As Alan pointed out Stewart's third solo LP is still as good today. It was one of only a few by white artists I owned as a kid..till I was 16....a great LP.This piece I don't now what LP it's from..what I do know is that it's a beautiful and moving song.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/skoLCUj1SwI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/skoLCUj1SwI</a>
It's from 'A Night On The Town' (1976) which is right at the end of Rod's good period (the tail off starts with the preceding couple of albums 'Atlantic Crossing' and 'Smiler' though each, while inconsistent, have some really really good stuff on them.)Produced by Tom Dowd who certainly knows how to make a fantastic sounding record - one of the unheralded heroes of music in my book - produced things like 'For What It's Worth' by Buffalo Springfield, engineered 'Giant Steps' and more of John Coltrane's stuff, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Toots & The Maytals, Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Dr. John, Terry Reid's 'River', Willie Nelson's excellent 'Phases & Stages' and 'Shotgun Willie', basically if you were on Atlantic and good, chances are you got him in to do the business. Incredible discography.And the Allman's Live at the Filmore East.Making great musicians sound even better. The guy was a genius.
Some shite in here.
...not sure how you put a video in a post to be honest but give it a go.
Thanks Gullysucker, will give it a go. So much to choose but still remember sitting in the old Astoria cinema on Walton road and being blown away by this in Easy Rider. still love it to this day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqb1I-hiHE
Spoke too soon. This is turning I to my favourite thread on the site"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mCscZ2tPFmI
I dare anyone to choose between these 2
Sam & Dave did not invent this:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/92NpzXXpQtg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/92NpzXXpQtg</a>
Can you clarify this point Jambo? I've always had Eddie Floyd as mister Knock on Wood. have I got that wrong?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/GmyGa29zIqk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/GmyGa29zIqk</a>
On a contrasting tack, an instance where a cover version some 40 years later knocks absolute fucking spots of the original.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/9MO1KyNUOIs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/9MO1KyNUOIs</a> Elvis Viva Las Vegas <a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/XPo3G4IWuHM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/XPo3G4IWuHM</a> Shawn Colvin Viva Las Vegas
Thanks Timbo, i would make a terrible hacker.Another favourite and sums up the thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWO--z1S8AThought Badfinger were a fantastic group with a Liverpool connection, all ended tragically. awful. Brother bumped into one of the guitarists down town one day and asked him hows things going. He told him he's got to go down to London but it's a bit hush hush, cant's say much.The secret. they were doing an audition or something for Beatles, they finished up signing and The Beatles wrote a few songs for them.No Matter What.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoke1wUwEXYCome and Get It.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk57K4OGrAgDay After Day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XonFZjuyc6E
First heard this at the end of a Coen Brothers movie. Followed it up and is now on me playlist. Massive Elvis fan but concur with your opinion
I dare anyone to choose between these 2.....
I'd have put money on that mate with your impeccable taste!I did a little piece on this one a few years back which you might enjoyThere's a song featured at the end of the film The Big Lebowski as the credits are rolling. The song is Viva Las Vegas by the country blues artist Shawn Colvin. It's taken from the 1995 tribute album to the acclaimed song-smith Doc Pomus who some thirty years earlier had been co-writer of the song with his writing partner, Mort Shuman. The original version some may recall was the title track for the 1964 film starring Elvis Presley. That original Elvis interpretation had been quirky and upbeat, sprinkled with Hollywood-style pep and glitz. More than thirty other artists went on to record the song after Elvis. Each adheres fairly faithfully to the Elvis interpretation. Mercifully, Shawn Colvin's version is the one refreshing and compelling exception. In Colvin's take the protagonist becomes as reckless and mysterious as the original was cheery and predictable. Beguiling us to accompany her into those darker ruinous corners of addiction and obsessiveness that seam through Las Vegas, Colvin manages somehow to re-invent the song, bringing out hitherto concealed beauty and starkness of melody and lyric alike. Her vocal innovation redefines the parameters of what Pomus and Shuman had written, giving us something completely distinctive; five minutes smouldering minutes to savour.
And for some reason I've always quite liked this cute little piece of whimsy by Pete Dello, it could almost be a Lindisfarne track<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/BgZAyWz_abw?fs=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/BgZAyWz_abw?fs=1</a>Dello was one of the guys behind White Plains(When you are a King) and the Honeybus(I Can't let Maggie go)
Never heard that before Gully lad.Nice one. And nice info. Ta.Pete dello eh? - either forgotten or never come across the name before. Listening to the voice I'm assuming he was the singer in this great piece of sixties pop you mentioned - which in later years became the Nimble advert I seem to recall?
I've always had much love for all things Todd...
