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Alan Gratzer was born on this day in 1948. Founding member and drummer for REO Speedwagon, he was with them during their most successful period and left them in 1988 after 21 years on the road, so to speak. He is officially retired from music but does live guest spots now and then.
Because of the title, which is irresistible, and because itâs a great fun, the instrumental âThe Unidentified Flying Tuna Trotâ from the Speedwagonâs breakthrough album, You can Tune a piano but you canât Tuna Fish, [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eM_yLicXoU"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eM_yLicXoU
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⦠and for those who want voices ⦠âSing to Meâ â
[video=youtube;ftldPc9QiR0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftldPc9QiR0[/video]
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Happy Birthday to Greg Lake who is 68 today - born in Dorset, England. After a brief, but not insignificant stint with King Crimson, he became the unmistakeable voice of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He plays bass and other guitars, and is a composer and lyricist He did one live recorded tour with Asia and one album as part of Emerson, Lake & Powell after Palmer left. Heâs recently recorded an album with Geoff Downes, Ride the Tiger â yet to be released â due towards the end of this month, I believe.
He also made two solo albums, one of which is eponymously titled. He is joined by Steve Lukather on this track (Gary Moore on a few others) ⦠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEQUsXpwRM
âStill You Turn Me Onâ, from Brain Salad Surgery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8VHHcd0M_o
âCâest La Vieâ from Works Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLPrIqr4o8 â a noisy, fuzzy live version!
From the first of their albums that I heard/owned - Works Volume 2 - the opener - âTiger in a Spotlightâ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5zuU7MFK7Q . They actually performed with a real live tiger on stage; I had no idea of that before now, and donât like to see animals in chains - at all. Such magnificent creatures do not belong in captivity, hence I will not post that clip. Despite the fact that said tiger looked fairly bored and appeared to be well fed, the song is probably a whole minute shorter, which is hardly surprising. What were they thinking?! Thumbs down on that ELP â disappointing!
⦠âPaper Bloodâ from Black Moon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_AN74BKlQ
And finally (and totally out of synch chronologically), from Trilogy -
[video=youtube;UtGjJVcrKQU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGjJVcrKQU[/video]
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im simply not a fan of Emerson,Lake and Palmer, just never got into their music...
I do love Greg's "i believe in father Christmas" though...fantastic song IMO
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1953: Alan Partridge:
vocalist and principle writer for UK band XTC...
i used to really like these guys back in the day but i never bought any of their material....
a correction i should make in 2016....!
[video=youtube;Jr8jEIQKgZI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8jEIQKgZI[/video]
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love XTC or Dukes Of Stratosphear
you need some
it's fun trying to guess who Ruby and CH will post in these threads
I'm frequently right
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I had no idea who Dukes Of Stratospear were until I just Wiki'd them...
see, you learn something everyday(mostly useless information, but useless information if better than nothing...lmao!)
for anybody else who doesn't know who DoS are, here's their Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Stratosphear
back to XTC....
anyone can answer this question, but it is in response to MH saying "love xtc".....
I would be pretty comfortable going after their studio albums(especially the early ones)...
so,
would that be a good idea or should I head for a compilation first?????
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Music Head Wrote:it's fun trying to guess who Ruby and CH will post in these threads
I'm frequently right
Lol! I do that too.
The odds are much improved in the dead thread. :biggrin1:
Bet you didn't see the next one coming ...
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Jevetta Steele was born on this day in 1963 and I recognise her name because of one particular song â âCalling Youâ, from the movie Bagdad Café. Sheâs a gospel singer and seems to have had a successful solo career as well as being one of âThe Steelesâ in her family gospel group.
âCalling Youâ has been covered by a few singers â some of whom I prefer not to mention! Jeff Buckley is not one of them - [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP_eHGYzYtc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP_eHGYzYtc
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⦠and the original from the film â
[video=youtube;dbax86veenA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbax86veenA[/video]
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1945: NEIL YOUNG:
that would make him 70 years young(pardon the pun!)
no introduction needed for this guy, we all know who he is and what he has achieved....
ranked #2 on the Rolling Stone list of 'most influential musicians of the 20th century'(Dylan is #1 on the list)
I could play any one of a hundred tracks of his I love, but i'll stick with one of the classics we all know this time round:
[video=youtube;DP9UjLeLN5A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A[/video]
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damn
I would have never guessed CH would post NY
Brian Hyland - born on this day in 1943 in NYC
that would make him 72
had a #1 with that dumb Yellow Polka Dotted Bikini thing
I prefer this #3 from 1962
and as always I love those dancers
[video=youtube;xIkUiD8N81k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIkUiD8N81k[/video]
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