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Birthdays include blues man Cow Cow Davenport . . .
Cow Cow Davenport, "Jim Crow Blues"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF_PDYl9_SE#)
. . . Narada Michael Walden, jazz/R&B drummer whose credits include Jeff Beck's Wired . . .
Jeff Beck, "Come Dancing"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1a-ef0E5kk#)
As for Glenn Cornick, Jethro Tull's original bassist, he appeared on Jethro Tull's first three albums:
Jethro Tull, "Beggar's Farm"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGY5YpI18U#)
Jethro Tull, "Bouree"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0#)
Jethro Tull, "To Cry You a Song"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vto70Q23E#)
. . . before leaving to be replaced by Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, a move that allowed Ian Anderson to bring
three of the four members of his earliest group (keyboardsman John Evans was the third) into Jethro Tull in time to
record Aqualung. It's long been rumoured that Cornick was fired from Jethro Tull because of social incompatibility---
he was said to be too sociable when the band was on tour, compared to the insular other members. When drummer
Clive Bunker left the group after Aqualung, it meant Jethro Tull was an entirely new band other than Anderson
when it came time to write and record Thick as a Brick---essentially, with Barrie Barlow joining on drums, it
meant in a sense that Jethro Tull was now what had been the nucleus of the old John Evan Band (Barlow was its
drummer) plus guitarist Martin Barre. (After original guitarist Mick Abrahams was forced out of the lineup following
the debut This Was, Jethro Tull tried future Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi as his replacement---but
Iommi felt more comfortable with his own band, the future Sabbath. Barre came in to replace him and never looked
back.)
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Birthday related...
Roy Orbison:
his 1st charted song...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmfKT8BPPU8#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrFYKvvGlds#)
Ray Peterson:
later covered by Elvis...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGjlzRs5Ps#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAR5ZLJvXA0#)
which was a cover of this among others...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3paUz0ZXM-M#)
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Welcoming all music, Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 Music Thread
A few birthdays today,
Musical, General listing:https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php
Mainly Rock and Rock and Roll: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Vintage Country: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Barbara Streisand, "Duck Sauce"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4HHaNhcgU#)
Tony Visconti, producer of some of David Bowie's work including "Space Oddity":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo#)
Robert Knight, "Everlasting Love":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdxiXVrSgrY#)
Dick Rivers, French singer, Viens me faire oublier
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFX9RsGUp4c#)
Doug Riley of Canada, this is real jazz-fusion (or however one wants to describe it) type of music, "Earth", this one sounds a bit like Weather Report.:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2WMLMjonx0#)
Riley passed on in 2007, this was made as a tribute to him:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9B1F8I3ue0#)
So, he must have had an expansive type of career. He was given one of their top honors, Officer of the British Empire (OBE) or something.
Doug Clifford, Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Bad Moon Rising"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE#)
Ann Kelly, Hues Corporation, "Rock The Boat":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw#)
[Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun] is mentioned on one website for Hues Coporation, a bit of a conflict.
Steve York, Manfred Mann band
Nigel Harrison, Blondie
Jack Blades, Night Ranger, "Don't Tell Me You Love Me":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3IFVQhTqq4#)
David Jay from the post-punk band Bauhaus, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY#)
Boris Williams, the Cure, "Boys Don't Cry":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryImbOTDXe8&list=PLktinLPKzjRAumfpf3YGsW1_iv-6JFRRs#)
Aaron Comess, Spin Doctors, "Jimmy Olsen's Blues":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQCro68sRU#)
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I learned too, that Mimi Roman whose birthday was about last Friday, went to the same high school that Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond went to in New York. Neil Diamond is a great songwriter in his own right, I don't know about Barbara...but being a songwriter too, seems to give an artist another dimension rather than just being a performer or song interpreter, that is important too, along with good production and so on. Dolly of course, wrote some of her own songs and some of those are acknowledged classics, such as "Here You Come Again" and "I'll Always Love You", splendid songs, Dolly can play a number of instruments too, so undoubtedly, a great talent.
"Love Bells" by Mimi Roman:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm-w8QP7aY8#)
Performing "Singing The Blues":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRwDxH-EJg#)
That first song is really very nice, some of her other songs are very much in the rockabilly vocal style. She really should have been a bigger star, the things we learn.
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Birthdays today also include jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson . . .
Joe Henderson, "Blue Bossa"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7eOs5lERww#)
. . . Ray Burns (a.k.a. Captain Sensible), the original bassist for punk rock pioneers the Damned . . .
The Damned, "New Rose"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPowvspa4BI#)
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Birthday related...
Barbra Streisand:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1B-a1M7U58#)
Freddie Scott:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVlNOycC8eg#)
Doug Clifford-CCR:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_d9LtgicuQ#)
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 Music Thread, All Music Welcomed!
Checking out a few birthdays today per the following links,
Rock http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
All Music https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
Country http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Ella Fitzgerald, 'All Things You Are':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPapxr8GvGA#)
Albert King, 'I'll Play The Blues For You', now where have I heard that before?:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SP5JHLqXM8#)
(note the problem in formatting means now, I'm just posting the links (less s of course, from https://) because in the archive thread, apparently some videos do not come out)
Jerry Lieber of, of course, "Lieber and Stoller", here are the Coasters performing "On Broadway" (note, this song has actually 4 songwriters, Written by Leiber, Stoller, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) :
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFYpVlIyqo#)
And many more by them, they are legendary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller)
OB McClinton, once again, an African-American country singer, 'Country Roots':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI4192UR36o#)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._B._McClinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._B._McClinton)
Tony Christie, 'Is This The Way To Amarillo':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69xk1aBEL_E&list=PLzjNqJ92Gtmdy3l31zk2MvKX9Am7PySzc#)
Stu Cook, rock bassist, Creedence Clearwater Revival-'Proud Mary':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfHOMpU4iE#)
Digby Fairweather, 'Run, Rabbit, Run':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lexe0jLFQ1E&list=PL1OCdF8Irs6LVhjO7W_qi4DOMCA17TunS#)
Bill Fontana, 'Landscape Sculpture With Foghorns':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1FgHpozFsU#)
Michael Brown, wrote 'Walk Away Renee':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAh1dQu_pg#)
Steve Ferrone of the Average White Band, AWB, 'Cut The Cake':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75bYDYLSP0o&index=44&list=PLG9jLl6Ldd_iu2Tqpm3VBxuoo70qyb2gN&t=0s#)
Bjorn Ulvaeus, ABBA, before that though, he played for the Hootenannies, a bit folk music oriented, 'There Shall I Dwell':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxLoYrG2avY#)
Michael Kogel of Los Bravos, 'Black Is Black':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNeKoBavSRw#)
'Baby I Love You', they did have a few other songs:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESBXSZITC7Q#)
Country singer Rob Crosby of SC, 'She's A Natural':
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hCzJldz98I#)
Cory Day, 'Pow Wow', disco hit:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGZbvZXHK3k#)
More b-days later...
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Birthday related...
Ella Fitzgerald:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofy9qox_6po#)
Albert King:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2njqUm8wWi8#)
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Bob Dylan even sings this... some song.
Warren Smith - Red Cadillac and Black Mustache
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9IRYk1FP88#)
Robert Gordon with Link Wray, Red Cadillac and Black Mustache
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbOTyFMIBN8#)
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Welcoming all music, Thursday, April 26th, 2018 Music Thread
A few birthdays today,
Musical, General listing:https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php
Mainly Rock and Rock and Roll: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Vintage Country: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Frances Lai, French composer with the well-known movie theme, "Love Story":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ZyYmrr514#)
Duane Eddy was born on this day in history, one of the links lists his birthplace as Phoenix, I know I've read NY before (wikipedia). So one can research it for themselves.... "Rebel Rouser":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGPG_Y-_BZI#)
"Peter Gunn":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296wS9ome4M#)
Russel Nype, Zion Illinois, was in the "Love Story" movie apparently:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKX72a2Ev8#)
Maurice Williams of Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, "May I"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLGnH42Cb7c#)
Also, I see a Maurice Willams and the Gladiolas video at youtube for Doo Wop or Music Buffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6mhFG5ISs8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6mhFG5ISs8)
Giorgio Moroder, he has done a lot of excellent movie themes, "Scarface", I even got that cassette because of some of the excellent music. Worked with Donna Summer as well and, looks like he did the "Midnight Express Theme", requiescat en paix, Art Bell.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD4Ks_EMQBY#)
Bobby Rydell, "Wild One":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-6U-KaBAY#)
"Wildwood Days":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN99qXkcnKI#)
Tony Murray of the Troggs, "Love All Around":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6glz0wpmo#)
Naturally, they are known for "Wild Thing", which I believe spurred on others to perform it as well.
Gary Wright, he was a member of Spooky Tooth besides his later solo career:
Spooky Tooth, "Evil Woman":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVTHB319ns#)
Gary Wright, "Dream Weaver", "My Love Is Alive" is my favorite by him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCWgfwlk0M&list=RDEMi-zKRShR1xaz2hwLAWPbHg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCWgfwlk0M&list=RDEMi-zKRShR1xaz2hwLAWPbHg#)
Michael Finnegan, worked with many known performers on organ...
Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie, "Keep On Smilin'":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTzHXSmRfk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTzHXSmRfk#)
Roger Taylor, drummer, Duran Duran, "The Reflex":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo#)
Chris Mars, drummer, the Replacements, "Unsatisfied":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6IndADEWI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6IndADEWI#)
Jay DeMarcus, bass, "Rascall Flatts", country music band, "These Days":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MTSBcvI9DI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MTSBcvI9DI#)
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins of TLC, "Dreams":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GKMrB_dr7I# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GKMrB_dr7I#)
And many more, more to add later...
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Birthday related...
Jorgen Ingmann:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-qXBJ64xVc#)
Duane Eddy:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-m8QLHFw0#)
Bobby Rydell:
coincidentally, from the film "Because They're Young"...
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brgZItIghC8#)
Maurice Williams:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkZZfRC3x3M#)
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My personal favourites by Jorgen Ingmann . . .
Jorgen Ingmann, "Tovarisch"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4c-DINc88#)
. . . and Duane Eddy . . .
Duane Eddy andthe Rebels, "Forty Miles of Bad Road"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWND62o8jc#)
Jorgen Ingmann idolised Les Paul, using some of his recording techniques and even playing a Les Paul guitar here and there . . .
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rbKhguKamyU/hqdefault.jpg)
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Friday, April 27th, 2018 Music Thread, All Music Welcomed!
Musical, General listing: https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
Mainly Rock and Rock and Roll: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Vintage Country: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Just checking out a few songs and birthdays today...
Maxine Brown, yes, of the Browns, known for "The Three Bells", here they perform "Scarlett Ribbons":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFn_19jAag#)
Cuba Gooding of the Main Ingredient, 'Everybody Plays The Fool":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeHHpXOOds#)
Peter Ham, Badfinger, "Day After Day":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XonFZjuyc6E#)
They sure sound a lot like the Beatles, of course, they had their connections.
Herbie Murrell, Stylistics, "You Are Everything":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnUA3RX4vU#)
Kate Pierson, B-52s, "Rock Lobster":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz65vonktMA#)
Paul "Ace" Frehley, Kiss, "Beth":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlZ7mTL4jRY#)
Boris Kinberg, percussion, Mink Deville, "Spanish Stroll":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5LveBIjg3o#)
Sheena Easton, "For Your Eyes Only":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJTYlQSqYk#)
Will Boyd of Evanescence, "My Immortal":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo#)
Astronomical hits on this song, you be the judge. Pretty good, you know, they are from Little Rock Arkansas (generally speaking, they may have a rather diverse band now).
Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy, "This City":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGGIQQKKD0Y#)
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Birthday related...
Maxine Brown-Browns:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCSJisbMD8#)
Kirby Stone:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3uw18-d3Wc#)
Pete Ham-Iveys/Badfinger:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDeq8eei-8#)
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Birthdays today include Connie Kay, the longtime drummer/percussionest for the Modern Jazz Quartet . . .
The Modern Jazz Quartet, "Kansas City Breaks"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s4Z59ncM1g#)
. . . Memphis soul legend Ann Peebles . . .
Ann Peebles, "I Can't Stand the Rain"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTMjMeFKyPs#)
. . . Marco Pirroni, guitarist with Adam and the Ants . . .
Adam and the Ants, "Stand and Deliver"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSseiQglvG4#)
Pete Ham of Badfinger also co-wrote what proved to be Harry Nilsson's biggest single hit . . .
Badfinger, "Without You"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTnwArYjoM#)
. . . but what happened to him and the band was maybe the worst disgrace of the 1970s, and that's saying something
considering what ended up having been done to the Bay City Rollers. At a time when they were beginning to try downplaying
their early connection to the Beatles (they tired of the Beatle comparisons even though they enjoyed working with individual
ex-Beatles, particularly George Harrison), disaster began to strike Badfinger and not let go.
The trouble began with the chaos of Apple Records in the wake of the collapse of the Beatles' would-be Apple Corps
empire, and it didn't help that the only artists making any money for Apple the label were Badfinger and the Beatles,
whether their formidable catalog or the releases of the ex-Beatles. It continued when Badfinger discovered their
manager, Stan Polley, made all manner of movements with Badfinger's monies, on the pretext of investing for the
band but in reality seemed aimed at keeping much of their money away from them. When Apple Records finally
collapsed, Polley did manage to wring Badfinger a new deal at Warner Bros. Records, which upset Harrison until
he realised Allen Klein---the Beatles' controversial manager---was trying to stuff a less favourable new deal down
Badfinger's throat.
Badfinger was already wrung by too much touring as it was. Plus, their first Warner album was released too close
on the heels of their last Apple album. The next Warner album, Wish You Were Here (recorded and released
over a year before the Pink Floyd album of the same name), should have been a triumph---it got some of their
best reviews---but at the time it was released the hanky panky involving Badfinger's finances began to explode.
The millions put into an escrow account to protect the group suddenly vanished. Wish You Were Here was
withdrawn a few weeks after its release, supposedly on the advice of lawyers for both the band and Warner Bros.
Pete Ham decided to get out while the getting looked good, but the getting only looked worse from there. Ham
and the rest of the band discovered the hard way that they'd been driven deep into debt despite their hard
work and weren't likely to see anything of what they earned for years to come, if at all. Desperate, Ham committed
suicide in 1975. A third Warners album was recorded but unreleased; the label dropped Badfinger, and the surviving
band members fell into rounds of suits and countersuits for several years in several countries.
Finally, Tom Evans---who'd been, with Ham, the co-primary source of Badfinger's songwriting---and Joey Molland
decided to give Badfinger another try. In 1978, a new lineup (drummer Kenny Harck and guitarist Joe Tansin
completed it) cut an album, Airwaves. When the two new recruits left the band before the album was finished,
Evans and Molland brought in former Stealers Wheel drummer Pete Clarke (who knew a thing or three about legal
quagmires, since such things blocked Stealers leaders Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan from recording for an almost
four-year period after that band's demise) and former Yes keyboardsman Tony Kaye. This lineup toured the U.S.
and cut another album, Say No More, but their relationships collapsed as the legal quagmire metastasised, with
each of them sometimes leading their own versions of Badfinger while they were at it. Then, Evans and Molland
had a violent telephone argument, after which Evans---like Ham before him---hanged himself in 1983. It was
said that Evans never quite got over Ham's suicide, and that was exacerbated thanks to Evans having seen
Ham's lifeless body almost immediately---Ham's wife had called him first. Evans left a suicide note that's also
said to have included zingers at Stan Polley.
The saddest part: Badfinger's earlier albums, the Apple Records albums, remained popular. (And, the only Apple
Records recordings other than those by the Beatles as a band and as solo artists to remain in print into the
current century.) Badfinger is credited with laying the groundwork for much of what became known as "power pop"
as the 1970s moved along. Former record producer Dan Mantovina's biography/history of the band, Without You:
The Tragic Story of Badfinger, now fetches as much as $500 as a collectors' item. The only book in print to
have anything to do with Badfinger now seems to be Michael A. Cimino's biography of Joey Molland, Badfinger
and Beyond.
As for Stan Polley, he was an American entertainment manager whose clientele also once included such as Al Kooper,
Lou Christie, Charles Calello (the longtime music arranger for the Four Seasons), songwriter Sandy Linzer (he co-
wrote the Toys' "A Lover's Concerto" and several Four Seasons hits including "Let's Hang On!" and "Working My Way
Back to You" with his collaborator Denny Randell), and 1960s/1970s WABC (New York) disc jockey Bob Lewis. (He
usually called himself Bob-a-Loo on the air.) It was Warners suing Polley over those missing millions from that
escrow account (it was set up to receive Badfinger's album advances and other monies, supposedly to secure the
band and its members financially) that shoved Badfinger's morass to the points of no return.
Polley was finally forced to plead no contest to misappropriating funds in a 1991 case involving a start-up company
aimed at building airplane engines. He died in 2009.
Badfinger, "No Matter What"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8-Pj3P3bQ#)
Joey Molland is the only surviving original member of Badfinger. He lives in Minnesota and tours with a band that
plays mostly Badfinger's music in concert. Badfinger got an unexpected shot in the arm when the finale of
television's Breaking Bad featured Badfinger's "Baby Blue" in its soundtrack. The song was one of the most
heavily purchased online downloads in the wake of that episode.
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Weekend Music Thread, April 28th-29th, 2018
All Music Welcomed!
Musical, General listing: https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php)
Mainly Rock and Rock and Roll: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today)
Vintage Country: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
Not many on the 28th, at least, not in the early returns...but the 29th seems to be Willie Nelson's and Duke Ellington's birthday....
Starting off with Duke Ellington:
"Take The A Train":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY#)
"Satin Doll":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrytKuC3Z_o#)
"In A Sentimental Mood" with John Coltrane:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR13ECD71xU#)
Willie Nelson, "Crazy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnYEQbEHNZE#)
"Family Bible", he wrote it, it's credited to others because he sold the right to it as an up and coming songwriter and performer:
Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Bible_(song) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Bible_(song))
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMfr6Yb04E4#)
"Hello Walls" as sung by Faron Young, another Willie Nelson penned song:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSWAUAKJn0#)
Now, on to other artists for April 28th:
Blossom Dearie, jazz singer, "Someone To Watch Over Me":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oruxeiA06_4&list=PL1C3BA392DDB4A0BF#)
"Bang Goes The Drum and You're In Love":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXcYu9iYYss#)
John Martin Tchicai with Trio doing "Nothing Doing In Krakow":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg-UytfWHPQ#)
With the Strange Brothers:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otH6GxYad_k#)
The Fantastic Johnny C, "Boogaloo Down On Broadway":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ng3p3Tlc0I#)
Jacques Dutronc - "Le Responsable", French singer:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9GMnZM_f4#)
Ginette Reno, French Canadian Singer, "Hello" with Lionel Richie:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKDLt0LTTc#)
"La Vie":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeIymkkQZQ#)
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Apr. 29 birthdays...
Carl Gardner-Robins/Coasters:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6dA-liqmKs#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g39huFtvB5g#)
Lonnie Donegan:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EynL-R_fc_U#)
Rod McKuen:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIIOKgyZIVQ#)
April Stevens:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEZuJdildE#)
Tammi Terrell:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vE1L9WveY#)
Tommy James:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFfJ3CppMw4#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnM7w7XO1ek
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Somehow this morning I found myself going down the proverbial rabbit hole listening to 1940s country-western songs. The sound quality is surprisingly good for the ones I've found.
Like this cute little ditty from Tex Williams:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_-vNtWLLs#)
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Some C & W birthdays, April 28:
Sylvia Mobley off of Big Style records, "Every Time I See You":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mH9DcR1XiA#)
She wrote it too, actually pretty good, it doesn't have fancy studio production and maybe one can tell that per the vocal treatment, but otherwise, quite good. Rockabilly definitely.
"Standing Deer and Little Star"(Cherokee Country) by Sylvia it says.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjogoqwTcjs#)
Vassar Clements, "Tippin' In", Hill Billy Jazz, I have seen that record label before, Flying Fish:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VnvrLGURHI#)
Shorty Chesser, "At the Fair":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN_tQJyOT_U#)
Source: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php)
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April 29th, country music greats Ike Everly, Jimmy Skinner, Billy Mize and Eddie Noack were born on this day in history http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php) :
Ike Everly, the father of the Everly Brothers, Phil and Don. Ike, born in 1908 may have known some of bigtime names from Kentucky including Merle Travis, here, Ike Everly is joined by Maybelle Carter (Carter family) on a guitar instrumental:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DoxwrSHKr0#)
Though, wikipedia lists Iowa, for the origin of the Everly Brothers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers)
The article also notes, Ike's sister was the mother of Jules Guy, otherwise known as actor, James Best who made a few appearances on the Andy Griffith show and I've seen him in some other shows as well:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KSnLuixJls#)
Jimmy Skinner, "John Henry and the Waterboy":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzOw01WXx48#)
Eddie Noack, songwriter and performer of "Psycho", actually a big hit that has been covered by Elvis Costello and others.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtDLN4LoPZA#)
Bill Mize, country singer of renown,
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHCGEOMdW0#)
Billy Mize and the Bakersfield Sound, movie trailer:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrqkMMo57A#)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mize)
Billy Mize
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April Stevens, "Teach Me Tiger":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwlWobbia6k#)
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Monday, April 30th, 2018 Music Thread.... All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/30 (https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/30) (All Music)
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today) (Rock)
http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php (http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php) (Vintage Country)
We'll check a few birthdays today,
"1917 Bea Wain, American singer and radio host (Deep Purple, Heart and Soul), born in The Bronx, Yew York (d. 2017)"
"Heart and Soul" with Larry Clinton:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsIL07eOqOU#)
She was a big band singer:
"Who Blew Out The Flame":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp4yuppYvcQ#)
It's the birthday today of the great Johnny Horton,
"John Paul Jones":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s58mlY1R6k#)
A few deep cuts:
"Jim Bridger" (a pioneer and mountain man) Read about Jim Bridger here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bridger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bridger) :
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnJL4ErQK8k#)
"Johnny Reb":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuznGokgCk8#)
"Young Abe Lincoln":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ro0SlVPlWE#)
How creative, there are not that many artists around who key in to historical events, not to forget, the big hit, "Sink the Bismarck":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-6BIH97sQ#)
Bobby Gregg, drummer on "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Sounds of Silence", temporary member in the Hawks, the band that became, the Band.
Bobby Vee, "Take Good Care Of My Baby":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNqLO6auQA#)
Johnny Farina of Santo and Johnny, "Sleepwalk":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRCvVpknvg#)
"Sonambulo":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdJiCZ_zbwY#)
The rock and roll website lacks this entry, okay, all the data can probably NOT be collected perfectly, but they should have it. "Sleepwalk" was a number 1 r'n'r in the '50s. Jeff Beck plays it... and...
"Prominently featuring steel guitar, the song was recorded at Trinity Music in Manhattan, New York City. "Sleep Walk" entered Billboard's Top 40 on August 17, 1959. It rose to the number 1 position for the last two weeks in September[3] and remained in the Top 40 until November 9. "Sleep Walk" also reached number 4 on the R&B chart.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Walk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Walk)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_%26_Johnny (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_%26_Johnny)
Both still around!
Wayne Kramer of the MC5, here doing "Ramblin' Rose":
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41_r-c_EO4o#)
Merrill Osmond of the Osmond brothers, covered previously and not that long ago. Here he sings "Crazy Horses" with Susan Boyle:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhq_sPXFRjI#)
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Birthday related...
Johnny Horton:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txlZAfVZXwU#)
Bobby Vee:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxcJqZIuSVQ#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeJVRstkP8#)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7kwymQ-R2o#)
Johnny Farina:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49QCQO32t9A#)
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Birthdays include folk/blues legend Rev. Gary Davis, who became ordained in 1937 and who went from there to include
gospel heavily in his music; later in his life he became a teacher as well, often re-recording his vintages for the benefit
of his students who included (especially) Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna . . .
Rev. Gary Davis, "Death Don't Have No Mercy"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPh7EbB1Tw#)
Rev. Gary Davis, "Goin' to Sit Down on the Banks of the River"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWPT_38l2Q8#)
Jorma Kaukonen with Hot Tuna playing Davis . . .
Hot Tuna, "Death Don't Have No Mercy"
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO-xvAec6sM#)
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Wrapping up April, birthday boys, Glen Campbell, April 22nd and Billy Mize, April 29th, they both did that song "Lights Of Albuquerque"... it still perplexes me what the song says...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r3g_3dHO64#)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLPlgqlqGRg#)
I can see the lights of Albuquerque
He don't stand a chance I heard the medic say
Then close by my side, I heard the chaplain pray
Then just like a miracle, the pain faded fast away
And I swore once more that I could see
the lights of Albuquerque
There's nothing real at all since I left New Mexico
And the warmth of her love
The kind a man must know
There were tears in her angel eyes, I didn't want to go
But a man must stand so there will always be
the lights of Albuquerque
The lights of Albuquerque
jewels in the desert night
They watch over all I love
So while they burn, my world's alright
The chaplain's prayer comes back
And soothes the pain I feel
While through my torture mind
Peace begins to still
Is it the drug they poured in me
Or can dying be this real
If I die, don't cry just light for me
the lights of Albuquerque
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pesIGuV9DDk#)