This is a song by Hoyt Axton, a country singer from the 20th century.  It was covered by Ringo Starr but I like this version better.  Listen carefully and you will hear Cheech and Chong in the middle.

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

 
  This is kinda the era I grew up in, some samples:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxe4mlsQos



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzUQZw3wfro



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wL10JYGm8M

https://youtu.be/KqpOBGC9864

https://youtu.be/7tm-9t-ZF2s

#2.  Arlo Guthrie.
        Yes, I'm a little weird but I'm content with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI&feature=emb_title

#1. Sounds of Silence .... the way Simon and Garfunkle should have done it
      Best listened to with good speakers and the volume up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

Those are all good songs to bring back memories of what I was doing when they were hits.

There is a Beatles channel on Sirius that I like to listen to.  They used to talk about how good John & Paul were as writers but I've gained a far better appreciation of George's songs.  Here's one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ3Vh8jZFdE

I like the 'Tiny Desk Concert' series on YouTube for finding new music/musicians. Lots of well known players, as well...all playing live.

I found this young fella lately too.....crazy talent, not just a novelty....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0eknUtEMWw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0eknUtEMWw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUInVe3kzjE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUInVe3kzjE)

This guy takes you down different roads too...he can play anything...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2DuBYdo5Rk&list=RDEMxry2GiK042U-1gDV5gvXDg&index=2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2DuBYdo5Rk&list=RDEMxry2GiK042U-1gDV5gvXDg&index=2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-dmuTEhWdk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-dmuTEhWdk)

And my old hero....even if he mucks up the lyrics  :)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjczDq5D4E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjczDq5D4E)

That young fella is amazing!  I've often wondered how a pianist can play independently with each hand at the same time.  This guy goes one step farther.

George Harrison wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...maybe my favourite Beatle song.

I heard a story told by Paul McCartney, who was told that the Who played the loudest music in the world.  He told his fellow Beatles they could do loud music better than anyone else, and Helter Skelter was the result.  To me it was the beginning of heavy metal music.  When they recorded it in the studio they apparently kept it up for about a half hour, leading Ringo to quip about his blisters at the end of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo

   The theme I think I'm seeing here, namely true talent.  Voice gift, and the classic chorus singing, classic harmony,  instrument talent, song writing, classic story within a song. Not like the horrific music of 2021. Computerized rubbish, corrected voice,, absolute vile.
 BTW, I grew up watching Burt Sugerman's Midnight Express on TV as a kid. It was always live talent, no voice dubbed, you bring your live show. Here's a mid 70's live cut of how group harmony love songs should be done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXacyqk9o0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rFYbMhcG8&list=PL4b_3uIhCEK-im-LTOo20o4sesBW9VcD5&index=2

I wasn't aware of the Midnight Special.  Atlanta Rhythm Section are one of my favourite bands.  Frampton....not so much.

Yes, a good voice and good harmonies.  John, Paul and George had great harmony.   I think as importantly is the ability to connect with the listener to convey the emotion in the song.  If the listener feels what the singer is singing then the singer has done his/her job.

This is an interesting site.  I've talked with him via email.  He's a teacher in Kamloops who puts programs of "Hurtin music" together weekly.  Lots of obscure songs, but lots of well known ones too.

http://hurtinforreal.com/

I find I enjoy a lot of music much more when I watch the videos. . Live performance or official music video..
 I developed a stronger liking for Thorogood  ( and a lot of others)after watching  a few of his videos. Hope  HE GETS TO PERFORM  here this year as my ticket fir 2020 resulted in a Covid cancelled show...

You mean live show with a pole???

Getting back to the Beatles for a moment....this is a tribute song to Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA".  At the time it was recorded Ringo had temprarily left the band in frustration, so Paul did the drumming. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc2tJqnkLLA

Warren Zevon (Werewolves of London) was an extraordinary songwriter.  His early success was interrupted by numerous bouts with rehab from drugs, but he finally managed to clean himself up and resume his career.  Unfortunately he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an incurable lung cancer normally associated with asbestos.  He died about 20 years ago, leaving us with some great music.  Here is one of his more humorous songs that when you hear it you will say..."Yep...I've been there."

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Efl0G4SUdiM&list=RDAMVMEfl0G4SUdiM

Desmond Dacres was one of the earliest reggae influences in mainstream popular music.  He never achieved the fame of Bob Marley despite initially helping Marley establish himself.  Nevertheless Dacres had a top 10 hit with this song, featuring a reggae beat and an eccentric singing style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wSXTN2EfRo
   

Always liked Lyle Lovett, saw him twice in Vancouver, both times as his Large Band.

The first time, Betty was working lots of overtime (manager at Woodwards), and was tired, and she fell asleep during several songs, then woke up applauding when everybody else clapped.

Maybe my favourite song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3m1FwhusY

Interesting...I never pictured him as a lounge singer, but that's how that song strikes me.

Lyle is quite fond on motorcycles too. Not sure how he got the hair into a helmet though...?

Billy Joel like 'Guzzis, that's ok.

Bruce Springsteen also like 'Guzzis which is unfortunate.

Lots of musicians like bikes.  Bob Dylan was in a serious accident on a bike when he was just starting out.  Steve Tyler, Elvis.  But I don't know any of them actually worked on their iron.

A lot of bands have sung songs about their lives as rock stars.  Most of them sing about the parties, drugs, groupies and boredom of day after day in hotels and buses.  I listen to them with interest because they open up a window into the life of a rock group.  The music and tempo varies from slow ballads to high intensity rock and roll.  AC/DC sang what is probably my favourite, partly because it was one of the highest intensity songs from a high intensity group, and partly because it's one of only a couple of rock songs with bagpipes.  Not your conventional rock instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_rvLVpqg8

Yeah, kinda lounge lizard meets Texas Swing.

Does that make him a Texas lizard swinger?  I could never figure out how he managed to match up with Julia Roberts.  Maybe he has a true lizard.

For me, the eighties, music was a little weird. The beginning of girl power with Madonna, Prince and Cyndi Lauper among others getting too much air time. But there were a few I could listen to, and Stevie Ray Vaughn was it for me. An exceptional talent that was taken too soon in a helicopter crash in 1990, I think it was. His cover of the Ventures classic "Pipeline" with Dick Dale, was magic. Whenever it shuffles through on my playlist, it gets cranked up, and the air guitar comes out. Good stuff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56SAxtf-RTg

SRV gets a volume increase around here too. My wifes first husband was a musician so she got used to music being played plus he left her with a pretty good sound system. At least now she gets to hear really good music played loud, just like my neighbours.

My neighbours listened to Motorhead all day today.

Tomorrow, I'll let them listen to something else.

I love Stevie Ray Vaughn.  I try to imagine how much music he would have created if he had lived a normal lifetime.

I liked most '80's music...Huey Lewis, Michael Jackson, Eurythmics....here's a song by another '80's singer who died young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCCtPr-0rbM
 

Dennis Leary once said that it was a good thing John Lennon died when he did because we get to remember him in a nice way.

I'm glad there's no "fat Elvis" stage for SRV, Jimi, etc.

Nobody should end up like the Rolling Stones.

Played for every new apprentice in our shop:

https://youtu.be/CwGrC0KicSo

That's a great song, I hadn't heard it before. 

As for the Rolling Stones...second best band ever....people have been saying that since the '70's but somehow they continue to fill concert arenas.  One huge difference between them and most other bands is that they are a concert band, not a studio band. 

Yes but bands like the Stones can't write new material because the fans don't care about the new material.

Stones fans just want to hear Brown Sugar over and over.

Not saying they're not good, they've just become a bit of a living joke.

  THEY  have just become a living HOPE...... there FIFY...
 What  a PESSIMISTIC  crowd....  looking at the Stones ... makes me realize .. that I too.. may actually see 70 years of age... and that gives me hope...

Personally I prefer their earlier stuff, like Jumpin Jack Flash or Satisfaction.  But you're right that they showcase their old songs in a sassy way.  I don't think they've written anything new for quite a while.  Last one I remember is Undercover of the Night, written in the '80's.

Frank, you look older than Mick!  I would have put you at 70.....about ten years ago!!

AGE is a matter of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it don't matter.

 This one always brings a lump to my throat.  If you like fine guitar picking and motorcycles it's a song for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kJdrfzjAg

Oh, I agree....has a good sound to it, don't it?

Here is a song by one extremely versatile but weird, perhaps even a little sick dude.  I never really appreciated his music enough when he was alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLbi6y4ktgc

Weird. .weird how weird ?
  Just listened toStarman.. good song..
 
A few I like. . Linkless........... Jet...Do you wanna be my Girl...... cake. .Short skirt....Long jacket...... Cheryl  Crowe   Steve McQueen song...

This is on my phone.  I like to listen to it while running.  A classic song from the big band era.  Superb melody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOUYry_5Nw

In 1995 I travelled to S Africa to visit several mines.  While in Johannesburg I visited a music store with the intent of bringing home some popular African music.  One of the bands they suggested was Johnny Clegg & Juluka.  The store allowed me to listen to one of Juluka's albums, and I bought it and brought it back to my home in Timmins.  By way of description, Johnny Clegg was a white S African that totally "got" the African culture and music.  One of his best known songs is this one, also on the album.  The accompanying video explains what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnYtcH4YS44

Another song that caught my ear while in South Africa was this one...by Ladysmith Black Mambazo but sung by Sharon Katz & the Peace Train.  It's a song sung by miners on their way to work, called Shosholoza.  The original by Ladysmith is much slower, which is why I prefer this version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MIY-cl9BMU

This second one is a Gerry Garcia tune.  All acoustic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CQ616RZH_Q&feature=youtu.be

A lot of songs from rock's golden era contained a high level of energy.  Few of them matched this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EH7QMVnSRI

Thought about this song today.  Cold, drizzley sleet today.

https://youtu.be/wvUQcnfwUUM

Never tried copy/paste with my phone before.  Hope it works.

That was fun.

https://youtu.be/0-_d79xN45U

Oh oh.  Now I figured out how to do it, you might get sick of me posting stuff.

https://youtu.be/TlppIdtLw5A

Mark Knopfler.  Ooo ya.

https://youtu.be/t80LyGHZCvo

Here’s a motorcycle song.

https://youtu.be/4RnI4NWlwTc

Hillbilly Moon Explosion.

https://youtu.be/xyg8clANpSs

Here’s one for Steve cause I know how much he digs rockabilly.

https://youtu.be/WYiwxM_RVEI

She was sooo hot.

https://youtu.be/yBg5cnoNyAE

This guy was a great friend of Linda.  His best known song is "Werewolves of London" but I like this one too.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Efl0G4SUdiM&list=RDAMVMEfl0G4SUdiM

Ringo Starr put together his first All Starr Band back in 1989.  Levon Helm (The Band) was part of that group, along with Clarence Clemmons (Bruce Springsteen) Joe Walsh (Eagles) and Rick Danko, also from The Band.  In this video Levon sings Up on Crippled Creek, a great Band harmony song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NAZbB6K8no

Ooo ya.  That would have been a good show.

   About the only rockabilliy song I like in the world.

If you like rockabilly you HAVE to like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_T8mRnqCwE

  Speaking of songs I like...
 Anyone on here know someone  that works on jukeboxes  ?  I should try to get mine going, it's likely just contacts need cleaning..
 Have a bunch of tunes I like stored in there.. a range..
 Like a very old Version of a young Willie Nelson singing Jumpin Cotton Eyed Joe. ..... and Eric Clapton singing Tulsa Time..  and many more..

https://youtu.be/eVtHMDJcmxE

https://youtu.be/F9QpDvhshOQ

https://youtu.be/WwhxXjdMPd8

https://youtu.be/WwhxXjdMPd8

I often wonder how much music Jim Croce would have made if he had not passed away.

Truly an amazing talent.

This is a song by the King.  It was the name of his guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8QxOjuYHg

Slow hand.

https://youtu.be/XAZ5G3xoxhI

Ben Waters

https://youtu.be/C1F0FBxultI

  Steely Dan. No explanation really needed.


 Peg                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7NDDQLvbo&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2



 Deacon Blues       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQ5Dg6gdEw&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2



 Do it Again          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8



 FM                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3zWSawJiw



 My Old School     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTueJ__5EQ



 Dirty Work          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrE_cDvcgJg&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2



 Midnight Cruiser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_DyoB4Cjs&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2&index=35



 Hey 19             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_DyoB4Cjs&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2&index=35



 Aja                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2seugAgnU&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2&index=12



Haitian Divorce  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWYchJI0Cv8&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2&index=21



 Reelin' in the
 Years             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPRGfGmCmU&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2&index=2



 Rikki Don't lose
  That Number    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA&list=PLsivMY0UPVaHCDyE9l8EWY7eDv3skDYR2&index=4



 

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band:

https://youtu.be/sRWMwpPlm28

https://youtu.be/n7RopOgsh5c

Wild Root Orchestra ( Vancouver band, early 70s)

https://youtu.be/VbOeU0KyQ-Y

https://youtu.be/DNywDanOkaE

Great vocals.  Smoke from a distant fire.  Sanford Townsend Band.

https://youtu.be/QlczHHBqRFI

Loving Reverend Peyton!

Wow!!  ;D
I also watched clap your hands, what an imagination.

Cover of San Diego Serenade: https://youtu.be/AmbV2DOoAxY

Pinball Prison Blues: https://youtu.be/6bfPwtUTP4k

Puddles has a great voice!  I think everything he sings is a cover.

Speaking of covers...here's a great one of a Van Morrison song....by a Canadian. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScMAUb6gZc

 Another I really like     CHICAGO ........ 25 or 26 to 4...
 Word has it they were working late into the night in the studio , when someone asked what it it was., 25 or 26 to 4 ..was the reply..
 Makes me wonder if the title.. Does anybody  really know what Time it is ?     Was maybe inspired by  that session..

I have a few Chicago tunes on my I Phone.  Peter Cetera was a good singer.

I keep going back to the Beatles when I want to hear good music.  This one is early and was one of the earliest records I know of with guitar fuzz.  It was put into the intro on purpose.  George apparently had bought some new equipment and was experimenting.  But what I really appreciate about this song is the harmony.  Few groups (maybe the Beach Boys) had better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU

   There are many talents from the era before electronic loop, screen, and computer cleaning of a sound. Talent of voice, and gift from above, there are two very notable examples of sheer vocal perfection. While the era, and style of music of these two examples may not be to one's taste, old school love songs, the vocal perfection cannot be denied:

  Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers, "Unchained Melody", 1965
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY

  Karen Carpenter "We've Only Just Begun", 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI

 And as for a classic 'rock and roll voice, there are not many better than this fellow:

 Lou Gramm of Foreigner, "I Want to Know What Love Is" 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pr1_v7hsw

Lou Gramm.  I have this on vinyl.  Most of the stuff I’ve posted I have on vinyl and regularly play in my garage.

https://youtu.be/RIgv_uwKPvE

Justin Johnson

https://youtu.be/JW1KdTC4F2o

Damn!  That's good!

Moody Blues were popular in the 1960's and early 1970's.  Denny Lane was their lead vocalist, and he sings on this song, which I think he also wrote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2L3UzM_FfE

    That's a classic song. I learned something today about Denny Lane. I remember him as the guitar lead/vocal backup for Paul McCartney during Wings.

  Another orchestral classic with later Moody Blues, this one at Royal Albert Hall in London, with Royal London Philharmonic backing, there's just something about 30 violins back a chorus,,,,,,a nice bit of live noise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVnO8s7_e8
 

 

Yes, he played with Wings and sang that song in concerts. 

If you like organ in your songs you'll enjoy this one by Three Dog Night from the early 1970's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA5OdAlSa0U

 Anyone else here wish Doug and his Slugs were still around..
 I wish I could have seen them.. great videos on youtube..

  Yeah I
Love that stuff. 3 Dog Night, good stuff.

Here ya go.

https://youtu.be/fwwPmNWQfIY

Mark Knopfler is probably my favourite rock guitarist.  And Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, All The Roadrunning is probably one of my favourite albums.  

Here’s a live cut:

https://youtu.be/VCSTlTA4iYc

Mark Knopfler live at Goodwood.

https://youtu.be/MEgMtw13s9I

I've always admired Eric Clapton as a guitarist.  (Also as a singer.)  He played on George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", one of my top 5 Beatles tunes.  Ry Cooder is probably my second favourite.  Joe Walsh maybe #3.  (Listen to the guitar duo with Bernie Leadon in the latter part of Hotel California.)  I think all the great guitar players have the same thing in common...they know when to play and when not to play.  The space between the notes is often more important than the notes themselves.  George was a master at that aspect.  Eric, of course as well.

There are a lot of covers of this song.  Here is the Beatles version with George singing and Eric playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEMEAxlYL04

Doug and the Slugs did a lot of bar tours in the late seventies, saw them in Edmonton, I was dancing with some sweetie three feet from Mr. Bennett.   Great evening, lots of fun.

I saw them in 86 I believe.

I was always a George Jones fan for country music.  His songs were true country.  A few years ago he presented an award to Alan Jackson, calling Alan the only remaining true country singer.  I have a few of his songs on my iphone.  This is one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTA2buWlNyM

There's plenty of good country out there, just ignore the "bro country" that gets played on JR FM.

https://youtu.be/6gBV-Nzq7Pg

   
So that's what they call the 'new' country, "bro country'. Frickin' hate it. Give me old original country any day.

  RIP Christopher Plummer:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obEm1Mqm7C0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmt-A2mEyk

Here is some true country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y

Sturgill Simpson isn't Bro country.

Think Luke Bryan, etc.

It doesn't have to be sad, twangy songs about Texas.

I admire George Jones more for his lawn mower driving than his singing.

https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc

Prairie Oyster.  Great Canadian band.  I have this album.

https://youtu.be/2QVaJ-MnZTw

  50 years ago this Wednesday, Roberta Flak's first album, "First Take", reaches Billboard #1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-eO3jTVU&list=PL39sukIbXlyCRej6bjRGilrTz5Hqk4dA8

Maybe you're thinking of Parnelli Jones??

Marvellous voice!

Nope.

No-Show Jones' wife got mad at him for being drunk for a few days straight. She took his car keys so George took his riding mower to the liquor store instead.

He's just carrying on the country and western tradition.

Hank Jr: https://youtu.be/xd0TGfZSACI

Hank Jr. Jr: https://youtu.be/fLkuLcbIJKA

David Allen Coe: https://youtu.be/tScA5iZg81I

Sticking with country, this group was popular in the mid '70's.  They often were accompanied by Jerry Garcia on tours.  This is one of their early tunes about railroad robbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk71pHqCu8

I was never a big deadhead but I liked Dead music and had a couple of their albums.  This song is on my iphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48eW3VL-95g

Heh heh.  I remember in junior high school, in the gym.  Myself and two of my friends, in a line, doing that “truckin” walk down the middle of the floor.  Long hair and bell bottom jeans.  Man, we were groovy.  Or, maybe just goofy.

Yep!  I remember doing it too!

Here's another song for deadheads.  I really like this song.

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

 I remember walking from the Willow Inn bar to the Lounge a few times ... with a bunch of us walking like Egytians..... ROFL.... >:D

I've been known to walk like a drunk Egyptian!

This song really caught me when it first came out on their albumn.  Lowell George was full of the blues....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAOCw72yzII

Or anything Little Feat.

This is a song from perhaps the greatest song writer/composer that ever lived.  I have it on my iphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQEGJ3O96cg&list=PLcHhIX0DDvVpqGYtnpYD6pniqapYPZZwR

   Of course. Astounding. Everlasting.

   Songs that made me think serious thoughts:

   Of course, it was on Burt Sugermans Midnight Special, and mum & dad let us kids stay up late to watch it.

   Live!!:


Seals & Crofts:

Diamond Girl:   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFGNKfiwwI

Summer Breeze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiz-Go0zBrM



Linda Ronstadt, the heaven sent voice:

Your No Good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SOosWH6_M

Long Long Time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1zZ0bSmJAg

 Bee Gees:

 Nights on Broadway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2SDf42guB4


 Jive Talkin':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtAXkgpb7Po

Everyone has that "walking around" song.  Your own little theme song that plays in your head.

Mine: https://youtu.be/Zu9a29UR2dU

My "gonna get a speeding ticket" song: https://youtu.be/ETv_-_jAgYA

Great for marching into Poland: https://youtu.be/Jnn5WtrEdtU

 

  My speeding ticket song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3pR87L-T8&list=PL5wTlIdqbo8YawTO6E_KtSsjsUfIcm9oN

  Something about 1/2 the song being a lead guitar rip, i guess.

Some great music posted!

If you like cello you'll like this.

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

Just about my favourite tune ever, has been for decades, now maybe used too much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1prweT95Mo0

Had these on 8-track

https://youtu.be/ckM51xoTC2U

https://youtu.be/JofwEB9g1zg

https://youtu.be/wZdZKolMIl0

https://youtu.be/DfwsXn5n8HU

I heard Queen is touring again with Adam Lambert singing. 

Ya...pretty hard to follow Freddie.  I really only liked the earlier stuff. 

Lambert has the same range and has a similar clean voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAEzUwN1Yc

He's not Freddie.

They should have just hung it up, sorry.

I agree.

Slash is still awesome and Myles Kennedy sounds better than Axl:
https://youtu.be/ueRm3WgSNRA

Joe Satriani:
https://youtu.be/dyPIyghjEec

Bootsy Collins teaches you to play bass. it's just that easy:
https://youtu.be/dyPIyghjEec

Believe it or not, Brian Adams wrote this:

https://youtu.be/lXJ5r7tbVz4

He only started getting credit for it in the last few years.

I'm sure he got the royalties!

Here is a song from what I call a character singer.  The song is totally within his character and I couldn't imagine him doing something out of character....like a Michael Jackson tune.  So great at what he sang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-w9OclUnns

Joni Mitchel wrote this one:

https://youtu.be/P9uvpr_gm64

Anything by Joni is good in my books, she wrote so much good stuff and a lot of it for other groups.
Frank

One of the cleanest drummers ever: https://youtu.be/u1hnBv12-uk

Seriously, watch the drummer: https://youtu.be/6DVbt5W-DNc?t=39

I went to the same high school as Joni, but she had just left when I started.

Very active!! 

Sunday is church day...a little music from a great gospel singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0ynqr1gwEs

This is a great rock and roll song from an early rock and roller who died unexpectedly in an accident.  No...not that rock and roller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In7z7B87Puc

Last night I watched the Eagles 2004 Australia tour...all of their old music and some songs after their breakup.  This is one by Glenn Frey, who died a couple of years ago.  I didn't realize he had written it until the Eagles played it in the concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZD8HKVKneI

Ya.  Really love that old school rock.

Is the Hell Freezes Over Tour?   I think I have that on DVD somewhere.  I’ll try and find it and give it another spin. 

Ahh.  Found it.  It’s the Farewell Tour DVD I have, live from Melbourne.  Not long after 9-11 as I recall.

Watching it right now.  Fantastic!!!

Yes, it's a fantastic show.  Apparently they are still touring without Glen Frey, using his son as a replacement. 

What do you get when you combine Tennessee Ernie Ford with Jeff Beck and Billy Gibbons?  Check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc

That's cool.

This is amazing!
You can listen to any songs you like on any FM station in the world just by clicking on a green dot.
Some dots in Ireland have great pub songs and the sound quality is very good.

http://radio.garden/visit/county-donegal/IoFwqh5H

We use the Tunein app which lets you choose from a vast list of radio stations. They have both free and paid subscription service. We listen to the British station Radio Caroline every day from dawn to dusk. By far and away the best radio station out there. No play lists, no news, minimal talk.

I use the CBC app to listen to the Kamloops station.  CBC has some really good broadcasting.  "Q" in the late morning, Under the Influence, Because News....these are all good to listen to when I'm in the shop in the morning.

Here's another oldie but a goodie from someone with a magnificent voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik57HLn0Nm0

Another oldie from someone else with a clean voice...and he's still singing just as good today as in the '60's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuWkVqum6a8

There's been a lot of talk over the years about which band was better in the 60's.  Was it the Beach Boys or the Beatles?  I think it was the Beatles, who were unbelievably productive over the short time they were together.  They kept pounding out album after album with each one better then the last.  When John, Paul and George all sang together they had great harmonies.  But when it came to harmonies even the Beatles couldn't match the Beach Boys.  Here is one of their best songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBWI6xrbLY

One thing i have noticed about videos with live performance  from the 60,s and 70,s....
 Often the audience are real knobs... often most are near expressionless   ... and very few appear to be moved by the music. .  ::) ::)

 And more often than not , it's one of the really great bands you would give your left nut to have seen..... and they sit there looking ready to nod off..
And you feel like shouting.., Don't you know WHO you are watching. .... :o

Sounds like you never watched the audience reaction when the Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan!


I loved this band.  Never saw them live but wish I had.  The epitome of rock and roll in the '60's.  This is one of their later songs, but perhaps their best.

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

A relatively hidden gem:

Ten Years After:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKgQATdB6I

   Never get tired of Stevie Winwood. Here with Traffic, 1971, dam,,,,,,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGorIWYz-A

Howard I agree., Alvin Lee was awesome....
   I also thought Terry Kath from Chicago was pretty good to watch as well.. ;D sadly he was gone by 78.
 Alvin Lee died from a complication after I think an operation, about 5 or 6 years back, that wax a real bummer.? :-[

Great songs, especially 10 yrs after.  Going Home was a great song for tripping out on acid............so I'm told. >:D

This group has been around for decades and while breaking up many times, still continues to produce good music.  Terrific harmonies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJug2iz3NA

I really liked Cricklewood Green by Ten Years After when I was a kid.

"Year 3000 Blues" was a little different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xVP2gmqg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xVP2gmqg)

Allman Brothers Band was a favourite too. "Jessica" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRE3Bv1goyI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRE3Bv1goyI)

Allman Brothers!  Great blues!

Two of the finest voices in country music.  Hank Williams and Patsy Cline.  I could listen to either of them all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXYjm74WFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs

If you like an artists tunes do you download them from a site like ITunes so the artist gets paid? Asking for a friend.

Yes.  Always. 

Here's something I enjoyed from a movie.  Stevie Vai and Ralph Macchio.  I always thought it was Ry Cooder in Stevie Vai's place but this proves me wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ

If you like Ry Cooder, which I do, try and track down this little concept album.  I, Flathead. It’s has a California hot ridding theme. Very clever.

Ry Cooder is on my all time top 5 guitarists.  I have a few of his songs on my iphone, including his take on Blue Suede Shoes.

Here is a link to I Flathead.  I haven't heard it.....yet!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIMryN9gmiTmc9QgxwZQv7FWKx8ul4g4Z
 

We saw Ry Cooder, David Lindley, and Joe Ely's bassist (can't remember his name, sorry, bub)  in Vancouver sometime around 1989.   Long time ago, great music.

Here's someone from the distant past.  Nowadays he's known more for his views on guns, but back in the day he was a pretty popular guitarist and singer.  Ted Nugent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47floRRAFs

 Did Lindley  perform Mercury Blues ?   That would  have been cool..

All of my music is vinyl or CD bought and paid for.  I’ve never downloaded anything except what I’ve posted here.  All of my music I listen to while on the go is in my iPod classic, 164 gigabytes of which I’m using about 43.

https://youtu.be/ObyMOKntMG4

I like a lot of the 70's Marshall Tucker material. Who would think a flute would be part of a southern rock band??

I liked them.  I have a couple of their tunes.  Jethro Tull used the flute too.

This is another old timer that I really like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQ

I saw Marshall Tucker Band play m before Steppenwolf , at Sturgis one year.... that was a lot of fun. . 87 or 88 m it was..

Well, since everybody seemed to like Marshall Tucker....here's another Southern band. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1s6rQ3Adc0

    Best Motorcycle Helmets 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHR_7WknJmw

Good morning all!  I hope the "Nobody is going to coffee" meeting is going well.

Here is an offbeat, definitely stoner band that I used to listen to back in the mid '70's.  Many people thought they were the Beatles back together but it wasn't true, although they sound a bit like the Beatles.  They had a song called "Anus of Uranus" but this song was probably their most well known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URM_5R-vWk

Powder Blues Band
https://youtu.be/wtXYjoQlEuE

Downchild Blues Band
https://youtu.be/yL331yPDI-c

Amazing Rhythm Aces
https://youtu.be/aTT-Jmi1nOc

In 1978 I saw Downchild play at the Landmark Inn in Thunder Bay.  At the time I was on a "around the lake" trip on my motorcycle around Lake Superior.  Jane Vasey was their pianist back then but she died of cancer several years after.  I have the "We Deliver" album with Flip Flop and Fly but my favourite song on that album is I've Been a Fool.  I love the line "Here I am down to welfare, and here you are down to farewell."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdsp2J_RUQk&list=PLESnGcUau7sJcqthKhSReNVK5u2xnqtIu&index=17

Atlanta Rhythm Section
https://youtu.be/1ptItUeEpr4


Atlanta Rhythm Section.  
https://youtu.be/pKCjEUbf6O0

https://youtu.be/5MZ3xHFMr40

Poco

https://youtu.be/hg0Iq59pnEw

Rolling Stones

I am so into Atlanta Rhythm Section!

This is a fun version of Buck Owens/Ringo Starr singing "Act Naturally".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHeRq6DdxHE

Here's another song by Buck Owens, this time with Dwight Yoakam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7oUI32E1Y

https://youtu.be/malnd19Ttyk

John Mellancamp

https://youtu.be/XkSmLh2Hbi0

The Cars

This song was a huge hit.  Every time I listen to it I think it's just as fresh today as it was when it was released in the '60's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duPNQCp-w4

This is possibly the greatest rock guitarist ever. 

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

Oh yeah, Jimmy is the best, no doubt. Here is an old video of another guy who plays a mean guitar, Angus Young, with Bon Scott playing an instrument not usually heard on a rock song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULs4JW3tPI

           

That's a super song!  The bagpipes are totally perfect!

This song came from a smash album from the '70's.  Also led to a good-bye saying....don't let your meat loaf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw

Local guy.  Also a great guitar player.   Colin James (actually from Regina).

https://youtu.be/dLqJjaPChwg

Great version!  I really like Van Morrison.  Also Colin James, although I don't have any of his music.  A good Saskatchewan boy.

My song today is what I think is one of Van Morrison's best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2_HahKoe4

For some reason I thought Colin James was from around here.

This is quite different from Colin James.  Roy Orbison, from  lack and White Night.

https://youtu.be/3TSktJeimjE

Here’s another one for Steve.  10cc, from the album 100cc

https://youtu.be/2dTnvhGHDGA

That's  a great tune!  Brings back memories of Star Trek...one of the movies when Zefram Cochrane first meets the Vulcans shortly after the first warp drive test.  He dances to this song.

This is another song with Roy and the rest of the Travelling Wilburys.  Amazing to think that the likes of Bob Dylan and Tom Petty would be background singers.  Roy's crystal clear voice on the chorus is stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4s1KVJaVA

Vinyl. Head East, from Flat as a Pancake.

https://youtu.be/QgD-NwCtvrA

More vinyl.  Kansas.

https://youtu.be/tH2w6Oxx0kQ

Pop.  Got a Juno.  Parachute Club.

https://youtu.be/qNwuB76pBcc

More vinyl.

Elton John

https://youtu.be/VEY2chh_EaI

Outlaws, Green Grass and High Tides.  https://youtu.be/rKbk_dQ8Mhg

The Who, Don’t Get Fooled Again.    https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q

 Could you leave a name, along with the link ?

Ok. I’ll go back and modify some of the recent ones at least.

Lynard Skynard.  Simple Man, from Second Helping.

https://youtu.be/sMmTkKz60W8

Supertramp

https://youtu.be/7fdAFmtq-o8

Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler

https://youtu.be/5wTVLIZaxMk

Ray Charles....one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.  I have a lot of his music on my phone.  This isn't one of his biggest hits but I think it captures his voice as good as any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5LwRinkJ0

https://www.facebook.com/alejo.fuertes.7169/videos/844241446139474

https://youtu.be/qZOGlgVldAs

I remember hearing this song parody as a youngster.  It's a great song but it had a neat twist at the 2 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJflQfNUE8

I could spend days listening to Beatles tunes.  They are probably the greatest band to ever play, despite a relatively short duration of about 10 years together.  Their music and fashion changed society forever.  Their desire to experiment was a great part of what made them successful.  I remember when Sgt Pepper first came out and thinking how little it sounded like the already familiar rock music of Chuck Berry or Roy Orbison or Cliff Richard, who were all popular back then.  But after over 50 years that album still sounds fresh, and everytime I listen to it I hear things that I've never noticed before.   Would you believe Mick Jagger was part of this song, possibly their greatest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFgqm15iYZI

Here is another version with Rod Stewart and Joe Cocker. (and Tony Bennett)

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

This guy has been around for a long while.  Great voice!  Great range.  I heard him interviewed on "Q" on CBC a few months ago.  Seems like a real nice guy.  Comes from Bruce Springsteen's home town.  Listen for the key change around 3:35.  Wish I could go that high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk&list=RDEMwFsYW_I6KW9l_k_U6XwJXQ&start_radio=1

This was a popular song back in the early '70's among the country crowd.  Sung by "The Hag".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5K5l89mpV8

There is a replacement for AC/DC:

https://youtu.be/ku2YavtBEww

Shawn, that was horribly objectifying.  Get with the times, man.  Sheesh! 

It was, I'm sorry.

They shouldn't portray men as being that shallow and superficial. There's more to life than sex, drugs and Rock and Roll.

I'll do better next time.

The lead singer sounded like another well known singer but not from AC/DC.  I couldn't quite figure out who.


I've been an Eric Clapton fan since his Cream days.  This is Cream with one of their classic songs.

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

Lead singer from Accept maybe? The German AC/DC.

Lol...

Anvil is still at it: https://youtu.be/T_y1nkE5Mes

Good Canadian kids...

Shawn, objectification and continual stereotyping is not cool.  SMH

Northern Pikes.  I think they’re from Saskatchewan.

https://youtu.be/UG3ExHB133k

Yes, from Saskatoon.  That tune is on my phone.  Love it!!

The Pursuit of Happiness

https://youtu.be/pFxivmjW34o

Another song in the theme by some band I’ve never heard of.

https://youtu.be/Uid7RrXBY2A

Smokin’ hot...oops was that my outside voice?

https://youtu.be/ZJL4UGSbeFg

Barney Bentall

https://youtu.be/Xm28fLE_iS0

Back in the good old days I was playing a lot of Cream and Traffic, two of my favorite bands. This group is a combo of those two, with Baker, Clapton and Windwood. Made one album before splitting, but to me its a good one and worth listening to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJnA6zEcGk

Emerson Lake and Palmer were another of my go to groups for easy listening. Two of my favorite songs were "In the Beginning" and "Lucky Man". I saw them Live at Wembley back in 74, and at the time it was the best show I had been to. And that includes the Who, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and a bunch of others I can't remember, though that is all my fault. Both Keith Emerson and Gregg Palmer are gone now, and when I listen to one of those tracks I go back to that day in 74. Day after I had to go to the Doctor, apparently music was too loud. Go figure, isn't that what its all about.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5IdH7C7oWY

About 8 yrs ago or so, was working at the shop around 6 or 6 30. On the radio it said first person to the stadium gets two tickets toEmerson Lake and Palmer..... hopped on my bicycle locked the gate, pedaled like mad to stadium and skidded up to the Radio Booth..  it took me like 4 or 6 minutes. >:D.
 Called the wife and she came down just in time.
 It was very good I thought given their ages..  I think they played about 3 to 3.5 hours. .. with one short break I think..
 I was impressed it was great...

Jesse James Dupree from Jackyl?

https://youtu.be/owMijP5ow9I?t=49

No....this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk

This is one of the first songs I ever heard by Aerosmith, back around 1975.  They and the Rolling Stones should hold a contest for the ugliest lead singer.  But man....can those guys sing!  Tyler can still reach the high notes on Dream On.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_lEQoNM70A

I wonder if that was filmed in Neil Peart’s house in Quebec.  He his spent winters there. 

I didn't know that...thought he was a Toronto guy.


Back in 1972 I lived in Hamilton and worked at the Westinghouse major appliance plant located at Aberdeen and Longwood Road.  I made dishwashers, clothes dryers and fridges.  All of the work was assembly line...very routine and very boring.  But it was money to live and money to drink at Paddy Green's pub, right next door.  This song became part of a nightly ritual where I would finish work, drink a couple of draught, eat supper and put on some Pink Floyd.  Just before this song started I would press a little hash between two hot knives and suck as much smoke as I possibly could.  Then lay down and listen.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjgwjh4H7wg

Neil was born in Hamilton.  But for many years he split his home between California, and Quebec where he’d spend the winter snowshoeing and cross country skiing.  And for many years, he’d ride his BMW GS between shows whether in Europe, North or South America.  Hundreds of thousands of miles in total.

He was a great drummer!

I started following this band in the early '70's.  They produced music with sarcasm and humour.  But it wasn't until towards the end of their career that they became better known.  This is one of their better known songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LAs7X5ybE

Pretenders

https://youtu.be/0H6re3PCP3E

Cat Stevens

https://youtu.be/UaTfm4ih1SI

Supertramp

https://youtu.be/7fdAFmtq-o8

I thought Supertramp were pretty good.  I had several of their albums back in the day and I have a couple of their songs on my phone.

These guys were also pretty good.  They broke up in the '60's and got back together in the '90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyrWN-fftE

  It was Everly Bros .... for those that don't want to click on every thing  posted too see if they even want to listen to it...

You spoiled it Frank!  The whole idea is to get people to click.

Commitments

https://youtu.be/w6iSeCTiU88

Good song.  Nice cover but a bit close to the original.

Here are two classically trained cellists doing their version of Highway to Hell.

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

UB40

https://youtu.be/zXt56MB-3vc

Excellent rework of an old Neil Diamond song! 

This group had many singles over about a 10 year period.  This was possibly their greatest hit.  I still listen to their music with awe at how simple it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfyEpmQM7bw

Another oldie that I have on my phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcYuuljrD4

Tom Petty

https://youtu.be/RNdFUXAqhhU

Fleetwood Mac

https://youtu.be/8Z2E37iNV0w

Lynard Skynard

https://youtu.be/sMmTkKz60W8

Southern Culture on The Skids

https://youtu.be/s0mNZe472KM

54-40

https://youtu.be/xTjJFjH4NiI

The Who.  Near the end, best scream in rock n roll.

Studio version;  https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q

Live version;  https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q

54 40  is pretty good, they had a free concert in Waterfront  Park here.
 Lower Mainland  band I think..

They play the Commodore quite often.

Yes,The Who, fantastic live performance. My first concert, back in 68 was Who, and Small Faces, in Auckland. it was small venue, up close and personal kinda thing. Both bands were great, but I liked the Small Faces back then. 5 years later I see the Who again in London, this time in a stadium setting. Absolutely fantastic. Just like the live video Ross posted. Entwhistle just stands off to the side doing his thing. Moon is manic on drums. Daltrey slings the microphone out over the crowd out front of the stage, just pulling it back in before it drops. Townsend climbs up onto the stack of amps behind him, then jumps off smashing down his guitar. All good stuff. The guy that went on before them was very popular back then too, but the Who made us forget about his show real quick. He was Lou Reed. The drummer that replaced Kieth Moon was Kenny Lane of the Small Faces. They kind of imploded after that 68 tour, disbanded soon after. Too bad, they were a talented group, but couldn’t get along.

Sugar Hill Gang cover: https://youtu.be/VEMWyBWw0cA

Borkem Yorkem Sorkem!!

Mink deVille.....this is a medley of their hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kTKLkC6T4

Unknown Hinson:

https://youtu.be/QYqRcJKhNiE

https://youtu.be/-cOtRoWkhWY

Steel Panther: https://youtu.be/bzUPG8olnO0

Not safe for work.

This song is from the '70's by a group called Mountain.  Some sweet guitar in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbP4qf8PjfI

Shawn, you make me laugh

Hah, Mountain is a name I recognise from long ago. I roadied for them while they did a series of concerts in Montreal and remember one concert where they hit their first chord in that song to start the show and blew the breaker for power on stage. They had a mountain of amps and they really sucked power so we had to rush around with power chords and find plug-ins all over the auditorium to spread the load. They got back to playing in about 5-10 minutes and it was a damn fine concert.
Frank

The Aqua Velvets, Guitar Noir: https://youtu.be/EXcypmhnbL8

Mojo Nixon, UFO's, Big Rigs and BBQ: https://youtu.be/7I8pC_DOXC4

The Beat Farmers, Baby's all liquored up: https://youtu.be/jhu9N3iC11c  Country Dick Montana died on stage in Pemberton. Massive heart attack.

Hank III (Hank Williams Jr, Jr), Pills I took: https://youtu.be/fLkuLcbIJKA

Hayes Carll, She left me for ( The man formerly known as JC ): https://youtu.be/T5D6dUhkoWc

Paul Thorn, It's a great day to whoop somebody's ass: https://youtu.be/iPM1ifkOQ9s

Paul Thorn, I guess I'll just stay married: https://youtu.be/6zLy7tJxrUk

Ray Wylie Hubbard, Snake farm: https://youtu.be/Qgy7PLAgF-Y One of my all-time favourite artists.

This song by the Fugs comes from the late '60's.  It used to be our party song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPDzNO6GQk

Another one by the Fugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arzzNzv9k_I

That was funny! Apparently, the 'artists' were really The Salty Seamen from Victoria.  ;D

Warren Zevon (Werewolves of London) was a brilliant composer and musician back in the '70's to 90's.  After a sparkling beginning to his career he fell into drugs and almost died.  His bookings dried up, and he eventually cleaned himself up and resumed his career, but then he contracted cancer and eventually died.  He wrote songs for a lot of other musicians, particularly Linda Ronstadt, who was instrumental in his recovery from alcohol and drugs.  This song (Not werewolves of London) is a humorous take on getting your S#*t together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbhYqV17CoQ

This song was written and sung by a Nobel prize winner. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0

Corn Lund

https://youtu.be/2nk8-MqnHlw

There...fixed it for you Ross!

This song is only two minutes long but his stage movement made the whole world sit up and notice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is

This guy topped the country charts for about 3 decades until he had a stroke that forced him to retire.  His voice was very smooth.

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

Van Morrison

https://youtu.be/Lc9J96f4cDk

I love Van the Man!  But I don't have that song...will have to add it to my phone.

I think Brown Eyed Girl and Wild Night are among the best arranged songs ever. 

Here is the one that gave Van some exposure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RI-QtEAwvE

The Five Man Electrical Band

https://youtu.be/c9lh7lqZojc

Three Dog Night

https://youtu.be/8oiXpHojBjg

I took this photo last summer in a Deadwood hotel. 

This song by a great '70's band was dedicated to a WWE wrestler called Mr Perfect.  I watched him wrestle back in the '80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRVPLPFoJL0

Poco.

https://youtu.be/cbiKVjMsDgA

Base players of the Eagles were formerly base players for Poco.

And vice versa.

Velvet Underground....one of the first underground bands.  They were good but not as good as they thought they were.  This song is called Sister Rae.  We would listen to this while stoned. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53F5nY68cBM

Yo-Yo Ma is considered by most people to be a classical musician.  A cello master.  But he is an all round musician, having played with many popular artists.  In this song he accompanies James Taylor on George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun."  Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgO7BqAeeYk

Here is a great blues guitarist and singer...one of the best.  Like many other great musicians he's no longer with us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vo23H9J8o8

Paul Simon has had a very long career exploring different musical styles, beginning with  folk in the sixties to African to South American in the '70's 80's and 90's.  He is definitely not afraid to experiment by mixing and matching different groups and types.  This song is one of his most popular, with a tinge of Africa and South America along with a solid back beat aka rock and roll.  Totally different from his Mrs Robinson days with Art Garfunkel.  

This is a live version.  It doesn't have studio version vocals but it captures the excitement of a huge audience.  Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS-sE9xCb-g

I think this is actually better than the original:
https://youtu.be/GQVTtpE9J7s

Ya, that was freakin' awesome!

Yes, great version.  

This one may be the grandaddy of hard rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo

Neil Young

From Ragged Glory.  Left his acoustic guitar at home for that album.

https://youtu.be/p1BNV3TCkvg

This is one of the finest guitar players ever.  A great singer as well, but on this song he only plays.  Sadly he died not too long ago with dementia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPJRR74a9xE

Followed by two of the finest guitar players ever....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kbgjsuCec

Glen Campbell plays guitar better than I can breathe. Huge talent gone...

Amen to that!

Here's another Glen who left early.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TToLgW7zuc

John Fogerty cover of Garden Party

https://youtu.be/3Fca2OlJyws

I really like the Ricky Nelson original but this is just as good.  The steel guitar makes is just a little more laid back than the original.

Crash Test Dummies

https://youtu.be/SWh0FTmbVmc

I really like that one.  Love the mandolin.

This was a popular song in the '60's.  The repeated pounding guitar riff sends shivers up my spine. Ray Davies and the Kinks.  Another British invasion group.

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

 The KINKS have some great songs...... How about Sunny Afternoon.. I like that but it has some lyrics you cant sing out loud with the Wife  within earshot...lol..

Eric Clapton

https://youtu.be/xZCddJVvljk

There isn't a style that Eric hasn't played and played well but I think blues is where he's done his best work.

Here he is with BB King.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufOjUz4uMrQ

Time for some soul  music from one of the sweetest voices of the '60's.

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

Sam Cooke is better known for "A Change is Going to Come" but I like this song much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrwfB4aAZZc

Bare naked Ladies.  I really like their version.

https://youtu.be/l96JN2FhkSo

Another ARS

https://youtu.be/2cre_MksLsA

I never get tired of ARS.

Here's an old rocker.  I saw him back in the early '70's.  Very high energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVbr37_yPeY

Mike Mitchell, lead guitarist for this iconic song passed away today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EqzTiDc-1k

Men at work

https://youtu.be/1j9DfYtJkgk

Queen

https://youtu.be/LnDwBrm_jsY

R.I.P. Ronnie Montrose:
https://youtu.be/9MWbye5TZ2c

Diamond Head, Am I Evil:

https://youtu.be/WlfS-oakUxM

Intro to the song is Mars, Bringer of War by Holst

Doctor and the Medics cover Spirit in the Sky:

https://youtu.be/q-KFQ8nsNFw

I've seen some of Lexi Belle's -other- videos and I'm pretty sure I'm headed for an eternity of fire and poking.

Rammstein, Rammvier:

https://youtu.be/Jnn5WtrEdtU

Till sings the set list and makes it sound good.

Haifisch:

https://youtu.be/GukNjYQZW8s

KMFDM

Hau Ruck: https://youtu.be/1c1lT_HgJNo

Megalomaniac: https://youtu.be/fvZqWq0ZNjk

Unfit: https://youtu.be/FnogIPb7l-Y

Mini Mini Mini: https://youtu.be/D9AmQ1Ie7Bk

It was this or grunge music in the 90's and I didn't like wearing flannel, smelling bad and staring at my shoes at parties.

Last one tonight

We're an American Band cover: https://youtu.be/Wzlky9Klu4I

This was the song that started the rock and roll revolution.

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

This was a great song from a great country singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6fW66IUY4

This song is in honour of Stan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bG-YExMIA

Carol King

https://youtu.be/ANsKjjyfeOo

Magnificent album!  Around 1972 I think.  It brings back memories of visiting Niagara Falls in the winter and driving back on the QEW.  It was on that stretch that Tim Horton crashed his corvette trying to beat the team bus back to Toronto. 

Around that time I was heavy into folk music.  This guy visited Toronto (Yorkville) back when it was just becoming fashionable.  I want to see him and began following his music.  This is not a song from that era but it's timely for us old gumps.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tom+rush

Funny, I've been on a bit of a Scott Walker kick lately and liked his cover of this Tom Rush tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sptQj1MPIwg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sptQj1MPIwg)

Man that guy had a low voice!  Loved the song Glenn.

Here is one that was redone a couple of years ago but I still prefer the original from 1928.  I remember hearing this song on my parent's radio back as a child. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3L2qf3q-ok

This group knocked the Beatles out of #1 spot back in 1964.  They were very tight together and had a powerful drummer.

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

This lady had one of the purest singing voices of all time.  Tragically she died in a plane crash in the 1960's.  This was one of her greatest hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs

A great blues singer from the '60's.  He also did a marvellous version of Sugar Sugar, by the Archies.  But this one is vintage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1FRrZD2y9Y

Given there is only one day left to file your taxes I thought this song was appropriate.  The story I heard is that George Harrison received a cheque for a million pounds but only received 50 thousand, which the rest went to tax.  So he wrote the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zaebtU-CA

These guys have been around since the early 1960's and still tour today, although they cancelled their last tour due to covid.  I remember high school dances where the bands played this song and everyone would be up dancing.  It's perhaps their greatest tune, among many hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0

For you blues lovers, here's a song featuring Taj Mahal playing Statesboro Blues.  The slide guitar is none other than Ry Cooder, who in my view ranks up there with Hendrix, Clapton and Jeff Beck as one of the greatest guitar players ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXBqJZbmR8Y

Much agreed on Ry Cooder being outstanding....saw him a couple of times in Vancouver.

Saw Taj Mahal in the Trail Arena in the winter of 1971.....freezing cold in the arena (pre heaters for the hockey fans), and Taj Mahal had a bad cold, but he soldiered on, did simple songs with no loud or higher register parts.....memorable.

I have seen Ry a few times and always fantastic. Taj Mahal was a really good show “ Got de blues so bad one time, put my face in a permanent frown....” like that line and can be caught singing this out at the top of my lungs. Met him briefly after a show in Vancouver such a fine man.
Frank

From one of the best ever guitar players to one of the best ever trumpet players.  He had a voice like he was singing with a squirrel running up and down his throat.  But could he ever play!  I remember him as a regular on the Ed Sullivan show.  Always smiling and always full of music!  Better known for Hello Dolly or What a Wonderful World, but I like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IJzYAda1wA

This guy was a very good jazzy folk singer back in the day.  Also an extremely good guitar player and composer.

This song is about motorcycles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5V0RkCIaXo

Another group from the '60's with great harmonies.  The phrase "It ain't over til the fat lady sings" seems appropriate, as she had an amazingly clear tone.  Their songwriter was capable of amazing lines, although ultimately his lines became white powder on a table.

There are many hits to choose from, but this one is my favourite.

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

This song is probably classified as a country song, or maybe a folk song.  It's by someone who wasn't well known, at least not here in BC.  He was a Newfoundlander, a poet and a great song composer and singer.  This is perhaps his best known song, and of course it's about the sea, but not from the perspective of a sailor.  It's from the perspective of his family..his wife and child.  For me it exudes great empathy for a lonely woman whose husband is away fishing, and whose only son wants to follow in his Dad's footsteps.  Unfortunately Ron Hynes died several years ago of cancer.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi_S8uAiosQ

Back to the blues....although this guy probably wasn't considered a blues singer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Aw3ZnqQrY

Another great guitar player....maybe the best ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxR-vk0lelw

I like the backbeat in this song by the Standells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8

Another oldie but a goodie, played by the same group but about 50 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDye3rNXLk

I've always been a fan of Glenn Miller.  Here is one of his greatest songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CI-0E_jses

Running on MT today.  This one is from the late 1960's.  I don't have it on my phone....a bit too long for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4

Good one, one of my all time favourites. Never seen the video before, and it is too long in the LP format, but that didn't deter me from cranking it up when mom wasn't around. I have the 3 minute version on my phone, good enough for me these days.

I remember listening to the album back in high school.  Did not know there was a short version.  Will have to look for it in Itunes.

Speaking of running on MT...Jackson Browne is a great song writer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKnnh8VDULs

And a bonus song today....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48eW3VL-95g

This is a Beatles song from their early days but it's done by James Taylor.  There was a relationship between Taylor and the Beatles over the years...not sure why.  Taylor covered a lot of their songs but I think this is one of the best covers of this song.  Great back beat.

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

When I watched that clip, I did like his version, but couldn't help but think of "Two Lane Blacktop". Taylor and one of the Beach Boys brothers driving across the States in an old Chevy. Great movie in its day, but like so many from back then doesn't seem to hold up well to todays standards.

It's like Vanishing Point or Easy Rider.

You need the proper chemical assistance for it to be a decent movie.

At least Two-Lane Blacktop had a good soundtrack.

Jackson Brown.

This was recorded on a bus.  If you listen you can hear the engine.  Base drum was a cardboard box with a foot pedal.  From the album Running on Empty.

https://youtu.be/D8PLiDDlxCM

Beat is played on a filing cabinet in the studio in this one:

https://youtu.be/-tJYN-eG1zk

Billy Duffy is a fantastic guitar player who doesn't get enough credit:

https://youtu.be/cPc-FLdw9uk

The Band had a unique musical style, not seen before they appeared and not seen since.  Part of their appeal was Levon Helm's singing.  He had a Southern voice that expressed emotions in every piece he sang.  Here's one of the Band's best, and Levon's too.

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

That was great! Thanks.

I heard the other day that Aaron Neville is retiring from touring.  Too bad!  What a terrific voice!  Here he is singing a duet with another terrific voice.  I don't know that they go well together but individually.....can't find any better male or female singers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxE5gBucU54

This band put out a lot of songs in the 70's.  I have most of them on my phone because they're good running songs.  But this one....listen to the harmonys'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QqMKe3rwY

Ray Charles!  What can anyone say? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkP4-hAbYNg

I've been listening to some covers lately. Liked this one by a herring-choker covering a Boss tune.  8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edjh2sJvxc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edjh2sJvxc)

Great song!  When you look at the size of his paws on that narrow neck you have to wonder why he never gave up on guitar.

I listened to this song a few weeks ago.  Did not realize it was Paul McCartney.  Apparently he wrote it as a tribute to his time there with his wife Linda.  If you like bagpipes this is a song for you.  Personally I think it's the same sound you get from bricking a cat's testicles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrbuDWit1Co

The early '70's was a period where good bands were breaking up with band members finding other good band members and forming super groups.  CSN&Y was one....a damn fine one.  Their harmonies were hard to beat.  I think Graham Nash, formerly the lead singer of the Hollies fit in perfectly with Crosby and Stills.  Young came after and couldn't seem to get along with Stills, with whom he had worked in Buffalo Springfield. 

This is one of CSN&Y's best harmonies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJug2iz3NA

He started the revolution back in 1954 with this hit combining gospel and blues along with a set of swivel hips.  There was nobody like him and there probably never will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmopYuF4BzY

Officially a Beatles tune but it was written and sung by George.  Frank Sinatra covered it and was heard to say "That Lennon & McCartney are great songwriters!"

When I listen to the words I can hear George's passion for his lover, especially in the bridge.

Perhaps the best song on Abbey Road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ3Vh8jZFdE

 A singer turned 80 today.  Seems like yesterday he was singing protest songs with Joan Baez at Newport.  Then he discovered electricity and put together a group that eventually went out on their own as The Band.  Decades later he's still touring and singing, but this one probably defines an entire generation that eventually changed the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE

I've been listening a lot to the Beatles since covid began.  Just beginning to realize how incredibly creative they were.  This song was supposedly written in response to someone who told Paul that the Who sang the wildest songs.  And Paul said...we can do that too.  The result was Helter Skelter, probably the first acid rock song ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo

This was so cool!  During the recording of their Let it Be album they moved the recording equipment up to the roof of the studio and played while people walked by below wondering what the hell was going on?  It was their last album and this was the last song on the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eanMXOq4nYQ

It was possibly the best album ever made.  It changed the direction of rock music for everyone who came after.  I remember everyone in high school singing along with "Billy Shears" in the intro.  Great stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXl8xAPAtA&list=RDVtXl8xAPAtA&start_radio=1&rv=VtXl8xAPAtA&t=122

Some of you may remember the name Jon Kay, whose real name was Joachim Krauledat.  He sang in a Canadian band called the Sparrows, who I think I remember from the mid 60's.  They eventually became Steppenwolf, putting out a half dozen powerful hits in the late 60s.  This is one of them...a great biker song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLhpXUtxS1c

If you like the blues you'll like this song.  It's a song about people struggling to adjust after New Orleans flooded back in 1927.  The first link is the original song played by Memphis Minnie and sung by Kansas Joe McCoy.  The second link is an updated version by a well known '70's band.  This one is lengthy, with no singing until about 4 minutes in.  I really like the rhythm in both versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5VmVvsjyKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiTs60VoTM

Marvin Gaye had the smoothest silkiest male voice I've ever heard.  But before Marvin there was Smokey, a singer who was almost as smooth and silky.  This song featuring his smoothness comes from the '60s. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9cWgkpIZ4

Denny Laine played and sang for Moody Blues back in the 60's and 70's.  Then he moved over to Paul McCartney and Wings.  This was his signature song with both bands but in this one he's singing with Wings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMee_r95Nfs

https://youtu.be/iFq6eZBS1iM

A classic.

It is indeed!

I stumbled on this gem today.  JJ Cale.  I haven't heard his music for years.  You have to be good when Eric is your rhythm guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WUeOEkl270

You can't discuss music in the '80's without including Michael Jackson.  To my mind he was the most popular and influential pop musician of the last century.  But of all his songs this one I think is one of his best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NYDgbKsBE

I won't dispute the talent but I cannot STAND the grunts he adds between lyric lines.

I knew this one would get a rise out of people!

This guy has been around for a while.  He was a founder of ELO, which I didn't know until recently.  I became aware of him because he was part of the Travelling Wilburys, along with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison.  He's now doing a lot of producing and is highly respected for his work.  His name is Jeff Lynne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nubi_xJJ1Jg

This one is a classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-scYWytfs

George Jones once said that Alan Jackson was the last true country singer.  What he meant was that Jackson's songs were closer to country roots than others.  George himself was the epitome of country...with songs about lost love, heavy drinking and dead dogs.  He died in 2013 after a long and successful singing career.  Here is Alan singing one of George's lost love songs at George's funeral. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEB9Qyiu4g

George was married to Tammy Wynette, a terrific country singer herself.  Their marriage only lasted a few years but they continued to sing together long afterwards.  This song I think epitomizes their marriage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9KniULwvjE

This song is on my iphone.  I've always liked Allen Toussaint.  Never saw him in person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEuQer3Vck

BB King was a country music fan.  Here he is, playing a country tune with George Jones. 

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

A song from Woodstock....a Beatles tune off Sargeant Pepper, sung by Joe Cocker. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLyK2DVVUU

Woodstock was a most incredible gathering of almost all of the rock musicians of the day.  Here is another beaut from a guy who is still playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPauXWjY4T8

The Beatles didn't attend Woodstock (They stopped touring in 1966) but their music was played by several attendees, including Joe Cocker mentioned earlier.  Ritchie Haven's played several Beatles tunes.  Here's one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357gZV2Nfsk

Another great band singing at Woodstock.  Gotta admire a drummer who sings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64JdzV4_rDI

Enough Woodstock for now.  This guy's been around forever.  Here he is singing about touring and making music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN86y30Ufc

Love that song.

A friend in Edmonton, who usually hosted a party every Friday night, with several sleep-over-victims, including your humble scribe, would always start Saturday morning by putting this song on the stereo.   Nobody woke up grumpy.   Good memories.   I must have had hair at that time.

There was a period in the '70's when I was into that kind of music.  

Here's another old timer, but I think he's only singing in heaven  nowadays.  Was married to Jessie Coulter, another fine singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skh-Bv_vVC8

Might as well do another outlaw!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJI1N61grmc

This group was one of my favourites back in the '60's.  The Fugs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWz75MYteX0

This guy is an unsung guitarist and also a great singer.  He has played in many big groups and never stood out but always shone.  In this song he shows both his guitar skills and his harmony singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-dox_82U0E

Tom Petty is an under rated singer/songwriter.  Originally from Florida he moved to LA with the optimism that he would become a successful rock band.  And he did.  He didn't seem to care about playing second fiddle to other groups, including Bob Dylan with whom he toured for several years.  He was also a member of the Wilburys, along with Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison...all better known than Petty.  Tom just wanted to perform and entertain, which he did virtually to his last day on earth.  Here is his title song from one of his albums.  It was a bit of a switch from his early music but highly successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8vBDk880k

I was listening to Taj Mahal yesterday.  I have his version of Sugar Pie Honey Bunch on my phone, a song made popular by the Four Tops.  What attracts me to this version is its reggae beat that refreshes a song I used to hear so much in my yout.  But when I went to Youtube I found his version of Statesboro Blues, with one of my favourite guitarists, Ry Cooder.  I thought it was worth a listen so today I have two tunes for your pleasure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quzJsqSNYVA&list=RDquzJsqSNYVA&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXBqJZbmR8Y

Today is the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell's album titled "Blue".  People call it one of the best albums ever and technically it may well be.  I love Joni's voice but was never enamoured by her look, which I reminds me of someone with an eating disorder.  Graham Nash was in love with her but she wanted to focus on career so we never got to hear their marvellous voices harmonize.  Joni went to the same high school that I went to, although she was there several years before me.

As a tribute to Blue here is one of her best songs in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_r4fsSjqqU&list=PLgM01DaiiTCmqh24U69Xwi3KeXpYRLx7B&index=2

Well, we are agreed on these three as they are all amazing to me. Exceptional musicians and performers.
Frank

Yesterday was my parents' wedding anniversary.  They were married in 1946 and remained married until my mother died in January 2012.  I played this song a few times during the day.  She loved this song and ordered it up at her funeral as the ceremony ended and we were walking her ashes out the door.  The band was popular back in the '70's.  I first heard them while I was up in Greenland.  All the Danes thought they were the greatest but I wasn't impressed by a bunch of European singers.  But what did I know?  I was the one who in 1968 said that the newly introduced McDonalds would be a failure in Saskatoon because they didn't serve you at your car like A&W.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxBbX9IdA2Y

This guy has been singing forever.  He is truly an entertainer for the people.  I can't think of anyone who shows his love of entertaining any more than him.  Here he is singing Volcano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbzIVR1OaAY

I've heard a lot of versions of this song but the King does it best I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM

I'm reaching the point where I don't know if I've posted a particular song already.  In this case it's Helter Skelter, by the Beatles.  It gained notoriety because of Charles Manson and his followers who used it as their mantra.  But actually, it was a simple song about a carnival ride called Helter Skelter that Paul had seen.  What I like about it is the incredible energy the song portrays, the rawness of it and the throbbing pounding druming and bass guitar.  And then George, using his marvellous talent to know when to play and when not to play.  All in all a great song, one of the first high energy rock songs of my generation.  Wait for Ringo's complaint at the very end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWW2SzoAXMo

Another talented young man, transcending genres as he redefines them: https://youtu.be/xLnapb-30hA

 Who is CNR....in last song posted..?

Charles Nelson Reilly

I've always loved Al's parodies.

I've never truly gotten into the Allman Brothers Band but this song has always rung my bell. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ9twEldw_M

Check out the live acoustic version of "Melissa" by the Allman brothers band. Dickie Betts making an acoustic guitar almost speak. One of my favorites. It's got about 10 million views.

Three Dog Night was a popular band in the '70's.  I've got a half dozen of their songs on my iphone and I could probably double that number easily with songs that everybody knows.  This is one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6qw_yeo6o

When I first heard this lady I thought it was Dolly Parton.  Very similar sounding voice.  But no...It was Alison Krauss, with marvellous clear tone and terrific lyrics.  This is one of her finest songs I think.  Listen carefully to the words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCOimBo5tg

Keith Whitley song originally.

When I was very young, maybe 4 or 5, this song was a hit forr Tennessee Ernie Ford.  Who would have thought it would be a rock song sung by Jeff Beck and ZZ Top??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc

The Doors were one of the greatest blues bands of the late 60's and early '70's.  They consisted of keyboards, lead guitar and drums.  And Jim Morrison sang.  Notice there was no bass guitar.  Morrison was a marvellous blues singer but he was at best unstable, prone to abusing himself with anything that came along.  Eventually he died of a drug overdose at age 27, which by coincidence was the same age that Janis Joplin and Jimmi Hendrix died.  After Morrison died it was obvious the band couldn't continue.  Jim was irreplaceable.

Everyone remembers Light my Fire, a 1967 song that made the Doors a household name but I like this later song better.  I think it shows Jim's voice to its best effect.

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

Speaking of Jim Morrison...

Good Canadian kids and they put on an incredible live show. Saw them at The Commodore:

https://youtu.be/_GqwHJ7gqr8

Yeah, that guy sounds a little like Jim, and the band includes drums, keyboards and guitar. 

I may have posted Amazing Rhythm Aces before but I can't really remember.  In any case they were a great country rock group from the '70's and early '80's.  In this song they do a great interpretation of Van Morrison's Wild Night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVoIT5eO0kA

This is another good '70's band.  It's unusual because they are all white but singing a Motown style.  And the lead singer is also the drummer.  The only other  drummers I've seen do that are Levon Helm and Don Henley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ngwmf4Sz84&t=184s

Phil Collins.

Ringo Starr

I'll agree about Phil but Ringo wasn't a lead singer. 

This was a high energy band from the 60's.  The song is a great one if you're a runner reaching the final mile of a marathon where you need all the energy you can muster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVbr37_yPeY

did his own solo stuff afterward.

You mean Thomas The Tank Engine? ;D

His later stuff (after the beatles) was done in studio with multi tracks.  Drum on one track, sing on another.  Even later he was (and is) well known for his all starr bands, with many many other fine musicians including drummers.  Those bands were mostly live touring ones where each musician sang his/her own hits and the rest of the band played along.

Staying with Detroit and high energy music....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwXHDs1R6Y

Still staying with Detroit, but changing up the musical style....still married after all these years.  I love her voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnl7myr-fIM

Neal Peart passed away a few months ago...unexpectedly.  He was a fine drummer in a fine band.  Here they are....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsXhH93QAs

Ok had to listen  to some..,Zydeco  music....... man that is good stuff..

Jethro Tull

https://youtu.be/loYi7gRrN0Y

Powder Blues
https://youtu.be/FGuQ7c45vdQ

Joni Mitchell

https://youtu.be/V9VoLCO-d6U

Eagles

https://youtu.be/SoduRTF9J-o

Colin James

https://youtu.be/8LLIm1HjWms

38 Special

https://youtu.be/lP3SFDqjw-E

Trooper

https://youtu.be/WoKsXQ23Kxw

Tom Petty. RIP.

https://youtu.be/WoKsXQ23Kxw

Too much….wine?  Uh uh…not enough supervision.

Great music!  Here is Buckwheat Zydeco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIsSgO-QYzA

Every now and then a bit of Zydeco is quite alright!  8)

Sonny Landreth - Zydeco Shuffle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdpJuX1gDE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pdpJuX1gDE)

That's amazing slide guitar!  I would call it slideco.

Time for some gospel.  Mavis Staples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0ynqr1gwEs

I'm definitely not even vaguely religious, but I love gospel music, especially Southern Baptist style.

Then again, I like church architecture.

Seems like burning churches is all the rage these days.

This song was on the hit parade when I was in grade 9.  The band had a couple of hits, then faded, then had a couple more hits. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc0x7xOap4I

Another song from the '60's.  It was made famous by The Archies.  Who would have thunk Wilson Pickett would do it?  Reggae style?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnylZ8f4hNk

That was awesome. 

I can't recall if I've already posted this one but if I have, I apologize.  It's some great insight into how we all feel sometimes.  You may remember Warren Zevon from Werewolves of London.  He was a talented songwriter who wrote for many other musicians as well as for himself.  Unfortunately he died of cancer at far too young an age. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0ahDKR0QU

Warren was a hockey fan.  He wrote a song about it.  Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUb0C0iI_GE

This guy's been around for a long long time.  This song was one of the first that I remember hearing back around 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQTxXLwySY

That song rings in my memory for the winter I went to art school in Nelson.

Art school?  Tell us more!

This band was hot in the late '70's and early '80's.  This is probably their best known song but only one of many. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

Fleetwood Mac was a pretty good group in the '70's.  This song brings me back to those days when I hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybgWaQy7_c

I'm dating myself a bit but I remember listening to this song coming from a 4' tall cabinet radio powered by big  dry cell batteries.

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

Oh yeah!  I remember being six years old, travelling 25 miles to school on a bus and listening to a teenager on the bus singing that song!

This was another song he sang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEzfhclKO8Q

Like many of my fellow students at the time, we were studying art so that we could learn to draw welfare.

I liked Fleetwood Mac prior to Buckingham and Nicks joining them, and contributing to a pop sound, rather than the original Blues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNoBX9jLttk

I agree with that, They became a pop group, a very good one too. My favourite Mac songs came around 69 or so.” Albatross “and then “Oh Well”. Not for everyone, but very much in the British Blues style of the day. Peter Green, lead guitar and writer of the early stuff recently passed. I think Buckingham May have replaced him at some time. Can’t figure how to attach tube video with my iPad.

   Lindsay Buckingham guitar solo "Big Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdw4SB7ilhE

In the late 60s I bought an album called Piper At The Gates of Dawn, by Pink FLoyd.  I didn't like it.  But when Dark Side of the Moon came out a couple of years later I bought it and loved it.  It's probably one of the top 5 albums of the 70's.  I used to do a little hash back then...some stuff I picked up at Rochdale College, a wannabe hippy university in Toronto.  I would hot knife a chunk and then put this song on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds

This guy is probably the best male singer ever.  Was at the top of his game right into his '80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1QF3uoQNg

I like how simple the melody is in this song.  I think it captures the essence of who this person truly was.  A simple man with a simple message.

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

In the mid-eighties, my wife was working for Woodwards, in New West, and the company had a bunch of Sinatra tickets for employees.  Betty asked if I wanted to go, but I said, Phhhh, who'd want to see Frank Sinatra....now, with the fullness of time, it's one of my biggest regrets.

This is another '60s/70's band.  Not your normal rock group.  Maybe a little more sophisticated sound.  This song is a great one if you're a runner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CFFCfHDUU

I wasn't much of a Frank fan for most of my life.  It was only after he was dead that I started listening to his work and realized why he was such a force in the business.  Man what a voice!

Speaking of good running songs...this is a real good one.  The band is still performing...will be going out on tour this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3dFpQzu54w

This is not a good running song.  But it IS a good song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqkGxZ1_8I

   Good Morning!!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZAsfB1Np-8

Good pick but when you said Good Morning I immediately thought of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3O23zqqaE

This was one of several songs by this group from the '70s.

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

Another one from my misspent youth.
Canadian music at its finest. ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9HKb_bYS0

Soundcloud was the only place I could find this.  ;D

If you haven't been to Spuzzum you ain't been anywhere!

https://soundcloud.com/user-889571927-880496849/6-cylinder-beyond-hope (https://soundcloud.com/user-889571927-880496849/6-cylinder-beyond-hope)

Really good stuff Glenn.  I like your musical taste. ;D

This guy is another incredibly talented song writer and singer.  I could pick a half dozen songs of his that you would know well, but this one was the one that I thought best brought out his poetic ability to transmit singing into emotion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCteGIv9nSQ

If you like brass that is not Canadian, the Qatar Philharmonic Brass does a nice job with the Theme from Peter Gunn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIKSQT-oXfc

Kind of interesting how they start with two musicians and then the rest saunter onstage.

This is an interesting song, sung by the Rolling Stones and by the Beatles.  It was written by Paul McCartney and given to the Rolling Stones to record.  Then the Beatles recorded it.  Both are great versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTtP6j-oyg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH57qP1fVYs

This is a great party song from the 60's!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv8AGqR-nco

   Phil Collins. Live at Montreaux. I really would have liked to have been there that night. Supreme power!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQm3oOrNas

This is great music!  Two fantastic singers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzDUi_L6MzA

   Glen Campbell. The dude could run a great guitar rip very well. Here he is with Steve Warner:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RmED_0vokU

Hell yeah!  Possibly the best in the world at one time.  Here he is playing Spanish Gas.....listen to him ad lib about 2/3 of the way through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPJRR74a9xE

Mason Williams

  Yup

   Another guitar genius, Roy Clark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8

Jimi could play guitar pretty well too.  And left handed.

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

This guy was a founder of ELO, a band that had numerous hits back in the '70's/80's.  He struck up a friendship with George Harrison and produced several of George's albums, moving on to a new career producing many albums for many groups over the years..  He was part of the Travelling Wilburys, along with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison and Tom Petty, a group that put out several successful albums before Roy died and the group stopped recording.  This song is probably the most popular one from his ELO days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-koBbmz9b1g

  1970's group harmonizing. Yup, the Hollies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duPNQCp-w4

That song brings back a lot of teenage memories!  Graham Nash went on to sing more harmony with CSN&Y. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJug2iz3NA

Frank Zappa has been described as a musical genius but I had a really hard time getting into his music.  Back in the 60's I had a copy of Freak Out, an album by the Mothers of Invention.  It was very unconventional...not even good stoner music.  Except for this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girnJH7tvpM

Talking Heads were big in the '80's.  Probably their most well known song is this one,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8

but today I think this one is more appropriate for us folks in the interior.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U

Aaaah, Frank Zappa, a definite musical occurrence.  I saw him I can’t remember how many times, some of those times were pretty legitimately hard to recall. I was one of many who funded the latest documentary on him and have a long appreciation of his music. Not for everyone I agree but I like it.  Positive from me on the Talking Heads another tremendous band.
Was in Vancouver overnight but my wife called me up as we are on alert so I doubled back home this morning. 7 hours on the road but back at least.
Frank

This has to be one of the top rock songs ever recorded.  In a time when songs were 3 minutes long, with two verses, a bridge and a final verse...this one broke all the rules. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4

That one is a winner

Yep!  This one too.  This one is a high energy song, one of the traits that attracted young people to rock and roll in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2atkj_KWLl0

Slowing things down a bit.  Here's an oldie but a goodie.  We danced to this in high school back in the '60's.  Love them horns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-usrZxGns

In the 1960's and '70's there was a disc jockey by the name of Wolfman Jack.  He was listened to across the entire US from a high powered station in Mexico.  He was so well known that he was included in American Grafitti as a disc jockey.  The Guess Who wrote a tribute to Wolfman Jack and this is my song of the day.

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

Love the bass line, and vocals.

Not many bands have a PhD physicist as a lead guitarist, and who made his own guitar at the age of 16.  Brian May has played for Queen since their inception and continues to play with Adam Lambert as their lead singer. He ranks with the best lead guitarists for raw energy and innovation.  Listen to him in this early Queen song.

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

Ron Hynes was a fine singer/songwriter from Newfoundland...one that didn't sing traditional songs like I's the By or Jack was every inch a sailor.  Unfortunately he had some seriously bad habits with respect to non prescription drugs that, along with throat cancer eventually caused his death.  But he still managed to produce some wonderful work, including this song about a young man on a farm, wanting to go to sea like his father did despite his mother's pleading to stay home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KD7eUfIgCk

A classic piece of Canadiana there Bill. From a guy like me who spent his entire working life on boats it sure sounds like a cautionary tale that might best be heeded!  ;) ;D

The last couple days I've fallen down a youtube rabbit-hole of Leo Kottke guitar stuff. I've been lucky enough to see Leo half a dozen times live. A funny guy and a terrific musician. Like all of us, he is getting to be an old fart now. Here he is in his prime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-r8b2-tO8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-r8b2-tO8)

Back in the '70's I was big into singers like Leo.  Or John Prine, Tom Rush, Bruce Coburn and a couple of others.  Later on I moved into Southern Rock...Charlie Daniels, Elvin Bishop, Marshall Tucker etc. 

Here is a nice Elvin Bishop song, sung by Mickey Thomas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k33x_Efa5Lk

Here is a Tom Rush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7ld3dWChE

I have not been to many concerts, but Marshal Tucker Band and Steppenwolf at Sturgis  was a rsally fun time..

I can only imagine what Sturgis was like when Steppenwolf played Born to be Wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvP806798U

Everyone probably thought they left their stereo on.

It was an afternoon concert .. really a wonderful time.. got some great pics of some if tgd nice ladies that eere in the crowd.
 It was quite busy on the roads leaving so I opted to fake the helicoptor tour over Sturgis, that wax an excellent  end fir a very wonderful afternoon.

 Next year same helicoptor was flying over the the treetops at Glencoe Campground were we were staying. The motor let out two sharp bangs and went silent, and the craft went down just over a small rise a few hundred yards away. We ran over there. The rotors were wobbling to a stop and the occupants were  crouched and running from it.,  lucky no one got hurt..

Hopefully you all remember the advice columns that used to be a regular feature of daily newspapers.  The most popular were Ann Landers and her twin sister Abigail Van Buren.  Reading their columns was often the highlight of the paper.  John Prine, who I mentioned earlier wrote a parody Dear Abby song back in the '70's.  Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mqDsuhnnRk

 

We've all done this:

https://youtu.be/UjeTq2fShRc

No one had a sound like these guys in the '60's.  Just two acoustic guitars, great lyrics and amazing harmony.  At the peak of their success they broke up and remained estranged for many years.  They finally got back together and played publicly again, but Phil died a few years ago and Don died today.  This was one of their big hits.

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

Today is Monday and I got to thinking about all the songs written about Monday.  There's a lot of them.  Try the Bangles Manic Monday, or the Mamas and the Papas Monday Monday.  There are many more, but this one is the one I chose for today.  It brings back great memories of riding across Canada on my Z1B back in the day, and partying without a care in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2E37iNV0w

Today is Tuesday.  There are a lot of songs sung about Tuesday.  Here is one called Tuesday Morning by the Pogues.  The first link is the studio version and the second is live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBP3QO5M7ys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Tz6XGV-qw

Charlie Watts or Rolling Stones fame died today.  He was a drummer with perfect beat and time....just what a performing band needs.  He was the least controversial member.  He joined the band in the early 60's and stayed with them for almost six decades.  This song best emphasizes his drumming from the early days.  RIP Mr Watts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g

Back to the theme of the week...this is the Guess Who


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Pf28Fnqgs

  Such a coincidence! The Guess Who, live of course, on Burt Sugerman's Midnight Special. No mixing. No filters. Just one of the greatest voices in rock history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObsmF9P7U4

    I've probably run this before, but it's special. Moody Blues. Live. Royal Albert Hall. London Philharmonic in background. Nights in White Satin:

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

This might concern you if you're a fan of lead singers who like to eat shotguns:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58327844

I have a couple of Moody Blues tunes on my phone.  Ride my See Saw is a great running song.

Today is Thursday and I thought I'd have a hard time finding something written about Thursday.  But here is a song by Jim Croce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBc6jT5oY6I

Oh yeah, Moody Blues, one of the great bands, and Nights in White Satin up there with the very best songs ever. Love it. And this being Thursday, I’ve got “Friday on my mind” by the Easybeats.

June and I were able to see the Moody Blues a few years back and I am man enough to say that several songs brought tears to my eyes.
I think I am getting more sentimental as time goes on.  Probably one of the best concerts I have attended in my life.

Finally Friday!

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

 More live Canadiana. Winnipeg Rock, more of The Guess Who.
   This is from 1970, on the Johnny Cash Show. If you'll find patience as Johnny destroys the flow of Hand Me Down World, the boys from Winnipeg do Share The Land uninterrupted. The vocal talent of Burton Cummings observed as incredible. Kurt Winter and Jim Kale guitar work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Vv9sB2aMg

Love that Canadian flag!  It had only been around for about 5 years at that point and was still controversial.  

Randy Bachman looked really really young.  For years he's had  a show on CBC where he plays old music and talks about his interactions with members from different bands of the era.  But CBC cancelled it this year.  He also has a show on Sirius Beatles channel with his son where he talks about the magic in various beatles songs.

Johnny Cash was one of the original rockabilly singers from the early '50's, along with Carl Perkins, Elvis, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and many others.  

There are a lot of songs about Saturday.  I picked this one by Lynyrd Skynyrd but was thinking about Saturday Night Fever.  I also considered Sudbury Saturday Night by Stompin Tom Connors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQc7MJBg4o

Elton John.  Saturday Night.

https://youtu.be/38qGE_dw7gc

Tom Waits. Lookin for the heart of Saturday night.

https://youtu.be/f7UHd7NVegE

This is a well known Sunday song by a well known singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeK83GucL80

Would you believe .... Bob Dylan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdWto-AUM3Q

Would you believe .... The Rolling Stones

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

I never get tired of listening to the Rolling Stones.  Best stage band in the world!  That washboard riff....they used that in Brown Sugar too.

This guy died 30 years ago.  He was a music force for many years...I remember listening to him as a pre-teen.  Here's one of his best songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNdBLBleO90

Would you believe.... Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8kGMfXaFU

Great pick!  Sounds more like Fairport Convention (Richard Thompson) than Queen.  The singer (Brian May) is a great guitarist and also a PhD physicist who built his own electric guitar at age 16.  It's the guitar he normally plays on stage.

This is an oldie....but a goodie!  Some aboriginal influence here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0KhhjJP98

That cuz they were .......

Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter. Intensity. Extreme skills and talent. To see these guys live would be quite another level.

   Tobacco Road:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0rV6dli_o

One of my favorites.
A most amazing voice, amazing scenery and message too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98q7zOrpcU

Saw Edgar Winter Group live back in 74, one of the more memorable concerts. Keyboard slung over his neck with Rick Derringer on guitar. Of course Frankenstein was the big hit back then too. Seem to recall it was a short concert, but still a good show.

When this group put out their first Dee Doo Doo Doo record in the late '70's I thought they were just another version of bubble gummer music.  I was wrong of course, just as I was wrong when the first McDonalds came to Saskatoon in 1968 and I proclaimed that they wouldn't last because they didn't have car window service like A&W.  Here is a song from a bit later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

This was my style of music back in the day, with one of the best vocalists going. The Animals, with Eric Burdon, great stuff. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPKTQkkK3YM

OMG I haven't heard that song for 100 years. Great stuff .
My father hated that kind of music ( Rolling Stones, Doors, Animals etc) so I'd turn up the volume just to irritate him.

We used to dance to Animals songs at high school dances.  That was a tough one to dance to!  Too slow for a fast dance and too fast for a huggie dance.  I like the simple drum kit!


This is another old one....Del Shannon singing falsetto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc

I have a few of this guy's songs on my phone.  He was big in the 60's and had a bit of a revival later on.  This song I think is from his revival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcJm1pOswfM

   My Brother:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl5vi9ir49g

   Air:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duPNQCp-w4&list=RD7duPNQCp-w4&start_radio=1

I have a couple of Hollies songs on my phone.  Graham Nash was the heart of the group, and when he jumped to CSN&Y the Hollies were no more.  Nash has a nice singing voice that really mixes well with the other voices in CSN.

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

 Great rock and roll songs are high energy.  This is among the highest energy songs from the '70's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMD7Usflbg

Here is another high energy song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07Yq4zGTcI

This one takes the energy level down a couple of notches.  The combination of Art's voice and Paul's lyrics led to some of the most important songs of the 60s and 70's.  After they broke up Paul went on to do more great work in the 80s and 90s, including collaborations with other singers.  Art went on to....not so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-YQA_bsOU

This is one of the groups Paul Simon worked with in his later recordings.  I have a lot of their music on my phone.  There's something about african music that appeals to the ear.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcIuPef5jBc

 Late 1970's classic pop. I got many speeding tickets driving my Torino Talladega around Langley listing to this stuff. This girl could sing:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdv69cR_d78

Really wish i was olde enough to have attended this kind of epic stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_t59To7Snk&list=RDRoFGNKfiwwI&index=22

Grand Funk were a great band!  I need to add some of their music to my phone.

This one goes back to the 60s.  Good harmony.  One hit wonder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbuzEjEHso0

I'm off fishing for a few days so will not be posting for a while.

One thing about this thread is finding forgotten songs, thanks Steve and Hardrock. I keep my songs on the phone and wi-fi them when in the car. A couple of years ago Marie says my playlist sounds like an old boys club, no female singers. Sure there were, but part of a group like Fleetwood Mac, Mamas and Papas, 5th Dimension, etc. So went looking for some I remembered, and lo and behold, there were and are some fantastic female vocalists out there. Roberta Flack, Mary Wells, Dusty Springfield, Karen Carpenter, Shirley Bassey to mention just a few. Now she is happy. So here is one by a lady with a soulful voice, and unfortunately passed too young.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8

Rockin female group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw1ng75KP0

  The girls could sing!

   

   Ya, Eric Clapton for sure,,,, but Ginger Baker on the drums, now that dude transcended the life 'calendar' . Again, at Royal Albert Hall, majestic place it is:





 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyftaay-pFA

    My favorite from the Doobie Brothers:

    Live:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7kEqWlSyc

   Bobby Darin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T_7M-0lwds

   1973, Focus. Crazy!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ouPGGLI6Q&list=PL4b_3uIhCEK-im-LTOo20o4sesBW9VcD5&index=3

That was freakin’ amazing.  I remember hearing that song way back when, and watching Midnight Special on our black & white TV.  Don’t remember seeing that episode though. 

Totally forgot about that group.  Great song!

Elvis made Hound Dog popular but he wasn't the first to sing it.  This is a great version by Big Mama Thornton, recorded four years before Elvis.  It's a great version by a great singer....listen to the howling at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPg

And here is the Elvis version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYWl13IWhY

  It really is something g else. And even his whistling is fast pitch and on the mark. I’d like to find out the story behind speeding up the beat to supercharged levels. I know the studio version is not that fast.

On the female singers...I've posted a few...Alison Krause, Dolly and a few others.  Their voices tend to harmonize really well and I love harmony.

I've posted this song by We Five, which I really like and have on my phone.  But here is a live version by the Bangles that I also like.

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

This guy is an excellent guitar player and perhaps has done more for rock music than anyone.....ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbwKPk5s0q8

And another....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3egBlDjMWtc

Jeff Beck doesn't sing, but always seems to get his guitar to do that for him. Not as well known as the other two Yardbirds, Page and Clapton, but did his music his way. Here is one of his better known tracks, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" Yeah, strange title, don't know where that came from.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImxM4Rj5pOQ

Beck is a brilliant guitarist...one of the very best. 

Here is the original Pork Hat goodbye by Charles Mingus.  According to the internet he composed it as a farewell to his friend Lester Young, who wore them.

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

This is another chubby black musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGXwQeUk7M

  My cousin Bill Sherk, lead singer of Van City band, Los Popularos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qakqRVwAw

I am a solid Beatles fan....I have most of their recordings on my phone.  This is one that they made popular, and I used to think it was one of their compositions, but it's not.  It was one of Chubby Checkers'. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RicaUqd9Hg

Yesterday I incorrectly gave credit for Twist and Shout to Chubby Checkers.  The original version was recorded by the Top Notes.  It's pretty rick and rolly but different than the version we know. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsDpc-8iR8g

The version copied by the Beatles was done by the Isley Brothers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaqn8_gMR0

I've always liked this song by Don Gibson.  This version is sung by Poco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBO6APy_3sY

This one was written by Jerry Jeff Walker.  This popular cover by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band came out in the 70's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LVXR6rjXs

Great video story with this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUcOzzprVLE

There's something about falsetto singing that gets to me.  None better than this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSWMJxbxj7c

Metal, as it's called isn't for everyone. But I will admit to having Black Sabbaths first two albums, and they got a fair amount of play time. Guitarist Tony Iommi is regarded as one of the greats, but is kind of obscure because of the heavy metal tag. He plays left handed, and has the tips of two fingers missing on his right hand. He had to make thimbles to go over the missing finger tips, and couldn't press them onto the frets hard enough. By loosening the strings he was able to push the thimble fingers down enough, but the sound was different. I used to play this 0ne full blast, the old house I was living in would vibrate, and the neighbors would come knocking "turn that crap down". This one is called NIB.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwLQw_95hX0

I was never able to get into Black Sabbath.  Not sure why....they played good music.  Maybe it was the story about Ozzie eating the head off a bat.

This guy had a huge influence on rock music.  Most bands from the 70's to today have incorporated this style into at least one of their songs, if not more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4dG5yJ-8dc

  Carlos Santana playing Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock. Drummer Mike Shrieve is the standout here IMO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSp05euvRNU

I don't remember listening to Santana before Woodstock.  But after.....EVERYONE listened to Santana.  He's still performing I thiink.

This song brings two giant female singers together.  It's a terribly sexist tune, but right for it's time I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v53LYvzuHc

I don't remember Santana before Woodstock either. I reckon everyone had to have "Abraxas" in their album collection. Joe Cocker, Sly Stone and 10 years after also were new to me at that time. Liked the vid of Dusty and Martha, two great female voices. 

YYYAAAAA!!!!  That was indeed an incredible performance.

I've mentioned before that I enjoy harmonies.  This group was really good at it.  Maybe not this song so much though.  Listen to the piano in it.  I've never played piano but I think I could play this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FygIKsnkCw

   Lovely little ballad from Orleans from 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXhiuY2ofkU&list=PL0l_Fd7ZvFyc07Pphjk2ABlvGAPd67cs8&index=62

   Bill Withers, 1974. Live of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQoOX5j7c8&list=PL0l_Fd7ZvFyc07Pphjk2ABlvGAPd67cs8&index=51

  I was wandering aboyt the sound on the solo in the middle of Runaway, and looked at the year and thought ., too early for a synthesizer.. hmmm
 .....Musitron its called

 And in Orleans song the one guy has a tube taped to the mic and he blows in it.. and is playing an Instrunent called a Melodica...
 
Seldom seen instruments I would think.l

You sure about that tube shaped object he's playing?

Look up Hohner Melodica..

Great composer, not much loved in his time because he wasn't "following the rules" but he created some incredible pieces for piano.

Erik Satie, Gymnopedies & Gnossiennes:

https://youtu.be/5pyhBJzuixM

   LOLOL,,,,,that album cover gives me the creeps.

 Just because people keep telling You ..you are phobic.... does not mean you are'nt.

The opening riff on this tune is probably as well known, maybe better known than the riff from Beethoven's 5th symphony.  An amazing opening riff, a strong backbeat and a great singing voice.  All in one song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uluYl6Un8p4

Bach: Toccata & Fugue played on the largest pipe organ ever built, A Midmer - Losh organ built in the 1920s in Atlantic City.

It's being played a little too fast but the sound is incredible for the age of the recording. I'd love to hear this in person.

https://youtu.be/YXsYgHGKjT0

U Vic has a beautiful pipe organ in their convocation hall.  I heard it several years ago when my daughter convocated.

I'm not a huge classical music fan but here are a couple I have on my phone.

Four Seasons by Vivaldi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDirPD6Vypc

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Variations by Mozart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bK9h12Qdvs

Here is another song from the '70's that I have on my phone.  This guy was supposed to become a huge star.  I don't think he was as big as was expected , but he had a hell of a voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ZDKirjQgM

Gustav Holst, Planets Suite - Mars, Bringer of War:

https://youtu.be/L0bcRCCg01I

All good classic pieces, nice. I am a really big organ fan and used to keep track of special concerts in Montreal at the big cathedrals with the best organs and players in town and when my uncle was the announcer for NHL at the forum I got to hear the guy play their organ. Must be gone now that they replaced the Forum. Caught a concert in Paris a few years ago but had to listen from outside as I was too late to get tickets.
Frank

I'm a big organ fan too.  Wish I had one!

Here is another Nilsson song.  It has an interesting twist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgdU9OaSMkw

Some geeetar music fer y'all

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=209403473811092

There's differences between church organs, theatre organs and concert hall organs.
The one in Atlantic City is a concert hall organ. It's intended to replace a whole orchestra. It's run by 8 blowers that total around 600hp.

Here you go Frank, Xaver Varnus plays it properly: https://youtu.be/FHNLdHe8uxY

Back when I was a youngster we has a pump organ in our church.  In order to play it you had to pedal the bellows.  The lady who played was a tiny German and she pumped like her life depended on it.  By the end of the church service I think she must have done the equivalent of a half marathon.

For a while we had a pump organ in our house , I think..
 It had 2 broad pedals... may have been a Heintzman..

This guy was around in the earliest days of rock and roll.  He died about a year ago after an amazing career.  This song was for Muhammed Ali's 50th birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK_jm3Hz1Wk

Thinking of one hit wonders, this guy came to mind. Huge hits around the world, then just disappeared, never to be heard from again. Became some kind of hermit or some thing.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU
 

Amazing coincidence!  I was just listening to that song by Ger O Donnell!

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=276969049815634

Dave Brubeck, Take Five: https://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs

It's been a long time since I heard that song Shawn!

Covid has caused the world to change.  Imagine people all round the world playing and singing the same song, all in time.  Well here is an example.  Dig the harp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dkwQY-_tk

Very nice version and quite a variety of musicians. Yes, I dig the harp!
Frank

Don't know if these guys have been mentioned before, they where one of the biggest selling acts of the 60's, hit their stride as the Beatles where taking off around the world. Had their own sound, appealed to a certain demographic, me. Harmonies are fantastic too. Here is one of my favourites, not their most popular, but still a good one.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOsial01K0g

  Harmony of multiple voices is what it’s all about for me. 3 Dog Night, Bee Gees, etc, great stuff.

Listening to the members still alive (Beatles and Beach Boys) there was a desire within both bands to out do the other.  In my view the two best albums ever are Sargent Peppers and Pet Sounds. 

From Sargent Peppers....A Day In The Life...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM

From Pet Sounds...God Only Knows...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPo5SC3zik

Happy birthday to this old rocking biker who turns 70 today.  Keep on rocking and keep on biking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOsbsuhYGQ

Here is another birthday boy, but unfortunately one who passed away a few years ago.  Happy birthday Johnny...with an entertaining twist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCWOb7V-b0

  I walked Solsbury Hill in June 1983 with my dad. It was a journey we took to find and discover the heritage of our family in the old country. We found much in Somerset. Around Bath, and Wells. You can see the city of Bath from Solsbury Hill, just like the song says:


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOj9E2vXmAA

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than boy bands and top 40.

Herbie Hancock, Man-Child

The whole album: https://youtu.be/d7kRlufrZJo

One more birthday boy this morning before I head to Chilliwack.  Unfortunately another singer who is gone, by someone else's hand.  This is perhaps the greatest song he ever sang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgVhE1M6ns

All with the best funk bass player ever, Bootsy Collins:

James Brown, The Payback: https://youtu.be/istJXUJJP0g

Parliament, Give up the Funk: https://youtu.be/od-5gCO_PGE

Fatboy Slim, Weapon of Choice: https://youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8

I made it to Chilliwack and back without any snowfall, although there were a few rain drops at the Coq summit, and a bit of snow on the hills.  The 650 engine is all clean now. 

Here is a special song made especially for Thanksgiving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bH0rULAHEg

My theme song, plays in my head when I'm walking around: Earth, Wind & Fire, Shining Star: https://youtu.be/Zu9a29UR2dU

Sly and the Family Stone, I Want to Take you Higher: https://youtu.be/BqWQzOzK3kw

Kool & The Gang, Jungle Boogie: https://youtu.be/QGKiC2suCHQ

  Tom Johnston lead singer era Dooby Bros song, live, of course:



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

I've said several times that I like songs where the emotion flows from the singer to the audience.  This is one of those songs, maybe the most emotional one that I've heard.  You have to be pretty heartless not to feel the tears welling in your throat when you hear the pain in his voice.

The song is about a guy whose father left him forever when the boy was very young.  His mother tried to raise him but had to give him up to his aunt because the mother worked full time.  He loved his mother and saw her regularly, but when he was about sixteen his mother was killed in an auto accident.  The boy went on to become a songwriter, and he composed this song.

It's a true story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwI33Q-T9R8

Joe Walsh is way better without The Eagles

Funk 49: https://youtu.be/U_qHU_6Ofc0

The Confessor : https://youtu.be/prjQJB7O28k

How about a little "Who did it better?"

I never really got into Jimi Hendrix until I realised I was listening at the incorrect volume.

Jimi: https://youtu.be/69Rxo70EGwc

SRV: https://youtu.be/nuI5YPaZXIQ

Personally, Stevie Ray is better even though Jimi is the original.

There, I said it.

Joe is a very different guitarist today than he was on Funk 49.  Age and years of drugs does that to you.  Still...I love the guitar duo at the end of Hotel California...one of the best I've heard.  Joe is off drugs and booze now.  Good for him!  By the way, he is Ringo's brother in law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPtz5qN7HM

Absolutely Shawn, There is a God and his Name is Jimi, and thy volume shall be 11 and no lower for the experience to be closer to nirvana.
Again, agreed, SRV is a wonderful example of a disciple of the method taking it to greater heights.
Frank
ps Joe Walsh, “The Smoker you are the Player you get” discovered his music through this album and it has only gotten better.

Stevie Wonder:

Got his first contract at 11 and first top 100 hit at 13.

Superstition: https://youtu.be/0CFuCYNx-1g

Higher Ground: https://youtu.be/4wZ3ZG_Wams

   Speaking of Joe Walsh,,,,,live as usual:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMv2hUuAApg

   IMO, Don Felder was the unsung hero guitarist in this amazing group.

Viva Las Vegas

Elivs: https://youtu.be/9MO1KyNUOIs

ZZ-Top: https://youtu.be/gOoKzw3JSCM

My father was an Elvis man. No thank you, I've heard it all, don't need to hear it anymore.

Dusty Hill does great job of the vocals, even if it is the "drum machine and synthesizer" era ZZ-Top, it's still better than Elvis.

ZZ Top has done some really great covers.  Here's another one.  I love this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc

That's at least the third time that's been posted.

Once by me and twice by you.

It's worth playing three times!

OK, here's a singer/songwriter with a very long career.  He's still touring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN86y30Ufc

Here is a bouncy tune from two sisters, coming from and producing a very musical family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_mqt_q-7yg

The Bar-Kays, Too Hot to Stop (Part One): https://youtu.be/kBVJneoQ76c

Love Rollercoaster.

Ohio Players: https://youtu.be/QjZbPA1cMIU

Red Hot Chili Peppers: https://youtu.be/4n6D8lB0A9w

Usually I can't stand the Chili Peppers but they do a pretty good job of it.

I don't have many of this guy's songs on my phone because they're hard to run to.  But this is one that I really like.  His voice is so soothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7vULqs31Q

  The greatest of all bands,,,,,on the roof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCtzkaL2t_Y&list=PLZojn8IcO8WsfvyTaCYR-4Dlkv1kGfCxU

On the roof: https://youtu.be/O02Gnzn5JDY

I love that song!  I listen to the Beatles channel on Sirius whenever I'm in my truck.  They were first at many things we now assume as part of the way things have always been.

Here is the first time I ever heard "fuzz" (feedback) in a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU

A song for Frank

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

Good choice.

Nice! Always liked this song but I believe the cowboy hat on Arlo is a bit much.
Frank

Another example of innovation by the Beatles is "I'm Only Sleeping, on Revolver.  This was one of the first albums recorded on 4 track stereo.  On this song they recorded some guitar and then played it backwards for effect.  You can hear it in the second half of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5j9OQ7Sh0

Ron Tutt passed away yesterday.  Who was Ron Tutt you might ask?  He was the drummer for Elvis for a number of years, until Elvis died.  He played with a lot of people after that, including on this song with this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acJ-Wt3rpfc

This song by the Rolling Stones was deleted from their play list.  Apparently it's too sensitive a subject for some people nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0Y3LUqr1Q

  Society has lost the plot. As long as we bend to those who suffer mental illness, we are done. Brown Sugar. Heaven forbid!!! 

I'm just glad that there is no homeless problem, no drug problem, no children going to school without breakfast and we now have all this free time to focus on whether or not "Brown Sugar" is racist.

I am too old, too white and too privileged to even respond to your statement on considering reality.
I have the next two weeks planned with my children, some of their cousins and younger members of the family too get some family stuff and visiting done back east. I am not sure I will even have a stub of a tongue left when I return.
Wish me luck!
Frank

ps But I hear you Shawn.

Trent Reznor wrote it but it's got a lot more soul when Johnny sings it: https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI

When I first heard it I immediately thought of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C6ThAaxrWw

This is probably the first time I heard Eric Clapton play guitar.  Ever since I've been a lifelong fan.  The band also includes Jack Bruce on vocals and Ginger Baker on drums...both of them became icons of blues music.  Here's the song from the 1960's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyftaay-pFA

Cream recorded their version of Spoonful on their album "Fresh Cream".  I owned that album at one time and thought for years that Cream were the song's authors.  They were not.  It was written by Willie Dixon, and here it is recorded by Howlin Wolf in the early 60's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, I put a Spell on You: https://youtu.be/7kGPhpvqtOc

Imagine calling your album "Black music for white people" these days.

Now, that is Soul Music.

That's a cool Halloween song!

The Beatles did a lot of cover songs that nowadays most people think were theirs to begin with, because they were so popular no one plays the original any longer.  One of the covers they did was originally sung by the Shrirelles, a very popular girl group in the early 60's.  I think the Beatles appreciated good harmony, a strong point of the Shirelles.  Here's the original version of Baby It's You, done by Shirelles, and then the Beatles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8clnxViHdp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUTlM6hz0g

   Never been to Spain:


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

I have a lot of Three Dog Night on my phone.  Great running songs! 

Here is another Shirelles song covered by the Beatles.  After the Beatles broke up Ringo continued to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adSP9LVdTpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr8OuW5JJgQ

Fast songs always give me an adrenaline rush, which is why I like them when I run.  They also help to keep a fast pace, so are most important in the last quarter of a race when your head is telling your feet to slow down and stop the hurt.  This sone is a great one for the final kilometer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7iHsAIw9o

Back to cover songs.  This is again a Beatles cover....well sort of.  It's a John Lennon cover of a Ben King song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB8Dm65X18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE

  Eagles, 1999 Hall of Fame performance of Hotel California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVsbvFkhzY4&list=RDMMXTVu-UkXSYo&index=16

These guys are just plain fun:

Clutch, Hot Bottom Feeder: https://youtu.be/SOTrHrGSeNM
It's a recipe for crab cakes.

A Quick Death in Texas: https://youtu.be/6Sj76eCy6ag

The Dropkick Murphys:

Rose Tattoo: https://youtu.be/9d8SzG4FPyM

Goin' out in Style: https://youtu.be/D7g3RuoreRc

   The unique technical aspects of the making of 10CC's " I'm Not In Love".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxe4mlsQos

Hellraiser:

Ozzy: https://youtu.be/Q3l-faquXJE

Motorhead: https://youtu.be/ibaZsVlkuQg

Zakk Wylde is a great guitar player but I the tone Mikkey Dee has better.

Since Lemmy passed, Mikkey is playing with the Scorpions.

Manowar: https://youtu.be/K70nC0FbxiU

Just good fun.

Pretty sure they still live in mom's basement.

A few of us were joking around at work one day, coming up with stupid band names.

"Swashbuckle" was suggested.

Turns out there really is a Swashbuckle.

Who knew that Pirate thrash metal was a thing: https://youtu.be/53A4GyB96RI

Rammstein, Rammvier: https://youtu.be/Jnn5WtrEdtU

Singing the set list and it sounds good.

I have to see these guys next time they're on tour.

Was that really Joe Walsh in the plaid jacket?  First time I've seen him in short hair!

Halloween will be here soon so I thought it would be good to find a tune in keeping with the fun we all had as kids when we went trick or treating.  The first link is the latest version of the song that I recall.  The second link is the original.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoXVYSV4Xcs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOrQ927LM-Q

This is another song for halloween.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc

Wow, Chiclet Chomper music that rocks.

This Halloween special was part of a cult movie.  I've watched it many times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj0gu5nEGs&t=49s

Shawn,   Rammstein will not be coming here any time soon.    They only have two of us in North America and millions in Europe.
Good thing for you and I that we have You Tube

Do Haust!

Alan makes three but he doesn't hang out here anymore.

Allan is watching and he is still with us.

Another halloween tune.  This one was a huge hit back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V90AmXnguw

Another halloween song...this one is the only known song where the Frankenstein monster sings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab7NyKw0VYQ

One final Halloween song.  This one is perhaps the grandaddy of them all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2PoSljk8cE

Halloween is over.  We had candy for about 100 kids but only had 72 at the door.  So lots of candy left!

This is another group that had marvellous harmonies.  This is probably one of their best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD8BkpfIYw

My God  fifty seven years ago!
Walking down the road with a  six transistor radio held to my ear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-43lLKaqBQ

That was the song we all looked forward to at those sweaaty high school sock hops Stan!  A waltz!

Back to the birth of rock and roll with today's song.  This is Carl Perkins with Eric Clapton and Ringo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9GQDibqxw

   Fool's Overture,,,,my heart weeps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyknKRw-k6c

Bravest man in Rock N Roll: https://youtu.be/eFFgbc5Vcbw

Little Richard was greatly admired by the Beatles.  Here is their version of Long Tall Sally with Paul singing lead.  He does a pretty good job but not as good as the Master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-iA9-D_Mbw

That song by Little Richard brings back memories of another singer from those days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_-KcKLy9X4