June's Underappreciated Music: the links and more

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

Remembering Harlan Ellison, who died today. Among the things he introduced me to through his writing is the Louisville Orchestra First Edition Recordings seies. 1934-2018

And "splatterpunk" Steve Soto of the Adolescents and other notable bands (August 23, 1963 – June 27, 2018)

And wishing a quick recovery for Jerry House.

Patti Abbott: Music and more

Brian Arnold: Summer Songs

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

Jim Cameron: Rein de Graaff and Gigi Gryce: Blue Lights and
The Holy Modal Rounders: "Hesitation Blues" (also a Jerry House selection this month)


Sean Coleman: Bee Gees: Trafalgar

Rick Covert: Otis Rush: "I Can't Quit You, Baby"


David Cramner: Duke Ellington Orchestra: "Take the 'A' Train"


Garret Ehrle: The Warning: "Enter Sandman" and...

Doc Watson and Bill Monroe at the White House, 1980


Cynthia Fairweather: High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (excerpt)


Jeff Gemmill: Top 5s; The Essentials: Maria McKee; The Bangles; Mazzy Star: Still

Keiko Hassler: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill: "Shotgun Rider"


Jerry House: Hymn Time; Music from the Past and
Mendelssohn's Concerto in E Minor:  This was the first 12-inch 33 1/3 rpm LP issued (by Columbia Records) on this day in 1948.  It was a recording of the New York Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter with Nathan Milstein on the violin.  Take a listen.


George Kelley: Various Artists: Just the Two of Us; Jan Swofford: Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music

Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

Steve Lewis: Music I'm Listening To

Barry Malzberg: J. S. Bach: Magnificat hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Chœur du Concert D’Astrée ∙ Emmanuelle Haïm, and

Looking Glass: "Brandy"


Todd Mason: Saturday Music Club: mostly vocal and keyboard jazz on video: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Blossom Dearie, Aretha Franklin, Thelonious Monk, Randy Weston, Lenny Bruce with Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Philly Joe Jones and others; Teo Macero with the Prestige Jazz Quartet
Becky O'Brien: James Horner; Troy; songs from Dumbo and Peter Pan

Joe Megalos: The Raymond Scott Project

Laura Nakatsuka: Blue Heron: "Fors seullement" by Johannes Ockeghem. Laura notes: A good remedy for anyone who imagines that before Bach there was nothing but Gregorian chant.

Andrew Olney: Wendell Harrison: "Peace of Mind" and

Wooden Shjips: "Red Line"


Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

James Reasoner: Middle of the Night Music

Charlie Ricci: Joan Osborne: Breakfast in Bed

Rebecca Roanhorse: soundtrack that enabled writing Trail of Lightning (full Spotify playlist)

November's Music: Comedy songs for a Blue T-day

My father remembered a version of this one from his childhood (I've found a number of people remember extra or improvised verses to this one), though I suspect he learned his "Ain't We Crazy" from the older, second recording below:





Constant readers here know I'm a lifelong Smothers Bros. fan, due in part to receiving Aesop's Fables the Smothers Brothers Way as a one of my first records to play on my portable phonograph ca. 1968...no tracks from that album are easily swipable, but this charming medley, with Donovan Leitch and Peter, Paul & Mary, from the Smo Bro CBS series, is worth the time:



And, being as I was a child of the mid-'60s, my first babysitters, at least, made sure I heard and saw the Monkees:


Which of course set me up for appreciation of the likes of the Kinks




Or the Zombies (even if this ragged copy of "Come on Time" as messed with and worked into a trailer for Bunny Lake is Missing kills most of the the humor of the "Just Out of Reach" reworking the band did...see the fine Big Beat-label complete Zombies recordings set to hear how "Come on Time" should sound.)




And Utopia




And the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band




(and if you've missed it somehow over the years...George Harrison on Rutland Weekend Television, which might or might not've directly led to Bonzos and Pythons forming the Rutles)


And Gil Scott-Heron


Not actually one of Mose Allison's wittiest songs, but in a similar mode:


As opposed to this live reading of his classic:


And a nice, if slightly long, a cappella version:


And speaking of classics:




Nellie McKay:




Garfunkel and Oates (note the climbing budgets)






And for a genuine T-day song, Howard Kremer as Dragon Boy Suede:

(and another rap from DBS in the spirit of giving and appreciation)


Happy Thanksgiving, folks...
For more of this month's forgotten music, see the links at Scott Parker's blog.