All January Music Thread

[TomSea]

[TomSea]

Midnight Blue - Louise Tucker, killer song.

Get your British Flatcap out, Charlie Dore with "Pilot of the Airwaves" from 1979.


Amanda Lear, quite a character, some opine, she's a transexual, her music is seemingly the '70s and disco era. Something here doesn't seem quite normal, her voice. I don't think she was ever well-known in the US, music is okay.  Seemed to know Bowie.

[TomSea]

More birthdays for 1-28, today, Sunday:
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php    http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

Acker Bilk (Stranger in Paradise):


King Tubby, Jamaican music and another Jamaican Reggae musician gunned down, I think Jamaica even got put on a travel advisory lately, only go to certain secure areas.
(King Tubby Rock) Dub music pioneer.


Gene McFadden of McFadden and Whitehead, (Ain't No Stopping Us Now):


Sarah McLaghlin, Canadian singer (The arms of an angels):


Brian Keenan, Chambers Brothers (Time Has Come Today):


Piet Veerman, the Cats, from the Netherlands (Sailing Home):

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Martin Fried-Cyrkle:



Bobby "Blue" Bland:



Nedra Talley-Ronettes:

[TomSea]

Monday, January 29th, 2018 Music Thread

All Music Is Welcomed,  we'll just post early, Bill Kirchen's birthday!

The rock website is down again, so we have a few from the other website:
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/january/29

Tommy Ramone, drummer, Ramones (Locket Love)


David Byron, Uriah Heep (The Wizard which some local band performed as well, I guess they thought it was good).


Irlene Mandrell, one of the Mandrell Sisters:


Noel Harrison, Rex's son I think, singing Cohen's "Suzanne", good version too.


And the "Titan of the Telecaster", the father of Dieselbilly, the guitar on Hot Rod Lincoln with 'Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen' besides his solo career, Bill Kirchen, born in Connecticut, those guys met up at the University of Michigan and put out a lot of good songs.
Tommy Collins' "Roll Truck Roll"

Here Kirchen has an instructional video on how to play "Hot Rod Lincoln", he has a few instructional type of videos on guitar:

And their original version, of course, they did not write this originally, it was unearthed years after Charlie Ryan wrote it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Rod_Lincoln

They also made hay with a good version of "Smoke that cigarette"


They are a lot like the swing band, "Asleep at the wheel", well, before either band made it "big" or achieved relative success, they knew each other.  Last year, I was in this forum, I told this guy in London, "oh, Bill Kirchen is touring over there" and sure enough, he went to see him.

And lastly, John Raitt:

[WarmPotato]

GOP leaning music is the best! Better than the sex sex sex of pop culture music :P

[EasyAce]

Birthdays today include, especially, James Jamerson, the bassist who helped make the classic Motown Sound as one of the anchors
of the Funk Brothers house band . . .

The Funk Brothers, "The Happening"

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The Funk Brothers, "What's Going On"

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The Funk Brothers, "Bernadette"

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The Funk Brothers (billed here as Earl Van Dyke & the Soul Brothers), "All for You"

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[TomSea]

Commander Cody and Asleep at the Wheel are really revivalist of songs that might have been forgotten, CC performed "My window faces the South", good song, here are some people from the Far East performing it:


For a fact, Merle Haggard preserved the tradition and maybe Willie too:


And Asleep at the Wheel even performed some of the songs, Commander Cody did like Hot Rod Lincoln and House of Blue Lights. Here is "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie", a song they are known for:

They probably did about as much as to keep the music alive as anyone and the head-guy from Asleep at the wheel is from New England originally.

Some older truckin' music, "Diesel on my tail":

[TomSea]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 Music Thread
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

Any music is welcomed, not just who is born today but anyway, on the topic of birthdays,

Marty Balin and Phil Collins and Steve Marriot were all born on this day in history, so in no particular order:

Horst Jankowski, "A Walk in the Black Forest"


Joe Terranova of Danny and the Juniors, 'At the Hop'.

There was a good rendition of this song in "American Graffiti" performed by Flash Cadillac.

Phil Collins, "In the air tonight" with Eric Clapton and "Follow me, Follow You" with Genesis:



Steve Marriot, Humble Pie and the Small Faces with "Rolling Stone" and "All Or Nothing"



Jody Watley, "I"m looking for a new love", the listing said she was in Shalamar too.


Marty Balin, Jefferson Airplane, Starship and solo projects:
'Crown of Creation' and 'High Flying Bird', the latter from their first album.



Ruth Brown, "Sugar Lips", was she posted a few weeks ago? It doesn't matter.

[TomSea]

More birthdays,

http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php

Jeanne Pruett, someone used one of her songs in the music game just the other day.
"Satin Sheets" (To lye on):


Also, before Dolly Parton,  on Porter Waggoner's tv show, they had Norma Jean:
"Foggy Mountain Top":

"Truck Driving Woman", some of the so-called "trucking" songs, catered to a certain audience, so, at times, I think a number of them can be underrated as to how good they are.

A little boy is what my daddy wanted a little girl just didn't fit his plans
To help him on the road when he was on it cause daddy was a truck drivin' man
So I was raised on truck drivin' stories I know every legend of the road
From Phantom 309 in all its glory to the widow maker's truck drivin' cold
And I'm a truck drivin' woman my daddy taught me everything he knew
I'm a truck drivin' woman and this woman's gonna fill her daddy's shoes
[ guitar ]
So if you boys still think you cannot run me
Just ask the Greyhounds I've left even dust
You've gotta travel fast to make big money and when I go I giddyup go or bust

Read more: Norma Jean - Truck Drivin' Woman Lyrics | MetroLyrics

http://www.metrolyrics.com/truck-drivin-woman-lyrics-norma-jean.html

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Ruth Brown:

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Joe Terranova-Danny & The Jrs.:

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Marty Balin-Jefferson Airplane:

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Sandy Deanne-Jay & The Americans:

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Steve Marriott-Small Faces:

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[TomSea]

All Music Is Welcomed:

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/january/31      http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today

A few birthdays:

Father of Muscle Shoals (Alabama) sound,  Rick Hall, I believe he just passed away earlier in January, Laretha, Allmans, Wilson Picket, some of the names he recorded: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/rick-hall-father-of-muscle-shoals-music-has-died/  :


Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music (Do the Strand):


Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols (Pretty Vacant):


Carol Channing, "Hello Dolly":


Marvin Junior, the Dells (Oh, what a night):


"O Sole Mio" sung by Mario Lanza:


Chuck Willis, "CC Rider":


Charlie Musselwhite, blues:


And lastly, Franz Schubert, (Ave Maria)

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Marvin Junior-Dells:

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Chuck Willis:

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[EasyAce]

More birthdays, including Alan Lomax, the musicologist who (with his father at first) collected almost a museum's worth
of American folk and blues in field recordings, including making the first known recordings of the man who changed the
blues irrevocably (his description of the man's reaction to seeing those first records for himself, in The Land Where the
Blues Began, is priceless) . . .

Muddy Waters, The Complete Plantation Recordings

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. . . and, the first recordings of another rural blues legend . . .

Mississippi Fred McDowell, The Alan Lomax Recordings

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. . . Also, happy birthday to Philip Glass, possibly the best-known of the minimalist composers who emerged in the 1970s . . .

Philip Glass, "Prophecies"

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