The Lemon Fool

nmdhqbc wrote:2 Special Midnights. I'd probably go for the second purely for the greatest hairdo of all time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7gafphe9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksGi7B5BdM

The first being by Lead Belly, and second by Credence Clearwater Revival.
As much as I like the latter, it's Lead Belly who was an originator and huuugely influential on the later music scene. Delta/[gospel]-blues/rock was the foundation of all later 'rock and roll', and all that evolved from it.
I've long thought if people want to understand what rock is, then they might - if in a hurry - start from Delta Blues/gospel c1920/30 on, as it's right there. More time? You can go right back, and back, into the 1200s and find the roots there too. A discovery that's much more fun than it might immediately sound IME

DiamondEcho wrote:

nmdhqbc wrote:2 Special Midnights. I'd probably go for the second purely for the greatest hairdo of all time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7gafphe9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksGi7B5BdM

The first being by Lead Belly, and second by Credence Clearwater Revival.
As much as I like the latter, it's Lead Belly who was an originator and huuugely influential on the later music scene. Delta/[gospel]-blues/rock was the foundation of all later 'rock and roll', and all that evolved from it.
I've long thought if people want to understand what rock is, then they might - if in a hurry - start from Delta Blues/gospel c1920/30 on, as it's right there. More time? You can go right back, and back, into the 1200s and find the roots there too. A discovery that's much more fun than it might immediately sound IME

Agree. Like I said, just the hairdo tickled me so I suggested it.

It never made it into the UK 'hit parade' but featured in a commercial for Tampax. in 1999. How does that work out?

Ray Charles Ingredients in a recipe for soul...1963...just another album cover I remember demolishing as a young boy. Together with Hard Days Night...left in tatters.

https://youtu.be/p4TjJcqz7XU

Every Picture Tells a Story

https://youtu.be/GmyGa29zIqk

Originally penned by Joni Mitchell who, when performing this live on stage, introduces it with "now here's a Nazarethsong which I like to sing. The lady has class....go girl.

This is just horrible really, the whole album, Richard Harris should've stuck to acting...

https://youtu.be/tRwYQgk05DY

JMN2 wrote:This is just horrible really, the whole album, Richard Harris should've stuck to acting...

https://youtu.be/tRwYQgk05DY

Ain't that the truth? I never did figure out what persuaded him to do that song. Awful words, indifferent voice (slightly pompous), and 100% pure schmaltz. Yuck. Either he was broke, or else he did it for a bet.

Still, as an exercise in poor taste, it pales into insignificance in comparison with this pre-Trumpian ode to the delights of dating your own daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f48fpoSEPU. How the hell did they get away with that in the 1960s?

BJ

Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965)
https://youtu.be/7CR4IZ3ih_8

Telecaster + heavy strings + high action = blues + rock'n'roll

JMN2 wrote:Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965)
https://youtu.be/7CR4IZ3ih_8

Telecaster + heavy strings + high action = blues + rock'n'roll

Ah, those were the days. Feel sorry for today's kids with One Direction and the like.

--kiloran

Vivaldi Gloria

https://youtu.be/hlR5p0ibdoY

IIRC this was in the excellent Porterhouse Blue.

5 years ago tonight CBS aired the 2nd December recording of Kennedy Center Honors, 2012. The honorees included actor Dustin Hoffman, late night host David Letterman, Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova, Chicago blues musician Buddy Guy, and the three surviving members of "Led Zeppelin", Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant.

This clip covers just the "LZ" tribute part of the proceedings. The introduction is by Jack Black (actor, comedian & musician) concluding with the words " best band ever." This is followed, by first, a short potted history of the band and continues with 4 well known ensembles performing covers of Led Zeppelin classics to what appears the full approval of JP, JPJ & RP.
Enjoy.

Steve Winwood - English Soul (BBC Documentary)

https://youtu.be/jaJOGwMMWq4

Chuck Berry Blues

https://youtu.be/hmm4tw9aVrk

Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

https://youtu.be/51pntJOwspg

If you're a Randy Newman fan the two episodes of Mastertapes on Radio 4 are definitely worth a listen, here's the first episode:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092cmwl

RC

ReformedCharacter wrote:If you're a Randy Newman fan the two episodes of Mastertapes on Radio 4 are definitely worth a listen, here's the first episode:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092cmwl

RC

Thanks, I missed that, I am a fan, and this one on Putin is very funny:
https://youtu.be/1wFWR5qCB2k

ReformedCharacter wrote:If you're a Randy Newman fan

Yes, very much. A few versions of Newman tunes that I particularly like:

"I Think It's Gonna Rain Today," Dusty Springfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcbzR2QwXBc
"I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore," Scott Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIV_KJ59ZM
"Happy New Year," Beverley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKLySqS8kjg
"Let's Burn Down the Cornfield," Lou Rawls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPzT-AmRRzM
"Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad," Linda Ronstadt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWxkLxysMI
"They Tell Me It's Summer," the Fleetwoods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDl8kv2imU

Hall & Oates Rich Girl because even they had to start from somewhere.

https://youtu.be/VJ2itQvyBY8