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:



"Paranoid" (Black Sabbath), #61 Pop, 12/26/1970

Cover by Gus Black, from his 2003 debut album, "Uncivilized Love"

[Angharad]

Nice interpretation of the OG.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 27th (or 25th), 1895:

An argument takes place in a St. Louis bar (or in a back-alley craps game - accounts differ) between one Billy Lyons and a pimp named "Stag" Lee Sheldon. Billy snatches the hat off Stag's head, Stag pulls a gun, and a song is born.



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

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"All Along The Watchtower", released 12/27/1967, on "John Wesley Harding"

Cover by the "Brothers and Sisters of L.A." on "Dylan's Gospel"

Not an actual gospel group - producer Lou Adler (supposedly trying to imitate the recent success of the Edwin Hawkins Singer's' "Oh Happy Day") assembled the cream of Los Angeles' session singers for the express purpose of recording "gospel" versions of Bob Dylan songs, with zero input from Dylan himself - but, he did get killer singers with some deep churchy roots, such as Merry Clayton, Clydie King and Edna Wright, to raise the roof.

The album bombed, but it's become something of an underground cult item.

[Angharad]

Do you know if Dylan/Dylan's people had anything to say after the fact?

[Snagg]

Just that Dylan did get personally involved with an actual gospel version of his songs from his fundaloonie christian period, about 35 years later; Not one single song from "Dylan's Gospel" appeared on "Gotta Serve Somebody" :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotta_Serve_Somebody:_The_Gospel_Song...

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 28th, 1921: ionnis Alexandres Veliotes, AKA Johnny Otis, b. Vallejo, CA.

Singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, talent scout, disc jockey, TV host, journalist, and father of Shuggy Otis, Mr. Otis is one of THE most deeply influential characters in the history of popular music.

Called "The Godfather of Rhythm & Blues" Otis discovered and promoted the careers of Big Mama Thornton, Little Esther, Etta James, Hank Ballard, Little Willie John, and Jackie Wilson, among others. (That's him on drums on Big Mama Thornton's original version of "Hound Dog", which he co-wrote with Leiber & Stoller, and he got ripped off for the royalties just like L&S, because they were only 17 years old when they chipped in, and the judge declared the entire contract null and void. So the white label owners got all the money. Naturally.)

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



A Medley of Miles Davis' "Right Off" (from Davis' "Jack Johnson", released 2/24/71) and Suicide's "Ghostrider" ("Ghostrider" released 12/28/77), by Gary Lucas' Gods & Monsters, from their 2006 "lost" live recordings over several nights at the Knitting Factory in NYC - Finally recovered and released in 2022.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 29th, 1946: Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithful b. Hampstead, London, England