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

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One more an I'll stop a while. A hidden gem from Space Oddity, Bowie's Memory of a Free Festival...

 
Spanky and Our Gang - Sunday Will Never be The Same

Written by Terry Cashman and Gene Pistilli / Mercury Records 1967 / RIAA Certified Gold

Side 2 Track 4 of their self-entitled debut album Spanky and Our Gang

For this album, the Chicago quintet limited themselves to vocals only. They would play (instruments) on tour.

Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane – lead vocal
Nigel Pickering – (rhythm guitar) vocal
Paul "Oz" Bach – (bass guitar) vocal
Malcolm Hale – (lead guitar) vocal
John "The Chief" Seiter – (drums) vocal

The session musicians who provided the music for this song include – Vinnie Bell, Al Gorgoni, Hugh McCracken and Charles Macey on guitar, Paul Griffin on piano, Artie Butler on harpsichord, Joe Macho on bass, Bobby Gregg and Al Rogers on drums, David Sackson, Irving Spice, Louis Stone, Ray Free, Matthew Raimondi, and Lou Haber on violins, Artie Kaplan on flute, and Seymour Barab and Maurice Bialkin on cellos.

[video=youtube;Ljoi_WlgAvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?Ljoi_WlgAvM[/video]
 
Amy Grant - I Will Remember You

Written by A. Grant, G. Chapman, K. Thomas / Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood / A&M Records 1991

Grant's vocal rendition here is exquisite.

Amy Grant - vocal
Donald Kirkpatrick - guitar
Michael Omartian - keyboards, drum sequencing


[video=youtube;W2wrtoloJ6k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?W2wrtoloJ6k[/video]
 
The Doors - The Crystal Ship

Composed by The Doors / Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood / Elektra Records 1967

A Morrison love song to his former girlfriend Mary Werbelow

Morrison used a Telefunken U-47 mike here, the same model used by his favorite crooner, Frank Sinatra

Jim Morrison - vocal
Robby Krieger - guitar
Ray Manzarek - vox continental piano, keyboard bass
John Densmore - drums


[video=youtube;bU1sLx1tjPY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?bU1sLx1tjPY[/video]
 
Guns n' Roses - In the Empire of the Sun (Live in Tokyo, 1988)
 
Muse - Madness

Written by M. Bellamy / Shangri La Studios, Malibu / Warner Bros. Records 2012

Bellamy stated that the song started as a personal reflection after a fight with his girlfriend Kate Hudson

Matthew Bellamy – lead vocal, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers
Christopher Wolstenholme – bass, synthesizers, backing vocal
Dominic Howard – drums, percussion, drum programming

The video was filmed on the Red Line platform at Los Angeles Union Station. The two main characters are played by models Erin Wasson and Max Silberman.


[video=youtube;Ek0SgwWmF9w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?Ek0SgwWmF9w[/video]
 
 
Carly Simon - Touched By The Sun

Music and lyrics by C. Simon / Hit Factory Studios, New York / Arista Records 1994

Penned for her dear friend Jackie Onassis who died from cancer in 1994

Carly Simon - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Peter Calo: acoustic guitar
Dirk Ziff: electric guitar
Teese Gohl: synthesizer
Pino Palladino: bass guitar
Mick Rossi: piano
Rick Marotta: drums
Marc Cohen, Ben Taylor, Sally Taylor: background vocals


[video=youtube;xe5ltsXX4Pc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?xe5ltsXX4Pc[/video]
 


One of his best, imho.
 
 


Not a dead head growing up in the 70's but am really enjoying their music these days.
 
Jennifer Warnes:

 
Lee Roy Parnell:

 
Jimmy Herring IS great. but he is even better when Jeff Sipe is drumming with him
check out this version of a classic
 
need a santana iv
 
Carrie Underwood - Mama's Song

Written by Carrie Underwood, Kara DioGuardi, Marti Frederiksen and Luke Laird / Starstruck Studios, Nashville / Arista Nashville Records 2010

Happy Mothers Day!


[video=youtube;bpFW4Yhy08k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?bpFW4Yhy08k[/video]
 
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