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What Are You Listening To? Part 14 [W: 2921]

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One of the last living legends of the early punk days.

I hope he lives another 30 years. He'll still be rocking out at 95 I bet.
 
 
Michelle Branch - Everywhere

Written by Michelle Branch and John Shanks - Recorded at Sunset Sound Studios 2001 - Maverick Records / RIAA Certified Double-Platinum

Michelle Branch – guitar, lead vocal
John Shanks – guitar, vocals
Teddy Landau - bass, vocals
Patrick Warren – keyboards
Kenny Aronoff – drums


[video=youtube;IoQ4aWHCct0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?IoQ4aWHCct0[/video]
 
One of the DJs on the classic rock satellite channel said this is her favorite BC tune. I go back and forth on this, Shooting Star and Seagull but it really shows was a great singer Paul Rodges as been for over 40 eyars

 
Robert John - Sad Eyes

Written by Robert John - Released on EMI Records 1979 - RIAA Certified Gold

Incidentally, Darlene Love listed below was the Crystal's ("He's A Rebel" fame) lead singer.

Most of you will perhaps remember her for playing officer Roger Murtaugh's (Danny Glover) wife in the Lethal Weapon film series.

Robert John - lead vocal
Bill Neale - electric guitar
Dennis Belfield - bass guitar
Stewart Levine - keyboards
Howard Lee Wolen - drums, percussion
Darlene Love - backing vocals
Edna Wright - backing vocals
George Tobin - backing vocals


[video=youtube;vhG-BM8yoYo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?vhG-BM8yoYo[/video]
 
The Essex - Easier Said Than Done

Written by William Linton and Larry Huff. Bell Sound Studio/Roulette Records 1963. RIAA Certified Gold

All five members of the Essex were active-duty members of the Marine Corps when this song was recorded.

The song was so short and simple it required only 20 minutes to record. It was originally intended to be the B side for another song.

Anita Humes - lead vocal
Billy Hill - vocal
Rudolph Johnson - vocal
Walter Vickers - vocal, guitar
Rodney Taylor - drums

Anita Humes Chappelle | 1940-2010 | RIP
Semper Fi

[video=youtube;466Y-5dPtBQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?466Y-5dPtBQ[/video]
 
I hope this isn't inappropriate since this thread had kinda gone classic music...but right NOW is this:
 
Currently I'm really into a cover group Postmodern Jukebox. They do modern songs in a variety of genres. I think they're fantastic.



 
This 6'8" clown can flat out sing.



 
I'm a big fan of Steven'N'Seagulls as well.



 
The Crystals - Uptown

Lyrics and music by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil / Produced by Phil Spector / Philles Records 1962

It took 21 takes for Phil to complete this stellar arrangement. The flamenco guitar and castanet evoke images of uptown Spanish Harlem.

With discrimination a taboo topic in 1962, Uptown was ahead of it's time in raw social-class realism.

The Crystals could relate, all being from different sections of Brooklyn. They rehearsed in P.S. 73 on MacDougall Street.


[video=youtube;KE-0jzoY72w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?KE-0jzoY72w[/video]

He gets up each morning and he goes downtown
Where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land
He's a little man

But then he comes uptown each ev'nin' to my tenement
Uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent
And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything
Then he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king

Downtown he's just one of a million guys
He don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give
'cause he's got to live

But then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high
Uptown he knows that I'll be standing by
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown

Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, oh-yeah

Let me tell ya now uptown where he can hold his head up high
Uptown he knows that I'll be standing by
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown

Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

Let me tell ya now, uptown
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
 


Robert Long - Thorbeckeplein from 1977

And to understand it I am giving you all the translation

I met you on the thorbeckeplein (Thorbecke-square)
you were waiting for something, stood there for nothing
you looked so inconsolable and lonely
we looked and waited a bit, talked and laughed a bit
when I asked you, will you come with me, you said you would love to
and you missed you last train.

After breakfast you said, well I'd better go now, but I enjoyed being with you
bye and I will call you soon
hours after you left I could still smell your hair
I laughed and whistled that day....God did I enjoy that day
I felt better than I had felt for an entire year
until I saw you with her.

I saw you regularly
a woman with her hubby
first I felt so loved, now I felt so deflated
I did not even know where you lived
but out of the blue you called me
crying you told me
that sometimes you feel so despondent
and that you never get used to it.

and we go on living this way and I am getting used to it
for months I hear nothing from you, and then you are on my doorstep
usually when you feel unable to go on
than I caress you and embrace you, comfort you and love you
than you can deal with live again the next morning
and you go back to your wife


Robert Long was an open homosexual in a time when this was hardly accepted by anybody, he was the man who made being gay accepted by many people and fought for gay marriage and against the hypocrisy of the church.

He had a sketch in which he told that a christian had said to him "the lord disapproves of how you live", to which he said, "ooh great, another person who thinks he knows the address where the good lord lives".
 
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - Something's Burnig

Words and music by Scott (Mac) Davis / Reprise Records 1969

Karen Carpenter auditioned, but the band selected vocalist Mary Arnold to replace the fired Thelma Camacho

Kenny Rogers - lead vocal and bass guitar
Terry Williams - guitar and backing vocals
Mike Settle - guitar and backing vocals
Mary Arnold - tambourine and backing vocals
Mickey Jones - drums and percussion


[video=youtube;7mgofi3AEMA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?7mgofi3AEMA[/video]
 
the wink at 2:12 is the money! :)
 
The Ronettes - Be My Baby

Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector / Gold Star Studios in Hollywood / Philles Records 1963

The Ronette's at this time consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector), her older sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley.

The quintessential Phil Spector 'Wall of Sound' recording. Brian Wilson declared 'Be My Baby' the greatest pop record ever made.

Phil used a full orchestra plus many members of 'The Wrecking Crew' session musicians in 47 takes.

Ronnie was the only Ronette to sing on this recording. Phil and Ronnie were married 1968-1974.

Veronica (Ronnie) Bennet - lead vocal
Sonny Bono - backing vocals
Cher - backing vocals
Ellie Greenwich - backing vocals
Darlene Love - backing vocals
Fanita James - backing vocals
Gracia Nitzsche - backing vocals
Bobby Sheen - backing vocals
Nino Tempo - backing vocals
Bill Pitman - guitar
Tommy Tedesco - guitar
Carol Kaye – bass guitar
Ray Pohlman - bass guitar
Al De Lory - keyboards
Leon Russell - keyboards
Don Randi - piano
Jay Migliori - saxophone
Steve Douglas - saxophone
Louis Blackburn - trombone
Frank Capp - percussion
Hal Blaine - drums

[video=youtube;i-bcn6Rwn44]http://www.youtube.com/watch?i-bcn6Rwn44[/video]
 
I guess the cookie monster brought back memories

 
 
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)

Written by Sol Lake / Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood / A&M Records 1962

The first album ever released by A&M (Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss) Records

The Tijuana Brass band was not formed until after the Whipped Cream album was released, when demands for live shows made a live band a priority.

For this album and subsequent releases, Alpert recorded with the group of L.A. session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew whom he holds in high regard

Herb Alpert - trumpet
The Wrecking Crew - everything else


[video=youtube;Q-r3YOrfYus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?Q-r3YOrfYus[/video]
 



The Jacques Loussier Trio: J.S. Bach's Pastorale in C minor.

The perfect marriage of classical and jazz done by three virtuoso musicians.
 
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