Some of my favorite rock/related music videos: Saturday Music Club

Jawbox: "Savory"

Fanny: "Place in the Country"

The Breeders: "Safari"

The Roots w/Erykah Badu: "You Got Me"

Miriam Makeba: "Mbube"

The Bangles: "The Real World" and "Want  You"

Thievery Corporation: "The Richest Man in Babylon"

Miriam Makeba: "Into Yam"

The Ex: "Soon All Cities"

FLiP: "Karto Niago" (or "Kāto Niago")

The Go! Team (with Bethany Consentino and Angèle David-Guillou): "Rolling Blackouts"

Light in Babylon: "Hinech Yafa"

July's Underappreciated Music: the links

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...and the last entry in this series from the late Randy Johnson. (There are still a few of his film reviews that will appear in the Tuesday's Overlooked roundups.)

Patti Abbott: Bryan Adams; bland modern albums; Western television opening themes; Jason Isbell; soundtrack: Under the Skin

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Elgin Bleecker: Doris Day/Tony Bennett: "Close Your Eyes"

Paul Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Miriam Makeba: "Erev Shel Shoshanim"


Jim C.: Summertime with Blossom Dearie; Sonny Criss

Sean Coleman: Weird Al Yankovic

Bill Crider: British Invasion: Forgotten Music; Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits: Local Charts

Cullen Gallagher: rediscovering vinyl

Jeff Gemmill: First Aid Kit @ XPoNential Music Festival, 7/25/15;
Jill Johnson; Top 5s

King Pleasure, Annie Ross, Jon Hendricks: "Don't Get Scared"

Jerry House: Daily Music+; Hymn Time

Randy Johnson: Mac Sabbath: "Frying Pan"

George Kelley: Miles Davis: Live at Newport 1955-1975

Kate Laity: things after The Fall

The Way It Is: "Joni Mitchell" (CBC 1968)

At 20 minutes, the 1965 debut episode JM recording of the theme song, in better fidelity. (And apparently you'll have to scroll back the full show above, since it doesn't seem to like the proximity of the skip-ahead 20-minute link under it...for me, it jumps into the 1968 version of the theme at show's end, with unfortunate static.)

Todd Mason: "Eight Miles High";  9 Songs (more or less); musics brought together when Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets invented modern rap ca. 1969 

Patrick Murtha: Junior Brown: 12 Shades of Brown

Rainbow Quest: Pete Seeger hosts Elizabeth Cotten, Rosa Valentin & Rafael Martinez (NYC local, then syndicated, 1965)

1. Pete Seeger opening medley
2. Valentin & Martinez: The Soldier Went to War
3. Valentin & Martinez: May, The Month of Flowers
4. Valentin & Martinez: Aguinaldo
5. All: Guantanamera
6. Pete Seeger: My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains
7. Pete Seeger: 'Way Out There
8. Elizabeth Cotten: Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad
9. Elizabeth Cotten: Mama Your Papa Loves You
10. Elizabeth Cotten: Wilson Rag
11. Elizabeth Cotten: Freight Train

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charlie Ricci: The Supremes: "When the Lovelight Starts..."

Soundstage: "Sing Me a Jazz Song"; Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, Eddie Jefferson, Leon Thomas (PBS 1975)

"Mbube" > "Wimoweh" > "The Lion Sleeps Tonight": Saturday Music Club on 1 January

Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds (1939): "Mbube"


The Weavers (1954 Carnegie Hall recording): "Wimoweh" 

The 1952 (hit) studio recording, The Weavers with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus.
The 1952 Yma Sumac (with the Martin Denny Orchestra) recording.
The 1952 Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra recording.
The Kingston Trio variation on the Weavers' version, in concert (late 1950s/early '60s)
The Karl Denver Trio (1962 version on 1964 television)

Miriam Makeba: "Mbube" (1960)

Angelique Kidjo in concert, 2010
The Mahotella Queens, ?1970s

The Tokens: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (1961)

The Nylons' elaborated version.
The Next Edition Quartet, featuring Bill Crider

Ladysmith Black Mambazo & the Mint Juleps: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

The Soweto Gospel Choir, undated

The history of "Mbube"...an appropriately if somewhat excessively jaundiced view...

March's Underappreciated Music: the links

Patti Abbott: Next to Normal; Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris: "1917"; George Gershwin Alone; opening themes

Sean Coleman: Jellyfish: Spilt Milk

Bill Crider: Robin Luke; Songs of the Day

Lee Hartsfeld: The Fake Hits of the 'Sixties

James Reasoner: Music 'Til Dawn; Music I Like

Jerry House: Steve Gillette; hymns

Randy Johnson: flashmob Beethoven

George Kelley: Stephen Stills: Carry On

Todd Mason: Miriam Makeba; Bust magazine suggestions; music on television (1960s mostly); Hawaiian pop/rock; Hawaiian folk/related; ragtime; after Lambert, Hendricks and Ross

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Charie Ricci: Jonathan Edwards

Ron Scheer: Saturday Music

Miriam Makeba's birthday

...as Google is kind enough to remind us, this is the anniversary of the late Makeba's birth...(1932-2008).

So here are posts involving "Mama Africa":

"Forgotten Music": Miriam Makeba

some music documentaries...in this case, an interview with Makeba and the demo tracks to one of her later albums.

Makeba's cover of "A Piece of Ground" from her breakout album in the US, Pata Pata

Makeba performing with Harry Belafonte: "Khawuleza"

Makeba's version of "Mas Que Nada"

..."Chove Chuva"

One of the great singers and human rights activists of our time.

Saturday Music Club on Monday: some soundtrack music

from Who Fears the Devil? (aka The Legend of Hillbilly John): 
"The Devil" by Hoyt Axton


from the television series Legacy (which used it as opening theme), 
"The Mummer's Dance" by Loreena McKennitt (longer edit/"album cut" with best audio)


"Walk On Boy" (Doc Watson's recording is the soundtrack for the short film starting at 4:17)


The Dillards and Maggie Peterson: "There Is a Time" (from The Andy Griffith Show):


"Chove Chuva" performed by Miriam Makeba, Sivuca, Leopoldo Fleming, Jr. and William Salter...perhaps cheating a bit since this from a concert for Swedish television, but I think I'll forgive myself...


"Unsquare Dance" by the Brubeck Quartet featuring Joe Morello (used as the opening theme to Emma Thompson's series Thompson as well as providing the soundtrack to this number taken from an Australian concert program, The Craven Filter Special):


Charles Mingus in Mingus: Charles Mingus 1968 (a documentary)


please see also:
Sunday's "Forgotten" Soundtracks: 3rd Streamers John Lewis (ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW) and Dave Brubeck (MR. BROADWAY) for crime drama, David Amram's Beat