Old School Musicianship… Rock and Roll.. Jazz… Blues… Big Band even…

[JBoy1952]

In August 1977, very close USAF active duty friends---husband and wife---the wife, Kitty, cried when Elvis died.
She had an "ACHY BREAKY HEART" over a performer she loved so dearly. It certainly wasn't reason to line dance for her, but there are songs Elvis did that certainly wondered where the song came from. One example:

Ironically, one of the last Elvis live performances had him singing the Paul Anka cover....wondering if he was predicting his own death.

 

[JBoy1952]

And some more of the POWER OF ELVIS---known as the KING of rock and roll, but this with a religious twinge

 

[JBoy1952]

And another of a couple of Elvis songs I used to sing regularly at karaoke bars

 

[JBoy1952]

How many knew that Karen Carpenter could do this---other than sing like a songbird?

 

[deltablues65]

You must be older than me. CCR first formed when I was in early high school, and where the sound might have come from never entered my mind. LOL

My folks played CCR.....and of course the radio was always as well....Proud Mary being really the first song I had heard at a very young age, likely just certain words in the lyrics and conjured up images in my imagination! Now I need to read the lyrics lol

 

[JBoy1952]

My folks played CCR.....and of course the radio was always as well....Proud Mary being really the first song I had heard at a very young age, likely just certain words in the lyrics and conjured up images in my imagination! Now I need to read the lyrics lol

Proud Mary does have southern inferences....Memphis....New Orleans...big wheel turnin on the river,,,places that Fogerty (or someone else) had been. I wouldn't conclude that the band was from the south because having been or seen those places. But I can see how someone might think that.
LOL...I've been across the South a lot, but I'm from Minnesota and living in Minnesota now. I could write lyrics about places in the south I've been.

 

[deltablues65]

Proud Mary does have southern inferences....Memphis....New Orleans...big wheel turnin on the river,,,places that Fogerty (or someone else) had been. I wouldn't conclude that the band was from the south because having been or seen those places. But I can see how someone might think that.
LOL...I've been across the South a lot, but I'm from Minnesota and living in Minnesota now. I could write lyrics about places in the south I've been.

and "hitched a ride on a river boat queen"

 

[deltablues65]

So I was five the first time I heard that song, however as time progressed i just assumed, they were from the south, when John Fogerty did his first solo album, that would have been around the time I started researching CCR

 

[JBoy1952]

So I was five the first time I heard that song, however as time progressed i just assumed, they were from the south, when John Fogerty did his first solo album, that would have been around the time I started researching CCR

Yeah...I just read the wiki description of being on the album "Bayou Country", along with the song "Born on the Bayou"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Mary

 

[MrMakersMark]

How did these lunatics get on The Ed Sullivan show?

 

[hotoldrguy]

Once I understood the emotions behind this song, it became one of my favs.

Phil Collins "I Don't Care Anymore"

Phil Collins takes out his frustrations over his divorce from his first wife, Andrea Bertorelli.

 

[hotoldrguy]

How did these lunatics get on The Ed Sullivan show?

As far as I know, all they did were covers of others songs. Although I admit to having one of their albums, liked some of the covers. For some weird reason I really like this song and sing it at the top of my lungs when I play it.

 

[hotoldrguy]

How many knew that Karen Carpenter could do this---other than sing like a songbird?

she was a fantastic drummer!

 

[BrendaBear]

and "hitched a ride on a river boat queen"

Well… he is even more specific in Cotton Fields…

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Tex-arkana
In them old cotton fields back home

Personally, I was very young when this came out and why would I (or anyone else) get all deep about it… it just sounded like they were from the south. The cover of Willy and the Poorboys does not look like Cali.

 

[MrMakersMark]

First Foreigner tune I heard as a kid. My older cousin had it on 8 Track in his car.

 

[deltablues65]

Phil Collins takes out his frustrations over his divorce from his first wife, Andrea Bertorelli.

I don't care Anymore, Live from the Perkins Palace(1982) is very good too, with Chester as a second drummer, and Daryll's haunting guitar works.......very well done, excellent song......once again attempting to get it here

 

[lovetopleasewomen]

Now....country may not be the most popular here, but Billy Ray Cyrus...Miley's daddy...still rocked with this one

eeewwww! Noooo! yuck!!! Ohhh my achy breaky head! I hate this song. When it came out all the women everywhere were singing it.

But I do like Billy Ray (except for that ridiculous mullet) and I like this song"Romeo" with Dolly Parton, Pam Tillis, Tanya Tucker, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea.

 

[BrendaBear]

Listening to Van Johnson today... and I hadn't heard this in a long time!

Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)

 

[rjr_1954]

Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)​

 

[rjr_1954]

HELEN REDDY - AIN'T NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY - 1975 - QUEEN OF 70s POP​

 

[rjr_1954]

Dr Hook and the Medicine Show ~ "Cover of the Rolling Stone"​

 

[rjr_1954]

Charlie Pride - Kiss an Angel Good Morning​

 

[rjr_1954]

America - Ventura Highway​

 

[rjr_1954]

Billy Joel - Piano Man (Official HD Video)​

 

[rjr_1954]

Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Official Video)​