Looking Back At Some Classics

[jazzboCR]

classic songs are generally 'old ones'????

We should really go with "classic-era songs"--James Hunter and Sharon Jones in particular have mastered the art of writing new but sounding old.

[jazzboCR]

"*" from me also MH....

hardly earth shattering lyrics like "blowing in the wind" are they?

Dylan could have written this one on the toilet then used it wipe his arse!

Mighty sneery, aren't we? Name all Dylan's dance club hits. Aren't you forgetting where and to what purpose R&R/R&B came about? I give a flaming fricaseed flamingo about the lyrics if some songs help me get that woman horizontal. Sheesh. BTW, here's Blondie's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wh6heXgvek << like the Cauc version any better? I thought not.

[jazzboCR]

The Carpenters Christmas album is a big favorite in our house !!!! Karen's voice is simply from another planet !!!!!

I just love groups consisting of a total control freak and his anorexic sister who starved herself to death to meet others expectations. So fun.

[jazzboCR]

C'mon Everybody love it!

Eddie Cochran should merit more attention than a couple of chart hits--he was a master of his ax and pioneered important studio techniques: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-coc.../biography

[jazzboCR]

I really like this Metallica album, my favorite track on it is Nothing Else Matters. Enter Sandman is a good song too, it just got overplayed for a long time. I'd probably give it ** but only because I got sick of it there for a while.

I find it droll and amusing that 2 different baseball closing pitchers have it as their entrance song (actually written into their contracts). Life's little ironies. eh?

[jazzboCR]

#406 - Big Star - Thirteen - 1972 Many
artists have cited this band as an influence but with only 2 albums, I don't get it. Those
artists must not have had a very big collection of music. .

That's a churlish and mean-spirited thing to say, not to mention grossly ignorant. Read this and get schooled up: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/big-star-.../biography << what say ye now?

[jazzboCR]

#404 - Shangri-Las - Remember(Walkin' In The Sand) - 1964

running recap for me - 3's=49, 2's=38, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: various compilations
Written by George Morton
Produced by George Morton
Chart action: #5 US, #14 UK

the players:
Mary Weiss - lead vocal
Elizabeth Weiss - backing vocal
Marguerite Ganser - backing vocal
Mary Ganser - backing vocal
other people playing things

Always a sucker for the girl bands.

Me too, and "Shadow" Morton writing/producing was an imprimatur of success: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Morton

[jazzboCR]

#402 - Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child - 197 basically another one hit wonder.

Tru dat but...any Beatles fans hereabouts?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4a8vMZGaFg

[jazzboCR]

Holland/Dozier/Holland were brilliant songwriters IMO, and The Four Tops were the greatest Motown group of the mid 1960s IMO...love those guys and love that song immensely!!!!

Agreed and they kept basically the same group through the years. In case lip sync doesn't do it for you (see Lips Inc for that): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suxwtpQKYiE << "later" is not the same as "inauthentic" or "just showing up, going through the motions and collecting a check" (though we could all name folks who do). They stayed the Real Deal.

[jazzboCR]

great track from the Motown songbook IMO

Could not let that Stones version go by with just a mention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrq_ytvtjE << First, last, always the Rolling Stones are a White Boys R&B band--proof provided by whom they picked as opening acts through the years--absolute cream of the crop of American Black musicians/vocalists.