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“Even My Old Man Looks…Good”

16 Monday Apr 2018

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Monday, I had Friday on my mind.

The Australian Easybeats’, with their hit 1966 pop song that had something extra-Kinksish about it.

Got to love the energetic joyous performances.

Thanks to YouTuber рлин Вълчев

I Never Cared For You

12 Thursday Apr 2018

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Willie Nelson, with his beloved guitar, Trigger; Emmylou Harris assisting on vocals; and Willie’s sister, Bobbi, on keyboard. The poignant lyrics are by Mr. Nelson.

More Willie Nelson at WillieNelsonVEVO

He Likes Bread And Butter

19 Monday Mar 2018

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Monday morning, breakfast is served.

Who knew that lead singer Larry Henley of this 1964 hit was, as one YouTuber commented,  a white Bill Clinton lookalike?

They never had another big hit, but as the Beatles became more and more popular, they adopted Beatles-style haircuts in an effort to hold onto fame.

It didn’t work.

Thanks to YouTuber Carl’s Old Record Club

 

Hang on Sloopy

12 Monday Mar 2018

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Monday morning The McCoys urge Sloopy to hang on.

The woman in the video is Liz Brewer who was once married to the lead singer of the McCoys, Rick Derringer.

Who was Sloopy? So far I’ve tracked down four stories:

  1. One of the credited co-writers claims that he wrote the song while in Cuba, and any attractive women there would be called a Sloopy.
  2. Sloopy was the nickname of jazz singer Dorothy Sloop who was a girlfriend of one of the writers.
  3. Jean Sloop was the name of an Ohio waitress who claims to be the inspiration.
  4. A businessman in St. Louis claimed that when he was just a kid in high school he wrote the song and sold it on the cheap to the credited writers. Rick Derringer seems to most believe this story—but he still doesn’t know why the high school kid used the name Sloopy.

Thanks to YouTuber TransatlanticMoments

Simon and Simon

09 Friday Mar 2018

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In this rare live television performance, Paul Simon and his younger brother, Eddie Simon, play Davey Graham’s catchy guitar instrumental, “Anji.” Eddie, who looks remarkably like Paul, used to run the Guitar Study Center in New York City, and later he helped to manage some of Paul’s tours. He was also executive producer of some of the Simon and Garfunkel compilation albums. It’s fun to watch the two of them workout and exercise their chops on this one.

More at Simon and Garfunkel News

Hard Work

05 Monday Mar 2018

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The alarm clock rings Monday, and you’re ready to tote that barge, lift that bale.  John Handy’s 1976 surprise hit jazz recording in its original longer album version.

  • John Handy – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals
  • Hotep Cecil Barnard – keyboards
  • Mike Hoffmann – guitar
  • Chuck Rainey – electric bass
  • James Gadson – drums
  • Eddie “Bongo” Brown – congas, percussion

Thanks to YouTuber Marc Leroy

God Only Knows

29 Monday Jan 2018

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Monday morning, giving thanks: Brian Wilson’s beautiful song.

Covered by the Austrian MonaLisa Twins, who really are; with Dad, Rudolph Wagner, on bass.

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Life After Love?

22 Monday Jan 2018

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Okay, Monday morning, granted that maybe you have the Bob Mackie gowns hanging in your wardrobe, like Cher; and granted that maybe you have the glam wigs sitting on your dresser, like Cher; and granted, too, that maybe you even have the adoring audience, like Cher; but what you don’t have, Buddy, that Cher has, is the set of freakin’ dancers, bouncing insanely above you, suspended on bungee cords.

Cher with the first ever auto-tuned hit.

Thanks to YouTuber CherLiveInConcert

Complicated, Deep, and Sentimental

18 Thursday Jan 2018

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Taylor Swift…uh, Taylor Ferrera with a brilliant meta-song about writing the perfect teen tune.

Ever since I discovered her  wicked Walmart song on YouTube, I’ve been listening to everything I can find of the talented and satirical Ms. Ferrera.

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The Last Drop: La Santa Cecilia

15 Monday Jan 2018

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Monday morning and you don’t even realize it yet, down to the last drop of the last bottle. Marisoul of La Santa Cecilia and Eugenia Leon sing “En El Ultimo Trago”:

Drink with me this bottle
and with the last drop we will go away.
I want to see what means your oblivion,
please don’t cover my eyes with your hands
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Tonight I’m not going to beg you,
tonight you will tell me the truth.
How hard it is having to forget you
without feeling that you don’t love me anymore.
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The time hasn’t taught me anything,
I always make the same mistakes,
I drink again and again with strangers
and mourn because of the same sorrows.
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Drink with me this bottle
and with the last drop you will kiss me.
Let’s hope there would be no witnesses
in case you were feeling embarrassed.
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If one day unintentionally we stumble,
neither duck, nor don’t tell me straight.
We will simply shake hands
and after that people will murmur.
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The time hasn’t taught me anything,
I always make the same mistakes,
I drink again and again with strangers
and mourn because of the same sorrows.
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Drink with me this beloved bottle
and with the last drop we will go away.
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More La Santa Cecilia here: ICE, El Hielo: La Santa Cecilia
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