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All And Everything => Watcha ... ? => Topic started by: ComicMike on September 02, 2020, 05:41:00 PM
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One thread, just for beautiful songs, regardless of genre.
I'm not sure, whether such a thread fits CB+, if no, please just delete it, dear admins. :-)
I am a great great fan of 'Toots and the Maytals'. They were in Germany, in Hamburg, in 1982, unfortunately I wasn't there, but I saw the concert on tv. Here a later recording of one of his most beautiful songs. :)
Toots & The Maytals - Sweet and Dandy (Live on PressureDrop.tv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQt2LFeCC5Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQt2LFeCC5Y)
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Raymond Froggatt, called "Froggy" by his fans and friends - Callow La Vita (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHCezXy3d3Q
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Judy Collins accompanied by whales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY_65QY8VAc
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Here's one of my favourites from 1953 by The Five Keys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Zg6sU3Llk
It was among the first records I obtained (from my parents for my 7th birthday)!
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I already suspected, that comic friends also have a good taste in music. :) I listen to almost every genre, with the exception of modern things, like Rap, HipHouse, Techno etc.
Here is a wonderful song from the Great American Songbook, 'Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair' by Stephen Foster, performed by the wonderful Marilyn Horn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-fotb50eQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-fotb50eQ)
P.S.
As far as I know, the TV series 'I Dream Of Jeanie', was named after the line of text from the song. The TV series knows and loves almost every child in Germany - but also adults. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jeannie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jeannie)
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Here's another of my favourites-
By The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQhbOPCJCmc
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It was 1972 and I was wondering, what might be the most important things in life for me: Money? Girls? Comics? Music? Apart from the former, I was very lucky and BTW, a great song was released in 1972, I'm still a 'Hawkwind' fan today. :)
Hawkwind - Silver Machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfniG-AdSC4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfniG-AdSC4)
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I'm sad, that England is leaving the EU, as a child, I listened to the Beatles, I cried for joy because this music was so beautiful, I can still say today, that I'm the biggest fan of the Beatles. :)
The first time, I read Dickens, I also cried with joy.
When I was a child, it was said that English soldiers were holding a maneuver in front of the village, we children ran over there, because we knew exactly, that the English soldiers gave us chocolate, and that's exactly how it was. Our parents had no money to buy us chocolate, but the English soldiers gave us chocolate.
I am sad that England is leaving the EU, how can it be, that this land of high culture, is leaving us? I am sad. :-[
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfvckTanSo
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Unfortunately it's not England leaving, it's the the whole UK. Scotland is being dragged out of the EU against it's will, but we can't do a thing to stop it. A big majority of Scots do not want to leave.
Music is important to me and I listen to different styles, from big band to 60's beat, to jazz, classical. I particularly enjoy EST, The Pirates, Dr. Feelgood, GoGo Penguin, Small Faces, Haydn, Vaughn Wiliams, Rolling Stones.
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Along with Paw, I should make it clear that the majority in Cornwall/Kernow voted against leaving the EU - it's the English you have to blame.
On the plus side, it does mean the Cornish/Kerneweger can return to their old past-times of wrecking and smuggling so thinks might not be so bad :>
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I have the bad habit of saying 'England', when I mean the UK of course. :)
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I know little about the EU but it seems like a good idea that is getting derailed by a lack of concern for the smaller member states.
I've read that some of their trade practices have bankrupted grain farmers in the central states.
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Dianna Rigg has recently passed. Huge Cultural Influence on those of the generations most represented on CB+ for her work in the role of Emma Peel. Just found out the origin of the name. M-Appeal [for Male Appeal - which she certainly had] There were comics of the [UK} Avengers. But here are two musical tributes.
Emma Peel by The Allies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kskwZW9iQNM
The Avengers - Short Skirt, Long Jacket [Emma Peel]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtYckLIZnI
Incidentally, comic trivia. The Hellfire Club in the X-men and the Black Queen have to have been inspired by the notorious HellFire Club episode of the Avengers in which Emma played the Black Queen [Diana designed the costume herself] and which was the first episode censored by the BBC. Look it up!
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Shanties aren't just an English speaking affair. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl_qVkP3PI
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Surely a surprise for all non-englishspeaking-people, hahaha.
Achim Reichel - Die Hochseekuh (Live in Hamburg, 2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tj-Hfn2rxU
Achim was one of the last three owners of the Starclub in Hamburg, after which he devoted himself to German folk music and shanties. Germans love him !!!
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Many people in the world do not seem to know, how much Germans love shanties. Dear friends, Germany is a sea nation. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcixhtgNluY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcixhtgNluY)
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A while back I listened to a big collection of European "hit tunes" from the 30s and 40s. I was surprised how many German songs were about going to sea, wandering, longing for home, etc. Just now I was listening to Wilhelm Strienz' recording of "Abends in der Taverne." It's a favorite of mine because Strienz' rich, deep voice brings out such a feeling of yearning from the lyrics.
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So I looked up Wilhelm Strienz--I never had before--and discovered he was a Nazi superstar who recorded propaganda songs while pursuing a successful career as an opera singer. He was even on Hitler's Gottbegnadeten list of performers "crucial to Nazi culture." Screw him. I shan't ever hear that song in the same way. Ick.
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When it comes to German films and music from the 30s and 40s, I inform myself whether they are ideologically burdened and if so, I keep my hands off it.
Music from the 30s and 40s that I particularly like are of course U.S. Swing, Blues, and Jazz, and I have a nice collection of that music. Fortunately, thanks to digital media, this music is pretty cheap these days and nobody no longer have to spend a lot of money on original recordings.
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Still impressive today: Tubular Bells.
Had Mike Oldfield been born 100 years ago, or earlier, he would certainly have become a classical composer. I am thinking particularly of his 1978 double album 'Incantations', which consists of four movements, like a classical symphony.
Here is a nice BBC recording of Tubular Bells.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Part 1 - Live at the BBC - 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXatvzWAzLU
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I make no apologies as this is one of my all time favourites. The Small Faces & Tin Soldier. Unfortunately, despite listing this as live, someone, whoever, has overlayed the studio version. Nevertheless, the sheer energy and power are all there. And we also have the beautiful P.P.Arnold on backing vocals. They were so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo
While I'm at it, and as The Small Faces are up there in my top 5 groups have a listen to Song of a Baker with the late and sorely missed Plonk Lane on lead vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=small+faces+song+of+a+baker
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Despite my various music preferences, the 60s are my favorite music decade. By the way, my favorite song of the 'Small Faces' is "All Or Nothing".
Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWGp3HQVjU
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Okay, I was trying to hold out - so as not to embarrass myself - but my favourite song is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdgenGhNyOo
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Mine would be the William Shatner version of Hey Mr Spaceman
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... my favourite song is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdgenGhNyOo
Andrew, that made me drink a glass of sherry early in the morning. :o ;D
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Okay, I was trying to hold out - so as not to embarrass myself - but my favourite song is this
Nope, Don't be embarrassed. Shows you are a fun-loving guy.
That is based on this, which many of us consider a masterpiece.
The Rivingtons Papa Oom Mow Mow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFv-uc90-FM
and that led to this which is an ever greater masterpiece.
The Trashmen - Surfin Bird - The Bird is the Word - 1963 (ORIGINAL LIV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WFBppsP9C8E VIDEO)
'It is a combination of two R&B hits by The Rivingtons, "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird's the Word". You have never seen anything like this!!'
Awesome video too!
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Shatner did some fun stuff - try this if you haven't seen it before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3UfxyIdgs
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) - Bernard Herrmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asvPuPpnnh4
I am a 'Ray Harryhausen' Fan. :)
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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open - 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0
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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open - 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0
Is that a very young Johnny Depp?
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Yes, there are Faye Dunaway, Johnny Depp, Matt LeBlanc, Chynna Phillips, Terence Trent D'Arby and Gabrielle Anwar. The video was shot during the making of the 1992 film 'Arizona Dream'.
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Thanks for the Tom Petty track. I didn't know it.
Recently I've been revisiting my Atomic Rooster collection, and I have to say this song has been played a lot, very loud, in my house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglDOOaTkPw
Please play loud. This is jumping about stuff.
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Please play loud.
My neighbors were against it :o , they don't know what good music is. ;D
Here's one of my favorite Blues songs, and that's the version I like best, because it's incredibly powerful.
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdDUGjLVyo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdDUGjLVyo)
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The Who - I Can't Explain - 7/7/1970 - Tanglewood - Lenox, MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdxYh2Zmi7Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdxYh2Zmi7Q)
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Please, trust me! :)
Listen to this song! :)
You will not regret it, promised! :)
Dizzy Man's Band - The Opera - 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWhMREeGNs
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Jimmy Rogers, with Muddy Waters' Band, and Big Walter "Shakey" Horton with one of the best harmonica solo breaks, ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WNLuFS2NRw
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Here's one from The Chieftans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfL8mD1dT48
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Here's Ronny Laws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHiX9DdE3U
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One of my favourites from 1954:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757HFC96-Lg
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This from Eddie Harris from 1967:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHtO_i4qzM
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"Listen Here" by Eddie Harris is really great! Thanks for sharing.
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I'm not sure ???, but is this the British National Anthem? ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA
;D
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I'm not sure ???, but is this the Australian National Anthem? ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGpwgHqlfWo
;D
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I'm not sure ???, but is this the Netherland National Anthem? ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWhMREeGNs
;D
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I'm not sure ???, but is this the German National Anthem? ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukUMRlaBBE
;D
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I'm not sure ???, but is this the French National Anthem? ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFotxcEYJCg
;D
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I'm not sure ???, but is this the United States National Anthem? ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8qFhbLsmk
;D
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Are you missing the National Anthem of your Country? Leave me a note here if you dare ;D and I'll take care of it. 8) :D ;D
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R.I.P. Johnny Nash (* 19. August 1940 in Houston;
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In the town centre today, I heard this little ditty and it reminded how much I like it and for how long I've liked it. The band's name is longer than the song. But it's great:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z_hskvz1M
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In the town centre today, I heard this little ditty and it reminded how much I like it and for how long I've liked it. The band's name is longer than the song. But it's great:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z_hskvz1M
I bought that when it was newly released. I still have it, along with about 40,000 other 45 RPM records and 4,000 LPs. I traded of most of my 78s, however. No Victrola with which to play them.
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In the town centre today, I heard this little ditty and it reminded how much I like it and for how long I've liked it.
So far I only knew the versions of Jackson Browne (1977) and the 'Hollies' (1964). There is also a version of the 'Four Seasons' (1964). I've never heard the original before, thanks for sharing. :)
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And I didn't know of the Jackson Browne version. Ta.
Robb, you're collection is a tad on the large side ;)
As I like a lot of oldies, here's another couple of favourites of mine:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjL89_K4b4
And this:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Uht69h8Is
And the great Jay Black:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFy5_kmEi4
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Here's one of my top 1000 favourite Motown songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-7a4HBRQA
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And here's one of my favourite Chicago songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxYPe3sIcQE
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A Halloween treat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oEwHIIUAjo
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Another Halloween treat - served up by Motown from 1963 - written and produced by Smokey Robinson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hDfoK0lJ4
It's unfortunate that The Internet is filled with misinformation. The You-Tube channel that hosts this states that it was from 1956 Richie Records. But, it was a Motown production as listed above, and never released until after 2000. As a consultant to Motown, in 1977, on The "From The Vaults" LP Series Project, I had this song slated for release on #4 of the series, but, alas, due to poor sales marketing and almost no sales of the first album, the remaining albums were scrapped. It was only released on an oldies CD a few years ago, and on digital, in 2013, to save its publishing rights.
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Thanks Robb 'cos I didn't know the Contours song. I always thought they only did Just a Little Misunderstanding.
Billy Butler is a new name to me. Good stuff and it sounds like it might have been a Northern Soul favourite. Perhaps it was.
Cap. the video is unavailable. Now of course I'm curious to find out what it was.
You've been keeping that quiet, Robb. Can't thank you enough for pointing me to this great wee song.
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Anyone else like kalinka? Here's one of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4v1nDa7tLY
I'm also fond of chalga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwnwp9iibg
and of course enka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1DVnyyb8U8
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Thanks Robb 'cos I didn't know the Contours song. I always thought they only did Just a Little Misunderstanding.
Billy Butler is a new name to me. Good stuff and it sounds like it might have been a Northern Soul favourite. Perhaps it was.
Cap. the video is unavailable. Now of course I'm curious to find out what it was.
You've been keeping that quiet, Robb. Can't thank you enough for pointing me to this great wee song.
There are hundreds of Motown recordings that are as good - probably 300-400 that were never released on vinyl. I worked as a consultant to Motown for most of the 1970s, combing through their tape vaults to find previously unreleased recordings from 1959-1970 to release in a 5 or 10 LP album series. For 8 years, we listened to hundreds, or maybe a thousand or two recordings, and discovered several hundred we would recommend be released. That was because from early 1964 through when the company moved its headquarters to Los Angeles in mid 1972, they recorded in their own one, and two recording studios (after mid 1966) 24 hours every day, so there were thousands of recordings of a couple thousand high-quality recordings that were never released on vinyl.
Unfortunately, when the series finally started releases in 1979, there was no marketing push behind the first LP, and it didn't sell at all. So, the rest of the project was cancelled. We had slated song lists of 12 songs for each of the 10 proposed LPs. That meant that only 12 of the 120 songs we chose had been issued on vinyl. In 1980, our re-issue (Oldies) project director and I, and a few other workers there left Motown to form our own Soul music record company. After we left, the company used our recommendations to issue one more Vaults-related each, in 1981 and 1982. In 1984, for Motown's 25th Anniversary had 25 LPs released on their most iconic artists and groups, with many of those including a handful of vaulted previously unreleased 1960s songs from our lists.
Luckily for Motown and music fans, the best several hundred of the rest have since been issued on CD and digital sales. So, I'm sure that if you like the mid-1960s Motown Sound, there are meany pleasant listening experiences awaiting you. And, yes, "It's So Hard Being A Loser" was played on The Northern Soul Scene. Many of the rare Detroit and Chicago recorded Northern Soul "hits" were "discovered by Northern fans through me, especially from about 1976 through the early 1990s.
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Here's another Motown favourite of mine - "Crying In The Night" by The Monitors (Richard Street lead) from 1966:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXELhXw2xok
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One of my favorite Dean Martin songs.
'Houston'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rt1VicF5-0
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One of my favorite Dean Martin songs.
'Houston'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rt1VicF5-0
Clearly, you have a wider taste in music than I. But THIS is different enough from most of my favourite songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc
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Dean Martin! Forgive me, but it reminded me of a schoolboy version of another Dean Martin song we warbled when the teacher couldn't hear us:
"When you're bit in the heel
By a big f***in' eel
That's a Moray..."
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Thanks, Robb, for the link to "Sukiyaki." At least, that's the title used for the US version. It was a big hit. It's great to see the original lyrics. Still catchy, nice voice, nice whistling. The one thing that always bugs me is the way the two syllables of "yoru" are crammed into a single note.
I'm sure you, and most everyone else, would find my musical tastes appalling, so I'll hold off on this thread out of "an abundance of caution" (as all the politicians are fond of saying these days).
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Anyone else like kalinka?
As a child and a teenager, I lived near the German-German border, luckily on the western side, on the GDR radio, there was often political music from the East Block, so we preferred to listen to 'Radio Luxemburg', or 'AFN'. :)
Dean Martin! Forgive me, but it reminded me of a schoolboy version of another Dean Martin song we warbled when the teacher couldn't hear us ...
Oh, I know something like that, I guess all children sometimes have their own Texts to popular songs. :D
Clearly, you have a wider taste in music than I.
Maybe that's because, I listened to the radio (and read comics) a lot as a kid and never been to a sports ground. ;D BTW, thank you very much for "Sukiyaki", I didn't remember the song anymore.
I'm sure you, and most everyone else, would find my musical tastes appalling, so I'll hold off on this thread out of "an abundance of caution".
I am so free and speak for everyone: Nothing can shocking us 8), please post your music. :D
As a Teenager in the early 70's, I was (and still am) a fan of Glam Rock. This is one of the loudest and best groups in Glam Rock. :o 8)
'Slade - Mama weere all crazy now' - 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPTk5poAa1c
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Oh yes, Radio Luxemburg. Many a young persons introduction to pop music in the UK, before the pirate stations and BBC starting to broadcast popular groups. A wee Perdio transistor radio that could be hidden under the blankets for late night listening. The sound faded and came back but it was worth it.
A couple of my favourite sad songs. The Crying Shames:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ2wXOgvdxc
Left Banke:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QVUfZv92U
I can never resist this one with the great Chris Farlowe on vocals:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWSSRkjZnI
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Does anyone remember Radio Nordsee International? Where I lived, for some reason, it was sometimes easier to pick this up than Radio Luxembourg.
I remember a song they plugged by a Belgian (?) rock'n'roll band called Peter & the Rockets (or possibly, Peter & the Wolves) which I liked.
How bizarre it now seems - all those shenanigans because British kids wanted to listen to rock'n'roll music rather than the boring patronising BBC output of its day.
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Paw said
A wee Perdio transistor radio that could be hidden under the blankets for late night listening.
I was in Boarding school in the early 60's, what I think in the UK was called a Public School. Lights out at 9:00 pm and I had a crystal set [https://www.buildcircuit.com/how-to-make-a-batteryless-crystal-set-radio/]
with an earplug, and listened in Bed to Rock'n'roll on 4BC Brisbane. Had it confiscated one night, but I got it back. We had commercial stations that played contemporary music, but the ABC took a while to catch up. And the evening was a good time to listen because they went beyond the Top 40 standards. Even had a slot for Bob Dylan, one song a night.
A few years later, I saw an Ad for a Transistor Radio, somewhat larger than normal that had two large speakers in it.Side by side. I had to have it. But I had to send away to Hong Kong to get it. So yes, I probably owned the first Boom Box in Australia. Probably about 1966
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Pirate stations. There was a list going around at school listing which stations could be picked up on trannies.
Caroline was obvious but Radio London could be heard way up here. And we had Radio Scotland, not the BBC one but yet another pirate ship.
Most sites concentrate on Caroline but there is more info. here:-
https://zani.co.uk/culture/687-brief-history-of-the-pirate-radio-stations-uk
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The radio was my first access to music, news and radio plays, even before I could read. My love for radio continues to this day. :-)
In 1963 a simple, beautiful song was heard on the radio, the astonishment in the world was great when it turned out, that the composer and singer was a nun!
Jeanne Deckers (1933-1985) - The Singing Nun - with her 1963 hit
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The radio was my first access to music, news and radio plays, even before I could read. My love for radio continues to this day. :-)
In 1963 a simple, beautiful song was heard on the radio, the astonishment in the world was great when it turned out, that the composer and singer was a nun!
Jeanne Deckers (1933-1985) - The Singing Nun - with her 1963 hit
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A series that was never shown in Germany. Presumably a flying nun was not serious enough for the German television stations :o. But the purchasing policy of the German TV stations in the 50s to 70s was very strange in general.
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I'd hate for you to feel deprived, CK - enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT5Mka1UlpY
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Thank you! At first, I had a few problems with the English language, but since it was after high noon, I treated myself to a glass of Sherry and with every sip, I understood more and more ... ;) ;D
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A series that was never shown in Germany. Presumably a flying nun was not serious enough for the German television stations :o. But the purchasing policy of the German TV stations in the 50s to 70s was very strange in general.
ABSOLUTELY true! the TV show, "The Flying Nun" was far too stupid for ANY country's TV fare. But, certainly for education-minded Deutschland. But then, they think Willy Milowich is funny! So, there is no accounting for taste. Yes, The German censors and TV policy-makers have loosened up some over the last 40 years.
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Okay, I was trying to hold out - so as not to embarrass myself - but my favourite song is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdgenGhNyOo
I bought the original Martian Hop when it was first out. It came with a picture cover.
(https://i.ibb.co/41WN1WZ/Ran-Dells-Martian-Hop.jpg)[/url]][url=https: (ftp://ibb.co/WVnKVnW)
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Here is an "unknown" song (in German and Ethiopian) by the Austrian All-Star Band from the 'Live Aid Concert', the appearance was switched on from Austria worldwide via all civil satellites.
Austria for Africa - Why? (Live Aid 1985)
https://youtu.be/XjAtCBR2S0Y
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It's autumn. 8)
The Kinks - Autumn Almanac - 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3VDATV6dmY
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For all birthday children of today. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_xZwkpPKlc
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It is December, the 1st, the Christmas month begins. :)
I think, this is a good opportunity for modern and classic Christmas carols. I'm starting with a modern classic. :D
Enjoy. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI)
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Well, Comickraut, you've done us all a favour with Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. Fair chhers me up at least.
As for Noddy & co. gie'in it laldy, as we might say up here, not so sure. Every year in it seems like every shop, we get Christmas Slade. After years and years of it everywhere at this time of year it sort of wears you down.
As I've been a bit down this week, I've been digging back to some lovely quiet tracks from Guy Clark; Townes Van Zandt, Dave Alvin and more. Have a listen:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaUwDbAvz4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDCaflb6-Yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTYqujxDCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb43-Q70olM
(By the time I saw them at The London Palladium, Sandy Denny had passed away. Wasn't quite the same.)
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It is December, the 1st, the Christmas month begins. :)
I think, this is a good opportunity for modern and classic Christmas carols. I'm starting with a modern classic. :D
Enjoy. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI)
Have you heard THIS one?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+cameos+merry+christmas+
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@ paw broon
Oh Oh Oh, I'm irritated, that's because of my knowledge of English, the google translator and my naivete ;). Okay, nobody likes 'Last Christmas' from 'Wham', hahahaha ;D ;D, but I thought, everyone likes Slade's 'Merry Christmas'. I am very surprised that this is not the case. How can you not love Slade? I'm confused, but also amused, of course, hahaha. ;D
Fairport Convention - Wonderfull - I am a fan, of course.
Border Radio - It's completely new for me, thanks for this.
Guy Clarke - It's completely new for me, thanks for this.
Townes van Zandt - I am speechless, sometimes I thought, that I was the only person in the world, who knew him. Such a sad life :(. Years ago, on a sleepless night, I saw a documentary on TV about Townes (with German subtitles) "Be Here To Love Me". I've been a Townes fan ever since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQ4
@ Robb
Thanks for this, you know, that I am a fan of the good old music. :)
Can I assume that you like the wonderful Doris? :) :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boN4uMbatZk
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My favorite film is "The Time Machine" from 1960, with Rod Taylor. :)
In an other film, you can see Rod Taylor and the wonderful Doris Day together. :)
The Glass Bottom Boat (1967) Doris Day and Friends sings "The Glass Bottom Boat".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LeOrbmOPc
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I do not allow any criticism of this band! >:( >:( ;D ;D
Do I mean that for fun? - Yes, let's say it is so. >:( >:( ;D ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XMjYNlNY0o
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BTW
I am the proud owner of the 'Gold Key' Beatles Comic "Yellow Submarine", 1968, King Feature.
8)
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You can't beat the classics like Spector, Slade and Wizzard - but here's one of my modern favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddoA1By1LVg
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Oh, mustn't forget the magnificent Si - Canada's finest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bys-OE_C7lQ
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Oh, mustn't forget the magnificent Si - Canada's finest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bys-OE_C7lQ
He looks a bit scruffy to be a Canadian! ;D But, he's got a great voice. I would have guessed that was an R&B song from 1959.
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My favorite film is "The Time Machine" from 1960, with Rod Taylor. :)
In an other film, you can see Rod Taylor and the wonderful Doris Day together. :)
The Glass Bottom Boat (1967) Doris Day and Friends sings "The Glass Bottom Boat".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LeOrbmOPc
I like Doris' "Send Me No Flowers" from that film in 1964. It would have been a great tune for The Shirelles, Cookies, or Chiffons, or one of the other girls groups.
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Another Christmas song I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIr6fsvK4vo
Jan Bradley attended a high school only a few miles from my first high school in USA (in Chicago). I started high school in Canada. The great songwriter, Curtis Mayfield wrote this.
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Released today - a guy who knows how to enjoy life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPhdvgyhFE
But this one's my favourite release today - though not strictly a Christmas tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lkyDRO-xBY
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Oh, mustn't forget the magnificent Si - Canada's finest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bys-OE_C7lQ
What do you mean by "Canada's Finest"??? He's British isn't he?
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@ Andrew
@ Robb
Thanks, great songs. * thumbs up * :)
Not exactly a Christmas carol, but at Christmas you hear it a lot on the radio.
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttEMYvpoR-k
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Yeah - always reaches the heart that one - good choice
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So he is - Caterham, Surrey - can't get more British than that - must have got my wire's crossed somewhere
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Re: The flying Nun
the TV show, "The Flying Nun" was far too stupid for ANY country's TV fare.
It depends on which age group you think it was made for.
My sister was in early primary school when it ran on TV after school. She absolutely loved it. Became a Sally Field fan for life. Didn't hurt that my sister grew up to look a lot like Sally Field.
Had not the slightest interest in it myself.
And since I like to keep us Comic Book oriented as much a possible, Dell published 4 'Flying Nun' comic books in 1968. Art by Henry Scarpelli, script by unknown.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/scarpelli_henry.htm
my vote for most absurd American situation comedy would be be 'My Mother the Car' Can you imagine driving.... ! No,I can start that sentence but no way can I finish it.
Since this is a music thread, here is the theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kz3hfJweE0
In the same vein, 'Its so bad its .... just plain bad!' is Ghostbusters,. No not that GhostBusters. the original [Mercifully shortlived] 1975 TV show starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker [Fresh off F Troop] and a Gorilla. Playing characters named, believe it or not, Spenser, Tracy and Kong, the Ghost Busters. And no, I'm not making this $#*@# up. Oh, and the Gorilla was Tracey and Forrest Tucker played Kong. There just had to be smokable substances involved in this somewhere.
Here is episode #1
Episode 01 - The Maltese Monkey
And here is a documentary. Well worth watching.
DefunctTV: The History of the Original Ghost Busters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrAfikM7Ck
Dare I say, Enjoy?!
Cheers. .
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Today's best release:
It's another of those ten most important things you need to find out about a girl on that crucial first date - Coke or Pepsi?*
I'm pleased to see Santa made the right choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzrMV9khFk
* In Cornwall, this can be modified to Vimto or Tizer
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One of my favourite songs? :)
Okay :) From the middle of the 70s to the middle of the 80s, there was the so-called "Rockpalast Nacht" in Germany, in Essen, Gruga Halle, they began at around 10 p.m. and ended at around 6 a.m. Bands could let off steam there. I sat in front of the TV and the radio and recorded everything. Today I have everything on DVD. Her is one of the best:
On October 6th, 1979, Nils Lofgren played live in front of an audience of millions, on the 5th Rockpalast Eurovision Night.
The intro is unforgettable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVzD84eJuk
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BTW ;D
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes - ROCKPALAST GERMANY - 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdKoPTKiO44
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Back to Christmas songs. The wonderful Darlene Love:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf4ZXBzbAio
With this one you also get Clarence Clemons:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbNFVSRET2c
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Don't get me started on Christmas Music.
I go more for the tunes than the lyrics tho.
Here are a few.
Prog.
TransSiberian Orchestra have made a thing out of Christmas concerts and Albums.
Here is an example.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 11/19/17: 8 - Christmas Canon Rock -WilkesBarre 2:30p Georgia Napolitano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f03Ho0ERqtM
You will find more on that page. Bee-eutiful stuff!
Booker T & the MG's Jingle Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr2gwjfdZdM&list=RDQM0VYMl4-maCs&start_radio=1
If that's not good enough for you,
Tommy Emmanuel - Jingle Bells - Live 2011 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_DA7pQ97M
and Tommy's got more there too.
If you happen to like 'Lounge' and obviously I do, The UltraLounge series has 4 volumes of 'Christmas Cocktails' Here is Volume 1
Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails PART ONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbw2VNF_cfU
Great Images in the video. Ever notice how many times Schultz had Charlie Brown outside at night stunned by the implications of the NightSky? [In the video] superb example of how to say a lot with a little, or how to stimulate the audience to think.
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Here's one of my Christmas favourites, The Drifters from 1954:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSWB_5JW2TQ
And here's another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooc5eJc5SHA
And yet another The Gems, with Minnie Ripperton on lead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y8SNlHAO6Y
And still another, written and recorded by barely 17-yearold Stevie Wonder, only a year and a half after his records were still listed as by "Little Stevie Wonder":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__tczZDkTo
And one that is extremely modern for me (by Donny Hathaway)- later by far, than any record in my collection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrxvHpKI9-0
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Robb, thanks for those.
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Robb, just for a minute there when I clicked your Poets link, I got quite excited. I couldn't figure out how you'd know about them. I quickly realised your band wasn't this Scottish lot:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM5-zF85LE
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To everyone :) A nice selection of nice songs, thank you very much. :)
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I see nobody mentioned my very favorite- "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Vince Vance and the Valiants and featuring the luscious Lisa Layne. That woman can belt it out! Same title as the Mariah Carey hit but definitely NOT the same song! Christmas Cheers, Bowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HWHd0EYJA
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Great stuff - thanks
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Robb, just for a minute there when I clicked your Poets link, I got quite excited. I couldn't figure out how you'd know about them. I quickly realised your band wasn't this Scottish lot:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM5-zF85LE
Despite being a Chicago and L.A. "Ghetto child (at least teenager)", I traveled in Europe and The UK a lot. I was in England and Scotland a few times each in 1965, 66, 67, and '68 (as I have been most years since 1965). So, I knew about The Scottish Poets. I even know about Leapy Lee, Helen Shapiro, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Haggis, blood pudding, Coronation Street. Actually one of my great uncles was an MP from Essex, but several people in my extended family were born and raised in The East End and/or Golder's Green, and one of my uncles was a very good friend of Robert Briscoe (Mayor of Dublin), to whom he sent me to visit on my first trip to Ireland.
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Here's one by The Miracles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYEd4JFM_g
And one from Boston's Tuneweavers from 1956:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BvubDvlHds
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With Christmas coming up and all these happy Christmas songs being posted I confess that this year I'm feeling less celebratory than I've felt in many decades. Christmas has always been an up-and-down experience with me. Parties with my family good but sometimes strained, with my wife's family chaotic affairs filled with blasting noise, drunks, and backbiting. Frankly it was a relief to both of us when the family kicked us out. This year, with all our parents gone, locked down for safety, holding my breath praying my country will dodge a fascist coup, the most positive feeling I can conjure up is gratitude for having survived 2020. Now when I look back upon those raucous, drama-drenched Christmases of yore, I think...
I think that they still sucked, and I'm happy that I'll never have another one.
It is to commemorate them that I offer this cynical Christmas ditty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPIK98CCEM
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With Christmas coming up and all these happy Christmas songs being posted I confess that this year I'm feeling less celebratory than I've felt in many decades. Christmas has always been an up-and-down experience with me. Parties with my family good but sometimes strained, with my wife's family chaotic affairs filled with blasting noise, drunks, and backbiting. Frankly it was a relief to both of us when the family kicked us out. This year, with all our parents gone, locked down for safety, holding my breath praying my country will dodge a fascist coup, the most positive feeling I can conjure up is gratitude for having survived 2020. Now when I look back upon those raucous, drama-drenched Christmases of yore, I think...
I think that they still sucked, and I'm happy that I'll never have another one.
It is to commemorate them that I offer this cynical Christmas ditty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPIK98CCEM
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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YES crash!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
And as a counterpoint, this features hundreds of musicians (incl. one of the blokes from our French group - he's a flautist) The Virtual Scratch Orchestra:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezuXkZ0tg8M&list=RDezuXkZ0tg8M&start_radio=1&t=0
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YES crash!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
And as a counterpoint, this features hundreds of musicians (incl. one of the blokes from our French group - he's a flautist) The Virtual Scratch Orchestra:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezuXkZ0tg8M&list=RDezuXkZ0tg8M&start_radio=1&t=0
EXCELLENT! ;D
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THIS SHOULD BRIGHTEN ANYONE'S DAY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJIxmD3hPJI&list=RDiwxaySyrOvI&index=18
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(incl. one of the blokes from our French group - he's a flautist)
Have him try "Beano".
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For xmas songs...
Jingle bells in japanese ftw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6kOaciWQJs
All I want for xmas is to kick your ass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZdvW6BBkc
I am santa claus (Iron Man parody): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW2poUfJ34
A fav from my childhood, Thistlehair the Christmas Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJxUehRecJI
As for non-holiday songs;
Sturgill simpson - sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpSMoBp8awM
Beast in black - crazy mad insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFpDJsLYOU
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A traditional version of Silent Night, beautifully played on the guitar, by a young swedish girl, with the typical swedish name Gabriella Quevedo. ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anaFaOetlLk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anaFaOetlLk)
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Wonderful !
Simon and Garfunkel - Go Tell It On The Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LitQp6-JARY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LitQp6-JARY)
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Merry X-Mas everybody. :)
The Highwaymen - Michael (Row The Boat Ashore) 1961
https://youtu.be/jRv-fgfLFTk (https://youtu.be/jRv-fgfLFTk)
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One of my favorite singers is a guy from Kasel, Germany, Karsten Kohler. He's had several bands over the last 30 years-- Crazy Cats, Silver Surfer, Torpedo 4. Here he is some years back with the Voodoo Rockets, doing a very rockabilly cover of "Tainted Love" (a song which, although it got famous via a "new wave" cover in the 80s, actually started life as a "Motown"-style B-side in the early 60s-- NO KIDDING).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ML_WF8aeM
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One of my favorite singers is a guy from Kasel, Germany, Karsten Kohler. He's had several bands over the last 30 years-- Crazy Cats, Silver Surfer, Torpedo 4. Here he is some years back with the Voodoo Rockets, doing a very rockabilly cover of "Tainted Love" (a song which, although it got famous via a "new wave" cover in the 80s, actually started life as a "Motown"-style B-side in the early 60s-- NO KIDDING).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ML_WF8aeM
It's really a small World! The lady who sang the original version of that song (Gloria Jones) was an acquaintance of mine, and a very close friend of one of my ownership partners of our record company(Airwave Records), and she wrote a few songs for us,too. She was also a singing artist for Motown Records when I worked there in the 1970s.
Here's the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKe2j9Wjh4
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It's really a small World! The lady who sang the original version of that song (Gloria Jones) was an acquaintance of mine, and a very close friend of one of my ownership partners of our record company(Airwave Records), and she wrote a few songs for us,too. She was also a singing artist for Motown Records when I worked there in the 1970s.
Here's the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKe2j9Wjh4
That is wild.
A while back, my home care client brought up the new wave version on his laptop, then the Voodoo Rockets version, and after 15 seconds, stopped it and said, "EHH, didn't care for it." (OY)
A really cool site I found was "SECOND HAND SONGS". It's a database for cover versions. It would probably blow some people's minds to learn HOW MANY versions there are of some songs. If a video is posted on Youtube, they also have links to them, so from that one site, you can listen to multiple versions of the same song one after the other.
I either found Gloria Jones there, or, just on Youtube in their reccomended column.
Apparently, her song, being "only" a B-side, was mostly unknown. But oddly, in the early 70s, some radio station in Europe began playing it, and it became popular THERE. Weird, huh? But it took another 10 years before someone else recorded a "new wave" version, and THAT became a huge hit, 20 years after-the-fact. Since then, I believe there've been HUNDREDS of recordings.
Karsten Kohler did it as the 1st song on his 1st CD, way back in 1991, Crazy Cats: TIME OUT. I never knew this existed until about 2 years ago, when I found out about it, and found a stoire in Germany had a copy to sell. The live Voodoo Rockets version from 2013 was way better, though. I'd been a fan of his for 20 years before I ever saw him play live (but, only online-- I doubt I'll ever get over to Germany to see him in person).
Before this, my first exposure to the song (funny enough) was by another rockabilly band, Danny Dean and the Homewreckers. I love "new" bands playing "older" styles.
https://secondhandsongs.com/
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It's really a small World! The lady who sang the original version of that song (Gloria Jones) was an acquaintance of mine, and a very close friend of one of my ownership partners of our record company(Airwave Records), and she wrote a few songs for us,too. She was also a singing artist for Motown Records when I worked there in the 1970s.
Here's the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKe2j9Wjh4
That is wild.
A while back, my home care client brought up the new wave version on his laptop, then the Voodoo Rockets version, and after 15 seconds, stopped it and said, "EHH, didn't care for it." (OY)
A really cool site I found was "SECOND HAND SONGS". It's a database for cover versions. It would probably blow some people's minds to learn HOW MANY versions there are of some songs. If a video is posted on Youtube, they also have links to them, so from that one site, you can listen to multiple versions of the same song one after the other.
I either found Gloria Jones there, or, just on Youtube in their reccomended column.
Apparently, her song, being "only" a B-side, was mostly unknown. But oddly, in the early 70s, some radio station in Europe began playing it, and it became popular THERE. Weird, huh? But it took another 10 years before someone else recorded a "new wave" version, and THAT became a huge hit, 20 years after-the-fact. Since then, I believe there've been HUNDREDS of recordings.
Karsten Kohler did it as the 1st song on his 1st CD, way back in 1991, Crazy Cats: TIME OUT. I never knew this existed until about 2 years ago, when I found out about it, and found a stoire in Germany had a copy to sell. The live Voodoo Rockets version from 2013 was way better, though. I'd been a fan of his for 20 years before I ever saw him play live (but, only online-- I doubt I'll ever get over to Germany to see him in person).
Before this, my first exposure to the song (funny enough) was by another rockabilly band, Danny Dean and the Homewreckers. I love "new" bands playing "older" styles.
https://secondhandsongs.com/.
As far as I remember, The British Group, Soft Cell recorded the first remake of "Tainted Love" in late 1976 or 1977. It had become a big hit on The British Northern Soul Club Scene, for a few years and made its way to some offshore pirate radio station, where they heard it, and liked it.
I first bought Gloria's version as a DJ copy in a Salvation Army Thrift Store in Chicago in late 1964, about 3 months after it was released. It never charted. I like the "A" side ("My Bad Boy's Comin' Home") much better. It is a lot more "Motownish". Berry Gordy's Motown Records (for whom I later worked), opened an office in Los Angeles in 1963 for their music publisher, Jobete Music, to write songs for Motown's contracted singing artists back in Detroit. They hired producers/songwriters Hal Davis, Marc Gordon, Frank Wilson, and several other L.A.songwriters to produce recording sessions on their written songs, to provide demo records for Motown's singers to use as a guide, and for proof of song copyright ownership. They hired Gloria as a background singer, along with Pat Hunt, Brenda and Patrice Holloway, and Mary Love, to sing backgrounds, and demo recordings. Gloria's producer there was Ed Cobb (who also produced the earliest Brenda Holloway recordings). So, some of Gloria's earliest recordings were made for Motown. But, Cobb quit Motown because
he was angry at Berry Gordy for refusing to give him producer credit and (perhaps) producer pay on Brenda Holloway's big hit, "Every Little Bit Hurts". He then took all the songs he had planned to sell to Motown with him, and recorded Gloria and a few other singers singing them, and leased those recordings first to VJ Records' subsidiary, Champion Records, and Capitol Records' subsidiary, Uptown Records, where Gloria had her mega hit "Heartbeat" in 1965. After graduate school at university, I moved back to my grandparents' home in Holland in 1972, because I started working for The UN in Africa and Asia. I started importing US Soul records to The UK's Northern Soul scene from then through the early 1990s.
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It would never have occurred to me, that 'Tainted Love' wasn't an original song from the 80s. The version by Karsten Kohler is rocky and the original version by Gloria Jones is fast-paced and sounds incredibly fresh and modern.
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As far as I remember, The British Group, Soft Cell recorded the first remake of "Tainted Love" in late 1976 or 1977. It had become a big hit on The British Northern Soul Club Scene, for a few years and made its way to some offshore pirate radio station, where they heard it, and liked it.
WOW! Your post is the kind of thing I love to see.
It's funny, I first heard rockabilly, then I heard another rockabilly, before finding out it was a big hit in "new wave" style. THEN I found the original, which definitely sounded "Motown".
JUST looked it up on Second Hand Songs... GEEZ!!!!! They list 206 versions. Soft Cell is the 4th. I think it's safe to say they're the ones who made it popular. ;D
https://secondhandsongs.com/work/646/versions#nav-entity
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Prof, thanks for that link.
Gonna send it on to some music sharing sites I frequent.
Here is Gloria Jones telling the story behind the song.
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViWAVwY7LtU
Danke!
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Ha!Ha! - even her Motown colleague, Martha Reeves sang "Tainted Love" very late in her career, in 2015! Her voice wobbled all over the place. She sounded like Mrs. Miller singing it! :P I wonder how she found the time to record that, being Mayor of Detroit at the time?
Here is Gloria's big monster hit, "Heartbeat" (also written and produced by Ed Cobb, from several months later, in 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBIO5uUvItE
Here's the much more "Motownish" "A" side of "Tainted Love", "My Bad Boy's Coming Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KYRBNPtsOk
Here's Gloria's 1965 re-make of The Del Vikings' big 1957 hit "Come Go With Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2OCNQIAocY
Here's Gloria's most "Motownish" cut, "Run One Flight Of Stairs" also from 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_nNYHveTU
This one was clearly written in 1964, while Ed Cobb was writing songs and producing for Motown, and this was written with The Supremes in mind. He quit Motown in a dispute over producer credits and producer pay, so he didn't send several songs to Motown's Jobete Music Company for their approval for purchase, and kept them for his own independent productions. He had his artists, Gloria Jones, Sandy Wynns (AKA Edna Wright-sister of Darlene Love, and later lead singer of The Honey Cone) sing them, instead.
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Tough to beat.
"Unchained Melody", the Righteous Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY
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I'm quite taken with the Gloria Jones tracks. Thanks Robb. I'm not a fan of the Soft Cell version of Tainted Love. He never sounds quite on key. This one is much more enjoyable.
I'm putting in my tuppence worth here. Jay and The Americans,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKfASw6qoag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuujYPiTYjw&list=RDIuujYPiTYjw&start_radio=1
And here's the Walker Bros. version, which is good but not quite as exciting as Jay Black's original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-CXkhik9iI
From the first time I heard this next one, I've loved it. Joey Dee and The Starliters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSCDR5vrVEU
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Edna Wright-sister of Darlene Love, and later lead singer of The Honey Cone) sing them, instead.
Man, I really got you guys started!
When I was in Houston in the summer of '71, "Stick Up" by The Honey Cone was one of the songs played in regular rotation on the radio. A few years ago, I assembled a CD comp of songs from that year, recreating a cassette my brother had recorded from the radio station KNUZ, including that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKG5Fx4H2tM
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Edna Wright-sister of Darlene Love, and later lead singer of The Honey Cone) sing them, instead.
Man, I really got you guys started!
When I was in Houston in the summer of '71, "Stick Up" by The Honey Cone was one of the songs played in regular rotation on the radio. A few years ago, I assembled a CD comp of songs from that year, recreating a cassette my brother had recorded from the radio station KNUZ, including that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKG5Fx4H2tM
I like Edna best as Sandy Wynns - here she is singing another Ed Cobb song, later sung by Brenda's little sister, Patrice Holloway, and also Marvin Gaye - "The Touch of Venus": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARAVbZZZAw
Here's Edna singing another Ed Cobb song originally written for Motown, but he kept when he left, "Love Belongs To Everyone": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIUeFdAMVQ
I like the original "This Magic Moment" by The Drifters best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacBKKgc4Uo
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Here's one of my favourite songs of all time, performed by The Highwaymen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Omtt1xC-o
Plus, a song that fits the weather (at least where I live) from an underrated album (Take Me To Tomorrow) by my favourite musician ever, John Denver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSSZM5i9gk
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This would probably be my favorite Weather song. Very powerful.
John Martyn. Bless The Weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8z1XZu2Nc
Bless The Weather - LIVE 78 - JOHN MARTYN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonNSNB3kxI
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One of my all-time faves has to be an updated old 50's favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr+sandman+dolly+parton+linda+ronstadt+
Three angelic voices blending perfectly! Cheers, Bowers
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Mr. Sandman by Dolly Parton, amazing!
Speaking of updated songs, here's the super talented Alison Krauss singing a great classic by the legend Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjP7bSEqiV4
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AWESOME pick, FraBig! Never heard this one before. Always liked Allison and Union Station. Have you ever seen the George Clooney movie, "O Brother Where Art thou"? Union Station's guitarist/ mandolin player Dan Tyminski sang lead vocal for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", my favorite song in the movie. Cheers, Bowers
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I know that movie, but I've never watched it, it's still in my watchlist! I'm really into old country music, and many people suggested it.
I really like Alison Krauss & Union Station too! I didn't know one of the members sang a song for the soundtrack of that movie!
I'll be sure to watch that movie soon
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Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat - 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zzwbYyvWiU&ab_channel=hollowmoor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zzwbYyvWiU&ab_channel=hollowmoor)
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Johnny Tillotson - It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' - 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX8PYneCf5g&ab_channel=JohnnyTillotson-Topic
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A Special Version Of An Old Song ;D
Have Fun. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYBIKpfQDww&ab_channel=TheRottenEggs-Topic
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I have so many "favorites"... but what's STUCK in my head at any given moment keeps changing. The last month or so, it's been almost all the songs from the non-LP Moody Blues comp, "PRELUDE"... including "A Simple Game".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Ngeqzr98
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I occasionally hear new songs that I like. Yesterday I heard this song on a Swiss radio station.
I found practically nothing on the net about 'Twone', it's either a Swiss or French duo (?), consisting of Sandrine Ott (?) and Jean Michel Genin (?).
In any case, a beautiful song. :)
Twone - Faim, un peu - 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTnygchT3U&ab_channel=MASQMusic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTnygchT3U&ab_channel=MASQMusic)
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Being in the mood for something a bit more exciting I can share this with you:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzRpMHx6Ew
and:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmtwq5F_tU
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Paw, thanks for the RnB. Seminal bands.
Well, if we are in a retro mood, when I clicked on those links, my Youtube AI loaded the following links, so here are some 60's WestCoast favorites of mine.
It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird - 7/7/1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q918fs4RAto&list=RDEMl8nGP9YS98v00_x89FDbOA&start_radio=1
The Byrds - Eight Miles High - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymkBEhdHBE
and just for you Paw, from the movie Blow UP
1966 - Yardbirds - Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
Have a beautiful day!
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Great choices, indeed, Panther! I think I nearly wore out my "It's a Beautiful Day" vinyl before someone swiped it! "White Bird" was sooo mellow and "Hot Summer Nights" was hauntingly beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yoijmlSpg
Saw the "Byrds" twice in my hometown of Spokane Washington, once with "Jefferson Airplane" The local gendarmes closed down the show during the second encore. (Maybe we were all having too good of a time?) The "Byrds" drummer, Michael Clark was a hometown boy and was given a raucous welcome home!
Saw Page with "Led Zeppelin" in Spokane, 1968 before their first album landed. This was the first time they were recorded live. The local paper advertised them as "Len Zeffelin"!
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/led-zeppelin-captured-live-for-the-first-time-in-spokane-gym
Cheers, Bowers
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Jolly Boys - Bitter Cassava Killed Joe Brown - 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGKlHYnD9I&ab_channel=1970RudeBoy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGKlHYnD9I&ab_channel=1970RudeBoy)
The Jolly Boys are a music group from Port Antonio, Jamaica. The band, which was founded in 1945 (!) plays Mento, Jamaica's traditional folk music.
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Comickraut,
Thank you!
You have made my morning!
Right back at you!
Hog Inna Mi Minty - The Jolly Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8rKvVHnJw
THE JOLLY BOYS"Banana"- Live @ SZCZECIN MUSIC FEST 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBT46IJLuY&list=RDQT8rKvVHnJw&index=2
The Jolly Boys - Ring of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAh-gxDPMWQ&list=RDQT8rKvVHnJw&index=5
The Jolly Boys - Passenger (Iggy Pop) (Live at Sydney Festival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKS0mLzJBA
THE JOLLY BOYS---------Perfect Day [lou reed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hMHEzURkRc&list=RDQT8rKvVHnJw&index=3
Cheers!
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You're welcome :) and it's my pleasure to return the compliment, as your selection of Jolly Boy songs is superb.
I really like listening to folk music, world music, especially Irish folk and especially the Dubliners.
Here are the Dubliners with a fairly well known song ;), in a modern lyrics version, as far as I know, written by the Scottish-Australian songwriter Eric Bogle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kfmlB5LiFc&ab_channel=TheDubliners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kfmlB5LiFc&ab_channel=TheDubliners)
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It's not only The Pretty Things & co that I listen to. I love early American pop. Try Gene Chandler:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Uht69h8Is
Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs (the name's longer than the song but it's brilliant) :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z_hskvz1M
The Marcels:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi3TH59ZEs
Instrumentals? I'll give you instrumentals:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzL3jvnmqPM
Later and British, The Shadows. An amazing video for the time with the dangerous looking Jet Harris on bass:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgbcyfJgfQ
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The Cadillac Hitmen: "Tri-State Killing Spree"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcaUWvBreU0
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Instrumentals? See you and Raise you, Paw!
Been meaning to post a few, to point out that 60's surf/instrumental music is by no means dead and buried.
2 from Turkey - and a couple of great videos.
TANER ?NG?R VE 43.75 -cihangir vampiri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVLqmFzw9k
Zehra - Taner ?ng?r & 43.75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kwievXGjiQ
and from france - also great videos!
DIE 1000 WELLEN DAS DR..MABUSE by Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axl72364nrg
EL FANTASMA DEL SURF by Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpauSy3iTpg
ATOM TANGO by Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YapMDcUItik
And quite a few more where they came from!
'SURF FREE OR DIE!'
Enjoy!
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Still my favorite album from Ivan Pongracic (originally from Croatia, who's been a college professor over here for 2 decades now)...
The Space Cossacks: TSAR WARS (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBXiVV3JZU
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Panther, Prof, such great sounds. Thank you.
I'll raise you Panther but with early '60's grooves. Sounds Incorporated:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdH5Hl8tf_M
Nero and The Gladiators:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL-hRKqqRLU
Lord Rockingham's XI with the lovely Cherry Wainer on Hammond:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIekZvhyrsk
Group X:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPGMokiOTUc
The Spotnicks (Yes, they dressed as astronauts!):-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqVKPt2rAmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVvGKZklugE
Some of you might not have seen/heard this, so give it a go. Little Richard and Sounds Incorporated:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzYJS3ksH_s
Just one more thing, The Rockin' Rebels - Wild Weekend. An all time favourite of mine:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49t7c5cRmk
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these are for Prof!
45 Grave - Surf Bat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDNgV6cji8E
From Spain I think
13 Bats live Le surf. Out of the cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwnsqOjjt0
and from Brazil
Surfabats - Big Wave Surfing EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC8I_wwdRUk
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I could have done without the punk band (though their guitar playing is terrific). Surfabats is my favorite of those, they remind me an AWFUL lot of some other band (probably several), but I can't quite pin it down just now.
I have an entire drawer full of "surf" bands! It all started with my friend Palmyra Delran, when she urged me to come see her band The Friggs again, and told me I just "had" to see the headliner that night-- LOS STRAITJACKETS. Even though I was feeling sick that night (and still was for several day after), I went, and survived the night. I found a new favorite band, and bought their 1st CD that night, which became my favorite album of 1995.
I've not only seen them in person about a dozen times, but it led to an obsession with similar bands over the next several years. Between full albums, 45s, and "various artists comps" (a great way to cross-promote), I must have found around 200 surf bands from various eras and countries.
Sean Berry's company in California, DOUBLE CROWN RECORDS, specializes in surf from all around the world. I've really slowed down lately, but I try to get a few items from his catalog about once a year.
https://www.doublecrownrecords.com/
A fabulous band I found a year or so back was THE SPLASHDOWNS, from Hamburg, Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Splashdowns/videos
https://www.facebook.com/thesplashdowns
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Back in 1996, I got to see Kevin Johnson & The Lineman, a "country-rock" band from the D.C. area.
Their 1st album, "Memphis For Breakfast", from 1992, has really gotten STUCK in my head again lately.
This song in particular, "Look Over There", I keep singing to myself, for weeks now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWMhYIaBGUs
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Prof you reminded me of this guy. A Kevin Johnson of a different colour. A singer/songwriter who should be much better known. Gets the human condition.
KEVIN JOHNSON"Rock&Roll I Gave You The Best Years Of My life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yuwhUx35Uc
KEVIN JOHNSON: BONNIE PLEASE DON'T GO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFJ8OzLGJjY
Shaney Boy by Kevin Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IR2OQmvAyc
KEVIN JOHNSON "THE SENSE OF IT ALL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTCgpiU-xFw
and a concert
KEVIN JOHNSON Rock & Roll, Over The Hills.. Shaney Boy Etc Etc Live In Switzerland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBQGpQXS5Wc
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I've run across his name! I suspect that's why the guy I know has been listing himself as Kevin Royal Johnson. Or, just The Linemen.
When he's not playing music, he's had a long career running a rare book store in Baltimore.
I recently got ahold of his "new" album (from about 4-5 years back), and then, his first album, under a different band name (from 1990). I haven't played them MUCH, yet, but his other albums, I dug out and haven't been able to get them out of my head for at least a month.
(Before this, it was The Moody Blues... again. Heh.)
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I recently heard this reggae song on a Jamaican internet radio station. It is a cover version of Eric Donaldson's song 'Cherry Baby' from the same year. I like this version even better than the original.
Dennis Alcapone - Ripe Cherry - 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_HcaMTvrE&ab_channel=FritzMagik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_HcaMTvrE&ab_channel=FritzMagik)
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It's shortly before midnight in Germany and I think, it's time for a song and for an artist, that will be loved all over the world. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpIirW0svY&ab_channel=biggestkkfan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpIirW0svY&ab_channel=biggestkkfan)
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Danke, but this is my favorite Kristofferson song!
Kris Kristofferson & Johnny Cash - Sunday morning coming down (1978 Johnny Cash Christmas Show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRU9i9egr7A
Not that I've ever woken up like that, - well once, OK?
But I'm pretty sure Johnny Cash had.
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Agree on the song, Panther - but I prefer the Man in Black's version of Sunday Morning Coming Down recorded in 1970.
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Oh I see we have country music fans here!
I really like Kris Kristofferson, even if he's not one of my absolute favourites. I really enjoy Casey's Last Ride, If You Don't Like Hank Williams, The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 and Me & Bobby McGee.
I also really like his work on the Highwaymen.
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Back in November 2004, I assembled one of my all-time favorite custom comps:
PROFESSOR H GOES COUNTRY
I'm amazed I was able to find ALL of the songs below online. This is PART 1.
Rick Nelson: BRIGHT LIGHTS AND COUNTRY MUSIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evqCUk_0Zq8
John Fogerty: BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BLUES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQZ8av1ZdpE
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen: BACK TO TENNESSEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXRjPUvZnY
Lonesome Bob: LOVE IS NOT BLIND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVCUq2iJf0
Rolling Hayseeds: WIDE AWAKE (vocal by Kevin Karg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOpeeoYOSg
The Byrds: YOU'RE STILL ON MY MIND (vocal by Gram Parsons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9fFT0LDzQ
Hank Williams: I CAN'T HELP IT (If I'm Still In Love With You)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StyKrwHhWdM
Eddy Arnold: THE CATTLE CALL (1955 version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCBF9CPHMg
Dolly Parton: JOLENE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixrje2rXLMA
Wings: SEND ME THE HEART (vocal by Denny Laine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i8h6j07Imw
The Boss Martians: MUGS O' PLENTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23amAMA6cuM
Dash Rip Rock: HALF KANSAS MOON
https://soundcloud.com/dashriprockofficial/half-kansas-moon
The Dixie Chicks: HELLO MR. HEARTACHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq4zBDg--c4
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When I think of "Country Music" I think of banjo picking' (as Carl Barks once wrote: "Ah, Just Listen to that Jug Band!" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ6fWmZK9Js
And this one from Flatt & Scruggs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tekfS0ktl7M
One of my favourite Spirituals (what a great guitar solo break:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69E9ZhD8fUc
And now some Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_zR8gfhEI
And my favourite harp solo (Vocal and lead guitar by Jimmy Rogers, Harmonica by Big Walter "Shaky" Horton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhjDXXEcocg
And now for something completely different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PndcpPtTjxU
And now a little Jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX-enY04wzI
And one more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Yg0-_Wf-M
Now for some Japanese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc
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Great Songs, thank you for sharing, Gentlemen. :)
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the women's movement encapsulated in 2 minutes
2 of the people in this were on BATMAN's 3rd season!
The 3rd was the Bride of Frankenstein... and the 4th was the model for Granny Goodness.
"Sister Suffragette"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L13b0t9aARY
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I recently heard this wonderful song on the radio, which I would like to share with you. :)
Morgan Heritage - H.I.M. Come - 2001
https://youtu.be/9aKQV56cOI0 (https://youtu.be/9aKQV56cOI0)
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Great guys!
The Proclaimers - I'm on My Way - 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1DPMNs7UY&ab_channel=OnlyVibesLyrics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1DPMNs7UY&ab_channel=OnlyVibesLyrics)
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The Nice - Hang On To A Dream (Live) - 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSn28o6wm2c&ab_channel=lucianonardi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSn28o6wm2c&ab_channel=lucianonardi)
No.1 track's of "Elegy", the final official album release by The Nice.
"Hang On To A Dream" (a piece by Tim Hardin) was recorded live at Fillmore East, New York during the group's 1969 tour.
Keith Emerson - keyboards
Lee Jackson - bass guitar
Brian Davison - drums
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I seldom heard such a beautiful version of the Shenandoah. :)
Sissel Kyrkjebø, Paddy Moloney & Kalle Moraeus - Shenandoah
https://youtu.be/W1EG_4IBzbA (https://youtu.be/W1EG_4IBzbA)
The Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø performing "Shenandoah" with Irish musician Paddy Moloney and Swedish musician Kalle Moraeus at a TV-concert in Drammen Theater, Norway in 2001.
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44 years I've been listening to this song... and suddenly, it gets STUCK in my head and won't go away!
YOURS IS NO DISGRACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUudna1Xuw
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YOURS IS NO DISGRACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUudna1Xuw
(https://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/froehlich/a1161.gif)
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Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, better known as Toots Hibbert:
Toots and The Maytals - 54-46 (That's My Number) - 1968/69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztodSEn0E2E&ab_channel=TootsandTheMaytals-Topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztodSEn0E2E&ab_channel=TootsandTheMaytals-Topic)
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Well, not my favorite song exactly, but I was looking for this song many years and finally I found it yesterday! This feeling of satisfaction.
Jimmy Jimmy.... Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1MWp0VE5A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1MWp0VE5A)
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BillBill, thank you!
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Many years ago I heard a song on the radio that I never forgot, decades later I found it again, long live the internet. :)
An extraordinary song:
Kevin Coyne performing for a live audience in Koln, Germany (1979) -
Having A Party - from the 1979 album Millionaires and Teddy Bears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCey2iwVss&ab_channel=WilGommans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCey2iwVss&ab_channel=WilGommans)
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Just heard on the radio:
Charlie Binger & His Quartett - Jamaica Is The Place To Go - 1955
https://youtu.be/kaD07zqe65U (https://youtu.be/kaD07zqe65U)
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Should you ever come to the north of Germany, sing a old german shanty and everyone will love you. 8)
Shanty Chor Hude - Wir lieben die Stürme - Matjestage Emden 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsgOzcJGgc&ab_channel=HergenMeyer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsgOzcJGgc&ab_channel=HergenMeyer)
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Comickraut,
Old Vaudeville joke,
First guy, 'Where is your wife? '
Second Guy, ' She went to Kingston.'
First guy, 'Jamaica?'
Second Guy, 'No, She went of her own accord!'
[Boom! Boom!']
Thanks for the song.
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This is the theme - although not the original cinematography -from Wim Wenders masterpiece , 'Paris, Texas'
one of my favorite films. Just came across the theme again recently. Greeted it like an old friend.
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk&list=PLOKMpbyL5AcsiMt6gDk_gY9WvmAnICS1S
I am wondering, though, what was the Deutsch version -of the movie - like?
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Panther, thanks for the joke. ;D
Unfortunately I can't say anything about the film 'Paris, Texas' at the moment, it's been too long since I saw it, but this is a good reason to watch it again.
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Since I first heard it early '60's, this has been a great favourite of mine. Gene Chandler:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEvcHKDlI8
One of the best Motown tracks, sadly neglected. The contours. So exciting:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8-XH4QFieo
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good choices Paw. Do I take it that you are something of a Northern Soul aficionado?
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Since I first heard it early '60's, this has been a great favourite of mine. Gene Chandler:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEvcHKDlI8
One of the best Motown tracks, sadly neglected. The contours. So exciting:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8-XH4QFieo
That's my second favourite Contours' song. That long-time novelty group, known for their great choreography in their live appearances, formerly had a gravelly-voiced lead singer, Billy Gordon, from 1960-1965. But, in early 1966, the former lead singer of The Falcons of "You're So Fine" fame, Joe Stubbs (The Four Tops' lead singer, Levi Stubbs brother) joined the group. He was the lead singer on "just a Little Misunderstanding". By the time of this video, Stubbs had already left the group. The lead singer mouthing the words to Stubbs' voice was Jerry Green.
On that 1966 US TV show appearance by The Contours, that particular lineup of The Contours also lip-synched to my favourite Contours' song, "It's So Hard Being A Loser", which was led by their new lead singer, Dennis Edwards, who, soon after, left the group to join The Temptations, replacing David Ruffin as their co-lead singer. Interesting that on that TV teen music/dance show, that The Contours' manager chose to put "rookie" new member, Edwards, an experienced dancer, in his own right, behind the other two non-lead singers while dancing, on "Just A Little Misunderstanding. That was to hide him in case of any slip-ups or not-so-good dancing, because he hadn't had time to rehearse much with them, after joining the group so recently. I'm glad they had some shots from behind, so we could see him. He seemed to be doing fine - right in step.
Speaking of Motown, Detroit Soul Music, and Northern Soul, I bet you didn't know that Superheroes (The Fantastic Four) sang for Motown Records to the super instrumental backgrounds of The Funk Brothers. Here's an example from their first record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wemCc7N9QM
Here's the flip side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_saR5_hpQ
I loved Gene Chandler's songs, not only as a solo artist, but also with his group, The Dukays (who also backed him up (although uncredited) on "Duke of Earl".
Here's Gene leading them on "Nite Owl". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BL0fGB-j8A
Here's the group led by their other lead singer, Charles Davis (AKA Nolan Chance):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lNBbxDco7E
Here's "It's So Hard Being A Loser" by The Contours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-7a4HBRQA&list=RDjc-7a4HBRQA&start_radio=1
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I am in awe of your knowledge, Robb.
I was and still am a fan of esrly Tamla but there is so much of it I wasn't aware of. Thanks to you I can catch up with some of it.
Later Tamla doesn't appeal as much. Later 4 Tops and Temptations - too serious and not as good fun music imo. Walk Away Rene is much better from The Left Banke, the original?
We'll have to dig into early British pop and beat.
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I first heard and saw The Fantastic Four singing group soon after they started in Detroit in 1965. I bought all their records while with Ed Wingate's Ric-Tic Records, and while with Motown, after Berry Gordy bought out Wingate's Golden World/Ric-Tic-Wingate Records mainly because Wingate was recording his records every night, with Motown's musicians "moonlighting", after they left Motown's studio at 6:00 or 7:00 PM.
I learned about DC's "Fantastic Four" comic book superheroes, later sometime around the end of the 1960s, and wondered why Berry Gordy didn't sue them for stealing his singing group's name. I found out only today, that those comic book heroes first book was published in 1961. I was shocked to find out they were first. I hadn't known about them, because I had stopped even looking at any superhero comics out of curiosity, in about 1953.
The only time I crossed paths with Superheroes in my adult life (and career) was working the night shift for a small, independent, animation studio, in Los Angeles in 1995, while attending USA's cartoonist Union's animation school, doing digital painting and animation clean-up on a computer game using the "Mortal Kombat" characters. I didn't like the art style. It was way too angular to my taste. But, at that time, computer images were very squarish, due to pixilation, due to very low screen resolutions. It was good experience, however, as I worked on most of that series' different characters.
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Once again, all new to me. The re-use of a name happened herewith Quatermass being used for a group long after the rv show and films.
While you had not looked at superhero books for so long, I was steeped in them, including the stories from anthology weeklies.
But as I've said many times, I was also reading humour strips, Bash St Kids, Jonah, Perishers and so on.
Music. By the late '50's there was the embryonic British pop and beat scene and on TV we could see and hear Don Lang and The Frantic Five, Vince Eager, Cuddly Dudley, Wee Willie Harris and in 1959, I heard Johnny Kidd And The Pirates for the first time - revelation. After that, it was music, comics and later, girls. Tamla, as it was called in Britain - Tamla Motown - was an eye opener also, at least the early stuff.
But all the while there was a plethora of American pop that I loved. Still do. Johnny and The Hurricanes, The Ventures, Del Shannon, Jan and Dean.
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Once again, all new to me. The re-use of a name happened herewith Quatermass being used for a group long after the rv show and films.
While you had not looked at superhero books for so long, I was steeped in them, including the stories from anthology weeklies.
But as I've said many times, I was also reading humour strips, Bash St Kids, Jonah, Perishers and so on.
Music. (1) By the late '50's there was the embryonic British pop and beat scene and on TV we could see and hear Don Lang and The Frantic Five, Vince Eager, Cuddly Dudley, Wee Willie Harris and in 1959, I heard Johnny Kidd And The Pirates for the first time - revelation. (2) After that, it was music, comics and later, girls. (3) Tamla, as it was called in Britain - Tamla Motown - was an eye opener also, at least the early stuff.
But all the while there was a plethora of American pop that I loved. Still do. (4) Johnny and The Hurricanes, The Ventures, Del Shannon, Jan and Dean.
(1) I'm surprised that I have never heard of ANY of those UK recording artists. We got mostly US records and singers, plus a few local Canadians, a few Aussies, and a few UK artists. Those from The UK that I remember were: Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Tommy Steele, Lonnie Donegan, Petula Clark, Marty Wilde, Adam Faith, and Billy Fury. Maybe records by those artists you mentioned above failed in The Canadian market, because they mainly sung covers and remakes of US artists' hits, and they had NO chance to chart, because our charts were so dominated by US artists, and the only room left was for a few Canadian artists?
(2) I stopped caring about all but Carl Barks comics at about 13 years old in late 1959, but continued to buy just those Disney comic books that contained Barks stories. I was much more into music, and, like you, and most of the rest of us, started to notice girls. I got back into comics a bit, in 1965, when I moved to California to attend university, and wandered into The Collectors' Book Store, in which Malcolm Willits was auctioning off most of Barks' unpublished original drawings, which I had photostated and photo printed, to use as masters to photocopy to add to photocopies of all Barks' published comic book pages, in a hardbound, chronologically arranged, "Carl Barks Collection". Willits introduced me to Barks. I visited him at his home several times, and corresponded by mail. He told me about the unpublished complete stories and unpublished drawn pages removed from stories before printing that still had not been found, and so, I tried to re-create them, drawing them in his style as best I could. That work, later used by Dutch Disney publisher, Oberon, was my ticket into art school/animation school, and the cartooning field, starting in the late 1970s.
(3) Motown first had Canadian REO Records distribute their recordings in Canada from 1959-61. Then, Canadian London Records in late 1961. Then Phonodisc of Canada issued them on Canadian Tamla Records from the start of 1962 through to the beginning of 1965, when the label name was changed to Tamla-Motown (with the same design as The UK, Holland, and all the Western European countries used. In 1974, Motown of Canada started, and ran until 1988. So, we had Tamla-Motown too. I remember Motown being distributed in The UK, by London, Fontana, Oriole, and Stateside, before Tamla-Motown started up in 1965.
I have all the US Motown and subsidiary 45s from 1959 through about 1972, plus most of the LPs. And I still have most of their Canadian releases from 1959-1965, plus many of their UK releases from 1960-67.
(4) I bought most of the Johnny and The Hurricanes', The Ventures', Del Shannon's, and Jan and Dean's hits, as well as those of The Beach Boys, Fantastic Baggies, Bruce & Terry, The Ripchords, The Sunrays, and other "Surf" groups. I bought some Rock-A-Billy music too, and a lot of American Blues records, and some of the Merseybeat group records (especially The 1962-64 Beatles, and The Searchers, and a couple Rolling Stones' records). But I didn't like The British Blues groups much. And I also bought lots of 1940s-1970s Jazz (Be-Bop, Cool Jazz, Avant Garde, and Latin Jazz, as well as American Folk, Delta, and Chicago Blues, and Black Gospel music. But, my main collection is US Rhythm & Blues 1940-1960, and US Soul music 1960-1973. I still supply rare records for remastering by London's Ace and Kent Records, for their high-quality CDs of US R&B/Blues/Soul/Gospel music, as well as editing and taking a last look at the blurbs on the CD information booklets, and providing label scans for them, when no good copies of those records are readily available from other sources. Sometimes I write sections of the CD booklets in the areas of my expertise (especially Detroit and Chicago R&B and Soul music). My collection is a resource for anyone who needs detailed esoteric historical information on the issues, record labels, recording studios, owners and company staff, musicians, etc. I had hoped to put my collection together with a couple of my Dutch friends' Black American Music collections, into a non-profit "African American Record Museum", but neither The Dutch nor Zuid Holland, nor Den Haag governments could afford to sanction, put any money towards establishing it, or give us an existing office/commercial space in a building. So, our plans went on hold. And on of the collectors has died, and his records were sold off.
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Over the last 40+ years, one of my recurring obsessions is obscure bands & songs by artists years before they got famous. Like how I'm more fanatical about The Move than I am Electric Light Orchestra.
Right now, I've been playing stuff by The Syndicats, Four Plus One, The In Crowd, TOMORROW, Bodast... stuff involving singer Keith West (alias Keith Hopkins) and guitarist Steve Howe, before Howe joined YES. And the first 3 YES albums remain among my favorites-- the first 2 both being before Howe joined.
I find it amusing that both guitarist Peter Banks and keyboardist Tony Kaye were fired from the group. Banks was no great shakes, but Kaye's "limited" Hammond organ work sounded very "futuristic" to me-- even more so when he returned to the band (inadvertently) in 1983. I've been reading about each YES album as I've been playing them, and it cracks me up how the use of an ORCHESTRA on their 2nd album eventually led to 2 of their members being booted out.
I think what happened to Tomorrow was a tragedy. I love every song on their one album (more so since I assembled my own special edition with all the songs in an order that flow perfectly, unlike official comps where the extra songs are at the end as bonus tracks). In early 1967, they were KICKING ASS, yet inexplicably, Parlophone insisted on SCREWING around with their album so much for so long, it was delayed being released by around a YEAR... by which time, music styles were already changing, making it seem insanely already "dated" when it came out!
And then you had BODAST-- not a bad song on the album-- but that was never released until 1981. WTF?
That thing with TOMORROW reminded me of how Epic/CBS screwed over Rick Nelson in the late-70s. He did 3 albums for them-- the first did merely okay, the 2nd, a more "experimental" thing, was never released, and the 3rd, a more "country-rock" effort, was delayed while the label kept screwing with remixes. He appeared live on SNL to promote his new single a cover of "Dream Lover"-- but thanks to Epic, it didn't get to stores until 2 weeks later, TANKING potential sales!
And then, they put out a 4-song EP as a "preview" of the album-- with several of the songs drastically remixed. Rick got SO PISSED, he quit Epic right then and signed with Capitol. His first of 2 LPs with them opened with a cover of "Almost Saturday Night"-- a BETTER version than he'd only just done for Epic. When I realized that, I saw the track as his giving the middle finger to Epic.
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It doesn't get any better than that. :-)
Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner - Live at Pine Knob, Detroit, 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxhG6KwI44U&ab_channel=therockandrolltv (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxhG6KwI44U&ab_channel=therockandrolltv)
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Good stuff, CK. Here's the original.
Paul Pena - Jet Airliner (The Original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA
Tailor made for Steve Miller, tho.
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... Here's the original. Paul Pena - Jet Airliner (The Original)
Oh, thank you very much for the information, Panther, I didn't know that, I also didn't know the artist Paul Pena. I just read that he released a great album in 1973: New Train. I'll have a listen, here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enm7VkAJQ5k&ab_channel=Hwangvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enm7VkAJQ5k&ab_channel=Hwangvis)
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Got to see Steve Miller live in his heyday. Great musician, but such an asshole! Had NO respect for the audience. Got pissed when people called out for some of their favorites. Musta been havin' a bad night... Cheers, Bowers
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TOMORROW (1967)
My White Bicycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhZqWCqKs8
Claramont Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MrBKWZuQJM
Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_zH0-ZmmE0
Hallucinations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDD4ORA-XM
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Yes, dear friends, be amazed and amazed, this is a German music group, okay, the band leader was an Englishman, a military man, but he went to Germany to realize his musical dreams. Later, feeling persecuted by the tax authorities, Les Humphries (the man at the piano) went insane and faked his own death...and finally...he died in 2007.
But his wonderful music has remained to this day. I'm going to post some songs from his band here and I hope you enjoy them.
Les Humphries Singers - Rock my soul (live in Germany, 1972)
(Okay, there was color TV in Germany in 1972, but this is a historical recording. :))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUQnel8Vv6o&ab_channel=MusicchannelChannelmusic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUQnel8Vv6o&ab_channel=MusicchannelChannelmusic)
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Les Humphries Singers - (We'll Fly You To) The Promised Land (German ZDF Silvester-Tanzparty, 31.12.1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFfluGEyBA&ab_channel=LesHumphriesSingers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFfluGEyBA&ab_channel=LesHumphriesSingers)
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one of my favorite Deutsch artists, Inga Rumpf
["In the early to mid-70's Inga Rumpf was the singer in 2 great hippie/blues bands from Germany. First was FRUMPY and the second was ATLANTIS, both also featured the above listed keyboardist Jean-Jacques Kravetz. Both bands are on Youtube and worth checking out."]
Here with Frumpy, her first band.
Frumpy - How The Gipsy Was Born (Live 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvA62El_I9M
Here with Atlantis, the next band.
Atlantis (Inga Rumpf) - Get Up (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFubGa3la9o
INGA RUMPF - LOVE HURTS - LIVE IN DER FABRIK[2014]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy_jGV6SobE
In concert
Inga Rumpf & Friends live | Rockpalast | 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGmYsIcgHs
enjoy!
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enjoy!
I do :) , thanks for the videos.
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I heard this great song on the radio the other day.
I only have to hear the first few seconds of some songs and I immediately know that a great song is coming my way, which is what happened with this one.
The right song to start the weekend.
Tony Rebell - Sweet Jamacia - 1991
https://youtu.be/Vwfw2bYfaBo (https://youtu.be/Vwfw2bYfaBo)
The beginning of the song is very reminiscent of Eric Donaldson's 'Cherry Oh Baby', or Dennis Alcapone's 'Ripe Cherry', which is based on 'Cherry Oh Baby'.
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When Tomorrow's debut album tanked in sales due to Parlophone's delays & interference causing it to get to stores almost a YEAR late, one of the most promising bands in England split up and went their separate ways. Steve Howe soon wound up helping to form a new band, BODAST, whose single album NEVER got released dur to the Tettragrammaton label going BELLY-UP. It finally saw the light of day around 1981. I found it in the late 80s on a reissue, and in the long run loved EVERY song on it.
Do You Remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U4o4I7IYHo
Beyond Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGeh6XkmAdk
Once In A Lifetime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXyT91H6eU
Black Leather Gloves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGmbmtNgktA
I Want You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpTkz1iTrIQ
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Many US Citizens or people in other english speaking countries would probably be amazed if they knew how popular Western & Country music is in Germany. Since Country Music was first recorded in the USA in the early 1920s, Country Music has also been heard in German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Liechtenstein). The first shellac records by the Carter Family and by Jimmie Rodgers were released in Germany at almost the same time.
After WWII, the US military radio station AFN finally popularized the genre in Germany. Big country stars, from Hank Williams in the '40s to Garth Brooks in the '90s, have come to Germany to play for the US troops stationed here, but also for their German fans :) and so is a lively country scene also emerged also in many European Countrys from the 1940s to the present day.
I personally like the classics best, this morning I heard this wonderful song on the radio and found a nice video clip on YT:
Marty Robbins - El Paso (1959) (Live in 1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAO7vs_Q9is&ab_channel=MartyRobbinsVEVO
I hope, you enjoy this wonderful song. :)
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Isn't that great, isn't that wonderful? :)
Bill Withers - Lean On Me (BBC In Concert, May 11, 1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtC1W-6hwIU&ab_channel=BillWithersVEVO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtC1W-6hwIU&ab_channel=BillWithersVEVO)
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Listening to this band for 45 YEARS now, and lately, I've been playing their albums more than ever! And currently, my favorite song of theirs...
Yes: YOURS IS NO DISGRACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0erLpktSE
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Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island (Album Empyrean Isles,1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io&ab_channel=jazzhole13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io&ab_channel=jazzhole13)
Herbie Hancock - piano
Freddie Hubbard - cornet
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums
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Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island (Album Empyrean Isles,1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io&ab_channel=jazzhole13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io&ab_channel=jazzhole13)
Herbie Hancock - piano
Freddie Hubbard - cornet
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums
This is one of my favourite Jazz records. I bought it new back in the mid 1960s, along with lots of other Blue Note LPs and 45s. That is my favourite jazz record label.
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This is one of my favourite Jazz records. I bought it new back in the mid 1960s ...
Dear Robb,
have I understood that correctly? You got the original 'Cantaloupe Island' LP? Congratulations! :) Luckily I'm not jealous 8), probably also because a friend lent me a week ago 28 CD's of Herbie Hancock with the comment that if he didn't get the CD's back, I could hear jazz in the future in heaven ... hahaha ... ;D ;D
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“Cantaloupe Island” (Live, 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9B4rW4ZiQ
And the AI brought up this concert right next to it. Too good not to share.
Listening to it now.
[Ron Carter plays on 'Cantaloupe Island']
Ron Carter Trio - Jazzwoche Burghausen 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2mpbrXnF7I
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Oh well, with the great Freddie Hubbard on board, you've got the team supreme. I only have the cd and it was the album which introduced me to Freddie Hubbard. Forever grateful.
Great track.
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I grew up on country music back in the 80s, but my focus shifted and I haven'tpaid attention to it for many years. However, I recently stumbled onto some good newer stuff, particularly Tim Hicks.
Stomping Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO2hRFS6WeE
Here Comes the Thunder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyHe7wOO2xE
Hell Raisin Good Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuLrbb5iuM
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Denny Laine: The Sons Of Elton Haven Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8I-EqzClZU
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Great Jazz from Switzerland.
A great piece and a great saxophone playing. :)
Frank Salis H3O - feat. Sandro Schneebeli - Blues' Circle - Live in Vevey 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pph5AH7hI30&ab_channel=FrankSalisH3O-Topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pph5AH7hI30&ab_channel=FrankSalisH3O-Topic)
Saxophone: Marco Nevano
Drums: Rocco Lombardi
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Here's a concert from a band I've just discovered
Cigarettes After Sex, private session - live @ Paris – ARTE Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA9_QJAhr8Q
Very much a late night mood.
Enjoy!
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Ringo Starr covers Fats Waller:
"Blue Turning Gray Over You" (1929 via 1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxK42X0RMa8
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Ringo is the greatest! ;) ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua5EAfAMYpM&ab_channel=RingoStarr-Topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua5EAfAMYpM&ab_channel=RingoStarr-Topic)
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To this day, I am still annoyed that the 90s CD of that album had a real screw-up on it, where the song "Devil Woman" did NOT fade out to its end like it did on the LP, but instead, as it was starting to fade out, ABRUPTLY jumped into the last song, "You And Me Babe".
I swear some companies do stuff like that deliberaterly, to force people into buying later "upgrades" and "fixes". (Has the RINGO album ever been upgraded that way?)
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Never mind all that. Pretty Things. Raw, early, exciting, heart attacks for parents.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTEHGFWBu_8
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Is this really about Honor Blackman in Goldfinger? Does it matter? Great intro.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=suIRNVlagnI
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heart attacks for parents.
Try this.
the Sonics - she's a witch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBsxpnRhMk&ab_channel=TheSonics-Topic
In Australia we had this,
Johnny O'keefe Wild one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF9rS90U3-U&ab_channel=IvorJones
Youtube comment;-
"This song is a Johnny O'Keefe creation. He wrote it. It was also recorded by Buddy Holly's Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis, Iggy Pop, and a group called Teenage Head."
enjoy!
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The Friggs: "I Thought You Said That You Were Gonna Kill Yourself"
lead vocal by Palmyra Delran!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXMs861ZTQ
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A wonderful piece of music that I heard on a Swiss internet jazz station.
Hugh Masekela - Emavungweni - 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFidUNpvKeM&ab_channel=HughMasekelaVEVO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFidUNpvKeM&ab_channel=HughMasekelaVEVO)
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Wonderful :)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Long As I Can See The Light - 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMN760vFUs&ab_channel=Lex (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMN760vFUs&ab_channel=Lex)
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Panther, how did you ever come across The Sonics? I'm from the Pacific Northwest and saw them several times . We had a couple of venues here in Spokane, The Grotto and The Civics and enjoyed lotsa Northwest bands. The Northwest sound was heavy on drums, raucous guitar and rough, edgy vocals. The Sonics, The Wailers (not Bob Marley!), The Viceroys (who became the Surprise Package and got much more commercially successful), and even Paul Revere and the Raiders before they were famous. Here's some audio links...
Sonics-"Psycho"
https://mega.nz/file/YbZiVBBL#exsAKOVv9Im1ZWhrWj8kJdd1gJRodBPbQKj32cNwOmA
Wailers-"Out of Our Tree" https://mega.nz/file/lChyzYgJ#A7T0RTrWl_nAj6HN89LZsFZbC1EoL3FdueXci9G43Vw
Viceroys- "That Sound"
https://mega.nz/file/YSRwGCyA#2HP4DUuM-IraphV0vjI8YlNnaJ-GNf_SKRXvLN2_jkE
If the links don't work, try a copy and paste. Cheers, bowers
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heart attacks for parents.
Try this.
the Sonics - she's a witch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBsxpnRhMk&ab_channel=TheSonics-Topic
In Australia we had this,
Johnny O'keefe Wild one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF9rS90U3-U&ab_channel=IvorJones
Youtube comment;-
"This song is a Johnny O'Keefe creation. He wrote it. It was also recorded by Buddy Holly's Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis, Iggy Pop, and a group called Teenage Head."
enjoy!
Ha! Ha! It's a small World! My best North American friend was and is a big Sonics fan (he has eclectic taste). When I was attending U. of B.C., he drove all the way up from San Francisco Bay Area to drag me to a Sonics "concert" in rural Washington State. As a very serious record collector, I had probably sifted through literally more than a million 45 RPM records looking for mainly sweet sounding R&B, Blues, Gospel, Soul, Jazz, and a little bit of Surf music. So, by 1965, I was familiar with The Sonics and Wailers on local, Etiquette Records. my friend played them for me. To me, "The Witch" was just a bunch of screaming and loud noise. At least "psycho" had a little melody in spots. But he convinced me to go see them in person. Soon after our final exams were over we drove to Sedro Wooley, a small town in Western Washington, to see them at the local high school. I'll have to admit that they were a lot better live than on their records. Not at all my cup of tea for listening music, but it was incredible to see them perform in front of their raucus fans.
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Panther, how did you ever come across The Sonics? I'm from the Pacific Northwest and saw them several times . We had a couple of venues here in Spokane, The Grotto and The Civics and enjoyed lotsa Northwest bands. The Northwest sound was heavy on drums, raucous guitar and rough, edgy vocals. The Sonics, The Wailers (not Bob Marley!), The Viceroys (who became the Surprise Package and got much more commercially successful), and even Paul Revere and the Raiders before they were famous. Here's some audio links...
Sonics-"Psycho"
https://mega.nz/file/YbZiVBBL#exsAKOVv9Im1ZWhrWj8kJdd1gJRodBPbQKj32cNwOmA
Wailers-"Out of Our Tree" https://mega.nz/file/lChyzYgJ#A7T0RTrWl_nAj6HN89LZsFZbC1EoL3FdueXci9G43Vw
Viceroys- "That Sound"
https://mega.nz/file/YSRwGCyA#2HP4DUuM-IraphV0vjI8YlNnaJ-GNf_SKRXvLN2_jkE
If the links don't work, try a copy and paste. Cheers, bowers
It's an unbelievably small World. I saw The Sonics live in 1965, at Sedro Wooley High School. Their fans blew off the roof. They love them to death! The group sang Psycho, The Witch, Good Golly, Miss Molly, Have Love Will Travel, Louie, Louie, Money, and a bunch more old R&B and Rock and Roll songs.
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Yeah, Robb, the Sonics and Wailers were definitely not "listening to" bands, but they could sure bring down the house! About 60 miles south of Sedro Wooley is a town called Woodinville, where they held The Seattle Pops Festival in 1969. headliners were The Doors (they totally sucked and got booed!), Ike & Tina Turner(WOW!), The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Chuck Berry(SO great), Spirit, Santana, and even some newcomers, Led Zeppelin! (I had seen them earlier in Spokane, 1968, before their first album launched in the U.S.)
Some pals and I piled into a van, got there two days early, helped set up porta-potties, and dug trenches for all the cables. We got in free! Cheers, bowers
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What I really like that was put out by Etiquette Records was "The Fabulous Wailers Featuring Rockin' Robin and Gail Harris at The Castle" LP from 1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6xroJazls
I bought "Tall Cool One" by The Wailers 45 when it came out, in Winnipeg. It charted pretty big. But this LP never came to Manitoba. It probably got to Vancouver, because Etiquette's owners could just drive boxes of them up themselves, even without a national distributor. It's a great LP, with some awesome guitar playing. I didn't know Etiquette recorded Blues, until I found the LP in a record buying run to The West Coast in '65 (same trip as Isaw The sonics live). Rockin' Robin was a great Blues singer, and that Wailers' guitarist has great fingers. Maybe he and Jimi Hendrix modeled themselves after the same guy, and he gave them a few tips? I really like The wailers' version of Freddy King's "San-Ho-Zay". I could do without the organ - maybe substituting a tinkly piano instead played in Otis Spann's style.
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The Sonics were an example of what are now categorized as 'Garage bands'. Basically early 60's bands playing very basic Rock and Roll - also known as early Punk, if you like.
This is a huge area for collectors and bands playing 'Retro' music alike.
Here is a 'Retro' Band I just discovered and can't get enough of.
Pay attention while listening, they are masters of what they are doingl Very clever.
They have two albums out.
Tilting the Windmill · Thee Spivies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3dZbGa5QY0&list=OLAK5uy_k5Ou85aPI0AFS49a5jsMPvBcdtXMj5s6I&index=12
Hey, Girl · Thee Spivies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kalyBZlqaoY&list=OLAK5uy_k5Ou85aPI0AFS49a5jsMPvBcdtXMj5s6I&index=2
Jupiter in My Rearview Mirror · Thee Spivies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcrWwSCC-z0&list=OLAK5uy_k5Ou85aPI0AFS49a5jsMPvBcdtXMj5s6I&index=7
Fire Safety · Thee Spivies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baGIuMzrkWk&list=OLAK5uy_k5Ou85aPI0AFS49a5jsMPvBcdtXMj5s6I&index=13
So Tell Me · Thee Spivies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfOauOs_kDY&list=OLAK5uy_k5Ou85aPI0AFS49a5jsMPvBcdtXMj5s6I&index=5
Creepy · Thee Spivies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnlTTadSI48&list=OLAK5uy_k5Ou85aPI0AFS49a5jsMPvBcdtXMj5s6I&index=10
Enjoy!
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Wow! Robb, thanks for the link- brings back some great memories! And, Panther, thanks for the introducing me to the Spivies- a great faux-retro band, indeed. Love 'em! Cheers, bowers
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Del Shannon - Swiss Maid - 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn27xBY8X68&ab_channel=janschro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn27xBY8X68&ab_channel=janschro)
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It's hot, please give me Ice Cream ... :D
Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Ice Cream - 1954
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqe6P9rLAnw&ab_channel=PopRadioWernerPaul (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqe6P9rLAnw&ab_channel=PopRadioWernerPaul)
P.S.
What I didn't know until just now: This song, with which Chris Barber will forever be associated, is a cover version of the original recorded by 'Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians' in 1927.
Thanks to the tireless YT-Uploaders we can too listen to the original. :)
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians - Ice Cream - 1927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WKImlPObU&ab_channel=The78Prof (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1WKImlPObU&ab_channel=The78Prof)
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Status Quo – Francis Rossi
Hurray, he is still alive and still plays the old songs wonderfully. :)
The Status Quo LP “Hello” from 1973 is one of the music of my life, I am really happy to have discovered this wonderful video from 2023 !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZquYGyVOIw&ab_channel=FrancisRossi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZquYGyVOIw&ab_channel=FrancisRossi)
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I always really liked this song from the musical 'Hair', it was only much later that I found out that Shakespeare was quoted here.
Here is the version of the 1968 London original cast
HAIR: What A Piece Of Work Is Man / Walking In Space (Reprise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=romujtxoLPM&list=PLJCDeqqPCs_FpGP1rl6FPRwS7MeVPAu4_&index=27&ab_channel=VinceEdward-Topic
And here, as a bonus, the brilliant Kenneth Branagh in his 1996 film adaptation of Hamlet.
What A Piece Of Work Is Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvvkXYN7wg&ab_channel=dpl1960
INFO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(1996_film)
BTW,
I just changed my name in the forum to ComicMike because my previous name no longer didn't really like it anymore. (https://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/verschiedene/a0572.gif)
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My two favorite modern Christmas songs. :)
Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody - 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7M7zSMJcw&ab_channel=SladeOfficial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7M7zSMJcw&ab_channel=SladeOfficial)
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Live Aid 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gifrd7ljNL4&ab_channel=LiveAid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gifrd7ljNL4&ab_channel=LiveAid)