Pick Your Favorite Song by a Group/Artist

[meyers7]

Don't remember any Lou Reed yet. With the long intro.

Sweet Jane - Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)

 

[RockyMTblue2]

One of the hottest song in 1982.

Ah yes, on my car radio just a couple ago: "Dribble off those Bobbie Brooks..."

 

[Scud49]

Lonnie Liston Smith:

 

[Scud49]

Hot Tuna: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy doing "Embryonic Journey"

 

[Bigboote]

Hot Tuna: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy doing "Embryonic Journey"

I saw Jorma do this live a couple of times in solo shows. If you close your eyes you'll swear there are two or three guitarists on stage.

 

[Bigboote]

I was just listening to this. This isn't my favorite Hilary Hahn performance, (I wish there was a live video of her playing the Dvorak concerto; I saw her perform that a couple of years ago.) but is my favorite Prokofiev piece. I love the slow-fast-slow construction; the finale just leaves me awestruck. She was about 15 or 16 when this was recorded.

 

[Cedar]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – From the Beginning. RIP Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.

 

[Cedar]

 

[Cedar]

A song from the 1980s…

 

[Cedar]

 

[Scud49]

"What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye did the original of course, but I think this Les McCann version really puts the heart and soul to it:

 

[MSGRET]

I have a dim recollection of putting up somebody doing Wagon Wheel. Best though is Darius Rucker. Wonderful timber in his voice:

@RockyMTblue2 Loved Darius, but this 13 year old does a great job.

Mia / Wagon Wheel - cover / 13 year-old girl

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[bantamlaker]

Pretty sure we have solos from John, Paul and George. Ringo should be included as well. This was his first single release after the breakup of the Beatles.

 

[bantamlaker]

Interesting trivia about Bobby Vee. He was from Fargo, North Dakota and got his big break in 1959 at 15 when he got to go on stage as a fill-in on the “Winter Dance Party” tour following the plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.

 

[bantamlaker]

Think there are still several pretty decent groups from the mid-late 60’s that haven’t been included (just doing my part to get us to 1000 posts)

 

[Scud49]

Klaus Doldinger's group Passport has done some wonderful stuff over the years - this is one of their most fluid and gorgeous:

 

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[Scud49]

Mark-Almond Band - One Way Sunday. These guys did some great stuff back in the 70's.

"Denver, Oklahoma, San Antone - another gig a long, long, way from home"

 

[Scud49]

I think we have overlooked John Mayall...?

Well, if we have, here's my fav by him - and what a gem "California" is. A side note, both Jon Mark and Johnny Almond were members of John Mayall's group and performed on this album.

 

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[Scud49]

I remember I saw these guys in a bar in Benidorm, Spain in 1970 just as this song was breaking out. Great tune, great night

 

[Scud49]

Tom Rush - "Urge for Going" - a Joni Mitchell composition, beautiful and sad, to me it's one of the great folk songs:

 

[Bigboote]

Emmylou is one of my favorites, although I'm not much of a country fan. This is the opening cut from Red Dirt Girl. (The title cut from that album is the other song from her I was thinking of.) This one is about how something as beautiful as a pearl comes from the animal's pain.