Georgia On My Mind is most commonly associated with Ray Charles. It appears on every tribute album to Ray, and Willie Nelson (who recorded the song in 1978) sang it at his funeral. But Georgia was a standard long before Ray Charles made it his own. It was written by Hoagy Carmichael and lyricist Stuart Gorrell in 1930. The story goers that the Georgia of the title was originally intended to refer to Hoagy's sister, but realising that Gorell's words could apply also to the southern US state, the writers were happy to keep things ambiguous. The plan [...]
The story of Blue Moon — its transition from a movie song that was rewritten several times to jazz song and then pop hit — was told in The Originals Vol. 40 , which included the first version, The Bad In Every Man, sung on film by Shirley Ross. This collection of 38 versions covers all manner of approaches. There are the early jazz interpretations, most of them with vocals (though Gene Krupa, Django Reinhardt and in 1944 the Cozy Cole Allstars do it instrumentally). Then it became something of a torchsong number in the hands of [...]
Check out two interviews with E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. He talks about everything from Bruce to Conan O'Brien to Gene Krupa to meeting Frank Sinatra. Weinberg's Big Band opens up its tour tonight in Red Bank, NJ. 107.5 The Hawk interview with Tom Cunningham Rolling Stone interview Max Weinberg Big Band official website "Live in Miami" - Max Weinberg Big Band
Check out two interviews with E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. He talks about everything from Bruce to Conan O'Brien to Gene Krupa to meeting Frank Sinatra. Weinberg's Big Band opens up its tour tonight in Red Bank, NJ. 107.5 The Hawk interview with Tom Cunningham Rolling Stone interview Max Weinberg Big Band official website "Live in Miami" - [...]
I promised a while back to follow up the first two New York mixes with one in black & white. In the interim, the two Christmas in Black & White mixes ( here and here ) were quite popular, so I hope that this collection of songs about or set in New York, spanning 30 years, will find an audience. And I hope that some of these songs will inspire the listener to seek out more music by some of the artists who are largely forgotten now. [...]
Erin McKeown : Thanks For the Boogie Ride [ purchase ] My first response to this week's theme was to realize that I had used three of my best choices for a post on my own blog, Oliver di Place . My next thought was that there are many songs of the "thank you for your love" variety. At that point, a procession of truly terrible pop songs began to play in my head. It seems that love is an overwrought emotional state that is always slow, has far too [...]
This coming weekend one of the many famous Man City fans... No, the other one. Not him either... ...now you are just taking the piss. I mean the boxing one: Ricky Hatton (nickname: The Hitman) will be fighting Manny Pacquiao (nickname: Pacman) in Las Vegas . [...]
Seen these videos on youtube and thought i'd stick them up. Awesome drums!
Respite on Okinawa ( from the National Archives ) "Time and again we found that footage and photographs, however graphic, and words, however eloquent, could not alone do justice to the magnitude of the war's devastation, could not fully convey the barbarity, bravery, depravity, resilience, and generosity of spirit that the conflict evoked in the millions of human beings who were touched by it." –Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, from their liner notes to THE WAR soundtrack album [...]
Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
30 Days Out
Star Maker Machine
Football and Music
Feel my Bicep
Mainstream Isnt So Bad...Is It
Freddie Gibbs ft. Young Jeezy & T.I. – Pull Up [Music]
Trails and Ways – Nunca
Rihanna Gets Nude For Nude
Catcall – ‘The Warmest Place’
