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.

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Cover Of The Day:



"Living For The City", #1 Pop, 12/29/1973 (Stevie Wonder)

Version by Texas blues singer Lavelle White, form her 2003 album "Into The Mystic"

[Angharad]

What a woman! What a voice! And, she's still truckin' at 96.

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Today, in Musical History,m December 30th, 1942: Robert Quine, b. Akron OH. Eclectic, intense guitarist to some of the best in the game: an original member of Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lou Reed,Brian Eno, John Zorn, James White, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits, Lydia Lunch, Marc Ribot, Matthew Sweet, Material, Ikue Mori, Lester Bangs, Lloyd Cole and scads of session work 

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Speaking of Noo Yawk guitarists...

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Cover Of The Day:

Huh. Robert Quine again. What a coinkydink.



"All The Way" (Jimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn), #2 Pop, 12/30/1962 (Frank Sinatra)

Cover by Richard Hell & the Voidoids, from their 1977 debut album, "Blank generation"

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Today, in Musical History, December 31st, 1912:

A rowdy 12-year-old, name of Louis Armstrong, shoots off his father's pistol during New Year's Eve revelry - Which earns him a stay at the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, where he learns to read music and play the cornet and the bugle.

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Cover Of The Day:



"I'm A Believer" (Neil Diamond), #1 Pop, 12/31/1966 (the Monkees)

Cover by Robert Wyatt (with a boatload of Canterbury musos, including Nick Mason, Fred Frith, Mike Oldfield and others), released as a 1974 single

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Today, in Musical History, January 1st, 1962: The Beatles (with Pete Best - Ringo hadn't signed on yet) audition for Decca Records - 
Who turn them down for the Tremeloes, for the stated reason that the Tremeloes live closer to the Decca offices, and because (according to Decca): "Guitar groups are on their way out".

(They recorded 15 songs; Five were officially released on "Anthology 1". The remaining songs have been bootlegged for decades.) 

Yeah, one would expect that whoever made that decision eventually got it in the neck, but you never know... 

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Cover Of The Day:



"The Sounds Of Silence", #1 Pop, 1/1/1966

The original version, recorded March of '64 and released on "Wednesday Morning 3 AM", never charted - Bombed, in fact. Dispirited, Simon & Garfunkel broke up.

Then, in spring of '65, a few stations on the east coast started to play it; noticing this producer Tom Wilson remixed it, adding musicians from Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" sessions, and re-released it in September of '65 - without anybody telling Simon or Garfunkel what was going on.

BOOM. World-wide Top Ten smash. So, Paul and Art decided to give it another go.

Since then the song has inspired (caused - ?) dozens of godawful, pretentious covers, the song being regarded as prophecy or divine poetry.

Hardly. But at least the Dickies had some fun with it. From their second album, 1979's "The Incredible Shrinking Dickies".