YouTube music videos A-Z - (Part E)

This is getting kinda strange; why post these here instead of the 'listening to right now" thread, and why post at all without paying any attention to what the thread's about? I mean you could miss it once or twice if you are pretty self-centered, but a week's worth?

Unless he's just trying to be an obstacle; but it isn't such a much of one...

 

Yea, I was willing to give him a little time to figure out the "system", but I don't think it matters much to him. I just plan to post around him; he may eventually either figure it out or get bored and move on.

 

I'm fresh out of Fridays, by the way. Tried for Jay and the Americans or Duck Baker but they don't seem to have vids.

 

Probably time to switch themes. Any ideas? I was thinking numbers, colors, girls' names,.....

or back to the alphabet.

 

Found this one:

George Jones - It's Finally Friday (1992)

 

Dave Edmunds covering John Fogarty's "Almost Saturday Night"

 

Let's see if there's any interest in this - Names, alphabetically:

Pure Prairie League - Falling in and Out of Love - Amie (Bustin' Out 1972)



Actually, Falling in and Out of Love is the song before Amie; but when the album first came out, FM stations always played it as an intro. So you can imagine my horror the first time I heard it on an AM station without it......I care too much to put you guys through that.

 

So, apparently the Beach Boys hit was a cover. B is for Barbara Ann.

 

That's the only way I ever heard it...

 

As God meant it to be. Much like Grand Funk Railroad's I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home and, for some reason, Linda Ronstadt's When Will I Be Loved/Willing.

 

Well, the end of Amie does go back to Fallin', so maybe that was intended.

I remember when some classic rock DJs would play the Crosby, Stills and Nash recording, and they would almost inevitably call it, "Sweet [sic] Judy Blue Eyes"... It's a suite (sorta)! It's called Judy Blue Eyes! It's written on the damn cover and the vinyl label... I swear, I don't know how so many got it wrong.

 

B B King - Caldonia

 

Ella-- Hello Dolly

 

Hot Chocolate - Emmaline (1974)



I didn't know this:

His mother’s death (when he was 20) left him desolate, and when Mickie Most (his producer at the time) told him he needed more depth and darkness in his songs he knew where to find it. He had soon written the heartbreaking lament Emma.

He says now that the emotion in that song was about the death of his mother. “That’s why it’s such a sad-sounding song. That scream (towards the end) was quite real – it was how I felt."

 

Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boyd Floyd

 

Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington Orch - Sweet Georgia Brown

 

Hard Hearted Hannah, the vamp of Savannah-- Turk Murphy



West Coast Dixieland of the 50's, I love this stuff...

 

In the winter of 1943-1944 my father got his 48 hours leave before shipping out to Europe to perform his share of the war. He came to Brooklyn and he and my mother went to a Leadbelly concert which ended, as usual, with this song.

He got back in the summer of 1947-- didn't have any points, you see, and he was fluent in German and could type, so they kept him forever. I could figure the exact date if I needed to because my sister was born precisely 9 months later.

He fell into a job in the registrar's office at Pratt institute, but those were only 9 month jobs back then-- the two of them would spend the summers through the rest of the forties travelling around New England and Upstate New York to wherever the Weavers were playing, auction-picking for NYC antique shops in the day, and going to the shows at night. (My Deadhead tendencies would seem to be genetic.) They, of course traditionally ended with this song too.

The more things change, the more they stay the same-- here's somebody else using it for the same purpose...



"Goodnight Irene" -- Jack White

 

Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Joanne (1970)

 

I deleted all of the junk from SwedishBorn, so when you scroll through later you won't have to deal with it. K then - how about "Kimberly" from Patti Smith?

 

Thanks for the idea Len - this is a really fun way to explore some cool, varied music.

 

The fun comes when trying to avoid the obvious (Clapton's Layla; Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant; Beatle's Michelle; etc.), but still find something to make people think, "Oh wow, I'd forgotten that song!" or "I haven't heard that in years." or "I've never heard that version." etc.

...or "Hey! There's a song all the oldies stations haven't played to death!"

...or try to introduce a new song/singer/writer.

EDIT: And I particularly like those associated with a story by the poster (i.e. taosjohn with Good Night Irene).

 

Highly Suspect - Lydia

 

Sure, I first heard the song/saw Cab Calloway on The Blues Brothers, but that doesn't mean we shoudn't take a listen to "Minnie the Moocher"



And from the film: