misswonderly3 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Change of pace from our pal Johnny...A while ago, on the "Beatles" thread (in General Discussions), a tangential conversation emerged for a while (hey, I got to use the word "tangential") about soul, which led to Motown, which led to the girl group sound of the early '60s. I don't believe Lesley Gore (a white young lady) was on the Motown label, but she certainly had the girl group spirit. I always thought this song was kind of funny, and also catchy, in a girl groupy kind of way (ok, finance, I know, she wasn't a "group". But I can say what I like because You Don't Own Me.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 That was the first Lesley Gore song that really grabbed me. After her bubbly-gummy Johnny and Judy initial hits which didn't do much for me, she embarked on a string of powerhouse performances starting with 'She's a Fool', and hit the penultimate dramatic reading of 'You Don't Own Me' right after. How can anyone not love that string-pulled middle eight? I was talking to my daughter about the song one day, assuming she was aware of it - and she wasn't. So I sang it for her and she was astonished to learn that it was from 1964 - a time when she assumed such a liberated sentiment would've never been expressed in a hit pop song. Lesley Gore was my favorite "girl" singer of the mid-60's. In addition to her wonderful balladry, she was very, very easy on the eyes. Speaking of eyes, hers were amazing - see the photos in the link. My favorite "hit" song of hers was the relatively minor hit from early 1965 - the up-tempo but heartbreak-lyrical 'Look of Love'. For some reason it always affected me deeply, imagining how she felt being still in love with her ex and having to watch him at a dance with his new love. Still gets me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEnhjKBjV68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Change of pace from our pal Johnny...A while ago, on the "Beatles" thread (in General Discussions), a tangential conversation emerged for a while (hey, I got to use the word "tangential") about soul, which led to Motown, which led to the girl group sound of the early '60s. I don't believe Lesley Gore (a white young lady) was on the Motown label, but she certainly had the girl group spirit. I always thought this song was kind of funny, and also catchy, in a girl groupy kind of way (ok, finance, I know, she wasn't a "group". But I can say what I like because You Don't Own Me.) Lesley Gore, unlike Teena Marie (who WAS on Motown), could never qualify as a blue-eyed soulstress. She was, nevertheless, very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Glad you liked it, db baby. I always kind of enjoy it, love the minor key and the vague aura of drama within it. finance, some day soon I'll post a song by your beloved Teena Marie. This is a very serious song, with deeply significant lyrics. This is what can come of not wearing socks. Shake it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Great track, Edith! Those pictures are pure 1970 McCartney. 1970 and 1971 were fabulous hippie years for me - I LOVED that time in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisSteele Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 After he found out that Phil Spector was in the neighboring studio, McCartney was taking no chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Here's one of my favorite not so well known McCartney tracks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Great track, Edith! Those pictures are pure 1970 McCartney. 1970 and 1971 were fabulous hippie years for me - I LOVED that time in my life. If you were a hippie in '70 and '71, you were a bit late to the party, which had just about ended by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 The good times went on a little longer in Canada. Considerably less animosity up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Right. I actually associate the 70s, at least the first half of that decade, as a continuation of hippydom. But by then it was more about "getting back to the land", granola, long flowing flowered wraparound skirts, and meditation (or pretending to meditate) than about lsd and psychedelia. So, tomorrow night I'm going to Toronto to see Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois perform at Massey Hall. Apparently they're just doing this one album, "Wrecking Ball", which is ok with me, since I love this album, every single track on it. People like Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois are, to me, about "real" music. What I mean by that is, they don't care if they're in or out of style, they've just always made the same kind of music, which is just really good music. Labels don't matter to them. If you really want to label them (like, if you were working in that rapidly disappearing retail space, a CD shop, and you needed to shelve their CDs in a specific section), I suppose you could put them in "Folk" or "Country" or "Roots" or something like that. (And yes, there is a vast amount of music that I love that does not fall under the above categories, but is just as "real" to me. ) These are two tracks, the original studio versions, I think, from Wrecking Ball : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxlEg5Lkk4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Moby Extreme Ways from 'The Bourne Identity' (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyN8qrUqxM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Right. I actually associate the 70s, at least the first half of that decade, as a continuation of hippydom. But by then it was more about "getting back to the land", granola, long flowing flowered wraparound skirts, and meditation (or pretending to meditate) than about lsd and psychedelia. So, tomorrow night I'm going to Toronto to see Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois perform at Massey Hall. Apparently they're just doing this one album, "Wrecking Ball", which is ok with me, since I love this album, every single track on it. People like Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois are, to me, about "real" music. What I mean by that is, they don't care if they're in or out of style, they've just always made the same kind of music, which is just really good music. Labels don't matter to them. If you really want to label them (like, if you were working in that rapidly disappearing retail space, a CD shop, and you needed to shelve their CDs in a specific section), I suppose you could put them in "Folk" or "Country" or "Roots" or something like that. (And yes, there is a vast amount of music that I love that does not fall under the above categories, but is just as "real" to me. ) These are two tracks, the original studio versions, I think, from Wrecking Ball : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxlEg5Lkk4 I eat an extremely healthy diet, but I'll draw the line at granola.Looks as if whatever hippie tendencies I once had have gone by the boards.......... There were actually very few songs that used the word "hippie" The closest I can come at first thought is Ten Years After's "I'd Love to Change the World", which mentions "Freaks and Hairies".. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Ball of confusion temptations "" hippies movin' To the hills "" Of course, in the Orlons' "South Street" (1963), "hippie" had an entirely different meaning..."Where do all the hippies meet?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 One more Emmylou Harris track, and then I'll give it a rest. This is May This be Love, from Jimi Hendrix's first album, "Are You Experienced?" Nobody knows why he didn't call it "Waterfall". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B27k0Kt8Rk This is Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois' version: I never paid much attention to this Hendrix song before, I don't know why not. It's a gem, its lyrics as meaningful and lovely as its music. Edit: Unfortunately I could not find a youtube vid of the Harris' studio version of this, and its majesty doesn't come across quite the same on the live rendition of it I ended up using here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Here's the latest from BEATS ANTIQUE (http://beatsantique.com/) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheGayDivorcee Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 My favorite band is Sparks. They are brothers from Pacific Palisades, California, and have been performing for over 40 years. They loved Jacques Tati, and were planning to make a movie, "Confusion," with him, but he died before it came about. It was to take place in a television studio. There was even talk that Monseiur Hulot was to be killed--quelle horror!-- in the first reel. I guess we'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGayDivorcee Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Just one more video from Sparks, about 30 years after the previous one. It is from their album "Lil' Beethoven." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 You want to touch my monkey - but now is the time on Sprockets when we dance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Well, it's Easter thyme. Here be Oscar Peterson with Easter Parade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDBgwV5RDuE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYAvTNR07Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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misswonderly3 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Bet nobody associates Roxy Music with Easter-ish (or anyway, religious) songs. But they did at least two, Triptych and this one, Psalm. So, here's the vaguely Easter-ish Psalm, from Mr. Ferry and company: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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