Song Of The Day.

[CanuckTravlr]

A choral version of The Naval Hymn.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

BIG JOE TURNER. Shake, Rattle & Roll. Live 1954 Performance from Rhythm & Blues Revue

 

[Talent312]

Today, my disabled wife's caretaker and I were watching TV.
The Northern TP ad with "We Quilt This City," came on.
She had no idea that the ad was based on an actual song.
Nor did she know who Grace Slick was. "I was born in 1993."
Gawd...

 

[CanuckTravlr]

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Nina Simone "I Loves You Porgy" on The Ed Sullivan Show

 

[CanuckTravlr]

This is amongst the earliest pop type songs I remember hearing on the radio as a child. Most of them date from the period 1956 to 1958. I would have been 6 to 8 years old. Let's call it Throwback Thursday.

 

[easyrider]

Today, my disabled wife's caretaker and I were watching TV.
The Northern TP ad with "We Quilt This City," came on.
She had no idea that the ad was based on an actual song.
Nor did she know who Grace Slick was. "I was born in 1993."
Gawd...

We saw the latest version of Jeffersons Starship in concert a while back. They were "not bad".

Bill

 

[easyrider]

One of the first records I remember is Down Town.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

These are a few of the earliest songs I remember.

 

[CanuckTravlr]

These are a few of the earliest songs I remember.

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I remember all of those great songs as well, all from 1957 to 1959. So we must be of very similar age?. Here's another fun one from 1958.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I remember all of those great songs as well, all from 1957 to 1959. So we must be of very similar age?. Here's another fun one from 1958.

I remember that one. Here is another.

 

[CanuckTravlr]

I remember that one. Here is another.

Yup. I remember that one, too!! It came out in 1959, the same year that Buddy Holly died, after releasing the apocryphal "That'll be the Day" two years earlier in 1957. And of course, there is the even earlier (1955) "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets. And we haven't even mentioned Elvis!!!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets. And we haven't even mentioned Elvis!!!

I didn't mention those because, while I know them well, I'm just a few years too young to know them when they first came out.

Here are some more I remember from when they were released. re Suzie Q, I wonder how many other white artists recorded for Chess?

 

[CanuckTravlr]

I remember all those hits as well, although I'm not sure I have heard the 1960 "Love Potion No. 9" version by The Clovers before. The one I am familiar with is by The Searchers. It came out in 1963. I had just entered high school.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

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I remember all those hits as well, although I'm not sure I have heard the 1960 "Love Potion No. 9" version by The Clovers before. The one I am familiar with is by The Searchers. It came out in 1963. I had just entered high school.

The Searchers Love Potion No. 9 was my introduction to disappointing covers. In the version by the Clovers, they have a deep bass voice on the line "I took a drink" (1:52 in the Clovers video). I loved it; for me that was a signature moment in the recording. Then, when I heard the Searchers I was skeptical almost from the start, and when they didn't even have that bass voice, I wrote it off mentally.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing. With Gene Krupa on drums and Harry James on trumpet. Live performance.

Or, if all you want is audio, here is the classic 12-minute performance at the legendary 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Ástor Piazzolla - Oblivion (Gidon Kremer, Per Arne Glorvigen, Vadim Sakharov, Alois Posch)

Oblivion is my favorite Piazzolla tango, and it has become something of signature piece for Lithuanian violinist Gidon Kremer.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Ástor Piazzolla - Oblivion (Gidon Kremer, Per Arne Glorvigen, Vadim Sakharov, Alois Posch)

Oblivion is my favorite Piazzolla tango, and it has become something of signature piece for Lithuanian violinist Gidon Kremer.

I hope I'm not breaking the "rules" for this thread.

Tango, of course, is as much visual as it is aural. So here's a beautiful tango dance.