today i have been mostly playing ...

[Yin Yang]

Today I replaced my Suzi Quatro LP's with this box featuring her 7 LP's on CD with added as bonus tracks the non-LP single tracks and some previously unreleased recordings plus a nice booklet with her biography and a discography and a DVD with her videoclips, Top of the Pops performances and a Japanese live show.
Paid 46 euro for the box with free shipping.

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In July there will be a 3-CD-set with her 3 1980-1986 LP's but for unknown reasons the price of that one will be the same as the 7CD+DVD box!

[HillbillyCat]

I'm a little bit into western & country right now and found me listen today to Marty Robbins' "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" (again). "Cool Water", "El Paso", "Big Iron" and my favorite song: "Running Gun"!

[Mister Moon]

Together with Brian Wilson, Gary Usher was the great mastermind of surf / hot rod music. Singer, musician, songwriter, producer, you-name-it, aside from co-writing with Brian such memorable songs as "In My Room", "The Lonely Sea" and "409", during the first half of the sixties he was behind dozens and dozens of remarkable recordings and record releases by studio-only groups such as The Hondells, The Super Stocks, The Customs, and countless others. He was helped by top-notch session musicians such as Glen Campbell, Ritchie Podolor, Dick Burns, Earl Palmer, and so on.

There are so many examples, but let's take a look at The Super Stocks - there were three albums released on Capitol in 1964 by this outfit, all of them masterpieces of the genre. But in 1963, they had six songs released in the Capitol "Hot Rod Rally" compilation. Here's an example - "Little Nifty Fifty" was also recorded for the Vault label by The Customs, another Usher project.

This music is pure magic. It perfectly defines that post-Elvis, pre-Beatles, pre-Dylan, rock and roll era, that is often wrongly dismissed as being just full of teen idols.

Play loud - if you listen through headphones, don't miss the cool stereo effect at the end :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0eDvRZ6hxo

[Mister Moon]

So here's the same song (here named "Nifty 50") as released under The Customs name - probably most of the musicians were the same as The Super Stocks recording. Not sure which one came earlier, but this one sounds more basic. The organ solo is replaced by a guitar solo, and the last verse is omitted. This is the stereo version. There's also a mono version which is even shorter, as it omits the spoken coda. A bottomless pit of coolness :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0etY0d9qc_g

[HillbillyCat]

Matt Andersen - just discovered him, can't believe I never heard of him before...

I must have played his song "Other Side of Goodbye" (2022) umpteen times today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC47rfCoIxs

But I also like his song "Make You Stay" (2011) very much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKzz1GHw3c

He also covers songs and here is a very bluesy live version of "Steamroller Blues" (2006):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXi303OgYJU

[John]

Matt Andersen - just discovered him, can't believe I never heard of him before...

I must have played his song "Other Side of Goodbye" (2022) umpteen times today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC47rfCoIxs

But I also like his song "Make You Stay" (2011) very much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKzz1GHw3c

He also covers songs and here is a very bluesy live version of "Steamroller Blues" (2006):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXi303OgYJU

That first song is really good, although the melody doesn't feel original. I also like the second song a lot. I don't think I could listen to a full album, his voice is too full on, there's not enough light and shade, but I think I'd enjoy seeing him live.

[HillbillyCat]

Matt Andersen - just discovered him, can't believe I never heard of him before...

I must have played his song "Other Side of Goodbye" (2022) umpteen times today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC47rfCoIxs

But I also like his song "Make You Stay" (2011) very much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKzz1GHw3c

He also covers songs and here is a very bluesy live version of "Steamroller Blues" (2006):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXi303OgYJU

That first song is really good, although the melody doesn't feel original. I also like the second song a lot. I don't think I could listen to a full album, his voice is too full on, there's not enough light and shade, but I think I'd enjoy seeing him live.

I guess it's rare to reinvent the wheel these days. For me it was the second song: it reminds me a bit of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". But it doesn't really matter as long as one like it.

[HillbillyCat]

Lo Chiamavano Trinita' - Original Soundtrack to the western parody movie "They Call Me Trinity" (1970)

(Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/7329508 ... Soundtrack)


Cause yesterday I stumbled upon one of these new AI "Elvis" covers... I usually skip them, but this one caught my eyes (and ears) immediately, cause it's one of my all time favorite songs: Trinity (Titoli) written by Franco Micalizzi and Lally Stott (who also wrote Middle Of The Road's UK-No. 1 hit "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"). It was sung by Annibale Giannarelli. In addition you can hear Alessandro Alessandroni whistling along (as he also did it for the Ennio Morricone scores to "A Fistful of Dollars ", "For a Few Dollars More" and "Once Upon a Time in the West"):

Original version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rkuWyjmr8

"Elvis" AI version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRiyO5kdiQ8

"They Call Me Trinity" used to be my dad's favorite movie since he first saw it on the big screen in 1971. We watched it together literally every time it was shown on TV as well as other Terence Hill and Bud Spencer movies - precious memories from my early childhood on until his final years. I always will remember him laughing so hard about the exaggerated fight scenes and crazy dialogues every time, regardless how often he saw these movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZQ5iXSMs8

I especially love the theme song -- even Quentin Tarantino used it for one of his movies (Django Unchained) -- and always thought of it as a perfect western song for Elvis to sing... "Keeps the varmints on the run, boy! Keeps the varmints on the runnnnnn...."

[John]

Lo Chiamavano Trinita' - Original Soundtrack to the western parody movie "They Call Me Trinity" (1970)

(Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/7329508 ... Soundtrack)


Cause yesterday I stumbled upon one of these new AI "Elvis" covers... I usually skip them, but this one caught my eyes (and ears) immediately, cause it's one of my all time favorite songs: Trinity (Titoli) written by Franco Micalizzi and Lally Stott (who also wrote Middle Of The Road's UK-No. 1 hit "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"). It was sung by Annibale Giannarelli. In addition you can hear Alessandro Alessandroni whistling along (as he also did it for the Ennio Morricone scores to "A Fistful of Dollars ", "For a Few Dollars More" and "Once Upon a Time in the West"):

Original version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rkuWyjmr8

"Elvis" AI version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRiyO5kdiQ8

"They Call Me Trinity" used to be my dad's favorite movie since he first saw it on the big screen in 1971. We watched it together literally every time it was shown on TV as well as other Terence Hill and Bud Spencer movies - precious memories from my early childhood on until his final years. I always will remember him laughing so hard about the exaggerated fight scenes and crazy dialogues every time, regardless how often he saw these movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZQ5iXSMs8

I especially love the theme song -- even Quentin Tarantino used it for one of his movies (Django Unchained) -- and always thought of it as a perfect western song for Elvis to sing... "Keeps the varmints on the run, boy! Keeps the varmints on the runnnnnn...."

Keep the A1 varmints on the run.