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Songs, before my time, that we should remember, and pass to our kids.

Perhaps not the greatest ditty but one close to my heart and soul:



and an updated version of the Carmichael and Loesser classic:



Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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An important message sung by Morton Harvey from 1915, the message of which too many countries must learn again.



Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
When it comes to Sinatra, I'll just leave this here as I check out for the nite. Have a good one!




In 1968 I was a year out of high school - in college and in the middle of the whole San Francisco hippie music thing. But I heard this Sinatra song and went out and bought it. It is still my favorite Sinatra song to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9pUoVy_wW0
 
In 1968 I was a year out of high school - in college and in the middle of the whole San Francisco hippie music thing. But I heard this Sinatra song and went out and bought it. It is still my favorite Sinatra song to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9pUoVy_wW0
Yep. Same way with me. My Dad payed it at home, and it could be heard on A.M. radio. Even though I was just a kid, the wrong demographic for this piece, I loved it from the beginning. It was great seeing the recording here, after listening to it all these years.

The thing is though, a pop A.M. radio station in a big city then, could have an amazing variety of artists & genres! On the same pop station in the mid sixties one could hear Sinatra, The Airplane, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Herb Alpert, The Doors, Petula Clark, Dean Martin, Dianna Ross, Roy Robinson, Willie Nelson, The Beatles, The Dead, Buddy Holly, Marvin Gaye, etc., etc. It was great! My favs were often the local garage bands!

For your enjoyment (hopefully), here below is another similar studio set from the same era that may interest you. To my ears, it sounds like it's the take that got on the album release pressing.

(interesting documentary intro, then recording starts at 6:20)


 
Yep. Same way with me. My Dad payed it at home, and it could be heard on A.M. radio. Even though I was just a kid, the wrong demographic for this piece, I loved it from the beginning. It was great seeing the recording here, after listening to it all these years.

The thing is though, a pop A.M. radio station in a big city then, could have an amazing variety of artists & genres! On the same pop station in the mid sixties one could hear Sinatra, The Airplane, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Herb Alpert, The Doors, Petula Clark, Dean Martin, Dianna Ross, Roy Robinson, Willie Nelson, The Beatles, The Dead, Buddy Holly, Marvin Gaye, etc., etc. It was great! My favs were often the local garage bands!

For your enjoyment (hopefully), here below is another similar studio set from the same era that may interest you. To my ears, it sounds like it's the take that got on the album release pressing.

(interesting documentary intro, then recording starts at 6:20)




Your observations on the wide variety of AM Top 40 music are right on the money. The variety was amazing. And it exposed kids like you and I to lots of things that kids today are not getting because music is so nice based and limited. Thats a shame and we are lesser for it as a culture.

Thank you for the video. I think its always interesting to watch the creative process take place and I enjoyed that. I must confess that I was never a Young fan - its the voice. I always preferred the deeper voiced singers - at least in males.

I do love symphonies blended with rock music. So this was neat to watch.
 
Your observations on the wide variety of AM Top 40 music are right on the money. The variety was amazing. And it exposed kids like you and I to lots of things that kids today are not getting because music is so nice based and limited. Thats a shame and we are lesser for it as a culture.

Thank you for the video. I think its always interesting to watch the creative process take place and I enjoyed that. I must confess that I was never a Young fan - its the voice. I always preferred the deeper voiced singers - at least in males.

I do love symphonies blended with rock music. So this was neat to watch.
Thank you.

Yeah, especially when one is still young & unworldly - it's easy to dismiss classical musicians as too staid and boring. But if you get to see them perform live, especially in person, it's easier to get an appreciation of their musicianship.

And many creative classically trained musicians do dabble in pop & rock, too! Here's some rockin' Led Zep, followed by some really awesome King Crimson, performed by a hip Israeli cellist!





 
Thank you.

Yeah, especially when one is still young & unworldly - it's easy to dismiss classical musicians as too staid and boring. But if you get to see them perform live, especially in person, it's easier to get an appreciation of their musicianship.

And many creative classically trained musicians do dabble in pop & rock, too! Here's some rockin' Led Zep, followed by some really awesome King Crimson, performed by a hip Israeli cellist!







Thank for the video.... each is a treat.

I remember back when ELP and YES and others were breaking ground in the 70's, I came to the conclusion that rock music was only going to get bigger and more elaborate and over produced over time as it was the natural evolution of musicians . And i loved the idea. I was oh so wrong as I never saw the counter reaction of punk and garage music as rebelling against it. It never occurred to me that there would always be teen age kids with a guitar and a drum kit who wanted to play in their folks garage or basement and the symphonic rock that I loved would only be a passing fancy.

I guess you can't change rock & roll from what it basically is - loud music for teens that does not require a great deal of musical sophistication to play on an basic level. And that too is good.
 
An oldie but goodie instrumental song. It's both my wife's and my favorite song. Brings back memories of a crisp, cool, beautiful New England autumn morning in the early 1970s, with a bright blue sky overhead, driving down the highway with the wind in our hair, back when we were young and carefree.

 
Thank for the video.... each is a treat.

I remember back when ELP and YES and others were breaking ground in the 70's, I came to the conclusion that rock music was only going to get bigger and more elaborate and over produced over time as it was the natural evolution of musicians . And i loved the idea. I was oh so wrong as I never saw the counter reaction of punk and garage music as rebelling against it. It never occurred to me that there would always be teen age kids with a guitar and a drum kit who wanted to play in their folks garage or basement and the symphonic rock that I loved would only be a passing fancy.

I guess you can't change rock & roll from what it basically is - loud music for teens that does not require a great deal of musical sophistication to play on an basic level. And that too is good.
Yes, it is! :thumbs:

BTW, I assume you're familiar with King Crimson'e "Epitaph"? I first heard Maya Beiser's version on my city's F.M. classical station (the only one left), while driving late on a Saturday night. I was blown away! They do an hour of similar stuff every Saturday night - classical artists' interpretation of music from other genres, including rock. It's great stuff!
 
An oldie but goodie instrumental song. It's both my wife's and my favorite song. Brings back memories of a crisp, cool, beautiful New England autumn morning in the early 1970s, with a bright blue sky overhead, driving down the highway with the wind in our hair, back when we were young and carefree.

Wow! Now there's some memories!

And absolutely HUGE hit ... that seems to have disappeared with time.
 
Yes, it is! :thumbs:

BTW, I assume you're familiar with King Crimson'e "Epitaph"? I first heard Maya Beiser's version on my city's F.M. classical station (the only one left), while driving late on a Saturday night. I was blown away! They do an hour of similar stuff every Saturday night - classical artists' interpretation of music from other genres, including rock. It's great stuff!

Regarding Kin Crimson - I always admired what they were trying to do more than I liked what they turned out - especially the jazzier stuff. I hope that makes sense.

Another show where they give you great stuff you do not usually hear is on SIRIUS with Little Stevens Garage station. Its right next to the E Street channel (21 I think). He plays lots and lots and lots of obscure but neat stuff - garage band and some progressive rock.

btw - do you have this

https://www.amazon.com/Nuggets-Original-Artyfacts-Psychedelic-1965-1968/dp/B00000AFWZ

It is a fantastic four disc set that has stuff on it you cannot get anywhere else.

I do NOT have this one but they also did a British version... I have been meaning to pick it up

https://www.amazon.com/Nuggets-II-O...BDAGTW65N0Q&psc=1&refRID=EPEPKPGTXBDAGTW65N0Q
 
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American heritage





I have but a moment but here's one we have to remember:

\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0

Johnny Horton and the Battle of New Orleans. I was a child when it came out and I got so into it, I bought my first ever record and played over and over and over and over until I knew the lyrics.
Then I got sick of the song and never listened again and made a decision in my life, music was a beautiful magic and I would leave it that way, to liste in wonder.
 
Regarding Kin Crimson - I always admired what they were trying to do more than I liked what they turned out - especially the jazzier stuff. I hope that makes sense.

Another show where they give you great stuff you do not usually hear is on SIRIUS with Little Stevens Garage station. Its right next to the E Street channel (21 I think). He plays lots and lots and lots of obscure but neat stuff - garage band and some progressive rock.

btw - do you have this

https://www.amazon.com/Nuggets-Original-Artyfacts-Psychedelic-1965-1968/dp/B00000AFWZ

It is a fantastic four disc set that has stuff on it you cannot get anywhere else.

I do NOT have this one but they also did a British version... I have been meaning to pick it up

https://www.amazon.com/Nuggets-II-O...BDAGTW65N0Q&psc=1&refRID=EPEPKPGTXBDAGTW65N0Q
Ah, interesting stuff there buddy.

Actually, I have one of the Nuggets and it's really great stuff. As to King Crimson, I think their eponymous debut album is maybe the next most seminal "theme" album after Dark Side of the Moon. And sadly for me, I don't have Sirius Radio. But I'm aware of Stevie's Garage and think it's really great stuff too. Stevie really knows his stuff; he was there!
 
Ah, interesting stuff there buddy.

Actually, I have one of the Nuggets and it's really great stuff. As to King Crimson, I think their eponymous debut album is maybe the next most seminal "theme" album after Dark Side of the Moon. And sadly for me, I don't have Sirius Radio. But I'm aware of Stevie's Garage and think it's really great stuff too. Stevie really knows his stuff; he was there!

What are your thoughts on Rick Wakeman as a solo artist and his theme projects?
 
What are your thoughts on Rick Wakeman as a solo artist and his theme projects?
I like him with Yes, and think he was an integral component in their success. I don't care for him or follow him as a solo artist.

In fact, as much as I loved the first several Yes albums, I lost interest with them around Tales from Topographic Oceans. But up to then, each album was a masterpiece, though with Closer to the Edge they already started drifting away from me.
 
Perhaps not the greatest ditty but one close to my heart and soul:



and an updated version of the Carmichael and Loesser classic:



Cheers.
Evilroddy.


I didn't know I knew that song by the title, but know it I do.

When I was in my early teens I went with my parents to a theatre show called Ain't Misbehavin There I was introduced to the music of Fats Waller. Two songs I remember were "This Joint is Jumpin" and the song that the show was named after.

 
I didn't know I knew that song by the title, but know it I do.

When I was in my early teens I went with my parents to a theatre show called Ain't Misbehavin There I was introduced to the music of Fats Waller. Two songs I remember were "This Joint is Jumpin" and the song that the show was named after.



rjay:

Fats Waller was a great one. Here is another great one singing the background music for a Betty Boop cartoon. The incomparable Cab Calloway doing "Minnie the Moocher":



Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
rjay:

Fats Waller was a great one. Here is another great one singing the background music for a Betty Boop cartoon. The incomparable Cab Calloway doing "Minnie the Moocher":



Cheers.
Evilroddy.


I love Calloway doing Minnie in THE BLUES BROTHERS. It might be the best scene in the flick.
 
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