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]

Today in Music History, August 6th:

1937: Charlie Haden, jazz double bassist, composer, bandleader and educator, b. Shenandoah, IA 



"In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words." 

[Angharad]

Great quote.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day"



"Sweet Child O' Mine", #7 Mainstream Rock, August 6th, 1988

Luna, "The Days Of Our Nights"; I bet Slash could dig this. Rose would, of course, just throw a tantrum and blame Dr. Pepper.

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 7th:

1995: Neil Young, with Pearl Jam, releases "Mirror Ball"

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day, August 7th:

"Watching The River Flow", #41 Pop, 8/7/71, Bob Dylan

Steve Forbert, live at a Bob Dylan tribute festival, 5/28/23

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 8th:

1960: Something occurs that precisely illuminates the eternal conundrum of art and human expression vs business: Decca Records England scraps 20,000 copies of a new single, Ray Peterson's "Tell Laura I Love Her", that embarrassing piece of weepy teen-angel schpew, about a love-struck 16-year-old dolt who unintentionally smears himself in a stock car race, a race he only entered in hopes of winning enough money to buy "Laura" a wedding ring - Claiming, quite correctly, that the song was tasteless and vulgar.

A month later, a cover version, by Ricky Valance, on a different label, goes through the roof, No. 1 on the UK charts.

So....Was Decca right, to try and keep such a horrible, insipid song away from impressionable teenage idiots, or were they stupid for throwing away a gold mine ?

Here you go: The ONLY acceptable version of the song. ("Cover of the Day" - ? You decide.)

[Angharad]

Hmm. Why don't I believe that Decca prioritized any ethical/moral considerations in their decision to dump Peterson's single? LOL Was it puerile schlock? Yup. Was some androgen-soaked nincompoop going to act out because of it? Probably. But, business is business. So, my guess is that somebody made the wrong call and probably ended up unemployed a month later. 

You're 100% right about Billy's being the only version of the song that doesn't evoke a gag reflex. 

I had to live through hearing this spew in the 60s. 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"Ohio" (Neil Young), #14 Pop, 8/8/70, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ David Crosby, live at the 2018 Newport Folk Festival

[Angharad]

I'd never seen this. Thanks for posting all these gems, Snagg, and for sharing your extensive knowledge of music.