Speedy says: Blondie 1979 - Back To Back - #1: After achieving modest commercial success were their first 2 albums, Blondie hit it big with their third album, Parellel Lines. Released in September 1978, the disc went to #1 on the UK charts and climbed to #6 on the Billboard charts in the US. The single from the disc, Heart Of Glass, did even better, climbing all the way to #1 in both countries. This soundboard recording captures Blondie on tour in support of Parallel Lines at the early show at the Convention Center in Asbury Park on July 7, 1979, 47 years ago today. Download this one, then come back later today [tomorrow now!?] for the 2nd half of this Back to Back set.
Blondie - One Way Or Another Live At Convention Hall Asbury Park, NJ 1979
Now someone knows their Fess! What a rare treat from the collection of Johnny Q and posted by Gyro1966 over at THE TWILIGHTZONE. Professor Longhair, of whom we have spoken often, had an early incarnation of Nawleans equivalent Tin Pan Alley as 'Prof Longhair and The Shuffling Hungarians' and the connections here are superlative and really well researched and put together by the boys. Enjoy! (I did!) [now to collect all the other previous volumes!]
Tracklisting
1. Plain Old Down Home Blues - T-Bone Walker 2. Woke Up This Morning - Chase Canfil 3. Hey, Little Girl - Professor Longhair 4. Longhair's Blues-Rhumba - Professor Longhair 5. Growing Old - Smiley Lewis 6. Whose Hat Is That (Alternative) - Roy Brown 7. Calypso Daddy - Jeanne Demetz / Johnny Orchestra Alston 8. Calypso Beat - Little Eddie & the Don Juans 9. Take a Ride - Joe Lutcher 10. Touch Me - Johnny Burnette 11. Shadow Street - Kip Tyler 12. Love Is My Business - Cliff Gleaves 13. Hound Dog - Cleave Jackson 14. Thirteen Women - Bill Haley & His Comets 15. You Make Me Feel So Good - The Chips 16. Grandma - Long John Hunter 17. I'm Going Home - Prince Conley 18. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Otis Rush 19. Baby I'm Comin' Home - Charlie Booker 20. She's Been Gone - H-Bomb Ferguson 21. Darlene - Whispering Pigg 22. Hey Mrs. Jones Part 1 - The Check Mates 23. Hey Mrs. Jones Part 2 - The Check Mates 24. La Bamba - The Individuals 25. Bruca Manigua - Miguelito Valdés 26. Mambo #5 - Perez Prado 27. 7-11 - The Gone All Stars 28. Preachin' - The Spotlighters 29. King Kong - Tarantula Ghoul 30. The Sneak - Jimmy Oliver
Compiled by Johnny Q from his music collection - originally served by Gyro1966
Professor Longhair And His Shuffling Hungarians - Mardi Gras In New Orleans 1949
it was the case as we learned from Dr John (Mac Rebbenack) that Fess would release this single every year for Nawleans Mardi Gras but this was the realist I could find
Professor Longhair And His Shuffling Hungarians - She Ain’t Got No Hair 1949
a visitor to the YouTube page noted: "This is the original recorded as by Professor Longhair on the Star Talent label in 1949. He-recorded it as "Bald Head" by "Roy Byrd" at a faster tempo for Mercury and it became his biggest R&B hit in 1950."
Brits may recall Harry’s Game which was my introduction to the Irish band Clannad
Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video)
"Theme from Harry's Game" is a 1982 song by Clannad commissioned as the theme for Harry's Game, a Yorkshire Television mini-series adapted from a 1975 novel set in 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. It was released as a single in October 1982 and became a surprise hit, reaching number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.
Follow Clannad:
Official website - https://www.clannad.ie/
Facebook - / clannadmusic
Charleston Craze of 1925: Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra
The poster on YouTube says:
Yes Sir, That's My Baby : Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra, Vocal by C.A.Coon, Victor 1925
"NOTE: I never have enough of that wonderful Kansas City dance band of the 1920s! I don't know a single recording of them, that could be called "weak" or "failed". Their music and their arrangements are an absolute heaven for every Roaring Twenties lover! The unfortunately named Carleton Coon was a drummer and Joe Sanders was pianist. Sanders was known as "The Old Left Hander" because of his skills at baseball, but he gave the game up in the early 1920s to make dance music his career. Their orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on channel station WDAF, which could be received throughout the United States. They took the name Nighthawks because they broadcast late at night from 11p.m. -1.00 a.m. The broadcast guaranteed them quickly the popularity and national recognition. They became so popular that Western Union set up a ticker tape between Sanders' piano and Coon's drums so the telegrams could be acknowledged during the broadcasts. Their song "Nighthawk Blues" includes the lines: "Tune right in on the radio/Grab a telegram and say 'Hello'."
In 1924 Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra left for Chicago to p[lay at The Blackhawk - an internationally known entertainment venue for the jazz band music. Two years later in 1926 they got an 11-month broadcast engagement in NYC at the Hotel New Yorker as a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System. At their peak, each member of the Orchestra owned identical Cord Automobiles, each in a different color with the name of the Orchestra and the owner embossed on the rear. The Orchestra's popularity showed no signs of abating and their contract with MCA had another 15 years to run in the spring of 1932 when Carleton Coon came down with a jaw infection and died, on May 4. Joe Sanders attempted to keep the band going; however, without Coon, the public did not support them. In 1935, he formed his own group and played until the early 1940s. He died of a stroke in 1965.”
now this reminds me of my dear Mum! She loved to do the Charleston and could still do the less than easy footwork right through into her 70s. She loved that dance and dance band music of the 20s and 30s especially from Al Bowlly to Bix Biederbecke.
