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OT: The Old, the Obscure, and The Forgotten - Round 2

Bama fan said:
How about some Tuba Skinny feat. Erica Lewis who uses tempo rubato nearly as well as The Chairman.

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This group is the top NOLA jazz band out there. I've bought a number of their albums because I read that they are hurting for gigs due to "the plague." Yes, to "Goin' Back Home," and "I Get the Blues" plus "Too Much Competition." Try them too.
 
Bama fan said:
Heard this one last night. Big thing when I was a kid. Living in Pittsburgh, we knew bupkus about surfing . But this was cool. Knew that much!
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Reminds me of this one which was popular around the same time - Wild Weekend by the Rebels, a surf rock band form Buffalo NY. This instrumental was the intro theme song for Tom Shannon's nightly show on WKBW 1520 AM in Buffalo:

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Bama fan said:
Heard this one last night. Big thing when I was a kid. Living in Pittsburgh, we knew bupkus about surfing . But this was cool. Knew that much!

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Good grief, Bama. I don't know when was the last time I heard the term "bupkus". Yea, when the Beach Boys sang Surfing USA I couldn't think of too many places on the Allegheny, Monongahela, or Ohio. But when, I believe, Brian Wilson played that bass guitar, they got a life long fan.
 
I don't think I've posted this. IMO this is the best protest song ever. It's as apt now as it was in 1969, 1980, and 2001.

 
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Here is Junior Walker and the All Stars from 1969 on Motown label. They had a big hit with "Shotgun" earlier, and they talked him into recording this one. Thank god he did. "Gonna blow again for ya''

 
The Jan Hammer Group was known for their "Miami Vice" theme, but they also did some interesting spacey and beautiful stuff. This is one of them - "Don't You Know" off of their Melodies album:
 
Bigboote said:
Thanks to Bama for posting the Haley Reinhart stuff. I'd forgotten how much I love her. I have her first album, which is pretty good, but she's really better-suited to older-style stuff. I discovered she did an album of mostly 60's stuff. Here's her take on Blind Faith:

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WOW! I luv it!
 
Here is a beautiful folk ballad that has been done by many artists. Both Mary Travers and Eva Cassidy covered this so well. James Taylor and Emmylou Harris sang versions of it too. But this is from Karla Bonhoff who is famous for writing "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me' that Linda Ronstadt made such a big hit. . Karla's voice is sweet here, and the musicians support her well.


 
My absolute favorite version of The Water is Wide is from Steeleye Span, with Gay Woods singing. She and her soon-to-be ex-husband left the band in about 1970. She rejoined in 1995 with many more years on her voice but the years developing her delivery far outweigh any loss tone-wise. Fast forward to about 3:00 for the vocals.

 
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This song is one of the tracks on my "BACK TO MINE: Everything But The Girl," CD. Donny's life came to a tragic end in January of 1979.

 
Here is one from a teen star in the early Sixties. She left the business to study theology. She sang several songs about stars , so I figured her for astrology. She set her sights higher!

 
Michael Dinner - he put out one album in the early 70's called the Great Pretender. It had one song on it that was simply delightful - "Jamaica". The melody and the steel drums are just great:
 
One of the other threads reminded me of these guys. This might've been a minor hit for them from their debut album in the 90s, but I think they were quickly forgotten.

 
Here is a classic song from the golden age of folk music from the late 50's and 60's. It is one of my dad's favorite songs. This version is by Seamus Kennedy, a local irish/folk balladeer.



So, the song is old and the performer is fairly obscure...
 
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Emy Jackson 夢みるマイポーイ Say Yes My Boy 1965, very popular song as I was a kid.

 
Another one from Emy Jackson. She is the first Japanese artist to have sold a million records singing in English (for Crying In A Storm)
- Crying In A Storm (1966)

 
Obscure to be sure. Actually I own a copy of this...wonder what it's worth? Any offers?

 
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Obviously not forgotten or obscure, but I felt I had to post one Beatles tune. So I've picked "I'll Be Back" - this one I'd say did get lost in all the frenzy back in the 60's, but damn, I think it's brilliant. John Lennon's lead vocals, George Harrison's lead guitar, the 3 part harmony...its haunting and beautiful:
 
Scud49 said:
Obviously not forgotten or obscure, but I felt I had to post one Beatles tune. So I've picked "I'll Be Back" - this one I'd say did get lost in all the frenzy back in the 60's, but damn, I think it's brilliant. John Lennon's lead vocals, George Harrison's lead guitar, the 3 part harmony...its haunting and beautiful:
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The second side of A Hard Day's Night was put together in about a week. They were told they needed to put together a second side for the soundtrack album, and they had nothing. So the writing, arranging, recording, and mixing happened in a week.

And I think it is, bar none, the best side of music the Beatles ever did, and one of the best anyone ever did. You can't do that, Things we said today, I'll cry instead, this one -- all absolutely amazing.
 
When I saw that they actually had musicians playing guitars, I thought that might improve ruin the Shaggs, but this is just priceless. Some of them actually crack up during the recording. Here they are, the old, obscure, horrible, but very influential Shaggs:

 
Bigboote said:
The second side of A Hard Day's Night was put together in about a week. They were told they needed to put together a second side for the soundtrack album, and they had nothing. So the writing, arranging, recording, and mixing happened in a week.

And I think it is, bar none, the best side of music the Beatles ever did, and one of the best anyone ever did. You can't do that, Things we said today, I'll cry instead, this one -- all absolutely amazing.
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Yea BB, I agree....pretty mind boggling how these guys all got together - in Liverpool of all places - and what they did album wise in about 6 years. I have a lot of favorite groups and artists, but it's like Tom Petty once said - "Hey, there's the Beatles....then there's everyone else".
 
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