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Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 29-12-2009
/\ I like the Trini Lopez version as well.
Songs People Should Hear - Dementia32 - 30-12-2009
Who remembers that dance hit from early in the decade, "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas? Probably everyone. If you say that you don't, you're wrong. You've heard it. I promise.
However, I really don't know if hardly anyone has heard this version of it. This acoustic rendition could be found as a b-side to the "Days Go By" single, and I honestly feel as if it is a completely different song. Really, really good stuff in my opinion. It's hearing stuff like this that reminds me why I am a music lover in the first place. I hope that some others here may appreciate it as well.
YouTube - Days Go By (Acoustic Version)
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 30-12-2009
carbon_psycho Wrote:/\ I like the Trini Lopez version as well.I always liked his "Lemon Tree"
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 30-12-2009
Dementia32 Wrote:Who remembers that dance hit from early in the decade, "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas? Probably everyone. If you say that you don't, you're wrong. You've heard it. I promise.I listened
However, I really don't know if hardly anyone has heard this version of it. This acoustic rendition could be found as a b-side to the "Days Go By" single, and I honestly feel as if it is a completely different song. Really, really good stuff in my opinion. It's hearing stuff like this that reminds me why I am a music lover in the first place. I hope that some others here may appreciate it as well.
YouTube - Days Go By (Acoustic Version)
thanks
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 30-12-2009
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YouTube - The Dovells - The Bristol Stomp
from wikipedia
"Bristol Stomp" is a song written in 1961 by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, two executives with the Cameo/Parkway record label, for the Dovells, an a cappella singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, which recorded the song for Cameo/Parkway late that year. It was originally recorded by a group from Bristol, Pennsylvania, Terry and the Appeljacks (Terry Appel was the son of Dave Appel). The recording by Terry and the Appeljacks did not make the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart or the "Bubbling Under" chart.
The Dovells' recording made the #2 spot on the Billboard magazine Hot 100 singles chart in 1961.
The song was written about teenagers in 1961 who were dancing a new step called "The Stomp" at dances.
The refrain of the song:
The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol
When they do the Bristol Stomp
Really somethin'when the joint is jumpin'
When they do the Bristol Stomp
On the live performance of Gary U.S. Bonds' "Seven Day Weekend" found on Johnny Thunders' live soundtrack album "Stations of the Cross" Walter Lure begins singing the chorus of the song, playing on the fact that the two songs share the same chord sequence. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention covered the song as part of a medley, performed in Sweden in 1967 (officially released on 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly', Beat the Boots series, FOO-EE Records).
Songs People Should Hear - gryphon - 30-12-2009
J.J.Cale................Cocaine Can't post a link to this as it has to be the studio version and all I can find on the internet are live versions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 31-12-2009
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YouTube - Simon & Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence
from wikipedia
"The Sounds of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the November 22, 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
The song features Simon on acoustic guitar and both Simon and Garfunkel singing. It was originally recorded as an acoustic piece for their first album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. but on the initiative of the record company was later overdubbed with electric instruments and rereleased as a single in September 1965. The single reached number one on New Year's Day 1966 and was included in the 1966 album Sounds of Silence.
The song was originally called "The Sounds of Silence" and is titled that way on the early albums in which it appeared and on the single. In later compilations it was retitled "The Sound of Silence". Both the singular and the plural form of the word appear in the lyrics.
Simon began working on the song sometime after the Kennedy assassination. He had made progress on the music but had yet to get down the lyrics. On 19 February 1964 the lyrics apparently coalesced, and Simon showed the new composition to Garfunkel the same day. Shortly afterward, the duo began to perform it at folk clubs in New York. They recorded it for the first time on March 10, and included the track on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., released that October. The album flopped upon its release, and the duo split up, with Simon going to England for much of 1965. There he often performed the song solo in folk clubs, and recorded it for a second time on his solo LP in May 1965, The Paul Simon Songbook.
In the meantime, Simon and Garfunkel's producer at Columbia Records in New York, Tom Wilson, had learned that the song had begun to receive airplay on radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts and around Gainesville and Cocoa Beach, Florida.
On June 15, 1965, immediately after the recording session of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Wilson took the original track of Simon & Garfunkel, and overdubbed the recording with electric guitar (played by Al Gorgoni), electric bass (Bob Bushnell), and drums (Bobby Gregg), and released it as a single without even consulting Simon or Garfunkel. For the B-Side Wilson used an unreleased track he cut with the duo a few months earlier on which they had tried out a more "contemporary" sound. "Sounds of Silence"/"We've Got a Groovy Thing Going" entered the U.S. pop charts in September 1965 and slowly began its ascent.
Simon learned that it had entered the charts minutes before he went on stage to perform at a club in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in the later fall of 1965 he returned to the United States. By the end of 1965 and the first few weeks of 1966, the song reached number one on the U.S. charts. Simon and Garfunkel then reunited as a musical act, and included the song as the title track of their next album, Sounds of Silence, hastily recorded in December 1965 and released in January 1966 to capitalize on their success. The song propelled them to stardom and, together with two other top-five (in the U.S.) hits in the summer of 1966, "I Am a Rock" and "Homeward Bound," ensured the duo's fame. In 1999, BMI named "The Sounds of Silence" as the 18th-most performed song of the 20th century. In 2004 it was ranked #156 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the duo's three songs on the list.
The original acoustic stereo mix of the song had the duo's vocals on separate channels, spotlighting the delicate harmonies. When the 'rock' version was mixed to stereo, Wilson mixed the vocals in the middle, which is not as clear sounding as the original acoustic version.
On the duo's 1968 album Bookends, the track "Save the Life of My Child" features a distorted sample of Art Garfunkel's "Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you" line from the original recording of "The Sounds Of Silence").
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 01-01-2010
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YouTube - GARY PUCKETT and the union gap: "YOUNG GIRL" ~~ revised mpeg ~~ (1968)
from wikipedia
"Young Girl" was a song performed by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap released in 1968. Although it wasn't a #1 hit on Billboard (Puckett being an American artist), reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it reached #1 on the UK Singles chart and Cash Box.
In the UK, the recording enjoyed a second chart run in 1974, when it peaked at #6.
Danny Tanner sang this song in an episode of Full House.
A part of the Chorus of "Young Girl" was sampled on Plan B's song "Charmaine". Both "Young Girl" and "Charmaine" are about forbidden, underage love (note the lyrics "Young Girl, get out of my mind / My love for you is way out of line").
In the early 1980s, Gary Glitter expressed an interest in doing a cover version of the song in a radio interview with John Peel however this never came to fruition.
In the episode of Glee titled Ballad the song was used in a mash-up with Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police. The lines Young girl, get out of my mind / My love for you is way out of line were changed to Young girl, you're out of your mind / Your love for me is way out of line
Songs People Should Hear - AddyO - 01-01-2010
Dementia32 Wrote:Who remembers that dance hit from early in the decade, "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas? Probably everyone. If you say that you don't, you're wrong. You've heard it. I promise.
However, I really don't know if hardly anyone has heard this version of it. This acoustic rendition could be found as a b-side to the "Days Go By" single, and I honestly feel as if it is a completely different song. Really, really good stuff in my opinion. It's hearing stuff like this that reminds me why I am a music lover in the first place. I hope that some others here may appreciate it as well.
YouTube - Days Go By (Acoustic Version)
Don't take this wrong, but the original of this song i can only describe as "ugly", and it turns my stomach.
The acoustic version u mentioned is a much better, more beautiful, classier piece of work. I like, thanks.
Songs People Should Hear - AddyO - 01-01-2010
R Kelly's "Vibe".
This song i remember as touching me deeply. It is this type of song back then , and even now, that prompts an impulsive reaction from me, and when a song has that kind of effect on me i know its good. They really don't make them like this anymore, and it is not a good thing that they don't. Energy charged, good video, well produced, i could go on for days praising this song.
Cutting Crew "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight".
A lot of songs that i will put up as suggestions are from my childhood and i may just be living off the nostaglia of them all, however, this song is so soulful, extremely sexy and beautifully lyrics. Its the kind of song that could melt the coldest of hearts.
And finally........
Taylor Dayne "Tell It To My Heart"
This one is actually nothing but nostaglia in effect, but it is a good song, good video, and i think is a suggestion of why the eighties has/is coming back into pop music. I think if you analyse my suggestions u will notice a few traits of what i look for in a song and music in general. Passion! Along with other things as well, but that quality must be there otherwise i think a song is not coming from the heart.
I will put a few more as they come to mind, and will listen to others suggestions as i get round to them.
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