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)

January's Underappreciated Music: The Links (Pete Seeger memorial edition)

Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger

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 sparing a thought for the family and friends of Pete Seeger.

Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Friday Night Music; Saturday Night Music; Kurt Weill songs; Opening Credits and Theme Songs

Brian Arnold: The Monkees featuring Neil Young: "You and I"

Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Pete Seeger

The Weavers: the early performance promo films 

Jeff Gemmill: Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet: Under the Covers

Lee Hartsfeld: "Christ is King" (1908 hymn)

Jerry House: Eric Von Schmidt; Pete Seeger; Hymn Time 

Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Sweet Honey In The Rock, The Little Red School House Chorus: "This Land Is Your Land"


Randy Johnson: Motorhead: "Whorehouse Blues"

George Kelley: Boston: Life, Hope and Love; Sharon Jones and Dap-Kings: Give the People What They Want

Evan Lewis: Fess Parker: "The Ballad of Kit Carson"

Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger: "The Frozen Logger"

Todd Mason: Pete Seeger; some Third Stream music; some jazz vocalists (and some organists); King Day Music Club; some 1960s Continental European television of British, US and Brazilian rock (and some Ace of Cups [and Abbey Lincoln] and Luv'd Ones to go with Fanny);  "Mbube">"Wimoweh">"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

D. B. Reilly: "Untie Me"

Charlie Ricci: The Saw Doctors: New Year's Day;  Deodato: Prelude; D. B. Reilly: Cross My Heart + Hope to Die

Kelly Robinson: Quincy Jones: "Ironside"

Chuck Rothman: John B. Sebastian  (courtesy Bill Crider)

Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger

The Almanac Singers: "Which Side Are You On?"


The Weavers: "Follow the Drinking Gourd"

The version without Lee Hays's introduction, and with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra

The Weavers: "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena"


The Weavers: "If I Had a Hammer"


The Weavers: "Banks of Marble"


Pete Seeger: "Buffalo Skinners"


Pete Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers (the Seeger Brothers): "Ragtime Annie" Medley on PS's tv series Rainbow Quest


Pete Seeger and Johnny Cash: "Worried Man Blues"; "Cripple Creek"


Pete Seeger: "Quite Early Morning"


Pete Seeger, Toshi Seeger and the Weavers on this blog.

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links

The Tenth Victim

Here are this week's set of links to reviews and citations. Thanks, as always, folks...and please let me know if I've missed your or someone else's Overlooked post in comments. The enigmatic doubletap this week goes to Russ Meyer's version of Fanny Hill, of all things, and perhaps not altogether unrelated is that this might be the heaviest set of negative reviews we've had so far, at least in terms of ratio to the positive. I think I might have to start jumping in and adding some reviews by me of the worthwhile.

Bill Crider: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother [trailer]

Brian Arnold: Early Edition;  Hot Wheels; Super President; Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Brian Busby: Intent to Kill

David Vineyard: Max Reacher

BV Lawson: Media Murder 

Cat People

Ed Gorman (and Mark Evanier): The Tonight Show follies

Ed Lynskey: The Hatchet Man

Elizabeth Foxwell: Suspense: "Woman in Love" (1952 television; story by Geoffrey Household, featuring Paul Newman)

Evan Lewis: Man of Steel

George Kelley: Cat People (1982 film) blu-ray release

Heather Drain: Fanny Hill (1964 film)

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

How Did This Get Made?: Mortal Kombat (the Ascetic Shopper touches on MK...)

Iba Dawson: 2013 in Review

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Isis

Jackie Kashian: Judah Friedlander on Ping Pong; Kevin Seccia on boxing and MMA

Jake Hinkson: Too Late for Tears

James Reasoner: Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Jerry House: Rainbow Quest and other video from Pete Seeger, RIP

***PBS will be feeding a repeat of the American Masters episode "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song" on Saturday, for stations to schedule at convenience. Faithful affiliates to the HD feeds will have it at 8p ET/PT.

John Charles: The Weird Ones

Kate Laity: Only Lovers Left Alive

Kliph Nesteroff: Insight: "Exit" (with Albert Einstein/Brooks); Life Begins in College

Laura: One Mysterious Night; Allotment Wives; The World Was His Jury

Lucy Brown: Carnival Boat

Martin Edwards: From Hell (2001 film adaptation)

Blood Simple

Marty McKee: Tales of the Third Dimension; The Woman Hunt 

Mystery Dave: Mr. Bean's Holiday

Patti Abbott: Blood Simple; Get Shorty

Rick: 5 Card Stud; Rehearsal for Murder; Catherine Mary Stuart

Rod Lott: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Lady Cocoa; Fanny Hill (1964 film)

Hombre

Ron Scheer: Hombre

Scott Cupp: Drew: The Man Behind the Posters

Sergio Angelini: The Tenth Victim (1966 film); X Minus 1: "The Seventh Victim"

Stacia Jones: The Truth About Emanuel

Stephen Bowie: Ralph Woolsey, ASC

Steve Lewis: The Parson and the Outlaw; The Big Heat

Zybahn/Frank: The 4400: "The Home Front"

Toshi Seeger, RIP

Sing Out! magazine's bulletin/obituary.