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by Bequia
Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:34 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

Three before I go missing for a bit; First, a Donovan song as sung by 2 sisters: Catch The Wind, Joan Baez and Mimi Farina, 1968 ...one by someone whose lastest CD is about Natural Forces: If I Had A Boat, Lyle Lovett, 1987 and one of my favorites for which a previous link has been made inactive by ...
by Bequia
Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:51 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

Just to shake things up a bit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHhB9zV_rQ&feature=related :twisted: ... singing a different "pretty" song may have helped prevent the "Grundy Incident" I Feel Pretty, Adam Sandler & Jack Nicholson, Anger Management , 2003 I Feel Pretty, Wes...
by Bequia
Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:22 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Lucky Dube
Replies: 11
Views: 3515

Re: Lucky Dube

Crime and Corruption, Lucky Dube, 1999 : Do you ever worry About your car being taken away from you In broad daylight Down highway 54 Do you ever worry About your wife becoming The woman in black Do you ever worry About leaving home and Coming back in a coffin With a bullet through your head So joi...
by Bequia
Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:12 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

John - Rain and Tears by Aphrodite's Child has a familiar melody - a popular youtube video highlights many other songs that use the chord progression from Pachelbel's Canon in D: Pachelbel Rant, Rob Paravonian Here is the Canon in D: Pachelbel, Canon in D (c1694) Here is a personal favorite that Par...
by Bequia
Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:18 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

You've got to have the "Fish Cheer" in "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die"...you should cut and re-paste...the full version is on youtube. ... wasn't sure if the up-front language (vs. what is slipped into the song) might offend some but it's there now - with a parental warning, of co...
by Bequia
Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:26 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

Definitely time for Country Joe and the Fish! One of their lesser know songs that is a favorite: Who Am I, Country Joe and the Fish, 1967 It's hard to believe group did not get an Oscar for their acting and music in a 1971 "Acid Western": The Crackers, Poor But Honest Crackers, from Zacha...
by Bequia
Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:11 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

Hi everyone,I've managed to move on from '72 to 1977! This is another instrumental ,from Space Descendants of the Spotnicks whom John posted???? Another from Space Disco: I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, Hot Gossip, 1978 ...the group's singer singing to the moon later on: La Luna, Sarah Brigh...
by Bequia
Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:53 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

A couple of other horn players with hits in the '60's: Java, Al Hirt, 1964 Grazing In The Grass, Hugh Masekela, 1968 Masekela can also be heard on this hit: So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star, The Byrds, 1967 ... and would later be among the South Africans accompanying Paul Simon on the 1987 tou...
by Bequia
Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:15 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

After Wild Man Fischer from the streets of LA, here are a few from a Venice Beach "street musician" who occasionally came into some recognition but always seemed to find a way back to the boardwalk: Ted Hawkins: Watch Your Step, 1982 Don't Make Me Explain It, 1985 Searching For My Love, 19...
by Bequia
Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:47 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

On Creeque Alley in St. Thomas, where you might have once heard some visitors: You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover, Mugwumps, 1964 you might now hear the sounds of a group from another of the US Virgin Islands, St, Croix: Love The LIfe You Live, Midnite, 2001 (a look at the group here ). From Velvet...
by Bequia
Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:47 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

The "Go Now" songwriters, Larry Banks and Milton Bennett, offered the Moody Blues a song to follow-up that hit; they passed on it and Kenny Carter did one of the great forgotten/missed gems of soul (song begins 1:14 into this clip - be patient; it's worth the wait!): Showdown, Kenny Carter...
by Bequia
Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:22 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

Early versions of Webb’s PF Sloan were by someone with an association to Leonard: P.F. Sloan, Jennifer Warnes, 1972 as well as the one Michael mentions by the group best known for this: Cherish, The Association, 1966 The Association passed on Mac Arthur Park which was presented to them as part of a ...
by Bequia
Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:45 am
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

...after Percy Faith's reminder of summer, the death theme, and Brian Augur's Czechoslovakia: Theme From Endless Summer, The Sandals, 1966 Gone, Gonna Rise Again, Si Kahn, 1974 (recent performance) Toxika, The Plastic People of The Universe, 1974 ...interesting story to that Czech group told briefly...
by Bequia
Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:26 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

... who would have thought Ziggy could have been a vaudeville star ... A song in the music hall tradition that became a hit: Winchester Cathedral, New Vaudeville Band, 1966 … written by Geoff Stephens, who put the band together, as was another song on their album that would hit as a cover: There's A...
by Bequia
Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:36 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard
Replies: 252
Views: 41311

Re: Songs that may be forgotten, or many people have never heard

A 1958 hit with backup vocals similar to what is on Bowie's Laughing Gnome : Witch Doctor, David Seville, 1958 Seville, under his name-by-birth of Ross Bagdasarian, had previously written a well known song: Come On A My House, Rosemary Clooney, 1954 which would later be sung by a pop diva in a film:...

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