Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Snowfall", #20 Pop, 10/18/1941, Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra; NRBQ's cover is on their 2012 album "We Travel The Spaceways", and their 5-CD box set "High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective".

[Angharad]

Nice.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, October 19th:

2005: A survey conducted by the British division of Prudential Life Insurance concludes that the average person spends around $42,000 on music in their lifetime, including sound equipment, music purchases, concert tickets and merchandise, etc, etc - 

But the enthusiast spends well over double that, around $89,000, in their lifetime. 

Well, yeah.

....I, for one, am disturbed that there appears to be only one, maybe two, box sets in that entire collection.

I ain't buyin' it. Something is rotten in Denmark.

[Snagg]

Which reminds me....I ain't played these guys in too long a time.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"September Song", (Kurt Weill / Maxwell Anderson), originally released in the stage musical "Knickerbocker Holiday", 10/19/1938

Its been covered literally thousands of times, by just about every imaginable genre of artist - Ella Fitzgerald, the Whiffenpoofs, Roy Clark, the Young Gods, Bryan Ferry, etc, etc  - 

But Lou covered it twice, on two different Weill tributes, 12 years apart; This, the longer version, comes from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill", 1997

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, October 20th:

1925: Tom Dowd, THE producer's producer, the recording engineer's recording engineer, b. Manhattan, NYC, NY.

Dowd captured legendary performances by, to name just a few, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, the Drifters, the Coasters, Cream, John Coltrane, the Allman Brothers, Ornette Coleman, Derek & the Dominoes, Charlie Parker, the J. Geils Band, the James Gang, Ruth Brown, Thelonious Monk, Dusty Springfield, Booker t & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Rascals, Charles Mingus, - the list goes well on from there. 

Interestingly, Dowd also worked on the Manhattan Project - And, when his time there was done, he pursued an education in nuclear physics, but was refused, because his MP work was Top Secret, so the universities wouldn't recognize it; He already knew more than they could teach him, and he would have had to start all over, from scratch, so he decided that a career in music seemed like a lot more fun...

[Angharad]

The shirt says it. Yeah, music is a lot more fun.

[Snagg]

[Angharad]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"Thunderstruck", #5 Pop, 10/20/1990 - AC/DC, of course.

Aussie cover band Hot Kangaroo, romped through it on their album "AC/DC Soul Explosion: Live At Akkurat", from 2011.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, October 21st:

1946: Erick Lee Purkhiser, AKA Lux Interior, of the Cramps, b. Akron, OH

"Boring people. That's nothing new. But the numbers seem to be growing rather than going down. That's not a good sign." Lux

[Snagg]