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.

[Angharad]

I spent some of my childhood in Hawaii and, consequently, the steel guitar always feels "tropical" to me. It really works with the vibraphone here. This is a great cover. I'll have to check out the whole album.

Thanks for always coming up with interesting tunes/facts, Snagg.

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, July 24th:

1969: Paul McCartney writes and records a demo for a new song at Abbey Road studios, "Come And Get It", for Ringo's movie "The Magic Christian". McCartney then reads an interview with a Welsh band, the Iveys, an Apple Records act with several European hits, who complain that Apple won't release any more of their new songs solely because Apple is being managed so badly. (Which was pretty much true.)

Macca then offers the song to the Iveys, and produces their recording of it on August 2nd, 1969, insisting that they replicate McCartney's demo as closely as possible. As Apple prepares to release the song (because nobody tells Paul McCartney "no"), their manager gets the Iveys to, at least, change their name, which isn't "hip" enough for the times; the band settle on Badfinger, which was the original working title of "With A Little Help From My Friends": "Bad Finger Boogie".

"Come And Get It" is released December, '69, and goes Top 10 around the world.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day, July 24th:

1970: Well, as long as we're doing original versions of songs that went to on to be hits after being recorded by other bands - 

"Wild Horses", written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who jammed on the song with Gram Parsons, demo'd the song over a couple of days at Muscle Shoals studios in December of 1969, but didn't consider it worth the effort of a complete studio version; They gave it to Parsons who brought it to his band, the Flying Burrito Brothers. They recorded it and released it on their 1970 album "Burrito Deluxe"; the Stones' version didn't come out for a year, released on "Sticky Fingers", and reaching #24, July 24th, 1971

[Angharad]

Love this unplugged version.

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, July 25th:

1965: Bob Dylan goes electric, at the 6th annual Newport Folk Festival.



Rock 'n' Roll: 1. Puritanical traditionalists: 0

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day, July 25th:



"Sticks And Stones" (Titus Turner), # V2 R&B, 7/25/60, Ray Charles

the Golden Earrings. Yup, the "Radar Love" guys, recorded when they were about 17 years old, and still playing high school dances and talent shows.

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, July 26th:

1947: "Big" Al Anderson, NRBQ gunslinger, walking encyclopedia of every guitar riff known to man, and ace songwriter and arranger in his own right, b. Windsor, CT

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"My Cherie Amour", # 3 Adult Contemporary, 7/26/69, Stevie Wonder

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, July 27th:

1958: "Researchers" (sic) from the Esso gasoline company warn Americans that listening to that dirty, evil rock 'n' roll while driving costs them money, because it makes them drive faster and therefore uses up gasoline faster.

A gasoline company. As a public service, warning Americans against something that would cause them to buy more of the company's product.

Yeesh. Modern corporations nowadays will start a bidding war to get an endorsement deal with any musical sell-out that would sign on the dotted line, for ANY product - gasoline, hamburgers, time shares, abortion pills, whatever.