Monday morning, a really excellent cover with three part harmony and Toni Lindgren’s big guitar. Lauren O’Connell on lead and Elle Cordova backing up.
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Monday morning, a really excellent cover with three part harmony and Toni Lindgren’s big guitar. Lauren O’Connell on lead and Elle Cordova backing up.
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Tap dancer Demi Remick tells the story through tap of the Legend of Zelda in the kingdom of Hyrule.
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The Tempos had the original song, but this version by The Happenings made the song a hit.
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Leonard Bernstein rehearses and conducts the orchestra for a 1984 recording of West Side Story. Oh, the perfection!
Thanks to YouTuber Cristiano Pieraccini
For the first time since I started this blog, I didn’t post a song on Monday–somehow I got confused about Labor Day and didn’t realize it was Monday yesterday. Anyway, here’s a special treat to make up for it: Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore with a perfectly delightful medley.
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One of the great songs that John Prine wrote in the last part of his career. Like the lyrics of Paul Simon, Prine’s lyrics tells you just enough about the story to intrigue you, but open enough to let you complete it with your own experience.
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Monday morning, a 1961 Carole King penned song for Bobby Vee, as sung in 1974.
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Woody Guthrie, who never had to deal with congestion pricing…
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Monday morning, Rick Danko and The Band start all over again
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The Smothers Brothers salute their Austrian friends…
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Brooklyn’s own cowboy, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Pete Seeger make some music.
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Monday morning, McCartney walks down the path. Paul reportedly hated Phil Spector’s epic orchestration and choral parts on this song, but somehow it works for me.
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Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Robbie Robertson on vocals on one of the great songs of all time IMO. This live version is from the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Big controversy on who wrote the song himself and whether Robbie was a shithead. Yeah, he probably was, but no matter now.
RIP Robbie Robertson
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Monday morning, the Sam Cooke song that I loved as a child. Sung by Elle Cordova, who used to go by the name of Reina del Cid
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Monday morning, a rare confluence of musicians.
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Carson McKee and his younger brother Skylar in a nice duet cover of the Bob Dylan song.
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This was really fun–comedian Art Carney guested on the Johnny Carson show and Carney, Carson and Sid Caesar ended up playing “My Blue Heaven” as a jazz trio, with Carney on piano, Carson on drums and Caesar on sax.
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Tony Bennett, one of the greats, as an artist, human being, and a New York City fixture for many years. He will be missed.
Towards the end of his life he was stricken by Alzheimer’s. According to Wikipedia, his son Danny said that “the Alzheimer’s was mainly affecting his father’s short term memory and that he would often forget he had just performed after a concert; his long term memory remained intact and he could still fully remember all the lyrics to his repertoire when performing.”
“Fly Me to the Moon,” without a mic.
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Still true…
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Monday Morning, a young 1963 Paul McCartney here, singing a lovely ballad from Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, with some great guitar work from George.
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This was an odd song that I really liked on the Sha Na Na album–not a doo wop song at all like their others, but a sweet clever folk-ish song. I don’t think it had any radio play, and I doubt it would fit in to any of their concerts, so I was really glad to find it on YouTube. Give it a try, I think you might like it.
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Monday morning, Sha Na Na. I saw these guys at Ferris Booth Hall when I was a student at Columbia University in the early 70s. I think most of them were Columbia alumni. I love the chaotic choreography.
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Monday morning, the traditional bluegrass song as played by many Toni Lindgrens.
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The great McCartney ballad…
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Monday Morning, a most unusual cover of a lesser known, but great early Beatles song. The guy who does this is really interesting–go to his channel and look at the variety of covers he does, all very well produced. I have no idea what his real name is, but he’s quite talented.
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