Saturday Music Club: "I Need You"

 The Kinks:

The Who: 

The Beatles: 

The Impressions:

Elmore James:

Jon Batiste:

Eric Legnini and the Afro Jazz Beat featuring Krystle Warren: 

yeaow:

Jelly Roll:

Lynyrd Skynyrd:

The Ascots (covering the Kinks):

Some more women musicians, with and without some men (who explain later): Saturday Music Club in Mountain Time

A Tribe Called Red and Northern Voice: "Sisters"


Fanny: "Summer Song"


Strawberry Parfait: "Bulldog", "The Fugitive" and "The House of the Rising Sun"


Samantha Fish Band: "Cowtown"; "Need You More"; "Don't Say You Love Me"; "Daughters"; "American Dream"


Rising Appalachia: "Swoon"


Carion: "Six Bagatelles" (composer: Györgi Ligeti)


Barbara Hannigan and the Gothenburg Symphony Chamber Orchestra: "Mysteries of the Macabre" (composer: Györgi Ligeti; arrangement: Elgar Howarth)

1991 composition or, at least, arrangement: "Mysteries of the Macabre" is an arrangement by Elgar Howarth of the 3 arias sung by the Gepopo character in György Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre (1974-77).

The Maria Schneider Orchestra: "Choro Dancado"


The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "She's Crazy with the Heat"; "That Man of Mine"; "Jump Children"; unidentified instrumental piece; "How About That Jive"; "I Left My Man"; unidentified instrumental excerpt; "Don't Get It Twisted"; "Just the Thing"


The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: "Lady Be Good"


Jelly Roll Morton: "Improving Spanish Tempos/Creepy Feelings" (Library of Congress Recordings)


Maria Schneider at the Library of Congress


Ian MacKaye at the Library of Congress

Dorothy Disney, a pioneering marriage advice columnist as at least one obit claims (notably for THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"), was Ian MacKaye's grandmother. Fun fact revealed here (at least new to me).

Chris Hillman at the Library of Congress


Fanny: "Hey, Bulldog" (live in Philadelphia, 1973)


The Beatles: "Hey, Bulldog"

Happy belated birthday, Richard Starkey...

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"

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" 

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

Carmen McRae and Betty Carter: "But Beautiful"

Miriam Makeba: "Quit It"

Gil Scott-Heron Band: "Johannesburg"


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

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

Anna-Claire M: 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

Tom Reney: George Avakian: 1919-2017

W. Royal Stokes: Best Jazz CDs of 2016 

Love is a battlefield? Saturday Music Club

In memory of 
Margaret A. Roche 
















Annie Ross: "Love for Sale"


Lahna Turner: "Recycle" (mildly NSFW)


Kasey Lansdale: "Sorry Ain't Enough"


Smart Went Crazy: "Sugar in Your Gas Tank" (mildly NSFW)


Maggie and Terre Roche: "Jill of All Trades"


The Scarlet Furies: "Heart Shaped Box"


Michigan Mafia String Band: "Spooky"


Doc Watson: "Sitting on Top of the World"


Muddy Waters Band: "Don't Go No Farther"


Helen Shapiro: "Walk on By"


The Glenn Miller Orchestra: "At Last"

Spells cast: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

I Put a Spell on You: some relatively recent recordings. Feliz Cinco de Mayo, mañana.

The Scarlet Furies


Harcsa Veronika Band


The Healers


Joss Stone Band


Emma-Lee and Jesse Cook


Samantha Fish Band


Elisabeth Kontomanou

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: "and when you're dead, you're done..."

Dedicated to the memory of Shirley Mason Gauthier, and to the generosity of her family and mine.

B. B. King: "Let the Good Times Roll"


Johnny Gimble and Marc O'Connor (with Brent Mason among others): "Fiddlin' Around"


Jerome Cooper: [title, if given, unknown]


Patty Waters: "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" recorded for the late Bernard Stollman's ESP-Disk Records, 1965


Lew Soloff and the Harmonie Ensemble New York: "Solea"


Guy Carawan (with Marc Gunther, eventually): "Old Molly Hare" and others


Miriam Brickman: "The White Peacock"


Marty Napoleon, Bill Crow, Ray Mosca: "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"


Doc Watson: "Amazing Grace"

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: some bands with singers, some singers with bands...

Carmen McRae with Brubeck, Morello and Wright: "Oh So Blue" 


Diahann Carroll and the Modern Jazz Quartet: "La Cantatrice"


Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "All About Ronnie"


Abbey Lincoln: "Love Has Gone Away"


Aretha Franklin: "Deeper"


Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan: "Watermelon Man"


Ana Tijoux Live in Berlin


Carmen McRae Quartet: Jazz Casual

Saturday Music Club returns, still tardy, now

Jawbox: "Apollo Amateur"


Thievery Corporation: "All That We Perceive"


Ana Tijoux (con Jorge Drexler):  "Sacar la voz"

http://www.halftheskymovement.org/30-songs-30-days

Nina Simone: "Backlash Blues"


Ion Bogdan Stefanescu and Horia Maxim: "Blue Shadows In The Street"


David Amram large band: "Tompkins Square Park Consciousness Expander" 

Ran Blake Quartet: "Short Life of Barbara Monk" 

Saturday Music Club: some old favorites

Judy Dyble, polyinstrumentalist and singer, Fairport Convention

Anonymous 4: "Antiphon: O Rubor Sanguinis" (composed by Hildegard von Bingen)

A Christmas song (not yet discovered, not properly credited)

Kate Royal: "Ah, Love but a Day" (composed by Amy Beach)

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations for flute and strings, Op. 80 (Carol Wincenc, flute; Jonathan Swartz and Erica Kiesewetter, violins, Nancy Buck, viola, Jesus Castro-Balbi, cello)

Billie Holiday: "The Sunny Side of the Street"

"Fine and Mellow" (The Sound of Jazz performance, 1957)

Sarah Vaughan: "The Sweetest Sounds"

Aretha Franklin, Robert Flack, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee: An Ellington Medley

Buffy Sainte-Marie: "Cod'ine"

"Piney Wood Hills"

Wanda Jackson: "Hardheaded Woman"

"Tore Down"; "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"
Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

The Springfields: "Little Boat"

"Silver Threads and Golden Needles"

Fairport Convention: "Morning Glory"

"One Sure Thing" (live at the BBC 1968); the album version
Fairport Convention: "Reno, Nevada"; Mimi and Richard Fariña: "Reno, Nevada"

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: "Goodbye Anne"

"The Buffalo Girls/Puncheon Floor"

Emmylou Harris: "Two More Bottles of Wine"/"Ooh, Las Vegas"


Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch: "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby"

Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" 

"Old Ship of Zion"