darkblue Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I've loved this sweet cover by Dion ever since I first listened to it back in 1968. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Realistic love song: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 This thread appears to go along the lines of "feast or famine". Or, if you prefer another maxim, "It never rains but it pours". It'll sit on the forum here, sometimes floating alarmingly close to the bottom of the page (I just like the word "alarmingly", I'm not really alarmed), for a few days, and then boom (or boom box), a bunch of us are inspired to post all around the same time. So guys, I have some catching up to do here by way of listening to all this music that's been proffered here lately. I just want to say (blahblah do only self-aggrandizing people say "I just want to say"? Hope not) that every time someone posts some piece of music here, I feel honour-bound to give it at least one listen. It's like the one posting is saying "I like this and I want to share it with others." It's a kind of generosity, as well as an expression about how they're connected to music. finance, too, because he may not post music here, but he comments and suggest. Frig, I'm making a beeeg deal about an ordinary little thread. Sorry. Maybej, with this sort of blathering, I should have been a politician (NO ! kidding !) Anyway, Kay, I listened to those Lonnie Johnson tunes you posted. Very nice. My impression is he's more about popular music from the 20s and 30s than blues. Maybe kind of a genre-crosser. (Nothing to do with cross-dressing, see the "Drag" thread for that.) Here's another Johnson, Tommy, who was what they call a "Delta blues" singer and guitarist from around the same time. He had a remarkable voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Awesome tracks from the 2009 movie "Public Enemies". This song really captures not only the essence of the film, but the era it takes place in as well as good ol' fashioned turn of the century lifestyle & the birth of this great nation. I love the film PUBLIC ENEMIES, it shows me someone can still make a quality film today . And the soundtrack music is terrific, it really adds to the movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I love the film PUBLIC ENEMIES, it shows me someone can still make a quality film today . And the soundtrack music is terrific, it really adds to the movie. Yeah definitely, thanks for showing your support of this great landmark film. Awesome performances from every cast member & Michael Mann's directing is over the top outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Looks like Halloween came early this year.......or did it?!?!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0B4Nae_LeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 MissW, thanks for giving Lonnie a shot, I'm glad you liked him. The two songs I posted aren't typical of his early style, but were a couple of the earliest recordings where I detected a move away from the blues, which is what he mostly recorded back then. Not counting his instrumental contributions, both solo and with the great Eddie Lang. Those are probably his most renown recordings. Later on his instrumental prowess book a backseat to his vocals on jazz classics and early R&B. Here is a standout rendition of an old standard that he did in the early 60s, I think. Thanks for the Tommy Johnson, also. It's interesting that you chose to post him, I was listening to one of his tunes the other day on the same kick that's taking me through Lonnie Johnson's sentimental recordings, as Tommy did a sweet one, too. I agree he had an astounding falsetto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I just want to say ... that every time someone posts some piece of music here, I feel honour-bound to give it at least one listen. It's like the one posting is saying "I like this and I want to share it with others." It's a kind of generosity, as well as an expression about how they're connected to music. I hope that you do not feel honour-bound to listen to all that I post! They are mostly songs which I like greatly and which I feel some others might like if they knew of them but I recognize that most people do not like to listen to songs which are in a language which they do not understand. I like many songs of which I do not understand any of the words and I enjoy the shape of the music but I know that I am in great minority in this attitude. It is difficult also for me to determine whether I would like some songs if I did not know what the words mean and so it may be that some of what I post will not appeal in the manner which I find of songs which I like which are in a language which I do not know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Dino got hip to the "young sound" with this 1966 chart hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHmFITFeK4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 A quaint little number: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KOFfzb3lQ&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 A fun little song: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MultiEye Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Awesome progressive metal band. Heavy but classy with their music.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK16zboigaI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casablanca100views Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 The title was mentioned in passing in another thread, I had to hear it again. I haven't heard this in a few decades.. I suppose I should have been watching 2001:A Space Odyssey Khachaturian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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misswonderly3 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 As the dwarf in Twin Peaks said, "Let's rock !" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NH-Sh7-7-g For those who are thinking "how many more times"" can they listen to this, here's a live version" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGayDivorcee Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 The aria from Madame Butterfly never fails to make me weep. (We're talking torrents, vast bucketfuls of tears.) Here's a variation by the late Malcolm McClaren that I also find moving (and visually stunning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78l0K8JM9H8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGayDivorcee Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 How do I love thee, Morrissey? Let me count the (Strange) ways.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metairie Road Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Bobby Womack (1944-2014)When I think of the early 1970's (I was in high-school), I think of Soul/Funk music. Bobby Womack was one of the best.Bobby Womack - Lookin' for a Love Bobby Womack - I Can Understand It Calvin Richardson - I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You I actually prefer this version by Calvin Richardson over Bobby's version. The strings nail it, even if they are synthesized.Best wishesMetairie Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I was saddened when I heard of Bobby Womack's death. 70. That doesn't even sound all that old to me now. Here's a tune he wrote in the early '60s. The Stones made it famous, but his version's pretty darn good too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiC9d7JvD3A 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGayDivorcee Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 This song always reminds me of summer and the possibility of something magical about to happen.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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