Boz Scaggs had one great album in 1976, Silk Degrees; the songs from it were heard everywhere you went that year.
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Whose Garden Was This?: Tom Paxton
Dave Van Ronk claimed that it was really Tom Paxton of the NYC folk scene who first claimed the mantel of singer/songwriter among folkies, daring to sing mainly his own songs in the cafés, which led the way to Dylan and Ochs. Here’s a great Paxton song from fifty years ago that could have been written yesterday.
Monday morning, for all that’s been lost.
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Wild Horses: The Rolling Stones
Waiting For Someone To Perform With
Sunday evening, Paul finds 50,000 to perform with, nah-nah-nah-nah-ing far into Monday morning.
Paul McCartney at the amazing Hyde Park concert in 2010, singing “Hey Jude.”
By the end, I think even McCartney was in awe. All 50,000 people, men, then women, were singing in the right key.
Here is the incredible set list for the concert that night:
- ‘Venus And Mars’/‘Rock Show’
- ‘Jet’
- ‘All My Loving’
- ‘Letting Go’
- ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
- ‘Highway’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘The Long And Winding Road’
- ‘Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five’
- ‘Let ’Em In’
- ‘My Love’
- ‘I’m Looking Through You’
- ‘Two Of Us’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Here Today’
- ‘Dance Tonight’
- ‘Mrs Vandebilt’
- ‘Eleanor Rigby’
- ‘Ram On’
- ‘Something’
- ‘Sing The Changes’
- ‘Band On The Run’
- ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
- ‘Back In The USSR’
- ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
- ‘Paperback Writer’
- ‘A Day In The Life’/‘Give Peace A Chance’
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘Live And Let Die’
- ‘Hey Jude’
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What Makes This Song Great
Gordon Lightfoot’s song “If You Could Read My Mind” was always one of my favorites, but I never had the musical knowledge to understand why I liked it so much, even over and above the great lyrics. Rick Beato’s musical breakdown of the arrangement and production of the music of Lightfoot’s recording is just wonderful. His discourse on the song not only makes me feel smarter, but much more to the point, makes me hear things in the recording that I had never consciously heard before. (Headphones recommended).
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I’ve Just Seen A Face
Monday morning, the McCartneys wake up next to each other and Paul sings.
With Jimmy McCulloch on bass, Denny Laine on 12-string guitar, both of Wings.
Thanks to YouTuber Gissela Pereyra
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Oh Boy! Buddy Holly
In this live performance from The Ed Sullivan Show, you can barely hear Buddy’s guitar because Ed demanded that the sound be turned down. But Buddy bangs it out nevertheless. After that, Buddy reportedly refused to perform the second song he was scheduled to sing on the show.
Thanks to YouTuber Maniana14
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Save The Rich!
As Congress argues about whether, Please Sir, May We Have More Gruel? let’s not forget about who is really important here.
Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci in a dead-on satire of “We Are The World” type celebrity videos.
Warning: Language Not Suitable For Work.
More At: Garfunkel And Oates
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Dion: Song for Sam Cooke
Monday morning, Dion, now pushing 80 years old, sings “Here in America,” his moving tribute to Sam Cooke, with whom Dion toured. The harmonies by the unseen Paul Simon raise it to a whole other level.
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Famous Blue Raincoat: Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen’s brilliant triangle song has just the right amount of ambiguity and just the right amount of truth for everyone to read in their own story. The kind of song that has so many great lines, you argue with friends over which one you like best.
Thanks to YouTuber Tinkzy Martin
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It’ll Never Happen Again
Johnny Rivers with a quintessential Tim Hardin song. The difference in the two versions is this: Rivers’ version is heartbreaking; Hardin’s brilliant take, on the other hand, makes you want to slit your wrists. It’s just too hard to make it through…so, here’s Johnny Rivers.
Thanks to YouTuber jriversmusic
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Ball Of Confusion
The Temptations.
David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Dennis Edwards, Paul Williams and Melvin Franklin
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Till There Was You: MonaLisa Twins
Monday morning, the MonaLisa Twins get their auditory capacity improved, all because of you.
I first heard this song on the Meet The Beatles album back in 1964. I had no idea at the time that it was from the Broadway musical The Music Man, by Meredith Willson.
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At Seventeen: Janis Ian
Monday morning, a song for misfits.
At the time, 1975, the song was a highly unlikely candidate for a pop hit. It may have been the first pop song for young women of high school age that wasn’t for the cheerleaders. It might be hard to recall now, in the age of Glee, but songs examining the inner lives of high school students who saw themselves as social outcasts were not, at the time, the common fare. Millions of young women saw themselves in the lyrics of the song, and suddenly the singer/songwriter, Janis Ian, who at age 14 had had a qualified (and often censored) hit with her song of interracial love, “Society’s Child,” was overnight an international star.
The clip above seems so raw, true, and natural that you might think it was just an amateur effort turned lucky. But Ian by that time had already had seven albums of music released and was an accomplished songwriter. It was the one time, though, she said, that she had penned a song and told her manager that she had just written a hit.
Thanks to YouTuber LittleMonster13100
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Turn, Turn, Turn
Ringing of Revolution: Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs in 1966, 54 years ahead of his time.
A few notes on the jokes in his intro:
Senator Carl Hayden was the oldest senator in the Senate at the time at 89 years old at the time of the recording; and George Murphy was a former song and dance man who had been elected Senator from California in 1965, predating Ronald Reagan who became California governor a year later.
Thanks to YouTuber farmboy10001
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow: The Shirelles
Monday morning the Shirelles pop the question in the Carole King-penned pop hit.
Thanks to YouTuber Mp3SuperSound
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Lucky To Be Me
Tony Yazbeck singing, and dancing on location, the Comden-Green-Bernstein standard from On The Town.
Aside from Yazbeck’s winning performance, if you’re a New Yorker, you’ll have fun identifying the locations.
Thanks to YouTuber On The Town on Broadway
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
I can’t say I’m a huge Elton John fan, but this is one of my favorite of his–or anybody’s–songs.
Thanks to YouTuber The Dude
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I Belong To You
A better than the original cover with Mary Spender and Josh Turner. Extra special with earphones.
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There’ll Be Another Spring
Peggy Lee makes time-appropriate promises we hope she can keep.
Written by Ms. Lee.
Thanks to YouTuber skorecki7
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Here, There And Everywhere: Josh Turner
Monday morning, shoes off, no one beats Josh Turner when it comes to arranging Beatles songs on acoustic guitar . Paul McCartney once said it was the one song that John Lennon had ever complimented him on writing.
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Everybody
John Prine died Tuesday from coronavirus at age 73.
He was a heck of a songwriter. Prolific, playful, and heartbreaking.
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“Here’s My Story, Sad, But True…”
By 1961, Dion had ditched the Belmonts, for the somewhat longer-in-the-tooth Del-Satins. Fans may remember that it was in Dion’s number one hit song for that year that Mr. DiMucci delivered to us the explosive, shocking, world-shaking news headline that Runaround Sue, “Goes out with other guys!”
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Crying: Roy Orbison
And you may notice Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, kd lang, and Bonnie Raitt accompanying.
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