Monday morning, meteorological music with Lou Christie.
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Monday morning, meteorological music with Lou Christie.
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Dionne Warwick with another great Burt Bacharach-Hal David song.
Thanks to YouTuber R472 Funk Channel TV.
Monday Morning, Marilyn McCoo singing one of her hit songs some 35 years later and sounding just fine.
Thanks to YouTuber MOR Music Clips
Really great live performance at a club in Belgium of the Hal David-Burt Bacharach song.
Thanks to YouTuber Gazely Gaze
Monday morning Messrs. McCartney and Lennon let George sing one.
From A Hard Day’s Night.
Thanks to YouTuber vinylman1973return
Monday Morning, Walden Robert Cassotto (that’s Bobby Darin to most of us) with the Steve Allen standard; and “Just in Time” from Bells are Ringing
Thanks to YouTuber The Ed Sullivan Show
Monday Morning, Nat King Cole tells his story. Lots of versions of this song from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Mathis to Linda Ronstadt, but my favorite by far is Nat King Cole’s version. No pyrotechnics, just pure and simple singing with tasteful accompaniment.
I was surprised to see who wrote this song!
Thanks to YouTuber catman916
Reina del Cid, Toni Lindgren, Sarah Morris, and Andrew Foreman do justice with this cover of Carole King’s song for the Chiffons.
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Monday, Morning, Josh Turner throws a party for his friends in Prospect Park, Brooklyn and they all make some great music. Bubbles, too!
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Monday morning we salute Judith Durham of the Seekers who died this month. The 1964 hit featured the Australian singer’s wonderful voice which would ring out from the harmonies of her band mates. They had other hits including the theme song to the film, Georgy Girl, but this song is my favorite of theirs.
Thanks to YouTuber Classic Hits {Stereo}
Sung by the exquisite Carmen McRae. The don’t-make-em-like-that-anymore music and lyrics are by Richard Whiting and George Marion Jr.
Richard Whiting was the father of singer Margaret Whiting and also the composer of “Hooray for Holywood” and “She’s Funny That Way.”
Thanks to WBAI’s Reggie Johnson for a great two hour radio special on Carmen McRae where I first heard these songs.
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Monday morning Carmen McRae gives her advice.
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Reina Del Cid, Toni Lindgren, Josh Turner and Carson McKee creating their own magic with this ELO cover.
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Monday morning, waking up in a new place with The Mamas & The Papas
Thanks to YouTuber TheFreddyShow
From the falsetto seventies, this Philly sound inspired R&B record was a million-seller hit. It’s Ted Mills who is the lead singer hitting those high notes..
Thanks to YouTuber WillFareed63
Monday morning, Dino Crocetti, aka Dean Martin, slips into something comfortable.
Thanks to YouTuber VintageComedyClips
Monday morning, Brooklyn’s own The Five Discs with John Carbone on lead. While they never had any big commercial successes, this once inter-racial group was recognized by other Doo-Woopers as one of the great purveyors of that kind of song.
Thanks to YouTuber PJDooWop
It was a “rilly biggg shoo” when Ms. Francis, and Mr. Darin sung together on Mr. Sullivan’s stage
Thanks to YouTuber The Ed Sullivan Show
Astronomy, as told by Sly and the Family Stone.
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Rolling Stone magazine named them the Greatest singing duo ever. They influenced everyone from the Beatles to Simon and Garfunkel. Phil and Don Everly, brothers whose artistic and business partnership was famously contentious, make some of the most beautiful harmonies ever in pop music.
They called “Let It Be Me” the most beautiful song they had ever recorded.
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Thanks to YouTuber Orvil Morris
Monday Morning, Chan Poling’s band, The Suburbs.
It’s a catchy song, but on reading about it, I found Chan dedicated the song to the memory of his deceased wife, Eleanor, the daughter of Walter Mondale, who died at 51.
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Thanks to YouTuber MN Original
Monday morning, Stevie Wonder at the age of 22 killing it on Sesame Street, of all places, with “Superstition.” Still great.
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“Superstition”
Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders ’bout to fall,
Thirteen-months-old baby broke the lookin’ glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin’ strong,
You don’t wanna save me, sad is my song
When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way, yeah, yeah
Very superstitious, nothin’ more to say,
Very superstitious, the devil’s on his way,
Thirteen-months-old baby broke the lookin’ glass,
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no
Thanks to YouTuber Ryan’s Smashing Life
With the madness of the last week it’s nice to just relax and give oneself up to an artist who is totally in control of her talent.
Lady Gaga sings a jazz/pop version of the Rodgers and Hart standard that promises a lot and delivers a lot.
She sang this often on her 2015 tour, and if you look on YouTube, you can see that in every performance the vocal arrangement is different, she’s clothed in a different costume and wig, and yet every performance is right on the money. Really a rare talent.
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Thanks to YouTuber Lucs Said
Monday morning after sifting through literally dozens of versions, band configurations, and covers, we settle on this 2013 version of the 1981 Toto song.
Dave Paich: lead vocals, keyboards and writer
Simon Phillips: drums
Nathan East: bass
Steve Lukather: lead guitar
And because here at Shalblog Industries® we use every part of the buffalo, expect more versions of it posted this week.
Thanks to YouTuber MADIM67