Underappreciated Music: January 2018

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

Patti Abbott: Louis Prima and Keely Smith: "Just a Gigolo"; "I Ain't Got Nobody"

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Pete (La Roca) Sims: Turkish Women at the Bath

Sean Coleman: Gordon Lightfoot: Old Dan's Records; Men at Work: Cargo; Stealers Wheel: Stealers Wheel

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Diane Birch: "The End";  Albums of the Year: 1978-2017; First Aid Kit: Ruins; Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain; Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel

Jerry House: Theodore Bikel; Hymn Time; Music from the Past

George Kelley: Growing Up Too Fast: The Girl Group Anthology; Barb Jungr: Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday; Mark E. Smith/The Fall

Evan Lewis: Louie Fest 2003

Marc Maron: Rita Moreno; Don Was

Todd Mason: Some Sounds of DC; Some More Sounds of DC; Some Further Sounds of DC

Laura Nakatsuka: Blue Heron: "Ecce, quod natura"


Becky O'Brien: Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia: Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany's;  from The Sword in the Stone: "A Most Befuddling Thing"

Andrew Orley: Mark E. Smith

Dave Pell's Jazz Octet: A Pell of a Time (RCA 1957)

• • Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
  • Bass – Tom Kelly
  • Coordinator – Shorty Rogers
  • Drums – Mel Lewis
  • Guitar – Tommy Tedesco
  • Piano – Marty Paich, Paul Moer (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
  • Tenor Saxophone, Leader – Dave Pell
  • Trombone – Bobby Burgess*, Ray Sims (tracks: 2, 5, 7)
  • Trumpet – Jack Sheldon

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: Brubeck Quartet/Tony Bennett Combo: The White House Sessions, Live 1962

Prashant Trikannad: Chandrashekhar Phanse, Joslyn Braganza +: "Come September"

Underappreciated Music, the links to the sounds and the words about them, October/November 2017 updated

Rest in Glory: Jon Hendricks, 1921-2017

The (frequently) monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...



Patti Abbott: Nightly Music

Brian Arnold: The Boston Pops: Christmas Festival; Holiday Music and more; Hallowe'en music and more One; Two; Three

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Booker Ervin: Tex Book Tenor 

Alice Chang: Hiroyuki Sawano: "Sylvalum (night)"


Sean Coleman: Pretenders II 

David Cramner: The Flaming Lips: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits; Link Wray and His WrayMen: "Rumble"

Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock'n'Roll; Janet Jackson in concert, 1990; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert, 1990;
Olivia Newton-John: Totally Hot; Juliana Hatfield in concert, 2017; Paul Weller in concert, 2017

Jerry House: Big Mama Thornton; Hymn Time; Music from the Past; Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band
Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, et al.: "Hound Dog"/"Down Home Shakedown"


Jackie Kashian: Ryan Conner on Smashing Pumpkins

George Kelley: Greatest Hits of the '70s; The Bodyguard: The Musical; La Bouche: Sweet Dreams

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Moanin'"

Jon Hendricks and Company: "In Walked Bud"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Joe Willisms: "Everyday I Have the Blues"


Evan Lewis: Shary Richards & co.: The Sounds of the Silly Surfers/The Sounds of the Weird-Ohs

Marc Maron: Kim Deal

J. Eric Mason: Aural Image #42 (a Spotify playlist)

Todd Mason: spirits; a Whole Lot of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (and Bavan)

Joe Megalos notes: Sun Ra on BandCamp

Becky O'Brien: Moana S/T: "There You Are"; The Walking Dead S/T; Stranger Things season 2 S/T; American Made S/T; Flatliners (2017) S/T 

Andrew Orley: Nobody's Listening

Dizzy Gillespie's centenary year: 2017: To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life (1990)


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: The Gospel Whiskey Runners: Hold On; Dan Auerbach: Waiting on a Song

W. Royal Stokes: Best Jazz CDs of 2016 

Produced by George Avakian, 1919-2017

reBeatling: Saturday Music Club

More covers.

Please also see:
Some Beatling
Skinning the Ticket
Some Cover Versions
Acoustic, with a Beatles outbreak



An RAI (Italian television) documentary segment on Apple Corp. from 1968





Miriam Makeba: "In My Life"

The Pretenders: "In My Life"

The B-52s: "Paperback Writer" (courtesy Eric Gary Anderson)


Blues Beatles: "Ticket to Ride"

"Yesterday"

The Paragons and Rosalyn Sweat: "Blackbird"


Alison Kraus: "I Will"


Roseanne Cash "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"

Johnny Cash: "In My Life"

Brasil '66: "Day Tripper"

Wes Montgomery: "A Day in the Life"
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade: "Eight Days a Week"

The Mamas and the Papas: "I Call Your Name"


The Beach Boys (& Co.): "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"


The Who: "I Saw Her Standing There"

Pat Benatar: "Helter Skelter"

Jackie Lomax, Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney: "Sour Milk Sea"


Dirty Mac: John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell (introduced by Mick Jagger): "Yer Blues"

Saturday Music Club on Monday: some rather funny songs

Maggie and Terre Roche (featuring the Oak Ridge Boys): "If You Emptied Out All Your Pockets You Could Not Make the Change"


Karen Kilgariff: "Couldn't Love You More"


Tom Smothers: "Mediocre Fred"


Fairport Convention: "Million Dollar Bash"


The Kinks: "Wicked Annabella"


Utopia: "Everybody Else is Wrong"


The Damned: "Grimly Fiendish"


Trusty: "Goodbye, Dr. Fate"


The Virgin-Whore Complex: "The Coldest Night of the Year"


Annie Ross: "Twisted"; Lambert, Hendricks & Ross with Williams: "Every Day I Have the Blues"

Saturday Music Club, Music Savings Time edition: Better 1? Better 2?

Betty Everett: "You're No Good"


Dee Dee Warwick: "You're No Good"


Dinah Washington: "Soulville"


Aretha Franklin: "Soulville"


Fairport Convention: "Si Tu Dois Partir"


Bob Dylan: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"


The Hollies: "I Can't Let Go"


Linda Ronstadt: "I Can't Let Go"


Glenn Miller Orchestra with Ray Eberle: "Serenade in Blue"


Glenn Miller Orchestra with Pat Friday (singing for Lynn Bari): "Serenade in Blue"


The Bangles: "Dover Beach"


Charles in Charge theme

Saturday Music Club: further afield...

Light in Babylon: "Hinech Yafa"

Studio version/promo video

Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra: "Shalom Alechem"


Mahotella Queens: "Umculo Khawupheli"


Rai No Ris, live in Khatmandu, Nepal 2012


The Floorbirds: "Moonshiner"


Cuarteto Zupay: "Jacinto Chiclana" (lyrics by Jorge Luis Borges, music by Astor Piazzolla)

Saturday Music Club: yet more folk-rock

The first earlier post, Some Folk-Rock.
And Some More Folk Rock...

Arthur Lee & Co., performing the Love arrangement of Alone Again Or... at Glastonbury, 2003

Love synching "My Little Red Book" on Where the Action Is, 1966

The Strawbs: Who Knows Where the Time Goes 

Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega & Loudon Wainwright III: Down Where the Drunkards Roll

Fairport Convention (2009 reunion concert): Meet on the Ledge

"Si Tu Dois Partir" at the same concert

Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash: The Girl of the North Country

Joan Armatrading: The Weakness in Me

Salem 66: Red Barn

The Seekers: In My Life; Silver Threads and Golden Needles (2012 recording excerpts)

Rainy Day: Rainy Day (the album, 1984)

Saturday Music Club on Thursday: mostly 1960s televised music of various sorts...

Opening themes to a variety of 1960s US series (including documentary series). Interesting the degree to which big-band-flavored jazz arrangements were meant to indicate modernity, and not solely though of course usually in scoring crime-drama. Westerns more likely to emulate Ferde Grofe when not Holst or Copland. This particular episode of Bus Stop got the series into trouble, adapting as it did a Tom Wicker crime novel, and criticized in Congressional hearings as an example of excessive violence--see the first Kovacs segment, below (Stephen King selected another episode, Robert Bloch's script from his own short story, "I Kiss Your Shadow," as the single most effective work of television horror drama he'd seen).


Dusty, Dusty Springfield's BBC half-hour series.


And a French & Saunders (Brit comedians/comic actors, best-known in the States for, respectively, The Vicar of Dibley and Absolutely Fabulous)-hosted interview with/biodoc about Springfield.


From Stephen Sondheim's score for the ABC Stage '67 adaptation of John Collier's "Evening Primrose": "I Remember" performed by Charmian Carr:


Frankly Jazz, a local series in Los Angeles that ran 1962-63, and drew heavily on the artists signed to Richard Bock's World Pacific label.


A freshet mostly from the late series for Ernie Kovacs, Kovacs Corner (ABC):
Among other things, a bit of a parody of NBC Radio's Monitor and their purring weather-reporter "Miss Monitor"...(a Benny Carter composition from the Count Basie Orchestra recording Kansas City Suite plays behind her):


Kovacs musical animation:


Segments featuring Yma Sumac and mockery of Disney, a partner of ABC but not yet its owner, in the earliest 1960s (and this series was on NBC, anyway...):


Married couple Kovacs and Edie Adams, doing her fine impression of Monroe, and singing more Disney parody...

Saturday Music Club: some choices from BUST magazine and nearby

some performers I hadn't listened to before looking at a year-old issue of Bust this morning...

Estelle (featuring Janelle Monáe): "Do My Thing"


Cate Le Bon: "Fold the Cloth"


The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: "Heart Attack"


The Lijadu Sisters: "Amebo"


The Like: "He's Not a Boy"


First Aid Kit: "Wolf"


Ourself Beside Me: [song title unknown; live in Shanghai...the Eastern European poster got the Chinese band's English name wrong]

Saturday Music Club: some singing pianists

Hazel Scott: "A Foggy Day"/"Autumn Leaves"
The Hazel Scott Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran during the summer of 1950, and is most notable for being the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a Black woman. Despite critical acclaim and decent Hooper Ratings, the series was cancelled after just a few months. On June 22, 1950, Scott's name had appeared in Red Channels, an anti-Communist publication which named supposed Communist sympathizers.  (from the current Wikipedia entry)

Carmen McCrae: "A Beautiful Friendship" (with Dizzy Gillespie)  

 Nina Simone: "Go Limp"


 Aretha Franklin: "Don't Play That Song"  

 Diana Krall: "Lost Mind"/"I've Got You"/"Peel Me a Grape"  

 Melody Gardot: "Your Heart is as Black as Night"  
 Nellie McKay: "Caribbean Song"/"Beneath the Underdog"/"Portal"

Judith Owen: "Trip and Tumble"


Vienna Teng: "Gravity"

Saturday Music Club: some further sounds of DC

The Washington Bach Consort (Scott Dettra and J. Reilly Lewis)

Coral Cantigas


The Orioles (formed in Balto, but based in DC)


Roy Clark


Elizabeth Cotten


John Fahey


Blue Rose


Roberta Flack


Eva Cassidy


Ron Holloway & the Gil Scott-Heron band


The Young Senators


The Pietasters


Government Issue


Minor Threat


Scream


Shudder to Think


The Nation of Ulysses


Burning Airlines


Chemlab


Kokayi


Mýa


previously: Some Sounds of DC
Some More Sounds of DC