It's sad that I have to go back a couple of decades to even start finding favorites...
Quote from: Solar on September 12, 2021, 12:17:00 PMIt's sad that I have to go back a couple of decades to even start finding favorites...
:lol: I have to go back 5 or 6 decades. :thumbsup:
Quote from: walkstall on September 12, 2021, 12:39:12 PM:lol: I have to go back 5 or 6 decades. :thumbsup:
Forty's Swing is still my ALL Time Favorite (Tommy Dorsey), then 50s Doo Wop, 60s bubble gum, 70s soft rock, 80s Pop, 90s?
It's all a blur after that.
But I can always pull out some Classical from centuries prior.
Though I have to admit, this chick made me laugh. :lol:
Regarding foreign music, I grew up in 1980s on few music cassettes which shaped my music taste, there were four cassettes of Beatles' Red and Blue albums, one Boney M greatest hits, and one 1970s greatest hits, I remember listening to this like it was yesterday.
I take it they were big in the EU?
Quote from: Solar on September 21, 2021, 02:02:55 PMI take it they were big in the EU?
I am actually not aware, I was just a little kid.
Here's another one, I always thought Boney M was an American group, because they were black, until only recently I discovered they were actually German. :lol:
Quote from: milos on September 22, 2021, 10:09:03 AMI am actually not aware, I was just a little kid.
Here's another one, I always thought Boney M was an American group, because they were black, until only recently I discovered they were actually German. :lol:
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There's sooo much wrong with that statement, yet sooo Much Right. :biggrin:
An old thing but I like this new version better. :wub:
The season is changing here in Tennessee... and so are the leaves.
The Doo, the Boots, Mod clothes, the entire mid 60s package in one song... :biggrin:
They were good, but four messed up people.
Quote from: supsalemgr on September 28, 2021, 11:39:27 AMThey were good, but four messed up people.
Weren't all 60s groups? :biggrin:
Quote from: Solar on September 28, 2021, 11:52:49 AMWeren't all 60s groups? :biggrin:
So right, especially when we consider the Rolling Stones as mainstream. How Jagger, Ron Woods and Keith Richards are still alive are medical miracles.
Quote from: supsalemgr on September 28, 2021, 12:35:19 PMSo right, especially when we consider the Rolling Stones as mainstream. How Jagger, Ron Woods and Keith Richards are still alive are medical miracles.
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I still have this album. :lol:
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Quote from: Solar on September 28, 2021, 09:47:40 AMThe Doo, the Boots, Mod clothes, the entire mid 60s package in one song... :biggrin:
Killer tune! Funny how it was shortened for the Sullivan show.
Here's an M&P knock-off I learned to like back then....Spanky & Our Gang.
Quote from: TboneAgain on December 15, 2021, 07:39:40 PMKiller tune! Funny how it was shortened for the Sullivan show.
Here's an M&P knock-off I learned to like back then....Spanky & Our Gang.
I spent nearly three years thinking Spanky was the Mammas and the Pappas...
With only two AM radio stations, one being rock, we didn't have a lot of exposure.
Quote from: Solar on December 16, 2021, 06:18:52 AMI spent nearly three years thinking Spanky was the Mammas and the Pappas...
With only two AM radio stations, one being rock, we didn't have a lot of exposure.
The sound was similar. Spanky had a voice like Mama Cass, but she looked like just one person.
Quote from: TboneAgain on December 16, 2021, 12:44:56 PMThe sound was similar. Spanky had a voice like Mama Cass, but she looked like just one person.
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I loved all their music, both were talented, and there hasn't been groups like them since.
Quote from: Solar on December 16, 2021, 01:27:19 PM:lol:
I loved all their music, both were talented, and there hasn't been groups like them since.
Remember the signature M&P song "Monday, Monday?" Spanky and company had their biggest hit with this one.
Quote from: TboneAgain on December 16, 2021, 03:59:13 PMRemember the signature M&P song "Monday, Monday?" Spanky and company had their biggest hit with this one.
Yep, one more reason I got them mixed up...
Hell, that one is in my Iheart play list, just played a couple of minutes ago.
Here's a gem from thirty years ago. The song itself dates back to 1958, when it was a big doo-wop hit for the Skyliners, backed by the Lennie Martin Orchestra. (Martin was one of the team of songwriters who wrote it.) The tune has been covered by many, including Art Garfunkel, Don McLean, and even Guns 'N' Roses, for God's sake. (That one's pretty awful.)
In 1991, country artist Ronnie Milsap was one of the fading kings of the country music charts. He had churned out 35 #1 hits (!!!!) and taken home six Grammy awards since breaking onto the scene in 1973. A number of his later successes were "crossovers," appealing to his country audience and to pop and adult listeners. (Remember "Lost in the Fifties Tonight?")
Milsap's treatment of "Since I Don't Have You" stands out for me for a number of reasons. His voice is unfailingly true and pleasant. The arrangement, while seemingly simple, is masterful. The background harmonies (see the "beehive blondes" in the video) start small and build to a perfect crescendo. The sax solo in the bridge is a marvelous inclusion. The depressed flats and minors worked into the final stanzas are like icing on a baker's masterpiece. And the video is tasteful, nostalgic, and downright sweet.
Enjoy.
Quote from: TboneAgain on December 29, 2021, 12:32:28 PMHere's a gem from thirty years ago. The song itself dates back to 1958, when it was a big doo-wop hit for the Skyliners, backed by the Lennie Martin Orchestra. (Martin was one of the team of songwriters who wrote it.) The tune has been covered by many, including Art Garfunkel, Don McLean, and even Guns 'N' Roses, for God's sake. (That one's pretty awful.)
In 1991, country artist Ronnie Milsap was one of the fading kings of the country music charts. He had churned out 35 #1 hits (!!!!) and taken home six Grammy awards since breaking onto the scene in 1973. A number of his later successes were "crossovers," appealing to his country audience and to pop and adult listeners. (Remember "Lost in the Fifties Tonight?")
Milsap's treatment of "Since I Don't Have You" stands out for me for a number of reasons. His voice is unfailingly true and pleasant. The arrangement, while seemingly simple, is masterful. The background harmonies (see the "beehive blondes" in the video) start small and build to a perfect crescendo. The sax solo in the bridge is a marvelous inclusion. The depressed flats and minors worked into the final stanzas are like icing on a baker's masterpiece. And the video is tasteful, nostalgic, and downright sweet.
Enjoy.
That music comes natural to him. Before he hit it big with country in the 70's he played the lounge circuit in ATL. His specialty was Ray Charles stuff along with other music of that time.
Quote from: supsalemgr on December 30, 2021, 09:23:43 AMThat music comes natural to him. Before he hit it big with country in the 70's he played the lounge circuit in ATL. His specialty was Ray Charles stuff along with other music of that time.
I got to see Milsap perform live in a small indoor venue in Cincinnati (used to be called Bogart's) maybe 30 years ago. His hit-list star had faded by that time, and his show was almost exclusively comprised of his own top hits from the past. (He had one hell of a lot of them to choose from!!!)
The food was excellent, the service was top-notch, and I got to watch a blind man dance on top of his own piano. I am not making this up. At one point during his show, Milsap climbed onto that grand piano, danced, and climbed back down without another person's assistance, and without falling or stumbling. It was intense.
I rank it with the best shows I've ever seen, and I've seen a bunch.
hmm. Temptations, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett,Little Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Charlie Daniels, Tina Turner and that hot sax player of hers. Some country music stars whose names i have since forgotten..they all run into one another.
Quote from: Calypso Jones on January 02, 2022, 02:04:40 PMhmm. Temptations, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett,Little Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Charlie Daniels, Tina Turner and that hot sax player of hers. Some country music stars whose names i have since forgotten..they all run into one another.
Great selection of artists!
I will share a story. Back around 1963 I was social chairman of my fraternity at UGA. We had a brother from Macon, GA who knew Phil Walden as he was getting started as a promoter. I had booked Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers for a party. They had a current hit labeled as "Love Twist". Before the party Phil called me and said he had just signed a new performer and would like to include him at no charge. I agreed and we had the band set up on the fraternity house front porch. That free performer was Otis Redding. He literally stopped traffic on Milledge Ave. in Athens.
Phil Walden became quite successful with Otis and the Allman Brothers among others.
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John Lennon can fuck himself. "Imagine" is an evil, Communist, Socialist, Marxist left-wing song.
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on February 10, 2022, 10:20:18 AMJohn Lennon can fuck himself. "Imagine" is an evil, Communist, Socialist, Marxist left-wing song.
Why the mass media is promoting "Imagine" so much like it's the only song he wrote that is the question, when he wrote a plethora of other and different kind of songs.
Imagine that "Help Me to Help Myself" demo from 1980 was promoted in mass media instead of "Imagine", everyone would think John Lennon was a hardcore Christian fanatic. :smile: Imagine that he was not shot dead and that he actually published this song on his next album. :cool: But in this demo he kind of predicted his soon death.
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on February 10, 2022, 10:20:18 AMJohn Lennon can fuck himself. "Imagine" is an evil, Communist, Socialist, Marxist left-wing song.
I don't think he can do that any more.
Old, Simple, but still Cool.
As kids we tried to play this to impress the girls. :glare:
Failed miserably.... :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:
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Still learing obviously. :D
If anyone can find the lyrics, that would be a hoot. :biggrin:
Unfortunately you have to watch it on youtube. I saw this sometime back and realized, it was one of the original 'Jerry's Kids" :lol:
But seriously, I never knew he was really Lewis's kid. Always loved the song.