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, August 2nd:

"Spinning Wheel", #1 Adult Contemporary, 8/2/69, Blood, Sweat & Tears

James Brown & the Famous Flames, live at Bell Auditorium, Augusta, GA, 10/1/1969

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 3rd:

2002: After an absence of 37 years, Bob Dylan returns to the Newport Folk Festival. No hard feelings. Dylan does a 2 hour set - in a fake beard and a wig.

[Angharad]

Sounds like Dylan. 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"Golden Lady", Stevie Wonder, released on "Innervisions", 8/3/73

[Angharad]

I'd never heard this cover until now. I really enjoyed it. I'm going to plummet into the Kurt Wagner/Lambchop rabbit hole now.

[Snagg]

Today in Music History, August 4th:

1967: A 16-year-old girl, a big fan of the Monkees, sneaks aboard their airplane in Minneapolis, and is discovered in St. Louis. The girl's father threatens to bring charges for transporting a minor across state lines, and -

And the story disappears. That's it. Nowhere does the internet follow up on whatever happened next. Probably nothing much, seeing as how if something serious or infamous had happened, we'd all know about it. 

That's the internet for you. Sheesh.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"You'll Lose A Good Thing", #1 R&B, August 4th, 1962, Barbara Lynn 

Lucinda Williams, "Lu's Jukebox, Vol, 2: Southern Soul, from Memphis to Muscle Shoals"

[Snagg]

Today in Music History, August 5th: 

1943: Samuel Clark "Sandy" Pearlman, music producer, BÖC lyricist, manager and visionary, journalist and record label exec, b. Rockaway, Queens, NYC. A very interesting character, and a crucial instigator of alternative / underground music.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Pearlman

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day, August 5th:



"I Wanna Be Your Dog", 8/5/69, the Stooges

Sonic Youth, with Mr. James Osterberg on vocals, at the Town & Country, London, England, 6/4/87