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"

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 

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

some Beatling; Saturday Music Club in Eastern Standard Time

Beatles covers. 

Fanny: "Hey Bulldog"

Monsoon: "Tomorrow Never Knows"


The Bangles/The Three O'Clock/the Rainy Day band et al.: "Taxman"

The Bangles: "All Together Now"

Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "A Hard Day's Night"


Mary McCaslin: "Things We Said Today"


Emmylou Harris: "For No One"


Nina Simone: "Revolution"

Esther Phillips: "And I Love Him"


Aretha Franklin: "Eleanor Rigby"

In the studio, brilliantly

St Vincent: "Dig a Pony"


The Breeders: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

Nanci Griffith: "Things We Said Today"


The Womenfolk: "Yesterday"

Bobbie Gentry: "Norwegian Wood" (sung in Japanese)

The Swingle Singers: "I Am the Walrus"


The Carpenters: "Help!" (in concert)


Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Dear Prudence"


The Rolling Stones: "I Wanna Be Your Man"

The Rolling Stones on The Mike Douglas Show, 1964

9 Songs, Give or Take: Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Annie Ross: "Love for Sale"


Jane Monheit Quartet: "How About You"


Nellie McKay: "I Want to Get Married"


Evie Ladin & Keith Terry: "Sugar Baby"


Terre Roche: "Warriors"


Terre Roche and Robert Fripp: "Mary"


Kasey Lansdale and CJaye Lerose: "Heart Like Mine"


Ana Tijoux (con Juanito Ayala et al.): "Creo en ti"


Mary Mack: polkas and comedy

June'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...this month, a lot of bands and performers who haven't been Too terribly overlooked!--but also, even the most influential and legendary artists have produced some work that is easy to miss...even as we will miss a few of those cited below.

And, thinking of Ronnie Gilbert, Patrick Sky, most of the Byrds and others considered below, some folk-music magazine covers, including two from the two different magazines called Hootenanny, one keyed to the ABC television series (edited by Linda Solomon, a friend of then-fellow pro music critics Ted White and Harlan Ellison) and one not (edited by Lynn Musgrave and Robert Shelton, who helped Bob Dylan among others along, but Dylan particularly)...

Patti Abbott: Music

Brian Arnold: Joe Jackson's early work

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

Sean Coleman: The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers

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

Cullen Gallagher: rediscovering vinyl

Jeff Gemmill: Paul McCartney: Overlooked Gems; Top 5s; River of Time

Jerry House: Patrick Sky; Daily Music+; Hymn Time

Randy Johnson: Joe Bonamassa

George Kelley: The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

Kate Laity: Drums...Mad Max: Fury Road and well beyond

Laura: James Horner

Todd Mason: Ronnie Gilbert; Ornette Coleman; Third Stream Music;  20th Century Classical; some music my father has liked and loved

Patrick Murtha: Chico Buarque; Carl Nielsen

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

Ms. Lee Hoffman's magazine

Richard Robinson: The Gerald Wilson Orchestra

Charlie Ricci: Help Yourself: Beware the Shadow

Lee Hoffman's later fanzine

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 Sunday: Skinning the Ticket

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage: "Muleskinner Blues"

Dolly Parton on The Porter Wagoner Show

The Beatles: "Ticket to Ride"


Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins:


Husker Du:


The Fendermen:


The Carpenters:

The Carpenters and Andy Williams interweave "Ticket to Ride" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"

Jimmie Rodgers:


Alma Cogan: 

A cover version by Strangely Attractive

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys:

Monroe studio recording, 1940 

The Grateful Dudes:

from the folk/bluegrass/new acoustic/country nexus: Saturday Music Club on Wednesday

Alison Brown, Sam Bush, Bobby Hicks: "Wayfaring Stranger"


Beauty and the Beard: "That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On"


Darol Anger and the Furies: "Evening Prayer Blues"


David Amram and Friends: "Mama Don't Allow"


Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, with Dolly Parton: "Heartbreaker's Alibi"


Sierra Hull & Highway 111: "Bombshell"


Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "Never Say Never"

Lansdale with John Carter Cash and their band

Kami Thompson Band: "Your Big Secret"

Thompson acoustic and better-recorded: "Gotta Hold On"