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Spurred on by Macca's great set and the positive comments on the Glastonbury thread, here's 'Maybe I'm Amazed' from 46 years ago. This performance highlights what a truly great vocal range he had at his peak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FiIilTwIA

Redmires wrote:Spurred on by Macca's great set and the positive comments on the Glastonbury thread, here's 'Maybe I'm Amazed' from 46 years ago. This performance highlights what a truly great vocal range he had at his peak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FiIilTwIA

Often covers are better, this one from 50 years ago (gawd 'elp us) by The Faces - Rod Stewart in his prime, with Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood etc -- IMHO! --- just blows Paul McCartney out of the park. The soul, the timing, the emo of the ebb+flow, the power of it. IIRC I posted it not too long ago, but each time I hear it - just wow, 'that's a together band'

DiamondEcho wrote:

Redmires wrote:Spurred on by Macca's great set and the positive comments on the Glastonbury thread, here's 'Maybe I'm Amazed' from 46 years ago. This performance highlights what a truly great vocal range he had at his peak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FiIilTwIA

Often covers are better, this one from 50 years ago (gawd 'elp us) by The Faces - Rod Stewart in his prime, with Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood etc -- IMHO! --- just blows Paul McCartney out of the park. The soul, the timing, the emo of the ebb+flow, the power of it. IIRC I posted it not too long ago, but each time I hear it - just wow, 'that's a together band'

Yeah that is a really good cover - and then Rod starts and it becomes a whole other level

DiamondEcho wrote:Pink Floyd... hmmm, oh yes, I used to have physics tutorials in Mrs. Water's house in Cambridge, where my tutor then lodged; that was Rogers mother who opened the door to me, into his childhood home.

Some time in the 1950s, my aunt worked as a dentist's assistant in some leafy suburb. Her main memory of that place was that there was some pesky kid in the back room, practising the piano for hours on end. Reginald Dwight, his name was, and apparently he was quite good.

BJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqc_EhmL8-E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3BhEikz6E

lastly, some steely dan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRj0Ohg-y1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuFO8KPnjw

RR

Elle & The Pocket Belles, who recently played at the Glastonbury Festival. I'd never heard of them until a couple of days ago when a friend sent me a link to the videos below. Their style is a mixture of swing and pop. The link below is to Swingin' Together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtGeuiIvn5k

Someone took Swingin' Together and dubbed it over the promotional video for the computer game "World of Warships". It works very well, helped considerably with the video having very high production values and being set on a American aircraft carrier during the Second World War. Link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp-IQroPNIM

RowdyReptile wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWooDCkkkVQ

I'm enjoying some of your song links Rowdy, but would it be possible for you to also provide a quick line of text telling us the artist and song as well, as regular naked URL links are difficult to find again if this thread is re-visited, and being able to search on some accompanying text would help a great deal with that?

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

This was released in 1973, and I can't believe I've never heard it until recently (thanks to Spotify radio).

Kevin Coyne.... Eastbourne Ladies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cu9IscKCM

Love it!

--kiloran

Itsallaguess wrote:
I'm enjoying some of your song links Rowdy, but would it be possible for you to also provide a quick line of text telling us the artist and song as well, as regular naked URL links are difficult to find again if this thread is re-visited, and being able to search on some accompanying text would help a great deal with that?

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

You got it. I should have been doing that.

RR

Came across this and really enjoyed it. Peter Kay and Charlene Spiteri..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCXVka-K9o&t=301s

The first part' s worth a watch too !

Sussexlad

I just came across this thread because of what I regard as a off topic bump.

That said, it's a great idea for a thread. I did enjoy the swing links, though swing is not really my thing.

I'm not going to start by posting acid, scar or garage links, but it's fair to say my taste is not mainstream.

Here is a more acceptable link of a song set to banjo. "No more Fu*k's to give".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0

Of course having mentioned swing, here is some electric swing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvEIZMMILA

Less mainstream, if that is true. "Surprise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk

Kate Bush pub choir-style: https://youtu.be/TW2SzEShnyo

Ry Cooder - Maria Elena........nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORTyRGT8sQE

A really nice jazzy sound from John Mayall, recorded live at the Fillmore East. No drums, just guitar, bass, flute/sax and harmonica. Didn't realise it was way back in '69

California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCp8o3t-3v8

Really nice to just chill out to.

--kiloran

Eva Cassidy. She was ill when she recorded this and an absolute star still missed today. A voice so pure. She died about 25 years ago. This version is just a classic.

https://youtu.be/2rd8VktT8xY

nimnarb wrote:Eva Cassidy. She was ill when she recorded this and an absolute star still missed today. A voice so pure. She died about 25 years ago. This version is just a classic.

https://youtu.be/2rd8VktT8xY

Totally agreed what a voice
From the same album as Over the Rainbow (Songbird)
another Eva classic
Fields of gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVjjcOUJLE