I thought I knew the whole Simon and Garfunkel catalogue, but somehow I just found this song, which is from their first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM. The song was written by Ian Campbell.
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Monday morning, we give thanks that we were born into the time of Judy Collins singing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne,” as perfect a match between singer and song as there will ever be. Here she is at Tanglewood in 1968.
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Monday morning, Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, flying high.
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Monday morning, meteorological musings, as sung by Ms. Baez.
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Dionne Warwick with another great Burt Bacharach-Hal David song.
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Monday morning, Josh Turner sounding more like Paul Simon than Paul Simon.
Great guitar arrangement too.
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Couldn’t find a better singer for the quadruple-rhyming Lorenz Hart lyric with the Richard Rodgers melody bouncing along.
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Was your correspondent deepfaked by a deepfake? And who owns your voice anyway?
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear “The Mystery of Holly Plus” as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio show, heard on WBAI-FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
Monday Morning, Louis Armstrong and Eileen Farrell with a great duet. If this doesn’t bring a smile to your lips, seriously, check your pulse.
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The Great Ella with a terrific song by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Not to be confused with Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It, Lets Fall in Love.”
Accompanied by the Billy May Orchestra, from the Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book.
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Monday morning, Josh Turner and Allison Young skating and scatting to a tune by Vince Guaraldi from the perennial Charlie Brown television specials.
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Monday morning, reflecting on Saturday Night with the Drifters.
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The Platters, featuring the voice of Tony Williams, in a video starring what’s her name again?
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Monday morning, an old classic covered impeccably. The Belfast band, Dea Matrona, consisting of Mollie McGinn and Orlaith Forsythe, makes me realize just how good this song sounds with female voices.
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Elise Ecklund had me furiously writing down these jokes, which I can’t wait to spring on my son.
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Here’s a terrific performance of Dionne Warwick singing “Make It Easy On Yourself”–happening eight years later than it should have.
Here’s the story, with thanks to Wikipedia: Back in 1962, when Warwick was still a back-up singer, the songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David asked her to make a demo version of the song. The demo was so good that the record label picked up the song–but they gave it to veteran soul singer Jerry Butler to record–and it was a hit. Three years later, The Walker Brothers, a white pop trio, had a hit with the song as well. It wasn’t until 1970 that a live performance by Dionne Warwick was released and the song became a hit once again.
Click on the video and see if you don’t agree that eight years was too long to wait, and that she owns the song.
The postscript to the story is that Warwick was so angry at Bacharach and David for letting the song go to Jerry Butler, that she told them in anger, “Don’t make me over!” And Bacharach and David wrote a song for her with that title–which she recorded!–and that too became a hit.
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Monday Morning, Marilyn McCoo singing one of her hit songs some 35 years later and sounding just fine.
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About 58 years ago, Malcolm X was murdered, but his legacy has only grown in the ensuing years. In 1986, Anthony Davis, composer, and Thulani Davis, the playwright and poet, wrote an opera about Malcolm X called X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Although it did have a premiere at New York City Opera, it was never recorded commercially in full. Since then, the opera has been revised with a tighter libretto. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project has just released the world premiere of a new recording of the opera, starring Davone Tines as Malcolm X. With permission, here are excerpts from that opera.
Click on the triangle or MP3 link above to hear the opera selections as broadcast on the Arts Express program this morning on WBAI FM NY and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
Roberta Flack’s publicist gave the sad news yesterday that she will not be able to sing again due to ALS. One of the great expressive singers of the 70s and afterwards, this song was named one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine. Supposedly, co-writer Lori Lieberman wrote the song about singer Don McLean (“American Pie,” “Vincent”).
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Really great live performance at a club in Belgium of the Hal David-Burt Bacharach song.
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