All May 2018 Music Thread

[TomSea]

Thursday, May 31st, 2018 Music Thread, All Music Welcomed!

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/may/31
Vintage Country: http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/index.php
The rock and roll website is still down.

Shirley Verret,  "Nicolai Gedda/Shirley Verrett- Duet, (Berlioz, Les Troyens) Live 1969", ! No longer available

Augie Meyers of the Sir Douglas Quintet,  "Mendocino":
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Johnny Paycheck, "Outlaw's Prayer":
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"Colorado Kool-Aid", a must-hear for vintage country, though not as vintage as that "hillybilly-music.com" website, Johnny Paycheck, RIP, it seemed he lived life hard, got into some pretty bad trouble too.
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"Greatest Hits", I knew he had been around a while before "Take This Job And Shove It" but not that long.  A very young Johnny Paycheck on the cover.
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 Wayne Carson, country musician and wrote "Always On My Mind" which has been covered by Willie Nelson, Elvis and I'm sure many others.  Willie's is probably the definitive version though, who knows what other covers are out there.
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Junior (William) Campbell, Scottish musician, Marmalade, "Falling Apart at the Seams", a departure from the usual "Reflections Of My Life":
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"Bonzo", John Bonham, drummer of, of course, Led Zeppelin, I don't think I grow tired of hearing "Rock and Roll", great percussion:
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"No Quarter":
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BTW, Jimmy Page has been in the news lately, not bad news either. He's fooling with his house over there and his neighbor wanted to put a pool in the neighbors house, Jimmy Page took it to court saying the noise and vibrations might harm his Gothic Mansion. Page won his case.
https://www.spin.com/2018/05/robbie-williams-jimmy-page-house-feud-swimming-pool-renovations/

Mike Edwards [Swami Deva Pramada ], Cello, ELO, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Edwards_(musician), "Hold On Tight":
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One of ELO's classics, "Rock and Roll Is King", if one searches Youtube, a lot of folks from different countries have covered this, just a good ol' rock 'n' roll song.
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Karl Bartos, Kraftwerk, "Tour De France", Fritz Hilpert as well, who has worked with Kraftwerk, see link.:
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The late Vicki Sue Robinson, "Turn The Beat Around":
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Tommy Emmanuel of Australia, guitarist, here covering Mason Williams' "Classical Gas":
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Phil and Tommy Emmanuel play some Mozart:
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Corey Hart, "Sunglasses At Night":
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Darryl "DMC" Matthews McDaniels of Run-DMC, "King Of Rock":
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From the European country of Georgia, Sopho Khalvashi - Cota Kidev Moitmine Gulo
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David Hernandez, "Beautiful":
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Hope Partlow, "Like You Do":
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[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Augie Meyers-Sir Douglas Quintet:

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Peter Yarrow:

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[TomSea]

Greta Van Fleet, 3 brothers (Kiszka) and one who isn't, play a style of music that make some think of Led Zeppelin:

"Black Smoke Rising":
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http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/greta-van-fleet-interview-2018-2322697
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Van_Fleet

A group to keep an eye on.

[EasyAce]

Birthdays today include Karl Bartos, German electronic percussionist who joined Kraftwerk for the album that broke them internationally . . .

Kraftwerk, "Autobahn"

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Kraftwerk, "Kometenmelodie 2"

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Kraftwerk, "Spacelab"

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[TomSea]

Friday, June 1st, 2018 Music Thread

https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/june/1

We'll look at a few birthdays, while we look forward to a sunny weekend, or rain....

Nelson Riddle... so lots of music from him over a long time period, here, with Linda Ronstadt, "What's New":
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"Route 66":
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Andy Griffith, singing the "Midnight Special" for something different.
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Pat Boone, "April Love", I really do like that, of course, he has recorded even recently and came out with a "metal" album.
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Linda Scott, "I've Told Every Star":
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Ron Wood, Faces, Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck groups, they say some of his solos are good as well...
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Mike Levin of the Canadian rock group, Triumph, falls into the "heard of them" category, "Magic Power":
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There's some video over at youtube, "the music industry's war on the band Triumph", as if they had some noteworthy music but got the shaft.
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Charlene (D'Angelo), "I've Never Been To Me":
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Lisa Hartman of Knotts Landing, "Open Arms":
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Alan "Wild"er, Depeche Mode, "Policy Of Truth":
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Simon Gallup, bass, the Cure, "Friday I'm In Love":
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Jesse Johnson of the group Time,  funk guitar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Johnson_(musician)

Mike Joyce, drummer, the Smiths, "Charming Man":
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Alanis Morrisette, "Everything":
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Brandi Carlile, "Sugartooth":
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More later...

[pookie18]

Birthday related...

Pat Boone:

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Linda Scott:

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Ron Wood-Jeff Beck Group

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[EasyAce]

Birthday boy Nelson Riddle's first significant gig was in the trombone section of Tommy Dorsey's band, when Dorsey added a) strings, and b) arranger extraordinaire Sy Oliver to his organisation, and you can bet Riddle was paying very close attention to Oliver's work. (Oliver was previously the man who helped Jimmie Lunceford create the two-beat style that made Lunceford a star for a couple of years earlier . . . ) Even though Riddle had already made a splash arranging Glenn Miller's "Little Brown Jug" . . .

Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, "Opus One" (note the label misspelled Sy Oliver's name)

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He studied orchestration further while he was in the Merchant Marine, then moved to southern California and found work as an arranger with, among others, Doris Day, arranging her hit "Again" even though he didn't receive label credit for it . . .

Doris Day, "Again"

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Riddle was hired by Capitol to begin arranging for Nat King Cole in 1950; Les Baxter hired Riddle, who promptly gave Cole the biggest seller of his career but took the arranging credit for himself. Fat lot of good that did him: Cole discovered who'd really written the charts, and kept Riddle aboard . . .

Nat King Cole, "Mona Lisa"

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. . . and not long afterward, after becoming convinced by Cole's hits, Frank Sinatra gave in and let Riddle arrange an album for him after he signed with Capitol, and after his first couple of records with his longtime arranger (and fellow Dorsey alumnus) Axel Stordahl tanked. It was a marriage made in the music heavens . . .

Frank Sinatra, "One for My Baby"

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Frank Sinatra, "I've Got You Under My Skin"

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Frank Sinatra, "Witchcraft"

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Frank Sinatra, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"

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. . . Riddle also arranged one of the best entries in Ella Fitzgerald's Song Book series . . .

Ella Fitzgerald, "But Not for Me"

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Ella Fitzgerald, "Fascinating Rhythm"

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Ella Fitzgerald, "A Foggy Day"

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This is my personal favourite of the television themes Nelson Riddle either wrote or merely recorded . . .

Nelson Riddle, "Naked City Theme"

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