"To Know It Is To Lovett"
Read the whole thing on the wonderful The Conservative Woman blog. I especially liked his version of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man"
Showing posts with label ThingsILove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ThingsILove. Show all posts
Monday, November 26, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
The Evolution of a Folk Tale
This song is based on a true story, and has been passed down through the generations. I learned it as "Omie Weiss", but most of the recordings I've come across are "Omie Wise" or "Naomi Wise".
This is great version by Ida Harper and the Coon Creek Girls:
Here is an early version by Roscoe Holcomb:
This version is by Doc Watson:
And of course Bob Dylan:
This is the modern version by Newtown:
This is great version by Ida Harper and the Coon Creek Girls:
Here is an early version by Roscoe Holcomb:
This version is by Doc Watson:
And of course Bob Dylan:
This is the modern version by Newtown:
Friday, December 30, 2016
Falter
I always loved George Michael's voice. Being a fan wasn't really cool but I couldn't help singing along to his (mostly) infectious songs. But then, every once in a while, his genius shone out. One example is his live rendition of Elton John's "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" where Elton John joins him on stage.
The pinnacle of his beautiful voice, is, for me, showcased in his duet with Aretha Franklin; "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" Aretha is magnificent and George is more than up to the challenge. Even Mark Steyn was a fan.
RIP George Michael, a troubled and talented soul.
The pinnacle of his beautiful voice, is, for me, showcased in his duet with Aretha Franklin; "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" Aretha is magnificent and George is more than up to the challenge. Even Mark Steyn was a fan.
RIP George Michael, a troubled and talented soul.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Hell, Yes!
Oy, can't hardly believe it. So happy. Go Britain Go. Let's bring back the British eccentricity and uniqueness as shown in these videos. Brilliant stuff.
Land of Hope and Glory (which will actually mean something now, after 40 odd years of "Common Market" crap.)
Rule Brittania (Yes!)
And my personal favourite, Jerusalem:
Can't resist one more:
I Vow To Thee My Country
Land of Hope and Glory (which will actually mean something now, after 40 odd years of "Common Market" crap.)
Rule Brittania (Yes!)
And my personal favourite, Jerusalem:
Can't resist one more:
I Vow To Thee My Country
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Saturday, December 19, 2015
What day is it?
OK, It's Friday. How's about some tunes! i won't make any comments, I will just let you enjoy.
OK. I guess that is enough for one week.
OK. I guess that is enough for one week.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Saturday, December 12, 2015
The Chairman Of The Board
December 12th, 2015 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francis Albert Sinatra. I won't bore you here with any of the details of his life...all of that is easily available on-line.
What I will say is that Sinatra's music has played a huge part in my life, my mother was a big fan and my sister and I grew up with his music as a backdrop to our lives. So much so that there is hardly a Sinatra song that I cannot sing all the lyrics too. This fact amazes me to no end. How many times must I have heard these tunes to practically know every word all these years later?
Mark Steyn has a fabulous series on his blog, it's called Sinatra's Century and it documents Steyn's 100 top Sinatra tunes. There is no way I can showcase 100, but here is my top five list of Sinatra's I can't live without tunes. And yes, I did get to see him live once, on my birthday in 1976, at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver BC.
Number 1
Night and Day
Number 2
I've Got You Under My Skin
Number 3
Fly Me To The Moon
Number 4
I Get A Kick Out Of You (the cocaine version!)
Number 5
Come Fly With Me
What I will say is that Sinatra's music has played a huge part in my life, my mother was a big fan and my sister and I grew up with his music as a backdrop to our lives. So much so that there is hardly a Sinatra song that I cannot sing all the lyrics too. This fact amazes me to no end. How many times must I have heard these tunes to practically know every word all these years later?
Mark Steyn has a fabulous series on his blog, it's called Sinatra's Century and it documents Steyn's 100 top Sinatra tunes. There is no way I can showcase 100, but here is my top five list of Sinatra's I can't live without tunes. And yes, I did get to see him live once, on my birthday in 1976, at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver BC.
Number 1
Night and Day
Number 2
I've Got You Under My Skin
Number 3
Fly Me To The Moon
Number 4
I Get A Kick Out Of You (the cocaine version!)
Number 5
Come Fly With Me
Friday, December 4, 2015
Friday Night Blues
Brilliant American music, love the Blues. Special Friday night hugs going out to lady red, we luvs you lady x
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Paging Dr. Aridog
This is the amazing 1938 Carnegie Hall performance, all 12+ minutes of it. Sure good to keep that blood pumping. The newsreel footage of this is a joy to watch as it shows the tuxedos and evening gowns groove to the tune.
The story of this concert is something. As I recall, this concert was in danger of laying a really big egg and Gene Krupa realized that something had to be done. The result? The drumming in this recording. That gave the musicians a shot of adrenaline. Neither musicians nor audience members ever looked back after that.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Friday Night Blues
Kicking back with a large scotch after an awful week of travelling to the end of the word and back...I am so sick of being on a plane. Home now (as far as I know) until mid August. Love this music. Enjoy!
Monday, March 24, 2014
Saturday Night, 1972
Among other things, bandleader Neal Hefti is known for the theme song of the mid-1960’s TV show, Batman. Back then, if someone did music for a popular TV show, there had to be an album of music supposedly related to the show. In Hefti’s case, it was an album called “Hefti in Gotham City.”
On that album was a cut called “Gotham City Municipal Swing Band.” That cut was an ersatz marching band tune.
I don’t know how many dozens of copies that album sold, but “Gotham City Municipal Swing Band” was the type of song that would have been used on small-town radio stations as a sport theme or perhaps on a TV station as a kiddie-show theme. To residence of the San Francisco Bay Area, though, that tune is remembered as the theme of “Creature Features,” KTVU’s weekly horror film show. The host of that show was Bob Wilkins. Bob Wilkins was not your typical horror movie host. No, he was not Elvira, nor was he Svengooly. He was, well, Bob Wilkins:
Bob would spend some of his on camera time reading the TV Guide listings for Saturday night, asking why you were watching him. He was very droll and had a very dry wit. Those things, along with his ever-present cigar, made him a cult favorite in the Bay Area. From the Neal Hefti theme to Wilkins’s arid sense of humor, Creature Features was a part of that long-ago era.
The summer of 1972 was a special time for me. My oldest brother and his wife were living at home; my other brother was home from college, and I was getting ready to enter my junior year in high school. There were a number of things the three of us would gather around and watch together. Saturday night offered the most memorable programs of them all. The night would start with Creature Features on channel 2 from Oakland.
Later in the evening, or night, we would watch – thanks to that modern marvel of cable TV – a late night movie on KCRA from Sacramento. That movie was hosted by a guy named Geoff Wong. Curiously enough, Bob Wilkins used to work for KCRA and hosted a Saturday night movie. When he left, the station showed movies without a host. Their ratings went into the gutter. They asked Wilkins if he might suggest a new host. Wilkins suggested a friend named Geoff Wong. With that, the “Charlie Chan Film Festival was born.
Wong would show old Charlie Chan movies from the ‘30’s and ‘40’s. One week he had as a guest Victor Sen Young. Young, most remembered as playing the cook Hop Sing on the TV show Bonanza, had played Charlie Chan’s number 2 son to Sidney Tolar’s Chan. As I recall, the show was taped on Tuesday. Between the Tuesday taping and the Saturday airing, Young was shot in an attempted plane hijacking when flying out of San Francisco International Airport.
The regular guests on the show, whether they had anything to do with the old movies or not, tended to wear skimpy attire. Wong was especially happy to have Playboy Playmates as guests.
One of the fun parts of the show, though, was that Wong offered a secret decoder ring for 25 or 50 cents. Week after week Wong would give a message in code for people to decode with their rings. Of course, my family didn’t need no stinking ring. We would dutifully take down the secret message every week. We had vowed to crack that secret code no matter how long it took. My mother, who had an intense dislike for TV and would never stay up late to watch an old movie, even joined in the quest for the elusive code. It was a family project. Every Sunday morning we would look at the latest message, add it to the previous messages, and see what we could do. I don’t know how many months it took us to crack the code, but we finally did. We were happy we didn’t send in the money.
A few months later, KCRA added the Sherlock Holmes Film Festival to its Saturday Night programming. That would last until about 2 AM. One summer morning I stayed up until dawn; the first time I ever did so. Somewhere I have a slide of the morning sunrise from my bedroom window taken that morning.
It is hard to believe that this was over forty years ago. Sometimes I feel sorry for young people today who do not have such memory making things. I hope they find some anyway.
I don’t know how many dozens of copies that album sold, but “Gotham City Municipal Swing Band” was the type of song that would have been used on small-town radio stations as a sport theme or perhaps on a TV station as a kiddie-show theme. To residence of the San Francisco Bay Area, though, that tune is remembered as the theme of “Creature Features,” KTVU’s weekly horror film show. The host of that show was Bob Wilkins. Bob Wilkins was not your typical horror movie host. No, he was not Elvira, nor was he Svengooly. He was, well, Bob Wilkins:
Bob would spend some of his on camera time reading the TV Guide listings for Saturday night, asking why you were watching him. He was very droll and had a very dry wit. Those things, along with his ever-present cigar, made him a cult favorite in the Bay Area. From the Neal Hefti theme to Wilkins’s arid sense of humor, Creature Features was a part of that long-ago era.
The summer of 1972 was a special time for me. My oldest brother and his wife were living at home; my other brother was home from college, and I was getting ready to enter my junior year in high school. There were a number of things the three of us would gather around and watch together. Saturday night offered the most memorable programs of them all. The night would start with Creature Features on channel 2 from Oakland.
Later in the evening, or night, we would watch – thanks to that modern marvel of cable TV – a late night movie on KCRA from Sacramento. That movie was hosted by a guy named Geoff Wong. Curiously enough, Bob Wilkins used to work for KCRA and hosted a Saturday night movie. When he left, the station showed movies without a host. Their ratings went into the gutter. They asked Wilkins if he might suggest a new host. Wilkins suggested a friend named Geoff Wong. With that, the “Charlie Chan Film Festival was born.
Wong would show old Charlie Chan movies from the ‘30’s and ‘40’s. One week he had as a guest Victor Sen Young. Young, most remembered as playing the cook Hop Sing on the TV show Bonanza, had played Charlie Chan’s number 2 son to Sidney Tolar’s Chan. As I recall, the show was taped on Tuesday. Between the Tuesday taping and the Saturday airing, Young was shot in an attempted plane hijacking when flying out of San Francisco International Airport.
The regular guests on the show, whether they had anything to do with the old movies or not, tended to wear skimpy attire. Wong was especially happy to have Playboy Playmates as guests.
One of the fun parts of the show, though, was that Wong offered a secret decoder ring for 25 or 50 cents. Week after week Wong would give a message in code for people to decode with their rings. Of course, my family didn’t need no stinking ring. We would dutifully take down the secret message every week. We had vowed to crack that secret code no matter how long it took. My mother, who had an intense dislike for TV and would never stay up late to watch an old movie, even joined in the quest for the elusive code. It was a family project. Every Sunday morning we would look at the latest message, add it to the previous messages, and see what we could do. I don’t know how many months it took us to crack the code, but we finally did. We were happy we didn’t send in the money.
A few months later, KCRA added the Sherlock Holmes Film Festival to its Saturday Night programming. That would last until about 2 AM. One summer morning I stayed up until dawn; the first time I ever did so. Somewhere I have a slide of the morning sunrise from my bedroom window taken that morning.
It is hard to believe that this was over forty years ago. Sometimes I feel sorry for young people today who do not have such memory making things. I hope they find some anyway.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Friday Night (Country) Music
I've been on a country music kick for the past few months. I blame Nashville.
Here are some selections I've been listening to lately:
The Highwaymen
Johnny Cash and Kris K (Be still my heart!)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
Pancho and Lefty
Patsy (oh how I love you) Cline
Your Cheatin' Heart
Enjoy!
Or not.
Here are some selections I've been listening to lately:
The Highwaymen
Johnny Cash and Kris K (Be still my heart!)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
Pancho and Lefty
Patsy (oh how I love you) Cline
Your Cheatin' Heart
Enjoy!
Or not.
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