An X-cellent contribution to educational entertainment I'm Just A Bill from Schoolhouse Rock RIP Jack Sheldon (vox)
Y is for "You Really Do Want That Woman" - John Nemeth. I posted this one because (1) we say him perform a few weeks ago (he moved here recently) and (2) I'm trying to get to Z...
Z is for Zeke Johnson - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" I've posted a few clips of him before (he's a great go-to for the letter Z). We got to see him a few times at local coffee shops, and always thought how great to be in your 70s and still be doing what you love. He pursued his love to the end: As a local paper put it, "Memphis lost its most famous unknown blues legend, hippie folk singer". He passed away November 4th, 2019, at the age of 76. https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphi...d-teacher-extraordinaire/Content?oid=21750337
E is for the person I think had the most eclectic music career of my high school years: Sheena Easton. She started out quite saccharine with songs like "Telephone" and "Morning Train," and won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Then she sang a duet with Kenny Rogers and topped the Country charts. Then she sang a Spanish language duet with the then mega-popular Mexican pop star Luis Miguel and won another Grammy (the song is below - it's as straight-laced as it gets). Then she connected with Prince and was recording songs like "Strut" and "Sugar Walls" - the latter which got her on Tipper Gore's "Filthy Fifteen" list of poisonous songs that needed some sort of warning label. A couple years later she was Grammy nominated for Best R&B artist. Quite a run for a singer from Scotland!
G is for "Galveston" - Jimmy Webb Saw him recently (I have a soft spot for songwriters), and he talked about this song - he briefly does in this clip. Among many others, he also wrote: Wichita Lineman By The Time I Get to Phoenix MacArthur Park All I Know (Almost Made It) Didn't We The Worst That Could Happen ....and...the one that really caught me by surprise ... Up, Up, and Away by the 5th Dimension
I see no reason it should be. Europe has done nice things with the expanded genre. The Dutch, and the Scandinavians even moreso. They're not Eric Clapton playing at the blues or something- they've added their own twist (sparse, pensive), and I'm as fond of it as I am of most jazz.
I can't make head or tail of the order in which the clips are posted. Thought part E ment titles with E, but no. Anyway, what is the requirement for a clip to be posted?
We started out that way, and we've been doing it so long that I think a lot of us have run out of stuff. I pretty much ran out of the rock/pop that I liked from my youth. At this point, you just try to find some relevant word in the title or name that matches the letter that's next. For example, the next poster who posts a video should be trying to match it up with "K" So... you could post "Come Dancing" by the Kinks, or Let It Rock by Kevin Rudolf, you get the point. But if you scroll thru, you'll sometimes see something like "Mama Said Knock You Out". FWIW, I'd appreciate not being the only one here who posts jazz. hint...
Let me throw in some metal with Floor Jansen first. She's an unbelievable versatile Dutch singer, world famous as the lead singer of Nightwish. She however can sing any genre without any effort. So here's Floor Jansen singing an opera duet with Henk Poort: "the Phantom of the Opera" with some metal twists in it.
M'kay: Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, "Muscat Ramble" Kid Ory was, IMNSHO one of the three greatest non-classical musicians ever (Miles Davis, Stephane Grappelli.) What can you say about a guy who drew his first pay from Buddy Bolden and was the first to pay Louis Armstrong? But I'd really like to call attention to the bass and drums combination of Ed Garland and Minor Hall. I'm not actually sure that they were bandmates before Israel Crosby and Gene Krupa; but they were playing in an earlier idiom, and so I tend to regard them as the first great combination.
For some reason I thought you'd posted this before. As much as I respect Miles' enormous contribution to the form, I never liked his playing as much as I did the folks who played with him.
May have-- I've had things I waited a month for the letter to come around, only to have somebody fill it two seconds before I did. Then its several weeks, and so on. Happens once or three times and I'm apt to remember all the times I missed instead of the time I finally got it. I've been going about a year on an "m" or "d"-- unless I actually got it at some point...
If L comes around and Ismitje notices, that must mean it's time for another track (from a near-endless supply of excellent songs) from Los Lobos, live here with "Good Morning Aztlan"