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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #200 on: June 29, 2017, 01:38:50 am »
Folks should read the article, I did not know the band Steam was basically a "fake" band (if that is what the article says, I don't want to misstate the situation); also, I thought maybe the chant was used at games before but apparently, the co-writers came up with it.

Stumbled on this facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GaryDecarloSteam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(band)

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There were plenty of those types of bands back in the 60s and 70s: made-up studio bands with anonymous identities. There were quite a few singers (Joey Levine, Tony Burrows, Ron Dante) who sold quite a few records as lead singers of fake groups like that.
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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #201 on: June 29, 2017, 01:48:07 am »
Re: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

That song always bothered me because the first half of its first verse blatantly ripped off Jerry Butler's "He Will Break Your Heart" (later covered by Tony Orlando as "He Don't Love You"):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_xP31U74U
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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #202 on: June 29, 2017, 11:36:46 am »
All Music Is Welcome.

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

Birthday Salutations;

Leonard Lee of Shirley and Lee, "Let The Good Times Roll" was born today. Shirley's birthday was just in the last two weeks at that as well, it seems.

Billy Storm of the Valiants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNE2FQOYhcs

Little Eva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Yxc82GKwQ

Bill Kirchen, Commander Cody guitarist, was touring just a few months ago," the master of the Stratocaster", Hot Rod Lincoln and so on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJIGNbVCHh4



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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #203 on: June 29, 2017, 12:52:09 pm »
She certainly sang an extensive number of songs, not just the hits we know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMlALAaEwfA

In the early '90s, Great Britain had a tv show entitled "Lipstick on your collar". A drama, soap, there is some of it on youtube.

She has sung songs geared towards the Italian, Spanish, German, French and the Israeli market.  She even sang in Japanese, I'd be curious how that came off.  She has an album with Hank Williams Jr. (  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Francis_and_Hank_Williams_Jr._Sing_Great_Country_Favorites  ) of all folks and sang with Marvin Rainwater, another country singer.  I don't know for sure about Como, Sinatra or Dean Martin but it seems like some of the crooners sang about everything.  It almost looks like overkill on singing but these are different times.

She even sang a number of patriotic type songs. I have her bio.

Neil Sedaka wrote or co-wrote her hit, "Where the boys are" which was for a movie.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuI_5_AWvK4

A few of the songs look like they might be best left unheard of though.

Even that "Na Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye" song is listed as Connie having sung it but I don't see it on youtube.

Anyway, a fine American artist.

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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #204 on: June 29, 2017, 02:53:41 pm »
A couple random golden oldies for today:

"The Devil In Mrs. Jones" by Jerry Butler
This piece plays on two iconic 1970s hits: the art-porn movie The Devil in Miss Jones and Billy Paul's hit song Me and Mrs. Jones. While this song not a particularly big hit at the time, I personally think it should have been. Take a listen and decide for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksm-n4UUtj8

"You Make Me Feel So Young" by Frank Sinatra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHWmW1eyUg

"Agadoo" by Black Lace
Just a silly little ditty, because we always need silliness every once in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POv-3yIPSWc
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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #205 on: June 29, 2017, 04:13:16 pm »
Another birthday boy: Leroy Anderson, composer of what we native New Yorkers remember as the theme
for local CBS's television movie shows The Early Show, The Late Show, and The Late Late Show . . .
(which used Percy Faith's version, what a shock, since Faith happened to record for Columbia Records . . .)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aUW4wtjF2I

More musical birthdays: Bernard Herrmann, who wrote music for a passel of old-time radio programs including
Suspense . . .

. . . Roger Ruskin Spear, saxophonist for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCtkJxyYsrc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy3ClvsLgw

. . . Ian Paice, Deep Purple drummer . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ljUkuQ1tU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOPPJ4MWgE


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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #207 on: June 30, 2017, 11:01:46 am »
All music is welcome.

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

A few birthdays:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW2GIYQTtIY
    1685 John Gay, English poet and dramatist (The Beggar's Opera) (d. 1732)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLyREX7LYU
    1917  Lena Horne, American actress, singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz), born in Brooklyn, New York
So, this is the centenary of Lena Horne's birth:
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/jun/30/legacy-lena-horne/
http://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/lena-horne-centennial/
http://www.wnyc.org/story/lena-hollywood/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXpC67PL3Q
   1943 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), born in Detroit, Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Ballard
Ballard expressed dissatisfaction with the group's direction throughout its successful period. She would also claim that their schedule had forced the group members to drift apart.[24] Ballard blamed Motown Records for destroying the group dynamic by making Diana Ross the star.[24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pVtQ4ncK5k

So, that should get us going.  "This day in rock" website is currently not working.   http://thisdayinmusic.com/

http://rockintown.com/today-in-rock.html
On this day:
Nine people are crushed to death at a Copenhagen Pearl Jam concert. People push forward because they can't hear due to broken speakers. Vocalist Eddie Vedder tells the audience to move back but to no avail. 2000

President George Bush meets with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a major Elvis Presley fan, at Graceland in Memphis. The PM is given several souvenirs, eliminating any chance of reducing the huge trade deficit the U.S. has with Japan. Next time, make the PM buy the DVDs of Clambake and Viva Las Vegas! 2006


Following a difficult show at the Denver Pop Festival (police firing tear gas into the audience and a narrow escape) bassist Noel Redding announces his departure from the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He is replaced by Jimi's longtime friend Billy Cox. 1969


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Re: June 2017 Music Thread (All Days)
« Reply #208 on: June 30, 2017, 11:30:37 am »
Non-birthday related, it's interesting how hula-hoops were a rage even getting musical attention.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5nUlDVoF4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHkx-nMONzc

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« Reply #209 on: June 30, 2017, 04:45:46 pm »
The story of Florence Ballard---who started the project that became the Supremes when they were girls living in
the Brewster-Douglass projects in Detroit---has been told in a dignified way in Nelson George's Where Did Our
Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rdqHaVzuo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4IFtxQfLWg



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« Reply #210 on: June 30, 2017, 07:56:53 pm »
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today (back up and running)

1949, Born on this day, Andy Scott, guitar, Sweet, (1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles). Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: Little Willy, Ballroom Blitz, Fox On The Run, and Love Is Like Oxygen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_jdiU47bFA

Adrian Wright, Human League

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0

Stanley Clarke, Jazz bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUaaEYC-5Go

On this day:
1975, Cher married Greg Allman four days after her divorcing Sonny Bono, the couple split after ten days, followed by a three year on and off marriage.
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« Reply #212 on: June 30, 2017, 11:15:30 pm »
File this under better late than never, and if I'm repeating myself no apologies because this stuff is that good,
but here's belatedly discovered proof that there was excellent life after the J. Geils Band for its late namesake
(and underrated) guitarist and its harmonica virtuoso . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEBTitazNo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lj-JQhi4w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV98Pw0Z_54


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByzOBLfSo0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccyW_PG8Zr0


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