Looking Back At Some Classics

[Music Head]

^^
thank you

[SteveO]

You are most welcome my friend!!!!...lol...

[jazzboCR]

A good song...I like it!

This about "I Will Survive"--with exception of the obvious restrained synthesizer, these were all "natural" instruments. Can't imagine that happening today.

[jazzboCR]

good song, the cover that was released the other year was pretty good also

About "Lady Marmalade"--not a lot of pop songs about prostitutes. Here's a list--"Maggie May" a surprising entry but I have no doubt Rod Stewart knew that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:So...rostitutes

[jazzboCR]

Not hard to tell what it's about and even the group was surprised that the song got by radio
censors.

About "White Rabbit" and the magic time it's from: Those golden days of free-form radio when this would play one minute, a Charles LLoyd piece the next...We'll never see that again in these corporatist times, though there are some college radio survivors hanging on.
BTW, it's "dormouse" from their long hibernation periods--nothing to do with entryways. I'll spare you the Wiki link...

[jazzboCR]

had forgotten about the Soft Cell cover
a rare love rating for a cover

About "Where Did Our Love Go": Berry Gordy, Jr., savvy bizman that he was, would have 3-4 groups in the stable record a song then have a committee pick the best one (in their estimation) to release. There's been an album released of those alternate editions. Here from another Board is a discussion of that with some folk's better picks: http://soulfuldetroit.com/archive/index.php/t-1282.html

[jazzboCR]

Not my favorite Aretha song...however she's a legend and a powerhouse vocalist!

...And as this video shows, hadn't lost a step in the late '90's. She starts at 46:00: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-avSPCIrU

[jazzboCR]

another of those artists i have neglected over the years, think i only have their "dont be cruel" single on 7"vinyl, thats about it i think???

About Cheap Trick: Here's an interesting novelty item: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RICwpuU9o48

[jazzboCR]

I just love it when somebody presents a project. In this case it's going through the list and replacing all the clips that YouTube took down or don't exist. I'll start tomorrow...with the songs I like; the others can go hang. One thing you'll not find are Prince clips--he has battalions of lawyers preventing public use that he doesn't control.

[jazzboCR]

#453 - Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop - 1970

running recap for me - 3's=25, 2's=16, 1's=7
this one - *
from the album: Monkey Man
Written by Toots Hibbert
Produced by Leslie Kong
Chart action:

the players:
Toots Hibbert - lead vocal
other people - other stuff

One of the inventors of the genre. Then stupid americans hijacked it. Not a huge fan of reggae, but I do
appreciate it in it's purest form.

It's purest form in many cases is US pop/R&B with the beat turned around. Anybody wanting to know reggae from the jump should hie themselves to this album and the 3 that followed--surprises abound. Incidentally "Pressure Drop" is cut # 5 on this: http://www.allmusic.com/album/20-reggae-...0000197624 << I'm good for playing the set about once every 3-4 months.
Another thing: Why would a reasonable person expect cogent lyrics to dance-hall music? If you heard about 70-80% of Salsa tunes in translation, you either laugh your ass off or turn it off in disgust. Consider the genre, my man...and just go with the tune.