Elegies and Lamentations: Saturday Music Club on Tuesday

Oscar Brown, Jr. sets Gwendolyn Brooks's "of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery" to music: "Elegy"


different songs, same title:
Shelley Fisher: "Big City Lights"


Cleo Randle (aka Cleo Jackson): "Big City Lights"


Cleo Randle: "The Best Man I Ever Had"


Abbey Lincoln: "Retribution"


Abbey Lincoln: "Africa" (mix is bad and the band is taking it too fast, but interesting to see this lovely song in performance on The Hollywood Palace of all places)


Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Brubeck, Morello and Wright: "They Say I Look Like God"


Carmen McRae, Brubeck, Morello and Wright: "Lord, Lord"


Miriam Makeba: "Quit It"


Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Johannesburg"


Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Lady Day and John Coltrane"

Some singers, mostly the songs of others (some more covers): Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Miriam Makeba: "Come to Glory"


Fontella Bass: "Talking About Freedom"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Jackie"


Monday Michiru: "Zanzibar"


Olivia Ong: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Melody Gardot: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: "Your Long Journey"


Boa: "Duvet"


The Go! Team: "Catch Me on the Rebound"


The Go! Team: "Grip Like a Vice"

Pop, R&B, Country, Classical, Jazz, Folk: More Billboard LP Charts, Week Ending 7 August 1965: Saturday Music Club on Monday (Part 2)

Part one here.
I'm 51 now, so it seemed fair to take a slice from the middle of the half-century-old chart.


















Pop Album Chart continued:
51. Chad and Jeremy Before and After

the album's title track

52. Joan Baez 5


53. Cal Tjader Soul Sauce


54. Nat King Cole Unforgettable


55. Bert Kaempfert Blue Midnight


56. Getz/Gilberto


57. The Ventures on Stage

Classical Chart: Chamber Music:
1. Stern, Istomin, Rose  Schubert: Trio No. 1


2. Juilliard Quartet Bartok: Quartets


3. Julian Bream Consort An Evening of Elizabethan Music


4. Friedman, Prince-Joseph Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord


5. Kohon Quartet Ives: Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

And since the Kohon Quartet's recording isn't posted, here's the Emerson Quartet

Country Albums:
1. Connie Smith


2. Eddy Arnold The Easy Way


3. Buck Owens I've Got a Tiger by the Tail


4. The Return of Roger Miller


5. Sonny James I'll Keep Holding On


R&B Albums:
1. The Temptations Sing Smokey


2. Billy Stewart I Do Love You


3. Junior Walker and the All-Stars Play Shotgun


4. The Four Tops


5. Billy Preston The Most Exciting Organ Ever


6. Little Milton We're Gonna Make It


7. The Best of Sam Cooke, Volume 2


8. Aretha Franklin Yeah!!!


9. The Miracles Greatest Hits from the Beginning


10. Nancy Wilson Today--My Way