The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[johncorrigan]

Cerys Matthews finished her show this morning by paying a wee bit tribute to the fine singer songwriter, Tony Joe White, who has died of a heart attack at 75. He was born and raised on a cotton farm in Goodwill, Louisiana. Cerys played his song, 'Rainy Night in Georgia', made famous by Brook Benton, to finish the show. Here's Tony's terrific version of this great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MunWJu1f1-8

[Lat-Literal]

Cerys Matthews finished her show this morning by paying a wee bit tribute to the fine singer songwriter, Tony Joe White, who has died of a heart attack at 75. He was born and raised on a cotton farm in Goodwill, Louisiana. Cerys played his song, 'Rainy Night in Georgia', made famous by Brook Benton, to finish the show. Here's Tony's terrific version of this great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MunWJu1f1-8

Oh wow,absolutely, JC. Thank you. When we got into the Spotify age, I found TJW songs from relatively recently which I thought were sublime. I thought even then he was older. I go for that, the definitive, version big time. I'm not going big on Brook Benton, maybe on no greater grounds than attitude. But you'll guess where I am, unapologetically, about to go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcKtPiZ77mY

(And it needs Serial-Apologist to give us the answer as to whether Randy Crawford is a true jazz artist.....melt!.)

Where Do They Go? (Rain Crow, 2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJQfBCBtkI

http://americansongwriter.com/2016/05/tony-joe-white-rain-crow/

Tony Joe White

[Lat-Literal]

Swamp rock : Between the start of his fifth decade and the end of his sixth decade, the Kings of Leon came and went; never quite Creedence but not a bad attempt - it will live on.

Fans from "Because of the Times" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1hgRDRc3ug

This is my godlike genius moment, though, from 1971 and weirdly - he was weird - it comes from Link Wray : no apologies for the umpteenth repeat; it taught Van Morrison a lot:

Eponymous '71: Black River Swamp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozwlKJO7iuw

I mark this 23 marks out of 10 marks which doesn't make sense and yet it really, honestly, does.

Well, what does that elide with? I'd go for Robeson and Simone, among others.

But for old times' sake, the band which remarkably sold more records worldwide then the Beatles did in 1970, albeit it was their final year. I do have a Creedence Clearwater Revival story. It was the only time I ever stole something. It was entirely inadvertent and it was from a friendly Irishman. I felt terrible about it. On the plus side, I could have easily died that night and fate decided I didn't. That is what comes from chatting so amicably like late with a stranger on a train and being told that you have missed your stop. You grab "your" bag instinctively - it turns out once you realise you are just on the platform and have missed the rail by three feet - that you have a bag of green rugby kit and six CDs by CCR and Lizzy.

CCR : Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a11nBxc8kDQ

I'd probably been to something like the Frank and Walters. Quite why he had the full Irish rugby kit, god only knows.

On the plus side, and once he had got over it, I imagine he dines out on the peculiarity of it to this day.

(There is a punch line - it was at Coulsdon South precisely where Bowie's half brother chucked himself on the line - my only intention was to avoid a longer night and a taxi fare)

[johncorrigan]

Thanks, Lat...I forgot 'Have you Ever Seen the Rain'...loved the vid. Tony Joe White said that he decided to write songs after hearing Bobbie Gentry's 'Ode to Billy Joe'. Also agree that Randy Crawford is a wonderful cover of 'Rainy Night'...here's one of my favourites by her...'Last Night at Danceland'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkelyCu5ToU

[johncorrigan]

Thought some of you old punks out there might be entertained by this fine bit of Aussie humour.
'Smoko' - The Chats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

[Lat-Literal]

The Clash and The Pogues but not as you would know them:

The Radiators (originally "From Space") - Under Clery's Clock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkic_L9XSzk

Strummer & 101'ers - Keys To Your Heart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8Sm444Fso

Big Audio Dynamite ft Mick Jones - Rush:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8zs898lr4

Cait O'Riordan - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day, 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eOrpnRM5co

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks, Lat...I forgot 'Have you Ever Seen the Rain'...loved the vid. Tony Joe White said that he decided to write songs after hearing Bobbie Gentry's 'Ode to Billy Joe'. Also agree that Randy Crawford is a wonderful cover of 'Rainy Night'...here's one of my favourites by her...'Last Night at Danceland'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkelyCu5ToU

A friend came over on Saturday. As I have mentioned before, he tends to have Gambaccini on in the car on the way to a meal at one of my two "locals" which isn't really a local seeing that it is an hour and a quarter's walk. He has generally heard the years to be "done" ahead of time. I haven't so I do "spot the year" in the style of Peter Kay's Car Share except that I don't have a Kayleigh. She, of course, song wise is 1985. And this week just as we flew past Tescos we got Gentry's "Ode". I went into the mode of waxing lyrical about how excellent she was and how she should not have disappeared. This was all greeted with a certain amount of fascinating vagueness from someone who was born in July 1964 rather than December 1962. Again, I was reminded of just how fast the changes were in popular music in earlier decades so that a mere 19 months difference could almost have been in memories 19 years. `

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRacIzZSPo

While it feels all wrong to say it - there never has been/will be another Bobbie Gentry and certainly not from the not entirely authentic posh south of England - I do think if one were to go looking for a persona that could even come halfway close in aura in later years it is Tikaram's. Not sisters. At most, distant cousins. Nevertheless, there is definitely something there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOb3j58cv3w

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just in case you missed it on another Thread:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-508/

[teamsaint]

Ok, I’m a sucker for a bit of the Manics, but this really is top drawer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJLdC6wqno

[johncorrigan]

I love this video for the Stones' '19th Nervous Breakdown'...Beware! Contains swirly patterns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEseb6-hssc

[teamsaint]

another great song from Andy Partridge,

sentiments appropriate to the moment, in some ways.

[gradus]

Finzi's Hardy settings, Earth. Air and Rain, especially To Lizbie Brown, beautifully, movingly sung by Stephen Varcoe.

[teamsaint]

When Evenings Twilight.
John Liptrot Hatton.
Sung by the Hillier Ensemble.

Just lovely.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OE6XtzLgvJ4

[edashtav]

Sevda from an original song by Giya Kancheli.

Sevda may mean "Love" , others say it means "Sorrow"... maybe there's an identity.

My question: is GK happier as a "Pop" / Jazz composer?

https://youtu.be/0SPkuuo1TJI

[teamsaint]

Sevda from an original song by Giya Kancheli.

Sevda may mean "Love" , others say it means "Sorrow"... maybe there's an identity.

My question: is GK happier as a "Pop" / Jazz composer?

https://youtu.be/0SPkuuo1TJI

Thanks Ed, interesting piece. Bit of a curate’s egg that arrangement I thought, threatens to get interesting occasionally , and then it all drifts off/ fizzles out.