Here’s a great Bad Company Behind the Music feature from VH1 to continue our Bad Company focus from the last couple of days. Lots of interesting history with regards to Bad Company and Free. Enjoy……
I couldn’t agree more with John Mellencamp’s comments about Paul’s voice…..absolutely perfect!
Today’s Monday Matinee post is almost certainly the greatest assemblage of musical talent on any concert bill. Some might argue that a few of the music festivals that would occur later in the 60’s had more talent but these were multi day events, not a concert. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you agree with me but I’m betting that one look at the list of performers provided below will make this an easy decision for you.
Jan and Dean (Over credits)
– (Here They Come) from All Over the WorldChuck Berry
– Johnny B. Goode
– MaybelleneGerry & The Pacemakers
– Maybellene
– Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
– It’s Gonna Be AlrightChuck Berry
– Sweet Little SixteenGerry & The Pacemakers
– How Do You Do It?Chuck Berry
– NadineGerry & The Pacemakers
– I Like It(Smokey Robinson and) The Miracles
– That’s What Love Is Made Of
– You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
– Mickey’s MonkeyMarvin Gaye
– Stubborn Kind of Fellow
– Pride and Joy
– Can I Get a Witness
– Hitch HikeLesley Gore
– Maybe I Know
– You Don’t Own Me
– You Didn’t Look Around
– Hey Now
– It’s My Party
– Judy’s Turn to CryJan and Dean
– The Little Old Lady from Pasadena
– Sidewalk SurfinThe Beach Boys
– Surfin’ USA
– I Get Around
– Surfer Girl
– Dance, Dance, DanceBilly J. Kramer and The Dakotas
– Little Children
– Bad to Me
– I’ll Keep You Satisfied
– From a WindowThe Supremes
– When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
– Run, Run, Run
– Baby Love
– Where Did Our Love GoThe Barbarians
– Hey Little BirdJames Brown and The Famous Flames
– Out of Sight
– Prisoner of Love
– Please, Please, Please
– Night TrainThe Rolling Stones
– Around and Around
– Off the Hook
– Time Is on My Side
– It’s All Over Now
– I’m Alright
– Let’s Get Together
And now…..On With The Show!
Today I have something really special for you, Johnny Cash’s Christmas Special from 1970 featuring guests including the Everly Brothers, Ike Everly, Mother Maybell Carter, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and others. I really think you will enjoy it……..
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
I have a special treat for you today. A great documentary about, Jefferson Airplane, the best of the San Francisco bands from the 1960s. This is true rock history, some amazing rock music, and a chance to observe the beautiful and talented Grace Slick in her prime. Enjoy……
As I mentioned yesterday’s The Head and the Heart post, the band has a new album (Let’s Be Still) that will be released tomorrow. As a lead in for that release, I thought you would enjoy hearing their great single, Shake, from the new album.
While you are waiting to pick up your copy of Let’s Be Still tomorrow you might enjoy this 4 part video of the band visiting Lawrence High School. It’s part interview and part live session. I think you will like it.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Here’s a an interesting TV profile of Crosby, Stills, and Nash from 1987. It’s brutal but very interesting at the same time. You might want to look away but I suggest you watch………
In my continuing effort to make up for all of the political posts I have made you read over the last two weeks, tonight I’m offering up a double shot of REM unplugged. One from 1991, one from 2001, and both absolutely wonderful. Enjoy…..
REM Unplugged (MTV 4/10/1991)
REM Unplugged #2 (2001) – Sorry about the advertisement at the beginning of the show!
If you listened to the 1991 unplugged show you might have noticed the band playing the official theme song of tonight’s Government Shutdown drama……It’s The End Of The World As We Know It.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s 1970 Chicago concert, here is a mini 1970 documentary on Chicago from the NBC video news magazine “First Tuesday”. I think you will like it……
In my Chicago posts over the past few days I have intentionally avoided one topic that needs to be addressed. Terry Kathy, the amazingly talented Chicago guitarist, died in early 1978 from an unintentionally self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was a senseless and tragic loss for the band and for music in general. The details are provided below (thanks to Wikipedia for this information)…..
Around 5 p.m., on January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie and band technician Don Johnson’s home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Kath took an unloaded .38 revolver and put it to his head, pulling the trigger several times on the empty chambers. Johnson had warned Kath several times to be careful. Kath then picked up a semiautomatic 9 mm pistol and, leaning back in a chair, said to Johnson, “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded”. To assuage Johnson’s concerns, Kath showed the empty magazine to Johnson. Kath then replaced the magazine in the gun, put the gun to his temple, and pulled the trigger. However, there was a round in the chamber, and Kath died instantly. Kath was one week short of his 32nd birthday. He left a widow, Camelia Emily Ortiz (whom he married in 1974; she would later marry actor Kiefer Sutherland), and a daughter, Michelle, born in 1976.
RIP Terry!
Hope you enjoyed the Corrs’ acoustic concert that I posted last night. Have you had enough of the Corrs? I didn’t think so!
Tonight I bring you a great documentary history of the group. As always…..let me know what you think!
Today’s Monday Music Matinee #14 is a Paul McCartney TV special from Forty Years Ago (1973). As captured in Wikipedia the show was broken up into 11 parts….
Part 1
The program opens with a live performance by Wings in front of an audience of television screens.
Song: “Big Barn Bed”Part 2
An acoustic medley of songs is performed by McCartney during a photographic session with his wife Linda as the photographer.
Songs: “Blackbird”, “Bluebird”, “Michelle”, “Heart of the Country”Part 3
A short music video style performance set in an outdoor location of McCartney’s version of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
Songs: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”Part 4
A television studio performance with Wings and orchestra in front of a live audience.
Songs: “Little Woman Love”, “C Moon”, “My Love”Part 5
Another music video segment, this time for “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”, however the “Admiral Halsey” section was not included in the final broadcast version.
Songs: “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”Part 6
A short voice-over from Mcartney introduces the next segment set in the Clelsea Reach public house near Liverpool. This features members of Paul’s family and Wings in a pub singalong
Songs: “April Showers”, “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag”, “You Are My Sunshine”Part 7
A Busby Berkeley style musical number, featuring dancers dressed in half-man/half-woman costumes.
Songs: “Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance”Part 8
A music video segment were Paul introduces “Live And Let Die”, the title theme from the 1973 James Bond movie.
Songs: “Live and Let Die”Part 9
Beatles Medley: a filmed segment with street passers-by singing various Beatles songs (off key) to comedic effect.
Songs: “When I’m 64”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “She Loves You”, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, “Yesterday”, “Yellow Submarine”Part 10
Another live studio performance with Wings.
Songs: “The Mess”, “Maybe I’m Amazed”, “Long Tall Sally” (US broadcast only; the UK and other European market replaced this with “Hi, Hi, Hi”)Part 11
A live acoustic performance of “Yesterday”. Credits roll over the performance.
Songs: “Yesterday”.
The critics hated it saying it was over the top and silly. And I say…..well let’s have Paul say it in his own words……
You’d think that people would have had enought of silly love songs.
But I look around me and I see it isn’t so.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And what’s wrong with that?
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