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Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:14 am
by drmoss_ca
Tommy Redding wrote:True Faith by New Order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8
Tommy - please remove the link in your signature. Users may not advertise this way on SMF.

Chris

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:18 am
by drmoss_ca
Mr Redding has chosen not to change his sig file, and is no longer a member.

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:57 pm
by brothers
One of my favorites is The Highway performed by AudioSlave. I forget the name of the singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2ZUGc2mSs

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:45 pm
by brothers
Not from the past(?) but I like it. 8)

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg3lXoCo7HU[/youtube]

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 7:03 pm
by brothers
This is something special. I'm hoping you'll listen and read the lyrics. Very interesting, written and performed by someone special. Enjoy!
The title is 1952 Vincent Black Lightning. I hope the link works for you.
http://americansongwriter.com/2012/08/1 ... -thompson/

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:06 pm
by brothers
Here's a sad one. Randy Travis is one of my favorite country music artists. Just in the past few years, he became quite ill, in a coma, and during that time of lifesaving efforts, the fact that he sustained a terrible stroke was not noticed and went untreated. As a result he is still living, but the damage to his brain has taken its toll. I'm posting this song of his, as one of many excellent songs Mr. Travis performed before his misfortune.
On the Other Hand: https://www.google.com/search?q=randy+t ... nd&ie=&oe=

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 8:52 pm
by brothers
John Prine is a folk artist. Here's one of my favorites of his - Chain of Sorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S3M2UsGjG8

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:59 pm
by Kyle76
I caught the end of the movie “Inherent Vice” last night, and this gem from the ‘60s rolled on the closing credits. What a commanding performance!

https://youtu.be/v2n4N2ySoYs

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:13 pm
by brothers
Out here in the state where I live, there was an outlaw they called Pretty Boy Floyd. This was written by Woody Guthrie and performed by the Byrds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA3hJEbUp7g

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:56 pm
by jww
Claire De Lune by Claude Debussy.

That classic and old enough to qualify as one of many favourite songs from the past?

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:32 am
by brothers
Wendell, I should hope so! Here it is ---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:11 am
by jww
brothers wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:32 am Wendell, I should hope so! Here it is ---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY
Be still my beating heart. Sheer brilliance.

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:12 am
by brothers
Today I stumbled onto an old LP I used to listen to all the time when I was a teenager. Excellent! The artist is the late Wilson Pickett, and the album is Wicked Pickett. Dial it up and listen to all of the songs, wow!

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 4:04 am
by Rufus
For pure, unadulterated nostalgia I listen to Edith Piaf, particularly her rendition in of “La Vie En Rose”.

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:23 pm
by brothers
Joli Blon by Harry Choates, recorded in 1946. Cajun music. I love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk85eUs06q4

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 3:56 pm
by brothers
1971 jamming with Earl Scruggs banjo and Bob Dylan guitar. East Virginia Blues. This is a rare one:
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/video/bo ... vp-BBS7jwQ

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:38 pm
by Pauldog
brothers wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2017 1:32 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrYrEvh4FE

Slim Harpo - 1961 - Do you have the guts to listen to it all the way through just one time? I love it!

OK, now check out Sun House, followed by Howlin' Wolf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C4PsXoFslM

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 2:30 am
by John Rose
I really should hate this song, but I have always liked it:
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Frank Ifield's cover of "I Remember You", 1962
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About new music - there's a lot of good stuff currently being made. You just are not going to hear any of it on radio or TV.
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mlb549 wrote: Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:07 am I am a Vietnam vet(USMC) and just don't care for most music as currently being blasted over the airways. Being very patriotic, my foremost pet peeve is how most artists(probably poor choice of words) have to reinvent the National Anthem. It is really sad for me to mute them as I just cannot listen. Once they are done, the crowd really roars, in my opinion it is because the artist is finally done!! Sorry, just had to express myself.
I totally agree with this.
Any country's national anthem is not a vehicle for artistic improvisation. It's like deciding to add polka dots to a flag.

Sadly, the Canadian national anthem ("Oh Canada") has been so corrupted that I cannot find a version with a proper ending. They all insist on ending it with the last two notes an octave too high. Stop showing off, people.
[*pause for a few minutes of plinking on a guitar*]
Okay, I think I've got it.
The first and last notes should be the same, in the same octave, and with the second-last note being two semi-tones lower.

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:19 am
by Rufus
Frank Ifield and “I Remember You”...I’d almost forgotten both. Brings back memories of Hank Snow and “I’m Moving On”. Thanks for the memories.

Re: One of many favorite songs from the past

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:48 pm
by John Rose
John Rose wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2019 2:30 am Any country's national anthem is not a vehicle for artistic improvisation. It's like deciding to add polka dots to a flag.

Sadly, the Canadian national anthem ("Oh Canada") has been so corrupted that I cannot find a version with a proper ending. They all insist on ending it with the last two notes an octave too high. Stop showing off, people.
Yay! They got it right this time.
I heard this on the radio - 2019 "Remembrance Day ceremonies from the National War Memorial in Ottawa".
Jump ahead to 1:02:40, until 1:02:51.

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