What are you listening to (Music)

[TexasBama]

 

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

"My Guy" is a 1964 hit single recorded by Mary Wells for the Motown label. Written and produced by Smokey Robinson of The Miracles, the song is a woman's rejection of a sexual advance and affirmation of her fidelity to her boyfriend, who is her ideal and with whom she is happy, despite his ordinary physique and looks.

Though she was hailed as "the first lady of Motown", Wells was technically Motown's third female signed act: Claudette Rogers, of Motown's first star group the Miracles, has been referred to by Berry Gordy as "the first lady of Motown Records" due to her being signed as a member of the group, and in late 1959 Detroit blues-gospel singer Mable John had signed to the then-fledgling label a year prior to Wells' arrival.

She was 21 here.

 

[Bazza]

Tina at Wembely Stadium 20 years ago. At age 62.

 

[Go Bama]

That’s John Coltrane on tenor sax. Great video.

 

[Bazza]

This was a good TV show - I wasn't an ardent viewer but looking back now can see how special it really was - especially in providing inspiration for the youngsters with performing arts talents....

 

[Bazza]

ROCK N' ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION (1998). According to John Phillips in a Bravo documentary, and Michelle Phillips in an NPR piece, the song was written in 1963 while they were living in New York. He dreamed about the song and woke her up to help him write it. At the time, the Phillipses were members of the folk group The New Journeymen which evolved into The Mamas & the Papas. They earned their first record contract after being introduced to Lou Adler, the head of Dunhill Records, by the singer Barry McGuire. In thanks to Adler, they sang the backing vocals to "California Dreamin'" on McGuire's album This Precious Time. The Mamas and the Papas then recorded their own version, using the same instrumental backing track to which they added new vocals and an alto flute solo by Bud Shank. McGuire's original vocal can be briefly heard on the left channel at the beginning of the record, having not been completely wiped.The single was released in late 1965 but it was not an immediate breakthrough. After gaining little attention in Los Angeles upon its release, Michelle Phillips remembers that it took a radio station in Boston to break the song nationwide.

By early 1966, the song peaked at #4 and stayed on the charts for 17 weeks.

Michelle Phillps, at 75, is still with us.

 

[Bazza]

 

[crimsonaudio]

GREAT cover here:

 

[Bazza]

That was fantastic....thanks CA! Love the synths!

A reminder of how great the 80's were in generating creative music. Speaking of creativity...here's the original music vid of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel (1986).

 

[Bazza]

Papa was a Rolling Stone......

 

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

 

[bama579]

Dave Alvin / Guilty Men - "Dry River" live

 

[cuda.1973]

Are you making fun of the girls I went to HS with but were out of my league?

(Not in blue, because..................well, duh!)

 

[NationalTitles18]

Gonna free fall
out into nothin
gonna leave this
world for a while

 

[CajunCrimson]

My morning with Bill. “Ain’t No Sunshine” followed by “Lovely Day”. Got to be a sign, right?

 

[CajunCrimson]

Great version of the Carole King penned Byrds classic. Phil is amazing.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Another recent purchase. White vinyl. I think the wife and I have listened to it at least 20 times. May not be a bad song on the entire LP