Thursday, December 31, 2015

December's Underappreciated Music: New Year's Underappreciated Eve Edition

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...
Happy New Year!

and to 2015, I say this...











Dee Dee Warwick: "We're Doing Fine"

A cleaner copy of the video with more songs from the show...

Patti Abbott: Music 

Brian Arnold: A Musical Advent Calendar


Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos


H.P. Lovecraft: "Wayfaring Stranger"


Paul Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim C: Noah Howard at Judson Hall

Sean Coleman: The Band: Northern Lights-Southern Cross; John Lennon: "Remember"; Skip James;  Frank Zappa: apostrophe ('); The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album; Lemmy

Frank Zappa plays bicycle on The Steve Allen Show (syndicated, 1964)


Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits, Local Charts

Jeff Gemmill: Concerts of the Year; Albums of the Year; The Dixie Chicks in Philadelphia, 7/25/06; Top 5s


Jerry House: Jo Stafford; Music from the Past; Hymn Time; Daily Music+ 

George Kelly: Van Morrison: His Band and the Street Choir

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday (and "Auld Lang Syne")


B. V. Lawson: Stewart Goodyear: The Nutcracker

Jane Wiedlin Band featuring Billy Zoom: "Where We Can Go"


Evan Lewis: Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers

Steve Lewis, Jonathan Lewis, Mike Doran and Michael Shonk: Music I'm Listening To

Todd Mason: Some Jazz Drummers and Their Bands

Dan Brubeck Quartet: Medley of compositions by Dave and Iola Brubeck and co.


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday


Charlie Ricci: Raul Malo; A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra; Yellowjackets: Peace Round; The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Bhob Stewart: Diana Krall; Sigur Rós


Muddy Waters:"40 Days and 40 Nights"; "I've Got to Love Somebody" (link on titles)

5 comments:

Mathew Paust said...

Todd, here's my FFB for today: https://mdpaust.blogspot.com/2016/01/lila-inquiry-into-morals-robert-m-pirsig.html

Do you give out your email addy? You have mine, right?


Happy New Year!

Phillyradiogeek said...

Happy New Year Todd!

Thanks for bringing Dee Dee Warwick to my attention. I had thought Betty Everett's version of "You're No Good" was the original version, but I'm clearly mistaken. Everett's version was the b-side to her big hit "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)."

Todd Mason said...

Thanks, Mathew! Yes, we've corresponded...and mine is no secret.

HNY, Brian...yeah, DDW's digs in just a little harder than Everett's, though the latter was more cleanly recorded. Both better than Ronstadt's, though that one isn't the kind of sad cover that, say, the Captain and Tenille's "Shop Around" is in comparison with Miracles'...

Mathew Paust said...


We have via gmail, but I don't think I have a direct address, which I figure is the best way to send you the links. No FFB today? I have limited access to the Net...

Mathew Paust said...

Can you send it to my Hotmail addy? Gmail is messing with me today. mattpaust@hotmail.com