Friday, April 6th, 2018 Music Thread
All Music Is Welcomed!
https://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays/april/6 ;
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_todayAll 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":
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...
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":
"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):
"Like Love":
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:
"Simple Man":
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":
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":
And others, worth noting, perhaps a few more later on...
Non-birthday related, Les Baxter, "Shooting Star", some space age music for a Friday:
Henry Mancini, theme from Hatari:
Garry Miles (Buzz Cason), this one only made it to #16, interesting individual who still performs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_MilesI 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.