T is for "That's What I Like About The South" - Phil Harris. PH's version of this song was a bit of running gag on the Jack Benny radio show (No. It was before my time; I've heard it on the OTR programs). I'd imagine Bob Wills' version is a bit more familiar.
OK. Let me see if I can make this work: X is for eX-lead singer for BR5-49, Chuck Mead, who is actually singing with them during this clip - "Me 'N' Opie (Down By The Duck Pond)"
Vun uff ze greats uff jass has left us vithout me knowing... Gary Peacock passed away this September 4.
Might be the greatest bass track ever. Instead of an eternal flame that should be on a loop at his gravesite. And somebody deserves a Grammy or something for the miking of the piano! You can almost hear Jarrett's thought process...
It's a great job, without question. But I sometimes think Keith should have been forced to use a Clavinova (Yamaha electric piano), just to keep him from whining while he played. Love his playing, but I hated it when he did that shit.
I got used to it, stopped hearing it. Lionel Hampton did that too-- terrifically distracting on the Carnegie Hall tapes, My old girlfriend always said it made her think he wanted to hurt her...
Just listened. I was expecting it to be sung to "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard", so I clicked. Still cool!
Sooooo . . . I am stretching B a little bit. Here's a short tribute documentary and a song called "Ansoo" based on a Pakistani poem by Baba Bulleh Shah. The song starts about a minute it, and will sound very South Asian before bringing in other elements. I had never heard of Junaid Jamshed or Vital Signs or Junoon before tonight, and certainly not the fairly heroic role Vital Signs played in resisting Islamicization of Pakistan in the mid-80s before the return of democracy (as shaky as it sometimes is in Pakistan). Or how gut-wrenching it was for many Pakistanis in 2016 when Jamshed and his wife were killed in a plane crash. I've been down a glorious rabbit hole this evening - there's amazing music all over the place. This track is a terrific way to honor a friend of the composer.
Love this song. We use to walk around singing it (poorly, still...). So, I just checked to see what year this was from and what other songs we were probably butchering on our way to/from school, or just running around. The year was 1967 - and Oh My God! What a year! I know this isn't really what this thread's about, but check out the Billboard Top 100 from 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1967
IMO the most underrated album of all time-- and it isn't absolutely in the pocket for me, either. But it stands up, hasn't dated a bit, is wall to wall, and I lived a whole two years in boarding school next to a guy who would put it on loud every single time he returned to his room, and I never got tired of it. The cover of Stevie Wonder's "A Place In the Sun" is probably my favorite cover ever...
Sticking with 1967... This must be on somebody's list of oddest hits: H is for The Hombres - "Let It All Hang Out"
I is for something not from 1967, but rather 2020. It isn't often I get hooked on a new artist whose first studio album comes when he's 70, but then there's Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs. Campbell was one of the Heartbreakers in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and co-wrote several of the more famous songs from the group. This one - "Irish Girl" - dropped about a week and a half ago: Campbell's bio shows what a valued and prolific collaborator he has been for several decades, and it's nice to have some of his own music drop in 2020.